About
Adam Saks was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1993 to 1999. In 1996-97 he studied at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany, under Professor Bernd Koberling.
Adam Saks currently lives and works in Berlin.
For further inquiries, please contact the artist or Galerie Forsblom.
Current And Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Selected
* = catalogue available
2024
Nål SAKS papir, Kunsthal Holmen, Løgumkloster (DK)
A Pile of Light, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)
2023
Everything the Light Touches is your Kingdom, Meliksetian & Briggs, Dallas (US)
2022
Faith and Hope in a Handful of Dust, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)
2021
Wide Open, Kunstverein Heppenheim (D)
And All Is Always Now, Meliksetian & Briggs, Los Angeles (US)
2020
Adam og Asger (with Asger Jorn), Galerie Moderne Silkeborg (DK)
2019
We Are The Human Waterfall, Galerie MøllerWitt (DK)
2018
Infinite Voyage, Galerie Forsblom (FIN)
Pilgrim on a Hidden Path, Meliksetian & Briggs (US)
Loops of Utopia, Lieu d'Art Contemporain, LAC Narbonne (FR)
2017
Dissolved, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm (SE)
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light, Norske Grafikere, Oslo (N)
Inhaling Darkness, Exhaling Galaxies, Kunstverein Reutlingen (D)
2016
Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus (DK)
Setting Sail in a Teardrop of Fear and Desire, Kunsthal Nord (DK)*
2015
Strange Fates Some Fruits are Given, Galerie Møller Witt (DK)*
2014
I am a Ghost I am a Totem I am a Still Life, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FIN)*
Flora Empire, Galerie Møller Witt, (DK)
2013
Portrait of the Moon & a Single Blue Frog, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FIN)*
2012
Meconium, Galerie Møller Witt (DK)*
Atropa, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*
Ende Neu, Städtische Galerie Offenburg (D)*
2011
Follow You Follow Me, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*
2010
Sealevel, Buchkunst Kleinheinrich, Münster (D)*
Visual Voodoo, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (DK)*
Dry Your Eyes, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)*
2009
Mexican Standoff, Schäfer Grafisk Værksted, Copenhagen (DK)
Lonestar, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, (S)*
Sacré nom de Dieu, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*
Group Exhibitions
Selected
* = catalogue available
2024
Closer to Illusion, Meliksetian Briggs, Texas (US)
Ur museets samling, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (SE)
Stilleben gjennom hundre år, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim (NO)
Ravinen, Konstgrafik – Ur Ateljé Larsens Samling (SE)
2023
Trapholt Collect 2022, Trapholt (DK)
Nyförvärv i museets samling, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (SE)
2022
Dallas Art Fair w. Meliksetian & Briggs (US)
60 års jubilæumsudstilling, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)
2021
Gestalter, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (SE)
Diversity United, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (RU)
All Together Now, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (DK)
2020
Explorations, Turku Art Museum (FIN)
Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach: Edvard Munch, Galerie Max Hetzler (D)
2019
Nordisk Akvareller 2019, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum (DK)
2018
Fusion, Nordiska Akvarelmuseet (SE)
New Black Romanticism, Topičuv Salon, Prague (CZ)
New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
New Black Romanticism, Galerie der Stadt Backnang (D)
2017
Neue Schwarze Romantik, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (DE)
New Black Romanticism, Muzeul Național de Artă al României, București (RO)
New Black Romanticism, Stadtgalerie Kiel (D)
Galleri Ismene, Trondheim (N)
2016
Vitales Echo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
International Print Biennale, Newcastle (UK)
Træsnit, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)
Let’s Get Physical: Spatial Confrontations and Narrative Collisions, KKW, Leipzig (D)
2015
Out of the Darkness, ARoS (DK)
Vattenkonst, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (S)
Berlin Artists' Statements, BWAContemporary Art Gallery Katowice, kurator Christoph Tannert (PL)*
2014
Kunsten besøger Brandts, Brandts (DK)
Queen Sonja Print Award 2014, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (S)
Queen Sonja Print Award 2014, Prisverdige, Norske Grafikere (N)
Hausbesetzung, Kunstverein Wiesbaden (D)
»Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart«, Kunstverein Reutlingen (D)
Künstlerhaus Bethanien (m. Fabrizia Vanetta) (D)*
Luggage and Observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese (D)*
Cap Jorn, Galerie Moderne (DK)*
2013
Under Pressure, Stolper & Friends, Oslo (N)
Moraltarantula 6, Hamburg, (D)
2012
Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
Charade, Sammlung Haubrok, Haubrok Shows Michel Würthle and His Artist Friends, Berlin (D)
Light & Space, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, (S) *
Status Berlin (1), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)*
Public Collections
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (DK)
Statens Museum for Kunst (DK)
Malmö Konstmuseum (S)
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum (DK)
New Carlsberg Foundation (DK)
L.A.C Narbonne (F)
Aalborg Kommunes Kunstfond (DK)
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (S)
Trapholt (DK)
Statens Kunstfond (DK)
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK)
Emma, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (FIN)
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection (FIN)
Zabludowicz Collection (UK)
Pori Art Museum (FIN)
Kiasma (FIN)