Liberty Adrien

Since 2022, Liberty Adrien has been co-curator of Portikus, Frankfurt, together with Carina Bukuts, where she has worked on solo exhibitions devoted to Adrian Piper (2024), Tarik Kiswanson (2024), Philippe Thomas (2024), Simone Fattal (2023), Lap-See Lam (2023), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (2022), and Asad Raza (2022), as well as group shows featuring Thomas Bayrle, Derek Jarman, Sarah Maldoror, Sung Tieu, Sky Hopinka, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cecilia Vicuña, among others. Previously, she curated a series of exhibitions across Europe featuring video works from the collection of the 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine and the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris, which awarded her a curatorial research grant in 2016. She cofounded Âme Nue, an independent art space in Hamburg, and co-initiated the exhibition space Les Vitrines at the Institut français Berlin. Alongside these practices, she is a writer and editor of publications and teaches regularly at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.