Born 1996 in Paddub'e, BelarusLives and works in Warsaw, PolandAlexander Adamau’s practice centers on the intersection of care, control, and bodily vulnerability within the framework of contemporary systems of protection and discipline. Working across sculpture, installation, and object-based design, he examines how the aesthetics and functions of safety — ergonomic forms, medical materials, standardized devices — evolve into tools of regulation and psychological constraint.Adamau’s work reflects on the body as a site of both fragility and social inscription, revealing how acts of care often double as mechanisms of oversight. His objects hover between the intimate and the institutional, between sanctuary and surveillance, transforming everyday symbols of support into quiet structures of dependency and estrangement. Through a visual language of sterility, containment, and controlled softness, Adamau challenges our assumptions about protection, exposing the fine line where care becomes control and the personal is absorbed by systemic order.Exhibitions (solo)2019 "Don't stand up for the fields", Cultural Hub OK16 (Minsk, BY)2019 parallel program of the Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, UA).2018 "Look at your home", Gallery of the University of Culture (Minsk, BY).Exhibitions (collective)2024 TESTIMONY. BORIS LURIE & ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST AUS OSTEUROPA, Neue Museum (Nürnberg, DE)2024 Kurs Tuha, Domie Gallery (Poznań, PL)2024 manchmal halte ich mich an der luft fest - часам я трымаюся за паветра, Galerie im Körnerpark (Berlin, DE)2024 AN7R0P0C3N (Krakow, PL)2023 Piasok, Shklatar (Warsaw, PL)2023 Do zobaczenia jutro! Opowiesc o trendach (Warsaw, PL)2022 When the sun is low - the shadows are long, Arsenal Gallery in Białystok (Białystok, PL) 2022 When the sun is low - the shadows are long, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig, DE)Theater (stage design)"Terre tullemast, Abdullah" 2024, Narva Estonia (dir. M. Iliynchik)"Not all of us will go to paradise" 2023, Teatr im. Stefana Żeromskiego w Kielcach (dir. K. Szczypek)"EMMA" 2023, Komuna Warsawa (dir. M. Iliynchik)"Alisa" 2021, Drugi paverh (dir. E. Davidenko)"Ave, Richard", 2020, Chamber Drama Theater, Minsk (dir. E. Mashkovich)"Flight to Mars", 2020, Cultural Hub OK16 , Minsk (dir. E. Mashkovich)"God rides a Bicycle" 2020, Mogilev Drama Theater, Mogilev (dir. P. Dobrovolskaya)"Deja vu" 2020, Mogilev Regional Drama and Comedy Theater named afterV. I. Dunin-Marcinkevich, Bobruisk (dir. E. Davidenko)"M." 2019, Cultural Hub OK16, Minsk (dir. M. Iliynchik)Film (set-design):ChinChins in uniforms (dir. Andrei Kashpersky, Series, 2023–2024)Processes (dir. Andrei Kashpersky, TV Mini Series, 2022–2023)Publications:
2023 When The Sun Is Low–The Shadows Are Long
Edited with text by Anna Karpenko. Text by Ihar Babkou, Volha Arkhipova, Daniel Muzyczuk, Lena Prents.