Adam Basanta

Adam Basanta is an artist, composer, and performer of experimental music. Born in Tel-Aviv (ISR) and raised in Vancouver (CAN), he lives and works in Montreal. In his installation works, Basanta arranges common commercially available objects into delicately intertwined and seemingly performative choreographies, disrupting their technical and economic functions while revealing their material agencies and status as extended technological prostheses.His work has been recently been exhibited in galleries and institutions including Carroll/ Fletcher Gallery (UK), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), New Media Gallery (CAN), V Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), Serralves Museum (POR), Edith-Russ-Haus fur Mediakunst (GER), Villa Brandolini (ITA), Vitra Design Museum (GER), York Art Gallery (UK), and The Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (USA).

Exhibitions

Past

Editions

  • + Data Dating
    48 color pages booklet, ISBN 978-2-9541000-6-7
    - Galerie Charlot Èdition

Press

A Truly Magical Moment

by Adam Basanta

Interactive kinetic sculpture
2 iPhones 4S, selfie sticks, aluminum, electronics, bluetooth chips, FaceTime video chat software
1m x 1m x 1m
2016

A Truly Magical Moment

by Adam Basanta

Interactive kinetic sculpture
2 iPhones 4S, selfie sticks, aluminum, electronics, bluetooth chips, FaceTime video chat software
1m x 1m x 1m
2016

The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us

by Adam Basanta

Discarded car seat, car tires, hardware store cart, toddler's mattress, clear tubing, plastic bottles, vinyl player, LP's from the Environments album ...
Mixed media installation
Variable dimension
2019

Treasures

by Adam Basanta

Aquarium, cassette tape, rocks, speaker cones, pump, bio-filter, aquatic plants, local found plants.
Variable dimension
2019

Treasures

by Adam Basanta

Aquarium, cassette tape, rocks, speaker cones, pump, bio-filter, aquatic plants, local found plants
Variable dimension
2019

Almost not even there at all

by Adam Basanta

Urethane resin, audio cables, metal
90 x 50 x 40 cm
2017