Biography
Co-founder of the Amsterdam-based artist initiative Public Space With a Roof active since 2003, she holds a MS degree in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT. Hollander’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in the Netherlands and internationally. In her work, she creates site-specific installations as places of exchange which take form of objects and sculptures that can be experienced simultaneously as interiors and exteriors. The source of this interest comes from Hollander’s fascination with the concept of time in the domain of architecture, as well as with the question of how form and structure allow spectators to actively develop the environments they are part of. Her projects are an attempt to embody a certain complexity of sensory experience, as an alternate form of knowledge about the senses and how we ‘read’ the world around us. An aspect of inquiry or doubt is introduced to leave the process of questioning open, and to allow for more questions to enter.
At the beginning of 2020, shortly after the opening of the gallery, visual artist Adi Hollander presented The Body Imitates the Landscape, a Frame, an interactive art work that underlines the materiality of sound. How the body and senses are inseparable from the experience of sound and music, for the hearing and non-hearing, and which role the environment plays in this, is the foundation for the artistic questions that Adi Hollander raises since 2015 and materialises in installations that make the visitor actively participate.
Her ongoing research at the cutting edge of art and technology have led to What do I hear? (2021) and Haptic Room Studies (2022-2024), research projects initiated by Hollander for which she collaborates with artists and scientists. They research and create haptic environments by embedding technological tools for sensory translation in the architecture of spaces where art is presented, making the works accessible to sensory-diverse audiences. These technological tools – a series of prototypes – were developed during What do I hear?. With the Haptic Room Studies these prototypes became embedded in spatial installations.
Spatial and sound installations
More info: website Adi Hollander.