Adrian Piper, Race Traitor, 2018. 36” x 24” (91,44 cm x 60,96 cm). Digital print, signed and numbered edition of 7. Photograph photo credit: Fotofix. Rennie Collection, Vancouver. © Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA) Foundation Berlin.

NEWS

March 2024

Adrian Piper

Race Traitor

Retrospective Exhibition
PAC Milan
Via Palestro 14,
Milan
19 March - 9 June 2024

Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being: Cruising White Women, 1975. Documentation of the performance. Three silver gelatin prints. 8" x 10" (20,3 cm x 25,4 cm). Documentation photo credit: James Guttmann. Collection of Eileen Harris Norton. © Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA) Foundation Berlin.

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April 2023

Harvard Arts Medal

2023

Adrian Piper

PRESS RELEASE

Program: Harvard’s ARTS FIRST Festival

Recorded Award Ceremony:
President Bacow’s Address
Adrian Piper’s Response

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that exemplifies, models, analyses and/or theorizes
the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

Adrian Piper, Wahlkampagne, Entwurf: Bildungsrepublik Deutschland (für Angela Merkel)

NACHRICHTEN

27 Oktober 2021

WAHLKAMPAGNE:
Eine Kunstaktion zur Bildungspolitik.
Denkbare Möglichkeit:

BILDUNGSREPUBLIK
DEUTSCHLAND

News March 2021

The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research
that exemplifies, models, analyses and/or theorizes
the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

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March 2021

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the selection of its Multi-Disciplinary Fellow
for 2021

Fotonachweis: © Stadt Goslar/Stefan Sobotta

PRESSEMITTEILUNG

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21 January 2021

Preisträgerin

Goslarer Kaiserring

2021

Adrian Piper

NACHRICHTEN

01 Januar 2021

Wahlkampagne

Ein dreiteiliges Kunstwerk, das spätestens am 1. Januar 2021 (also im Jahr der Bundestagswahl) eröffnet, und solange andauert, bis jede Klasse auf jeder Stufe, in jeder Schule und Universität, in jedem Fachbereich, in jedem Bundesland das 15:1 maximal wirksame Studierende/Lehrer*in Verhältnis erfüllt.

STELLUNGNAHME

The Multi-Purpose Model

News April 22 2020


Finally figured out what to do with
all that toilet paper I’ve been hoarding.

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22 April 2020

SCHUTZMASKE
PFLICHT

The new, stylish, Casper-The-Friendly-Ghost look

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This is not the first time I have regretted rejecting my mother’s offer to teach me how to use a sewing machine.

I regret firms that price-gouge the protective masks they could produce gratis and en masse even more.

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07 April 2020

SCHUTZMASKE
EMPFEHLUNG

STICK ‘EM UP!!! Just like in the Wild West.

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I understand that gun sales in the U.S. are skyrocketing.
Here in Europe, we don’t need guns.
We just need to take out our hankies and use them.

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23 March 2020

KONTAKTVERBOT

News October 2018

Patanjali
Compiler and editor of the Yoga Sutra

News March 2018

The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research
that exemplifies, models, analyses and/or theorizes
the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

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March 2019

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the selection of its Multi-Disciplinary Fellow
for 2019
News October 2018

Digital image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Artwork © Adrian Piper Research Archive Berlin. Photographed by John Wronn, Martin Seck, Robert Gerhard and Jonathan Muzikar.

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January 2019

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce a new section of the APRA website offering a comprehensive scholarly resource for museum studies specialists and other interested researchers working on Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016. It offers in-depth information about key personnel and statistics, selected installation shots, a walk-through video of the installation, a detailed architectural floor plan, symposia video documentation, publications, and selected reviews.

News September 2018

Adrian Piper, Das Ding-an-sich bin ich, 2018. Eight mirror cubes, each 180 × 60 × 60 cm (70.86” × 23.62” × 23.62”), each housing concealed sound system; eight 8-minute audio files; floor-wide grid of 60 cells each 60 × 60 cm (23.62” × 23.62”). Room dimensions variable. Installation view Akademie der Künste. Photo credit: Constantin Schroeder. Collection and © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin.

NEWS

September 2018

Käthe Kollwitz Prize
2018
Adrian Piper

Exhibition:

1 September - 14 October 2018
Akademie der Künste
Pariser Platz 4
10117 Berlin
Germany

With the kind support of the Cologne Kreissparkasse which funds the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.

NEWS

27 March – 22 July 2018

“Expansive and invaluable … Piper has expanded the very definition of political art, making this retrospective feel superbly acute.”
The New Yorker

Adrian Piper:
A Synthesis of Intuitions
1965-2016

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
Please enter at 18 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
USA

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News March 2018

The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research
that exemplifies, models, analyses and/or theorizes
the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

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March 2018

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the selection of its Multi-Disciplinary Fellow
for 2018
News January 2018

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January 2018


Escape To Berlin: A Travel Memoir ISBN #978-3-9813763-4-0
£25.00
Hardcover, 328 pages. 110 full-color reproductions.
Bilingual English/German edition.

"Takes on the urgency and and melodrama of a psychological thriller"
The New York Times

"Brilliant and harrowing" – Artforum

"Brilliantly lucid, entirely engaging, destined to become a classic
American memoir" -- Hyperallergic

In 2005 Adrian Piper secretly emigrated from the United States. Several months passed before anyone realized she had disappeared. She resurfaced in Berlin and has lived there ever since. Piper has consistently and firmly refused to return to the U.S. or explain why she left. Many assume it was because she discovered her name on the U.S. Department of Transportation Security’s Suspicious Travelers Watch List. Others point to Wellesley College’s forcible termination of her tenured Full Professorship. Yet others speculate that George W. Bush’s presidency, or American racism, or the invasion of Iraq compelled her to leave. All of these conjectures are groundless. ESCAPE TO BERLIN: A Travel Memoir is a gripping autobiographical narrative that provides a full account of the facts.

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News April 2017

Video still from Adrian Moves to Berlin (2007 [Performance]/ 2017 [Video Wall Projection]; 01:02:33)

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April 2017

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the availability for rental of a new video, Adrian Moves to Berlin (2007 [Performance]/ 2017 [Video Wall Projection]), through APRA’s Video Rental page at http://adrianpiper.com/vs/video.shtml
News March 2017

The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research
that exemplifies, models, analyses and/or theorizes
the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

NEWS

March 2017

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the selection of its Multi-Disciplinary Fellow for 2017

Adrian Piper, The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3, 2013-2017. Installation + Group Performance. 3 grey walls reaching from floor to ceiling, 3 golden circular desks, golden embossed letters, 3 lecterns, 3 lean stools, computer system, 3 receptionists (one behind each desk). Detail: The Rules of the Game #2. Photo Credit: Anonymous. Collection Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin.

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February 2017




           THE
           PROBABLE
TRUST
           REGISTRY

THE RULES OF THE GAME #1-3

24 February – 3 September 2017

Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart Berlin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
News May 2015

NACHRICHTEN

Berlin, den 29. August 2015

Vor genau zehn Jahren kam ich heimlich und uneingeladen am Flughafen Berlin-Tegel an, während Orkan Katrina an der Golfküste der USA wütete. Im Flugzeug sahen wir sprachlos die Bilder an. Mit Katies Hilfe brachte ich die zwei Katzen Ginger und Kali in der Flugkabine mit, und sendete alles übrige in drei großen Containern per Schiff. Ich hinterließ nichts. Während der ersten acht Wochen in Berlin, hatte ich in meiner kleinen Dachwohnung buchstäblich nur ein Dach überm Kopf. Ich wollte bloß weg, aus der Schußlinie entkommen, mich in Sicherheit befinden und in Ruhe gelassen werden. Seitdem habe ich doch fast keine Ruhe gehabt, sondern das beste Jahrzehnt meines Lebens, das mit so vielen Momenten reiner Freude und Befriedigung erfüllt worden ist, wie ich es mir hätte nie vorstellen können. Zahlreicher Frust und Hindernisse sind mir auch begegnet, aber daraus habe ich eine Lektion gelernt: nämlich, Ihr Deutschen seid verrückt, ewig hin- und hergerissen zwischen eurer enormen nach vorne strebenden Naturenergie, und euren findigen Strategien, sie zu hemmen und zu kanalisieren. Es ist mir ein Privileg dabei zu sein, um bezeugen zu können, wie sich eine abgesonderte Gesellschaft ohne das Gift von Rassismus allmählich wieder vereinigt; und durch die Verarbeitung ihrer Vergangenheit ihrer Zukunft sichert. Ich bete, Ihr werdet die neulich in Deutschland angekommenen Flüchtlinge mindestens demgemäß behandeln. Denn ich war auch mal einer, und Ihr wart gütig zu mir. Dadurch habt Ihr mir vor allem viel beigebracht, von dem Land, das ich hinter mir ließ. Schade, daß es euch nicht auch gelungen ist, mir eure verfluchte Sprache beizubringen (bei diesem Text hat mir Robert geholfen), während ich mein Englisch allmählich verliere. Nun müßt Ihr dafür büßen, durch die Qual, meine nun zweiseitig furchtbaren Sprachkenntnisse erdulden zu müssen. Auch Schade. Hauptsache ist aber, Ihr habt es für mich möglich gemacht, derartiges Leben zu führen, das meinen tiefsten Werten entspricht. Das hätte ich nicht geschafft, wenn ich die Entscheidung nicht getroffen hätte, hierher permanent einzuwandern. Ich riskierte alles dafür, und es hat sich gelohnt. Ich habe heute also sehr viel zu feiern. Auf das nächste Jahrzehnt bei euch freue ich mich riesig.

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The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research
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the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self
encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying.

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March 2015

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the selection of its Multi-Disciplinary Fellow for 2015
News February 2014

Adrian Piper, Second Wave Feminism: Unfinished Business (2014; Video lecture/ discussion, 01:49:41). Photo credit: National Academy of Art, Oslo.

NEWS

December 2014

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the availability of a new open access video, Second Wave Feminism: Unfinished Business, a talk delivered to the National Academy of Art, Oslo, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in Norway. The second half of the video consists in a very interesting audience discussion inflected by continuing local debate about the meaning of the mass murders and bombings in Norway in 2011.

ADRIAN PIPER

THE
PROBABLE TRUST
REGISTRY

THE DESTINY AND INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORK ARE PART OF THE WORK.

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May 2014

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May 3-31

News February 2014

Video still from Passing Beyond Passing:
Imitation of Life (1934, USA). Director: John M. Stahl

NEWS

February 2014

The APRA Foundation Berlin is pleased to announce the premiere screening of a newly available video, Passing Beyond Passing (2004), at the IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland, on 6 April 2014 during the IHME Days. For more information on the Festival, please visit http://www.ihmefestival.fi/en/programme/films/. Passing Beyond Passing will be available for rental thereafter through APRA’s Video Rental page at http://adrianpiper.com/vs/video.shtml.
News May 2013

ADRIAN PIPER VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Rationality and the Structure of the Self

 by
 Robert Del Principe

60 Minutes
With German subtitles
Open Access

Viewed more than 2,000 times in the first year

NEWS

May 2013



RATIONALITY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE SELF
A Two-Volume Study in Kantian Metaethics


First Edition: 2008
Second Edition: 2013


Open Access
With a new Preface to the Second Edition

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