Pina Issue 1 Launch: A Conversation with Bitsy Knox and Adam Kleinman
Welcome to the launch of “Pina Issue 1” followed by a conversation between Bitsy Knox, IASPIS Artist In Residence and Adam Kleinman, Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthall Trondheim!
“Pina” is a commissioning platform and a portable exhibition space. In the form of a magazine-in-print, it houses two 60-page solo exhibitions per issue, proposing to reimagine the exhibition as a world-building experience, accessible from multiple entry points within a flat, portable and collectible space.
Launched in November 2024, “Pina Issue 1” features exhibitions by Gala Porras-Kim and Asad Raza. Porras-Kim’s exhibition comes with a conversation with Adam Kleinman and ‘Bedtime Story’ by Jessi Jezewska Stevens. Raza’s exhibition is titled ‘Array’ as is accompanied by a conversation with Karen Barad and a newly commissioned work of fiction by Akil Kumarasamy.
Photo: Mailine Reicke
Bitsy Knox
Bitsy Knox, IASPIS Artist in Residence in Stockholm, 20 November 2024–25 February 2025.
Bitsy Knox is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of drawing, film, performance, sound, and writing. She is also a radio producer, hosting the monthly radio show Something Like on Cashmere Radio, Berlin and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Radio.
She is the Producer of two serialized (counter-)archival audio documentaries: New Friend, in collaboration with the estate of the artist and filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, which was released in late 2024; and a second forthcoming audio documentary, commissioned by Performance Space New York. She is also a longtime collaborator of Brussels-based musician Roger 3000, with whom she will release their second LP on Mol Del Tro Records this year. Bitsy is Pina Magazine’s Managing Editor, working with Pina’s Editor, Catalina Imizcoz, to commission artists, writers, and thinkers.
Photo: Annika Svendsen Finne
Adam Kleinman
Adam Kleinman, Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthall Trondheim.
Adam Kleinman makes exhibitions, performances, and other projects that inspire trust and mutual understanding by presenting art that reflects individuals’ and communities’ daily realities and lived experiences. Through his curation, Kleinman opens diverse access points to art while enhancing the joy of everyday life by bringing people together to share powerful ideas expressed with beauty and purpose. His recent projects include monographic exhibitions of artists such as Gala Porras-Kim, American Artist, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, and Sin Wai Kin, alongside thematic shows like “Tongues of Fire” – a group exhibition exploring fire’s sociohistorical significance, inspired by Kunsthall Trondheim’s former function as a fire station.
Beyond curating, his writing spans essays, interviews, and creative non-fiction, earning citations across diverse areas of the humanities and interdisciplinary sciences. Kleinman previously served as Lead Curator for North America at KADIST, Editor-in-Chief, and Curator at (FKA) Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and Agent for Public Programming at dOCUMENTA (13). As Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthall Trondheim, he continues to promote meaningful engagement with the arts.