Adrian Kiss

Adrian Kiss (b. 1990, Miercurea-Ciuc, RO) is an artist working between Rotterdam and Budapest. He holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2025) and a BA from Central Saint Martins, London. His large-scale textile-based installations have garnered international attention, including inclusion in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (Phaidon, 2019).

He was awarded the Derkovits Scholarship (2021, 2022), nominated for the Leopold Bloom Art Award (2025), shortlisted four times for the Esterházy Art Award, and preselected for the STRABAG Art Award in 2021. Recent residencies include the Advanced Textile Program at the TextielMuseum, Tilburg (2025), the Fleur Groenendijk Residency at Brutus, Rotterdam (2025), and Art in General, New York (2018).

His work has been exhibited across Europe and the US, including solo shows at VUNU Gallery (Košice, 2023), FUTURA (Prague, 2017), and Trafó Gallery (Budapest, 2015). Group exhibitions include BOZAR (Brussels), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Künstlerhaus (Graz), Centre d'art Neuchâtel, the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (Tallinn), and the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, 2025).

In 2025, he presented a duo exhibition Restless Dislocations at the Ján Koniarek Gallery (Trnava, SK) and received a commission from ATiiSSU, Seoul.