Photographers

Adrien Missika (born 1981 in Paris) is a French artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, sculpture, installation and performance. Currently based in Berlin, his work investigates the intersections of the natural and the cultural, often using humor and poetic speculation to explore how knowledge is constructed. Drawing on fields such as biology, geography and landscape architecture, Missika engages with environmental and epistemological questions to imagine alternative ways of relating to the world.

A graduate of ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne), Missika co-founded Galerie 1m3 in Lausanne (2006–2014) and is the founder and artistic director of Belo Campo in Lisbon (2017–present). His work has been widely exhibited, including solo presentations at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland, Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, and 21er Haus (Belvedere 21) in Vienna. Through his conceptual and research-based approach, his projects often blur boundaries between scientific observation, fiction and environmental inquiry.

Missika has also participated in major group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Metro Pictures (New York), Aargauer Kunsthaus (Aarau), Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Centre Pompidou Metz. His work has earned numerous awards, including the Swiss Art Award (2009), the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize (2011) and the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize (2011). In 2013 he received the prestigious Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation Prize. His practice continues to explore new forms of visual storytelling that challenge capitalist logics and open up imaginative spaces for possible worlds.