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         Films
_Tales from the Mountaintop
_Repulsion System for Productive Lands   
_The Smiler
_The Privilege of Acting
_Terra Asciutta  
_Engagement Rate Formula
_The New Man and my Father
_EMPTY PAGE. Protecting our own
_Glories of a Forgotten Future
_Surplus Production Line
_The Making of Forty Rectangular Pieces for a Floor Construction
_How is a Storehouse Built
_Here, everybody takes care of me
_Night Watch


         Video Archives
_Instructions from the Great Beyond
_Moments that Shaped the World (serie)
_El EXPLOTE. Statistic Department
_Omertà
_Ovation


         Drawing Series
_Department for planning and destruction of Cuban economy


         Installations
_Land of Plenty
_Anechoic Room
_Covert Planning
_Productivity Control System
_The Power of the Working Class
_The Best Effort
_Dreams Production Plan for State-Run Companies
_The Value of Absence
_357.890 sqm Planned


         Photography Series
_Replacement Points
_Time to Relax
_STOCK


         Solo Exhibitions
_2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000 (2020) 
_Land of Plenty (2018)
_Selective Memory (2018)
_Absolute silence does not exist (2017)
_EMPTY PAGE. Protecting our own (2016)
_Selected Works (2016)
_CENTRUM (2015)
_Surplus Production Line (2014)
_Time to Relax (2013)
_The Value of Absence (2013)
_STOCK (2012)
_New Production Structures (2012)


         Catalogues

_The Value of Absence (2013)
_The Paradox of Labour - a reader to the work of Adrian Melis (2021)


         Lectures, seminars, workshops

_The Paradox of Art and Labour - Sociopolitical practices as form of artistic expressions


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THE PARADOX OF LABOUR - A READER ON THE WORK OF ADRIAN MELIS
(2021)
Supported by Pori Art Museum (Pori, Finland), Adn Galeria (Barcelona) and Publics (Helsinki)
248 pages
Printed in Barcelona



CUBA TALKS
Interview with 28 contemporary artist
by Jerome Sans and Laura Salas Redondo
Editoriale Rizzoli



WORK.
Documents of Contemporary Art

Anthology about work's relationships with art.
Included an interview of Friedrik Sigler
to Adrian Melis, 2017
Copublished by
Whitechapel Gallery
and The MIT Press




Avaritia Omnium Malorum Radix*
12a Biennal Martínez Guerricabeitia - Universitat València
Centre Cultural La Nau, Sala Acadèmia



Adrian Melis- Dreams Production Plan by state-run companies in Cuba
Catalogue 2nd Prize ArtNou 2013 ArtBarcelona (Contemporary Art Galleries Association).
2013
With the collaboration of Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and production from ADN Galería


FORMS OF DISTANCING
Representative Politics and the Politics of Representation

Edited by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Luigi Fassi and Steirischer Herbst
Published per Mousse, Mousse Publishing



INTERIMS Art for employment
Catalogue of the exhibition Interims
at La Panacée #1
Ville de Montpelier
Silviana Editoriale S.p.A



Adrian Melis. From Havana to Kunsthalle
Art Nexus No 85 Volume 11, 2012
text by curator Direlia Lazo



FRESTAS

Trienal de artes (2016)

Catalogue of Triennal of Arts Frestas that took place in São Paulo (2014-2015)
2016
Edited ad pubished by SESC


ATOPOLIS
Catalogue of the exhibition Atopolis at Manège de Sury, organised and supported by the WIELS contemporary art centre, Mons, Belgium, 2015.

Published in 2016 by WIELS



ENGAGEMENTS
Collectionner Partage
ArCEN, Art Collection European Network
Musée sainte-croix-politiers
Silviana Editoriale S.p.A
191 pages



Adrian Melis, The Value of absence
Exhibitions catalogue: The value of absence. Kunstahlle Basel, Basel
From March the 24th to May the 26th, 2013


ESSE
Travail - Labour
Catalogue - Magazine of contemporary art.
In search of unproductive time
Edition: Autum - Fall 2018



FUERA DE REVOLUCIONES Dos décadas de arte en Cuba
2016
por Marilyn Machado
Spanish - English
Editorial Almenara
Leiden, The Netherlands



Adrian Melis. The Value of Absence
Catalogue with works by Adrian Melis until 2013