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In 2012, he founded the iconoclastic New York-based art gallery Venus Over Manhattan, which staged exhibitions of artists and estates that it represents including Richard Mayhew, Peter Saul, Robert Colescott, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, Robert Colescott, Richard Mayhew, Keiichi Tanaami, Joseph Yoakum, Pinchas Burstein, H.C. Westermann, Jack Goldstein, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, John Dogg, Susumu Kamijo, Ana Benaroya, Anastasia Bay, Sophie Larrimore, Sally Saul, Shinichi Sawada, Katherine Bernhardt, Alexander Calder, Maurizio Cattelan, Mike Kelley, John McCracken, David Medalla, Cady Noland, Raymond Pettibon, Andy Warhol, Franz West, William N. Copley, Walter Dahn, Roy De Forest, the Alexander Calder and the estate of William N. Copley. It acquired the estate of Chicago gallerist Allan Frumkin. Venus over Manhattan began exhibiting digital art in 2022, starting with an exhibition of the generative digital art collection Chromie Squiggles by Snowfro (Erick Calderon), as well as hosting Mints in collaboration with the artist of new Chromie Squiggle works.
In 2021, Lindemann and his wife, gallerist Amalia Dayan, established South Etna in Montauk, NY, a nonprofit organization that brings artist exhibition to Montauk, including Robert Colescott, Faith Ringgold, Eddie Martinez, Sam Moyer, Karen Kilimnik and Lonnie Holley.
On 9 March 2023, Christie’s hosted “ADAM: Works from the Collection of Adam Lindemann”, a single-owner evening sale of major works from Lindemann’s collection acquired over 20 years. Lindemann included works by artists which the collector was well-known to publicly support early in his collecting career, namely Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Urs Fischer, Rudolf Stingel, and Alexander Calder. All lots in the ADAM auction were sold, with the sale totaling $31,467,240.
He sold a 1982 canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat, entitled Untitled (Devil), at Christie’s for $57.3 million in 2016, a new world record for the artist at auction at that time. It was purchased by Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa. Lindemann originally bought the painting at auction for $4.5 million in 2004.
In 2023 Lindemann sold Jean Royère’s “Ours Polaire” Sofa at his eponymous single owner sale ADAM: Works from the Collection of Adam Lindemann held at Christie’s which realized a price of $3,420,000, surpassing its estimate of $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 and setting the auction record for the designer.
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