Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua (Georgian: ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.
Wekua was born in Sukhumi and witnessed an ethnic conflict in Abkhazia in the 1990s. His father, the Georgian political activist Vova Wekua, was killed by the Abkhaz nationalists during the 1989 Sukhumi riots.[1] His work encompasses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film.[2]
Selected exhibitions
2011
Pink Wave Hunter, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, cur. Rein Wolfs (solo show)
A Neon Shadow, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (solo show)
Never sleep with a strawberry in your mouth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (solo show)
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale 2011, Venice
2010
10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, cur. Massimiliano Gioni
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, cur. Jeff Koons
Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, cur. Yasmil Raymond
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, cur. Nancy Spector
1995, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (solo show)
2009
Workshop Report, Wiels, Brussels, cur. Dirk Snauwaert (solo show)
28. August, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (solo show)
Workshop Report, Museion, Bolzano (solo show)
A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, Deste Foundation, Athens
2008
My Bike and Your Swamp, Camden Art Center, London (solo show)
My Bike and Your Swamp, Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, cur. Xander Karskens (solo show)
Sunset, Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, cur. Yves Aupetitallot (solo show)
Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Korea, cur. Tom Morton
Life on Mars, The 2008 Carnegie International, cur. Douglas Fogle
Blue Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo show)
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens
2007
Interlude, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (solo show)
The Hydra Workshops, Hydra, cur. Sadie Coles (solo show)
Wait to Wait, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, cur. Rein Wolfs (solo show)
Everyday is Saturday, Tbilisi Center for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, cur. Daniel Baumann
2006
I’m sorry if I’m not very funny tonights, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, cur. Dieter Schwarz (solo show)
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, cur. Mirjam Varadinis
Without Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo show)
Of Mouse and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, cur. Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick
2005
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, cur. Helena Kontova & Giancarlo Politi
Lively Memories, Plattform, Berlin, cur. Aurélie Voltz
Del Rio, Shirana Shahbazi & Andro Wekua, Zimmerfrei, Lugano, cur. Giovanni Carmine
2004
That would have been wonderful, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, cur. Gianni Jetzer (solo show)
Punktleuchten, Hotel 3 Könige, Basel, cur. Klaus Littmann
Fürchte Dich, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, cur. Gianni Jetzer & Simon Maurer
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, cur. Nicolaus Schafhausen
Monographs and Artist's Books
Andro Wekua / Ketuta Alexi: Anywhere Anyhow, PamBook, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Andro Wekua / Boris Groys: Wait to Wait, Christoph Keller Editions, JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2009
Andro Wekua: Workshop Report, Walther König Verlag, Köln, 2009,
Andro Wekua: If there ever was one, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, JRP-Ringier, 2006
Andro Wekua: That Would Have Been Wonderful, Patrick Frey Verlag, 2005
Andro Wekua: The Hydra Workshops, Sadie Coles, London, 2007
Andro Wekua: Shadows on the Facade, Nieves, Zurich, 2007
Andro Wekua: ...no one was there, she did not know it..., Nieves, Zurich, 2005
Andro Wekua / Rita Ackermann : Chapter 3, Nieves, Zurich, 2005
Andro Wekua / Rita Ackermann : Chapter 2, Nieves, Zurich, 2003
Public collections
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco
References
- ↑ "Abkhazia artist Andro Wekua captures pre-war childhood". BBC News. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ Press release from Kilchmann Galerie
External links
- Wekua in conversation with Boris Groys in Fillip
- Wekua’s artist book
- Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
- Andro Wekua on ArtFacts.net
- Further information from Gladstone Gallery
- Andro Wekua on ArtNet.com
- Interview with Andro Wekua about his exhibit at the 55th Carnegie International
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