Andro Wekua ( ka, ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a
Georgian
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artist based in
Zurich,
Switzerland, and
Berlin
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,
Germany
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.
Wekua was born in
Sokhumi
Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of ...
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.
His work encompasses
painting
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,
collage,
drawing,
installation
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,
sculpture
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, and
film.
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Selected exhibitions
2011
*''Pink Wave Hunter'', Kunsthalle Fridericianum
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*''A Neon Shadow'', Castello Di Rivoli
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In 19 ...
, Turin (solo show)
*''Never sleep with a strawberry in your mouth'', Kunsthalle Wien
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, Vienna (solo show)
*''Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011'', Hamburger Bahnhof
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, Berli
*''ILLUMInations'', 54th Venice Biennale
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2011, Venic
2010
*''10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennale'', Gwangju, cur. Massimiliano Gion
*''Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection'', New Museum, New York, cur. Jeff Koon
*''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 Fogl
*''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
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, 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 / Rita Ackermann : ''Chapter 2'', Nieves, Zurich, 2003
*Andro Wekua / Rita Ackermann : ''Chapter 3'', Nieves, Zurich, 2005
*Andro Wekua: ''...no one was there, she did not know it...'', Nieves, Zurich, 2005
*Andro Wekua: ''Shadows on the Facade'', Nieves, Zurich, 2007
*Andro Wekua: ''The Hydra Workshops'', Sadie Coles, London, 2007
*Andro Wekua: ''That Would Have Been Wonderful'', Patrick Frey Verlag, 2005
*Andro Wekua: ''If there ever was one'', Kunstmuseum Winterthur, JRP-Ringier, 2006
*Andro Wekua: ''Workshop Report'', Walther König Verlag, Köln, 2009,
*Andro Wekua / Boris Groys: ''Wait to Wait'', Christoph Keller Editions, JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2009
*Andro Wekua / Ketuta Alexi: ''Anywhere Anyhow'', PamBook, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
References
External links
Wekua in conversation
with Boris Groys
Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a global distinguished professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Karlsruhe Univer ...
in Fillip
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*Wekua’
artist book
*Images, biography and texts from th
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ArtFacts.net
*Further information fro
Gladstone Gallery
*Andro Wekua o
Interview with Andro Wekua
about his exhibit at the 55th Carnegie International
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Artists from Georgia (country)
Living people
1977 births
People from Sukhumi
Swiss contemporary artists