Rirkrit Tiravanija ( th, ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronunciation: [] or Tea-rah-vah-nitJerry Saltz (May 7, 2007)
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, Berlin, and Chiangmai, Thailand. He was born in

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in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work.

Early life and education

The son of a Thai diplomatRirkrit Tiravanija

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, New York. and an oral surgeon,Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey (February 2004)
In Conversation: Rirkrit Tiravanija
'' The Brooklyn Rail''. Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires in 1961 and was raised in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Canada.Sarah Milroy (April 7, 2007)
A global art star comes home
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''. After initially studying history at

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, he later enrolled in the

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in Toronto (1980–84), the Banff Center School of Fine Arts (1984), the

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(1984–86), and the Whitney Independent Studies Program in New York (1985–86).Rirkrit Tiravanija
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York. He moved to Manhattan in 1982. Calvin Tomkins (October 17, 2005)
Shall We Dance?
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Work

Artistic projects

According to art historian Rochelle Steiner, Tiravanija's work “ Is fundamentally about bringing people together.” The artist's installations of the early-1990s involved cooking meals for gallery-goers. In one of his best-known series, beginning with ''pad thai'' (1990), at the Paula Allen Gallery in New York, he rejected traditional art objects altogether and instead cooked and served food for exhibition visitors. He recreated the installation in 2007 at the David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea using the original elements and renaming the work

Untitled (free still) Untitled (free/still) 1992/1995/2007/2011 is a series of artworks by Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. Trained in Canada, the New York-based artist's installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing ...

.Carol Vogel (October 27, 2011)
Meals as Art at MoMA
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''. In 1995 he presented a similar untitled work at the

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exhibition at the

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, where he included wall text that presented written instructions for cooking South-east Asian green curry, which was then prepared for visitors. As a prelude to the opening of '' La Triennale'' 2012, Tiravanija was invited to transform the main nave of the

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into a festive, large-scale, twelve-hour banquet composed of a single meal of Tom Kha soup (''Soup/No Soup'', 2012). His exhibitions are often based on interaction and exchange among participants. Some viewers, like the students who lived in ''Untitled 1999'', a recreation of Tiravanija's East Village apartment, actually moved in for the duration of an exhibition. A 2005 solo show at

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, London, featured two new, full-scale replicas of this apartment, complete with kitchen, bath, and bedroom.Rose Jennings (July 24, 2005)
There's plenty of room for manoeuvre
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''. In other projects, he has bricked up the entrance to gallery spaces, rendering them impenetrable for the duration of the respective exhibition. Tiravanija painted the words " Ne Travaillez Jamais" on the wall, a phrase lifted from the May 1968, protest riots in Paris. When Tiravanija does make objects, they are most often multiples and ephemera connected with exhibitions.Faye Hirsch (June 7, 2011)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
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''. Since the early 1990s, Tiravanija has published multiples in the form of backpacks, cooking utensils, and maps as part of his practice. These commonplace objects used for cooking or camping serve today as memories of the artist's earlier projects and also stimulate new interactions, whether physical or purely in the imagination. In ''Untitled 2008–2011 (the map of the land of feeling)'', Tiravanija presents a visual chronology of his life and work between 1988 and 2008, as told through the pages of his expansive passport.Print/Out, February 19 – May 14, 2012

, New York. In 1997 Tiravanija began an engagement with modernist architecture when he installed in the

's sculpture garden ''Untitled: 1997 (Glass House)'', a child-size version of

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's Glass House (1949). Similarly, ''untitled 2002 (he promised)'' is an arena of activities ranging from DJ sessions to film screenings within a chrome and steel structure inspired by Rudolf M. Schindler's

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(1922) in West Hollywood. In Tiravanija's ''untitled 2006 (pavilion, table and puzzle)'' installation, visitors are welcome to gather at a picnic table to assemble an expansive puzzle depicting

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’s 1830 masterpiece, '' Liberty Leading the People''; a pavilion-like structure, a replica of one designed by

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for use in French colonial Africa, completes the tableau.Hélio Oiticica/Rirkrit Tiravanija: Contact, February 27 – November 21, 2010

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, Minneapolis. For ''Asile Flottant'' (2010), he constructed a sketch of

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’s boat of the same name and inserted a section of it into a gallery.

’s barge was designed for the

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literally as a floating asylum meant to provide temporary overnight shelter for vagrants wandering the streets of Paris; Tiravanija’s barge, constructed in

Chiang Mai Chiang Mai (, from th, เชียงใหม่ , nod, , เจียงใหม่ ), sometimes written as Chiengmai or Chiangmai, is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in ...

, was to serve as a pavilion that houses both political T-shirts designed by the artist, and others that have been collected from all over the world.Rirkrit Tiravanija: Asile flottant, May 5 - June 17, 2010
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. In 2004 the

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honoured Tiravanija with the Hugo Boss Prize and presented an exhibition of his work, which had more overtly political tones. Featured in this exhibition, ''Untitled 2005 (The Air Between the Chain-Link Fence and the Broken Bicycle Wheel)'' was an installation in which the artist addressed governmental control of popular media by installing a low-tech pirate television station within the museum, using a simple metal antenna and cables as broadcasting equipment, accompanied by a small wooden structure housing a television set and chairs. On the gallery walls Tiravanija featured the text of the US Constitution’s First Amendment (advocating freedom of speech), a history of radio and television communication in America, and simple directions for constructing low-tech broadcasting equipment. Tiravanija’s support of free speech is conveyed by his choice to broadcast the low-budget film '' Punishment Park'' (1971), a documentary on the suppression of Vietnam War protests. For the season 2006/2007 in the

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Rirkrit Tiravanija designed the large scale picture (176 sqm) "Fear Eats the Soul" as part of the exhibition series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress."Safety Curtain 2006/2007"
museum in progress, Vienna. Alongside Hans Ulrich Obrist and

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, Tiravanija staged the opera ''Il Tempo del postino (‘Postman Time’)'' with the participation of a number of leading contemporary visual artists, first unveiled at the Manchester International Festival in 2007 and later at

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fair in an expanded form in 2009.Louisa Buck (June 10, 2009)
The group show that takes to the stage
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Curatorial projects

Tiravanija was the co-curator of the Station Utopia project at the 2003 Venice Biennale together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and

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. In 1998, he co-founded a collaborative educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation with Thai artist Kamin Lerdchaiprasert, located in the northern part of Thailand, near the village of Sanpathong, 20 km southwest from the provincial city of Chiang Mai. The project combines contemporary art interventions and agricultural traditional values; the six-hectare land is intended to be cultivated as an open space or community free from ownership, and residents and artists are welcomed to use a plot of land as a laboratory for development‚ cultivating rice, building sustainable houses, or channeling solar power. Tiravanija is also part of a collective alternative space called Gallery VER located in Bangkok. He maintains his primary residence and studio in Chiang Mai.Rirkrit Tiravanija

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. In 2009, Tiravanija was a member of a think tank established to define the model and architecture of the Guggenheim Urdaibai, an annex for the existing

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.Raul Martinez (October 19, 2009)
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Film

Tiravanija released ''Chew the Fat'' in 2008. The work presents filmic portraits of twelve artists, all chosen by Tiravanija, that belong to the same generation as him, that rose to critical attention in the 1990s. All good friends, they rose to international success. Relating to the name, they create a relaxed situation where conversation flows naturally, with personal issues arising to do with work and career. It premiered as part of the exhibition "theanyspacewhatever" at the

in New York. Tiravanija's second feature film, '' Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours'' was released in 2011. The film was shown at the ''Orizzonti'' section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The documentary features a retired farmer that lives in a tranquil village in

, far from the recent political turmoil in

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. At a moment when many people are demanding equality, opportunity, and democracy, we see in Lung Neaw an existence marked by compassion for his environment and his fellow villagers. The film offers a contemplative look at one man's humble dialogue with his surroundings.Rirkrit Tiravanija

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, New York.

Teaching

Tiravanija is a Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts in the Faculty of the Arts at

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.Columbia Faculty

Exhibitions

Tiravanija's work has been presented widely at museums and galleries throughout the world including solo exhibitions at the

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, New York (2008); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2005);

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(2005); Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2003);

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(2002);

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, Frankfurt (2001); Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2000);

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(1999); and the

(1997).Rirkrit Tiravanija at Gavin Brown's Enterprise: ''Untitled (Tomorrow can shut up and go away)
" ''Asian Art News'', November 1999. He had a retrospective exhibition at the

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that then was presented in

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and

. He has participated in such notable group exhibitions as the

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(2007); 27th

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(2006);

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2006: Day for Night,

(2005); the 50th

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(2003); and

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(1997). Tiravanija participated in the 9th

Gwangju Biennale The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Found ...

(2012). In 2019, the

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was desig ...

in Washington, D.C. premiered ''Rirkrit Tiravanija: (who’s afraid of red, yellow, and green)'' which, in addition to transforming the museum's galleries into a communal dining space, invited local artists to participate in the creation of a communal mural over the course of the three-month long exhibition. Visitors of the museum were given the opportunity to have a bowl of curry whilst also discussing with each other the murals that were displayed around them, notably, portraying significant historical events such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s

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in 1963. The title of the exhibition and the colours of the curry referred to the different colours worn by the various factions in recent Thai government protests. Tiravanija claimed that the purpose of this exhibition and the three colours of the curry is "nourishing food for the belly while contemplating the images' food for thought."

Critical reception

Tiravanija's artwork, which explores the social role of the artist, has been regularly cited by French curator

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as exemplary of his conception of relational art.Nicolas Bourriaud L'esthétique relationnelle, édition Les presses du réel, However, addressing Tiravanija's work (amongst others) as paradigmatic of relational art,

Claire Bishop Claire Bishop is a British art historian, critic, and Professor of Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York where she has taught since September 2008. Bishop is known as one of the central theorists of participation in visual art and ...

challenges his (and RA's) emancipatory claims and criticises him (as part of the RA movement) for benefiting from "ubiquitous presence on the international art scene" and "collaps nginto compensatory (and self-congratulatory) entertainment."Bishop, Claire. "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics." ''October'' (Fall 2004, No. 110): 51-79

Recognition

Tiravanija's work has been recognised with numerous awards and grants including a Gordon Matta Clark Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1993),

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Visual Artist Fellowship (1994), the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan, the Lucelia Artist Award from the

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(2003), and the Hugo Boss Prize from the

in New York (2004). Stefano Pasquini dedicated a song to him in the CD "Canzoni che costano un po' meno del solito" in 2011.

Notable works in public collections

*''untitled 1990 (pad-see-ew)'' (1990/2002),

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*''untitled (free/still)'' (1992/1995/2007/2011-),

*''Untitled (rucksack installation)'' (1993),

*''Catalogue (Back of Postcard Reads) Memories'' (1997),

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*''untitled 2002 (he promised)'' (2002), The Guggenheim,

*''(a film title for an unrealized film)'' (2004),

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*''Untitled (Cooking corner version # 3)'' (2005),

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

*''Untitled, 2005 (sleep on earth, eat on sand)'' (2005),

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*''untitled 2006 (pavilion, table, and puzzle representing the famous painting by Delacroix La Liberté Guidant le Peuple, 1830)'' (2006),

*''Untitled (bicycle shower)'' (2010),

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*''(Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green)'' (2010),

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*''Fear Eats the Soul'' (2011), Glenstone,

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*''untitled 2014 (up against the wall motherfucker)'' (2014),

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Personal life

Tiravanija was married to painter Elizabeth Peyton in 1991. They separated in the late 1990s and divorced in 2004. They are both represented by

gallery in New York and neugerriemschneider in Berlin.Calvin Tomkins, Profiles, “The Artist of the Portrait,” The New Yorker, October 6, 2008, p. 47.

References

External links

Official Website
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