Andro Wekua is an artist based in Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

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Wekua was born in Sokhumi, Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

. His work encompasses painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, collage

Collage

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

, drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

, installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, sculpture

Sculpture

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 and film

Video art

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Selected exhibitions

2011

Never sleep with a strawberry in your mouth, Kunsthalle Wien

Kunsthalle Wien

The Kunsthalle Wien is an institution in Vienna for temporary exhibitions of contemporary international art. It opened in 1992, and was originally located on Karlsplatz, in a container-shaped building designed as a temporary site by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz...

, Vienna

2010

10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, cur. Massimiliano Gioni http://gb.or.kr/?mid=sub_eng&mode=01&sub01

Rethinking Location, Sprueth Magers, Berlin, cur. Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, cur. Jeff Koons http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/421/skin_fruit_selections_from_the_dakis_joannou_collection

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, cur. Letizia Ragaglia (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 http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/2008/02/andro-wekua.php

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, 4. 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

External links

• http://fillip.ca/content/wait-to-waitWekua in conversation with Boris Groys
  Boris Groys
  Boris Efimovich Groys 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 University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany...
  
  ] in Fillip
  Fillip
  Fillip is a Vancouver-based contemporary art publishing organization formed in 2004. It publishes a magazine as well as books of critical writing...
  
  
• 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