Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua (ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. His father, the Georgian political activist Vova Wekua, was killed by the Abkhaz nationalists during the 1989 Sukhumi riots. His work encompasses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture, and film.
Andro Wekua
- Born
- 1977. · Sokhumi.
- Nationality
- Georgia.
- Occupation
- artist, draftsperson, painter, collagist and sculptor.
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Andro Wekua (ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. His father, the Georgian political activist Vova Wekua, was killed by the Abkhaz nationalists during the 1989 Sukhumi riots. His work encompasses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture, and film.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Switzerland. Work by Andro Wekua is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum and Hessel Museum of Art.
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
Life and career
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Life and career
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1977
Andro Wekua was born in 1977 at Sokhumi.
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
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- 1.BBC News. 25 August 2011. Abkhazia artist Andro Wekua captures pre-war childhood.
- 2.Press release from
- 3.https://web.archive.org/web/20111105053631/http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de/wekua0.html
- 4.http://www.preis2011.de/index.php?id=728
- 5.http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/illuminations_arsenale/andro_wekua
- 6.https://web.archive.org/web/20100710210129/http://gb.or.kr/?mid=sub_eng&mode=01&sub01
- 7.https://web.archive.org/web/20100223020822/http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/421/skin_fruit_selections_from_the_dakis_joannou_collection/
- 8.https://web.archive.org/web/20080429184948/http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/2008/02/andro-wekua.php
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