Andro WEKUA
アンドロ・ウェクア
Andro Wekua was born in 1977 in Georgia, and he studied visual arts there and in Basel, Switzerland.
Recent solo museum exhibitions took place in venues including Kunsthalle Zürich; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Wiels, Brussels; Neue Kunst Halle, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Camden Art Centre, London; De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; and the Benaki Museum, Athens.
He has participated in various group shows including ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2010); 10,000 Lives, 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010); Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006).
Chronology
1993–1994 Phil. Institute ‘Gogebaschwili’, Tiblisi
1995–1999 Visual Art School, Basel
Awards
2006 - Manor Kunstpreis, Zurich
2005 - Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Zurich
2004 - Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich, Zurich
2003 - Bundesstipendium für Freie Kunst, Zurich
2002~03 - Atelierstipendium Binz 39, Zurich