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
Publications
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Stranger in Paradise, Europalia Georgia, Royal Museum of Art and History Belgium, Brussels
There, Sprüth Magers, London
2022 -
Dolphin in the Fountain, TANK Shanghai
Andro Wekua, Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone 64, New York
2021 -
It Seems Like That, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Andro Wekua: Drift Angle, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
2019 - All is Fair in Dreams and War, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2018 -
All is Fair in Dreams and War, Kunsthalle Zürich
Andro Wekua, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Dolphin in the Fountain, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 - A Dog's Fidelity, Gladstone 64, New York
2016 - Anruf, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2015 - Andro Wekua, 032c Workshop, Berlin
2014 -
Some Pheasants in Singularity, Sprüth Magers, London
Pink Wave Hunter, Benaki Museum, Athens
Andro Wekua, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Zamek, Warsaw
2013 - Andro Wekua, Kino der Kunst, Munich Andro Wekua, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2012 - Dreaming Dreaming, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2011 -
Never Sleep with a Strawberry in Your Mouth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Pink Wave Hunter, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
A Neon Shadow, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino
2010 -
Books, Editions, and the Like, Swiss Institute, New York
Gott ist tot aber das Mädchen nicht, Schinkel Pavillon e. V., Exhibition Gallery for Contemporary Sculpture, Berlin
1995, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2009 -
Workshop Report, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Workshop Report, Museion – museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano
2008 -
My Bike and Your Swamp, Camden Art Center, London
My Bike and Your Swamp, De Hallen, Dj Haarlem
Sunset. I love the Horizon, MAGASIN - Centre National d’arts et de cultures, Grenoble Blue Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2007 -
The Hydra Workshops, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Wait to Wait, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2006 -
Andro Wekua - I'm sorry if I'm not very funny tonight, Kunstmuseum Winterthur Without Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2005 -
Andro Wekua, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Insert: Andro Wekua, Bonner Kunstverein
Andro Wekua, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
Del Rio, Shirana Shahbazi & Andro Wekua, Zimmerfrei, Lugano That would have been wonderful, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
2004 - Andro Wekua, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2003 - Go to Church Mam, Go to Church, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich Andro Wekua, Piano Nobile, Geneva
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
