Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.
Wekua was born in Sokhumi and witnessed an ethnic conflict in Abkhazia in the 1990s. 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.
Selected exhibitions
2011- Pink Wave Hunter, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, cur. Rein Wolfs
- A Neon Shadow, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin
- Never sleep with a strawberry in your mouth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
- Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale 2011, Venice
- 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
- Workshop Report, Wiels, Brussels, cur. Dirk Snauwaert
- 28. August, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
- Workshop Report, Museion, Bolzano
- A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, Deste Foundation, Athens
- My Bike and Your Swamp, Camden Art Center, London
- My Bike and Your Swamp, Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, cur. Xander Karskens
- Sunset, Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, cur. Yves Aupetitallot
- Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Korea, cur. Tom Morton
- Life on Mars, The 2008 Carnegie International, cur. Douglas Fogle
- Blue Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York
- Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens
- Interlude, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
- The Hydra Workshops, Hydra, cur. Sadie Coles
- Wait to Wait, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, cur. Rein Wolfs
- Everyday is Saturday, Tbilisi Center for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, cur. Daniel Baumann
- I’m sorry if I’m not very funny tonights, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, cur. Dieter Schwarz
- Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, cur. Mirjam Varadinis
- Without Mirror, Gladstone Gallery, New York
- Of Mouse and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, cur. Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick
- 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
- That would have been wonderful, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, cur. Gianni Jetzer
- 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 / 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