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biography |
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| 1977 |
Born in Sochumi, Georgia, lives in Zurich |
| 1986-91 |
National Art School, Sochumi, Georgia |
| 1993-94 |
Study at Phil. Institute “Gogebaschwili”, Tiblissi, Georgia |
| 1995-99 |
Visual Art School in Basel |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2009 |
“Andro Wekua: Workshop Report,” Weils Museum for Contemporary Art, Brussels |
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“Andro Wekua: Workshop Report,” Museion D’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy |
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“Andro Wekua: August 28,” Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
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| 2008 |
“My Bike Your Swamp,” De Hallen Haarlem; Camden Art Center, London |
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"Sunset," Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporin, Grenoble |
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“Blue Mirror,” Gladstone Gallery, New York |
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| 2007 |
"Interlude," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
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"Andro Wekua-Wait to Wait," Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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"Andro Wekua," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich |
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| 2006 |
Manor Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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"Without Mirror," Gladstone Gallery, New York |
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| 2005 |
The Rubell Collection, Miami |
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"Insert: Andro Wekua", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, March 5 – Apr. 9 |
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“Del Rio”, Shirana Shahbazi & Andro Wekua, Zimmerfrei, Lugano, cur. Giovanni Carmine, Feb. 20 – Apr. 17 |
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“That Would Have Been Wonderful”, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, cur. Gianni Jetzer, Sept. 10 – Nov. 4 |
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| 2003 |
“Go To Church Mam, Go To Church” Kilchmann plus, Zurich, Oct. 18 – Dec. 20 |
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Piano Nobile, Geneva, cur. Marie-Eve Knoerle, June 12 – June 28 |
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| 2000 |
Exhibition space, Tiblissi |
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Selected Group Shows |
| 2009 |
“Bad Habits,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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“modern modern,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York |
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“Born in Georgia,” Cobra Museum, Amsterdam |
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“Altes Europa,” Schickeria, Berlin |
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“A State of Mind,” Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin |
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“Beginnings, Middles, and Ends,” Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna |
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“A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST,” Deste Foundation, Athens |
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“Le Sang du Poete,” Nantes Estuary, France |
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| 2008 |
"The Perfectly Superfluous Art of Collecting. La Società del Sentimento," Centro d'Arte Contemporanea del Ticino, Bellinzona |
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"Now: Selections from the Ovitz Family Colletion," Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe |
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"I Love the Horizon ," Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporin, Grenoble |
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"Paintings 1936-2008," The Approach, London |
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“Life on Mars,” 2008 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh |
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| 2007 |
“Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York |
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"Absent Without Leave," Victoria Miro Galley, London |
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"Fractured Figure," DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| 2006 |
Printemps de Septembre, Festival of Contemporary Images, Toulouse |
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"Painting Architecture", Camden Arts Center, London |
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"The Kate Moss Show," Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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"Collectors 1", Collezione La Gaia, Busca |
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"Infinite Painting", Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passarino, Codroipo |
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4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin |
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"Painting Architecture", Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris |
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"Neuerwerbsausstellung der Grafischen Sammlung", Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| 2005 |
“Lively Memories”, Plattform, Berlin, cur. Aurélie Voltz, June 22 – July 31 |
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“Expanded Painting”, Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague, May 26 – Sept. 15 |
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“ID Troubles – US Visit”, Nuture Art, New York, May 20 – June 24 |
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“Come Back/Le Retour”, Crac Alsace, cur. Hilde Teerlinck, Altkirch, March 13 – May 22 |
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“Hier / Anderswo“, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne, cur. Nils Nova a.o., Feb. 25 – March 21 |
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| 2004 |
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Oct. 29 – Nov. 20 “Tuesday Is Gone”, Karvasla, Tiblissi, Sept. 1 – Sept. 26 |
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Centro d’Arte Contemporaneo Ticino, Bellinzona, cur. Mario Casanova, 24 July – 12 Sept. |
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“Emotion Eins”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, cur. Nicolaus Schaufhausen, June 8 – Aug. 8 |
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“Emotion Eins”, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, cur. Nicolaus Schaufhausen, June 6 – July 18 |
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”Strategies of Desire”, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, cur. Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, May 28 – July 31 |
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“Dessins et des autres – Part II”, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, May 13 – June 13 |
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“Shake – ID Troubles”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, cur. Heike Munder, Zoran Eric & Bettina Steinbrügge,May 5 – July 11 |
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“Black”, 10, rue du Turennes, Paris, cur. Erich Weiss, April 1 – April 6 |
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“Punktleuchten”, Hotel 3 Könige, Basel, cur. Klaus Littmann, March 29 – June 30 |
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“Fürchte Dich”, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, cur. Gianni Jetzer & Simon Maurer, Feb. 13 - April 12 |
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“The Human Face is an Empty Force, a Field of Death”, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, cur. Angelblood, Jan. 24 – |
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“Dessins et des Autres”, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, Jan. 22 – Feb. 28 |
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Stiftung Binz 39, Zurich, Jan. 17 – Feb. 14 |
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| 2003 |
“Which Side Are You On?”, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Sept. 18 – Oct. 15 |
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“Coup de coeur/A Sentimental Choice”, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, cur. Hilde Teerlinck, Sept. 14 – Nov. 23 |
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“It´s In Our Hands", Migros Museum, Zurich, cur. Raphael Gygax, Aug. 23- Nov. 2 Swiss Art Award, Basel |
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“Diarios Urbanos - Joven Arte Suizo”, Alcalá, Madrid, cur. Martin Schwander and Sabine Schaschl, Jan. 28 – April 20 |
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“Durchzug / Draft”, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, cur. Beatrix Ruf, Jan. 25 – March 9 |
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| 2002 |
Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Bellinzona, cur. Mario Casanova |
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“Persönliche Pläne, Die Zeichnung vom Lebensplan bis zum Weltentwurf”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, cur. Christina Vëgh, March 23 – May 12 |
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Galerie Greenenaftalie , New York |
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“Heirat im Westen”, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, project space |
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| 2001 |
“Wald und Explosionen”, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, cur. Simon Maurer, Dec. 1 – Jan. 20 |
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Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zurich |
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“und/oder/aber”, Stiftung Binz 39, Zurich |
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“Von Fern”, Künstlerhaus Boswil, Boswil |
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| 2000 |
“Jungs und Mädchen”, Warteck, Basel |
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Grants & Awards |
| 2006 |
Manor Kunstpreis Kt. Zürich |
| 2005 |
Kiefer-Hablitzel |
| 2004 |
Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich ( Paris) |
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Bundesstipendium für Freie Kunst |
| 2002-03 |
Atelierstipendium Stiftung Binz 39, Zurich |
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