Andro Wekua

Untitled, 2017
Aluminum and bronze with black patina
Wolf: 57 78 x 83 78 x 42 18 inches (147 x 213 x 107 cm)
Girl: 57 78 x 14 14 x 7 78 inches (147 x 36 x 20 cm)

About

Photo by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili.

Andro Wekua (b. 1977, Sokhumi, Georgia) lives and works between Zurich and Berlin. Wekua studied visual arts at the National Art School, Sokhumi, Georgia, Philippine Institute “Gogebashvili,” Tbilisi, Georgia, and the Visual Art School in Basel, Switzerland. Solo museum exhibitions include TANK Shanghai, China; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; WIELS, Brussels; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Camden Arts Center, London; the 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 at the 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010); Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008), and the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).

Exhibitions

Publications

Select Press

Ein abgründiges Universum

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Susanna Koeberle

July 5, 2020

Kunsthalle Zürich

Artforum

Aaron Bogart

October 1, 2018

Peripatetic Georgian artist Andro Wekua on work, war and wandering

Wallpaper*

Sophie Lovell

April 17, 2018

A Dog’s Fidelity

Interview DE

February 21, 2017

Solar Tensions

Neue Journal

Stephon Alexander and Jaron Lanier

April 22, 2015

Dark Matter: Andro Wekua

032c

Thom Bettridge

December 22, 2014

Some Pheasants in Singularity

Mousse

October 19, 2014

Andro Wekua

Artforum

April 1, 2013

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