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
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
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