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Andro Wekua

Born 1977 in Sokhumi, Georgia
Lives and works in Berlin

1991 National Art School, Sokhumi, Georgia
1994 Institute of Philosophy, Tbilisi, Georgia
1999 Visual Art School, Basel

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

“Stranger in Paradise,” Art & History Museum, Brussels

2022

“Dolphin in the Fountain,” TANK Shanghai

2021

“Drift Angle,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2018

“Andro Wekua: All is Fair in Dreams and War,” Kunsthalle Zurich
“Andro Wekua. Dolphin in the Fountain,” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2016

“Andro Wekua: Anruf,” Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

2014

“Pink Wave Hunter,” Benaki Museum, Athens

2011

“Never Sleep with a Strawberry in Your Mouth,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Pink Wave Hunter,” Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
“A Neon Shadow,” Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2009

“Workshop Report,” Museion, Bolzano, Italy

2008

“Sunset. I love the Horizon,” Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France

2007

“Wait to Wait,” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

2006

“Andro Wekua: I’m sorry if I’m not very funny tonight,” Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

2005

“Insert: Andro Wekua,” Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
“That would have been wonderful,” Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

“Blumen,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2023

“As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“Home Sweet Home,” National Museum of Art, Osaka; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
“15,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2021

1st Diriyah Biennale, “Feeling the Stones”
“Fore-edge Painting,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
“Aesthetics: Collection of Qiao Zhibing,” TANK Shanghai

2020

“Supernatural: Sculptural Visions of the Body,” Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany; Taipei Fine Arts Museum

2019

“At Night. Between Dream and Reality,” Haus Der Kunst, Munich

2018

“Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Arts Collection, 1945 to Now,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2016

“Surrealism and Beyond,” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
“Stranger,” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH

2015

“Creating Realities. Encounters Between Art and Cinema,” Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich
“Turn On: Time-Based Art from the Julia Stoschek Collection,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

2014

“Inside,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2012

“A Disagreeable Object,” SculptureCenter, New York
“Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

2011

54th Venice Biennale, “Illuminations”
“Ostalgia,” New Museum, New York

2010

“Ordinary Madness,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
8th Gwangju Biennale, “10,000 Lives”
“Abstract Resistance,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Contemplating the Void,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2009

“Bad Habits,” Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY
“Modern Modern,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2007

“Tbilisi 4. Everyday is Saturday,” Center for Contemporary Art – Tbilisi, Georgia

2006

4th Berlin Biennale, “Of Mice and Men”

2005

Prague Biennale 2, “Expanded Painting/Acción Directa”

Exhibitions