Andro Wekua

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This comprehensive publication on Berlin-based Georgian artist Andro Wekua delves into his captivating and unsettling work. Wekua navigates the ambiguous realms of memory, fantasy, and history, presenting dream-like relationships, fragmented narratives, part objects, and doubled figures that serve as meta-fictions of a self that resists autobiographical and historical specificity. The book features three essays by Kunsthalle Zurich director Daniel Baumann, Berlin-based writer and art critic Pablo Larios, and New York MoMA’s Assistant Curator Paulina Pobocha, each offering insights into his diverse practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, film, photography, artist’s books, and collage. These varied perspectives are enhanced by a new interview with Wekua conducted by curator Ali Subotnick. Designed as an artist’s book, the first section collages Wekua’s current obsessions and visual universe, while the second provides an overview of his artistic output and exhibitions over the past decade. Born in 1977 in Sukhumi, Georgia, Wekua has been active in the international art scene since the mid-2000s, with recent solo exhibitions at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. This publication coincides with his exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich.