KARL HOLMQVIST, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA

Active since the 1990s, Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) has had solo exhibitions include theICA London (permanent installation), Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.(2019), the National Gallery of Singapore (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); the Garage Museum ofContemporary Art, Moscow (2015), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010), the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009),the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Serpentine Gallery inLondon (2005), as well as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (2004). Tiravanija’s work has beenrecognised with numerous awards and grants including the 2010 Absolut Art Award, the 2004 Hugo Boss Prizeawarded by the Guggenheim Museum, and the 2003 Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.

Tiravanija lives and works in New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of VisualArts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists,art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also President of an educational-ecological project known as The LandFoundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of the collective space l VER in Bangkok.

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Karl Holmqvist (b. 1964, Västerâs, Sweden) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Holmqvist utilises various media–including performance, painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design.

Holmqvist has held solo shows at the Camden Art Center, London, U.K.; The Power Station, Dallas, TX; Bergen

Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.