Tarik_Kiswanson

Tarik Kiswanson

Tarik Kiswanson

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Tarik Kiswanson, born 19 July 1986, Halmstad, is a Swedish visual artist.[1] He lives and works in Paris.

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Early life and education

Tarik Kiswanson was born in Halmstad (Sweden) in 1986. He comes from a Palestinian family who exiled from Jerusalem to North Africa and later to Sweden in the early 1980s where he was born. When his parents arrived at the immigration office, their original name, al-Kiswani was changed to Kiswanson. Tarik Kiswanson spent his childhood between Sweden and Jordan, where a large part of his family lives.[2]

At the age of 17, he moved to London to study at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art. In 2010, he graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and moved to Paris to continue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris and graduated in 2014.[3]

Work

For over a decade, Tarik Kiswanson has explored notions of rootlessness, regeneration, metamorphosis, and memory through his complex and interdisciplinary practice. A legacy of displacement and transformation permeates his works and is indispensable to both their form and the modes of sensing they produce. The artist's Palestinian family left Jerusalem for North Africa and Jordan before subsequently settling in Sweden , where he was born in 1986. Over the years, Kiswanson's artistic inquiry has retained an attachment to the intimate and personal while simultaneously speaking to universal concerns relative to the human condition and to social and collective histories of rupture, loss and regeneration.

He is the winner of the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Prize.[4][5]

1951 (The Weavers' Machines), 2016

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023, Centre Pompidou (2023)
  • Afterwards, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzbourg, Austria (2023)[6]
  • Becoming, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2023)[7]
  • Nido, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2023)[8]
  • Anamnesis, M HKA - Musée d'Art contemporain d'Anvers (2022)
  • Nest, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beyrouth, Lebanon (2022)
  • Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden (2022)
  • Surging, carlier I gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2021)
  • Mirrorbody, Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France (2020)[9]
  • Come of age, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018)[10]
  • Father Form, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2017)[11]
  • Ongoing Reflection, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France (2016)[12] · [13]

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Form of the surrounding futures, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2023)
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: READ, Kunsthalle Praha, Praha, Czechia (2023)
  • Manifesto of fragility, 16e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France (2022)
  • Living In This Exquisite Corpse, Ambassade de France, Berne, Switzerland (2021)
  • In The Open, The Common Guild, Glasgow, United-Kingdom (2021)
  • Hi-storytelling, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hambourg, Germany (2021)
  • Immortality, Ural biennial, Ekaterinburg, Rusia (2019)
  • AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, Performa 19 biennial, New York, United-States (2019)[14]
  • Tainted Love Villa Arson, Nice, France (2019)[15]
  • Today will happen, Biennale de Gwangju, South Korea (2018)[16]

Publications

Exhibition catalogues
  • Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum, Mousse Publishing, 2022
  • Mirrorbody, Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art contemporain de Nîmes, DISTANZ, 2021
Poetry books
  • The Window, JBE Books, 2022

Artist's book

  • Becoming, Dilecta, 2023[17]

References

  1. [1]
    "Tarik Kiswanson". Almine Rech Gallery. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  2. [2]
    "Tarik Kiswanson installe son " Nid " à la galerie Sfeir-Semler". L'Orient-Le Jour. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  3. [3]
    "Nos diplômés". BA (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  4. [4]
    Cascone, Sarah (2023-10-18). "Palestinian Swedish Artist Tarik Kiswanson Has Won the Marcel Duchamp Prize, France's Most Prestigious Art Award". Artnet News. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  5. [5]
    "Artist Tarik Kiswanson, who spotlights the plight of Palestinian refugees, has won France's top art prize". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  6. [6]
    "Tarik Kiswanson. Afterwards". Salzburger Kunstverein. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  7. [7]
    Konsthall, Bonniers. "Tarik Kiswanson / Becoming". Bonniers Konsthall. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  8. [8]
    "Nido". www.museotamayo.org. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  9. [9]
    "TARIK KISWANSON - Expositions". Carré d’Art (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  10. [10]
    "Tarik Kiswanson — Come, come, come of age. — Fondation d'entreprise Ricard — Exposition". Slash Paris (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  11. [11]
    "ART-PRESENTATION: Tarik Kiswanson-Flowers for my father". Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  12. [12]
    "Tarik Kiswanson". Collège des Bernardins (in French). 2016-06-18. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  13. [13]
    "Jeune artiste : Tarik Kiswanson". Le Quotidien de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  14. [14]
    "Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson |". Flash Art. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  15. [15]
    "La club culture dansée et pensée à la Villa Arson". Beaux Arts (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  16. [16]
    "Tarik Kiswanson on the Forgotten Age of Childhood". ELEPHANT. 2018-09-10. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  17. [17]
    "Tarik Kiswanson. Becoming - Exposition Bonniers Konsthall". Éditions Dilecta (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-13.
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