Tarik Kiswanson
- Tarik Kiswanson
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Tarik Kiswanson, Passing, 2022, inkjet on cotton, 245 x 150 cm
Tarik Kiswanson was born in 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden, where his parents exiled from the Middle East in the early 1980s. His work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his oeuvre. His practice reveals an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. His various bodies of work can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
Tarik Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London (2010). He presented his retrospective exhibition Mirrorbody at Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain in 2021. Other recent exhibtions include Ural Biennial (2019), Performa Biennial (2019), Centre Pompidou (2018), Lafayette Anticipations (2018), Fondation Ricard (2018), Gwangju Biennial (2018) and MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2017). His upcoming solo exhibitions in 2022 and 2023 include Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, MHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Hallands Konstmuseum in Halmstad and Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg. He has several upcoming publications in 2022: a new monograph with a focus on his sculptures Nest published by Hallands Konstmuseum and Mousse Publishing, a new collection of poems entitled The Window published by JBE Books and M HKA, and an exhibiton catalogue published by Bonniers Konsthall.
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2023 | Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (forthcoming) Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (forthcoming) Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (forthcoming) |
2022 | Anamnesis, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden Nest, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Manifesto of Fragility, 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France |
2021 | Mirrorbody, Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes, France The Window, Murin-An Garden, Institut Français, Kyoto, Japan |
2020 | I, Atelier Calder, Calder Foundation, Saché, France |
2019 | AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, PERFORMA Biennial 2019, New York, United States Dust, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
2018 | Haytham, Porcino, Berlin, Germany Come Of Age, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France Birth, Petit Palais, Paris, France |
2017 | ALL THE THINGS MY EYES DON'T SEE, Musée Gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal, Biennale de Lyon Résonance, Lyon, France |
2016 | Ongoing Reflection, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France |
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2023 | Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (forthcoming) |
2021 | Living in This Exquisite Corpse, Ambassade de France, Bern, Switzerland HI-STORYTELLING, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany In The Open, The Common Guild, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
2020 | De leur temps, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France |
2019 | Tainted Love, Centre d'art Villa Arson, Nice, France Foncteur d'Oubli, Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France Immortality, Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia What remains is what the poets found, PS120, Berlin, Germany |
2017 | Flatlands II, MUDAM - Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Lxembourg Old Dream, Mains d’oeuvres, Paris, France Modern Sculpture, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain |
2016 | Flatlands I, MRAC - Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sérignan, France De Leur Temps, IAC - Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/ Monograph Rhône-Alpes, France Équilibre Instable, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Libourne, France Le Cabaret Au Salon, Beffroi Montrouge, Montrouge, France |
2015 | Les Mains Libres, Espace 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium Les Voyageurs, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France L'Ange de l'Histoire, Archivement, Belvédère, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France |
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2023 | I (upcoming) Bonniers Konsthall |
2022 | Nest Hallands Konstmuseum, Mousse Publishing Texts by Magnus Jensner and Sara Arrhenius |
2021 | Mirrorbody Carré d'Art-Musée d'Art Contemporain, DISTANZ Texts by Jean Marc Prévost, Annie Godfrey Larmon, Xiaoyu Weng, Ingrid Luquet-Gad |
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2022 | The Window Collections of Poems by Tarik Kiswanson MHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, JBE Book, Paris |
2018 | AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE Collection of Poems by Tarik Kiswanson Lafayette Anticipations, JBE Books |
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2020 | Atelier Calder, Calder Foundation, Saché, France |
2018 | Denniston Hill, Monticello, New York, United States |
2016 | ISCP - International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, United States |
2015 | Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, Sèvres, France La Générale, Paris, France |
2014 | Triangle, Friche la Belle de mai, Marseille, France |