Tarik Kiswanson
Tarik Kiswanson is a visual artist and poet. He comes from a Palestinian family that exiled from Jerusalem to North Africa and then Jordan before subsequently settling in Sweden in the early 1980s where he was born. Kiswanson spent ten years in London where he studied art before relocating to Paris where he has lived and worked since 2010. He holds four nationalities and speaks and writes in five languages.
Tarik Kiswanson’s work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. For over a decade, he has explored notions of rootlessness, metamorphosis, and memory through his 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. While retaining an attachment to the intimate and personal, his work speaks to universal concerns and to social and collective histories of rupture, loss, and regeneration. Kiswanson’s oeuvre can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
Tarik Kiswanson (b. 1986, Halmstad) was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2023. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions, most recently at Bonniers Konsthall (2023), Salzburger Kunstverein (2023), Museo Tamayo (2023), M HKA-Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum (2022) and Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain (2021). He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials at institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Ural Biennial, Performa 19 Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, and MUDAM-Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 03/24 Tarik Kiswanson, In the Wake
- 11/23 Tarik Kiswanson, The Reading Room
- 10/23 Tarik Kiswanson, Tarik Kiswanson, Winner Of The Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023
- 04/22 Cecilia Edefalk / Fred Eversley / Asta Gröting / Lena Henke / Arturo Herrera / Ann Veronica Janssens / Tarik Kiswanson / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Thomas Schütte / Nida Sinnokrot / Marianna Uutinen / Rosha Yaghmai / Dolores Zinny, Looking Through the Threshold
- 03/22 Maria Thereza Alves / Tacita Dean / Jimmie Durham / Cecilia Edefalk / Michel François / Asta Gröting / Mathew Hale / Pakui Hardware / Lena Henke / Iman Issa / Tarik Kiswanson / Guillaume Leblon / Juan Maidagan / David Maljković / Aernout Mik / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Nida Sinnokrot / Mark Wallinger / Dolores Zinny, Standing
- 04/21 Tarik Kiswanson, Surging
- 06/20 Cecilia Edefalk / Pakui Hardware / Iman Issa / Julie Mehretu / Laure Prouvost / Tarik Kiswanson, Basel En Madrid
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 09/19 Tarik Kiswanson, Birth
- 09/17 Tarik Kiswanson, الزھور لوالدي Flowers for my father
- 03/17 Asta Gröting / Iman Issa / Tarik Kiswanson / Guillaume Leblon / Mark Wallinger / Emily Wardill, dispositiv (1) fortlaufend
- 03/16 Tarik Kiswanson, Contact Sheet
News
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The Reading Room, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
25.11.2023–17.02.2024 - Carlier | Gebauer congratulates Tarik Kiwanson for winning the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023
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Prelude, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
03.02.–01.06.2024 -
Elmgreen & Dragset: READ, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
16.11.2023–22.04.2024 -
Exhibition of the 23rd Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
04.10.2023–08.01.2024
Biography
Texts
- Collège des Bernardins, Paris: Tarik Kiswanson, "Ongoing Reflection You, Me, So Many", with an interview by curator Gael Charbau, December 2016.
- Natalia Masewicz: Tarik Kiswanson Weaves Steel, Defies Genre at Carlier/Gebauer Berlin, in: BlouinArtInfo, April 12, 2016
- Louise Benson, Tarik Kiswanson on the Forgotten Age of Childhood, in: Elephant Magazine, September 10, 2018.
- Eleonora Milani, Self Conception in the Making:A conversation with Tarik Kiswanson, in: Flash Art, September 14,2022.
- Brian Ng, Tarik Kiswanson’s Probing Art Reflects His Experience as a Second-Generation Immigrant, in: Art in America, June 23, 2023.