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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 was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2023. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions, most recently at Portikus Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2024), Oakville Galleries (2023), 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 Nîmes (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.
Selected Works
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Tarik Kiswanson
The Wait (Adolf Gustav Schneck), 2024
wood, fiber glass, resin, paint
chair: 82 × 41 × 53 cm
cocoon: 143 × 52 × 52 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Retrieval, 2023
From the series “What We Remembered”
Copper welded with silver
240,4 × 156 × 63 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
The accident, 2023
Resin, cast with ink pen
40 × 28 × 9 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Passing, 2019
Inkjet on cotton, embroidery
220 × 130 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
The Wait, 2023
Resin, fiberglass, paint, stainless steel
270 × 222 × 100 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Foresight, 2024
George Nakashima’s chair and Adolf Schneck’s chair
91,5 × 72,7 × 50,9 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
1917, 2016
Handwoven stainless steel
265 × 144 × 18 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
The Relief (R. Gabriel, 1945), 2023
“Armoire de sinistrés”, oak, beech, resin, fiberglass, paint
222 × 125 × 53 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
In my blood, 2023
Resin, blood, pigment
40 × 28 × 9 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Assembled Opacity, 2021
Inkjet on cotton
245 × 150 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Anamnesis, 2023
Resin, cast with inox object
40 × 28 × 9 cm
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Tarik Kiswanson
Shifter, 2016
Copper
300 × 23,5 × 23,5 cm
c|g Exhibitions
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In the Wake | Madrid
08.03.–11.05.2024
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The Reading Room | Berlin
25.11.2023–16.02.2024
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Looking Through the Threshold | Berlin
30.04.–11.06.2022
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Standing | Berlin
05.03.–21.04.2022
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Surging | Berlin
30.04.–10.07.2021
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Basel En Madrid | Madrid
17.06.–26.07.2020
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So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? | Madrid
27.02.–01.03.2020
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Birth | Madrid
13.09.–09.11.2019
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Father Form | Berlin
16.09.–16.11.2017
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dispositiv (1) fortlaufend | Berlin
11.03.–15.04.2017
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Contact Sheet | Berlin
30.03.–23.04.2016
External Exhibitions
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Solo Exhibition
A Century | Portikus, Frankfurt
08.06.–08.09.2024
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Solo Exhibition
Prelude | Oakville Galleries, Oakville
03.02.–01.06.2024
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Solo Exhibition
Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023 | Centre Pompidou, Paris
04.10.2023–08.01.2024
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Solo Exhibition
Becoming | Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
26.04.2023–18.06.2022
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Solo Exhibition
Anamnesis | M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
14.05.–21.08.2022
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Solo Exhibition
Mirrorbody | Carré d’art at Nîmes
30.10.2020–24.10.2021
Video
Selected Publications
Tarik Kiswanson, Becoming, Éditions Dilecta & Bonniers Konsthall, 2023
Tarik Kiswanson, Nest, Hallands Konstmuseum and Mousse Publishing, 2022
Tarik Kiswanson, The Window, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp and JBE Books, 2023
Tarik Kiswanson, Mirrorbody, Distanz Verlag, 2021
Tarik Kiswanson, AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE, Jean Boîte Éditions, 2018