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AND RESIDENTS
Discover the artists and residents shaping our programme through their diverse practices and perspectives.
Tarik Kiswanson
For over a decade, Tarik Kiswanson 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 œuvre 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 comes from a Palestinian family that was exiled from Jerusalem, by way of Tripoli and Amman, before finally settling in Halmstad, Sweden, where Kiswanson was born in 1986. He spent ten years in London, where he studied art, before relocating to Paris, where he has lived and worked since 2010. He received his MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London (2010). He holds four nationalities and speaks and writes in five languages.
Tarik Kiswanson was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2023 at Centre Pompidou. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at institutions, most recently at Kunsthalle Portikus (Frankfurt, 2024), Oakville Galleries (Canada, 2024), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, 2023), Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria, 2023), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2023), M HKA-Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Belgium, 2022), Hallands Konstmuseum (Sweden, 2022), and Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain (France, 2021). He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials at institutions such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Münster (Munich), Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (Sweden), Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (France), Ural Biennial (Russia), Performa Biennial (New York), Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), and MUDAM-Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg.
Kiswanson serves as advisor on the scientific com- mittee of the Edouard Glissant Art Fund.
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RADIO
CCA Radio is a regular sonic experience, which includes DJ sets, instrumental performances, also showcasing soundtracks related to exhibitions and guest sets by both local and international artists.