Folly II Artists & Architects
David Adjaye
Ghana
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Architect Director of Adjaye Associates Visiting Professor post at Princeton University School of Architecture (USA) Academic Background
Selected works The Smithsonian Institution’s ambitious National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on a prominent site on the National Mall in Washington D.C, USA. Completed works include : 2012 Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library, Washington D.C, USA 2012 William O. Lockridge / Bellvue Library, Washington D.C, USA. 2010 Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Moscow, Russia 2005 Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo, Norway 2005 Ideas Store, Whitechapel 2004 Idea Store, Chrisp Street, London, UK |
Taiye Selasi
USA
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Writer, photographer Academic Background 2004 M.Phil., International Relations, University of Oxford, Nuffield College 2001 B.A., American Studies, Yale University List of Works 2013 Ghana Must Go, Penguin Press. To be published in 14 countries beginning March 2013 2012 The Sex Lives of African Girls, Best American Short Stories 2011 The Sex Lives of African Girls, Granta 2005 Bye-Bye, Babar : Or What is an Afropolitan?, The Lip Magazine |
Ai Weiwei
China
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Selected Activities 2010 Digital Activism in China: A discussion with Jack Dorsey (co-founder of Twitter) and Richard · 2010 MacManus, The Paley Media Center, New York, U.S. 2010 International Culture festival Litcologne, talk with Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller, in Cologne, Germany. 2008 Curator of the architecture project Ordos 100 “Citizen Investigation” project 2008 Researching information about the students that died in the Earthquake in Sichuan on May 12th, 2008 2007 participation in Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. For his project “Fairytale” he invited 1001 Chinese citizens to Kassel 2003-2008 Commissioned to design the Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Stadium together with Herzog & de Meuron, finished construction in 2008. 2003 Founded the architecture studio FAKE Design, Beijing. 2002 Curator of the project Jinhua Architectural Art Park, Jinhua, China. 2000 Curator of the exhibition Fuck Off, in Shanghai, together with Feng Boyi. 1999 moved to Chaochangdi in the northeast of Beijing and build the studio house, his first architectural project 1997 co-founder and Artistic Director of China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing 1994-1997 Published Black Cover Book (1994), White Cover Book (1995), and Grey Cover Book (1997) 1993 return to Beijing 1981-1993 lived in USA, mainly New York 1982 Parsons School of Design, New York 1978 Enrolled at the Beijing Film Academy | Co-founder of the avant-garde art group the Stars 1957 Born in Beijing, China Most Recent Solo Exhibitions 2010 Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2010 Barely something, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany 2010 Dropping the Urn, ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, USA 2009 With Milk_find something everybody can use, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain 2009 World Map, Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China 2009 So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 2009 According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2009 Ways Beyond Art, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain 2009 Four Movements, Phillips de Pury, London, UK 2009 Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993 Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China |
Seok Hong Go, Mihee Kim
Korea
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Seokhong Go Career Architect, iArc Architecture Inc. Education 2010 Hanyang Graduate School of Architecture Mihee Kim Career Architect, SAMOO Architects & Engineers Inc. Education 2009 Hanyang Graduate School of Architecture |
Rem Koolhaas
Netherlands
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Architect, Director of OMA and AMO, professor at Harvard University Academic Background 1972 Architectural Association School of Architecture Selected Works 2008 CCTV, Beijing, China 2005 Casa da Musica, Portu, Portugal 2004 Public Library, Seattle, Washington, LA 1996 Netherlands Embassy, Berlin, Germany Publications 1994 S, M, L, XL 1978 Delirious New York Awards & Honors 2005 Mies van der Rohe Awards for Netherlands Embassy 2004 RIBA Gold Medal 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize |
Ingo Niermann
Germany
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Author Academic Background 1995 FU Berlin, M.A. in Philosophy Selected works 2011 Choose Drill, Hatje Cantz / documenta(13) 2011 The Future of Art : A Manual (with Erik Niedling), Sternberg Press 2010 Solution 186-195 : Dubai Democracy, Sternberg Press 2008 Solution 1-10 : Umbauland, Sternberg Press 2008 Solution 9 : The Great Pyramid (with Jens Thiel, ed.), Sternberg Press |
Raqs Media Collective
India
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Artists, curators, philosophical agent provocateurs. Academic Background 1992 MA (Mass Communication), MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Selected works (All the shows listed below are solo) 2012 The Great Bare Mat and Constellation, Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston 2012 An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale, Photographers’ Gallery, London 2011 Reading Light, PCF Building, Festival d’Automne, Paris 2011 Surjection, Art Gallery York University, Toronto, Canada 2010 The Capital of Accumulation, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2010 Things that Happen while Falling in Love, The Baltic, Newcastle 2009 The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet, Tate Britain, London 2009 When the Scales fall from Your Eyes, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2006 The KD Vyas Correspondence, Vol.1, Museum of Communications, Frankfurt 2004 The Wherehouse, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels |
Do-Ho Suh & Suh Architects
Korea
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Installation Artist Education 1997 Yale University School of Art, MFA Sculpture, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1994 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 1987 Seoul National University, MFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea 1985 Seoul National University, BFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea Selected Exhibitions & Projects 2012 Do Ho Suh – Perfect Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan 2012 Do Ho Suh – In-Between, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima. Japan 2012 Fallen Star, Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, California, USA 2012 Home Within Home, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2011 Staircase-III, Tate Modern, London, UK 2010 Bridging Home, Touched, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK 2010 Blueprint, People meet in architecture, the 12th International Architecture Biennale – The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2002 Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 2001 Some / One, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York, USA 2001 Korean Pavilion & International Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2001 Site-specific commissioned project Selected Exhibitions & Projects 2010 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2010 Winner, Regjeringskvartalet R6 Competition, Oslo, Norway 2009 DAAD Artist Residency Fellowship, Berlin, Germany 2009 Singapore Tyler Print Institute Artist Residency Fellowship, Singapore 2007 Yoon Young Ja Award, Seoul, Korea 2006 Sun Art Award, Seoul, Korea 2003 Hermes Korea Missulsang, Seoul, Korea |
Superflex
Denmark
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Artist Academic Background Royal Academy, Copenhagen Selected works 2012 Copy Light, MoMA, New York, USA (Art- installation) 2012 Superkilen, Copenhagen (Urban Space) 2011 Modern Times Forever (film work) 2010 Power Toilets / United Nations Security Council in the UN headquarters in New York, Heerhugoward, NL. (Toilet facility) 2010 Free Sol Lewitt, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven (Art-installation) 2009 Flooded McDonalds (film work) 2006 Guarana Power, Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil (Softdrink) 2005 SUPERSHOW – more than a show, Kunsthalle Basel (Art-installation) 2004 Free Beer, Denmark (Opensource beer installation) 1997 Supergas, Africa, Thailand, Mexico (Biogas energy system) Awards 2011 The Great Indoors Award, Frame Magazine 2009 George Macuinas Award 2000 Statens kunstfonds 3 arige arbejdslegat, Denmark 1997 International Associatio of Art Critics, Anual Prize Denmark |
Eyal Weizman
Israel
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Architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures, at Goldsmiths, university of London, director, centre for research architecture Academic Background 2007 founding member of an artist collective DAAR, Beit Sahour, Palestine Selected Works
Publications 2012 Writer, Mengele’s Skull(With Thomas Keenan), Sternberg Press 2012 Forensic Architecture(documenta 13 notebook) 2009 The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011) 2007 Hollow Land, Verso 2003 A Civilian Occupation, Co-editor, Verso NGO Involvement
Awards 2010 Co-recipient of the Prince Claus Prize for Architecture (with Sandy Hilal and Alessandro Petti for DAAR) 2006-2007 James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize |
