Deneth Piumakshi Wedaarachchige
*1980 and grew up in the city of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka.
lives in the French Alps and is working between Europe and Sri Lanka.
EDUCATION
2018
Invited jury member at the committee of 68th edition of Jeune Création | Beaux-art de Paris | Paris, France
2006
Exchange student – short term| Kathmandu art university |Kathmandu, Nepal
2003
Diploma in Fine arts | Academy of design | Colombo, Sri Lanka
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
L’art sur la Mur | Art work on the wall of the Contemporary art centre | Thonon les Bains, FR
2020
The second skin | Gandy Gallery | Bratislava, Slovakia
2017
I am not guilty | Gallery Balzer Projects | Basel, Switzerland
Sandwich | Les complices | Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Talent et Compétence Installation | University of Languages and Civilizations (inalco)|Paris, FR
2015
Second skin | Mairie de Saze | Avignon, France
2014
White like memory, black like hope Installation | Cité Internationale des arts | Paris, France
2012
The man I know | The World Bank | Washington DC, USA
The man I know | Art walk down town gallery | San Rafael, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
A SUMMER OF PERFECT BRIGHTNESS, see you next tuesday, Basel, CH
2023
Asia NOW Paris Asian Art Fair | 9th edition: October 19-22, 2023 | Monnaie de Paris, FR
2022
12th Berlin Biennale for contemporary Art | KW Institute for Contemporary Art &
Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz|Berlin, DE
Of Love and War: Tamil (Hi-)Stories from India and the diaspora | Linden-Museum |
Stuttgart, Germany
2021
Mother Earth Calling | collective exhibition | Salon Mondial | Basel, CH (Oct - Nov)
2020
Limits of our world |Film by art company The Group | Paris, France
Thirst for knowledge meets collecting mania | Intervention | Museum of cultures| Basel, CH
Night of the year 2020 - Les rencontres d’Arles | Arles, France
Textile Object Biennale | La Manufacture-Museum of memory & textile |Roubaix, France
Voices from an Archived Silence | Theater Basel | Basel, Switzerland
2019
PARURES - Objets d’art à porter |La Manufacture-Museum of memory & textile |
Roubaix, FR
2018
Performance photography | PANCH Performing Art Network |LISTE art fair | Basel
Audio installation - YEAR 1 |The Group |La Générale |Paris, France
2016
La mètis du renard et du poulpe | Off-Art-O-Rama | Cabane Georgina| Marseille, France
Children of the Sun | Palest’In & Out festival | Ramallah, Palestine
Children of the Sun | Gallery Jeune Création|Paris, France
2015
Video - White like memory, Black like hope |New digital biennale | City Bird Gallery |
New York | USA
2014
Gardening, Neighborhoods and transformation | Kleinsten kunstraum | Olten, Switzerland
Wishes from the neighbors | Nextex | St.gallen, Switzerland
Three stories from Sri Lanka | Gallery Rivoli 59 | Paris, France
2012
Made in China - Installation | Colombo art Biennale | Colombo, Sri Lanka
Collective CoCA | Goethe Institut | Colombo, Sri Lanka
2006 - 2008
Living Canvas - gallery without walls | Kathmandu, Nepal |Thimphu, Bhutan |
Colombo,SL
PERFORMANCE
2023 Asia NOW Paris Asian Art Fair | 9th edition: October 19-22, 2023 | Monnaie de Paris, FR
Gravity, Inertia, Impulsion |immersive installation |Flux Laboratory Genève, CH
2021
Collective Fragments | TUNNEL TUNNEL | Lausanne, Switzerland
2020
Broderie : point de départ | La Manufacture-Museum of memory & textile|Roubaix, France
2019
Weekend performance | Organized by the Museum of MAC VAL & Jeune Création |Gallery
Municipal Jean – Collet | Vitry-sur-seine, France
2016
Your Faith is in your hand | Al’ma-mal Foundation | East-Jerusalem, Palestine
Your Faith is in your hand | Palest‘in & out festival | Gallery Jeune Creation |Paris, France
Cabane Georgina – Off-Art-O-Rama | Marseilles, France
PUBLICATIONS, TALKS & DOCUMENTARY
2022
Talk | Artistic perspectives on the civil war in Sri Lanka | Linden-Museum|Stuttgart, DE
Conference | From Restitution to Repair | 12th Berlin Biennale for contemporary Art|
curated by Kader Attia Akademie der Künste | Berlin, DE
Article | Collection of colonial contexts | annual Brochure of the Association of
Swiss Museums (AMS) | Provenance research | Geneva, CH
Catalogue | 12th Berlin Biennale for contemporary Art | Berlin, DE
Conference | Ready for the past - On the State of Decolonization in Swiss Museums |The
University Lausanne - Faculty of Social and Political Sciences | curated by Bernhard Schär |
CH
Talk | Reconnecting Collections with Source Communities| Museum of Ethnology (MEG)|
Geneva, CH
Talk| Something you should know | Paris, FR
2021
Talk | Reconnecting Collections with Source Communities | Museum of Ethnology (MEG)
Geneva, Switzerland
Something you should know | Talk | Paris, France
2020
Radio SRF - Kultur Kompakt, Fernsehen SRF- Kulturplatz, Radio SRF Regional journal
Basel, Baselland | Basel, Switzerland
2019
Theaterjournal#14 | Basel, Switzerland
2018
Point contemporain | Paris, France
2017
67th Edition catalogue | Jeune création | Paris, France
2016
International Emerging Artist Award catalog | The World art Dubai | Dubai
2016
TF1 | part of the documentary about the fishermen community in calanques à Marseille
2012
France 3 | program faut pas rêver | Documentary about Sri Lanka
ART RESIDENCIES
2019 – 2020
Theater Basel | Basel, Switzerland
2016 – 2017
Les Complices | Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Al’Ma-mal Fondation | East-Jerusalem & Foundation Qattan | Ramallah, Palestine
2012 -2014
Cité Internationale des Arts | Paris, France
2008
Voluntary artists’ studio (VAST) | Thimphu, Bhutan
