Biography
Aung Ko, I am ko shwe #2, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 160 × 115 cm
Aung Ko, I am ko shwe #2, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 160 × 115 cm

The themes of my paintings are based on the scenes of the water festival, but they also reflect the unstable situations of the global society today.

- the artist

Born in 1980 in Htone Bo, Myanmar.
Currently living and working in Paris, France.
 
Aung Ko studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Culture, Yangon. He exhibited in the group show "DEEP S.E.A. Contemporary Art from South East Asia", at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (2012), "Artist Beyond Boundaries" at The American Center in Yangon (2017) and many others exhibitions in Asia.
 
Beyond the thematic role of the village in Aung Ko’s practice, his expression is fully community-centric, his performances and installations tied to the village and its people through production and participation. Ideas about geographies, histories, and customs emerge, pieces charting place and time through gesture and relic, an art recalling the transience, hope, and illusion of existence. Yet these creations are not pictorial replications of a pocket of rural Burma, but rather distillates of its imagery, rituals and rhythms, which combined, build an art telling idiosyncratic stories, while also obliquely questioning the system and values dominating the country today.
Exhibitions
Works
  • Aung Ko, Untitled, 2017
    Untitled, 2017
  • Aung Ko, Untitled, 2017
    Untitled, 2017
  • Aung Ko, I am ko shwe#2, 2014
    I am ko shwe#2, 2014
  • Aung Ko, Ko Shwe, 2013
    Ko Shwe, 2013
  • Aung Ko, Ko Shwe, 2013
    Ko Shwe, 2013
Solo & Group Show
Aung Ko

Aung Ko CV

Born in 1980 in Htone Bo (Myanmar).

 

Exhibitions

 

Solo Shows

2024 

After Black, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 

2023 

Here and There, A2Z Art Gallery,

2022

I am Ko Shwe, Primo Marella Gallery Lugano, Switzerland 

2021
Fundraising exhibition: Diary from the Dark, Diary of Hope ! by Aung Ko, Myanmar

2017
Diary from the Dark, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore, SG

2013
Solo show, River Gallery, Strand Hotel, Yangon, MM

2011
Aung Ko's Village by Aung Ko, MM
Esplanade Presents Visual Arts, Visual Art Space, SG

2008
New Zero Fine Art Show, Beikthano Art Gallery, Yangon, MM

2006
New is No News, Nm Gallery, Yangon, MM

2004
Aung Ko's Art Work Solo Show, Azada Gallery, Yangon, MM

 

Group Shows

2026

I preferiti di Marino. Capitolo II – Opus Mundi, Centro Arti e Scienze Golinelli, Bologna Italy

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, S.E.A. Focus, Singapore

2025

Interlude, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France

Ghostly distilled matters, system b, Malakoff, Paris, France

Between Lands: Migration as Transformation, ASIA-EUROPE CULTURAL Festival, Singapore

Chaque vie est une histoire, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France

2024

Permanent collection Exhibition, Room for FAAM Residence Program Part II : Artists in Myanmar, Today-Aung Ko

A2Z Family & Friends, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France

2023

AUNG KO: Here and There, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France

2022

Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, 2022
S.E.A. CALLING. Bestrizal Besta - Aung Ko - Nguyen Thái Tuan, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan

 «Mémoire », MAC VAL, France

Days...Months...Years..., Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Performance ASIA NOW +, MUSÉE DE LA MONNAIE, Paris, France

«Purple Rain, Kunstgruppe », Cologne, Germany

AUNG KO: Diary, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France

2017
Artist Beyond Boundaries, The American Center, Yangon, MM
Mekong new mythologies, Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK

2016
10/10 Anniversary Exhibitions, River Gallery, Yangon, MM
Beyond the Source, PUN + Prodject, Gothe Villa, Yangon, MM

2012
DEEP S.E.A. Contemporary Art from South East Asia, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Blue Frogs, Dagaung Art Gallery, Yangon, MM
Riverscapes IN FLUX, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Saigon, Bangkok, Phnon Penh, Giacarta, Manila, ID

2011
4th Thuye'dan Village Art Project, Thuye'dan Village, Pyay, MM

2009
4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, JP

2008
Beyond Pressure, International Performance Art Festival, Yangon, MM
Beyond the Rain Art Exhibition, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, MM

2007 
Wild Eye V, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, MM
8th Open International Performance Festival, Beijing, CN

2006
Exp: 22022001 Group Show, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, MM

 

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