Biography
Solo exhibitions about his work, among them the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2025); LUMA Arles, Arles (2024; 2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2024); STPI Singapore (2023); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2023); CC Strombeek, Strombeek (2022); Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (2022); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2019); Glenstone Museum, Potomac (2019); National Gallery, Singapor (2018); Creative Time, New York (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Tate Modern, London (2013); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010); Fridericianum, Kassel (2009); The Drawing Center, New York (2008); Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2005); Serpentine South Gallery, London (2005); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (1999); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (1998); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1994).
Collective exhibitions in the following institutions: MAXXI, Rome (2019); Traversées, Poitiers (2019); Villa Medici, Rome (2018); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Museo Jumex, Mexico (2015); Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow (2015); Tate Modern, London (2013); ) Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2012); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Malaga (2009); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008; 2005); São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2006); Whitney Biennial, New York (2005; 1995); Venice Biennale, Venice (1993; 1999; 2015); Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2004; 2002); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004); City Opera Gallery, Tokyo (2002); Portikus, Frankfurt (2001); Kunstverein, Wolfsburg (2000).
Archive records · BUNA vol. 4 / 2026
Say Yes to Everything, 2026. Variable dimensions. Newspaper pages pasted on a temporary wall; hand painted text
Artists- Gallery / Collective
- Studio Tiravanija
- Curator / Team
- with Jan Pfeiffer
Rirkrit Tiravanija Say Yes to Everything, 2026 work for Varna is based on the title work of his recent solo exhibition in Singapore at the STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute). https://www.stpi.com.sg/whats-on/rirkrit-tiravanija-say-yes-to-everything
One of the most widely celebrated figures in the contemporary art world, Tiravanija has pioneered participatory practices that reshaped how institutions consider audience, social connection, and art objects themselves. Famous for transforming everyday actions into art by centering process over outcome, Tiravanija invites audiences to participate in ordinary social acts such as eating, playing, and talking. He is reimagining the gallery as a social and collaborative space where visitors can come together through shared experience: enjoying a meal, playing games, folding origami, engaging in conversation while placing emphasis on the human connections that arise.
Through the incorporation of the news printed on the pages of daily Bulgarian newspapers, the work unfolds as a mapping of multiple journeys. While reading the news on the wall, whatever the news might be, visitors are invited to reflect on the words “Say Yes to Everything”. Visitors are encouraged to question their own attitude to the world now as well as to test their level of resilience (+) in the face of reality and the way its is represented by the media.