b. 1991, Belfast
Ben Weir is Research Associate at
CCA Derry~Londonderry 2021-22
Education
Glasgow School of Art, Diploma in Architecture, 2015
University of Ulster, First class BA Hons Architecture, 2012
Teaching
MArch Studio tutor, Queen's University Belfast
Studio 2: Scaffold with Prof. Michael McGarry
2019-20,
2020-21
Exhibitions
Charged Space
Solo show
3bisF - Lieu d'Arts Contemporains, Aix-en-Provence
February - March 2022
Not Quite Nearly Fine
Featuring Anne Huijnen, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir, Daniel de Paula, Giulio Squillacciotti, Marie Claire Krell, Marwan Moujaes, Nour Mobarak
Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
June - July 2021
Irish Modernisms: Legacies of Modernism in the North
Featuring James Ashe, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurry, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Ben Weir
CCA Derry~Londonderry
May - September 2021
Casa Vilaró: A Caress and a Blow
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona
November - December 2020
and,
Barcelona Architecture Week, Online Program
May 2020
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage
BOZAR, Brussels
November 2019 - January 2020
GET LOST art route 2019
Public art installation in collaboration with artist Andrea Canepa
Sloterdijk, Amsterdam
June 2019
Van Eyck Open Studios
Built intervention alongside 46 participating artists, designers, architects, curators and writers
Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
March 2019
Huis
Co-direction and production of performance, collaboration with artist Rosa Vrij and GOTRA
AINSI theatre, Maastricht
December 2018
Imagine! Belfast Festival of Politics and Ideas
Public art installation with associated programme of talks
Belfast
March 2018
DU 2017
8 person show resulting from 2 month residency occupying 3 empty ex-council houses on Henri Jonaslaan
Maastricht
September 2017
EVERYTHINGGETSTREATEDTHESAME/
Self-published book with corresponding exhibition
Limited to 100 copies
Framewerk Gallery, Belfast
July 2017
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