Education
Glasgow School of Art, Diploma in Architecture, 2015
University of Ulster, First class BA Hons Architecture, 2012
Teaching
Queen's University Belfast
Studio leader, MArch Studio 2: Scaffold with Prof. Michael McGarry
2019-20,
2020-21,
ongoing: regular invited juror
Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Invited guest critic, Studio: Making a Scene
2023
Exhibitions
De Aanschouw
Rotterdam, 2023
What the Flag!? feat. Anna Neukamp, Athanasia Vidali, Ben Weir, Christian Landspersky, Éloïse Alliguié, Famke Storms, Isolde Venrooy, Jean Boumans, Jody Korbach, Kaya Erdinç, Kenneth Moreno Kiernand, Mikail Korcek, Rose Nordin, Stefania Crisan, Tom Bogaert, Vera Drebusch, Luuk Smits, Paul Koppers et al.
Greylight Projects, Heerlen, 2023
Core is Concrete, feat. Niamh Seana-Meehan and Tanad Aaron
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2022
Charged Space (solo)
3bisF - Lieu d'Arts Contemporains, Aix-en-Provence, 2022
Not Quite Nearly Fine, feat. Anne Huijnen, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir, Daniel de Paula, Giulio Squillacciotti, Marie Claire Krell, Marwan Moujaes, Nour Mobarak
Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, 2021
Irish Modernisms: Legacies of Modernism in the North, feat. James Ashe, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurry, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Ben Weir
CCA Derry~Londonderry, 2021
Casa Vilaró: A Caress and a Blow (solo)
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, 2020
and,
Barcelona Architecture Week, Online Program, 2020
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage
BOZAR, Brussels, 2019 - 20
GET LOST art route 2019
Collab. with Andrea Canepa
Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, 2019
Van Eyck Open Studios feat. 46 participating artists, designers, architects, curators and writers
Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 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
Belfast, 2018
DU 2017 feat. Arek Laskowski, Dina Dressen, Flo van der Waa, Jorieke Rottier, Linda Lenssen, Marina Višić, Wendy Nouse
Maastricht, 2017
EVERYTHINGGETSTREATEDTHESAME/
Framewerk, Belfast, 2017
30<30
Galleria Tulpenmanie, Milan, 2016
RSA Open
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2015 - 16
Ben Weir ~ Enya Lachman Curl
The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow, 2015
'The Ulster Museum 1914 - 2014, Evolution Amidst Revolution'
Curated by Rosaleen Hickey.
Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2014
'SO IT IS'
Group show presented by YAKA collective, in association with WASPs and WAVEparticle.
Glasgow, 2014
Residencies
Upcoming:
VARES
Valga, Estonia
April 2024
VierVaart
Groede, NL
October - December 2024
~
Greylight Projects
Autumn residency, in partnership with the Borderland Residencies programme
Heerlen, NL
September - November 2022
3 bis F
Contemporary arts centre within Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital
Aix-en-Provence, FR
November 2021 - February 2022
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Houses
Organised by Mies van der Rohe Foundation (Barcelona), University of Naples Federico II (Naples) and BOZAR (Brussels)
Casa Vilaro, Barcelona, ES
July - September 2019
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Participant at post-academic institute
Maastricht, NL
April 2018- March 2019
DU Maastricht 2017
Non-profit organisation occupying empty ex-council houses on Henri Jonaslaan
Maastricht, NL
July - September 2017
Hospitalfield Arts
Graduate Residency
Arbroath, UK
October 2015
Grants / Scholarships
O&O (Research and Development)
CBK Rotterdam, 2023/4
a-n Artist Bursary
UK, 2022/3
The Fenton Arts Trust
UK, 2022
Creative Individuals Recovery Programme
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2022
Fleur Groenendijk Foundation
Rotterdam, 2021
Publications
An Addition to a Room
A book documenting the design and construction of a permanent, site-specific intervention
Featuring an essay by curator Roy Voragen
75 copies
Kulturraum Niederrhein e.V., Geldern, and Greylight Projects, Heerlen
March 2023
Not Quite Nearly Fine
A collection of texts on longing, belonging, denying, speaking, pronouncing, listening and repeating
Àngels Miralda, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir and Marwan Moujaes
Edited by Giulio Squillacciotti
Arbor Editions, Rome, April 2022
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage. Casa Vilaro
Fundacio Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, May 2020
Building a Book, Visual Artist's News Sheet
Visual Artists Ireland, Jan/Feb 2018 issue
EVERYTHING GETS TREATED THE SAME/
Self-published book, detailing cycles of demolition and renewal in the city centre of Belfast
100 copies
July 2017
Press
Sneep, W. Onze Generatie, Puntkomma, 27.11.21
Falsaperla, A. Not Quite Nearly Fine, Exibart, 05.06.21
Tur, Ribas A. L'art de treure "del purgatori" una casa icònica del racionalisme, Ara, 22.07.20
Granda M. Natečaj: Solinarksa hiša, Končno poročilo žirije, OUTSIDER, Spring 2020 issue
Punete M. Incredulous, all of us, HART, 6.11.19
Tur Ribas, A. L’art que ajuda a salvar edificis d’autor, Ara, 1.10.19
Grael, V. La Modernidad, El Futuro del Ayer: El Sueño Retromoderno, Tendencies, El Mundo, 26.9.19
Casa Vilaró de Barcelona, en un programa artístico europeo de "reactivación", La Vanguardia, 16.9.19
Iloreta, N, L’artista Ben Weir Reflexiona Sobre el Passat i el Present de Casa Vilaró, Bonart, 17.09.19
Ruyters, D, [Feature:] Van Eyck Open Studios 2019, Metropolis M, 15.03.19
Rottier, J, Destination Unknown #3, Witte Rook, 30.10.17
Degree Show Issue, The Skinny, June 2015
McQueen, M, Education: Great Expectations, Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2012 issue
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Glasgow School of Art, Diploma in Architecture, 2015
University of Ulster, First class BA Hons Architecture, 2012
Teaching
Queen's University Belfast
Studio leader, MArch Studio 2: Scaffold with Prof. Michael McGarry
2019-20,
2020-21,
ongoing: regular invited juror
Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Invited guest critic, Studio: Making a Scene
2023
Exhibitions
De Aanschouw
Rotterdam, 2023
What the Flag!? feat. Anna Neukamp, Athanasia Vidali, Ben Weir, Christian Landspersky, Éloïse Alliguié, Famke Storms, Isolde Venrooy, Jean Boumans, Jody Korbach, Kaya Erdinç, Kenneth Moreno Kiernand, Mikail Korcek, Rose Nordin, Stefania Crisan, Tom Bogaert, Vera Drebusch, Luuk Smits, Paul Koppers et al.
Greylight Projects, Heerlen, 2023
Core is Concrete, feat. Niamh Seana-Meehan and Tanad Aaron
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2022
Charged Space (solo)
3bisF - Lieu d'Arts Contemporains, Aix-en-Provence, 2022
Not Quite Nearly Fine, feat. Anne Huijnen, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir, Daniel de Paula, Giulio Squillacciotti, Marie Claire Krell, Marwan Moujaes, Nour Mobarak
Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, 2021
Irish Modernisms: Legacies of Modernism in the North, feat. James Ashe, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurry, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Ben Weir
CCA Derry~Londonderry, 2021
Casa Vilaró: A Caress and a Blow (solo)
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, 2020
and,
Barcelona Architecture Week, Online Program, 2020
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage
BOZAR, Brussels, 2019 - 20
GET LOST art route 2019
Collab. with Andrea Canepa
Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, 2019
Van Eyck Open Studios feat. 46 participating artists, designers, architects, curators and writers
Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 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
Belfast, 2018
DU 2017 feat. Arek Laskowski, Dina Dressen, Flo van der Waa, Jorieke Rottier, Linda Lenssen, Marina Višić, Wendy Nouse
Maastricht, 2017
EVERYTHINGGETSTREATEDTHESAME/
Framewerk, Belfast, 2017
30<30
Galleria Tulpenmanie, Milan, 2016
RSA Open
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2015 - 16
Ben Weir ~ Enya Lachman Curl
The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow, 2015
'The Ulster Museum 1914 - 2014, Evolution Amidst Revolution'
Curated by Rosaleen Hickey.
Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2014
'SO IT IS'
Group show presented by YAKA collective, in association with WASPs and WAVEparticle.
Glasgow, 2014
Residencies
Upcoming:
VARES
Valga, Estonia
April 2024
VierVaart
Groede, NL
October - December 2024
~
Greylight Projects
Autumn residency, in partnership with the Borderland Residencies programme
Heerlen, NL
September - November 2022
3 bis F
Contemporary arts centre within Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital
Aix-en-Provence, FR
November 2021 - February 2022
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Houses
Organised by Mies van der Rohe Foundation (Barcelona), University of Naples Federico II (Naples) and BOZAR (Brussels)
Casa Vilaro, Barcelona, ES
July - September 2019
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Participant at post-academic institute
Maastricht, NL
April 2018- March 2019
DU Maastricht 2017
Non-profit organisation occupying empty ex-council houses on Henri Jonaslaan
Maastricht, NL
July - September 2017
Hospitalfield Arts
Graduate Residency
Arbroath, UK
October 2015
Grants / Scholarships
O&O (Research and Development)
CBK Rotterdam, 2023/4
a-n Artist Bursary
UK, 2022/3
The Fenton Arts Trust
UK, 2022
Creative Individuals Recovery Programme
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2022
Fleur Groenendijk Foundation
Rotterdam, 2021
Publications
An Addition to a Room
A book documenting the design and construction of a permanent, site-specific intervention
Featuring an essay by curator Roy Voragen
75 copies
Kulturraum Niederrhein e.V., Geldern, and Greylight Projects, Heerlen
March 2023
Not Quite Nearly Fine
A collection of texts on longing, belonging, denying, speaking, pronouncing, listening and repeating
Àngels Miralda, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir and Marwan Moujaes
Edited by Giulio Squillacciotti
Arbor Editions, Rome, April 2022
Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage. Casa Vilaro
Fundacio Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, May 2020
Building a Book, Visual Artist's News Sheet
Visual Artists Ireland, Jan/Feb 2018 issue
EVERYTHING GETS TREATED THE SAME/
Self-published book, detailing cycles of demolition and renewal in the city centre of Belfast
100 copies
July 2017
Press
Sneep, W. Onze Generatie, Puntkomma, 27.11.21
Falsaperla, A. Not Quite Nearly Fine, Exibart, 05.06.21
Tur, Ribas A. L'art de treure "del purgatori" una casa icònica del racionalisme, Ara, 22.07.20
Granda M. Natečaj: Solinarksa hiša, Končno poročilo žirije, OUTSIDER, Spring 2020 issue
Punete M. Incredulous, all of us, HART, 6.11.19
Tur Ribas, A. L’art que ajuda a salvar edificis d’autor, Ara, 1.10.19
Grael, V. La Modernidad, El Futuro del Ayer: El Sueño Retromoderno, Tendencies, El Mundo, 26.9.19
Casa Vilaró de Barcelona, en un programa artístico europeo de "reactivación", La Vanguardia, 16.9.19
Iloreta, N, L’artista Ben Weir Reflexiona Sobre el Passat i el Present de Casa Vilaró, Bonart, 17.09.19
Ruyters, D, [Feature:] Van Eyck Open Studios 2019, Metropolis M, 15.03.19
Rottier, J, Destination Unknown #3, Witte Rook, 30.10.17
Degree Show Issue, The Skinny, June 2015
McQueen, M, Education: Great Expectations, Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2012 issue
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