Retrospective of Rirkrit Tiravanija at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Tiravanija was born in 1963 as a child of Thai parents in Buenos Aires. He grew up not only in Argentina, and Bangkok, but also in Ethiopia and Canada.  After studying art in New York and Chicago, he is still constantly on the road, fulfilling the role model of "Global Artist." The search for cultural identity has always been at the center of his art....

The Kunsthalle Bielefeld publishes under the title "Just Smile and Do not Talk" Tiravanija's recipes from twenty years and is a multi-part retrospective of his works in reference to a temporary kitchen. As a catalog in the Edition Hansjorg Mayer, a colored, numbered and signed cookbook for the price of 28 Euros, -. (Kunsthalle Bielefeld) (Kunsthalle Bielefeld)

- Reisenews 22. June 2010