Ben Weir (*1991) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art (2015), he has undertaken residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2018-19), Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (2019-20), and 3bisF - Lieu d'Arts Contemporains, Aix-en-Provence (2021-22). Ben has taught in the Masters in Architecture programme at Queen’s University Belfast, and is currently a Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry.
Discipline
Architecture, Visual Arts
Ben works within the discipline of architecture. He draws, writes, researches and builds spatial interventions. His work discusses the situation of the contemporary city, blending fiction, commentary and productive critique. He is interested in potentiality, the non-specific and the un-finished. He dissects, re-presents and interrogates specific existing urban artefacts through additive processes in order to find out something new about their current condition, situation, or relationship to us.