Ai Weiwei Cube Light 2008
Photo: Keizo Kioku
BIOGRAPHY
Ai Weiwei
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Born 1957 in Beijing
Lives and works in Beijing, China and Berlin, Germany
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
| 2018 | Fan-Tam, Mucem, Marseille, France | |
| Inoculation, Corpartes, Santiago, Chile | ||
| 2017 | Law of the Journey, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| #AiWeiwei, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois | ||
| Maybe, Maybe Not, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | ||
| Trace, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC | ||
| Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Public Art Fund, NY,USA | ||
| 2016 | Ai Weiwei: translocation – transformation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria | |
| Libero, Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy | ||
| Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Lisson Gallery, NY, USA | ||
| Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Mary Boone Gallery, NY,USA | ||
| Ai Weiwei: Fondation, Lisson Gallery, London, England | ||
| 2015 | Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK | |
| 2014 | On the table. Ai Weiwei, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain | |
| @Large: Ai Weiwei On Alcatraz, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, USA | ||
| Ai Weiwei in the Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK | ||
| According to What?, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA | ||
| 2013 | According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA | |
| Disposition, collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Zuecca Project Space, Giudecca and Chiesa Sant’Antonin, Venice, Italy | ||
| Resistance and Tradition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain | ||
| Circle Of Animals / Zodiac Heads,Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, USA;Arken Museum of Modern Art, Skovvej, Denmark | ||
| 2012 | Rebar Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| Sunflower Seeds, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA | ||
| Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, London, UK | ||
| According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA | ||
| Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Museum de Pont, Tilburg | ||
| Interlacing, Jeu de Paume, Paris,France; Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway | ||
| 2011 | Teehaus, 2009, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin | |
| Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Taipei Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Pulitzer Fountain in Grand Army Plaza Central Park, New York and The Courtyard at Somerset House, London | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Foto Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC AD 2010), Victoria & Albert Museum, London | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk | ||
| Ai Weiwei in New York, Fotografien 1983-1993 – Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Ai Weiwei Absent, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei |
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| 2010 | Ai Weiwei, Faurschou Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Cube Light, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| A Few Works from Ai Weiwei, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany | ||
| The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK | ||
| Hurt Feelings, Galerie Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland | ||
| Dropping the Urn, ceramics 5000 BCE 2010 CE, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, USA | ||
| Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA | ||
| Barely something, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany | ||
| Dropping the Urn, ceramics 5000 BCE 2010 CE, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, USA | ||
| 2009 | With Milk_find something everybody can use, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain | |
| World Map, Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China | ||
| So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany | ||
| According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Ways Beyond Art, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain | ||
| Four Movements, Phillips de Pury, London, UK | ||
| Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China | ||
| 2008 | Ai Weiwei, Albion Gallery, London, UK | |
| Ai Weiwei, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea | ||
| Under Construction, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia | ||
| Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA | ||
| Go China! Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands | ||
| 2007 | Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany |
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
| 2018 | 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 2017 | Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2016 | Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont | |
| 2015 | 28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Franciso; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA |
| [7P] – [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields, 6th Fotofestival, Zephyr der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany |
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| The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Neu Ulm, Germany | |
| The Enchanted Garden of Ai Weiwei, Palazzo Tè, Mantova, Italy | |
| 2014 | 1 + 1 = 1: When Collections Collide, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada |
| Grip friheten! Take Liberty!, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Norway | |
| KUB Collection Showcase, New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zoberning, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria | |
| Performance and Imagination: Chinese Photography 1911 – 2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway | |
| Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Museum Joanneum, Graz, Austria | |
| When now is minimal, Museion, Bolzano, Italy | |
| 2013 | Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, USA |
| 28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Collection, Miami, USA | |
| EMSCHERKUNST.2013, Duisburg, Dinslaken, Oberhausen, Essen, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Germany | |
| 中 (Middle), Not Vital Foundation, Ardez, Switzerland | |
| Back to Earth. Von Picasso bis Ai Weiwei, Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst, Herbert-Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany | |
| Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
| German Pavillion 2013, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| Circles I Kreise, Bamberg, Germany | |
| A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para Site, Hong Kong | |
| Moving: Norman Foster On Art, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France | |
| Duchamp and / or / in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China | |
| Yes, naturally. How art saves the world, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, Netherlands | |
| China China, The PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine | |
| Freedom!, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany | |
| Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, MAD Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA | |
| Of Bridges & Borders, Valparaiso, Chile | |
| 2012 | Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Beyond the Wall, Catello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy | |
| Art and Press. Kunst. Wahrheit. Wirklichkeit, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie,Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Public: Collective Identity: Occupied Space, Contact Photography Festival 2012, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada | |
| 2011 | Mit Feuer und Flamme – Keramik in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Villa Rot, Burgriden-Rot, Germany |
| 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia | |
| The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany | |
| Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea | |
| Camulodunum, Firstsite, Colchester, UK | |
| Shanshui Poetry without Sound Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| The last freedom From the pioneers of Land-Art oft he 1960s to nature in cyberspace, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany | |
| I promise to love you, Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2010 | 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Rema(i)nders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, OCAT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China | |
| Regionale 10, Liezen, Austria | |
| The Problem of Asia, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia | |
| Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall, Salle Davel, Cully, Switzerland Lost and Found, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany |
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| Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong | |
| Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Target Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, China | |
| Radical Conceptual, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA | |
| 2009 | Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA |
| Fascination with the Foreign: China Japan Europe, The Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| Garbage, AfterGallery, projectroom, Moscow, Russia | |
| Attitude, Shit-art Center, Zhengzhou, China | |
| Pete and Repeat the works from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176, London, UK | |
| Void of Memory, Kimusa of Platform 2009, Seoul, Korea | |
| Fairytale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel | |
| The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| I want to talk to you, T.art Center, Beijing, China | |
| The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA Map Games: Dynamic of change, Center for Contemporary Arts (CAOS), Terni, Italy United Technologies, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland |
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| The Making of Art, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Action Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
| Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA | |
| 2008 | Earthquake, Art Channel, Beijing, China |
| China: Construction / Deconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Art, Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil | |
| Out there: Architecture Beyond Building, Biennale Arcitecture, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy | |
| Liverpool Biennial International 08:Made Up, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK | |
| Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions,Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| Reconstruction # 3, The Artists Playground, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK | |
| China Power Station: Part III, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| Branded and on Display, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, USA | |
| Branded and on Display, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA | |
| Branded and on Display, Salt Lake City Art Center. Salt Lake City, USA | |
| Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA | |
| Hypallage The Post-Modern Mode of Contemporary Chinese Art, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China | |
| Half-Life of a Dream Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA | |
| China. The City exp(l)osed, Institut Francais d’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France | |
| Map games: Dynamic of change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| China Gold Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée Maillol, Paris, France | |
| Interval of Silence, RedStar Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Body Media, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| New Vista The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art, White Space Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Body Media, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| Red Aside: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain | |
| The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain |
EXHIBITIONS
Cube Light
Ai Weiwei
Nov 19, 2010 – Feb 19, 2011