Ai Weiwei 艾未未
| 1957 | Born in Beijing, China | | 1958-78 | Resides in Xinjiang, China | | 1978 | Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China | | 1982 | Parsons The New School of Design, New York, USA | | 1981-93 | Lives in United States, mostly in New York City | | 1994 | Returns to China | | 1994-97 | Founds China Art Archives and Warehouse, Art Director, Beijing, China | | 2003 | Special expert on design of National Olympic Stadium for Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games, in conjuction with Herzog and de Meuron
Lives and works in Beijing, China |
Selected Solo Exhibitions | | 2009 | Ai Weiwei: So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Münich, Germany
Ai Weiwei: According to what?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ai Weiwei. Friedman Benda, New York, USA
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983 - 1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China | | 2008 | Under Construction, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbeltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Go China! Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands | | 2007 | Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Traveling Landscapes, Aedesland, Berlin, Germany | | 2006 | Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China | | 2004 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium | | 2003 | Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland | | 1988 | Old Shoes - Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, New York, USA | | 1982 | Asian Foundation, San Francisco, USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions | | 2009 | Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
ART SUMMER 2009, Hellerau - European Center for the Arts, Dresden, Germany | | 2008 | Beijing Map Games, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
ABC art berlin contemporary, Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Map Games: Dynamics of Change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
| | 2007 | EI - Entity Identity - Beijing Series. Western Concepts - Chinese Drafts, Stedelijk Museum s' Hertogenbosch, MB 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Inspired by China - Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
documenta XII, Kassel, Germany |
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