Ai Weiwei     艾未未

1957 born in Beijing
1978-81 Beijing, studies at the Beijing Film Institute
1981 New York, Parsons School of Design and Art Student's League
1981-93 lives and works in New York
1994- Independent artist in Beijing
 

2008

"Under Construction", Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Cambelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia (Solo Show)

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA (Solo Show)

"Go China! Ai Weiwei", Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands (Solo Show)

"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

"Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

"Reconstruction #3, The Artists Playground", Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK

"China. The City exp(l)osed", Institut Francais d'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France

"Delirious Beijing",PKM Gallery, Beijing, China

"Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition Iberia Center for Contemporary Art", Iberia Center for 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

2007

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (Solo Show)

"Travelling Landscapes”, Aedesland, Berlin, Germany (Solo Show)

“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

"Branded and on Display", Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA

"China Now", Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Get It Louder", SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, China

"Something New Pussycat", Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany

"Energies - Synergy", Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium

"Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis", Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

"Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Kogo Art Space", Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China

"Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art", Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

"Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves", ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

"Art from China - Collection Uli Sigg", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

"China Welcomes you... Desires, Struggles, New Identities", Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

"The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection", Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland

"Money", Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China

"Forged Realities", UniversalStudios, Beijing, China

"The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Project "We are the future", 2nd Moskow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moskow, Russia

"Branded and on Display", Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

"A Continuous Dialogue", Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2006

Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (Solo Show)

"Art in Motion - Chinese Contemporary Art meets BMW Art Cars", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

"This Is Not For You - Sculptural Discourses", Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

"Detours. Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China", Eric Arthur Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

"CHINA NOW. Faszination einer Weltveränderung", Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria

"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

"MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

"Zones of Contact", 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

"Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

"Altered, Stitched and Gathered", P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA

"China Power Station I", Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA

"Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea

"Misleading Trails", Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, USA

"Cityscapes 'Beijing Welcomes You'. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei", Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

"A Continuous Dialogue", Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

"Inspired by China - Contemporary Furnituremakers Expolre Chinese Traditions", Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

"China Contemporary. Architecture, Art and Visual Culture", Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

"Black and Blue", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

"Antique Modernity - Breaking Traditions", Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA

"2006 Beaufort Outside", Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium

"China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA 

2005

The 2^nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

"Misleading Trails", Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA

"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA

"Convergence at E116'/N40'", Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China

"A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography", Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland

1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France

"Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists", Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

"Herzog & de Meuron. An Exhibition", Tate Modern, London, UK

"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA

No 250. An Exhibition, Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron", Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2004
"Regeneration", Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US: Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence; Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Museum of Contemporary Art Printemps Chicago and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Ai Weiwei, Caermersklooster, Gent, Belgium (Solo Show)
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA
Ai Weiwei, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (Solo Show)

Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA (Solo Show)
Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France

Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

Persona3, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China

Piss off, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA

The 9^th International Architecture Exhibition, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China

On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland (Solo Show)
"A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography", Galerie Rudolfinum, Prag, Tschechische Republik

New Zone - Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Junction - Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Cement – Marginal Space in Contemporary Art, Chamber Fine Arts, New York, USA
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou, China
China - Tradition und Moderne, Museum Ludwig Gallery Castle, Oberhausen, Germany

Art from a Changing World, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway
2001
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Tumu, Young Chinese Architecture Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Modern Chinese Art Foundation, BizArt,Shanghai, China
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie + Galerie der Bauhaus- Universitat,Weimar, Germany
1999
Innovations Part I, CAAW, Beijing, China
Exposition China 1999, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Innovations, Biennale d'Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
d'Apertutto, The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium
1998

Double Kitsch: Painters from China, Max Protetch, New York, USA

1997
A Point of Contact: Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art, Daegu Art & Culture Hall, Daegu, Korea
1996
Begegnung mit China, Peter Ludwig Collection, Cologne, Germany
1995
Configura 2- Dialog der Kulturen, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany
Foetaendering/Utveckling (Change), Konsthallen, Goteborg,Sweden; Jonkoping Lans Museum, Jonkoping, Sweden
1994
Chinese Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Chinese Art, Goteborg Art Museum, Sweden
1990
International Print Exhibition, Taipei
1989
The Stars: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong; Taipei, Taiwan; Paris, France
1988
Old Shoes - Safe Sex Art Waves Gallery, New York (solo show)
1987
The Star of Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA
1986
Seven Chinese Artists, Vorpal Gallery, USA
China's New Expression, Municipal Gallery, New York, USA
Chinese avant-garde Art, Vassar College Gallery, New York, USA
Group show, Gallery of State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
1982
Solo Asian Foundation, San Francisco (solo show)
1980
The Stars second exhibition, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1979
The Stars first exhibition, Beijing, China