Liu Wei 刘炜
1965
born Beijing
1989 graduated from
the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Independent artist in Beijing,
China
Exhibitions :
2007
Arco08,
Madrid, Spain
“The Borders of Utopia”, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007
“The
Outcast”, UniversalStudios-Beijing, Beijing, China (Solo)
“Love It, Bite It”, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China (Solo)
“The History of a Decade that Has Not Yet Been Named”, Ninth Lyon Biennale,
Lyon, France
“NONO”, Long March Space, Beijing, China
“7 Characters: New Art from China”, Mayor Gallery, London, UK
“China Now”, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
Lyon Biennial 2007, Lyon, France
“China Power Station: Part II”, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst,
Oslo, Norway
“Barcelona-Paris-Pekin”, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
“Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”,
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
“Art in Motion: Chinese Contemporary Art Meets the BMW Art Cars”, Long March
Space, Beijing, China
2006
CCAA
honorable mention
“Property of L.W”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China (Solo)
“Purple Air”, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
“All Look Same? /TUTTTUGUALE? - Art from China, Korea and Japan”, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
“The Second Space for Contemporary Ink Work: Idylls and Visions”, Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Yellow Box”, Qingpu, Shanghai, China
“Contemporary China”, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Fiction @ Love”, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2005
“Battlefield”, the CourtYard Gallery Annex, Beijing (
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Musuem
of Contemporary Art Chicago,Chicago, USA
“Beyond”, the
2nd Guangzhou Triennial Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The 1st Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, China
“Mahjong”, Art Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", ICP
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
“Regeneration”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA (touring exhibition)
21. World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fly Utopia - Transmediale 04, Berlin, Germany
Over One Billion Served: Conceptual Photography from the People's Republic
of China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
2003
“The 5th System: Public Art in the Age of Post-Planning”, He
Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2002
The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou,
China
2000
Futuro - Chinese Contemporary Art , Contemporary Art Centre (CACOM),
Macau
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups - from the MCAF
collection, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Upriver Gallery Collection Exhibition, Chengdu, China
1999
“Art for
Sale”, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai, China
“Beijing in London”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion , Basement third ring road,
Beijing, China
Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermerklooster, Gent,
Belgium
1997
8 + 8 + 1, Schoeni Fine Art, Hong Kong; Chicago Art Fair, USA;
Connaught Brown, London, UK; Vierte Etage Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Quotation - China Avantgarde, Singapore
Red and Gray, Singapore
Liu Wei and Ye Yongqing, Cifa Gallery, Beijing, China
1996
China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria;
Modern Art Museum, Singapore; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
China Now, Littmann Kultur Projekte, Basel, Switzerland; Parco -Square and
Kirin Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995
New Art in China, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Out of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Avant-garde Art Santa Monica Art Centre,
Barcelona, Spain
Chinese New Art Exhibition - Out of the National Ideology, Hamburg, Germany
46th Venice Biennale - The Eastern Road, Venezia, Italy
Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition - From Realism to
Post-modernism, Galerie Theoremes, Brussels, Belgium
1994
Out of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Avant-garde , Art Santa Monica
Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
22nd International Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong
1993
China Avantgarde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany;
Kunsthallen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art , Oxford, UK;
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery,
Germany
China's New Art -Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Marlborough
Fine Arts, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
45th Venice Biennale - The Eastern Road, Venezia, Italy
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1992
Fang Lijun and Liu Wei, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China