"which Ai lets an ancient ceramic urn fall from his hands and smash to pieces on the ground. The performance was memorialized in a series of three photographic still frames. (2008) Sculpture resembling a park bench or tree trunk, but its cross-section is a map of China. It is four metres long and weighs 635 kilograms. It is made from wood salvaged from Qing Dynasty temples. (2008) Ming dynasty table cut in half and rejoined at a right angle to rest two feet on the wall and two on the floor. The reconstruction was completed using Chinese period specific joinery"
"WeiweiCam WeiweiCam is a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei, in China, that went live on April 3, 2012, exactly one year after the artist's detention by Chinese officials at Beijing Airport. At least fifteen surveillance cameras monitor his house in Beijing which, according to Ai, makes it the most-watched spot of the city. He described his decision to put himself under further surveillance as a symbolic way to increase transparency in the Chinese government. WeiweiCam consisted of four webcams that sent a live 24-hour feed publicly viewable from the website weiweicam.com. 46 hours after the site went live Ai"
"Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father's (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (). Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called ""tofu-dreg schools"" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In"
"Chris Dercon, who also spoke on behalf of the Chinese activist. Ai Weiwei wanted to pay tribute to those people in worse conditions than him, including civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang who faces eight years in prison, imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winning poet Liu Xiaobo, journalist Gao Yu, women's rights activist Su Changlan, activist Liu Ping and academic Ilham Tohti. Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father's (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (). Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic"
"Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case Ai Weiwei The Fake Case is a 2013 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen. The film won Best 2014 Documentary in Danish Film Critics Association's 67th Bodil Awards, played in the official selection of 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The documentary explores Ai Weiwei's battle against the fake tax case thrust on him by the Chinese government in effort of political suppression and the consequences that the 81-day detention had on his art, politics and personal"
"by the authorities, interviews with reporters, support and donations from fans, and court dates. The Film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 23 January 2014. 2015, video, 30m This documentary on the Fukushima Art Project is about artist Ai Weiwei's investigation of the site as well as the project's installation process. In August 2014, Ai Weiwei was invited as one of the participating artists for the Fukushima Nuclear Zone by the Japanese art coalition Chim↑Pom, as part of the project Don't Follow the Wind . Ai accepted the invitation and sent his assistant Ma Yan to the exclusion"
"the position of resident artist with TEMI in Daejeon, South Korea. Hu Qinwu Hu Qinwu (born 1969) was born in Shandong, China and currently works in Beijing as a painter, photographer and printmaker. Qinwu studied oil painting at the Yantai Normal Academy, Shandong where he graduated in 1990.] He went onto attain a Masters degree in Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2008.[3] In 2010 Qinwu taught as a guest lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.] Qinwu's choice of materials for his paintings align with the scholarly tradition of Chinese ink painting."
"Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (Chinese: 指定居所监视居住) is a form of detention regularly used by authorities in the People's Republic of China against individuals accused of endangering state security. The detention occurs at a location that is typically not disclosed to the family, and can include guesthouses, hotels or disused official buildings. The measure has been used heavily since 2015 against human rights lawyers, Falun Gong practitioners and dozens of others accused of political offences, including foreigners. Well known victims have included artist Ai Weiwei, Nobel Peace Prize-winning poet Liu Xiaobo and Swedish"
"museums and galleries across the world. Ai Weiwei is a conceptual artist in China. Towards the later 20th century, he led societal movements challenging the Chinese Communist Party. Ai has felt the presence and pressures of the society that the Chinese government has imposed on the peoples, and that is generated into his artwork. “‘From a very young age I started to sense that an individual has to set an example in society’, he has said. ‘Your own acts and behaviour tell the world who you are and at the same time what kind of society you think it should"
"Weiwei at Blenheim Palace"" was extended for twice the planned duration, finally closing 26 April 2015. Critics focused on the fact that this was ""the most extensive exhibition of his work to be staged in this country"" and that Ai Weiwei, under house-arrest was never able to leave China to see the exhibition, which also marked the inauguration of Blenheim Art Foundation. Blenheim Art Foundation's second exhibition, ""Within A Realm Of Distance"", ran 10 October - 20 December 2015. The exhibition displayed works by American artist and founding figure of Conceptual Art, Lawrence Weiner, who has been using language as"
"time: The 24th Sopot International Song Festival in Poland. She won the competition, and the ""Miss Photo-category"" as well, which brought her even more attention. Four years later, she was chosen to perform at the 11th Asian Games in Beijing, and sang a duet with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias at the 1993 East Asian Games in Shanghai. She has sold over 250 million records. She has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since 1999. But according to I Am Singer 2, she now lives with her sons in Beijing, China. Wei Wei was born to a Zhuang family in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia."
"Du Bin Du Bin (Chinese: 杜斌; Pinyin: Dù Bīn; born 1972) is a Chinese journalist, photographer, poet and documentary film-maker. Self-taught in photography, Du has worked as a contract photographer for ""The New York Times"" since 2011, and has also been published in the ""International Herald Tribune"", ""Time"", and ""the Guardian"". He is originally from Tancheng, Shandong, China, and is based in Beijing. Du was detained by Beijing authorities in June 2013 after releasing a feature-length documentary about the Masanjia Labor Camp. Du wrote the first biography of the artist Ai Weiwei, called ""God Ai"" (艾神). In 2013 he released"
"Sunflower Seeds (artwork) Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei. It was first exhibited at the Tate Modern art gallery in London from October 2010 to May 2011. It is a commentary on the mass production techniques that China caters to Western Countries. Viewers were originally able to interact and walk across the sunflower seeds, but after the Tate Modern Museum recognized that the dust emitting from the installation was harmful to viewers' lungs, they fenced it off. The piece has been exhibited in twelve exhibitions from 2009-2013 in"
"surgical treatment for his head injury from being attacked in the head by police officers in Chengdu; five taken of him being followed by the police and his Beijing studio Fake Design under surveillance due to the studio tax case from 2011 to 2012; four are photos of Ai Weiwei and his family from year 2011 to year 2013; and the other two were taken earlier of him in his studio in Caochangdi (One taken in 2005 and the other in 2006). A feature documentary directed by Weiwei and co-produced by Andy Cohen about the global refugee crisis. Ai's visual"
"and 1990s as the result of a widespread plasma market operating in rural, impoverished areas and using unsafe collection methods. 2014, video, 2h 8m ""Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50"" opens with Ai Weiwei's mother at the Venice Biennial in the summer of 2013 examining Ai's large ""S.A.C.R.E.D."" installation portraying his 81-day imprisonment. The documentary goes onto chronologically reconstruct the events that occurred from the time he was arrested at the Beijing airport in April 2011 to his final court appeal in September 2012. The film portrays the day-to-day activity surrounding Ai Weiwei, his family and his associates ranging from consistent visits"
"and friends, she managed to leave the country and is now living in Germany. From Germany she continued her Chinese human rights work: she organised and participated in different solidarity actions, among others for the artist Ai Weiwei. In 2010 she started working in Bonn with Deutsche Welle (DW), the German International public TV. When on 4 July 2014 a Beijing-based media consultant criticised in DW that some Western media were unfairly critical of the Chinese government crushing of the Tiananmen demonstrations, she became one of the most outspoken voices against this whitewashing of the 1989 events. On 19 August"
"2013), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (Michigan, 2013), Pinchuk Art Centre (Ukraine, 2013), ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany, 2013), and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2013). Most recently, he was selected to participate in “Focus Beijing: the De Heus-Zomer Collection” at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Nederland, 2014), “Inside China” at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2014), and ""Adventures of the Black Square:Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015"" at Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2015). 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Zhao Yao Zhao Yao (Chinese language: 赵要, born 1981 in"
"Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013). His most recent solo exhibitions include ""Dotted Line"", White Space Beijing, Beijing, China (2014); ""He Xiangyu"", White Cube, London, UK (2014); ""CROSSED BELIEFS"", SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (2013). His works have been in public collections include: Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Pinault Collection, France; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Domus Collection, USA; Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Mercator Foundation, Essen, Germany; Artron Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; M WOODS Museum, Beijing, China; Sishang Museum, Beijing, China. In 2014, He was a finalist in the ""Future Generation Art Prize"","
"Washington DC. In 2016, Overs' contribution to human rights was recognised when her portrait by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was exhibited with other prominent Australian human rights activists at the National Gallery Of Victoria. Overs, C. (2006) Understanding Sex Work. Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers Overs, C. (2008) Sex Work and the New Era of HIV Prevention and Care. Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers Kerrigan D; Overs, C; Telles, P; Torres, H; and Castle C. (2008) Community Development and HIV/STI Related Vulnerablity Among Female Sex Workers in, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Health Education Research. Overs, C and"
"Aaajiao aaajiao （aka.Xu Wenkai） (), is the online handle of Xu Wenkai, a Shanghai- and Berlin-based artist, avid blogger and free thinker. Born in 1984, aaajiao grew up in Xi’an, the ancient capital of Qin and Han Dynasty known for the Terracotta Army. The year of 1984, coinciding with George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, seems to explain the perfect alignment between the vivid SciTech-driven imagination and the sometimes-poetic sophistication, frequently seen as the main theme of aaajiao’s work. Many of aaajiao’s works tap into the most current trends of thoughts around the Internet sphere, with a focus on the emerging controversies"
"nominee of OCAT – Pierre Huber Art Prize, and most recently, a nominee of the “Young Artist of the Year” of 9th “Award of Art China”. Aaajiao aaajiao （aka.Xu Wenkai） (), is the online handle of Xu Wenkai, a Shanghai- and Berlin-based artist, avid blogger and free thinker. Born in 1984, aaajiao grew up in Xi’an, the ancient capital of Qin and Han Dynasty known for the Terracotta Army. The year of 1984, coinciding with George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, seems to explain the perfect alignment between the vivid SciTech-driven imagination and the sometimes-poetic sophistication, frequently seen as the main theme"
"collections of contemporary Cuban art in America. In February 2014, a local Floridian artist, Máximo Caminero, destroyed a coloured vase by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in protest at Pérez Art Museum Miami's lack of displays by local artists. The value of the vase was estimated at $1 million. Caminero was subsequently arrested and charged with criminal mischief. Pérez Art Museum Miami released this statement on February 17, 2014 in response to the incident: ""We have the highest respect for freedom of expression, but this destructive act of vandalism is disrespectful to another artist and his work, to Pérez Art"
"into a large shelter and housing unit for migrants. During that time, the group toured and performed their music around Germany. As of late September 2017, the band members' refugee status has since been confirmed. On 15 February 2016, Khebez Dawle performed in Konzerthaus Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt as part of the 'Cinema For Peace' charity gala, which was attended by many German celebrities. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had created an installation, in which the classicistic columns of the concert house were dressed in two thousand rescue vests from the island Lesbos. In addition, the attendant members of the public"
"Jewyo Rhii Jewyo Rhii (Hangul: 이주요) (born 1971) is a visual artist known for her sculptural installation, video, drawing, performance, and publications. Constantly displacing herself from her native Seoul, Korea, to study and work in Western Europe and the US, Rhii has come to embrace this fluid lifestyle as an integral part of her work, in such a way that her studios have functioned as exhibition spaces, and exhibition spaces as studios. She lives and works in Seoul and New York. Rhii was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1971. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995 from"
"Weiwei at the Mucem in Marseille. The exhibition will open in June 2018 and will feature works by Ai Weiwei in dialogue with the museum's collection. Judith Benhamou-Huet Judith Benhamou-Huet is a French journalist, independent curator and author specialized in art and the art market. She is a weekly columnist for the French newspaper and the magazine and regularly publishes articles related to art and the art market on her own blog ""Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports"". Benhamou-Huet is also the author of a number of books as well as an independent curator. In the early 1990s, Benhamou-Huet began her career as"
"Gaza since the territory was sealed off by the Israeli army at the end of 2007. In April 2011, Westerwelle summoned China's ambassador to Germany, Wu Hongbo, for a meeting about detained Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, calling for his release and denouncing China's growing use of extrajudicial detentions against dissidents. In September 2012, Westerwelle joined his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in visiting the Zaatari refugee camp to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011. After the offices of both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in St Petersburg and"
"BOOM"", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2004). Among the public collections holding work by Jewyo Rhii are MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. Jewyo Rhii Jewyo Rhii (Hangul: 이주요) (born 1971) is a visual artist known for her sculptural installation, video, drawing, performance, and publications. Constantly displacing herself from her native Seoul, Korea, to study and work in Western Europe and the US, Rhii has come to embrace this fluid lifestyle as an integral part of her work, in such a way that her studios have functioned as exhibition spaces,"
"by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, ""Ai Weiwei New York 1983–1993"". In 2014, it sponsored the art exhibit ""Oil and Water: Reinterpreting Ink"" at New York's Museum of Chinese in America. Balcer has contributed essays to ""Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America"", and ""It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing"". Balcer has lectured widely about writing, art and the duties of artists in free societies, notably at Columbia, NYU, Harvard, UCLA, UPenn, and Loyola Marymount; at Internews (Moscow), the Sorbonne (Paris), Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Canadian"
"art includes sculptural installations, woodworking, video and photography. ""Ai Weiwei: According to What,"" adapted and expanded by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from a 2009 exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, was Ai's first North American museum retrospective. It opened at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C. in 2013, and subsequently traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and two other venues. His works address his investigation into the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake and responses to the Chinese government's detention and surveillance of him. His recent public pieces have called attention to the Syrian refugee crisis. (1995) Performance in"
"2010 he met the dissident artist Ai Weiwei, co-designer of Beijing’s ‘Birds Nest’ stadium, who made a highly-critical series of comments for McMillan-Scott’s YouTube channel. Ai Weiwei later spent some months under house arrest in Beijing. He has argued for an Impunity Index to be maintained by the International Criminal Court, based on the West German Salzgitter process during the Cold War, where denunciations of crimes against humanity in totalitarian states may later lead to prosecutions. He wrote a key report for the European Parliament's foreign affairs select committee, of which he was at one time the longest-serving member, on"
"on its services from March 19, 2012. A ""Big V"" is a microblogger with a substantial following and a verified account such as Kong Qingdong. Due to the strict Internet censorship policy on microblogging enacted by the CPC government, a number of Chinese microbloggers choose to make posts that contain ""sensitive contents"" on Twitter. Although Twitter has been blocked in China since 2009, most Twitter users who reside in China can access the Twitter website using a proxy. More information can be found on List of websites blocked in China. Ai Wei-wei, a well-known Chinese artist and activist, who has"
"Shanghai has been featured in Design Boom ree. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. 2014 - ""CITY STREAM"", ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China 2014 - ""City DNA IV"", Hua Gallery, London, England 2014 - ""Lu Xinjian, Beautiful Encounters: Cities and Poems"", 117 Art Center, Ningbo, China, Curated by ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai. 2014 - ""Wired Space - New sculpture"", ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China 2013 - ""Between Abstraction and Reality, Lu Xinjian’s City DNA"", ArtShare (online only) 2012 - ""Invisible Poem II"", F2 Gallery, Beijing, China 2012 - ""Invisible Poem"", ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China 2011 - ""City DNA"
"artists to establish a studio in the 798 Arts District of Beijing in 2002. Li is known as a history painter because he bases his work on a wide range of Chinese history, with an emphasis on modern Chinese history He uses images primarily from newspapers, magazines, the internet, book, and film stills. Despite this heavy use of political images, Li does not consider himself a political artist. His deconstruction of the images removes bias and invites interpretation. His favorite artist, however, is politically outspoken Ai Weiwei. He has been called a member of China's ""in-between"" generation. This is because"