"to meet with several famous artists, and hosted his own personal exhibition. Ai also travelled to Great Britain to participate in the auction organised to raise funds for renovation of the Great Wall of China. He teaches at Beijing Painting Institute. Ai is currently based in Beijing and is a member of the China Artists Association. He is the son of the late Chinese poet Ai Qing, as well as the half-brother of renowned Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei. Ai Xuan (also known as GuiGui by his closer family members) currently resides in Beijing with his wife Jin Tao and daughter"
"with artists since. For-Site’s most recent off-site installation was “@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz,” running within Alcatraz prison from September 27, 2014 - April 26, 2015. Ai Weiwei, restricted from leaving China since 2011, was unable to be onsite for installation and thus the project was a collaboration between Weiwei and For-Site founder, Cheryl Haines, as curator. Haines, speaking about the show, said “one of the basic themes of this exhibition is “what is freedom?”” The installation had seven parts, With Wind, Trace, Refraction, Stay Tuned, Illumination, Blossom, and Yours Truly. “With Wind” is a huge traditional Chinese dragon kite,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"Li Wei (artist) Li Wei (born in 1970, Hubei, China) is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his Falls series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages, but that he uses mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. Wei's works have been published on"
"Weiwei was instructed to shut down WeiweiCam by Chinese authorities. During the time weiweicam.com was live it received 5.2 million views. WeiweiCam was included in ""What We Watch"", an exhibition on net art and surveillance, at COFAspace Gallery, UNSW College of Fine Arts. Until June 30, 2013 WeiweiCam is to be seen at the Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany. In the context of the exhibition ""Freedom!"" the visitors can contact the artist directly via Twitter. 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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Wang Jianwei Wang Jianwei (; born October 28, 1958) is a new media, performance, and installation artist based in Beijing, China. Born in a village of Suining, Sichuan Province, China in 1958, Wang Jianwei lived in a traditional military family till 1966. Both of his parents were soldiers, and he spent his childhood in military camps, also known as ""budui dayuan"". In 1966, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was launched by the Chinese Communist Party leaders, which advocated ""the abolishment of the four olds"" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits). During this time, Wang's father relocated to"
"days when China and Chinese art were considered as just exotic are over."" In November 2005, Maggio established her own Pékin Fine Arts gallery and opened it in Caochangdi Village, which is on the northeastern edge of Beijing and has become a centre for art since leading artist, Ai Weiwei, opened a studio and gallery there in 2000 for himself and friends. Maggio said initially when Ai and his colleagues moved there, ""We all thought they were cuckoo,"" as it was a place that was ""basically the countryside—really far away."" However, as the 798 District, the center of art in"
"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"
"by graffiti artists. Hong Kong graffiti artists have a unique sense on where to do graffiti to reflect different aesthetic feelings of their works. For instance, drawing on rusty surfaces like iron walls produces a vintage feeling of the work. Drawings on uneven stone walls gives a strong dimensional sense. Ai WeiWei, a Chinese contemporary artist and activist, was arrested by Beijing authorities for ""economic crimes"" . Ai's portrait was later painted on walls facing streets in Hong Kong by a teenage girl, who attempted to raise awareness of human rights and reveal the dark side of the Chinese government."
"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"","
"the festival. This new series of paintings consists of 11 large-scale works. In the fall of 2015, two small selections of these paintings traveled to The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona and at The Fine Art Society in London for separate exhibitions - ""Shen Wei In Black, White, and Gray"" and as part of a group show ""Performance and Remnant"" respectively. In the spring of 2016, ""Shen Wei: Dance Strokes"" was exhibited at Asia Society Hong Kong Centre during Hong Kong Art Basel. Inspired by Miami's 2014 exhibition, seven works were shown, six of which were shown at MDC Museum"
"work for the first commission of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative."" Selected Works Commissioned for ""Time Temple Wang Jianwei Wang Jianwei (; born October 28, 1958) is a new media, performance, and installation artist based in Beijing, China. Born in a village of Suining, Sichuan Province, China in 1958, Wang Jianwei lived in a traditional military family till 1966. Both of his parents were soldiers, and he spent his childhood in military camps, also known as ""budui dayuan"". In 1966, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was launched by the Chinese Communist Party leaders, which advocated"
"Weiwei."" Ai Weiwei, a noted human rights activist who had been arrested by Chinese authorities in April 2011, was released on June 22, 2011, from Beijing, which was deemed as a victory by Change.org of its online campaign and petition demanding Ai's release. Sympathy slacktivism can be observed on social media networks such as Facebook, where users can like pages to support a cause or show support to people in need. Also common in this type of slacktivism is for users to change their profile pictures to one that shows the user's peers that they care about the topic. This"
"Peng Wei Peng Wei (Simplified Chinese: 彭 薇; Hanyu Pinyin: Péng Wēi) (born 1974) is a contemporary Chinese artist from Sichuan, China. In 1974, Peng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. Peng's father is Peng Xiancheng. Peng graduated from Nankai University with a BA in Fine Art in 1997, and earned a Masters of Philosophy in Aesthetics in 2000. From 2000 to 2006 she was editor for Yishu art magazine. She was one of 25 artists included in the ""Contemporary Art from China: Visual Expression Through Ink and Paper"" exhibition. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the"
"Chen Wei (artist) Chen Wei () is a Chinese artist famous for his photography work. Chen Wei was born in 1980, in Zhejiang Province, China. Currently he lives and works in Beijing, China. In his early career, he used to deal with experimental music and later turned to photography. Chen Wei's photographs are believed to express his inner thoughts and emotions. Most of his works are finished in his studio. Chen has exhibited around the world, including Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Poznan Biennale, etc. Commissioned by fashion and"
"firm under the feet is familiar to everyone. One doesn’t have to fall from another planet to feel it.” Wei has received the following awards for his work: Li Wei (artist) Li Wei (born in 1970, Hubei, China) is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his Falls series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes"
"the artwork is lit from the inside by spotlights in the floor. In November 2013, at the Falling Walls Conference, Olafur presented with Ai Weiwei, connected via web from Beijing, their collaboration ""Moon"", an open digital platform that allows users to draw on enormous replica of the moon via their web browser. The platform is a statement in support of freedom of speech and creative collaboration. From December 17, 2014 to February 23, 2015, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. The artworks appear as a sequence of events along a journey. Moving through passageways and expansive installations, visitors become part of a"