ai weiwei 艾未未

1957
Born in Beijing
Lives and works in Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
World Map, Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China
So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ways Beyond Art, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain
Four Movements, Phillips de Pury, London, UK
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

2008
Ai Weiwei, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Ai Weiwei, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Under Construction, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Go China! Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

2007
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany

2006
Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China

2004
Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

1988
Old Shoes - Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, New York, USA

1982
Asian Foundation, San Francisco, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
I want to talk to you, T.art Center, Beijing, China
The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
Map Games: Dynamic of change, Center for Contemporary Arts (CAOS), Terni, Italy
United Technologies, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland
The Making of Art, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

2008
Earthquake, Art Channel, Beijing, China
China: Construction / Deconstruction - Chinese Contemporary Art, Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
Out there: Architecture Beyond Building, Biennale Arcitecture, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Liverpool Biennial International 08: Made Up, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Reconstruction # 3. The Artists Playground, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK
China Power Station: Part III. Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Branded and on Display. Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, USA
Branded and on Display. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Branded and on Display. Salt Lake City Art Center. Salt Lake City, USA
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Hypallage –The Post-Modern Mode of Contemporary Chinese Art, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Half-Life of a Dream – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
China. The City exp(l)osed, Institut Francais d'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France
Map games: Dynamic of change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
China Gold – Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée Maillol, Paris, France
Interval of Silence, RedStar Gallery, Beijing, China
Body Media, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
New Vista – The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art, White Space Gallery, Beijing, China
Body Media, Tang 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
Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition A Vista of Perspectives, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Origin Point: Star Star Group. Retrospective Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
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
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
Branded and on Display, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA
A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
What about sculpture? Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2006
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
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Fill in the Blanks, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Misleading Trails, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
Misleading Trails, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
Misleading Trails, 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 Explore 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
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
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

2005
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Misleading Trails, Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Misleading Trails, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
Misleading Trails, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, USA
Misleading Trails, Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, University Art Gallery,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 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
No 250. An Exhibition. Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron,
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2004
Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Persona3, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, David Winton Bell Gallery, List
Art Center Brown University, Providence, USA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, USA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Piss Off, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA
The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Misleading Trails, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA
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, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of
Photography, New York, USA
Modern Style in East Asia, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

2003
New Zone - Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Junction. Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Cement – Marginal Space in Contemporary Art, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2002
China - Tradition und Moderne, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Art from a Changing World, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,
Hoevikodden, Norway
1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2001
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Tu Mu. Young Chinese Architecture, Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

2000
Fuck off, EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany

1999
Innovations Part I, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
d'Apertutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
Modern China Art Foundation Collection, Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

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, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

1995
Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen, Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany
Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Goteborg Museum, Goteborg, Sweden

1993
Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars 15 Years, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989
The Stars: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hongkong
The Stars: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Stars: Ten Years, Paris, France

1987
The Star at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1986
China's New Expression, Municipal Gallery, New York, USA
Avant-Garde Chinese Art, Albany University Art Museum, New York, USA

1980
The second Star Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1979
The first Star Exhibition, outside the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
2008
Ordos 100 Landscape Design, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China (under construction)
Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany (unrealized)
The Great Pyramid, Dessau, Germany (unrealized)
The Dog House, Tokyo, Japan (unrealized)

2007
Fairytale 1001 Dormitory, Kassel, Germany (constructed, temporary installation)
241 Caochangdi, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
Red Brick Art Galleries, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
Naga Interior Design, in collaboration with EXH, Beijing, China (constructed)
Liu Xiaoning Film Studio, Beijing, China (constructed)
Undercover Villa, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China (constructed)
Lage Restaurant, Shanghai, China (constructed)
Kerry Center Auction House, Beijing, China (constructed)
Treehouse, in collaboration with HHF, Lijiang, Yunnan, China (constructed)

2006
Artist Studio, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (concept design, unrealized)
Courtyard House, Beijing, China (constructed)
National Art Gallery, Beijing, China (competition no.2, unrealized)
Kunming Art Valley, Kunming, Yunnan, China (unrealized)
Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
Jiangnanhui, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Tsai Residence, in collaboration with HHF, New York, USA (constructed)
Music Nation Studio, Beijing, China (unrealized)
Artfarm, in collaboration with HHF, New York, USA (constructed)
Jinhua Five-Hundred Islands in Conjunction, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (unrealized)
Left Right Art District, Beijing, China (constructed)

2005
BianBian Shopping Street, Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China (unrealized)
Clubhouse of Water Villa, Lijiang, Yunnan, China (unrealized)
Huangshan Memorial for Mountain-Climbers, Huangshan, Anhui, China (unrealized)
Shulang Factory, Yantai, Shandong, China (constructed)
104 Courtyard – Galerie Urs Meile, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
National Art Gallery, in collaboration with China Architecture Design & Research Group, Beijing, China (competition no.1, unrealized)
Cola House, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (constructed)

2004
Jinhua Architectural Art Park, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Neolithic Pottery Museum, Jinhua Architectural Art Park, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Courtyard 105, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
Qingdao Creative Media Institute of Beijing Film Academy, conjunction with Herzog & De Meuron,
Qingdao, Shandong, China (unrealized)
Cuo House, Beijing, China (unrealized)
Go Where Restaurant, Beijing, China (constructed)
Six Rooms, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (interior under construction)
Hai Bo’s House, Beijing, China (constructed)
Showroom for Courtyard on the Canal, Beijing, China (constructed)
Nine Boxes, Beijing, China (constructed)
National Museum, in collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron (competition, unrealized)
Ying Cai Tower, Beijing, China (unrealized)

2003
National Stadium Beijing, in conjunction with Herzog & De Meuron, Beijing, China (constructed)
National Stadium Landscape Design, Beijing, China (concept design, unrealized)
Ai Qing Middle School, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Jingdong New District, collaboration with Herzog & De Meuron, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
(unrealized)
Songshan Lake Cultural Exhibition Hall, Dongguang, Guangzhou, Guangdong (unrealized)
Ya Bar Interior Design, Beijing, China (constructed, demolished)
Guang Han Tang Architectural Design, Beijing, China (unrealized)
Beijing Airport Restaurant, Beijing, China (unrealized)
Beijing Rui Cheng Central Plaza, Beijing, China (unrealized)

2002
Shi Guangnan Music Plaza, Beijing, China (unrealized)
Qingdao Kylin Hot Spring Villa, Qingdao, Shandong, China (constructed)
Shanghai Visual Art University, Shanghai, China (unrealized)
Ai Qing Cultural Park, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Yiwu River Bank, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China (constructed)
Anter Automotive Factory, Huaiyin, Jiangsu, China (constructed)

2001
Landscape Design Commune by the Great Wall, Beijing, China (constructed)
Boao Villa, Haikou, Hainan, China (concept design, unrealized)
Bar Jia 55, Beijing, China (constructed)

2000
SOHO Landscape Design “Concrete”, Beijing, China (constructed)
SOHO Art “In Between”, Beijing, China (constructed)

1999
China Art Archives and Warehouse, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)
Ai Weiwei Studio, Caochangdi, Beijing, China (constructed)