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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai gained recognition for collaborating with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights, and in 2011 he was held by police for over two months without any official charges being filed. Ai is ranked at the top of ArtReview's 2011 guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art, and was one of four runners-up for Time's 2011 Person of the Year award.
 

Auction Results

Works at auction, latest auction results, sales and prices of Ai Weiwei from auction houses worldwide.

Ai Weiwei, MARBLE DOOR
marble
MARBLE DOOR
Lot 505
Sotheby's New York
Sold for: 269,000 USD
Ai Weiwei, UNTITLED
Forever bicycles
UNTITLED
Lot 506
Sotheby's New York
Not Sold
Ai Weiwei, (2)FAIRYTALE
Qing dynasty...
(2)FAIRYTALE
Lot 507
Sotheby's New York
Sold for: 37,500 USD
Ai Weiwei, DUST TO DUST
ground Neolithic...
DUST TO DUST
Lot 508
Sotheby's New York
Sold for: 40,625 USD
 

Selected Events

Exhibitions, openings, art fairs, auctions and other events for Ai Weiwei around the world.

No Borders: Contemporary art in a globalised world - Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery
UK / Bristol : Exhibition
Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery
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Latest News & Articles

In The Press: Latest news, articles and reviews about Ai Weiwei from leading publications worldwide.

Ai Weiwei creates giant map of China from baby formula at Para Site art space in Hong Kong
 NEW  ArtDaily
A map of China made from more than 1,800 cans of baby...
Ai Weiwei unveils milk tin map of China in new protest piece against baby formula scandal
 NEW  The Independent / Daisy Wyatt
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled his latest work, a...
China's Ai Weiwei takes inspiration from milk scandal
 NEW  Reuters / Ben Blanchard
Reuters) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has taken...
Ai Weiwei sculpture Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads will be displayed in Nathan Phillips Square
 NEW  Toronto Star / Murray Whyte
Toronto City Council has given approval for Circle of...
 
 

 

 

g, China, 1957. 

demy, 1978. Lived in NYC, NY, 1981-1993. 

 School of Design, 1983. 

ives and Warehouse, Beijing, China, 1994. 

Lives in Beijing, China. 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

1982  

 Foundation, San Francisco, California. 

1988  

 Shoes, Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, NYC, NY. 

2003  

 Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

2004  

 Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 

-Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium. 

 Miller Gallery, NYC, NY. 

2006  

ts, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China. 

2007  

ts, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 

2008  

, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. 

 Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea. 

 and Video Work ‘Fairytale’, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia. 

Ai Weiwei 
 
Born in Beijin
 
Education
Enrolled in Beijing Film Aca
Parsons
Returned to China, 1993. 
 
Founded China Art Arch
 

 

 

Asian

 

Old

 

Galerie

 

Kunsthalle

 

Caermersklooster

 

Robert

 

Fragmen

 

Fragmen

 

Illumination

 

Gallery

 

‘Through’

 

Ai 

 

Weiwei: Under Construction, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. 

, Germany. 

 

 

2009   Haus der Kunst, Munich

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

 

1980  

achusetts. 

Kong, Taipai, Taiwan, and Paris, France. 

n. 

1996  

 Ludwig Collection, Koln, Germany. 

1999  

ns Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China. 

2000  

2003  

 Zone: Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. 

2004  

hotography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, 

 NY. 

generation: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, 

 

2005  

 & de Meuron, Tate Modern, London, England. 

 Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography 

1979   The Stars First Exhibition, Beijing, China. 

 

The Stars Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing, China. 

 

1986   China’s New Expression, Municipal Gallery, NYC, NY. 

 

Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York. 

 

1987   The Star of Harvard, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass

 

1989   The Star: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong 

 

1994   Contemporary Chinese Art, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Swede

 

Peter

 

Innovatio
d’Apertutto
, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. 

 

Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China. 

 

2001   Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

2002   China – Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany. 

 

New

 

Between Past and Future: New P
NYC,

 

Re
Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

 

Persona 3, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China.

 

Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

Herzog

 

Between
and Asia Society, NYC, NY. 

 

Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. 

 

2006  

uburg/Vienna, Austria. 

15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 

 

China Now: Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterne

 

That is not for you – Diskurse der Skulptur, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. 

 

Art

 

Metamorpho
Tampere, Finland. 

 

China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Aus

 

We are the Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary

 

 in Motion, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. 

2007  

sis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, 

tria. 

 Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia.

 

 12, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. 

: The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. 

 

 

 

221. 

 

Tinari, Philip, A Kind of True Living, ARTFORUM, Summer 2007, pp. 452-459. 

Cotter, Holland, Asking Serious Questions In a Very Quiet Voice, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22 June 2007, pp. E29-

 

7, pp. 118-125. 

 

 

 

SUN, 7 March 2008, p. 18. 

 

. 292-303. 

 

 

The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England. 

Documenta

 

2008   Reconstruction #3

 

Selected Bibliography 

Colonnello, Nataline, Beyond the Checkmate, ART ASIA PACIFIC, Spring 2004, pp. 52-58. 

Jun, Jun, No Frontiers – The Artwork of Ai Weiwei, ARTCO, May 2006, pp. 220-

Cripps, Charlotte, Explosive energy from the East, THE INDEPENDENT (London), 19 March 2007. 

 

 

E30. 

Coggins, David, Ai Weiwei’s Humane Conceptualism, ART IN AMERICA, September 200

Ai, Weiwei, Production Notes: Ai Weiwei, ARTFORUM, October 2007, p. 324. 

Pollack, Barbara, Art’s New Superpower, VANITY FAIR, December 2007, pp. 318-330. 

Pasternack, Alex, Reluctant Return for a Beijing Provocateur, THE NEW YORK 

Meyer, James, et al, Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion, ARTFORUM, April 2008, pp

Staff, Galleries – Chelsea: Ai Weiwei, THE NEW YORKER, 7 April 2008, p. 12. 

Baker, R.C., Best in Show/Ai Weiwei: ‘Illumination’, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 9 April 2008

ollack, Barbara, Ai Weiwei, ‘Illumination’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 10 April 2008, p. 75. 

asper, Adam, Critical Mass: Ai Weiwei, ART REVIEW, May 2008, Cover, pp. 52-63

Vine,

, p. 56. 

 Richard, and Ai Weiwei, The Way We Were, The Way We Are, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, pp. 99-102. 

Boucher, Brian, Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, p. 187. 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

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