Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides in Cambridge and works in Berlin. He is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today's geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: Ai Weiwei at the K20/K21 in Dusseldorf, Ai Weiwei: Resetting Memories at MUAC in Mexico City, Ai Weiwei: Unbroken at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Ai Weiwei: RAIZ at Oca in São Paulo, Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, Fan-Tan at Mucem in Marseille, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors with the Public Art Fund in New York City, and Ai Weiwei on Porcelain at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul. He is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation. Ai's first feature-length documentary Human Flow premiered at the 74th Venice Film Festival in competition.
We can replace anything except for the past
Ai Weiwei in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ai Weiwei, Untitled (Rust)
In the house of dust, Ai Weiwei and Archaeology
Ingrid Rowland
Cahiers d'Art and Chinese Antiquity
Danielle Elisseeff
Ancient jades from Ai Weiwei's Collections
Ancient fabrics from Ai Weiwei's Collections
Ai Qing and Emile Verhaeren
Rik Hemmerijckx
Confusionism
Uli Sigg
Ai Weiwei, A Tree
Junya Ishigami
Andreas Eriksson
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
