Majestic 50,000 pound sculpture installation adorns Toronto City Hall’s reflecting pool in advance of AGO summer exhibition, Ai Weiwei: According to What? TORONTO, June 18, 2013 /CNW/ – The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s monumental sculpture series Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze in the reflecting pool of Toronto’s […]
Snake Ceiling (2009) to Appear in Advance of the Al Weiwei: According to What? Exhibition Planned for the AGO for Summer 2013 TORONTO, April 11, 2013 /CNW/ – Partners in Art (PIA) – the volunteer-based, not-for-profit group of Toronto contemporary art supporters – announced today it has sponsored the installation of Ai Weiwei’s Snake […]
The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind.
The design team responsible for the celebrated Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, comes together again in London in 2012 for the Serpentine’s acclaimed annual commission, being presented as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. The Pavilion is Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s first collaborative built structure in the UK.
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold (2010)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
February 23 – July 29, 2012
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is honored to present the U.S. museum debut of Ai Weiwei’s topical and sumptuous Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold (2010). The installation will be on view in the Strauss Gallery of MCASD Downtown’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Building from February 23 through July 29, 2012.
To put forward another sign of solidarity the phrase “Free Ai Weiwei” from today on will be placed on the roof of the Kunsthaus Bregenz in red letters (height 1.90 m).
Ai Weiwei – Art / Architecture
Kunsthaus Bregenz
July 16 to October 16, 2011
When Ai Weiwei was invited to mount a big solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz one and a half years ago, no one could have foreseen the present situation. At the beginning of April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Since then, up to the time of the writing of this text (May 2011), nothing has been heard of him. Neither his family nor his team knows where he is or how he is faring. No official charges have been brought to date.
BYE BYE AI WEIWEI of Giuseppe Stampone
Le Zitelle, Venice
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing International Airport on April 3, 2011, and has been detained since at an undisclosed location. Neither his family nor his team knows where he is. His arrest, which is part of a wave of repressive measures against critical intellectuals and artists, has been heavily criticized internationally.
Ai Weiwei – Interlacing
Fotomuseum Winterthur
28.05.-21.08.2011
Ai Weiwei is no “narrow” artist. He is not an artist who dedicates himself to a certain issue, develops a vocabulary, and then, step by step, delves into and molds the chosen topic. Ai Weiwei is a generalist, committed to friction with reality and forming realities. And so as a sculptor, conceptual artist, photographer, architect, interview artist, and social and cultural critic, he is a seismograph of current topics and social problems, who, as a great “multiplier” and communicator, channels life into art and art into life.
Ai Weiwei: According to What?
25 July (Sat) – 8 november (sun), 2009 MORI ART MUSEUM
The Mori Art Museum presents “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” from Saturday, 25 July to Sunday, 8 November 2009. Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist whose activities cover a wide range of genres, from art and architecture to design and publishing.