Ai Weiwei

*1957 in Beijing, China.

Solo Exhibitions:

2012

Ai Weiwei | De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, NL
Ai Weiwei | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Ai Weiwei | Lisson Gallery, Milan, IT
Ai Weiwei | Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US

2011-12

Ai Weiwei | Interlacing, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, NO / Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR / Kunsthaus Graz, AT / Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2011

Ai Weiwei | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Ai Weiwei absent and Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads | Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, TW / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA / Somerset House, London, UK
Ai Weiwei. Art/Architecture | Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT
Ai Weiwei. New York Photographs 1983-1993 | Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
Ai Weiwei. Sunflower Seeds | Kunstmuseum Marcel Duchamp, Cully, CH
Ai Weiwei | Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Ai Weiwei | neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE

2009-11

Ai Weiwei | New York Photographs 1983-1993 , Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, CN / Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE

2010

Ai Weiwei | Faurschou Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Cube Light | Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, JP
A Few Works from Ai Weiwei | Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, DE
The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei | Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
Hurt Feelings | Galerie Christine Koenig, Vienna, AT
Ai Weiwei | Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, CH
Dropping the Urn, ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE | Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland / Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, USA
Ai Weiwei | Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Barely something | Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, DE

2009

With Milk_find something everybody can use | Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, ES
World Map | Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, CN
So sorry | Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
According to What? | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Ways Beyond Art | Ivory Press Space, Madrid, ES
Four Movements | Phillips de Pury, London, UK

2008

Ai Weiwei | Albion Gallery, London, UK
Ai Weiwei | Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, KR
Under Construction | Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, AU
Illumination | Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Go China! Ai Weiwei | Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL

2007

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, CH
Traveling Landscapes | AedesLand, Berlin, DE

2006

Fragments | Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, CN

2004

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
Caermersklooster – Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, BE
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2003

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, CH

1988

Old Shoes – Safe Sex | Art Waves Gallery, New York, USA

1982

Asian Foundation, San Francisco, USA

Group Exhibitions:

2012

Lifelike | New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Art + Press | ZKM, Frankfurt / Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE
A living sculpture. The Box | Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Pink Caviar. New acquisitions 2009-2011 | Louisiana Museum of Art, Humblebaek, DK
7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen, CN
Taiping Tianguo. A History of possible Encounters | Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, CN
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness | SITE, Santa Fe, US
Arsenale 2012 – 1st Kyiv Biennal, Kyiv, UA
Print/Out | Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei und Ding Yi: Persona 3 | Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, CN

2011

Liu Wei & Ai Weiwei – works from the collection | Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, CN
Liberalis. Pursuit of Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness | Kunst+Projekte Sindelfingen e.V., Sindelfingen, DE
The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei | Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moskow, RU
Arkhaiologia – Archäologie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst | CentrePasquArt, Biel, CH
Color in Flux | Exhibition on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Weserburg | Weserburg, Bremen, DE
Ai Weiwei. Works in the Collection | DKM, Duisburg, DE
Measuring the World. Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art | Kunsthaus Graz, AT
MMK 1991-2011, Twenty Years of Presence | Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, D
Surfaces of Everyday Life. Postwar and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol | Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore, SG
Shanshui – Landscape in Chinese contemporary Art | Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH
Art Stage Singapore 2011 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, SG
Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 | Museum of Modern Art, New York
I promise to love you – Caldic Collection | Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL

2010

29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paolo Biennial, BR
Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT
Passages: Travels in Hyperspace | LA Boral Centre of Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Asturias, ES
The Big Bang | White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, AU
Une Idee, une Forme, un Entre – Poesie/Politique du corporel | Migrosmuseum, Zurich, CH
The Flower of May | Gwangju Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Gwangju, Gwangju, KR
Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design | OCAT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, CN
Regionale 10, Liezen, AT
Presidio Habitats | Presidio, San Francisco, USA
The Problem of Asia | Chalk Horse, Sydney, AU
Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall | Salle Davel, Cully, CH
Lost and Found | Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE
Taking a Stanc e, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design | Today Art Museum, Beijing / 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, CN
Rem(a)inders | Galleria Continua, Beijing, CN
Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project | Para/Site Art Space, HK
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010) | Target Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Radical Conceptual | Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Contemplating the Void | Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

2009-10

The State of Things | Brussels / Beijing, (curator) National Art Museum, Beijing, CN / Bozar Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE

2009

Beg, Borrow and Steal | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Garbage | AfterGallery, projectroom, Moscow, RU
Attitude | Shit-art Center, Zhengzhou, CN
Pete and Repeat – the works from the Zabludowicz Collection | 176, London, UK
Void of Memory | Kimusa of Platform 2009, Seoul, KR
Fairytale | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL
The Making of Art | Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, DE
I want to talk to you | T.art Center, Beijing, CN
The Big World: Recent Art from China | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
Map Games: Dynamic of change | Center for Contemporary Arts (CAOS), Terni, IT
United Technologies | Lismore Castle, Lismore, IE
The Making of Art | Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography | Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2005-9

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection | The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA / The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA / Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE / Kunstmuseum Bern, CH

2008

Earthquake | Art Channel, Beijing, CN
China: Construction / Deconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Art | Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo, BR
Out there: Architecture Beyond Building | Biennale Arcitecture, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, IT
Liverpool Biennial International 08: Made Up | Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Reconstruction # 3. The Artists Playground | Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK
China Power Station: Part III. | Musee dʼ Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, LU
Branded and on Display | Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale / 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, CN
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, JP
China. The City exp(l)osed | Institut Francais d’Architecture& du Patrimoine, Paris, FR
Map games: Dynamic of change | Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
China Gold – Chinese Contemporary Art | Musée Maillol, Paris, FR
Interval of Silence | RedStar Gallery, Beijing, CN
Body Media | Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai / Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN
Delirious Beijing , PKM Gallery, Beijing, CN
Community of Tastes | Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN
New Vista – The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art | White Space Gallery, Beijing, CN
Red Aside: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection | Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, ES
The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China | Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, ES

2007

Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition A Vista of Perspectives | OCT
Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, CN
Origin Point: Star Star Group. Retrospective Exhibition | Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
EI – Entity Identity – Beijing Series. Western Concepts – Chinese Drafts | Stedelijk Museums’ Hertogenbosch, MB ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
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
Get It Louder | SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, CN
Something New Pussycat | Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, DE
Energies – Synergy | Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, BE
Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis | Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles documenta 12, Kassel, DE
Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Kogo Art Space | Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, CN
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art | Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, FI
Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves , ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, DE
Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, BR
China Welcomes you… Desires, Struggles, New Identities | Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, AT
The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection | Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, IE
Money | Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, CN
Forged Realities | UniversalStudios, Beijing, CN
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, RU
Branded and on Display | Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign / Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA
A Continuous Dialogue | Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
What about sculpture? | Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2006-07

China Now. Faszination einer Weltveränderung | Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, AT / Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, NL

2006

Art in Motion – Chinese Contemporary Art meets BMW Art Cars | Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, CN
This Is Not For You – Sculptural Discourses | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, AT
Detours. Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China | Eric Arthur Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design | University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity | Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, CN
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, AU
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, AU
Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Altered, Stitched and Gathered | P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
China Power Station 1 | Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Fill in the Blanks | China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, CN
Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, KR
Cityscapes ‘Beijing Welcomes You’. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei | Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
A Continuous Dialogue | Galleria Continua, Beijing, CN
Inspired by China – Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions | Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
China Contemporary. Architecture, Art and Visual Culture | Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Black and Blue | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Antique Modernity – Breaking Traditions | Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Beaufort Outside | Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, BE
China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Between Past and Future – New Photography and Video from China | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
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

2004-06

No 250. An Exhibition. Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron | Haus der Kunst, Munich, D / Tate Modern, London, UK / Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, NL / Schaulager, Basel, CH
Misleading Trails | Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg / Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs / Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City/ Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville / Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem / University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton / Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA / China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, CN

2005

The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US | Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe / University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla / 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 / Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Xianfeng! Beeldhouwkunst von de Chinese avant-garde / Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture | Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, NL
Convergence at E116′/N40 | Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, CN
A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography | Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, FR
Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists | Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, IT

2004

Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists | Galerie Urs Meile Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, CH
Persona3 | China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, CN
Le Printemps de Chine | CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, FR
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US | David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence / Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg / 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, IT
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 / International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Modern Style in East Asia | Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, CN

2003

New Zone – Chinese Art | Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography | Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
Junction. Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art | Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, CN

2002

Cement – Marginal Space in Contemporary Art | Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
China – Tradition und Moderne | Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE
Art from a Changing World | Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, NO
1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN

2001

Take Part I&II | Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, CH
Tu Mu. Young Chinese Architecture | Aedes Galerie, Berlin, DE

2000

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

1999

Innovations Part 1 | China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, CN
d’Apertutto | La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, IT
Modern China Art Foundation Collection | Caermersklooster – Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, BE
Concepts, Colors and Passions | China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, CN

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, KR

1996

Begegnung mit China | Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE

1995

Configura 2 – Dialog der Kulturen | Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, DE
Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition | Goteborg Museum, Goteborg, SE

1993

Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars 15 Years | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, JP

1989

The Stars: Ten Years | Hanart Gallery, HK / Hanart Gallery, Taipei, TW / Paris, FR

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, CN

1979

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

Architectural Works:

2012

Serpentine Pavilion | with Herzog & de Meuron, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (temporary)

2011

Caochangdi | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)

2009

Jiading Malu | Shanghai, CN (construced)

2008

Ordos 100: curator, urban planning, landscape design | Ordos, Inner Mongolia, CN (under construction)
Alexander Ochs Gallery: interior renovation object | Berlin, DE (unrealized)
The Great Pyramid | Dessau, DE (unrealized)
The Dog House | Tokyo, JP (unrealized)

2007

Fairytale 1001 Dormitory: temporary interior installation for the project “Fairytale 1001” | documenta XII, Kassel, DE (constructed, temporary)
241 Caochangdi | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Red Brick Art Galleries | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Naga Interior Design | in collaboration with EXH, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Undercover Villa | Ordos, Inner Mongolia, CN (constructed)
Lage Restaurant | Shanghai, CN (constructed)
architectural works (cont. )
Kerry Center Auction House | Beijing, CN (constructed)
Art Farm | in collaboration with HHF, New York, USA (constructed)
Jiangnanhui | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Kunming Art Valley | Kunming, Yunnan, CN (unrealized)

2006

Three Shadows Photography Art Center | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Tsai Residence | in collaboration with HHF, New York, USA (constructed)
Shulang Factory | Yantai, Shandong, CN (constructed)

2005

Jinhua Architectural Art Park: curator of landscape design | Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Bian Bian Shopping Street | Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, CN (unrealized)
Club House of Water Villa | Lijiang, Yunnan, CN (unrealized)
Memorial for Mountain Climbers | Huangshan, Anhui, CN (unrealized)
Courtyard 104 – Galerie Urs Meile | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Tree House | in collaboration with HHF, Lijiang, Yunnan, CN (constructed)
Cola House | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Qingdao Creative Media Institute of Beijing Film Academy | conjunction with Herzog & De Meuron, Qingdao, Shandong, CN (unrealized)

2004

National Stadium for Beijingʼs 2008 Olympics | Beijing, CN (realized)
Landscape Design of Beijingʼs 2008 Olympics | Beijing, CN (concept design, unrealized)
Neolithic Pottery Museum | Jinhua Architectural Art Park, Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Courtyard 105 | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)
Cuo House | Beijing, CN (unrealized)
Go Where Restaurant | Beijing, CN (constructed)
Six Rooms | Nanjing, Jiangsu, CN (interior under construction)
Nine Boxes | Beijing, CN (constructed)
Ya Bar: space design | Beijing, CN (constructed, demolished)

2003

Landscape Design of Ai Qing Middle School | Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Commercial & Culural Center of Jingdong New District | collaboration with Herzog & De Meuron, Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (unrealized)
Songshan Lake Culture and Exhibition Center | Dongguang, Guangzhou, Guangdong, CN (unrealized)

2002

Shanghai University of Visual Art | Shanghai, CN (unrealized)
Landscape Design of Ai Qing Cultural Park | Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Landscape Design of Yiwu River Bank | Jinhua, Zhejiang, CN (constructed)
Anter Automotive Factory | Huaiyin, Jiangsu, CN (constructed)

2001

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

2000

Landscape Design of Soho Contemporary City | Beijing, CN (constructed)
In Between: installation | Soho Contemporary City, Beijing, CN (constructed)
China Art Archives and Warehouse | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)

1999

Ai Weiwei Studio | Caochangdi, Beijing, CN (constructed)

Selected other activities:

2011

Co-artistic director for the Gwangju Design Biennale, KR

2010

Jury member for Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev, UA
Design for Comme de Garcons Aoyama Store, Tokyo, JP
Digital Activism in China : A discussion with Jack Dorsey (co-founder of Twitter) and Richard MacManus, The Paley Media Center, New York, USA
International Culture festival lit.COLOGNE , talk with Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, in Cologne, DE

2008

Curator of the architecture project Ordos 100, CN
“Citizen Investigation” project, researching information about the students that died in the Earthquake in Sichuan on May 12th , 2008, CN

2007

participation in Documenta 12, Kassel, D. For his project “Fairytale” he invited 1001 Chinese citizens to Kassel

2003/08

Commissioned to design the Beijingʼ s 2008 Olympic Stadium together with Herzog & de Meuron, finished construction in 2008.

2003

Founded the architecture studio FAKE Design, Beijing, CN

2002

Curator of the project Jinhua Architectural Art Park, Jinhua, CN

2000

Curator of the exhibition Fuck Off , in Shanghai, together with Feng Boyi

1999

moved to Chaochangdi in the northeast of Beijing and build the studio house, his first architectural project

1997

co-founder and Artistic Director of China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing

1994/97

Published Black Cover Book (1994), White Cover Book (1995) and Grey Cover Book

1993

return to Beijing

1981/93

lived in USA, mainly New York

1982

Parsons School of Design, New York

1978

enrolled at the Beijing Film Academy
Co-founder of the avant-garde art group the Stars

Selected Awards:

2011

The Art Review Power 100, rank 1

2010

The Prism of Reason, Kassel Citizen Award, Kassel, Germany
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Faculty of Politics and Social Science, University of Gent, Belgium

2009

GQ Men of the Year 2009

2008

Chinese Contemporary Art Award

Publications (Selection):

Stahel, Urs und Janser, Daniela (Ed.): Ai Weiwei – Interlacing. Göttingen: Steidl
Ambrozy, Lee und Weiwei, Ai (2011): AI Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009 (Writing Art). Cambridge: Mit Press
Ai Weiwei – New York 1983 1993 von Ai Weiwei. Berlin: DistANZ Verlag
Klein, Caroline (2011): Ai WeiWei Architecture. Köln: DAAB MEDIA
Ai Weiwei spricht: Interviews mit Hans Ulrich Obrist von Weiwei Ai, Hans Ulrich Obrist und Andreas Wirthensohn (2011). München: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & CO. KG
Ströle, Wolfgang; Juraschitz, Norbert und Stephan Gebauer (2011): Macht euch keine Illusionen über mich: Der verbotene Blog von Ai Weiwei. Berlin: Galiani
Newland Joseph N. (2010). Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn. Arcadia University Art Gallery
Costa Xavier (2010). Ai Weiwei. With Milk___find something everybody can use. Actar / Fundacio Mies van der Rohe.
Bingham Juliet (Ed.) (2010). Ai Weiwei. Sunflower Seeds. Tate Publishing.
Kramer Dirk, Maas Klaus, Buergel Roger M. (2010). Ai Weiwei. Barely Something. Duisburg: Stiftung DKM.
Caroline Dumont, Thys Pierre (2010). La verite 25 x seconde. Flamand, Ai Weiwei, BNM. Marseille: Ballet National de Marseille.
Foster Elena Ochoa, Obrist Hans-Ulrich (2009). Ai Weiwei. Ways Beyond Art. London, Madrid: Ivorypress.
Smith Karen, Obrist Hans-Ulrich, Fibicher Bernard (2009). Ai Weiwei. Phaidon Press Limited.
Wellner Mathieu (2009). Ai Weiwei. Portrait of a Critical Mind. I think just walking in the other direction is a smart choice. Mono. Kultur No. 22, autumn 2009.
Ai Weiwei, Siemons Marc (2009). Ai Weiwei. So Sorry. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing House.
Ai Weiwei, Kataoka Mami, Merewether Charles, Matsubara Hironori (2009). Ai Weiwei. According to What? Tokyo: Mori Art Museum.
Merewether, C. (2008). Ai Weiwei. Under Construction. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Mary Boone Gallery (Ed.) (2008). Ai Weiwei. Illumination. New York.
Kyungmin Lee, Jihyun Shin (Eds.) (2008). Ai Weiwei. Seoul Korea: Gallery Hyundai.
Van der Zijpp, S., Wilson, M. (Ed.) (2008). Ai Weiwei (Catalogue). Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.
Ai Weiwei (2008). Becoming. Images of Beijing’s Air Terminal 3. Beijing: Timezone 8.
Albion Gallery (2008). Ai Weiwei – Herzog & de Meuron, Beijing Venice, London. London: Albion Gallery.
Koegel, E. (Ed.) (2007). Ai Weiwei. Fake Design in the Village. Berlin: Aedes.
Ai Weiwei, Chen Weiqun (2006). Fragments. Beijing 2006 Ai Weiwei (Catalogue). Beijing: Galerie Urs Meile, TimeZone 8.
Meile, U. (Ed.) (2008). Ai Weiwei. Works 2004-2007 (Catalogue). Beijing, Lucerne: Galerie Urs Meile, JRP Ringier.
Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur (2004). Ai Weiwei (Catalogue). Gent.
TimeZone 8 (2004). Beijing 10/2003 Ai Weiwei. Documentation of Video Work. Beijing: Timezone 8, Galerie Urs Meile.
Merewether, C. (Ed.) (2003). Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003 (Catalogue). Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd.