Ai Weiwei
Swatter
2007
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Artist
Ai Weiwei
b. 1957, Beijing, China · Chinese · Based in Cambridge, United Kingdom & Lisbon, Portugal
- Beijing Film Academy (1978)
- Art Students League of New York (1983–1986)
- Sculpture
- Installation
- Porcelain
- Woodwork
- Activism
Ai Weiwei works across sculpture, architecture, photography, film and activism. His practice uses cultural objects, mass-produced materials and public interventions to address state power, censorship, migration and historical memory.
Sculpture; installation; architecture; film
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Ai Weiwei in "Change" - Season 6 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Art2118 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
MOCA Artist Film Series: Ai Weiwei
The Museum of Contemporary Art64 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Artist Ai Weiwei: Reality Is a Ruin
Louisiana Channel2 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1995Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
- 2010Sunflower Seeds
- 2009Remembering
- 2008–12Straight
- 2007Template
- 2003 onwardForever Bicycles
- 1995–2003Study of Perspective
- 2017Law of the Journey
- 2009Snake Ceiling
- 2017Human Flow
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Interviews & Writing
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