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Liu Wei

(Chinese, born 1972)

Liu Wei

Untitled, 2007

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Biography

Timeline

1972: Born in Beijing, China
1996: Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Zhejiang Province, China
2006: Chinese Contemporary Art Award, honorable mention
2008: Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Best Artist
2011: Credit Suisse Today Art Award, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012: Martell Artist of the Year Award
: Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions

2013: Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Shamans & Dissent, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
: Art Basel Unlimited 2013, Basel
: Re:emerge: Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
: Liu Wei, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo)
: West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
: Sharjah Biennial Re: emerge – towards a new cultural cartography, Sharjah, UAE
: Void, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China (solo)
: Water Stains On The Wall – The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang, China
: Adumbration Exhibition, re-C Art Space, Chengdu, China
: CIGE, China World Trade Centre, Beijing, China
: Inside the White Cube, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
: La Chambre Claire, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
: Martell Artists of the Year, Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; China
: EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia, ShanghART H – SPACE, Shanghai, China
: The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
: Liu Wei: Foreign, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2012: Liu Wei, Long March Space, Beijing, China (solo)
: ACT>TION – video exhibition, Long March Space, Beijing, China
: The Hague under the Heaven, The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, Netherlands
: Shanshui, Lucerne Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
: Thirty years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
: The Shape of Time – the multinarrative history in contemporary Chinese art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: Credit Suisse Today Art Award 2011 Finalists Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
: Trilogy, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (solo)
: Frieze, London, U.K.
: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
: About Painting, Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
: Myriad Beings, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (solo)
2011: Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
: FIAC, Paris, France
2010: DREAMLANDS, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
State of Things, Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Exchange between China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Roundtrip: Beijing, New York NOW, Selections from the Domus Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Long March Project, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Shanghai Biennale Rehearsal, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Breaking Forecast- 8 Key Figures of China, New Generation Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art,Beijing, China
: Diversion Era: Liu Wei, CAN Foundation, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2009: The Big World: Recent Art From China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
: Breaking Forecast – 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: The Forgotten Experience, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France (solo)
Yes, That's All, Beors-Li Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
ShContemporary 09 Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
State of Things, Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Exchange between China and Belgium, BOZAR Center for the Arts,Brussels, Belgium
The New Attitude of Image, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Bourgeoisified Proletariat, ShanghART Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China
Farewell to Postcolonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
: Dior and Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: CYLWXZ, Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: Mahjong: Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
: Sprout from White Nights, Bonnierskonsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
: Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: Upcoming: New World Order, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
: Farewell to Postcolonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
2008: Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Revolution Continues, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.
The Borders of Utopia, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
: Our Future, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007: The History of a Decade that Has Not Yet Been Named, Ninth Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
NONO, Long March Space, Beijing, China
7 Characters: New Art from China, Mayor Gallery, London, UK
China Now, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Lyon Biennial 2007, Lyon, France
China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Barcelona-Paris-Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Art in Motion: Chinese Contemporary Art Meets the BMW Art Cars, Long March Space, Beijing, China
The Outcast, UniversalStudios-Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
Love It, Bite It, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China (solo)
2006: Property of L.W, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China (solo)
Purple Air, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai , Shanghai , China
Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul , Korea
Yellow box, Qingpu, Shanghai , China
The second space for contemporary ink work -idylls and visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou , China
ALLLOOKSAME?/TUTTTUGUALE? - Art from China , Korea and Japan, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin , Italy
The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul , Korea
: Long March Capital, Long March Space, Beijing, China
: Thirty-Eight Solo Exhibitions, Creative Garden, Shanghai, China
: The Twelve: Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
: Idylls and Visions: The Second Space for Contemporary Ink Work, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
: It's All Right! BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
: City Limits: Shanghai / Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Long Beach, USA
: China Now, Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuberg, Germany
: Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
: Something's Happening, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
: Outside, Long March Space, Beijing, China
: Beyond: The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
2005: Battlefield: The Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing (solo)
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
51st Venice Biennale: Venice, Italy
Mahjong: Bern, Switzerland
First Nanjing Triennial: Nanjing, China
: The New Long March Space Inaugural Exhibition, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2004 - 2006: Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; International Center for Photography, New York, USA
2004: Chinese Eyes: Contemporary Photography from China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
: Shanghai Biennale, Techniques of the Visible: Shanghai, China
Regeneration, touring exhibition, USA
Exhibitions Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography and The Asia Society, New York, Smart Museum of Art (touring exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary, Chicago, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Art House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2003: Open Sky, Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of Post-Planning, Shenzhen, China
Together with Migrant, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Double Time, China Academy of Fine Arts, Huangzhou, China
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Refine 798, 798, Beijing, China
: Hello, Comrade Mingong, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
: Nasty, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
2002: The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Mirage, Godot Art Museum, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Everyday Attitude: An Exhibition of Chinese Photo-Based Arts, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
Too Much Flavour, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China; Avant-Garde, Hakaren, Singapore
: The Reaping, Beijing, China
2001: Post-Sensibility Spree, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
Non-Linear Narrative, Gallery of National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
Mantic Ecstasy, Impression Gallery, Hangzhou; Bizart Art Center, Shanghai; Loft
New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
: Hong Kong International Video Festival, Museum of Circumstance, Hong Kong, China
: Chinese Landscape - Concept Photography Exhibition, Beijing, China
2000: Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
: City Zoom, German
: Hong Kong International Video Festival, Hong Kong, China
: Home? Contemporary Art Project, Yuexing Furniture Warehouse, Shanghai, China
: People Have changed, Shanghai, China
: Hong Kong International Video Festival, Museum of Circumstance, Hong Kong, China
: Culture Life, Shanghai, China
1999: Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai, China
Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Post-Sensibility: Alien Bodies and Delusion, Shaoyaoju, Beijing, China
: Supermarket, Shanghai, China
1998: Consider Oneself and Surroundings, Beijing, China

Literature

2007: China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007.

Liu Wei

(Chinese, born 1972)

Liu Wei

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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