アイ・ウェイウェイ ⁄ AI WEIWEI

2017

Natural State: Ai Weiwei at Meijer Gardens, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA

2016

Foundation, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Laundromat, Deitch Projects, NewYork, USA

Roots and Branches, Lisson Gallery, New York, USA; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

Libero, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Around Ai Weiwei: Photographs 1983 – 2016, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy

S.A.C.R.E.D, Cuenca Cathedral, Cuenca, Spain

Cubes and Trees, The Heong Gallery, Downings College, Cambridge, UK

Overrated, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

Er Zi, Air de Jeux, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France

Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animal/Zodiac Heads, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic

Translocation – Transformation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

 

2015

Ai Weiwei, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Ai Weiwei: Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

Ai Weiwei: AB Blood Type, Magician Space, Beijing, China

Ai Weiwei, Tang Gallery, Continua – Beijing, Beijing, China

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA

Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA

 

2014

Evidence, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Sunflower Seeds, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Alcatraz Island, California, USA

New York Photographs 1983 – 1993, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

On the Table, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

Blenhiem Palace, Oxfordshire, UK

 

2013

Ordos, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Perez Art Museum, Miami, US; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Becoming, Galeria Pilar, São Paolo, Brazil

Disposition, 55th Venice Biennale, Collateral Event, Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA Baby Formula, Michael Janssen Gallery, Singapore

Resistance and Tradition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain Interlacing, São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2012

Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA

Vienna Art Week 2012: Predicting Memories, Ehemaliges K. K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna, Austria

Interlacing, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway

REBAR – LUCERNE, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold’, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, USA

A Living Sculpture, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

Magasin III, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh and Martin Wong in New York, Para Site, Hong Kong

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Ai Weiwei, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy

Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

 

2011

Teehaus, 2009, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Grand Army Plaza, New York, USA; Somerset House, London, UK

Ai Weiwei Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, Asia Society Museum, New York City, New York, USA

Fairytale – 1001 Chairs, Olyvia Fine Art, London, UK

Werke aus der Sammlung, Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC–AD 2010), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland

Interlacing, Foto Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland

Ai Weiwei in New York: Fotografien 1983–1993, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

 

2010

The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK

Faurschou Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cube Light, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

A Few Works from Ai Weiwei, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany

Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Hurt Feelings, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

Dropping the Urn, Ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA

Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

Barely Something, Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Dropping the Urn, Ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA

 

2009

With Milk ___find something everybody can use, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain

World Map, Gallery Faurschou, Beijing, China

So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Ways Beyond Art, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain

Four Movements, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK

Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

 

2008

Ai Weiwei, Albion Gallery, London, UK

Ai Weiwei, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea

Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, Sherman

Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia

Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

Go China! Assen-Groningen: Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

 

2007

Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany

2006

Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China

 

2004

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Ai Weiwei, Provinciaal Cultuurcentrum

Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium

Ai Weiwei, Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, New York, USA

 

2003

Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

1988

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

 

1982

Asian Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA

2016

Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Germany

Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Landscapes After Rusking: Redefining The Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, USA

Towards A Larger World, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Sweden ‘Art from Elsewhere’, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK; Towner, Eastbourne, UK

Black Chamber, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

Nervous Systems. Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

CERMIX. Art et Céramique de Rodin á Schütte, Cité de la céramique, Sevres, France; La Maison Rougue, Paris, France

East Asian Video Frames: Shades of Urbanization, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland

 

2015

Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

A New Dynasty: Created in China, ARoS Arhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Ceramix – Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

A Brief History of the Future, The Louvre, Paris, France

Sculpture in the City 2015, London, UK

The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to now, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK

When We Share More Than Ever, MKG Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Art from Elsewhere, MIMA, Middlesborough, UK

28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California, USA

The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Neu-Ulm, Germany

Go East – The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Hamster Hipster Handy. Under the Spellbound of the Mobile Phone, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Cannibalism? On Appropriation In Art, Zachęta

National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

RARE EARTH, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria

SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, USA

 

2014

1 + 1 = 1: When Collections Collide, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

BEYOND STUFF, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore

Grip friheten! Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

KUB Sammlungs-schaufenster: Neuerwerbungen von Ai Weiwei bis Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

Genius Loci – Spirit of Place, 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy Trace: Perfomance and its Documents, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Beyond and Between, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Ceramix: Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

 

2013

DO IT, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo

New works of painting, photography, sculpture and video, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida, USA

A few things that I know from them, TORRI, Paris, France

Framed, Duddell’s, Hong Kong

Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA

Gwangju Folly II, Gwangju, South Korea

When Now is Minimal: The Unknown Side of the Sammlung Goetz, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

German Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale 2013, Venice, Italy

China China, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

White House Biennial: Exercises On Democracy, Open Case 303, Athens, Greece

New framework: Chinese Avantgarde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong

Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters. Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York, NUS Museum, Singapore; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA

Poetics of Construction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

 

2012

Arsenale 2012, Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

No Borders, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

Lifelike, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

The Art of Deceleration: Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Remember Me, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea

Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei, Ding Yi: Persona 3, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, New York, USA

1st Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India

Real Life Stories, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

Zoo, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

 

2011

You All Feel For My Act, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands

4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

The Magic of Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Gl Holtegaard, Holte, Netherlands

I Promise to Love You, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Die Letzte Freiheit: Von den Pionieren der Land-Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany

Shanshui, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

MMK 1991–2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Vermessung der Welt: Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst’, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Prospect 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA

Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Taking a Stance: 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Netherlands

Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2010

29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil

12th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy

Passages: Travels in Hyperspace, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, Spain

The Big Bang, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Une Idée, une Forme, un Être – Poesie/Politique du corporel, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

The Flower of May, Gwangju Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea

Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, OCAT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, China

Regionale10, Liezen, Austria

Presidio Habitats, Presidio, San Francisco, USA

The Problem of Asia, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia

Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall, Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland

Lost and Found, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany

Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para Site, Hong Kong

Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010), Target Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA

Radical Conceptual, MMK 1, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, USA

21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

 

2009

Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA

Fascination with the Foreign: China – Japan – Europe, The Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany

Garbage, AFTERGALLERY projectroom, Moscow, Russia

Attitude, Shit-art Center, Zhengzhou, China

The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Void of Memory, Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul, South Korea

Fairytale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

I want to talk to you, T.art Center, Beijing, China

The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago

Cultural Center, Chicago, USA Map Games: Dynamic of Change, Centro Arti Opificio Siri, Terni, Italy

United Technologies, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland

Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

The China Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

 

2008

Earthquake, Art Channel, Beijing, China

China: Construction / Deconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Art, Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil

Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Super Fengshui, UCCA Site Commissions, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Reconstruction #3: The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK

China Power Station: Part III, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Branded and on Display, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, USA; 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, China

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, Japan

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, USA

China: The City exp(l)osed, Institut francais d’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France

Map Games: Dynamics of Change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

China Gold – Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée Maillol, Paris, France

Interval of Silence, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China

Body Media, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China

Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

New Vista: The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China

Red aside. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

 

2007

6th Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China

Origin Point, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

EI – Entity Identity – Beijing Series. Western Concepts – Chinese Drafts, Stedelijk Museum s’ Hertogenbosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida USA

Get It Louder, Soho Shangdu, Beijing, China

Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA

China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Something New Pussycat, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Energies – Synergy, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium

Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

The Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland

Money, Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China

Forged Realities, Universal Studios, Beijing, China

The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

We Are Your Future, 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

Branded and on Display, Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

What About Sculpture?, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

 

2006

Art in Motion – Chinese Contemporary Art Meets The BMW Art Cars, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU: Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Detours: Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China, Eric Arthur Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

CHINA NOW – Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Germany

Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

MoCA Envisage – Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia

15th Biennale of Sydney: Zones of Contact, Sydney, Australia

Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS I Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

Herzog & de Meuron – No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Fill in the Blanks, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea

Misleading Trails, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, USA

Cityscapes ‘Beijing Welcomes You’. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

China Contemporary: Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Black and Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

Antique Modernity: Breaking Traditions, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA 2006 Beaufort Outside, PMMK Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US’, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

 

2005

2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Misleading Trails, Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt

University, Nashville, USA; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, USA; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA

Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US’, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, US; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands

Convergence at E116′ / N40′, Platform China

Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China

A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese

Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1st Montpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France

China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

Herzog & de Meuron: No.250 – An Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2004

Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Persona3, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France

Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA; Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Piss Off!, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, USA

9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Misleading Trails, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, New York, USA

Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US

Modern Style in East Asia, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China

Herzog & de Meuron – No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

 

2003

New Zone – Chinese Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

Junction – Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China

 

2002

Cement: Marginal Space in Contemporary Chinese Art, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, New York, USA

China: Tradition and Modernity, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

Art from a Changing World, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway

1st Guangzhou Triennial 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

 

2001

Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Tu Mu. Young Chinese Architecture, Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

2000

Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt, Shanghai, China

Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile), Weimar, Germany

 

1999

Innovations Part I, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

d’APERTutto, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster – Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium

Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

 

1998

Double Kitsch: Painters from China, Max Protetch, New York, USA

 

1997

A Point of Contact. Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea

 

1996

Begegnung mit China, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

 

1995

Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen, Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany

Change: Chinese Contemporary Art, Goteborg Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

 

1993

Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars: 15 Years, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1989

The Stars: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong; Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Dunkerque, Dunkirk, France; Festival d’Automne de Paris, France

 

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: Beijing/New York, Albany University Art Museum, New York, USA

 

1980

The Stars, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China

 

1979

The Stars, outside the China Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Huafang Studio, Beihei Park, Beijing, China

2013

Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts at the Maryland

Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA

ArtReview Power 100, rank 9

St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award by Cartier

Appraisers Association Award for Excellence in the Arts

Listed among the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2013

Amnesty Media Award in June 2013 for the guest-edit in the October 18 issue of The New Statesman

 

2012

Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent of the Human Rights Foundation

Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Honorary Degree

Elected as Foreign Member of Royal Swedish

Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Sweden

Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK

The International Center of Photography Cornell Capa Award

Art Review Power 100, rank 3

 

2011

TIME Magazine Person of the Year 2011, Runner-up

Wall Street Journal Innovators Award (Art)

Foreign Policy Top Global Thinkers of 2011, rank 18

The Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation Award for Courage

ArtReview Power 100, rank 1

Membership at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany

The 2011 TIME 100

The Wallpaper* 150

Honorary Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Skowhegan Medal for Multidisciplinary Art, New York, USA

 

2010

Honorary Doctorate Degree, Faculty of Politics and Social Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

The Prism of Reason, Kassel Citizen Award, Kassel, Germany

ArtReview Power 100, rank 13

Wallpaper Design Award Best New Private House for Tsai Residence

 

2009

GQ Men of the Year 2009, Moral Courage (Germany)

ArtReview Power 100, rank 43

International Architecture Awards for Tsai Residence, Anthenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

2008

Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Lifetime Achievement

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Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Germany

Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California USA

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Tate Collection, London, UK

Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia

Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany

2012

Ai Weiwei Fairytale: A Reader, book, Galerie Urs Meile