Ai Weiwei
All works in the collection (2)
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Title: Table with two legs
Year: 2005
Medium: Ming dynasty wooden table
Dimensions: 61 x 184 x 120 cm (24 x 72 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) -
Title: I And My Village
Year: 2023
Medium: mounted LEGO bricks, accompanied by the artist's wooden presentation case
Dimensions: 153 x 153 cm (60 1/4 x 60 1/4 in.)
Born in Beijing, China in 1957. Ai studied at the Beijing Film Academy and Parsons School of Design (NY). Immediately after the Cultural Revolution, Ai founded the avant-garde art group "The Stars" with Huang Rui and others. Beyond making art, his activities are wide-ranging, including many important exhibitions organized as a curator, architectural projects and critical writing. Exhibitions include documenta 12 (2007) and the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2008). Ai was detained after persistently pressing the government on its responsibility for the deaths of many children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and maintains an uncompromising stance in defending the legitimacy of expression and human rights.
