Ai Weiwei   Sweden   Located in front of the main entrance of the National Museum of Stockholm, this arch-shaped cage of polished steel is pierced by the silhouette of two people holding one another, appearing to break through it. The 12-meter-tall work of the Chinese ar

Herzog & de Meuron   China   A park comprising pavilions of widely differing forms, sizes, and functions is now under construction in Jinhua. The theme of each pavilion was chosen by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The architectural concepts developed for the new city center of th

Herzog & de Meuron Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   Every summer since the year 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the Serpentine Gallery’s Pavilion, located by the permanent building in Kensington Gardens, an area inside London’s Hyde Park. In 2012, the gallery commissioned

Herzog & de Meuron Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   As every summer since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents the temporary pavilion located in Kensington Gardens, designed this time by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and by the Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei. Taking an arc

Ai Weiwei Derek Dellekamp Tatiana Bilbao   Mexico   Miquel Adriá. Un conjunto de singulares piezas diseñadas por artistas y arquitectos, que ordenan y pautan simbólicamente el territorio, se desperdigan a lo largo de los 117 kilómetros de la Ruta del Peregrino, en México. 

China   Used to visiting architecture exhibitions in which buildings are interpreted through plans, drawings and models, the organizers of this event – CIPEA, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture – tried to make a change and show building

Taking up 1,700 square meters, this exhibition of 44 works by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (Beihing, 1957) opened on 9 November at MUSAC in León, to run until 18 May 2025. ‘Ai Weiwei: Don Quixote’ shows creations of the past twenty years

During the first months of 2023, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei displayed a recreation of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies series, for which he used almost 650,000 Lego blocks. Just one year later, the historic space of the cinema-theater occupied by the Ga

The Art Newspaper   Anny Shaw   Lisson Gallery has indefinitely put on hold an exhibition of new works by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, which had been due to open in London this week, following a statement posted by Ai on social media relating to the Israel-Hamas war.

Rowan Moore   Siempre con mirada activista, Ai Weiwei reflexiona en el Design Museum sobre el valor de los objetos cotidianos y sus procesos de fabricación.

The Design Museum in London has unveiled an artwork by Ai Weiwei titled Water Lilies #1. Made of Lego bricks, it will be part of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Making Sense’, set to open to the public on 7 April and remain on view through 30 July. This w

SANAA Every year since 1989 The Imperial Family of Japan and The Japan Art Association have given the Praemium Imperiale in five fields, acknowledging contributions to the development and promotion of the arts worldwide. Each of the laureates receive

Tapping his versatility, Ai Weiwei has created a new production of Turandot with himself as director, designer of stage sets and costumes, and video artist. The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma will be presenting this modern reinterpretation of Giacomo Pucc

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The memoirs of Ai Weiwei are an extraordinary political and artistic document. His 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows incorporate the biographical journey of his father, the great poet Ai Qing (1910-1995), into his own; and throw light on the creative pr

When the German gallerist Helga de Alvear decided fifteen years ago to install her collection of art in a modernist mansion in Cáceres, in Extremadura region, she approached the architects Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón and commissioned them t

Skirball   In advance of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Trace,’ which will make its Los Angeles debut this spring at the Skirball Cultural Center, a virtual talk presenting the artist-activist in conversation with Skirball curator Yael Lipschutz is premiering on Su

The New York Times    Jori Finkel   In 2011, Chinese authorities detained the artist Ai Weiwei at a Beijing airport, seizing his passport, laptops and hard drives from his studio and imprisoning him for 81 days without formal charges. The allegation was “economic crimes,” but many saw

faurschou-art-resources.com   Château La Coste, in partnership with Luise Faurschou, is pleased to announce an exhibition with Ai Weiwei to celebrate the artist’s new, permanent work on the vineyard. Over the past two years, Ai Weiwei has been developing...

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped the six front columns of the Konzerthaus of Berlin with thousands of orange life vests salvaged from refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos in their massive and often tragic attempts to r

Ángel Martínez García-Posada   On view at the CAAC in Seville, Resistance and Tradiction is the first anthology on the artist Ai Weiwei ever to be offered in a Spanish Museum.

Lys Villalba   La presencia mediática de Ai Weiwei es tal, que el número de entradas que aparecen en Google al teclear su nombre supera en un 35% a la suma de las generadas por los nombres de los seis últimos arquitectos Pritzker. A pesar de ello, poco se conoce de

Descubrir la huella permanente dejada por la cimentación de edificios concebidos para ser efímeros es el objeto —poético y un tanto paradójico a la vez— del nuevo pabellón para la Galería Serpentine, que acaba de inaugurarse en Londres y que podrá vi

Tras permanecer casi dos meses en paradero desconocido, el artista y disidente político Ai Weiwei ha sido liberado, bajo fianza, por la policía china, que ha justificado su decisión tanto en la buena actitud del artista como en las enfermedades cróni

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ai weiwei has carpeted the Tate Modern in London with 100 million sunflower seeds.  Made of porcelain and painted individually by an army of 1,600 craftsmen, the delicate ceramic seeds cover the floor of the huge Turbine Hall with a thick layer that

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ai Weiwei ha alfombrado la Tate londinense con cien millones de pipas de girasol. Realizadas en porcelana y pintadas una a una por un ejército de 1.600 artesanos, las delicadas semillas cerámicas cubren el suelo de la gigantesca Sala de Turbinas con

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Magda Anglès   La galería de arte contemporáneo Ivorypress Art Books de Madrid inauguró en mayo la exposición del polémico artista y arquitecto chino Ai Weiwei, Ways Beyond Art. Dirigida por Elena Ochoa y diseñada por Norman Foster, la galería abrió sus puertas el

The Bird’s Nest, Herzog & de Meuron in China, de Christoph Schaub y Michael Schindhelm, esboza un retrato de noventa minutos sobre el proceso de construcción del Estadio Olímpico de Pekín y el diseño del área residencial y parque de Jinhua. El docume

Laia Manonelles   Ai Weiwei es una figura fundamental del arte chino contemporáneo gracias a su prolífica y heterogénea obra: fundador de uno de los primeros grupos de arte no oficial, comisario, editor y arquitecto paisajista, ha vivido en primera persona la evolució

Es posible que hayan oído hablar de Ai Weiwei. Quizá incluso hayan oído hablar de él demasiado. Desde su detención en China, el pasado año, a su retrospectiva fotográfica en el Jeu de Paume parisino o el reciente anuncio de su colaboración con los ar

Ai Weiwei   Nueva York  2021  
Crown   - 400 Pages 

Hans Ulrich Obrist   Barcelona   2014  
Gustavo Gili   - 127 Pages 

Caroline Klein   Cologne  2010  
DAAB   - 176 Pages 

Ai Weiwei Lee Ambrozy   Writings, Interviews and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

Hans Ulrich Obrist   London  2011  
Penguin    - 110 Pages