Five hundred military helmets—all identical only in appearance—span forty meters across the lawn in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. Made of cast iron, they faithfully reproduce various models of 20th-century…
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From April 29 to Sept. 6, 2026, MAXXI L'Aquila will host AI WEIWEI: Aftershock, an exhibition entirely dedicated to Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957), a Chinese artist, architect and activist who is among the best-known figures on the…
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In Kiev, the capital ofUkraine still devastated by the Russian invasion, an artwork that focuses reflections on war, peace and contemporary reality will open on Sept. 14, 2025: Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei brings to the Ukrainian…
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On the pier outside the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, a large sculpture by Ai Weiwei was unveiled by the artist himself on June 15, 2022. It is Arch, a work that the renowned Chinese dissident artist last showed in 2017 at Washington Square…
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The National Roman Museum welcomes Ai Weiwei's Human Comedy at the Baths of Diocletian from March 25 to April 3, 2022. Formed of more than two thousand pieces of hand-blown and fused glass by master glassmakers from Berengo Studio in…
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Books Ai Weiwei Contemporary art Politics and cultural heritage
Few artists like Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957) have devoted so much attention, so much perseverance, and so much of their output to the theme of the migrant and refugee crisis. Not only with works (stand out, among many others, Reframe, the…
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