AI WEIWEI et al.

Forest: Wake this Ground (group show)
Arnolfini, Bristol
9 July – 2 October, 2022

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Ai Weiwei, Palace, from Roots series, 2019. Installation view: Forest: Wake this Ground, 2022, Arnolfini, Bristol, photo © Lisa Whiting Photography
Ai Weiwei, Palace, from Roots series, 2019. Installation view: Forest: Wake this Ground, 2022, Arnolfini, Bristol, photo © Lisa Whiting Photography

Ai Weiwei's monumental work Palace, from Roots series, 2019, is featured in a group exhibition at the Arnolfini, Bristol, which brings together artists, writers, filmmakers and composers from across the globe. Titled Forest: Wake this Ground, the exhibition presents works that recycle, reuse and repurpose resources, revealing the forests’ ancient rhythms, as well as exploring stories, myths, and folktales, passed down between people over centuries. 

Cast from the ancient and endangered Pequi Vinagreiro tree (found in the Bahian rainforest), Ai Weiwei’s upended sculpture reflect both the uprootedness of arboreal species and the displacement of people.

Arnolfini

Ai Weiwei, Palace, from Roots series, 2019. Installation view: Forest: Wake this Ground, 2022, Arnolfini, Bristol, photo © Lisa Whiting Photography
Ai Weiwei, Palace, from Roots series, 2019. Installation view: Forest: Wake this Ground, 2022, Arnolfini, Bristol, photo © Lisa Whiting Photography

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In Search of Humanity (solo show)
Kunsthal Rotterdam
30 September 2023 – 3 March 2024

Installation view: Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2023, photo: Marco de Swart and Kunsthal Rotterdam
Installation view: Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2023, photo: Marco de Swart and Kunsthal Rotterdam

Kunsthal Rotterdam presents In Search of Humanity, Ai Weiwei’s most comprehensive retrospective to date. Including paintings, cultural ready-mades, LEGO brick works, sculptures, installations, photography and video art, the exhibition offers an impressive overview of the artist’s over-four-decades-long career, featuring key works from all his creative periods.

Kunsthal Rotterdam

Installation view: Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2023, photo: Marco de Swart and Kunsthal Rotterdam
Installation view: Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2023, photo: Marco de Swart and Kunsthal Rotterdam

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Ai Weiwei receives the Praemium Imperiale Prize

Photo: Ai Weiwei, image courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio
Photo: Ai Weiwei, image courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio

We congratulate Ai Weiwei on being awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize 2022 by the Japan Art Association.

Praemium Imperiale Prize

Photo: Ai Weiwei, image courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio
Photo: Ai Weiwei, image courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio