ARTFORMS

Installation, photography, ceramic art, scupture, video.

MEDIA/ MATERIALS

Documentary, photography, video/film, ceramic

GUIDING INTEREST

Ai Weiwei is a blogger, an architect and a curator but he is most known for being a dissident and one of the most provocative artists of our time. After denouncing government corruption and lack of respect for human rights and freedom of speech in China, he was arrested, beaten, placed in isolation and forbidden to travel.

His activism has gone hand in hand with his artistic career and he has continued to produce work testifying to his political beliefs while at the same time making plenty of room for creativity and experimentation.

He is also remarkably known for his documentaries, Ai Weiwei: never sorry, Human flow and Coronation.

QUOTE

“When I was a small boy, my father used to tell me about his time in jail. He almost died of pneumonia but he was always a positive man. I think I always felt jealous of him for his experience in jail. It was so important to him: it made him a great poet. And when I suddenly found myself sitting in a cell, I think I was a bit relieved. I thought: ‘Now at last, I am like you. I will use this time like you did.’ So, I memorised every crack in the ceiling, every mark on the wall. I am an artist and an architect, so I have a good memory for these things.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019|Toronto.ca|GARDINIER MUSEUM| Ai Weiwei: Unbroken

2019|Mexico city.mx| MUAC|Resetting Memories

2019|DüsseldorfDE|Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen| Wo ist de Revolution?

2019|Rio de Janeiro, BR| CCBB|RAIZ

2018|Marseille.fr| Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations |Fan-fan

2018| Santiago, CN| CORPARTES| Inoculation

2018| Los Angeles, US|Marciano Art Foundation |Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle

2018| Doha,QA|Garage Gallery, Fire Station |Laundromat

2017| New York, US|Public Art Fund NYC|Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

2017| Copenhagen, DK| Charlottenborg Kunsthal |AI WEIWEI: SOLEIL LEVANT

2017|Palermo, IT|ZAC| Odyssey

2016|  Florence, IT|Palazzo Strozzi|Ai Weiwei. Libero

2016| Cuenca, ES|Cuenca Cathedral |S.A.C.R.E.D.

2016| Cambridge, UK| The Heong Gallery|Cubes and Trees

2016| Paris, FR | Bon Marché| Er Zi, Air de Jeu

2015|  Copenhagen, DK | Faurschou Foundation | Ruptures

2015| Melbourne, AU|National Gallery of Victoria | Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei,

2015| Beijing, CN|Chambers Fine Art |Ai Weiwei

2015| Beijing, CN | Galleria Continua |Ai Weiwei

2015| London, UK| Royal Academy | Ai Weiwei

2014| Munich, DE| Pinakothek der Moderne| Sunflower Seeds,

2014| Metro Manila, PH | Ayala Museum, Makati City | Baby Formula

2014|Vienna, AT| Christine König Galerie | ,Ai Weiwei

2013|,Seville, ES | Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CAAC)|Ai Weiwei. Resistance and Tradition

2013|Miami, FL, US| Perez Art Museum Miami | According to What?

2013|Venice, IT| Hotel Bauer| Ai Weiwei: Screening Room

2012|Paris.fr |JEU DE PAUME MUSEUM| entrelacs

2010| london.uk| TATE MODERN| Sunflower Seeds2010|San Hua

FORMATION

1978 | Beijing fil Academy

1981 | Parsons school of design

BIO

Currently living in Cambridge

2015-2019 |Works and lives in Berlin

1957| born in Beijing

SELECTED WORKS

AWARDS

2017|Fair Play Cinema Award – Special Mention

2017|CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award

2017|Human Rights Film Network Award – Special Mention

2017|Leoncino d’Oro Agiscuola Award – Cinema for UNICEF|Human flow

2017|Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award|Human flow

2017|Golden lion | Human flow

2013 |prize of « the spirit of independence |independant film festival of Pekin|Ping’an Yueging

2013| Artistic excellence award

2012 |the 3rd place, 100 most powerfule figures of contemporary art , artreview

2012|Rang honorable |institut Pratt

2012| Václav Havel Prize for his Dissident Creation

2010 |the first place , 100 most powerful figures of contemporary art |artreview

2010|design price | Prize for the Best New Private Residence for Residence Tsai

2010|citizen kassel price | the prism of reason

2008| lifetime Achievement price |Chinese contemporary art price

LINKS

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Interview

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AUTHOR

Artist proposal by Safa Attyaoui  | TASAWAR curatorial studios 2020

Safa Attyaoui is a visual artist and curator in training at TASAWAR 2020. Since 2017, she participated in several exhibitions and residencies during which she had the opportunity to further explore drawing, mixed media and embroidery as a narrative tool to reveal emotional sensitivity in personal life experiences. She has since developed a personal artistic research that revolves around memory and trace. In March 2020 her first solo exhibition “revealing lines” took place in the Chapel of Saint Monique at the IHEC in Carthage.

In parallel with these participations, she had few experiences as a trainee-videographer, artist assistant and workshop leader in festivals and other events (international festival of feminist art Chouftouhonna, Biennial of contemporary art Dream city) and by occupying the position of gallery assistant at Ghaya gallery in Sidi Bou Saïd.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 | Tunis.tn |SAINTE CROIX CHAPEL| Group exhibition “Eco’logic”

2020 | Sidi Bou Said.tn |SAINTE MONIQUE CHAPEL| Personal exhibition ‘Revealing lines”

2019 | Tunis.tn | DAR LASRAM | Group exhibition “Utopia, 100 years of the Bauhaus” curated by Meriem Besbes

2019 | Rades.tn| SAFIA FARHAT MUSEUM | Group exhibition “… intertwined ”

ART RESIDENCIES

2019 | Issoudun.Fr | HOSPICE SAINT ROCH MUSEUM | Artist residency

2019 | Tunis.tn | JISER BCN / ALG / TN | Artist residency

2017-2018 | Rades.tn | CENTER OF LIVING ARTS OF RADES | Artist residency

FORMATION

2017 | Tunis.tn| National School of Engineers of Carthage| Automation, robotics and information
analysis

2014 | Tunis.tn | Campus el Manar| Electronics, electrotechnical engineering and automation

BIO

2019-2020 |SIDIBOUSAID.tn|GHAYA GALLERY|Gallery assistant

1990| Born in Tunis.tn

Texts

la Presse
La Presse

LINKS

website
instagram

Photo Slim Gomri

Animation video “Wear” by Safa Attyaoui