Chen Wei
1980
Geboren in Zhejiang Provinz | Born in Zhejiang Province
Lebt und arbeitet in Peking | Lives and works in Beijing
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Sweet Dreams, Fotografiska, Shanghai
Fractured Chapters, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2023
I Am the People, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
2022
Chen Wei, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Chen Wei: Jamais Vu, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2021
Chen Wei: Good Night, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
Chen Wei: Make me illusory, West Bund Museum, Shanghai
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Chen Wei, The Last Night, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2019
Night Falls, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Goodbye, ShanghART, Shanghai
Drifting Along & Noon Club, Exhibition and Book Launch, Büro, Basel
2018
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Where are you going tonight, chi k11 art space, Guangzhuo
2017
New Buildings, Lianzhou Foto, Lianzhou
Physical Theatre, ShanghART, Shanghai
The Club, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
2016
Noon Club, curated by Francesco Bonami, JNBY Foundation, Hangzhou
2015
Night Paris, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Chaotic Sentences, Stieglitz19, Antwerp
Noon Insomnia, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
In The Waves, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
Yesterday Shop, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2014
Chen Wei: the Stars in the Night Sky are Innumerable, Australia China Art Foundation, Sydney
Slumber Song, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2013
CHEN WEI, Leo Xu Projects, Art Basel, Hong Kong
2012
More, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
Rain in Some Areas, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2011
Tight Rope, Creative City Center, Yokohama
The Vase Fell To The Floor And Broke Into Fragment, SH Contemporary 11, Shanghai
The Augur's Game, Galleria Glance, Turin
2010
House of Recovery, Platform China, LISTE 15, Basel
Chen Wei: photography 2006 – 2009, Full Art, Sevilla
2009
Chen Wei Photography. Works from 2007 – 2009, m97 Gallery, Shanghai
Everyday scenery and props, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
Partial Melancholy, Laboratory Art Beijing, Beijing
2008
The Fabulist's Path, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024 – 2025
目 Chine, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2023 – 2024
Archival Highlights, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2023
Chen Wei + Hiraki Sawa, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Boardercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction (Part II: Liquid Circulates), Long March Space, Beijing
2022
End of Heat. Section 1: Flare ShanghART, Shanghai
Fuse, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
20 Artists: Global Positioning, Public Art Fund, New York
Chinese Spring Part 5, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp
2021
Focus on Photography, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Tommorow, Towarding, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
2020
X Museum, Triennal, Beijing
Private Viewing Room, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai
2019
Cyberpunk In The Year Of The Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2018
Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Night Fever, Vitra Museum Weil a. Rhein
Brilliant Cities, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
2017
Simultaneous Eidos: Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
LIGHT UP Therapy Resort, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
Shanghai Galaxy, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976 – 2017), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York
PARADOXA: ART FROM PRESENT CHINA, Casa Cavazzini, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine
One World Expo 2.1, VIDEOTAGE, Hong Kong
The Genius of the Crowd, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
2016
China: Grain to Pixel, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
MIC/MAC, A2Z Gallery, Paris
Another Landscape, Yang Museum, Beijing
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Chinese Whispers: RecentArt from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern
We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston
We, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
2015
28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
The Work in Progress: Photography from China, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai
28°00′N 120°42′E, How Art Museum, Wenzhou
The System of Objects, Shanghai Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2014
Performance and Imagination: Chinese Photography 1911 – 2014, Stravanger Art Museum, Stravanger
Silence: the 1990s, Balice Hertling Gallery, Paris
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Fine Art, Tampa, Florida and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
2013
Degeneration, OCT Contemporary Art, Shanghai
28 CHINESE, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Reading, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
Revel – Celebrating MoCA's 8 Years In Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2013, Pingyao
Shanghai Surprise: Contemporary Art In Shanghai Since 2000, Chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai
Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012
Daily of Concept: A Practice of Life, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Get It Louder: Future, Sanlitun Village, Beijing
CAFAM Future, CAFA ART Museum, Beijing
Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2011
The Other Wave: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Smile, Hemuse Space, Beijing
In The Heat of The Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Sweet Dream (Are Made of This), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
One Man Theater, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Hypnosis, Other Gallery, Beijing
Habibi, Triple Exhibition, Yangtze River Space, Wuhan
Catch The Moon In The Water, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Red, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
In a Perfect World, meulensteen, New York
Parts and Whole, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
2010
Alex: A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai
Reflection of Minds – Moca Shanghai Envisage, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
TORA!TORA!TORA!: Photography Exhibition, Beijing Caochangdi Photo Spring, Beijing
Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Soldier Crab I: An Exhibition of The First Annual Caochangdi Photo spring, Li-Space, Beijing
2009
Seoul International Photography Festival 2009, Seoul
Santa's Workshop Shanghai, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai
e-flux “PAWNSHOP”, The Shop, Beijing
YiPai – Century Thinking: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Blackboard-Group Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
The 3th Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Now-The Edge of Desire, Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, Max Lang Gallery, New York
New Work from China-Painting, Photography & Video, Fortune Cookie Projects Singapore, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore
2008
Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal, m97 Gallery, Shanghai
Mediations Biennale 2008, Poznan, Poland
Deep Pond and Float Chamber, Nanjing Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing
China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2008, Pingyao
Night On Earth – Spatial Constructions and Time based Collisions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2007
Amateur World: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, Arario Gallery, Beijing
Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Unpredictable: New Photography from China, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
Against the Wall: Contemporary Chinese Artists, Corkin Gallery, Toronto
On View: Selections from China, Fortune Cookie Projects, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
Shouting truth: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
2006
The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Poetic Reality: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Restless: Photography and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2005
GIFTS: Contemporary Art Exhibition, H.N.U.Art Museum, Hangzhou
Four Seasons: Sound Performance, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai / Cubic Art Center, Beijing
2003
Bai Ta Ling Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bai Ta Ling, Hangzhou
Preise und Stipendien | Awards and Scholarships
2023
Golden Panda Photography Art Award
2015
Prudential Eye Awards for Contemporary Asian Art
2012
The Best Young Artist Award by the City of Kyoto, Kyoto City Culture and Citizens Affairs Bureau
2011
Takeshi Umehara Prize, Kyoto City University of Arts
2009
VOCA, Encouragement Prize
2007
Acrylic Art Award, Japanese Acrylic Art Association
Bank of Kyoto Artist Support Programm
2006
Alumni Association Prize for Grad
Sammlungen | Collections
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Dslcollection, Paris, France
Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France
The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Kankuro Ueshima Collection, Japan
K11 Foundation, Hong Kong, China
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, China
Rubel Family Collection, Miami, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
White Rabbit Collection, Chippendale, Australia
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
