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Ai Weiwei

  • Ai Weiwei covers historic Quebec City rampart in refugee life jackets

    Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has formed a wall from 2,000 life jackets that were used by Syrian refugees while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea as part of an installation in Quebec City. More

    Ben Dreith | 16 August 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Ai Weiwei unveils cage-like Arch installation in Stockholm

    Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's steel sculpture Arch has been installed outside the Nationalmuseum gallery in Stockholm, ahead of getting a permanent home in the city. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 12 July 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Reddymade and Ai Weiwei add hexagonal extension to Salt Point home

    Architecture studio Reddymade has collaborated with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to design a corrugated metal extension with hexagonal ends for a weekend home in Salt Point, New York. More

    Jon Astbury | 11 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Ai Weiwei designs footprint flag as a symbol for human rights

    Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. More

    Natashah Hitti | 10 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Ai Weiwei's Beijing studio demolished by Chinese authorities

    Artist and activist Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to show Chinese authorities knocking down his studio in Beijing, with many of his artworks still inside. More

    India Block | 6 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Ai Weiwei protests border walls with huge New York installations

    Chinese artist and human-rights activist Ai Weiwei has used metal fencing to create three monumental structures, in a campaign against Donald Trump's border-control measures. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 11 October 2017 | 19 comments
  • Ai Weiwei launches Kickstarter to build security-fence installations in New York

    Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is crowdsourcing funds to erect more than 300 artworks based on themes of immigration, division and borders, in locations across New York City. More

    Dan Howarth | 25 August 2017 | 13 comments
  • Artists including Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei create magazine covers dedicated to recent London tragedies

    Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei are among the six artists that have designed covers for ES Magazine celebrating the "resilience of London" in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks. More

    Alice Morby | 6 July 2017 | 2 comments
  • Drones stalk visitors to Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Park Avenue Armory installation

    The movements of visitors navigating this installation, by architects Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei, are tracked by drones and played back to them – in a comment on surveillance in public spaces. More

    Dan Howarth | 12 June 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Chinese government sees architectural discussion as "dangerous" threat, says Ai Weiwei

    China's "fatalist" government is causing the country's architectural profession to stagnate, according to artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. More

    Jessica Mairs | 8 August 2016 | 16 comments
  • Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets

    Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has arranged 1,005 life jackets from refugees into the shape of lotus flowers for a floating installation in Vienna (+ slideshow). More

    Eleanor Gibson | 20 July 2016 | 5 comments
  • Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion paid homage to its predecessors

    Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones explains why Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei dug into the ground to create their 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More

    Benedict Hobson | 14 February 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Ai Weiwei installs monstrous sculptures at Le Bon Marché to "speak to our inner child"

    Artist Ai Weiwei has used traditional Chinese kite-making techniques to create mythological characters and creatures for windows, atriums and the gallery at Paris department store Le Bon Marché (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 25 January 2016 | 1 comment
  • Ai Weiwei's first jewellery collection is cut from a rod of gold rebar

    Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has partnered with a London jewellery gallery to create "wearable sculptures" designed to look like reinforcing bars used in construction (+ slideshow). More

    Emma Tucker | 11 November 2015 | 1 comment
  • Ai Weiwei appeals to public after Lego refuses to provide bricks for "political" work

    Danish toy brand Lego, which has built a fan base among architects and designers with its colourful building bricks, has been accused of "censorship" by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei after refusing to supply an order for an exhibition in Australia. More

    Emma Tucker | 26 October 2015 | 29 comments
  • Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles installed at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: a monumental installation of interconnected bicycle frames by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been installed in the riverside courtyard of Palazzo Franchetti in Venice. More

    Amy Frearson | 12 June 2014 | 4 comments
  • Slideshow: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

    Slideshow: here are some photos by Julien Lanoo of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, including more pictures of the cork-covered interior plus dusky night shots.

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    Emilie Chalcraft | 7 June 2012 | 1 comment
  • Movie: Ai Weiwei on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

    Movie: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was unable to attend last week's opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that he designed in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron so he made this movie about the project instead. More

    Rose Etherington | 7 June 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Movie: Jacques Herzog at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

    Movie: earlier today, Jacques Herzog of architects Herzog & de Meuron gave us an exclusive, impromptu tour of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opens tomorrow in London. More

    Rose Etherington | 31 May 2012 | 4 comments
  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei photographs

    Here are some photographs of the completed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which opens to the public in London tomorrow. More

    Amy Frearson | 31 May 2012 | 24 comments
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