AI WEIWEI

La Commedia Umana – Memento Mori (solo show)
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
28 August – 27 November 2022

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Image: Ai Weiwei, La Commedia Umana - Memento Mori, 2022. © Ai Weiwei, photo courtesy of Francesco Allegretto and Berengo Studio, Venice.
Image: Ai Weiwei, La Commedia Umana - Memento Mori, 2022. © Ai Weiwei, photo courtesy of Francesco Allegretto and Berengo Studio, Venice.

In collaboration with the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore – Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo, Ai Weiwei will present an array of never before seen glass sculptures as part of a new solo exhibition at the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Alongside the presentation of works in porcelain, wood, and LEGO, the centrepiece of the exhibition is La Commedia Umana, an enormous hanging sculpture comprised of over 2,000 pieces of black glass handcrafted by the maestros of Berengo Studio in Murano. Measuring more than six metres wide and almost nine metres high, the twisted monument is the largest hanging sculpture ever made in Murano glass in living history. The work is an ‘attempt to talk about death in order to celebrate life’, the artist explains.

Berengo

Image: Ai Weiwei, La Commedia Umana - Memento Mori, 2022. © Ai Weiwei, photo courtesy of Francesco Allegretto and Berengo Studio, Venice.
Image: Ai Weiwei, La Commedia Umana - Memento Mori, 2022. © Ai Weiwei, photo courtesy of Francesco Allegretto and Berengo Studio, Venice.

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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