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CHEN Wei  陳維

BIOGRAPHY
1980
Born in Zhejiang Province, China
 
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

CHEN Wei (b.1980, China), graduated from Zhejiang University of Media and Communications in 2002. Inspired by the narrative methodology in literature and drama, CHEN puts his attention to the internal structure of daily life. The images of coin, sculpture, book and light repeatedly appear in his artworks, criticising the contemporary taboo in the Chinese society, namely the indulgence of desire under consumerism, the absurdity of the contemporary art scene and the human condition along with the city development. Participated exhibitions include solo exhibition “Where Are You Going Tonight” (chi K11 art space, Guangzhou, 2018), “Chen Wei: Falling Light” (Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, 2018), “Chen Wei: Fresh Dewdrop” (OTA Fine Arts, Singapore, 2018), “Chen Wei: The Club” (Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2017), group exhibition “Night Fever” (Vitra Design Museum, Germany, 2018), “Simultaneous Eidos” (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2017) and “We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art” (Asia Society, Texas, 2016). CHEN currently lives and works in Beijing.
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HIGHLIGHT
2014
CHEN WEI, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2009
Everyday scenery and props, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Last Night, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Good Night, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2019
Chen Wei: Night Falls, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Chen Wei: Goodbye, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
Chen Wei: Drifting Along & Noon Club, Exhibition and Book Launch, Büro, Basel, Switzerland

2018
Where Are You Going Tonight, chi K11 art space, Guangzhou, China
Chen Wei: Falling Light, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Chen Wei: Fresh Dewdrop, OTA Fine Arts, Singapore
 
2017
Chen Wei: Solo Exhibition, ShanghART, Beijing, China
Chen Wei: The Club, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
 
2016
Chen Wei: Noon Club, JNYB Foundation, Hangzhou, China
 
2015
Night Paris, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Chaotic Sentences, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium
Chen Wei: Noon Insomnia, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
In The Waves, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Yesterday Shop, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
 
2014
The Stars in the Night Sky are Innumerable, Australia China Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Slumber Song, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
CHEN WEI, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2012
More, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Rain in Some Areas, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
 
2011
Tight Rope, Yokohama CreativeCity Center (YCC), Yokohama, Japan
The Vase Fell To The Floor And Broke Into Fragment, SHcontemporary 11, Shanghai
The Augur's Game, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy
 
2010
Chen Wei: photography2006-2009, Full Art, Sevilla, Spain
House of Recovery, Platform China, LISTE 15, Basel, Switzerland
 
2009
Chen Wei’s Photography Works From 2007-2009, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Everyday scenery and props, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
Partial Melancholy, Laboratory Art Beijing, Beijing, China
 
2008
The Fabulist's Path, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Affect—Jiang Han Stars Plan 2021·Young Artists Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China

2020
When the Memory Has Not Been Forgotten, X Photo Gallery, Changsha, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
​Collection Exhibition: Scales, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
New Look, Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing, China
On Sabbatical, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China Layering and Composition, The Two Movements and Practice of Contemporary Chinese Photography, Xie Zilong Photography Art Center, Changsha, China
终端>_How Do We Begin?, X Museum Triennale, X Museum, Beijing, China
Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
ABOUT US. Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany

2019
Winter Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China With/against the flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions, Guangzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou
Long Day, Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe, China
Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand, London, UK
Pal ate/ette/, SGA, Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China
The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Wunderkammer Oberösterreich. Wiar a Hünderl sein Herrn, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
Glow Like That, K11 Atelier, Hong Kong

2018
New Art History: 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, China
Replace with Fine Art, Art Academy of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
A World in a Grain of Sand, Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometries, Atlantis, Sanya, Hainan, China
Photography Between Right and Wrong, Wanying Art Space, Shi Jiazhuang, China
Night Fever, Designing Club Culture 1960-today, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
#YOU#ME#OUR SELFIES, One World Exposition 2.2, Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong
 
2017
Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Lianzhou Photo 2017, Your Selfie Stick (and You), Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
The Staged Club, Hong Kun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Physical Theatre, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), The 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition of Three Shadows, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
PARADOXA, ART FROM PRESENT CHINA, Casa Cavazzini, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy
The Modern Look, Part I, Modern Art Base, Shanghai
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Booth: Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
One World Exposition:#Like4Like, Chi K11 Art Space, Hong Kong
After Party, Collective Dance and Individual Gymnastics, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
The Genius of the Crowd, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
 
2016
We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, USA
WE: A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
MIC / MAC, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
China: Grain to Pixel, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
New Voices: a dsl collection story, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, USA
Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+, Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
The Mud of Compound Experience, Mother ́s Tankstation & Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong
 
2015
Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
28°00′N 120°42′ E, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
The Work in Progress, Photography from China in 2015, CHINA 8, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Paradise B!tch, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Photography Now: An International Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
 
2014
Performance and Imagination: Chinese Photography 1911 - 2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
Silence: The 1990s, BALICE HERTLING Gallery, Paris, France
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
 
2013
Degeneration, OCT Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
28 CHINESE, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
Reading, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Revel - Celebrating MoCA's 8 Years In Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Surprise: Contemporary Art In Shanghai Since 2000, Chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
 
2012
Daily of Concept: A Practice of Life, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
CAFAM·FUTURE, CAFA ART Museum, Beijing, China
Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, USA
 
2011
The Other Wave: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Smile, Hemuse Space, Beijing, China
In The Heat of The Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Sweet Dream(Are Made of This), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
One Man Theater, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hypnosis, Other Gallery, Beijing, China
Habibi, Triple Exhibition, Yangtze River Space, Wuhan, China
Catch The Moon In The Water, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Red, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
In a Perfect World,meulensteen,New York, USA
Parts and Whole, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Alex: A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai ,China
AGATHE SNOW and CHEN WEI: Group Show, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich, Germany
Reflection of Minds - Moca Shanghai Envisage, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
TORA!TORA!TORA!:Photography Exhibition, Beijing Caochangdi Photo Spring, Beijing, China
Soldier Crab Ⅰ: An Exhibition of The First Annual Caochangdi Photo spring, Li-Space, Beijing, China
Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
 
2009
Seoul International Photography Festival 2009, Seoul, Korea
Santa's Workshop Shanghai, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
e-flux “PAWNSHOP”, The Shop, Beijing, China
YiPai - Century Thinking: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum,
Beijing, China
Blackboard-Group Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
The 3th Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
China Now-The Edge of Desire, Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, Max Lang Gallery,
New York, USA
New Work from China-Painting, Photography & Video, Fortune Cookie Projects Singapore, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore
 
2008
Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Mediations Biennale 2008, Poznan, Poland
Deep Pond and Float Chamber, Nanjing Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing, China
China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2008, Pingyao, China
Night On Earth - Spatial Constructions and Time based Collisions,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
 
2007
Amateur World: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Unpredictable: New Photography from China, Morono Kiang Gallery,
Los Angeles, USA
Against the Wall: Contemporary Chinese Artists, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
On View: Selections from China, Fortune Cookie Projects, Paul Morris Gallery,
New York, USA
Shouting truth: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary
Art Institute, Beijing, China
 
2006
The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Poetic Reality: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Restless: Photography and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Shanghai, China
 
2005
GIFTS: Contemporary Art Exhibition, H.N.U.Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Four Seasons: Sound Performance, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai / Cubic Art Center, Beijing, China
 
2003
Bai Ta Ling Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bai Ta Ling, Hangzhou, China


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
DSL Collection, France
Rubell Family Collection, USA
San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art (SFMOMA), USA
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Switzerland
White Rabbit Contemporary Art Collection, Australia

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PUBLICATION
2008
Chen Wei: The Fabulist's Path, Platform China
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