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The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957 in Beijing) participated in the Louisianas exhibition Made in China in 2008. In the autumn of 2011, however, he will be back, this time in the leading role in the exhibition series LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY with works created for the occasion. Ai Weiwei was one of the central figures in the early Chinese avant-garde movement, among other things founding the artists group Stars in 1978. Today he is the Chinese artist who has achieved the greatest international recognition. He participated for example in Dokumenta 12 Kassel in 2007, and up to 2008, with the architects Herzog & Meuron, he planned the 2008 Olympic Stadium Birds Nest in Beijing.
Most recently he has aroused attention with an installation at Tate Moderns Turbine Hall in London. The project involves millions of individually designed sunflower seeds in porcelain. Together they form what is almost a sea or a garden spread over a large area, thematizing the idea of the individual in relation to the incalculably many. The work at the Tate will be on show until May 2011.
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KünstlerInnen: Ai Weiwei
