Ai Weiwei exhibition | Berlin

Ai Weiwei is presenting his largest one-man exhibition to date in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau till 7 July 2014. Across 3,000 square metres, 18 rooms and in the spectacular Lichthof, visitors can see works and installations that were either designed specifically for the Martin-Gropius-Bau or are showing for the first time in Germany. The name given to his exhibition is “Evidence”. It is a political exhibition that Ai Weiwei has designed for Berlin in his simple and spacious studio in the rural outskirts of Beijing. at the centerpiece of the exhibition is ‘stools’, an installation amassed of over 6,000 wooden stools from ming and qing dynasties and the republican period, which have been gathered from villages across northern china. a basic household staple, each seat reveals traces of use and wear-and-tear, with their solid, simple structure that speaks to an unchanged design language for hundreds of years. ‘stools’ forms a surface, a sheet of wooden matter, by connecting individual pieces together and covers the tile floor of martin gropius-bau’s atrium. see more works from the exhibition on designboom Ai Weiwei is an artist, architect and politician. Very few of his works do not contain hidden allusions to internal Chinese affairs or to the subject of “China and the West” in general. One must learn to spot the ironical historical and political references in his works, which he sends out into the world like messages in bottles. Ai Weiwei is one of the most internationally renowned artists working today. You can read more about the artist and his works exhibited at Martin-Gropius-Bau here

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