Ai Weiwei is next artist in Unilever Series at Tate Modern
Posted by artradar on March 12, 2010
Ai Weiwei is first artist from Asia Pacific to create installation in Tate’s Turbine Hall
Ai Weiwei, Remembering 2009, 2009
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be the next artist in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the Unilever series (12 Oct 2010-25 Apr 2011). He will be the first artist from the Asia-Pacific region to undertake an installation there.
In the past year, Ai Weiwei has created the installations Remembering 2009, a memorial to schoolchildren who were victims in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and Soft Ground 2009 in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. He has also had a solo show at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
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