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HU WEI

b. 1983, China
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Hu Wei Biography

Hu Wei’s (胡伟) practice takes various media, such as video, installation, performance, and writing, to establish an artistic relationship between the reality (non-artistic gesture) and ‘art tales’. Combining the observation of individuality and social realism, recently he is exploring the mediation or irreconcilable phenomenology between technology and the human condition, and in which the emerging political, economic, ethical issues are embedded.

The recent exhibitions Hu once participated include: Towards the Emergence of Resistance (Taking Space, 2016), Collective Disorder / After Speaking (Greylight Projects, Brussels), Shanghai Projects-Qidian (Himalayas Museum, 2016), Songs For A Deaf Ox ( Arnhem, NL), Break The Floor (Rabbithole, NY), Invitation to the Blues (Punt WG Space, Amsterdam), Beginnings of Conversations (Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran) etc.

Hu Wei currently works and lives in Beijing. Graduated from Painting Department of CAFA, 2012, and obtained an MA at Dutch Art Institute in 2016. He also participated artist-in-residency in Portugal, Netherlands and Mexico.

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Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition 1985-2025 Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art Beijing 2nd Space China
Group Exhibition 1985-2025 Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition Tang Contemporary Art 14 March–6 May 2026
Beijing 2nd Space
Contemporary art exhibition Curated by Sun Wenjie The Long Way Around at ShanghART Beijing China
Curated by Sun Wenjie The Long Way Around ShanghART 18 December 2021–18 February 2022
Beijing
Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition Space Oddity at UCCA Dune China
Group Exhibition Space Oddity UCCA Dune 7 March–20 June 2021
UCCA Dune

Representative Artworks

Exhibition view: Hu Wei and Xiang Kaiyang, The Long Way Around, ShanghART Beijing (18 December 2021–18 February 2022). Courtesy ShanghART.
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Hu Wei, The Rumbling (2023). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Almost Perfect Crime (2022) (detail). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Almost Perfect Crime (2022). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Rumbling (2023). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Exhibition view: Hu Wei, Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Almost Perfect Crime (2022) (detail). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Rumbling (2023) (still). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Top to bottom: Hu Wei, Long Time Between Sunsets and Underground Waves (2020–2021); Aquatic Invasion (No.1-No.6) (2021). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei, The Rumbling (2023) (still). Exhibition view: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing (21 May–3 September 2023). Courtesy Macalline Art Center.
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Hu Wei in Ocula Magazine

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