Background
Chen Wei was born in 1980, in Zhejiang, China.
Chen’s ‘Holy Crane’ purchased at Beijing Huachen Auctions for $16,531 in 2010.
Chen Wei. Photo by Liu Xing.
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Chen Wei was born in 1980, in Zhejiang, China.
At the beginning of his career, Chen Wei worked with experimental music, videos, installations, and photography. By the course of time, he chose the latter medium as the major part of his oeuvre.
He has collaborated with various fashion and art magazines, including FHM and LEAP. Working on their commissions, he married conceptual photography and fashion design when he used items by Bottega Veneta, LV, and Prada.
Wei has participated in a great number of international exhibitions like the shows held at the Seoul Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, the Australia China Art Foundation in Sydney, San Jose Museum of Art, Stavanger Art Museum in Norway, the Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as at many art spaces in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Canada.
Besides, Chen Wei took part at Pingyao International Photography Festival, Poznan Biennale, and presented his pictures at 2011 ‘A Plus’ exhibition organized by Lane Crawford and Modern Weekly.
Nowadays, the photographer lives and works in Beijing, China. His art is represented by LEO XU Projects, Shanghai, and by Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery in Munich, Germany.
One of the recent events in Chen Wei is the solo show in Büro gallery, Basel, Switzerland within the 2019 Art Basel fair.
Raven Zoar
Trouble K2
Balls
Half of the Statue
Entrance of the Garden
Coins #4
In the Wave (Orange)
Through the Glass Door
Golden
House of Recovery
Night Paris
Beers
Two Room Apartment
Fresh Dewdrop
Coins (A Pair of Nameless Hands)
Mushroom
That Door is Often Keeping Closed
Sunset
One-Bedroom
Falls
Disco #1004
The Broken Pillar
Idol Behind the Curtains
Trouble#19051
Disco#1006
Disco#1001
Two Lights#1004
Mosaic Wall
Coins in Fountain Basin
Fresh Paint
The Stars in the Night Sky Are Innumerable
Rain Umbrella
Chen Wei takes inspiration from various things he encounters in everyday life. The ideas of new artworks can pop up in his mind when he goes out, interacts with friends, watches TV, reads a book, surfs the Web, or after he saw an artwork made by another person.
Quotations:
"Art is important in my life, because my life comes from it."
"Art goes best with work."
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin is the favorite museum of Chen Wei in the world.