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Cao Fei: Asia One, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2022.09.17 - 2023.02.19Asia One, 2018 / video / 63mins 20secsThis autumn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present a solo exhibition featuring the critically acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei. She is particularly known for her ambitious film installations, which combine social commentary and popular aesthetics as the basis for reflecting on the extensive developments taking place in Chinese society today.
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Cao Fei: Supernova, Maxxi, Roma
2021.12.16 - 2022.05.29curated by Hou Hanru, Monia Trombetta.An in-depth reflection on the speed of change, the relationship between tradition and future. Her work draws a line that crosses thousands of years and takes us into the next millennium.
Interaction between reality and fantasy, real and virtual, memory and future characterise the exhibition Cao Fei. Supernova, dedicated to a leading figure on the international scene. The show, curated by Hou Hanru and Monia Trombetta, presents, together with two crucial films by the artist, Haze and Fog (2013) and La Town (2014), works appreciated by international audiences, her latest works: the film Nova (2019), a science fiction film that tells the timeless story of Hongxia, the neighbourhood where Cao Fei lives, reinvented and set in the future; the virtual reality work, The Eternal Wave (2020) produced in collaboration with Acute Art, which continues the journey begun by the artist with her previous digital works, in which she continues an exploration of the virtual, reality and self-perception with technology; and Isle of Instability (2020) commissioned the latest creation made by the artist in her home in Singapore, in which she explores the psychological repercussions of the pandemic and isolation, a work that explores the social realities of everyday life in this period.
The works on display at MAXXI are part of an articulated installation itinerary that starts from the real and at times private places of the artist’s life, contemporary China, neighbourhood, studio and home and looks out onto a threatening and surreal virtual future.
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Maxxi:
The National Museum of 21st Century Arts, is the first Italian national institution devoted to contemporary creativity.
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Cao Fei, solo exhibition, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
2021.10.08 - 2021.11.20Cao Fei
Sprüth Magers
Los Angeles
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Cao Fei that highland the artist's recent projects, presenting several of them in Los Angeles for the first time. Film and photographs from her feature-length films Nova (2019) and Asia One (2018), as well as photographs related to previous groundbreaking projects such Haze and Fog (2013) and La Town (2014), will transform the Los Angeles gallery, transporting visitors through the artist's reflections on the rapid urbanization of her native China in the wake of mass cultural, social and technological upheavals.
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90036+1-323-634-0600
spruethmagers.cominfo@spruethmagers.com
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Winner of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021
2021.09.09Cao Fei has been announced as the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 Award Announcement.The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is an annual award established by The Photographers’ Gallery, London, in 1997 and in partnership with the Deutsche Börse Group since 2005 to identify and support talent, excellence and innovation. In 2016 the prize was renamed to reflect its new position within the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, a specifically established non-profit organisation focused on the collecting, exhibiting and promoting of contemporary photography.
Jury:This year’s jury are: Cristina de Middel, artist; Simon Njami, independent curator, writer, lecturer and art critic; Anna Tellgren, curator of photography at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt; and Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery as the non-voting chair.
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The Photographers Gallery
Deutsche Boerse Photography Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ijZR3TlChg
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My Future is not a Dream, Espace Louis Vuitton Munich: CAO FEI
2021.09.10 - 2022.01.09Espace Louis Vuitton Munich: CAO FEI
From September 10th, 2021 through January 9th, 2022, the Espace Louis Vuitton Munich presents Chinese artist Cao Fei's exhibition "My Future is not a Dream".
Internationally recognized artist Cao Fei has made a name for herself with her multimedia installations and videos which explore the relationship between real life, the collective utopia, and the personal aspirations of a younger generation immersed in a new urban culture marked by an industrial and commercial boom and internet exposure. Isolation, the division of the classes, and the projected decline of international capitalism are key subjects of Fei’s work, which continuously draws on a wide variety of sources from both Western and Eastern worlds.
On the occasion of its new exhibition within the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton "Hors-les-murs" program, "My Future is not a Dream" showcases a selection of Cao Fei’s works from the Collection which were displayed at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2016 for the exhibition "Bentu. Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation."
Espace Louis Vuitton München
Maximilianstrasse 2a, 80539 Munich
Phone: +49 (0)89 558938100
Mail: info_espace.de@louisvuitton.com
Monday - Friday: 12pm to 7pm
Saturday: 10am to 6pm
Sunday: closed
Free admission.
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Solo Exhibition - Cao Fei: Staging the Era, Beijing
12.03.2021 - 06.06.2021Cao Fei’s UCCA exhibition, it's her first major solo show in China, assembles works from different periods of her artistic career and situates her practice within the context of the country’s profound social upheavals.As a leading member of China’s avant-garde, Cao Fei uses multimedia formats film, video, virtual reality, and installation to surreally depict the dramatic social changes of a globalizing China and the state of the individual under such conditions. Cao Fei’s UCCA exhibition, her first major solo show in China, assembles works from different periods of her artistic career and situates her practice within the context of the country’s profound social upheavals. The exhibition features celebrated works such as Whose Utopia (2006), RMB City (2007-2011), Haze and Fog (2013), and La Town (2014), as well as the artist’s recent piece Asia One (2018) and her latest series, “Hongxia” (2019-2020), both of which will be presented in China for the first time. Throughout her practice, Cao Fei has consistently focused on the complicated social pressures emerging from the entanglement of popular culture, technological development, and urban change, fluidly shifting between documenting reality and creating fantasy in her art. In recent years, she has undertaken long-term historical and interdisciplinary research to make work that questions the role of the individual within historical transformation, reimagining approaches towards individuality, society, history, and temporality.
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Collection 1970s–Present, MoMA
14.11.2020Whose Utopia (2006) is currently exhibit at the collection gallery, MoMA, Floor 2, 212 -
Cao Fei: Blueprints, Solo Exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London
04.03 - 13.09.2020Cao Fei, Blueprints. Installation view, Serpentine Gallery. Photo credit: Gautier Deblonde.Cao Fei’s first major institutional show in the UK, Blueprints features work from 2006–2020 and includes the premiere of her first virtual reality work, The Eternal Wave, produced in collaboration with Acute Art, and the UK premiere of new film Nova. At the centre of Cao Fei's exhibition is an impulse for world-building, to imagine and construct new universes for her characters that traverse past, present and future time frames. This mode of magical thinking leads to the creation of spaces that are both real and fictional, physical and virtual, a series of blueprints that takes us beyond a singular, everyday reality. This project is the third time that she has participated in the Galleries’ artistic programme; firstly, as part of China Power Station: Part 1, an offsite Serpentine exhibition at Battersea Power Station in 2006, where the artist presented her film Whose Utopia, and then in 2008, with the installation of RMB City in the Serpentine Gallery foyer. Accompanying Blueprints is a programme of cinema screenings of Cao Fei’s work in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, in partnership with Everyman Cinemas.
more info: Serpentine Gallery
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National Gallery Singapore - Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission
17.01 - 31.12.2020This is the fourth in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series, which partners renowned artists who respond to and extend dialogue on and around the history of Southeast Asian art.Photo credit: National Gallery Singapore
To be launched during the Singapore Art Week, Cao Fei, one of China’s foremost contemporary artists, will present a new large-scale kinetic sculptural installation, 浮槎 Fú Chá, at National Gallery Singapore, as part of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission. This marks an exciting departure for the artist who is primarily known for her moving image practice. Some of her known works include RMB City: A Second Life City Planning (2007) that reimagines the future of China’s cities in online virtual world Second Life, and Asia One (2018) that examines technology’s effect on human relations. The artwork at National Gallery Singapore will also be the first of a set of solo presentations by Cao in the new year before her exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London and UCCA Beijing.
The title, 浮槎 Fú Chá, alludes to a fable about a raft that traverses the milky way and the sea. With a distinct artistic language that straddles reality and fantasy, Cao will present the first kinetic artwork shown at the rooftop garden. 浮槎 Fú Chá draws reference from the region’s history of migration, Singapore’s identity as a port city shaped by numerous diasporic communities, the fengshui of the rooftop garden, and the landmarks of the civic district that surround the Gallery.
Known for her social commentary on the rapid and chaotic changes occurring in Chinese and Asian societies today, Cao has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Paris (2019), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2018) and MOMA PS1, New York (2016), among other notable venues. The internationally renowned artist roots her projects in historical research, as well as art and film histories. At the same time, she embraces mass cultures like cosplay, games, popular music and social media to reflect on the human condition, and the realities of global flows in contemporary post-capitalist societies.
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Power 100 by ArtReview 2019
16.11.2019“This year Cao Fei became the first Chinese artist to have a solo show at Paris’s Pompidou, following on from a significant survey of her work at the recently opened Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, while next year she’s feted by the Serpentine Galleries and, on home turf, Beijing’s UCCA. ” — ArtReview
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Power 100 ArtReview 2019