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As China Envolves, the Artist Cao Fei Is Watching, NY Times
01.04.2016
The artist Cao Fei is getting her first American museum retrospective at MoMA PS1. Image credit: Bess Adler. Article by Barbara Pollock.Full Article on the New York Times website -
MoMA PS1 presents the first museum solo show in the United States of Beijing-based artist Cao Fei
04.2016-08.2016
Image still from Haze and Fog (2013)MoMA PS1 presents the first museum solo show in the United States of Beijing-based artist Cao Fei. One of the most innovative young artists to have emerged from China, Cao Fei creates multimedia projects that explores the reality of the young Chinese generation and their strategies for overcoming and escaping the challenging routine in rapidly changing society. Mixing social commentary, pop aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations, the artist reflects on the rapid and chaotic changes occurring in Chinese society.
Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, with Jocelyn Miller, Curatorial Associate, MoMA PS1.
More info: MoMA PS1
For press: Press release
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Bentu, Chinese artist in a time of turbulence and transformation, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
27.01.2016 - 09.05.2016
A Conversation - a sound talk with Cao Fei Cao Fei and Zafka Zhang (Zhang Anding)January 27 - May 9, 2016Vernissage: Tue. Jan. 26
Special Event:
A Conversation - a sound talk with Cao Fei
2016
PerformanceCao Fei and Zafka Zhang (Zhang Anding)
January 27, 2016Foundation Louis Vuitton
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The Next BMW Art Car #18 - Cao Fei
11.19.2015
The Next BMW Art Car #18 - Cao FeiBMW Art Car #18 - Cao Fei
The Rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Thursday, November 19, 7 pm
For press: Media Kit Art Car
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No Longer / Not Yet, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
17.10.2015 - 16.12.2015
Cao Fei, Rumba II: Nomad (2015)Rumba II: Nomad2015Video installation with stageNew commission work by Cao Fei
October 17 - December 16, 2015Vernissage: Fri. Oct.16, 6pm
Minsheng Art Museum
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15 ROOMS, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
26.09.2015 - 8.11.2015
Cao Fei, Coming Soon (2015)more info:Coming Soon (2015) is the latest work by Cao Fei.
Two swings fall from the ceiling and twosets of drums are fixed on the sidewalls in 90 degrees. Performers swing backand forth to the closest distance of the wall, trying to strike the instrumentswith their furthest body parts.
There are times she kicked the snare drum,and times she touched the crash cymbal with her toe. Wavering, playing out dulland crystal clear sound, they might hit nothing or they might have spontaneous,broken noise aroused continuously between them. It could be monotonous or aresonance. The room turns into solitude when they are exhausted. The nextmoment she rushes in to break the silence.
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Cao Fei: Shadow Plays, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
16.09.2015 - 21.11.2015
Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy), RMB City Planning: Online Project in Second Life (2007-2011)Shadow Plays will bring together two projects - Haze and Fog (2013) and RMB City (2007-2011). The exhibition explores Cao Fei’s investigations of the intensities and peculiarities of contemporary urban life in China.September 16 - November 21, 2015
Opening Reception: Wed. Sept. 16, 8-9:30pm
The Mistake Room Website
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The Urban Imaginary, World Economic Forum, Dalian, China
Dalian time: 09.09.2015 17:00-18:00
Join a conversation with artist and filmmaker Cao Fei, whose work presents imaginary and dystopian visions of China's urban future.This session includes the screening of Whose Utopia?, a poetic exploration of urban growth and transformation through the daily lives of workers in a Chinese lighting factory, as well as excerpts of her other cinematic work.Open To Spouse
Programme: Official - Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Insights: China Cities and Urbanization Values
Format: Screening
Location: Dalian International Conference Center, Betazone
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Splendid River, Cao Fei's Solo Exhibition, Secession, Vienna
02.07.2015 - 30.08.2015
Cao Fei, Splendid River, Secession 2015 Photo: © Oliver Ottenschläger Splendid River is a real estate project located in the booming development region of Guangzhou, China, since 2001.At the Vienna Secession, Cao Fei will show a selection of works, among them key works such as RMB City project (2008–11) or Haze and Fog (2013), a recent film project that depicts the struggles of the disoriented urban middle class in a dystopian zombie setting. The artist has also conceived new works especially for the exhibition, among them the eponymous intervention on the Secession’s façade, which creates a connection between the original building in Vienna and its copy, home to a real estate business, in Fei’s hometown, Guangzhou. In the video installation Stranger (2015), Cao Fei explores the phenomenon of internet dating platforms which,while individuals seem to feel more and more disconnected to their surroundings, are becoming increasingly popular. Instead of meeting common expectations,the artist as invisible protagonist of the video clips performs everyday activities as form of communicating with the often passive voyeur, while in the installation Rumba (2015) automatic household devices like cleaning robots perform a kind of random choreography set on a stage designed as an abstracted landscape. Here, again, communication as in “building bridges” seems to be an underlying theme.
An artist book with texts, drawings and sketches by Cao Fei will be published to coincide with the exhibition.
The exhibition at Secession is the artist’s first solo show in Austria.
Cao Fei, born in Guangzhou (China) in 1978, lives and works in Beijing.Invited by the board of the Secession
Curator: Jeanette Pacher
PressPress conference: July 1, 10am
For interview requests and any other questions please contact katharina.schniebs@secession.at.
http://www.secession.at/presse/
Please find the press release and press images for download here:
http://www.secession.at/presse/pdf/Press_release_Cao_%20Fei.pdf
Guided tours: Saturdays at 11am (in English) and 2pm (in German) by appointmentPermanent presentation: Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze
more info:http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/laura-owens-and-cao-fei/
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All The World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale Main Exhibition, Venice
09.05.2015 - 22.11.2015
Cao Fei's new work will present in 56th Venice Biennale curated by Okwui EnwezorCao Fei's new work will present in All The World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale Main Exhibition
more info:
Venice Biennale Artist List
Introduction by Curator Okwui Enwezor