The Chinese artist Cao Fei (b. Guangzhou, 1978) is one of the defining voices of her generation. For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, she transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart into an immersive total work of art in the form of a city blending imposing installations and video universes from her oeuvre of the past twenty years.
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Kunstmuseum Basel
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Testimonies to the Near Future, kunstmuseum basel
2026.05.30 - 2026.10.11
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Dash, Fondazione Prada, Milan
2026.04.09 - 2026.09.28
Fondazione Prada presents “Dash”, a new multimedia project devised by Chinese artist Cao Fei for its Milan venue combining multiple languages ranging from photography to video installation, from virtual reality to documentary footage, and archival material, to trace a complex portrait of a global agricultural technological revolution and its inherent contradictions.
More info: Fondazione Prada
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Cao Fei: My City is Yours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024.11.30 - 2025.04.13
My City is Yours is an invitation into a world of neon, street dance and pop music; a city both familiar and warped, real and virtual. Enter the exhibition via a replica 1960s Beijing cinema foyer, and exit through a homage to a popular Sydney yum cha restaurant.
Designed by the artist and Beau Architects of Hong Kong, the exhibition takes the form of a cityscape. It’s a space of play and self-reinvention, where cosplayers and hip-hop dancers take over sidewalks in Fukuoka and New York. It’s a city of screens and pixels, mediated by gaming technologies, VR and the metaverse. It’s a city under construction, where neighbourhoods are razed overnight and workers compete for jobs with robots.
The exhibition is made possible with the support of the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Along with Magritte, also at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Julie Mehretu, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Cao Fei is part of the Sydney International Art Series, bringing the world’s most outstanding exhibitions to Australia, exclusively to Sydney.
more info: AGNSW
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Cao Fei: The Future is Not a Dream, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024.11.24 - 2025.02.17
A partir de una variada investigación que experimenta con diferentes medios y soportes, Cao Fei se interesa por el modo en que los rápidos cambios sociales del siglo XXI se reflejan en nuestras subjetividades, atravesadas por el uso intensivo de la tecnología tanto en los ambientes laborales como en los tiempos de ocio. Su punto de partida son las grandes transformaciones urbanas que China viene experimentando en las últimas décadas y la revolución tecnológica que atraviesa el país.
Organizada por la Pinacoteca de São Paulo.Curadora: Pollyana Quintella.
More info: MALBA
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Cao Fei: Tidal Flux, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
2024.06.22 - 2025.02.09
Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) proudly announces its third major exhibition of the year, Cao Fei: Tidal Flux, opening to the public from June 22 to November 17, 2024. This exhibition marks MAP’s first solo show dedicated to a female artist and its first major exhibition of moving images and media art since the museum’s inception. For artist Cao Fei, this marks her inaugural large-scale mid-career retrospective in Shanghai, and one of her largest solo exhibitions ever staged globally.
Curators: Nancy Spector / Tan Xue / Yang Beichen
Exhibition Design: Beau
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Cao Fei: Meta-mentary, Lenbachhaus, Munich
2024.04.13 - 2024.09.08
In "Meta-mentary" we invite you to immerse yourself in an exhibition space transformed by Cao Fei’s cinematic imagery and artistic vocabulary. Cao Fei is internationally recognized as one of the most important representatives of post-digital art. The term “post-digital” was coined in the early 2000s and refers to an art whose theme and critical element is the digital penetration of our everyday lives. Post-digital art originates in the digital and appropriates its structures and characteristics.
more info: Lenbachhaus
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Solo exhibition: 'At the Edge of Superhumanity' at SCAD
2024.02.26 - 2024.7.29
Since the early 2000s, SCAD deFINE ART honoree Cao Fei has produced forward-thinking work that acutely responds to and reflects on — in real time — shifts in our perception and experience of reality during periods of rapid globalization, urban development, and technological advancement. A pioneer of creating digital worlds, Cao Fei transforms two galleries at the SCAD Museum of Art into an immersive multimedia installation featuring live-action films, as well as virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality environments for visitors to explore. Blurring distinctions between the terrestrial and the cyber, the familiar and the futuristic, Cao Fei reveals how the spaces we inhabit shape our identities and social interactions, and ultimately redirect our search for meaning and purpose in life.At the Edge of Superhumanity is organized by SCAD Museum of Art assistant curator Brittany Richmond and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024. -
Cao Fei: The Future is Not a Dream, Pinacoteca Contemporânea
2023.09.02 - 2024.04.14
“Cao Fei: the future is not a dream” is the Chinese artist's first solo show in Latin America and presents four sets of works with themes that analyze how the rapid social changes of the XNUMXst century, crossed by the intensive use of technologies, has been affecting subjectivity and human experiences.
The themes guiding the exhibition are: “Manufacturing and globalization”, “The past and present of the virtual world”, “Memories of socialism and sci-fi” and “Urbanization and dystopia”. The objective is to introduce Fei's production to the Brazilian public from works that explore media such as video, photography and installation.
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Cao Fei:Duotopia, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2023.04.28 - 2023.08.19
For over two decades, the work of Cao Fei has stood at the forefront of thinking around art, media, technology and futurity. Diverse in medium and approach, her projects explore facets of everyday existence mingled with the surreal and spectacular to tap into deep-seeded questions around what it means to be human in this ever-shifting twenty-first century. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Duotopia, a major exhibition by Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will transform all of the gallery's spaces and premiere several new works outside of China that delve into the metaverse, virtual reality and the interactions between human and machine consciousness.
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Sprüth Magers
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Cao Fei: Asia One, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2022.09.17 - 2023.02.19
Asia 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.
more info: Kunsthal Charlottenborg