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A post-graduate student at the School of Fine Arts, Xiamen University, Chen Wei has attended several international and domestic exhibitions and arts festivals. “The relationship between freakish weather and extreme inside solitude (psychological change) is what I have been concerned about recently. The series of works presented here are the outcome and extension of my uncertain thinking about this issue. The tiny details which occurred when we participated in the exchange in Wales, including the abnormal April snowfall in Aberystwyth, the remark ‘winter came back yesterday’ by the guide in the National Library of Wales, and the topic of ‘Climate Change’ in Artes Mundi3, all offered opportunities to explore the issue. The works presented here are the outcome of my exploration; however, what they put forward is more like a question which has been left to be solved by myself and the visitors because for the time being it has no answer.”
1981 Born in Fujian Province, lives and works in Xiamen now
Academic Background
2000-2004 Art College of Xiamen University, BA in General Painting
2006-2009 Art College of Xiamen University, MA in Comprehensive Materials & Multi-media
2007 Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
On-site exchange
2008 Aberystwyth Art Center, Wales, UK
Exhibition
2008
“Encounter” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Program, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
“August in Art” International Art Biennial-Varna/Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria
World One Minute --Videos of Exactly 60 Seconds, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“Out of Place” Photography Exhibition, Art Genes Gallery, England, UK
“Celebrating the Red Dragon” onsite artistic change program, Aberystwyth Art Center, Wales, UK
“Imagining the Red Dragon” Welsh Art Exhibition, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China
2007
“Trunk” North European Video Arts Festival, Ostersund, Sweden
“Arts and Environment” Sino-Germany Culture and Arts Festival, Xiamen Art Gallery, China
“Here & There” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Program, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
“Lichtfel D7” Modern Art Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
Academy Artworks Exhibition, Gallery of China Profiles, Xiamen, China
Painting/Alternative Painting Art Exhibition, W139 Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Here & There” Video Exhibition, Xiamen Art Gallery, China
4+1+1+1 Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
2006
THE ONE MINUTES 2006 Biz-Art space Shanghai china
“Elevated World” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Project, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
KUNSTVLAAI Biennial Exhibitio, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2005
“The One Minute” International Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Red Box Installation Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
“Follow the Red Carpet” Video Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
Netherlands-Chinese Cultural Festival/Video Part, Stedelijk Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004
The 1st Panasonic Video Art Festival, Xiamen, China
Everyday Movie Video Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
2003
Chinese Art Academy Digital Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China .
Video Space Art Exhibition, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
South & North Pole Art Report Group Exhibition, Xiamen, China
Publications, collections and awards
2007
“An action duplicate of weighing the pork on a scale in late July, 2007” was collected in the archive of Inward Gazes 2008: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macau Museum of Art
“Bicycle/Liquid Medicine/Cotton/CT Check Report” published in Art Observation, P.096, Issue 7 2008, the Academy of Arts of China
“The Car” and “Aircraft” published in World One Minutes Video & Literature, One Minute Foundation, Netherlands
“Attention” collected at www.10sec.org, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007
“Scenes-Corners” and “One Man and One Little Tree” published in This Is What It Is
“Angel” and “Untitled” published in Lichtfeld7, Switzerland
2005
“The Car”, Salto TV Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“The Car”, VPRO TV Station, Netherlands
“Angel” won Nominee Award at “The One Minute” International Video Festival/Documentary Part, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004
“The Foot of a Wall” won Excellent Creativity Award at 1st Xiamen Youth Video Exhibition, Xiamen, China
2003
“The Foot of a Wall” won Nominee Award at Chinese Art Academy Digital Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
Participation & cooperation
2008
“A Trip through Gallery Floors” Performance Art Program by Netherlands artist Mariëlle Videler, Beijing, China
Artes Mundi3 International Seminar on Climate Change, Wales, UK
2006
“Blow Out” film program produced by Netherlands movie director Arnoud Noordegraaf, Xiamen, China
“Between the One” Exhibition, Swiss artist Sandar Kunz, Xiamen, China
2005
Research team on Video Arts organized by Italian artist Alberto Demichele, Xiamen, China
2004
Research team on Public Space Arts organized by German artist Helmut Dick, Xiamen, China
1. Video: <Winter Came Back Yesterday>
2. Video: <Freezing >
Dimension: around 100cm X 100cm, floor exhibition space
3. Video: <A Melting Diary>
Dimension: around 20cm X 25cm
Way of exhibition: image played by a small sized wall-mounted LED. Slides show relevant statistic content. Image center shown at 165-170cm distance to the floor/ vision horizon of an average height person
Equipment: one small sized LED or one digital photo frame (10”/White/Simple design/4:3/high definition /DVD signals input or can directly play jpg images), one DVD player
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