HU Wei

Hu Wei, born in 1989 in Dalian, lives and works in Beijing, graduated from CAFA and obtained an MA at Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in NL. He works in a variety of media, including film making, installation, printed images, performance and drawing. His interest often begins with the seemingly unrelated elements between text and visual culture, exploring the multiple, speculative connections between art and reality in relation to both political and formal level through research, “translation” and imagination. His recent practice travels through different geo-contexts and “silencing” histories and materials, investigating the dynamics, fragmentation and synthetic alienation of human, non-human and material in the process of historical and natural transformation. Combined with moving image and essayistic aesthetics, his works also unfold the precarious relationship between invisible labor, affect, and value judgments in different political and economic environments.

His solo projects include: Touching A Fabric of Holes, Macalline Art Center, Beijing(2023); Affairs, DRC NO.12 Art Space, Beijing(2022); The Long Way Around, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing(2021); Proposal for Public Assembly/Encounter, Jimei Arles 2018, Xiamen(2018); Father: “Tomorrow, don’t act smart with the boss, find out what he wants first.”, Wyoming Project, Beijing(2018); Nothing Related, But Everything Is Concerned, TJCHINA Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico(2014)

Selected group exhibitions include: tone, Reflexion Gallery, Beijing (2024); Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction, Long March Space, Beijing(2023); In Solidarity with___ , OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Project, Shanghai(2022); Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial – Sounds as Silence, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou(2021); Reconnecting, Surplus Space, Wuhan(2021); Space Oddity, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe(2021); A Long Hello, UCCA, Beijing(2020); Study of Things, Times Museum, Guangzhou (2020); Sunset on a Dead End, Power Station of Art, Shnaghai(2019); Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart(2019); Array, Gallery Baton, Seoul(2019); Happy People, Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing(2019); Elegy: Five Desire Mechanisms of Nostalgia, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai(2019); etc.

He is the winner of East Asian Contemporary Art 2019 Prize, the nominee of HUAYU Youth Award 2020 and Jimei· Arles Discovery Prize 2018. Hu Wei has previously been an artist-in-residency in countries including Malaysia, South Korea, Portugal, the Netherlands and Mexico.

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (PSA), Shanghai
Hong Kong Videotage, Hong Kong, China
Macalline Art Center, Beijing
Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing