Chen wei

the work of the 29-year-old artist incorporates influential objects and happenings from childhood or fantasies, fragments of personal memories, imagined against the realities found in modern china.

The photographer meticulously stages nightclub scenes in an exploration of freedom and fear

From Leo Xu Projects, Chen Wei, The Door (2014), Archival inkjet print, 150 × 187.5 cm

In Chen Wei's moody night scenes, the party's over and everyone has gone home. A couple of disco balls have crashed to the floor looking like globes of planets built and populated by robots. In two other images, empty imported and native Chinese beer bottles mix listlessly around a bar top, and the neon...

“After Party: Collective Dance and Individual Gymnastics” originates from Roland Barthes’ notes from his visit to China in 1974. This exhibition displays the works of five artists, Chen Wei, Hao Jingban, Hu Weiyi, Jen Liu and Lu Yang. Through the interpretation of different terpsichorean forms, bodies and cultures, the featured works attempt to reveal the […]

Contemporary Chinese artists demonstrate a consideration of censorship in the wider industry, offering figurative and metaphorical messages.

Rubell Museum, one of the biggest private contemporary art collection in North America

Chen Wei (Chinese, b. 1980), The Dusty Road, 2010-13. Oil on canvas, 27 x 30 cm.

Farmers are busiest in the fields during the autumn harvest season. The Dong villages of Qiandongnan, Guizhou Province, dry glutinous rice on wooden racks, creating a picturesque sight. When you walk into a Dong village in Guizhou, you will see many tall wooden racks, which are called He Liang (禾晾 in Chinese), a unique wooden rack for drying grain ears in the Dong areas. Pic by Chen Wei Zhong