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Ai Weiwei

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  • Producer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Ai Weiwei in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
Trailer for Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)
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Ai Weiwei is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today's geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: Ai Weiwei: Resetting Memories at MARCO in Monterrey, Ai Weiwei: Bare Life at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum in St. Louis, Ai Weiwei at the K20/K21 in Dusseldorf, and Good Fences Make Good Neighbors with the Public Art Fund in New York City.

Ai was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides and works in Berlin. Ai is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation.
BornAugust 28, 1957
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BornAugust 28, 1957
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    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 23 nominations total

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    Known for

    Vivos (2020)
    Vivos
    6.9
    • Director
    • 2020
    Human Flow (2017)
    Human Flow
    7.2
    • Director
    • 2017
    Coronation (2020)
    Coronation
    6.4
    • Director
    • 2020
    The Rest (2019)
    The Rest
    6.7
    • Director
    • 2019

    Credits

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    Director



    • Animality (2025)
      Animality
      • Director
      • 2025
    • Rohingya (2021)
      Rohingya
      4.8
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Cockroach (2020)
      Cockroach
      7.3
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Coronation (2020)
      Coronation
      6.4
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Vivos (2020)
      Vivos
      6.9
      • Director
      • 2020
    • The Rest (2019)
      The Rest
      6.7
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Human Flow (2017)
      Human Flow
      7.2
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50 (2014)
      Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50
      7.8
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Stay Home
      6.0
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Ping'an yueqing
      7.3
      • Director
      • 2013
    • The Mala Desert
      6.2
      Video
      • Director
      • 2012
    • The Crab House
      Video
      • Director
      • 2012
    • So Sorry
      6.6
      • Director
      • 2012
    • Ordos 100 (2012)
      Ordos 100
      6.3
      • Director
      • 2012
    • One Recluse
      6.3
      • Director
      • 2010

    Producer



    • Animality (2025)
      Animality
      • producer
      • 2025
    • Rohingya (2021)
      Rohingya
      4.8
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Cockroach (2020)
      Cockroach
      7.3
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Coronation (2020)
      Coronation
      6.4
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Vivos (2020)
      Vivos
      6.9
      • producer
      • 2020
    • The Rest (2019)
      The Rest
      6.7
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Ximei (2019)
      Ximei
      7.0
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • Human Flow (2017)
      Human Flow
      7.2
      • producer
      • 2017
    • Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50 (2014)
      Ai Weiwei's Appeal ¥15,220,910.50
      7.8
      • producer
      • 2014
    • Ping'an yueqing
      7.3
      • producer
      • 2013
    • The Mala Desert
      6.2
      Video
      • producer
      • 2012
    • The Crab House
      Video
      • producer
      • 2012
    • So Sorry
      6.6
      • producer
      • 2012
    • Ordos 100 (2012)
      Ordos 100
      6.3
      • producer
      • 2012
    • One Recluse
      6.3
      • producer
      • 2010

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Wen Jiang in Bei Jing ren zai Niu Yue (1993)
      Bei Jing ren zai Niu Yue
      7.8
      TV Series
      • assistant director
      • 1993

    Videos7

    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Clip 1:23
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Clip 1:39
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Clip 1:39
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    No. 1
    Trailer 2:29
    No. 1
    U.S. Version
    Trailer 3:32
    U.S. Version
    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
    Trailer 1:43
    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
    Trailer 2:17
    Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

    Personal details

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    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Alternative name
      • Ai Wei Wei
    • Born
      • August 28, 1957
      • Beijing, China
    • Spouse
      • Lu Qing? - present
    • Other works
      Book: Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009. Translated by Lee Ambrozy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN-10: 0-262-01521-8
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Biographical Movie
      • 1 Interview
      • 2 Articles

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      Lived in the US from 1981 to 1993.
    • Quotes
      What surprises me is that this society, which is developing at such a rapid rate today, still has the most barbaric and backward legal system. I think it's a bad omen.

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