Wei Wang

Wei Wang was born in the 80s, I developed my primary interest in painting at a young age and then diverted to study architecture and urban design in adult years in Beijing, Rotterdam and Oslo, where I worked, lived, and participated in urban research projects of China and Africa.

However, my childhood passion for art never waned, the spontaneous creation in installation, film, novel, poem, painting, and music is constant. The key pieces traveled by the domestic exhibitions in Beijing, Xi'an, Shenzhen, Xiamen, and many other Chinese cities. Amongst that, filming which was carried out from 20 becomes the central apparatus of my artistic career, this conclusion is Anacreontic especially when I make short films in Bangkok. I practice in diverse types of cinemas, experimental film, feature film, documentary, short, etc. the most recent work was screened in the 14th DMZ Film Festival in South Korea.

Besides art and research, travelling is the third important content in my play, covering all provinces in China, and most European countries, some areas of North America, Central America, South East Asia and Africa. The contrast between the cultures and nations, spanning the historical social and geographical factors always arouses my int...

2000-2005 Bachelor in Architecture Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing China
2006-2008 Master in Urbanism Delft University of Technology, Delft Holland
2015- 2024 Ph. D candidate in Landscape and Urbanism，Oslo school of Architecture and Design

2019.7 – 2020.2 “Xu Gong’s Test of Perception: Viewing Realm”, Xuaodi Village, Wenzhou
2019.8.3 – 8.25 “Xu Gong’s Test of Perception: Sensing Realm”*, Baizhuo Space, Xiamen
2019.10.13 – 11.28 “Asking the Mountains”, Localland – Bishan Cooperative, Xi’an
2019.10.16 – 11.16 “Sidewalk”, exhibited in The Exhibition of China’s Rural Art and Construction*, Shenzhen
2020.10.1 – 10.5 “Fayuan Temple Donut”, exhibited at *Beijing Design Week – Fayuan Temple Renewal Project*, Beijing
2022.4.29 – 5.15 Solo Exhibition “Concrete Events”, Beijing
2024.7.22 “The Time Our Ancestors Gave Us”, Yichun, Heilongjiang
2023-2025, The Silent Period (Screened in Beijing, Dali, Suzhou, Shenzhen, South Korea, and the United Kingdom)