NI WEIHUA

Ni Weihua (born 1962, Shanghai) is a contemporary artist with experimental spirit and critical consciousness. He has drawn considerable interest from the Chinese art and cultural circles since the beginning of 1990s with his large-scale performance art series Continuously Spreading Event -Red Boxes and Posters. His early works of art engaged with the linguistic context of contemporary social life through the strategy of “intertextuality,” casting his witty and ironic comment on the industrialized modern soci-ety that China was developing into. During the middle of the 1990s, Ni created an installation series entitled Fine Arts: A Legal Existence of the Term and Its Object and afterwards collaborated with Wang Jiahao on a conceptual series entitled Linear Cities. Both works explored the boundary of art and experimented with new ways of art making, with which he became recognized as one of the representative contemporary artists of the 1990s in China. Since 1998, Ni has worked with photography and most recently video, documenting and deconstructing the dominance of official propaganda and commercial advertisement in urban public spaces through his Keywords and Landscape Wall series.

Selected Solo Exhibition: Neo-expressionism----’89 Ni Weihua Exhibition of Paint-ings（1989，Shanghai); Key Words “Development” and “Harmony” （2008，Beijing); Landscape Wall: The Chinese Reality Through Different Angle of View（2012， Shanghai）

Selected Group Exhibition: Art Works of Wang Nanming and Ni Weihua/The Symposium on Contemporary Shanghai Art（1992，Beijing); China Contemporary Art Documents Exhibition（1993，Guangzhou & 1994，Shanghai); The First Guangzhou Triennial（2002，Guangzhou）; “Inward Gazes----Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art”（2005，Macau); Lianzhou International Photography Festival （2010,2012,2014，Lianzhou）; 1st Beijing Photo Biennial（2013，Beijing）; 5th Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism\Architecture（2013，Shenzhen）; Marrakech Biennial 5 （2014，Marrakech，Morocco）; “China Art in Brazil”（2014，Sao Paulo, Brazil）; 56th Venice Biennale（Collateral Events）.