design miami 08: art projects - ai weiwei and olaf breuning

this is the swiss architects and contemporary chinese artist's first collaborative built structure in the UK. their proposal will take visitors beneath the serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of the site...

this thematic exhibition is a survey of design projects which question the contemporary definition of design and challenging the myth of the designer. it does not focus on aesthetics, but rather looks at how desig...

the first large exhibition and book project of ai weiwei's photography and video, bringing forth the artist's diversity and complexity, his ability to 'interlace' and network.

in his most recent series, the arists adopts his now-famous gravity defying poses, commenting on landscape, religion and love using only performance art and photography.

the performance art and installation project involves the artist hand-stitching pieces of fabric together under a looming cloud of suspended chinese scissors.

this work is supposed to be a comment on modern society, as if we are like the passengers of the titanic, but the actors in zhang's depiction remain calm, as if to say our society is trying to pretend that life-thre...