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FAURSCHOU FOUNDATION COPENHAGEN AI WEIWEI

Faurschou Foundation is happy to announce that the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Ruptures’ in Copenhagen will be prolonged until April 15, 2016.

Faurschou Foundation’s major exhibition in 2015 featured the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (1957). Over the past few years, as the title ‘Ruptures’ indicates, Ai Weiwei’s life and artistic work have been marked a great deal by interruptions and upheavals, not least because of his forthright criticism of the Chinese regime, and the authorities’ subsequent detention of him for 81 days in 2011, followed by a period of house arrest.

Ai Weiwei’s life hasn’t been any less eventful in the past year. In July he finally got his passport back after four years and is now able to travel freely, although he is still under surveillance at his Beijing studio. After his newfound freedom, he has travelled to London where his successful solo exhibition opened at The Royal Academy of Arts, and to Germany to take up a teaching post at the Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin. In the last months he has made himself noticed by creating a number of LEGO collection points worldwide after LEGO rejected a bulk order for a political artwork at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

Faurschou Foundation also had the great pleasure of welcoming Ai Weiwei to the foundation in November, where he saw the exhibition for the first time in real life. Ai Weiwei was delighted about it and especially enjoyed seeing his two main works ‘Sunflower Seeds’ and ‘Straight’ being exhibited together for the first time.

Due to the publicity of Ai Weiwei and the actuality of the exhibition, we have experienced an increasing number of visitors. With the prolongation of the exhibition we are pleased to give even more people the opportunity to see the exhibition at Faurschou Foundation Copenhagen. We are looking forward to an eventful and exciting year 2016 with you.

Installation view of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Ruptures’, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, 2015. | © Faurschou Foundation | Photo by Anders Sune Berg

Installation view of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Ruptures’, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, 2015. | © Faurschou Foundation | Photo by Anders Sune Berg

  • Installation view of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Ruptures’, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, 2015. | © Faurschou Foundation | Photo by Anders Sune Berg

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