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Ai Weiwei

Geburtstag:28. August 1957

Ai Weiwei ist ein chinesischer Konzeptkünstler, Bildhauer und Kurator. Er ist der Sohn des Dichters und Malers Ai Qing und Halbbruder des Malers Ai Xuan.

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„Ich meine, wenn wir aufgeben, dann sind wir Teil des Verbrechens." Interview, Kurier im Dezember 2011, online“

— Ai Weiwei

„If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?“

— Ai Weiwei

„Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.“

— Ai Weiwei

„I was in jail 81 days, but after 20 days my brain became completely empty; you need information to stay alive. When there’s no information you’re already dead. It’s a very, very strong test – I think more severe than any physical punishment.
All I wanted was a dictionary, even the simplest one.“

— Ai Weiwei
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„The natural desire to save a cat is what it means to be a citizen.“

— Ai Weiwei

„When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.“

— Ai Weiwei

„An artwork unable to make people feel uncomfortable or to feel different is not one worth creating. This is the difference between the artist and the fool.“

— Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

„I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.“

— Ai Weiwei

„At different times I've worked in different mediums. For me, the variation is not an artistic judgment, but a necessary choice. It's just as normal to eat with chopsticks, as it is to eat with forks or hands. Different circumstances call for different tools. I try to express ideas with the most appropriate available materials and forms. Very often the medium comes first, and then my reasons for it. Sometimes, I work with a medium I don't like out of curiosity. It is an experiment to challenge my pre-existing concepts and tastes. I've taken hundreds and thousands of photographs, and it's not because I like the medium. I wanted something to parallel my daily activities, and photography is the most logical way of doing that. I filmed documentaries because the medium reflects real conditions the most completely. I don't think artists should only work with what is handiest and most familiar, because the unfamiliar provides a challenge, and it creates another language. It defines the condition for new possibilities.“

— Ai Weiwei

„When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.“

— Ai Weiwei

„A name is the first and final marker of individual rights, one fixed part of the ever changing human world. A name is the most basic characteristic of our human rights: no matter how poor or how rich: all living people have a name and it is endowed with good wishes, the expectant blessings of kindness and blessings.“

— Ai Weiwei

„We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.“

— Ai Weiwei

„The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself“

— Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

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