A post-graduate student at the School of Fine Arts, Xiamen University, Chen Wei has attended several international and domestic exhibitions and arts festivals. “The relationship between freakish weather and extreme inside solitude (psychological change) is what I have been concerned about recently. The series of works presented here are the outcome and extension of my uncertain thinking about this issue. The tiny details which occurred when we participated in the exchange in Wales, including the abnormal April snowfall in Aberystwyth, the remark ‘winter came back yesterday’ by the guide in the National Library of Wales, and the topic of ‘Climate Change’ in Artes Mundi3, all offered opportunities to explore the issue. The works presented here are the outcome of my exploration; however, what they put forward is more like a question which has been left to be solved by myself and the visitors because for the time being it has no answer.”

1981  Born in Fujian Province, lives and works in Xiamen now

Academic Background

2000-2004  Art College of Xiamen University, BA in General Painting
2006-2009  Art College of Xiamen University, MA in Comprehensive Materials & Multi-media
2007  Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

On-site exchange

2008  Aberystwyth Art Center, Wales, UK

Exhibition

2008
“Encounter” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Program, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
“August in Art” International Art Biennial-Varna/Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria
World One Minute --Videos of Exactly 60 Seconds, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“Out of Place” Photography Exhibition, Art Genes Gallery, England, UK
“Celebrating the Red Dragon” onsite artistic change program, Aberystwyth Art Center, Wales, UK
“Imagining the Red Dragon” Welsh Art Exhibition, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China

2007
“Trunk” North European Video Arts Festival, Ostersund, Sweden
“Arts and Environment” Sino-Germany Culture and Arts Festival,  Xiamen Art Gallery, China
“Here & There” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Program, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
“Lichtfel D7” Modern Art Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
Academy Artworks Exhibition, Gallery of China Profiles, Xiamen, China
Painting/Alternative Painting Art Exhibition, W139 Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Here & There” Video Exhibition, Xiamen Art Gallery, China
4+1+1+1 Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China

2006
THE ONE MINUTES 2006 Biz-Art space Shanghai china
“Elevated World” Sino-Netherlands Art Cooperation Project, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
KUNSTVLAAI Biennial Exhibitio,  Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2005   
“The One Minute” International Video Festival,  Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Red Box Installation Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
“Follow the Red Carpet” Video Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China
Netherlands-Chinese Cultural Festival/Video Part, Stedelijk Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004
The 1st Panasonic Video Art Festival, Xiamen, China
Everyday Movie Video Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China

2003   
Chinese Art Academy Digital Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China .
Video Space Art Exhibition, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
South & North Pole Art Report Group Exhibition, Xiamen, China

Publications, collections and awards

2007
“An action duplicate of  weighing the pork on a scale in late July, 2007” was collected in the archive of Inward Gazes 2008: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macau Museum of Art
“Bicycle/Liquid Medicine/Cotton/CT Check Report” published in Art Observation, P.096, Issue 7 2008, the Academy of Arts of China
“The Car” and “Aircraft” published in World One Minutes Video & Literature, One Minute Foundation, Netherlands
“Attention” collected at www.10sec.org, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2007    
“Scenes-Corners” and “One Man and One Little Tree” published in This Is What It Is
“Angel” and “Untitled” published in Lichtfeld7, Switzerland

2005
“The Car”, Salto TV Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“The Car”, VPRO TV Station, Netherlands
“Angel” won Nominee Award at “The One Minute” International Video Festival/Documentary Part, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004   
“The Foot of a Wall” won Excellent Creativity Award at 1st Xiamen Youth Video Exhibition, Xiamen, China

2003   
“The Foot of a Wall” won Nominee Award at Chinese Art Academy Digital Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China

Participation & cooperation

2008  
“A Trip through Gallery Floors” Performance Art Program by Netherlands artist Mariëlle Videler, Beijing, China
Artes Mundi3 International Seminar on Climate Change, Wales, UK

2006
“Blow Out”  film program produced by Netherlands movie director Arnoud Noordegraaf, Xiamen, China
“Between the One” Exhibition, Swiss artist Sandar Kunz, Xiamen, China

2005   
Research team on Video Arts organized by Italian artist Alberto Demichele, Xiamen, China

2004   
Research team on Public Space Arts organized by German artist Helmut Dick, Xiamen, China


1. Video: <Winter Came Back Yesterday>

Dimension: determined by the projection distance of exhibition space Way of exhibition: projection on walls / projection onto three white walls (see the lower-right part of the picture above); maximize the equidistant projection when the image quality can be guaranteed; placed in a space with dim light with actual way of projection determined by the exhibition space Equipment: three projectors of the same type, three DVD players of the same type, three pairs of medium or small sized sound boxes with higher sound quality

2. Video: <Freezing >

Dimension: around 100cm X 100cm, floor exhibition space Way of Exhibition: A. TV playing video images; B. Place the image caption in a photo frame and put the frame on the right side of the TV (see the picture above) Equipments: one TV set (23”/Black/Simple design/4:3/DVD signals input), one DVD player, one large headset, one A3 wood photo frame

3. Video: <A Melting Diary>
Dimension: around 20cm X 25cm

Way of exhibition: image played by a small sized wall-mounted LED. Slides show relevant statistic content. Image center shown at 165-170cm distance to the floor/ vision horizon of an average height person

Equipment: one small sized LED or one digital photo frame (10”/White/Simple design/4:3/high definition /DVD signals input or can directly play jpg images), one DVD player

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