ai weiwei
so sorry
12 okt 09 > 17 jan 10

opening
talks & music
11 okt 09 / so 12-20 h

12 h
chris dercon / welcome
roger m. buergel / intro

14 h
artist’s talk
ai weiwei talks to collector uli sigg and chris dercon, director of haus der kunst

16 h
curating architecture
sit-ins with ai weiwei and architects minsuk cho (korea), milica topalovic (serbia), srdjan jovanovic weiss (serbia), eyal weizman (israel) and ines weizman (germany)
ai weiwei planned and built his house and studio on the outskirts of beijing in 1999 – without previous experience as an architect. to his surprise, it marked the beginning of, in the meantime over 60, buildings – e.g. the national stadium in beijing that ai weiwei conceived of together with the swiss architects herzog & de meuron for the olympic games in 2008. meanwhile, ai weiwei and his architectural office fake design restrict themselves to the curating of architecture. for his project ‘ordos 100’ he developed a master plan for 100 houses on the periphery of the town ordos in the mongolian desert. in order to find an architect for each of these, he asked herzog & de meuron for a list with 100 architectural practices. since then 100 detailed designs are available, of which five were chosen; the architects of these projects were invited to munich for the opening of this exhibition. by participating in the ordos project, they are not only part of ai weiwei’s work, but, much as the artist himself, also critical and political creators of culture.

17.30 h
ai weiwei will sign posters, cards, t-shirts etc.

dj
karl bruckmaier
nachtmix, bayerischer rundfunk

18 h
in concert: zuoxiao zuzhou
zuoxiao zuzhou (*1970) is one of the most diverse and, in the meanwhile, also most influential musicians in china. in the 1990s, he co-founded the ‘beijing east village’, an avant-gardistic community of artists in Beijing; ai weiwei was significantly involved in its continued development as the most important location for contemporary art today. zuoxiao zuzhou experiments with very different styles in music. his musical spectrum moves from ballads to noise, whereby he also includes elements of traditional Chinese culture into his songs.

free entry

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