AI Weiwei

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is famous around the world. He builds bridges through art and has been fighting to create, maintain and grow passageways for communication almost all his life.

Ai Weiwei rarely writes anything that doesn’t resonate with the many volunteers who continue to support refugees. He also doesn’t address the bureaucratic hurdles, nor the political, tactical, and nationalistic considerations that prompt individuals and nations to adopt a critical stance towards people seeking asylum. That is not his role. Ai Weiwei is an artist. He is permitted and encouraged to use the means of art to shake mental boundaries and strive to open new worlds. (Feuilleton Scout, Barbara Hoppe) Ai Weiwei currently lives in Lisbon and United Kingdom.

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist, sculptor, and curator. The human rights activist and dissident was secretly imprisoned after making critical statements about the government and was barred from traveling until 2015. Ai Weiwei lives and works in Berlin (Germany), Cambridge (UK), and Lisbon (Portugal).