Cao Fei

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Cao Fei ( Chinese  曹 斐 ; * 1978 in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese media artist .

life and work

In 2001 she graduated from Guangzhou State Art Academy. In 2005 she received a grant from the German Federal Cultural Foundation . In 2006 she won the "Best Young Artist" award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA).

She links video art with 3D animations and also uses the possibilities of virtual reality worlds in Second Life . In performance, video film and photography she combines influences of global post-pop culture with traditional dance, theater and opera elements and depicts the social upheavals in China.

Selected Works

  • Rabid Dogs (2002, video, 9 min) portrays office workers disguised as dogs.
  • San Yuan Li (2003, 40 min) describes in a documentary way the search for poetic images in the small village "San Yuan Li", which is being swallowed up by the expanding city. This commissioned work for the 50th Venice Biennale was created together with the artist Ou Ning.
  • Cosplayers (2004, video, 8 min) shows young people who represent their favorite Japanese anime characters in front of surreal cityscapes in Guangzhou (formerly Canton) (see Cosplay ). Expressways, a canal, empty skeleton houses or an almost dried up river bed form the background of the scenes. In the end, the heroes sit in their fantastic costumes in cramped and poor apartments. The father in the undershirt watches TV and the daughter in the combat dress works on her cell phone. "Cosplayers" shows the gap between the generations and life in parallel worlds.
  • Dazhalan Project (2005/06, video, photography, sound installation, publication) In the three largest cities in China - Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou - Cao Fei and the artist Ou Ning show the changes in historically grown residential areas that are on the way to the modern seek to preserve their traditional construction and way of life.
  • Whose Utopia (2006, video installation)
  • Nu River (2007, video) shows the artist's trip to the country with friends and her encounters with locals, who are sometimes associated with arrogance. The actors operate the camera themselves, there is little staging, instead a lot of spontaneous improvisation and many everyday situations.
  • Hip Hop (several videos) confronts the media-oriented life of the younger generation with the everyday life of the parents' generation. The film was shot in different locations (in China, the USA, in Japan). A fruit seller, a worker or a police officer show the typical hip-hop gestures after they have been introduced to the rhythms and dance movements.
  • RMB City (2007, simulation) uses the possibilities of the game platform Second Life available on the Internet . Cao Fei has designed a utopian-Dadaist city and visits it in the form of her avatar "China Tracy". Interactive art exhibitions are held in RMB City.
  • iMirror (2007, video) was filmed entirely in the Internet game world "Second Life" from Cao Fei's avatar "China Tracy".

Selected exhibitions

  • In the shadow of the heroes at the 2nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2005
  • Participation in China - Between Past and Future , House of World Cultures , Berlin, 2006
  • total city. beijing case " (group exhibition), Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2006–2007
  • Participation in the 10th Istanbul Biennale , 2007
  • China Tracy Pavilion , at the 52nd Venice Biennale , 2007, installation, online project (second life), video
  • Brave New Worlds , Walker New York, 2007
  • RMB City , Lombard Freid Projects, New York, 2008
  • Cao Fei , Kunsthalle Nürnberg , 2008–2009
  • Chinese Whispers , Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern, 2016

Web links

Commons : BMW M6 GT3 Art Car by Cao Fei  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Cao Fei ( archive link checked on February 3, 2019) ( Memento from December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ bmw-motorsport.com/de from May 31, 2017, Cao Fei creates the first digital BMW Art Car. , accessed February 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chinese-whispers.ch
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cao is the family name here, Fei is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cao Fei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangzhou , People's Republic of China