Ai Weiwei
Publications

Published by: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, 2012
With a text by Max Wechsler
Leporello, 10 pages
25 x 20 cm

The Documenta project reader

English
ISBN: 978-3-03764-210-8
Softcover, 160 x 230 mm
232 pages

Edited by:
Ai Weiwei

Collection:
DVDs by BDV
Published by JRP Ringier

Edition:
English
September 2010
ISBN: 978-3-03764-153-8
DVD, 135 x 190 mm
CHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35
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"Fairytale" is a documentary film by the well-known Chinese artist, architect, curator and documentary filmmaker Ai Weiwei. It documents his project "Fairytale" for Europe's most innovative five-year art event Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany in 2007: Ai Weiwei invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to Germany to experience their own fairytale for 28 days. "Fairytale" was judged one of the most sensational artworks at the Documenta 12.

The 152-minute film documents the whole process beginning with the preparations for the project, through the challenges that the participants had to face, up to the actual journey to Germany, as well as the artist’s ideas behind the work.

"This is a work I emotionally relate to. It grows and it surprised me."
—Ai Weiwei in Fairytale

Published by: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, 2007
With texts by Philip Tinari, Peter Pakesch and Charles Merewether
Softcover/paperbound, 217 pages
28.5 x 21.8 cm
ISBN: 978-3-905829-27-3

Published by Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, 2006
With a dialogue between Nataline Colonnello and Ai Weiwei
Folder with 50 loose sheets of paper
32 x 24 cm
ISBN: 988-99015-3-6

Published by: Timezone 8 Ltd, Beijing, 2003
With texts by Chin-Chin Yap, Charles Merewether and Jonathan Napack
Softcover/paperbound, 148 pages
26 x 22.5 cm
ISBN: 988-97262-8-9