Tao Hui Tao Hui

Tao Hui

Born in 1987 in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
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Exhibition view: Tao Hui, In the Land Beyond Living, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2025. Photo © Tai Kwun Contemporary

Introduction

Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. 

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Selected works

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Tao Hui
Chilling Terror Sweeps the North, 2024
Two-channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 26:55 min
Dimensions variable
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Tao Hui
Money Grab Hand, 2024
Cast glass
14 x 4 x 4 cm each approx.
Edition of 3
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Tao Hui
Breath Held in the Breeze, 2023
Single channel HD video (color, sound)
Dimensions variable
Duration: 3:52 min
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Tao Hui
KSANA, 2023
Water-based pigment on shell paper

50 x 60 cm (unframed)
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Tao Hui
Pagoda, 2023
Water-based pigment on shell paper

50 x 60 cm (unframed)
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Tao Hui
Mandala, 2023
Glitter

110 x 110 cm
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Tao Hui
Hardworking, 2023
HD video projected on customized slanted and curved wooden screen
320 x 180 cm (screen)
Duration: 12:43 min
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Tao Hui
The Night of Peacemaking, 2022
Single channel HD video installation
Dimensions variable
Duration: 22:18 min
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Tao Hui
The Fall (Green), 2022
Silica gel, fiber glass, metal, paint

65 x 95 x 22 cm
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Tao Hui
Untitled (holographic building 06), 2022
Hologram, glass

25 x 20 cm
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Tao Hui
Untitled (holographic building 07), 2022
Hologram, glass

25 x 20 cm
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Tao Hui
Being Wild, 2021

Single channel video (color, sound)

Duration: 12:03 min
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Tao Hui
Screen as Display Body, 2019

4 LED screens, trolley
91 x 125 x 60 cm
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Tao Hui
Double Talk, 2018

Two-channel HD video (color, sound)
Duration: 23:44 min
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Tao Hui
The Tangible Ones, 2018

Holographic fan projection (color, sound)
65 x 65 x 8,6 cm (fan projector)
Installation dimensions variable
Duration: 10:36 min
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Tao Hui
Hello, finale!, 2017

9 channel HD video installation (color, sound)
Duration: 38:13 min
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Tao Hui
From Sichuan to Shenzhen, 2017
Sound installation
Duration: 13:29 min
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3
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Tao Hui
Excessive, 2015

HD video (color, sound), glass, projector, silica gel, iron, wood
118 x 62,5 x 40 cm (table with projection box)
Duration 19:32 min
Projection screen variable
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Tao Hui
The Acting Tutorial, 2014
Fine Art Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper mounted on Alu-Dibond
93,1 x 120 cm
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Tao Hui
The Acting Tutorial, 2014

Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 16:43 min
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Tao Hui
The Dusk of Teheran, 2014

Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 4:14 min
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Tao Hui
Talk About Body, 2013

Video (color, sound)
Duration 03:45 min
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Tao Hui
Mongolism, 2010

Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 30:01 min

Gallery Exhibitions

We, Entertainment Tao Hui

We, Entertainment

Tao Hui
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce We, Entertainment, Tao Hui’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view will be two video installations, a sculpture, and paintings. Tao Hui is best known...
December 15, 2023—January 27, 2024
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Summer '22 With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui

Summer '22

With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer ’22, a group exhibition with works by Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.
July 21—August 27, 2022
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Esther Schipper is pleased to bring together works by Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Christoph Keller has been with the gallery since 1997; Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui joined our...
June 27—August 17, 2019
Esther Schipper, Berlin
The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean

The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean

Esther Schipper is pleased to present The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean, a group exhibition with works by Pak Sheung Chuen, IM Heung-soon, Tao Hui, Minjung Kim and Prabhavathi Meppayil and curated by...
January 20—February 25, 2017

External Exhibitions

St.Moritz Art Film Festival 2025 With Tao Hui

St.Moritz Art Film Festival 2025

With Tao Hui
Tao Hui has been invited to show Breath Held in the Breeze, 2023 at the St. Moritz Art Film Festival in August. Further information
August 21—24, 2025
St.Moritz
In the Land Beyond Living Tao Hui

In the Land Beyond Living

Tao Hui
Realism and fiction blur in the otherworldly realm that is In the Land Beyond Living, opening up new angles from which to contemplate contemporary society in China and the human condition at...
September 26, 2024—February 2, 2025
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Shanghai Biennale 2023 With Liam Gillick and Tao Hui

Shanghai Biennale 2023

With Liam Gillick and Tao Hui
2023 Shanghai Biennale With Liam Gillick and Tao Hui Power Station Of Art No.678 Miaojiang Road Huangpu District, Shanghai November 9, 2023 – March 31, 2024 www.powerstationofart.com
November 9, 2023—March 31, 2024
Power Station Of Art, Shanghai
Being Wild Tao Hui

Being Wild

Tao Hui
CAC Málaga presents the European premiere of Tao Hui's 2021 video Being Wild.
August 1—October 31, 2023
CAC Málaga
Speakers in The Square Tao Hui

Speakers in The Square

Tao Hui
Tao Hui’s new commission, Speakers in The Square, is at The Chapel of Sound, Aranya Jinshanling, until 14 May, 2023.
October 26, 2022—May 14, 2023
The Chapel of Sound, Aranya Jinshanling
an exploded lizard's tail

Searing Pain

Tao Hui
Aranya Art Center is pleased to present Searing Pain, Chinese artist Tao Hui’s first comprehensive solo museum exhibition. Searing Pain surveys the first decade of Tao’s career, focusing on his groundbreaking videos...
September 4, 2022—February 26, 2023
Aranya Art Center, Hebei Province
LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing With Simon Fujiwara and Tao Hui

LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing

With Simon Fujiwara and Tao Hui
U2 by UCCA, in partnership with Centre D'art Contemporain Genève, present a large-scale biennale project in Beijing – LOVELOVELOVE Biennial of Moving Images, Beijing.
July 7—December 25, 2022
U2 by UCCA, Beijing
An Opera for Animals with Tao Hui

An Opera for Animals

with Tao Hui
An Opera for Animals, curated by Cosmin Costinas and Claire Shea, explores the way in which the future is now projected less as the rational thinking commonly remembered from the post-war era...
March 23—June 9, 2019
Para Site, Hong Kong
Hugo Boss Asia Art 2017 with Tao Hui

Hugo Boss Asia Art 2017

with Tao Hui
HUGO BOSS ASIA ART: Award for Emerging Asian Artists opened early today at Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai, presents artworks by the four finalist artists, including Tao Hui. Following the success...
October 27, 2017—February 11, 2018
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
New Directions Tao Hui

New Directions

Tao Hui
Drawing from folklore and films of his childhood, Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations bending boundaries of fiction and reality. From August 2015,the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) present New Directions: Tao...
August 21—October 19, 2015
UCCA, Beijing

Featured stories

Tao Hui’s Prophetic Multimedia Poetry Ocula
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Tao Hui’s Prophetic Multimedia Poetry

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Tao Hui’s “In the Land Beyond Living” ArtAsiaPacific
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Tao Hui’s “In the Land Beyond Living”

ArtAsiaPacific
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Summer ’22
Exhibitions

Summer ’22

This summer Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer '22, an exhibition of works from Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.
July 21 – August 27, 2022
Tao Hui nominated for the 2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award
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Tao Hui nominated for the 2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award

Esther Schipper congratulates Tao Hui, nominated for the 2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award. Established by the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, the prize recognizes outstanding photographic work from a Chinese...
November 26, 2021 – January 3, 2022
Body, Identity, Performance: Films by Tao Hui and Monira Al Qadiri
Events

Body, Identity, Performance: Films by Tao Hui and Monira Al Qadiri

Film screening with Tao Hui Bi’bak, Berlin October 8, 2020, 8 pm Tickets available here
October 8, 2020, 8 pm
Every You Every Me: Tao Hui
News

Every You Every Me: Tao Hui

Tao Hui featured in Mousse 71 in an article written by Alvin Li. Read the full article here
Artist Talk with Tao Hui
Events

Artist Talk with Tao Hui

Tao Hui in conversation with Marko Daniel Director, Fundació Joan Miró Almanac Barcelona Hotel
November 21, 2019, 10 am
Artist Discussion with Tao Hui
Lectures

Artist Discussion with Tao Hui

The migration phenomenon is reflected in two aspects in China: urban and rural population movement; convection between foreign population and Chinese population. In Assemblage, Xia Yanguo invites five artists including Tao Hui,...
June 12, 2019, 2-5 pm
Tao Hui shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize
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Tao Hui shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize

Esther Schipper congratulates Tao Hui, shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize. Established by M+ in Hong Kong, the prize recognizes outstanding artistic practice in the Greater China region. The six shortlisted artists...
An Opera for Animals with Tao Hui
Exhibitions

An Opera for Animals with Tao Hui

An Opera for Animals, curated by Cosmin Costinas and Claire Shea, explores the way in which the future is now projected less as the rational thinking commonly remembered from the post-war era...
March 23 – June 9, 2019
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Tao Hui
News

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Tao Hui

Tao Hui was born in 1987 in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. He lives and works in Beijing. Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural...
March 15, 2019

Publications

Tao Hui New Directions

Tao Hui

New Directions
New Directions is an ongoing series of project-based exhibitions by young artists from Greater China. Planned for an initial run of ten periodic installments, the series offers a platform for artists to...
2017