Tao Hui

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Exhibition view: Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2019). Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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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

Tao Hui

The Night of Peacemaking, 2022

Single channel HD video installation

Dimensions variable
Duration: 22:18 min

Tao Hui

The Fall (Green), 2022

Silica gel, fiber glass, metal, paint

65 x 95 x 22 cm

Tao Hui

Untitled (holographic building 06), 2022

Hologram, glass

25 x 20 cm

Tao Hui

Untitled (holographic building 07), 2022

Hologram, glass

25 x 20 cm

Tao Hui

Being Wild, 2021

Single channel video (color, sound)

Duration: 12:03 min

Tao Hui

Screen as Display Body, 2019

4 LED screens, trolley
91 x 125 x 60 cm

Tao Hui

Double Talk, 2018

Two-channel HD video (color, sound)
Duration: 23:44 min

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

Tao Hui

Hello, finale!, 2017

9 channel HD video installation (color, sound)
Duration: 38:13 min

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

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

Tao Hui

The Acting Tutorial, 2014

Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 16:43 min

Tao Hui

The Dusk of Teheran, 2014

Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 4:14 min

Tao Hui

Talk About Body, 2013

Video (color, sound)
Duration 03:45 min

Tao Hui

Mongolism, 2010

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

Gallery Exhibitions

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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

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

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

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Part of LOOP Festival 2023

Screen as Display Body

Tao Hui

Screen as Display Body consists of four LED screens mounted on a trolley. Each broadcasts a single color: red, blue, green, and white. The work refers to the RGB color model, used...

November 14—24, 2023

EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS

Shanghai Biennale 2023

With Liam Gillick and Tao

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

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

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

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

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, 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: 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

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

Esther Schipper

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

Jimei Citizen Square Main Exhibition Hall and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen

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

Bi’bak, Berlin

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

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

Almanac Barcelona Hotel

Artist Talk with Tao Hui

Tao Hui in conversation with Marko Daniel Director, Fundació Joan Miró Almanac Barcelona Hotel

November 21, 2019, 10 am

Goethe Institut, Beijing

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

News

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...

Para Site, Hong Kong

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

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

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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