7 April – 30 July 2023
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense is the artist’s first exhibition focusing on design and architecture, displaying unseen works. Hundreds of thousands of objects are laid out over five expansive ‘fields’. The field works are: Still Life, displaying 4,000 tools from the stone age; Left Right Studio Material, displaying the remains of Ai’s sculptures from his ‘Left Right’ studio in Beijing; Sprouts, 250,000 hand crafted porcelain spouts form the Song dynasty; Untitled (Porcelain Balls), around 200,000 cannon balls also from the Song dynasty; Untitled (Lego Incident), lego pieces donated by the public. Other works on display by Ai include Water Lilies #1, a 15m high re-creation of French Impressionist Claude Monet’s famous painting, made from almost 650,000 lego pieces Photo Ed Reeve. Design Museum
