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The Met Fifth Avenue

New York

2026년 9월 17일–2027년 6월 8일

Facade of The Met Fifth Avenue

New York, New York

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Beijing-based artist Liu Wei (born 1972) will inspire visitors to ponder cycles of rupture and resistance for The Genesis Facade Commission in 2026. Known for monumental sculptural installations that evoke awe and a sense of urgency, Liu will create four large-scale sculptures for The Met’s Fifth Avenue exterior. Using a variety of materials and remixing familiar motifs—fragments from the urban environment, historical sources, and bodily forms—Liu Wei invites contemplation, surprise, and revelation to pierce through our perceptions of reality with a blend of rawness and refinement.

A key figure of a generation of artists from China who sought to define “conceptual art” on their own terms, Liu Wei has addressed realities of our time through a wide range of media, from photography and painting, to video, sculpture, and installation, since the late 1990s. He has developed a body of work that challenges art historical cliches across forms and styles and is known for his impressive command of sites and scale.

“For this commission, Liu Wei will use his dynamic language of reconfiguration and assemblage to address conflicts and contradictions in society. For me, his work always compellingly pierces through perceptions of reality with a blend of rawness and refinement. I look forward to seeing how he challenges our expectations for the classical niches and for public sculptures.” —Lesley Ma, Ming Chu Hsu and Daniel Xu Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met

Exterior of the Met Museum

“To dialogue with the tremendous legacy of human civilization through The Met’s Genesis Facade Commission makes me so excited and anxious. What a challenge and a blessing.” —Liu Wei

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Portrait of Liu Wei

Liu Wei (b. 1972, Beijing, China; lives and works in Beijing, China) explores 21st-century socio-political concepts such as the contradictions of contemporary society and the transformation of developing cities and the urban landscape. In many of his sculptural and installation works, he uses found materials that are re-contextualized to draw new meanings out of the materials from which they are made. Liu Wei frequently uses geometric and architectural forms in his work as a reference to his urban surroundings.

Liu Wei graduated from the China Academy of Art in 1996. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Long Museum, Shanghai, China (2020); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2019); PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2016); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China (2015); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2014); and Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2011).

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