Tao Hui

Tao Hui Tao Hui

Tao Hui

Born in 1987 in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
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Exhibition view: Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2019). Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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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Money Grab Hand, 2024
Cast glass
14 x 4 x 4 cm each approx.
Edition of 3
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Tao Hui
Seeing, 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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Mandala, 2023
Glitter

110 x 110 cm
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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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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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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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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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Double Talk, 2018

Two-channel HD video (color, sound)
Duration: 23:44 min
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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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From Sichuan to Shenzhen, 2017
Sound installation
Duration: 13:29 min
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3
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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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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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The Acting Tutorial, 2014

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

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

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

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

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, Hong Kong
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Featured stories

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Tao Hui’s Prophetic Multimedia Poetry

Ocula
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News

Tao Hui’s “In the Land Beyond Living”

ArtAsiaPacific
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Summer ’22
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
Tao Hui nominated for the 2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award
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
Body, Identity, Performance: Films by Tao Hui and Monira Al Qadiri
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
Every You Every Me: Tao Hui
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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
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
Artist Discussion with Tao Hui
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
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
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
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Tao Hui
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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
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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

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