http://www.caiguoqiang.com

Nuits électriques
Pont-du-Gard, France
Organized by Centre Pompidou, Paris
December 2008 - June 2009
Group exhibition featuring video documentation of explosion events and Drawing for Building Chinese Tower in Paris: Explosion Project for Chinese French Years
>> Centre Pompidou website



Academia. Qui es-tu?
La Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
September 10 - November 23, 2008
Group exhibition featuring Chun Qiu: Bygones. Project for the New Galleries of Suzhou Museum
>> Academia. Qui es-tu? exhibition website



Visionaire 55 SURPRISE
Fall 2008
Cai contributes to the pop-up issue
>> Visionaire website



New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond
Hong Kong Museum of Art, China
August 22 - October 26, 2008
Group exhibition
Featuring gunpowder drawings
>> New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond exhibition website



Wind Shadow
Pina Bausch Festival, Wuppertal, Germany
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Schauspielhaus Wuppertal
European premiere of the special collaboration between Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and Cai Guo-Qiang
>> Pina Bausch Festival Schedule



Prospect.1 New Orleans, USA
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Group exhibition
Featuring Fireworks from Heaven (see installation views at Berkeley Art Museum and Yokohama Triennial)
>> Prospect.1 New Orleans website



Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Opening Spring 2009
Solo exhibition (traveling retrospective from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
>> Guggenheim Bilbao website



The 7th Hiroshima Prize: Cai Guo-Qiang
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
October 25, 2008 - January 12, 2009
Solo exhibition
Featuring new works

Saturday, October 25th
1:00 p.m. Black Fireworks outdoor explosion event

Sunday, October 26th
1:00 p.m. Artist talk with Cai Guo-Qiang and postmodernist critic Akira Asada (Kyoto University of Art and Design)
3:00 p.m. Symposium with Cai Guo-Qiang, Akira Asada, architect Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA), and curator Akira Tatehata (National Museum of Art, Osaka), moderated by exhibition curator Yukie Kamiya

>> Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art website
>> Press release in English
>> Press release in Japanese



QMoCA: Quanzhou Museum of Contemporary Art
Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China
Opening Fall 2009
Architect: Norman Foster
A new installment of the Everything Is Museum series curated by Cai
>> Foster + Partners website
>> Everything Is Museum website