Founded in 2004 (Song Tao was born in 1979 and Jiweiyu was born in 1980). They both work and live in Shanghai.

BIRDHEAD is the duo (Song Tao&JiWeiyu) focused on photography, whose oeuvre consists of photographic images of daily life, personal hobbies and traveling. After developing, arranging and mounting, the snap-shot aesthetic of their extensive and accumulative photos constitute BIRDHEAD WORLD-series (approximately 10000 pictures a year). BIRDHEAD WORLD exists as exhibitions and also catalogues.

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Welcome to Birdhead World Again – Italy 2017, Gluck50, Milan (IT)

2016
Welcome to Birdhead World Again – Shanghai Meets Sils Maria, Andrea Robbi Museum, Sils Maria, Switzerland
Welcome to Birdhead World Again – Singapore 2016, ShanghART, Singapore
Welcome to Birdhead World Again – Shanghai 2016, FAB-UNION SPACE  on the West Bund, Shanghai
Birdhead-Art Unlimited Art Basel 2016, Booth Nr. U46, Basel, Switzerland
Birdhead – Welcome to Birdhead world again Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2015
Welcome to the World of Bird Head Again, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2014
Birdhead Solo Exhibition, Yifeng Galleria (Bottega Veneta), Shanghai

2012
Welcome to the World of Birdhead Again-London, Paradise Row Gallery,  London, U.K.

2011
Birdhead: New Village, EX3 Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Firenze, Florence, Italy
Artist File 2011 The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Welcome to the World of Birdhead Again-2010, Guangzhou; Lianzhou

2009
Birdhead: Ji Weiyu & Song Tao, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, U.K.

2008
Landscape, ShanghART F-Space, Shanghai

2007
Birdhead 2006+2007, BizArt, Shanghai

2005
Welcome to Bird Head World, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Mass Energy 1862 HBC Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shipyard 1862, Shanghai
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), The 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition of Three Shadows, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
When the Other Meets the Other Other, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Art Stage Singapore 2017, Birdhead Special Exhibition, Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Centre, Singapore
Living Cities, Tate Modern, London, UK

2016
The Crocodile in the Pond, 11 artists from ShanghART Gallery – Curated by Alexandra Grimmer, Museum Art St. Urban and Abbey St. Urban,  Luzern, Switzerland

2015
How to gather? Acting in a city in the heart of the island of Eurasia, the 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia

2013
Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Exhibition of Finalist Artists, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
ON|OFF, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing

2012
New Photography 2012, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.

2011
The 54th Venice Biennale——ILLUMInations, Venice, Italy

2010
China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy

2007
China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

2005
Double Vision, the 1st Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Culture Square Lianzhou, Lianzhou, Guangdong

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PUBLICATIONS

2012 – 13
The Light of eternity:  Birdhead, 310 Publishig

2010
The end of Mainland:  Birdhead, 310 Publishig

2007
Xincun: Birdhead, 310 Publishing

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PROJECTS

2017
Artists Talk:When the other meets the other Other?What matters? What not? The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2016
BIRDHEAD: Southeast Asia Residency Program, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
Welcome to Birdhead World Again, Gluck50 Residency Project, Gluck50, Milano

2013
Art on the Way, Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Subway Stations, Shanghai

2012
Xin Cun, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai

2011
Prevent 2012 – Doomsday Party, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai

2009
B.A.G. Art Project, ShanghART (M50), Shanghai

2008
Pre-order Birdhead 2006 Album, Shanghai

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PUBLIC A ND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The Margulies Collection, Miami, U.S.A
Wemhöner Collection, Germany
Tate, London, U.K.
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
MOMA New York, U.S.A
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland

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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2017
Flash Art, by Michele d’Aurizio, no. 333, May – June 2017
Mousse Magazine, featured on 5th May 2017
The Way Magazine, by Christian D’Antonio

2016
Birdhead x Flash Art (limited Edition) 50 editions Flash Art,  no. 307, Volume 49 – 2016, March – April 2016
Aimee Lin, A Bigger Photo, Art Review, December 2016, pp 76 – 81

2012
James T. Areddy, From Shangay, a Snapshot That Winks, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 2012
Birdhead with Charles Schultz, Brooklyn Rail, issue n. 10, Dec. 2012, pp. 22-24