Fei Dawei
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Fei Dawei, currently Vice-president of the ‘798’ art district expert committee in Beijing, China, graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts with a BA, majoring in History of Art, and received an MA (majoring in History of Art) from the Université Paris VIII in France.
After being awarded a Chercheur Libre research grant by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he moved permanently to France, acquiring French nationality. Since 2000, he works and lives alternatively in both France and China.
Between 2002 and 2008 he worked as Director of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation. In this time he set up and managed the most important and internationally recognized collection of Chinese contemporary art in the world, as well as planning and establishing the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing 789 Zone.
He has acted as Chief Curator in numerous exhibitions, including the 1990 Chine demain pour hier exhibition in Pourriéres, France, the 1991 Exceptional Passage exhibition in Fukuoka, Japan, the 1994 Promenade in Asia exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, the 1995 Asiana exhibition during the Biennale di Venezia, Italy, the 2004 All Under Heaven exhibition with the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwepen (MuHKA) and the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) in Antwerp, Belgium and the 2007 ’85 New Wave inaugural exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China.
