Cao Fei Brings Smart Agriculture Research to Fondazione Prada Milan with Day of Talks and Screenings
On Sunday, 20 September, Cao Fei will return to Fondazione Prada in Milan for a day focused on her research, just prior to the closing of her exhibition, Dash, on 28 September. She will host three events: a guided tour at 15:00, a film screening at Cinema Godard at 16:30, and a public discussion at 18:30 featuring Katya Inozemtseva and Cornelia Mattiacci. Opened on 9 April, Dash examines smart agriculture through multimedia, highlighting the role of technology in farming. The installation features a granary, a workstation, and a new film that captures interactions between farmers and machines. Born in Guangzhou in 1978, Cao Fei has exhibited worldwide and earned numerous accolades, including the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2021.
Key facts
- Cao Fei appears at Fondazione Prada in Milan on Sunday, 20 September for a guided visit at 15:00, a Cinema Godard screening at 16:30 and a public talk at 18:30.
- The talk features Katya Inozemtseva, Head of Curatorial Department at Fondazione Prada, and curator Cornelia Mattiacci.
- Dash remains on view at Fondazione Prada until 28 September, having opened on 9 April across both floors of the Podium.
- The project results from about three years of research in rural southern and northwestern China and Southeast Asia on smart agriculture.
- Cao Fei followed Guangzhou agricultural robotics company XAG and its technology use in Chinese and Southeast Asian enterprises.
- The Cinema Godard #Studio screening presents Whose Utopia? (2006), i.Mirror (2007) and Asia One (2018).
- The Birth is a three-channel video installation on drones in Southeast Asian farming; Dash-180c is a virtual reality work from a decommissioned drone's viewpoint.
- Cao Fei, born in Guangzhou in 1978 and based in Beijing, received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2021, the SCAD deFINE ART Award in 2024 and was named Established Artist Medalist at the 2025 Art Basel Awards.
Entities
Artists
- Cao Fei
- Katya Inozemtseva
- Cornelia Mattiacci
- Marta Marinotti
- Federico Floriani
- Peng Jing
- Xiang Gao
- China Tracy
Institutions
- Fondazione Prada
- Cinema Godard
- XAG
- Small Production
- Vitamin Creative Space
- Sprüth Magers
- MoMA
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Tate Modern
- Centre Pompidou
- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
- MAXXI
- Kunsthal Charlottenborg
- Pinacoteca Contemporânea
- Lenbachhaus
- Museum of Art Pudong
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- MALBA
- Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
- Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
- SCAD deFINE ART Award
- Art Basel Awards
- exibart.com
- Juliet Art Magazine
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- China
- Southeast Asia
- Guangzhou
- Beijing
- New York
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- Paris
- France
- Rome
- Copenhagen
- Denmark
- São Paulo
- Brazil
- Munich
- Germany
- Shanghai
- Sydney
- Australia
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Basel
- Switzerland
- Pearl River Delta
- Second Life
- Largo Isarco, 2