The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei New York Performances

At Met Museum Exhibitions, *The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei* presents the artist’s work in a live museum context, treating the façade commission as a public-facing extension of the galleries. Liu Wei’s practice often moves between architecture, infrastructure, and the psychology of built space, and this installation brings those concerns into dialogue with the Met’s own institutional presence. It reads as a measured intervention rather than decoration, asking how power and history are carried by surfaces. For New York, it situates a contemporary Chinese voice within the city’s civic museum tradition, adding a new chapter to the Met’s ongoing façade commissions.