Sunflower Seeds (artwork)

Sunflower Seeds
Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds in the Tate Modern
Artist	Ai Weiwei
Year	2008 (2008)
Medium	Porcelain
Location	Tate Modern, London
Website	web.archive.org/web/20160913115227/http://www.aiweiweiseeds.com/

Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. It was first exhibited at the Tate Modern art gallery in London from 12 October 2010 to 2 May 2011. The work consisted of one hundred million individually hand-crafted porcelain sunflower seeds which filled the gallery's 1,000 square metre Turbine Hall to depth of ten centimetres.

Viewers were originally able to interact and walk across the sunflower seeds, but after the Tate Modern Museum feared that the dust emitted from the installation could be harmful, they fenced it off. Smaller collections of the seeds have been exhibited in twelve exhibitions from 2009–2013 in museums and galleries across the world.^[1]