This massively ambitious project tries to portray the different movements and transitions within the Shanghai art scene from the late ’70s up to the present. Held in a hard to find, half-finished space, the work fills five galleries over four floors. However, the cavernous, plaster-shedding rooms seem strangely appropriate for ... Read more »

Liu Yiqing’s first solo exhibition in China at Don Gallery documents the lives of her and her closely knit group of 10 friends at the Shanghai University Fine Arts School. Liu says the exhibit has no “greater meaning,” yet it is not devoid of theme; it reads like a ... Read more »

The newest museum to step on to Shanghai’s art scene is a large space that’s packed with intriguing installations.

The Minsheng Museum anchors the creative complex known as Red Town, a trendy cluster of small galleries, cafés and the Shanghai Sculpture Space. Its soft opening, a group show ... Read more »

Chinese artist Dong Zi’s porcelain works tackle topics that range from the cultural to the personal, with a lot of playful pieces in between.

The Beijing-born artist, who now calls China’s porcelain capital Jingdezhen home, says she was attracted to Leo Gallery, with its exposed bricks and hardwood ... Read more »

A Buffet For The Senses

A45-ton train perched on real tracks, rice paddies, wine sloshing on window panes providing a burgundy-hued view of People’s Square, luggage strewn on the floor, disco balls in VIP rooms, multimedia presentations on typographical errors in DVDs, massive ants marching on walls and a ... Read more »

Asking Some Questions

Like everything else, art is becoming increasingly globalized, but does that mean leaving regional and national considerations behind? This exhibition aims to champion the view that contemporary art made in Asia should be seen as “contemporary art” rather than “contemporary Asian art.” The theme is a strange ... Read more »

Google This

On first hearing of this exhibition, we were a little unimpressed. Honestly, photo-mosaic is a bit passé–the first software was invented in 1996. Even Yao Ming's famous mug has been made up of hundreds of tiny pictures for an ad.

However, the power of photography cannot ... Read more »

Capturing the Elusive Present

Closed shutters. An empty glass. A watermelon broken open. The 25 photographs assembled in this exhibition are images of the everyday, but not quite. In his work, Fabien Seguin, a French photographer now living in China, foregrounds the ordinary to draw attention to the unnoticed, allowing ... Read more »

Celebrating Cross-Cultures

Olympic fever has spread from the sports world across to the art world at MoCA. As part of the “Cultural Year of Greece in China,” this exhibition brings together artists from both nations in order to trace the affinities between these two cultures.

At first, the display appears ... Read more »

A Lesson in History

Li Shi Guang's Imaginary Museum comes across as some type of art history quiz. Familiar works of art are wittily incorporated in a blend of Chinese and Western, modernity and antique art.

Influenced by the great masters of Western art, such as Manet and Rembrandt ... Read more »

Moments Lost in Obscurity

Presented in a darkened room, the mood of this group exhibition featuring new media by Chinese artists is somewhat dispiriting. In Jin Jiangbo's Commemoration Series-Cloud of Angels, stuffed birds hang in the semi-gloom like extras in a Hitchcock film, making the viewer feel an uneasiness ... Read more »

Pop Goes China

Timezone 8 is a mélange of café, bookstore and artspace. Crammed into this space is a small, but amazing exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Makos, Warhol's personal photographer in 1982.

Makos travelled to China with Warhol and a ragtag group of others at the behest ... Read more »

A Very Loud Quiet

Following on the heels of first generation 20th century Chinese colorists, Chen Ruo Bing is seen as a pioneer of color in the Chinese field. The artist sees color as a subliminal form of communication, a form that is stronger than spoken language. As the artist ... Read more »

Explicit, Humorous and Fresh

Andrew James Art is showing some oil paintings by the young artist Zhou Yilun under the title "Just Joking." The paintings range widely in their content from tigers to fighting soccer players to girls in bikinis splashing around. However, the paintings are unified stylistically with an ... Read more »

Blurred Lines

It seems unfair to think that a talented painter might also produce an impressive body of photographic work, but upon seeing Shanghai artist Liang Weizhou's latest show, it seems some people have all the luck.

A local Shanghai artist, Liang Weizhou, currently a professor at East China ... Read more »

Being and Nothingness

Step into Sichuan artist Qiu Anxiong's exhibition at the Bund 18 Creative Center and you will be struck by the minimalism of the show. Not just in the small number of works on display, but the room, the colors and the silence.

At first glance, it ... Read more »

An Immersion in Portraits

On a sunny and cool spring afternoon, the walk through the former French Concession to this furtively located gallery was one for the books. The weather was good and the chatter of a relaxed weekend filled the air. Located in an intricately designed edifice, built in ... Read more »

Art+Shanghai | VS Zhang Wei Solo Exhibition

Hidden in the back of a longtang in the former French Concession, but separated from the rest of the alley by a large wood paneled door, this gallery's exhibition spaces have been immaculately refurbished. A quaint courtyard out front distinguishes the gallery ... Read more »

Top class comedic imports act on Shanghai's laughter deficit

For so many of us in Shanghai with a limited grasp of the local dialects, it can often seem like we live our lives as observers–frequently mystified by what is going on around us. Okay, you probably won’t ... Read more »

Capturing Photographic Art

Curator Joyce Ho and guest curators Yangjun Peng and Jiaojiao Chen have assembled a selection of photography from 10 foreign artists. With one exception, each individual photographer has contributed work from a single series, containing a single artistic concept, from Charles Freger's vulnerable portraits of people ... Read more »