Fosun Foundation plays host to Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno's first solo show in China
Will Boone The Crooked Cross, 2017. © Qiao Space, Shanghai
Art Patrons | Qiao Space and TANK Shanghai Project Space
24 March – 21 October 2018
Among Shanghai's most compelling and unique exhibition spaces, Qiao Space and TANK SHANGHAI play host to a collection of works from over thirty leading contemporary art collectors in China. All of these collectors are also noteworthy art patrons for various museums and institutions around the world. Art Patrons intends to shed light on their significant roles and impressive stories—through which, it also reflects the global landscape of contemporary art.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Midnight, Cadiz © Rockbund Art Museum
Walking On The Fade Out Lines | Rockbund Art Museum
24 March – 27 May 2018
The fruit of a fascinating collaboration and exchange with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, one of the most renowned contemporary art institutions in Italy, this exhibition is curated by Larys Frogier, Director of Rockbund Art Museum, and Hsieh Feng-Rong, Senior Curator of Rockbund Art Museum. With 29 works from over 23 international artists—including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Vanessa Beecroft, Damien Hirst, Yinka Shonibare, Song Tao, Rudolf Stingel and Sarah Lucas—the show spans painting, interactive installation, photography, video and more. The works are selected from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, along with additional video works from Song Tao and new commissioned works from Zhang Ruyi, with the latter two artists originating from Shanghai and thus strengthening the rich connection to local contexts.
Walking On The Fade Out Lines tackles the ways and angles of "seeing" and invites viewers to revisit history, exploring unfamiliar cities and regions. Viewers can scrutinize how artists offer up dilemmas through creative questioning and examination from the end of the 20th century to the present. Through a poetic elaboration, the exhibition attempts to transform the intrinsic understanding of cognitive structures that had gone along set paths, thereby offering up more open and plural interpretative perspectives.
© Yang Shen
Garden Oddity | MadeIn gallery
25 March – 30 April 2018
Garden Oddity is an exhibition of Yang Shen's compelling oil paintings from 2011 to 2018. The artist graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Mural Art. Through continuous practice and increasing exploration of the language of painting, over the course of almost ten years, Yang gradually established his creation theme: the connection between personal memories, experiences, fantasies and historical times.
© Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright & Marc Horowitz | BANK gallery
22 March – 20 May 2018
BANK will present the duo-solo exhibition of Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, marking the first time these two independent, but married, Los Angeles-based artists will exhibit together. Cortright is the poster-girl for post-internet art, and a recent fashion world darling marked by her collaboration with Stella McCartney. Horowitz came to fame for his kooky, social practices that garnered big media attention throughout the United States. Spanning painting, sculpture and video, this dynamic duo will showcase their diverse creations for the first time in Shanghai.
Donna Huanca AZURITE DULCE, 2017 © Yuz Museum
Cell Echo | Yuz Museum
24 March – 3 June 2018
Cell Echo is Donna Huanca's first solo exhibition in mainland China. Working with live human bodies, paint and fabric, the Berlin-based American artist will extend her visual language through a new series of works including paintings, sculpture, video and performance, building a terrain that echoes itself.
Yang Fudong Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part IV, 2006 © Long Museum West Bund
Yang Fudong: Dawn Breaking - A Museum Film Project 2018 | Long Museum West Bund
24 March – 3 June 2018
Dawn Breaking is the opening chapter of Yang Fudong's museum film project. In accordance with the unique architecture of the Long Museum, Yang created two novel and spectacular scenes, "The Morning Ceremony of the Song Dynasty" on the first floor and "The Tower of Life" in the stair gallery, both of which constitute the central filming locations of the "Museum Film Project."
Yang initially conceived this idea of making an art film in an art museum in 2009. After nearly a decade of planning, his idea is finally realized in the Long Museum (West Bund), and this project will be presented in other art institutions exploring different themes in the future. In this exhibition, Yang and his team will film for one month in the Long Museum (West Bund), and the whole shooting process will be extended to become a large-scale live performance. The audience will be invited to witness the important process of film production. Yang integrates the strict and orderly process of shooting with the spontaneous visit of the audience, allowing viewers to wander into the flow of time and feel the multidimensional video world constructed by Yang.
Analogue LOL | ShanghART gallery Shanghai
24 March – 13 May 2018
ShanghART Shanghai presents British artist Michael Dean's first solo exhibition in China this March through May. Developed through a year-long discussion between curator Victor Wang and the artist, Analogue LOL centers on the construction of common spaces and the evolution of the acronym 'LOL (laughing out loud)', and its recent development into the emoji officially known as 'Face with Tears of Joy'. Somewhere between picture and word, this emoticon became the first pictograph to be named 'word of the year' by Oxford Dictionaries in 2015, signaling a shift in the application, use and reception of language.
Says the artist about his work, 'The whole universe is falling to pieces, what do we about it? We might as well just say LOL.'
Aerographies | Fosun Foundation
25 March – 3 June 2018
Tomás Saraceno's first solo show in China brings many of artist's most important and iconic works that embody his utopian view of the future. His artistic method bridges the fields of art and science to create self-contained ecological spaces that link the natural environment with our social conditions. This exhibition concentrates on the space above the Earth's surface, inviting viewers to travel together on an imagined journey from the micro- to the macrocosmic. The artist centers his explorations and constructions around the spaces above the surface of Earth, located in air, outside the realm of extant human habitations.