Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of contemporary art in Shanghai opened in October 1, 2012 and is the first public museum of contemporary art in Chinese mainland. The museum gathers excellent achievements of contemporary art at home and abroad, and displays, collects and preserves excellent works of contemporary art through various channels.

Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

Power Station of Art, founded in October 1, 2012, is the first public Contemporary Art Museum in Chinese mainland. Shanghai Museum of contemporary art is the first museum in China. At the same time, the Shanghai Museum of contemporary art is also the location of the Shanghai Biennale.

It is located on the Bank of Huangpu River, the mother river of Shanghai. It covers an area of 42000 square meters. The exhibition hall covers an area of 15000 square meters. The chimney with a maximum internal overhanging of 45 meters and a height of 165 meters is not only a landmark of Shanghai, but also a special exhibition space.

The building of Shanghai contemporary art museum is transformed from the original Nanshi power plant. It not only witnessed the urban change of Shanghai from the industrial to the information age, but also bid farewell to the past of excessive energy grabbing. Its rough and uninhibited industrial architectural style provides rich possibilities for artists' fantastic ideas.

As the "workshop" of the new urban culture, the source of the museum's life is to constantly renew itself and keep itself in the process. Shanghai Museum of contemporary art is striving to provide an open platform for the public to display and learn contemporary culture and art, eliminate the barriers between art and life, and promote cooperation and knowledge production among different categories of culture and art.

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Shanghai Museum of contemporary art is the first public Contemporary Art Museum in Chinese mainland, and also a landmark city public cultural activity center, which integrates contemporary art exhibition, collection, research, communication and experience education. After the reconstruction, the total construction area of the Museum of contemporary art will reach 41000 square meters, with 12 exhibition halls of different sizes and heights, as well as functional facilities such as library, research room and lecture hall. It will undertake the important task of international visual and cultural exchanges, provide the best exhibition environment for outstanding contemporary art works at home and abroad, and provide a good environment for Sino foreign art exchanges Good atmosphere. Through the centralized display of contemporary art in various fields, we can achieve the integration of contemporary art and design, literature, film and other fields, and build the Museum of contemporary art into a cross media and interdisciplinary art comprehensive exchange platform, as well as a stimulator of art and creativity in Shanghai. By collecting the outstanding achievements of contemporary art at home and abroad, we can enrich and expand the cultural vision of the public, cultivate the consciousness and ability of young people's innovation and creativity, bring fresh water for the development of cultural and creative industries, and lay a solid foundation for Shanghai to become one of the centers of communication, exchange, exhibition and cooperation of contemporary art in China and the world.

The Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (PSA) is located in the city future Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Its predecessor is the Nansha power plant, which was built in 1897. The main building is 128 meters long, 70 meters wide, 50 meters high, with a building area of 31088 square meters. The 165 meter high reinforced concrete chimney is a symbol of the development of China's modern industry and a new round of historical opportunities and cultural creation on both sides of the Pujiang River. After reconstruction, the building area will be increased to more than 40000 square meters, the exhibition area will reach 15000 square meters, and there will be 12 exhibition halls.

The museum opened in October 1, 2012 and is the first public Contemporary Art Museum in Chinese mainland. The museum stands on the Bank of Huangpu River, 4km away from people's Square, and a quarter of an hour's walk from Tibet South Road Station of Metro Line 4 and 8.

The goal of Shanghai Museum of contemporary art is to build a bridge between contemporary art and the public, gather the outstanding achievements of contemporary art at home and abroad, and use various channels to display, collect and preserve the outstanding works of contemporary art. Our team attaches great importance to the visitors' experience, and strives to improve the quality of exhibition planning, exhibition design, explanation and guidance, leisure and entertainment, so as to create an active, innovative and open Visual Arts Learning Center for the public.

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Opening exhibition

Shanghai Museum of contemporary art will open its exhibition with a periodic exhibition, the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012. The chief curator of the exhibition is Qiu Zhijie, Professor of the school of cross media art, China Academy of fine arts, and the joint curators are Boris groise (Germany), Jans Hoffman (Costa Rica) and Zhang Songren (Hong Kong). The theme of this Biennale is "re generating electricity". 98 artists (groups) from 27 countries and regions all over the world participated in the theme exhibition. In terms of the exhibition mode, it is the first time to adopt the City Pavilion mode, with the participation of nearly 30 cities around the world, such as Amsterdam. While focusing on the development status of international contemporary art, it comprehensively presents the unique values of Chinese contemporary culture. The education project Yuanming School Park of this Biennale will form three workshops of curation, technology and media, and set up courses for young curators, community members, media reporters and other learners at different levels.

Since December, Shanghai Museum of contemporary art has gradually launched such contemporary art exhibitions as "transcendence - Pompidou Art Center special exhibition", "Taiji world - Zhu Ming sculpture art exhibition", "created in China - 30 years of Chinese contemporary art" and "Andy Warhol retrospective exhibition".

Exhibitions and collections

2013 Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition

The theme exhibition is unfolded through the relationship between design and the following: thought, behavior and urban character; urban planning and architectural style (old city reconstruction; regeneration protection of historical buildings); community, street life and public landscape; residence, living utensils, entertainment and fashion; interactive and digital survival, transportation and network city; entering and leaving the city (city and township, village in city); public life And public art "city artist", creative industrial park, etc. The theme exhibition is divided into six parts: "city of backlight", "city of night", "city of mobile", "city of interface", "city of handcraft" and "city of film".

Mirage -- twelve representations of contemporary Chinese Museum Architecture

In addition to presenting the scene, museum buildings often become the scene of the city, which forms a complex relationship between watching and being watched. In the modern society of hungry and thirsty consumption, these museums with halo will inevitably become sacred objects rather than places to be worshiped, and architects are often proud of the design opportunities of museum buildings.

With the rapid development of cities in China, museum buildings have been built at an incredible speed in recent years. But it is such a crazy scale and quantity that makes it difficult for people to express this topic in a traditional way. People may be able to present some of them through models, photos and drawings, but it is not enough to explore the deep problems behind this grand scene: museum construction and use, public space and private field, presentation and observation, eventuality and routine

This exhibition attempts to present rather than reappear, so that twelve groups of architects or artists can re express the museum architecture from their own point of view in the way of Pan visual art.

Zhang Ming's and Zhang Zi's large-scale model installation works are directly related to the theme of the exhibition. They are presented in two different types of Museums: "large and small", and a tension system is established. They reflect on the temple complex at one end and question the fascination of personal expression at the other end.

In the exhibition, two groups of works are created with the theme of Shanghai Museum of contemporary art, the main venue of the exhibition. Zhang Jiajing cuts the museum building continuously to remove "architectural arrogance". The video combination device of Bu Bing and Chai Tao combines video and surveillance cameras from multiple perspectives inside and outside the Museum, trying to reverse the relationship between seeing and being seen during the museum visit.

The first youth curator program of Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum

"Young curators program" is a new exhibition project launched by Shanghai Museum of contemporary art this year. It aims to cultivate young curators of Chinese at home and abroad, show the new achievements of young Chinese artists in visual art from their perspective, and promote the development of Chinese contemporary art ecology. The scheme solicits curating schemes by means of online contribution, and the top three are selected by the academic committee of Shanghai Museum of contemporary art and given financial support, so that their schemes can be realized in the museum.

Portrait of the times: 30 years of Contemporary Art

Since the late 1970s, Chinese contemporary art has gone through more than 30 years of development. From the "new trend of the Eighth Five Year Plan" in the 1980s, the international recognition in the 1990s, the commercial success in the 2000s to today's overall prosperity, contemporary art as a new cultural form has also been widely recognized from home to abroad, from the folk to the official. And the development of contemporary art in the past 30 years also reflects the great changes of the whole country and the people in this special era. Whether it is from the overall economy and culture of the country, or from people's inner cognition of themselves and their involvement in society, it can be reflected from the works of artists over the years. Therefore, the exhibition takes the broad sense of "portrait" as the starting point

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