In 2021, the Shanghai Municipal Art Museum list included 96 art museums, ushering in a historical peak. The number of art museums in Shanghai has increased from 20 in 2012 to 96 in 2021, achieving full coverage in 16 districts.
Shanghai's art museums not only rank first in domestic cities, but also continue to emerge West Bund Art Museum, Pudong Art Museum, which is called "debut is the peak" of the industry, carefully built by world-renowned designers, and the exhibition projects are heavy and attracted attention.
In 2021, the city's art museums held a total of 950 exhibitions, an increase of 58.3% year-on-year; in 2021, the number of visitors to the art museum was 6.21 million, an increase of 52.9% year-on-year, and the China Art Palace, West Bund Art Museum, Pudong Art Museum, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, and Dongyi Art Museum in Huangpu District, Shanghai became the top 5 visitors that year.
The city's art museums are based on their own advantages, each with its own beauty, and the united states and the united. The exhibition is the final materialization of the work of the art museum, which fully reflects the academic positioning and resource advantages of the current art museums. The exhibition content launched in Shanghai covers ancient and modern China and foreign countries, reflects the leading role of culture, highlights the diversified and rich cultural vision, and is the epitome of the vigorous development of urban culture. In the first and second half of the year, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism also launched the "Centennial Exhibition Season" and "Maritime Style Art Season" respectively, concentrating superior resources and forming a convergence effect, so that the vitality and vitality of Shanghai City can be vividly displayed in the wonderful non-stop exhibition.
Today, Xiaobian takes you from the following four paths to take stock of the wonderful exhibitions of the art museum in 2021.
Stop 1 Red Glow
Shanghai is the birthplace of the Communist Party of China, and in 2021, art museums will carefully plan and hold more than 40 theme exhibitions celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Party throughout the year, reliving the glorious course of the past century with different perspectives of image narratives.
The Exhibition of Centenary Art Works of the Founding party in the "Sunrise orient" of the China Art Palace, the special exhibition of "Portrait of Liu Haisu Art Museum", the special exhibition of "Red Seal" art documents of Lu Yushao Art Academy, the exhibition of Mao Zedong's poetry theme works of "Picturesque Rivers and Mountains" of Cheng Shifa Art Museum, and the special exhibition of "Looking Back and Moving Forward" of the Long Art Museum in Xuhui District, Shanghai, etc., connect the century-old party history from famous masterpieces and inspire people with excellent literary and artistic works.
China Art Palace
The exhibition site of "Sunrise in the East - Exhibition of Fine Art Works Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China"
Liu Haisu Art Museum
The exhibition site of "Portrait of a Hundred Years : A Special Exhibition Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China"
Long Art Museum in Xuhui District, Shanghai
The exhibition site of "Looking Back and Moving Forward - Special Exhibition Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China"
The second stop is Shanghai and the world
The museum works closely with important foreign art institutions to create new cooperation mechanisms, such as the West Bund Art Museum and the Pompidou Center's five-year exhibition Chen cooperation; the Pudong Art Museum and the Tate Museum of the United Kingdom's "3+1+2" cooperation; Shanghai Huangpu District Dongyi Art Museum and the Italian Uffizi Art Museum jointly present ten major art exhibitions from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in five years from 2022. Foreign art institutions in response to the aesthetic needs of Chinese audiences, bring special planning projects, in the current epidemic situation, can not go abroad to watch the works of world-class art masters at the doorstep, is undoubtedly a great benefit to citizens and tourists.
West Bund Art Museum
"The Voice of All Things - Pompidou Center Collection Exhibition (II)" exhibition site
Pudong Art Museum
The exhibition scene of "Light: The Tate Collection"
Dongyi Art Museum, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Poster of the "French Modern Art Exhibition"
Ullens Art Museum, Jing'an District, Shanghai
"Become Andy Warhol" exhibition scene
Shanghai's lively artistic atmosphere has also become the first choice for global artists to land in China, Shanghai's Long Art Museum in Xuhui District, "Beatrice Miraces: Ballet on the Diagonal", "Yantian Chiharu: The Trembling Soul", "Pat Steele", "George Condor: The Temple of Images", Shanghai Bund Art Museum "John Armrad: Again, Again", Shanghai Fosun Art Center "Alex Israel: Freedom Highway" are the first solo exhibitions held by foreign artists in China, grabbing the beach behind Shanghai. It is Shanghai that has become more and more important in the global runway, and foreign art institutions and artists have attached great importance to their debut in Shanghai.
The exhibition scene of "Yantian Qianchun: A Fluttering Soul" at the Long Art Museum in Xuhui District, Shanghai
Rockbund Art Museum
"John Armradd: Again, Again" exhibition scene
Shanghai Fosun Art Center
Exhibition scene "Alex Isrell: The Freedom Highway"
Stop Three: Contemporary Power
The exhibitions in the direction of contemporary art account for more than half of the annual exhibitions, showing this generation's profound understanding and personality expression of the times, society and life, and the artists respond to the propositions of the times with highly dynamic and tense works of art, and build a kaleidoscope of the times.
The 13th Shanghai Biennale of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai "Water Body", "Liang Shaoji: Silkworm Me, I Silkworm", Shanghai Jing'an District Ming Contemporary Art Museum "Back to the Scene: Ming Contemporary Art Museum 5th Anniversary Art Season", Shanghai Pearl Art Museum "From Earth to Language - Using Ceramics as a Medium", Shanghai Xiangcheng Photography Art Center "Ginseng Fruit", Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art "Unknown Game", Shanghai Oil Tank Art Center "Jia Xiali: Mangyuan", Zhu Qizhan Art Museum "A Room of Your Own II.", "Liu Xiaodong: Your Friend" at Ullens Art Museum in Jing'an District, Shanghai, and "Me and Boyce" at the Haomei Art Museum in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, have successively held special projects for Yin Xiuzhen, Wang Guangyi and Zhang Yu, which illustrate the profundity and charm of Chinese contemporary art.
Shanghai Pearl Art Museum
"From Clay to Language – Ceramics as a Medium" exhibition site
Shanghai Jing'an Ming Contemporary Art Museum
"Back to the Scene: Ming Contemporary Art Museum 5th Anniversary Art Season"
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
"Liang Shaoji: Silkworm me, silkworm me"
The fourth station is the continuous context
Many art museums are based on the local area, in-depth study of the development of Haipai art for a hundred years, from Wu Changshuo, a giant of The Haipai in the late Qing Dynasty, to Chen Junde, a contemporary maritime master, to the active new artistic youth, with the case studies and group displays of several generations of artists on the sea, writing about the constant and change of Haipai art, and also fully reflecting the cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence of the art museum industry.
China Art Palace "Golden Stone Force Grass and Wood Heart - Wu Changshuo and Shanghai", Liu Haisu Art Museum "A Hundred Years of Witness - Liu Haisu and Shanghai Art College Education Reform Research Exhibition", Cheng Shifa Art Museum "Fine Art Serving the Country - Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Cheng Shifa's Birth Art Exhibition", Cheng Shifa Art Museum "Painting in The Middle of The Song - Guan Liang, Cheng Shifa Opera Character Works Exhibition", Zhu Qizhan Art Museum "Pure Heart Only Exists - Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of Zhu Qizhan's Birth Art Exhibition", Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting Art Museum "Qian Yitie and His Circle of Friends", Liu Haisu Art Museum "Special Exhibition of Art and Documentation of Haipai Oil Painting Master Chen Junde", "Jiang Jianzhong: Works 1985-2021" of Shanghai Hongyi Art Museum, and "Painting NTh Power - Liu Manwen, Yin Xiong, Li Song, Shi Zhiying, Lu Dan" of Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy Art Museum outline the thinking and practice of several generations of Haipai artists in the context of different eras, shining the endless cultural spirit of maritime art.
"Golden Stone Force Grass and Wood Heart - Wu Changshuo and Shanghai" exhibition site
"Special Exhibition of Art and Documentation of Chen Junde, Master of Oil Painting of Haipai"
Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute Art Museum
"Painting Nth Power - Liu Manwen, Yin Xiong, Li Song, Shi Zhiying, Lu Dan" exhibition site
Source: Leyou Shanghai
Editor: Yu Luoyin