The pace of the new year is quietly approaching. On January 17, the Shanghai Museum will welcome the "National Gallery Collection Exhibition", a glimpse of European art history spanning more than 400 years; Special exhibitions on rabbit art and rabbit artifacts such as "Jade Rabbit Spirit" and "Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Rabbit" have also been opened in various places, including the Tokyo National Museum, Shanghai Museum, Wuxi Museum, etc.
In Liaoning, "Six Hundred Years of the Jin State" tells the story of the rise and fall of the Jin State. From "How to Stop the Eight Monsters" to "Danqing Trail", Yangzhou in Jiangsu and Shanxi respectively focus on the Yangzhou School of the Qing Dynasty.
In Germany, the Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, exhibits Japanese paintings in its collection, presenting "Flowers and Birds in the Snow: Pictures of Japanese Seasons"; In the United States, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "New York Art World" showcases the aesthetic trends and innovations of modern art in the United States in the late 19th century.
Shanghai
From Botticelli to Van Gogh: The National Gallery of England's collection
Venue: Shanghai Museum
Exhibition period: January 17, 2023——May 7, 2023
This exhibition is the second in the Shanghai Museum's "World in Dialogue" series of cultural relics and art exhibitions, featuring 52 oil paintings, including Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Goset, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Claude, Constable, Cézanne, Manet, Monet and Van Gogh. The exhibition is a distillation of the National Gallery's collection, offering a glimpse into the epitome of European art history spanning more than 400 years.
Jade Rabbit Spirit - Shanghai Museum Year of the Rabbit Spring Exhibition
Venue: Shanghai Museum
Exhibition period: January 18, 2023–February 26, 2023
2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, the exhibition continues the Shanghai Museum's previous zodiac cultural relics exhibition series, and will display 6 cultural relics, including the rabbit statue of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the double rabbit car scale ornament, the white-glazed rabbit of the Tang Dynasty, the green jade rabbit paperweight of the Southern Song Dynasty, the crystal rabbit of the Yuan Dynasty, the jade rabbit branch god of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Three Rabbits of Ladies" axis of Qing dynasty painter Yu Zhiding .
Stunning beauty: exhibition from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Venue: Pudong Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 21, 2022–April 9, 2023
As one of the most important archaeological museums in the world, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, has the world's most complete collection of ancient Roman sculptures and frescoes in Pompeii. This exhibition is not only a display of ancient Roman civilization 2,000 years ago, but many of its national treasures have left Italy for the first time.
From here - Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Library 70th Anniversary Joint Exhibition
Venue: Shanghai Museum of History
Exhibition period: January 18, 2023——February 26, 2023
This exhibition brings together 68 pieces / sets of precious collections and historical materials from five cultural units, showing the development achievements of Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Library in the past 70 years, and witnessing the common growth of Shanghai's cultural museum and library industry and New China.
Peking Opera "Farewell My Concubine" premiered in the Centennial Photography Exhibition
Venue: Shanghai Museum of History
Exhibition period: January 10, 2023——February 26, 2023
Based on the historical photos in the collection of Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum, combined with the scientific research achievements in recent years, the exhibition shows the appearance and creative process of the stage of Mei Pai's classic play "Farewell My Concubine" in different periods through the exhibition of precious photos and cultural relics related to "Farewell My Concubine", and uses this to show the performance characteristics of Mei Pai and explain Mei Lanfang's creative spirit of rehearsing new plays.
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Venue: Star Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 30, 2022–May 21, 2023
This is the first season of the exhibition, which will feature 85 artists and 88 works from China, the United States, Denmark, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, etc. The oldest of these artists was born in 1921 and the youngest was born in 1988, and almost all of the most contemporary and representative artists in international contemporary art are listed, and the works on display are strongly representative and recognizable.
Muqin's Career - Documentary Art Exhibition for the 130th Anniversary of Ding Wei's Birth
Venue: Liu Haisu Art Museum
Exhibition period: January 1–February 15, 2023
The exhibition focuses on Ding Wei, the first provost of Shanghai Art College, and restores Ding Wei's extremely rich artistic life through 767 works and documents in five units. It is hoped that through the more complete collection, sorting and display of the current literature on Ding Wei, it is hoped that the research interest in modern visual culture will be aroused. I also hope to use Ding Wei's "pen" and "lens" to show today's audience the rich and diverse cultural ecology and interest that unfolded in Shanghai in the first half of the 20th century, and glimpse the origin and grandeur of the new culture of "Shanghai School".
Inheritance and Influence: An art documentary exhibition commemorating the 170th anniversary of the birth of Tushan Bay Art Museum
Location: Xujiahui Academy
Exhibition period: January 1–23, 2023
Founded in 1852, Tushan Bay Art Museum was praised by Xu Beihong as "the cradle of Chinese Western painting". This art gallery has influenced a generation of people such as Ding Wei, Xu Beihong, Zhang Yuguang, Zhang Chongren and so on.
100 Years of Art, Bright Wind and Sunshine - Shanghai Modern and Modern Art Exhibition
Venue: China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum)
Exhibition period: January 12—February 28, 2023
More than 200 works are exhibited, and the exhibition unfolds with time clues, through three sections: "The Maritime School Leads a Generation of Fashion" (late 19th century to 1949), "New Chinese Art is Renewed in the Development of the Times" (1949-1977), "Reform and Opening Up Gives Birth to the Spirit of Artistic Innovation" (1978-2021), as well as three thematic exhibitions to explain the origin, formation and artistic influence of the Shanghai School.
The Starry Sky of History - A Research Exhibition of Shanghai School Painting in the Early Twentieth Century
Venue: China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum)
Session: From 8 November 2022
The exhibition gathers the famous "Four Masters of Shanghai School" (Wugu, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Pu Hua), "Four Ren", "Three Bears of Shanghai" and other famous masterpieces in the history of art, as well as famous masterpieces such as Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Pan Tianshou, Wu Hufan, Lin Fengmian, Zhang Daqian and other famous masterpieces in art history.
2022 Wind from the Sea - Butterfly Transformation Treasure Martial Arts and Art Community Field
Venue: China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum)
Exhibition period: December 16, 2022—February 24, 2023
As an academic brand project of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in the past two years, this exhibition aims to discuss the important role of art in urban renewal and serving economic and social development.
Rabbit Fu Hongyun - New Year Special Exhibition of Greater Shanghai United Art Space
Location: 2nd Floor, No. 1 Maoming South Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Exhibition period: January 13——February 6, 2023
Dahu United Art Space launched a special exhibition of the Year of the Rabbit, displaying calligraphy and painting works by Su Xiaobai, He Duoling, Li Guoxuan, Shi Jianbang, Hu Jianjun and other figures in the art circle and literary circles, welcoming the beautiful spring on the sea.
Nice to Miffy You！ Hello, Miffy!
Venue: MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Session: From 23 December 2022
MoCA Shanghai 8th Biennale of Animation Aesthetics and Miffy has partnered with Miffy to present Nice to Miffy You! Hello, Miffy! The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, installation, new media, graffiti, interactive images and other art forms, which is not only a diversified reconstruction of Miffy's image, but also a cross-cultural interaction between Miffy in China.
China Contemporary Art Yearbook Exhibition (Shanghai) 2021
Venue: Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: December 17, 2022—February 26, 2023
The exhibition is based on 2,891 exhibitions in 2021, and through extensive investigation, reading and in-depth research, combined with 3,850 documents, 111 artists (groups) are counted. The Yearbook Exhibition presents the results of the Yearbook's research and research, introducing and showcasing the achievements of these outstanding artists.
Strong heart and high hua - Xie Zhiliu, Chen Peiqiu academic art exhibition
Venue: Cheng Shifa Art Museum
Exhibition period: November 29, 2022–February 14, 2023
The exhibition is the most complete and in-depth academic exhibition to date to study the scholarship and art of Xie Zhiliu and Chen Peiqiu. Many of the works on display are public appearances in Shanghai for the first time, such as Xie Zhiliu's "Jiangxiang Qingxue Map" in the collection of the Jilin Provincial Museum, Chen Peiqiu's "Ink Pen Peony Butterfly Map", and Xie Zhiliu's "Lotus" and "Red Leaf Silver Pheasant" in the collection of China International Art Exhibition Co., Ltd.
Love Around – an exhibition about memory
Venue: Biyun Art Museum
Duration: Until February 26, 2023
Cognitive impairment is an incurable central nervous degenerative disease. It is expected that by 2050, the number of people in China will be as high as 36 million. With the core of caring for people with cognitive disabilities, this exhibition fully explores the power of art and actively explores how art can intervene in the lives of special groups.
They and abstraction
Venue: West Bund Art Museum
Exhibition period: November 11, 2022–March 8, 2023
Focusing on the unique contribution of female artists to abstract art, the exhibition selects nearly 100 works by about 35 female artists, retracing the history of abstract art from the late 19th century to the 21st century from a new perspective, and will trace this intertwined plastic arts, dance, photography, film, and decorative arts in chronological order, presenting women artists who are active participants and co-founders of modernism and later art schools, and also to understand "women artists" for the audience Its place in the history of abstract art provides an unprecedented perspective.
Self-portrait of Master Uffizi
Venue: Shanghai Dongyi Art Museum (1 Zhongshan East 1st Road)
Exhibition period: September 9, 2022 - February 26, 2023
The exhibition is part of the "Five Years and Ten Exhibitions" cooperation project between the Dongyi Art Museum and the Uffizi Gallery in Italy, focusing on the 500-year history of self-portraiture. The exhibition includes self-portraits by 50 artists, including Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Ingres, Chagall, etc. Among them, the most famous is "Raphael's Self-Portrait", which is also the first time that this work has been unveiled in Shanghai.
100 Years of Modern Art – Collection of the Italian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Venue: Dongyi Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition period: September 15, 2022–February 8, 2023
The exhibition presents 57 authentic works by famous European artists from 1865 to 1977, including 43 famous masters such as Klimt, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Monet, Cézanne, Duchamp, Pollock, etc., covering oil painting, photography, sculpture, installation, collage, paper and other art forms, recreating the wonderful moments of modern art across the ages and interestingly.
Yundu Qingyue - Yuan Dynasty painter Cao Zhibai's 750th birthday anniversary commemoration and landscape painting exhibition
Venue: Shanghai Qingpu District Museum
Exhibition period: November 16, 2022–February 15, 2023
"Yundu Qingyue" is taken from the evaluation of Cao Zhibai's works by Huang Gongwang, the head of the "Four Yuan Families", and this exhibition details the family affairs of Cao Zhibai, a local Shanghai painter, through the four units of "Wenyu House", "Cao Yuan Yajia", "High Style and Elegance" and "Yipin Liufang", especially focusing on Cao Zhibai's calligraphy and painting and Yaji, depicting the cultural scene of celebrities and Confucianism in Songjiang Prefecture in the Yuan Dynasty.
Ding Liren and Xia Yang Double Exhibition – Special Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: December 16, 2022 - March 19, 2023
Ding Liren and Xia Yang were born in the early 30s of the last century, when the exploration and practice of modern painting guided by groups such as the "Duelan Society" emerged in Shanghai. Ding Li and Xia Yang were taught by Guan Liang and Li Zhongsheng, members of the "Duelan Society", in different life processes, and practiced the spirit of artistic experimentation originating from the local area through their physical creative exploration. The exhibition focuses on two artists in their nineties, following a unique trajectory of their creative language generation.
Retrospective of Geng Jianyi's work "Who is he?" ”
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: November 10, 2022—February 12, 2023
The exhibition presents the work of contemporary artist Geng Jianyi and examines his career from the mid-1980s to 2016. Exhibition title "Who is he?" Coming from the artist's conceptual work of the same name, created in 1994, the curator hopes to ask "Who is Geng Jianyi?" This question opens the exhibition, hoping that the audience can find the answer from Geng Jianyi's artistic practice.
"New Culture Producer" Season 1 "Craftsmanship Revived"
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: November 5, 2022—February 5, 2023
This season, the two selected projects are "Madman's Hill" curated by Feng Lixing and Wu You, and "Back to the Future: Through the Barriers of the Times" curated by Zuo Jing and Wang Yanzhi – which will invite the public to discuss the current situation and the possibility of revival of Chinese craftsmanship from different entry points.
Eternal Paris – Exhibition of Classic Photographs by Willy Ronnie
Venue: Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition period: January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023
From experiencing two world wars and witnessing the magnificence of the French workers' movement in the 1930s, to the enthusiasm of the "Red May" in 1968, which experienced France's economic difficulties in the early post-war period... French photographer Willy Ronnie's black-and-white photography captures the daily lives of a large number of ordinary Parisians, full of humor and humor, but also freezes the traces of urban and social change. The exhibition presents daily anecdotes that Willy Ronnie has focused on with more than 70 years of lenses.
The New Sea Breeze - The 2nd Shanghai Pastel Art Creation Salon Works Exhibition
Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 24, 2022 - February 12, 2023
The exhibition invited 61 well-known Chinese and foreign artists to display a total of 101 groups of pastel art works. Through the four exhibition sections of "Form, Scene, Image and Object", the charm of pastel painting art is displayed to everyone.
"Existence & Multiple Landscapes": Long Museum's 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition
Venue: Long Museum (West Bund)
Exhibition period: November 12, 2022—February 5, 2023
The two special exhibitions correspond to the two aspects of "figures" and "abstraction", and a total of more than 260 works (groups) are exhibited, all of which are collected by Long Museum. Curated by Ivona Blazwick, former director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, "Being" combs through the collection in a four-act play, reflecting important artistic movements in the development of modern and contemporary art. Curated by Wang Wei, "Multiple Landscapes" exhibits abstract art works of different periods, different countries, different genres, and different forms.
When the Stars Are Shining - A Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting by Wu Yun and the Four Monks
Venue: Long Museum (West Bund)
Exhibition period: November 26, 2022–February 28, 2023
As one of the 10th anniversary exhibitions of the Long Museum, the exhibition presents the collection of ancient Chinese paintings, calligraphy and paintings of the Long Museum, and displays more than 30 works (groups) by ten painters in the early Qing Dynasty, including Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui, Wang Yuanqi, Wu Li, Yun Shouping, Ba Da Shanren, Shi Tao, Hongren and Qiu Jiao, nearly half of which are exhibited to the public for the first time.
Uray: Immeasurable things
Venue: How, Art Museum
Exhibition period: November 13, 2022 - March 12, 2023
This exhibition is Ouray's first Asian institutional exhibition "The Infinite Thing" since his death (1943-2020), presenting a comprehensive view of his groundbreaking life's work. The exhibition focuses on three distinct periods: his artistic activity in the early 70s of the 20th century, his collaboration with Marina Abramovich between 1976 and 1988 and his solo work in the late 90s.
Floating Paris: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Art Exhibition
Venue: Aurora Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition period: December 24, 2022 - April 7, 2023
The exhibition focuses on modern French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with nearly 120 works (sets) and archival materials, covering posters, lithographs, illustrations, manuscripts, letters and collections of the artist, etc., through the four units of "Modern Paris", "Dusk of Montmartre", "The World of Lautrec" and "Floating Like a Dream", leading the viewer to understand the artist's life and artistic achievements, and feel the modern nightlife of 19th-century Paris written by him.
Andro Vicua: Dolphin in a fountain
Venue: Shanghai Oil Tank Art Center
Exhibition period: November 10, 2022 - April 9, 2023
Born in Georgia in 1977, Andro Vikuya spent his childhood in Sukhumi, on the Black Sea coast, leaving his homeland for Western Europe because of the civil war. In his work, we can capture some of the visual images of his life experiences in Georgia during the Civil War, which are individual, private, unidentified, and more importantly, they refuse to point, express and interpret. They are fragmented memories, between reality and fiction.
Fun and intelligence: Italian contemporary design
Venue: Pudong Art Museum
Session: From 28 September 2022 onwards
The exhibition focuses on more than 100 of the most iconic Italian design works, covering everyday objects such as tables, chairs, lamps, tableware, etc., and looks back on the development of contemporary Italian design over the past 70 years. The exhibition shows the vitality of Italian design with open, diversified styles and rich content, and explores the essence and soul of modern and contemporary Italian design.
Beijing
Four major discoveries of ancient Chinese documents in the early 20th century
Venue: National Museum of Classics
Session: From 14 January 2023 onwards
The Yin Shang oracle bones, the Juyan Han Jian, the Dunhuang testament, and the archives of the Ming and Qing cabinets are the "four great discoveries" of Chinese scholarship at the beginning of the last century. The exhibition brings together four major documents collected in various places, with an exhibition area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and a total of 249 kinds of precious cultural relics and documents such as oracle bones, simple mu, Dunhuang suicide notes, and Ming and Qing Dynasty archives, a total of 249 kinds and 382 pieces. Through the interpretation of historical materials, dialogue with history, tracing the origin of Chinese history, exploring the Chinese context.
Walking towards Beauty: Wishing the New Year and Wu Guanzhong Collection Exhibition
Venue: Tsinghua University Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 20, 2022——May 6, 2023
Zhu Danian and Wu Guanzhong are important artists and art educators who grew up in New China, and are also the banner of the "Tsinghua Art Group". From December 2022, Tsinghua Art Museum will name Hall 8 on the fourth floor of the museum as "Wishing the Year of the Year and Wu Guanzhong Special Hall" to commemorate the eternal aspirations of the two artists and pay tribute to the generous donations of the artists' families. As the first exhibition of the special hall, this exhibition will display 39 works (sets) by Zhu Danian and Wu Guanzhong in the museum's collection, leading viewers to feel their artistic concept of "educating people with beauty and walking towards beauty".
Liaoning
Six hundred years of the Jin Kingdom
Venue: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: January 8——April 8, 2023
The exhibition tells the story of the rise and fall of the Jin state by displaying cultural relics related to the Jin state in the Zhou Dynasty. A total of 159 cultural relics are exhibited in the exhibition, all from the Shanxi Museum, all of which are exhibited in Liaoning for the first time, among which precious burial objects such as bronzes unearthed in the "Jin Marquis Cemetery" are particularly eye-catching.
Looking and Gaze: A Selection of Western Paintings from the Fuji Museum of Art, Tokyo
Venue: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: December 27, 2022–April 5, 2023
The exhibition selects 52 well-known artists such as Van Dyck, Goya, Louis David, Ingres, Delacroix, Boucher, Miller, Klimt, Magritte, Chagall, Andy Warhol and other 52 well-known artists with a total of 60 classic portrait paintings, from the 16th century to the 20th century, covering the development of Western art history from the Renaissance, Methodism or Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Critical Realism, Impressionism, and all the way to modernism. It can be called a textbook exhibition of Western art history.
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Artist Fenghua - Zhejiang Oil Painting Centennial Exhibition
Venue: Zhejiang Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 12, 2022—February 12, 2023
Through more than 280 oil paintings, the exhibition presents the ultimate exploration and pursuit of individuals and groups in the centennial process of Zhejiang oil painting, from Li Shutong and Lin Fengmian, who began through the inheritance of Wu Dayu, Cai William, Fang Ganmin and other pioneers of the Republic of China, to Guan Liang, Ni Yide and other gentlemen.
The world's own responsibility - the spiritual world of the Song Dynasty doctor
Venue: Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: January 10, 2023——February 10, 2023
The exhibition selects more than 300 pieces (groups) from more than 30 cultural institutions and Qingzhou museums in Zhejiang Province, highlights the new archaeological discoveries of the Song Dynasty in Zhejiang and the fine works of the Song Dynasty in the city and county museums, tells the political philosophy and elegant artistic conception of the Song Dynasty, and shows the spiritual world of the doctor.
The sixth issue of the "Golden Stone Calligraphy and Painting" series of exhibitions - a special exhibition of rare books and inscriptions in the collection of Shanghai Museum
Venue: Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: December 10, 2022—February 12, 2023
The sixth installment of the "Jinshi Calligraphy and Painting" series will focus on rare book inscriptions in the Shanghai Museum's collection that are rarely seen. The exhibits are mainly donated by the well-known collector Qi Shuyu, and a total of 85 kinds of rare book inscriptions are on display. Among them, Xiang Yuan (descendant of Xiang Yuanbian, Xiaotian Ethereal Museum), He Shaoji handed over the collection of the "Ming Tuo Zhou Shigu Book" (descendant of Xiang Yuanbian, Zhai Xiaotian Ethereal Museum), which is known as the first best extension in Hainai; There is a book of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Shichen Before and After Steles" (the character "Autumn" of Ming Tuo has not been damaged); There is the Northern Wei "Portrait Inscription of the Duke of Shiping" (original topping); There are four kinds of rare book inscriptions in the old collection of Duanfang, such as the "Yiying Stele" of the early Qing Dynasty, the "Geng Xun Table", the "Wu Rong Stele", and the "Crane Ming" of Shuiqian Tuo, which is also the first time that these Hanmo treasures have been met with the public.
Shouwang - Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements of the Two Song Dynasty Imperial Mausoleums
Venue: Shaoxing Museum
Exhibition period: November 30, 2022——February 28, 2023
This is the first joint exhibition of archaeological relics unearthed from the Southern Song Imperial Mausoleum (Song Six Tombs) in Shaoxing and the Northern Song Imperial Mausoleum in Gongyi. The exhibition takes the two Song Dynasty tomb systems as the main line, takes the archaeological time order, takes the type of cultural relics as the unit identification, and is divided into 4 parts and 11 units of "regulation inheritance", "scale inheritance", "ingenuity inheritance" and "tomb protection inheritance", systematically displaying a panorama of the construction, regulation, funerary goods, protection and repair of the imperial tombs of the Song Dynasty.
Shaoxing in the classics - a special exhibition of the classics of the Vietnamese Chinese
Venue: Xu Wei Art Museum
Exhibition period: December 29, 2022–February 28, 2023
Based on the 2,500-year-old cultural history of Shaoxing and relying on the classics collected by Shaoxing Library, this exhibition brings together 352 pieces of Vietnamese Chinese donated by important public and private units and private collections in Zhejiang Library and Tianyi Ge Museum in the province, which is the largest special exhibition of classics held in Shaoxing.
"Yu Yu Wenya" Western Zhou and Jin Kingdom Jade Boutique Exhibition
Location: Liangzhu Museum
Exhibition period: December 6, 2022—March 15, 2023
The exhibition attempts to strike at the true nature of jade, the beauty of stone, by showing the beauty of color, shape and line of Western Zhou jade. In this way, we can understand the cultural connotation of "gentleman is better than virtue in jade" and the historical value of "jade of etiquette", and we can discover and appreciate the beauty of Western Zhou jade with our own aesthetics.
Modern Confucianism - Special Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Shen Zengzhi's Death
Venue: Jiaxing Museum
Exhibition period: October 15, 2022—February 5, 2023
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Shen Zengzhi, a well-known scholar, poet and calligrapher at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Dynasty. "Confucianism in Modern Times – Special Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Shen Zengzhi's Death" is being held at the Jiaxing Museum in Zhejiang Province. The 170 exhibits focus on Shen Zengzhi's family, officials, friends, achievements, etc., showing the name of the late Qing generation of Confucianism as "filial piety for the family, pure ministers for the country, and foresight for the world".
Guangdong
The Confluence of North and South - Exhibition of Cultural Relics of the Bohai and Southern Han Kingdoms
Location: Nanyue King Museum
Session: From 4 January 2023
The Bohai Kingdom and the Southern Han Kingdom, separated by thousands of miles, are highly unified and inseparable from the culture of the Central Plains, which have had a huge impact on the urban construction, development and distribution pattern of the region. This exhibition is the first joint exhibition of cultural relics excavated from the ruins of Bohai and Southern Han Kingdom, and 178 excavated cultural relics are selected to comprehensively display the political, economic, cultural, religious and foreign exchanges of Bohai State and Southern Han Kingdom, allowing the audience to feel the Tang Yun (South) Han style in the archaeological achievements of the North and South.
Jiangsu
Great River Ancient Flow - Special Exhibition of Civilization in the Lower Yangtze River
Location: Nanjing Museum
Exhibition period: December 31, 2022——March 31, 2023
The civilization of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River has created the thousand-year-old cultural context of Jiangnan water towns and is an important source for the preservation of Chinese civilization. The exhibition shows the audience the origin and development of civilization in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the physical evidence of material and spiritual civilization at the peak of culture, and the colorful light and shadow of current urban civilization, including the seven-hole stone knife from 56,000 years ago, and the bronze mirror of the polo diagram of the Tang Dynasty.
Ancient Greeks: athletes, warriors and heroes
Venue: Suzhou Museum West Building
Exhibition period: December 25, 2022–February 25, 2024
"Glory to Greece, greatness to Rome." This quote comes from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "To Helen". In October this year, the temporary exhibition "Rome, City and Empire" in the West Hall of the Suzhou Museum came to an end. In late December, the museum will welcome the second exhibition in its "History of World Civilization" series, "The Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes."
Mountains and rivers travel far - the landscape of Jiangnan
Venue: Wu Culture Museum
Exhibition period: December 22, 2022—March 20, 2023
With the theme of "Mountains and Boats Travel Away", the exhibition displays more than 131 sets of related representative cultural relics, including ancient calligraphy and painting, ancient books, guqin, jade, porcelain, pottery, stone tools, bronze and other types, using the way of analyzing the relationship between landscape and water, to see how the ancients carried out spatial layout and ingenious management of landscapes, providing reference for shaping contemporary landscape cities.
Three Feet of Wind and Clouds - Spring and Autumn Wu Wang Fengfang Sword Special Exhibition
Location: Wuxi Museum
Exhibition period: November 25, 2022–February 17, 2023
King Wu's sword came from 2,500 years ago, and after years and vicissitudes, the sword was the same, the brilliance was still the same, and the heroism was still there; The charm it carries is more than a long time, and in the silence, it seems to contain a thousand words, about to tell us a legendary past of "sword and man".
Leju Chang'an - the life of the people of Chang'an, the capital of Tang
Venue: Changzhou Museum
Exhibition period: November 25, 2022——February 12, 2023
The exhibition is divided into seven units, focusing on the "city of Chang'an people", "people in Chang'an city", as well as the clothing, utensils, food, travel and entertainment of Chang'an people in the Tang capital, showing the daily life of the people of Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty.
How to stop the eight monsters - three hundred years of Yangzhou painting
Venue: Grand Canal Museum of China, Yangzhou
Exhibition period: January 2, 2023——March 31, 2023
With the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" as the core and the painters who lived in or were born in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, the exhibition displays nearly 90 masterpieces of Yangzhou painting in the Qing Dynasty, telling the magnificent rise and fall of Yangzhou painting in the Qing Dynasty. Among the more than 40 painters, there are not only the well-known "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" such as Jin Nong, Zheng Xie and Li Li, but also the remnant painters who had a great influence on the Yangzhou painting scene such as Zhu Shibiao and Shi Tao, as well as professional painters such as Gu Fushu and Li Yin who have close ties with the salt merchant group.
Seeing the beauty of the Yongle Palace - the beauty of the world
Venue: Grand Canal Museum of China, Yangzhou
Exhibition period: September 30–February 5, 2022
This special exhibition will comprehensively display 171 pieces (groups) of Yongle Palace's heirloom products, covering the architecture, murals, sculptures and other precious art of Yongle Palace, enter the mountain gate, step on the green brick and stone path 700 years ago, and appreciate the beauty of Yongle Palace together.
Looking back at 50 years - an exhibition of cultural relics excavated from the Han tomb of Mawangdui
Venue: Suzhou Museum
Exhibition period: October 18, 2022–January 29, 2023
From 1972 to 1974, the Hunan Provincial Museum and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly excavated the Mawangdui Han Tomb that shocked the world, and more than 3,000 precious cultural relics were unearthed in the three tombs, including lacquered wood, painted pottery, bronze, handwritten paintings, silk clothing and other more than a dozen types, among which the body of Mrs. Xin Chai unearthed in Tomb No. 1 was complete in appearance, moist all over the body, and even the fingerprints of hands and feet were still clearly visible, which can be called an immortal miracle that lasted for two thousand years.
Yunnan
After the view
Venue: Kunming Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition period: December 31, 2022–March 4, 2023
Whether as an appendage or as a subject, landscape is a kind of land as a medium, a land that has been aesthetically processed. Through the landscape, we see our relationship with the world, with others, and even with ourselves. This exhibition focuses on landscape-related artistic creation in Yunnan in recent years, from painting to multimedia creation, from painting to multimedia creation, from which we can see the tradition of landscape art and its evolution, the inheritance of modernism and the exploration of local experiments.
Hunan
Visiting the Moonlight Mountain - Beijing Painting Academy Collection Qi Baishi Fine Exhibition
Venue: Hunan Art Museum
Exhibition period: January 10, 2023——April 10, 2023
The exhibition gathers more than 140 original works, covering painting, calligraphy, seal carving, literature and many other categories. Through the four sections of "Xiangtan people in Changsha, China", "Peach Blossom Pond water is as deep as promised", "Thousands of miles of countryside and mountains have road access", and "each has its own heart can not forget", it tells the love between Qi Baishi and the fish and water in his hometown Hunan.
The Land of Square Circle - Hunan Museum Collection Copper Mirror Exhibition
Location: Hunan Museum
Exhibition period: December 8, 2022–December 2023
The exhibition selects more than 200 copper mirrors in its collection, basically covering the main types of mirrors in various historical periods from the Warring States to the Ming and Qing dynasties, aiming to present the development context of copper mirrors for the audience through the display of the shapes, ornaments and inscriptions of copper mirrors in different eras, reveal the vigorous vitality of copper mirrors for thousands of years, and show their cultural connotations.
Anhui
Bright Starlight - Lingjiatan Cultural Exhibition
Location: Anhui Museum New Building
Exhibition period: December 7, 2022—March 6, 2023
The Lingjiatan site is the largest and most complete Neolithic central settlement site in the Chaohu basin in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and more than 1,100 high-specification jade tools unearthed represent the highest level of jade culture in the same period of the Neolithic Yangtze River basin. The exhibition exhibits 194 cultural relics, which not only present 27 cultural relics unearthed from the Lingjiatan site in the Palace Museum, but also present the same type of cultural relics of the Hongshan culture and Liangzhu culture, which are the three prehistoric centers of jade control.
Shanxi
Danqing Trail - Jinjin Museum Collection Yangzhou School Painting Exhibition
Location: Shanxi Museum
Exhibition period: January 5——March 19, 2023
The exhibition selects more than 60 paintings by more than 10 painters of the Yangzhou School collected by the Tianjin Museum and Shanxi Museum, which are divided into three units: "Literati Gather and Lead the New Style", "Pen and Ink Vertical and Horizontal Tailoring", and "Humorous and True Interest, Colorful and Colorful", showing the artistic achievements of the Yangzhou School.
And listen to the phoenix song - the past and present lives of the Jin Marquis Bird Venerable
Venue: Shanxi Bronze Museum
Exhibition period: November 18, 2022—February 5, 2023
Jinhou Bird Zun is the "treasure of the town hall" of the Shanxi Museum. Centered on Jinhou Bird Venerable, this exhibition will focus on the cultural relics and materials related to the tomb of the first generation of Jin Hou Xie's father and his wife collected by Shanxi Museum, Shanxi Institute of Archaeology, Peking University Sackler Museum of Archaeology and Art, etc., with 65 groups of precious cultural relics and more than 100 sets of auxiliary exhibits, discussing the value of Jin Hou Bird Zun in history, art, scientific and technological protection, communication and utilization.
The Classic of the Plate - Shang Zhou Bronze Plate Special Exhibition
Location: Shanxi Museum
Exhibition period: November 18, 2022–February 26, 2023
The exhibition selects 20 exquisite bronze plates and related cultural relics from the Shang Dynasty to the Warring States period, most of which are national first-class cultural relics. The exhibition focuses on the Tibetan and Jin public plates of the Shanxi Museum, presenting the practical functions and symbolic significance of bronze plates in ritual society, such as washing, sacrifice, funeral assistance, and dowry, and then explaining the important role of bronze civilization in the evolution of Chinese civilization.
Sichuan
Looking back at the eastern slope - Su Shi themed cultural relics special exhibition
Location: Sichuan Museum
Exhibition period: November 29, 2022——March 5, 2023
The exhibition brings together 274 cultural relics related to Su Shi from 39 cultural and museum units, including the Palace Museum, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Museum, Jilin Provincial Museum, Lushun Museum, China Jiangnan Water Town Museum, Suzhou Museum, Sansu Temple Museum, Sichuan Museum, etc., including 39 first-class cultural relics, including Song Huizong's "Lamei Double Bird Map", Su Shi's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map", "Yang Xian Post" handscroll, "Dongting Spring Color Fu Zhongshan Song Mash Fu" and so on.
Canton export fans: Chinese fashion in the 18th and 19th centuries
Venue: Chengdu Museum
Exhibition period: January 12—March 31, 2023
This exhibition selects 97 pieces (sets) from the classic collection of the Guangdong Provincial Museum, showing the "Made in China" of fan art in the context of global trade and interpreting the Chinese style contained in export fans.
One Hundred Years of Infinity - Exhibition of Authentic Works of Art Masters in the Collection of the Italian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Venue: Chengdu Museum
Exhibition period: November 26, 2022—February 26, 2023
The exhibition brings together 62 works by 46 Western modern and contemporary art masters such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Degas, Matisse, Kandinsky, Chirico and Morandi, among which Van Gogh's "The Gardener" is the first time his works have been exhibited in Chengdu.
Guangzhou
The 9th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Cities\Architecture
Location: Shenzhen Yuehai City Golden Beer Workshop (formerly Jinwei Brewery)
Exhibition period: December 10, 2022 - March 2023
The exhibition has set up five main blocks of "How to Cohabit", "Journey of Objects and Spirits", "Universal Dialogue", "Future Settlement" and "Common Action", special sections composed of six units of "Traces of Ten Thousand Sounds", "Book Curation", "Universal Uniform", "Circular Co-creation", "Stray Animal Home" and "Art Museum Linkage Plan", three thematic pavilions of "UABB Brand Pavilion", "Hong Kong Pavilion" and "Lo Wu Pavilion", as well as the permanent exhibition "Made in Place", focusing on the green and sustainable development of contemporary cities from the three dimensions of cognition, method and action. Focusing on urban coping strategies in the context of global climate change, we explore the way of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Ancient glass art along the Silk Roads
Venue: Shenzhen Museum
Exhibition period: December 23, 2022 - April 6, 2023
The exhibition presents 325 pieces (sets) of glassware collected by the Ikuo Hirayama Silk Road Museum in Japan, and displays a group of glassware excavated in China side by side, reproducing the colorful glass world along the ancient Silk Road, reflecting the exchange, collision and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations.
Taipei
Write all the prosperity - the late Ming cultural man Wang Shizhen and his career
Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei
Exhibition period: December 28, 2022–March 21, 2023
With 133 pieces (groups) of treasures from the courtyard's collection, the exhibition shows the wonderful life and career of Wang Shizhen (1526-1590), an important historian and literary scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and then glimpses the cultural grandeur of the late Ming Dynasty, understands the cultural life full of creativity and diversified competition at that time, and sees through the eyes of Wang Shizhen's historians.
Japan
Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit
Venue: Tokyo National Museum
Exhibition period: January 2 – January 29, 2023
In 2023, the year of the rabbit, the museum will display 42 pieces of art and crafts related to the rabbit, leading viewers to admire rabbits in different shapes and explore the beautiful meanings given to rabbits in East Asia to welcome the arrival of the new year.
United Kingdom
Create modernism
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Period: Until February 12, 2023
It was the UK's first major exhibition dedicated to pioneering German women artists of the early 20th century. The exhibition features groundbreaking work by women artists such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, who redefine themes such as self-portraits, still lifes, female bodies, childhood depictions, landscapes, and more. Although not as well known as male peers such as Kandinsky (Gabriel Mutter's husband), they were also central to the radical Art Nouveau developments in Europe.
Lucien Freud: New perspectives
Location: National Gallery, UK
Exhibition period: October 1, 2022 - January 22, 2023
To celebrate Lucian Freud's 100th birthday, the National Gallery will host its first major Freudian solo exhibition in nearly 10 years, featuring more than 60 works, showcasing the artist's creative journey and relentless exploration of painting techniques over the past 70 years.
France
Unexpected conversation: Monet and Fair
Venue: Mamotan Art Museum
Exhibition period: November 15, 2022–June 25, 2023
Themed "The Narrative Potential of Landscape Painting", the exhibition features two works by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, Bridges to Europe: Gare Saint-Lazare and Yellow Iris Fields in Giverny, and a series of 240 gouaches by Swiss painter Marc-Antoine Fehr in Le Pays sans fin. Starting from Paris Gare Saint-Lazare, visitors will follow the exhibition hall wall and experience the unknown journey in a visual and physical sense, as if looking out the window from a train.
Still objects: Still life paintings from ancient times to the present day
Location: Louvre
Exhibition period: October 12, 2022–January 23, 2023
Themed "Still Life", the exhibition presents nearly 170 paintings, sculptures, photography and video works, comprehensively combing the development and evolution of still life art from prehistoric times to the 21st century.
Uzbekistan: the glow of an oasis
Location: Louvre
Exhibition period: November 23, 2022–March 6, 2023
180 precious cultural relics from Uzbekistan, Europe and the United States are exhibited, focusing on the history and culture of this oasis in Central Asia. Exhibits include the Silk Road relics mural "Ambassador's Hall Mural", the oldest Quran in Uzbekistan, masterpieces of miniature paintings from the 16th-century Bukhara Academy, sculptures and gold artifacts from the archaeological site of Darfurzinchu, as well as silverware, silk, ceramics, etc.
The Art of Gold: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Treasures
Venue: L'ÉCOLE Center for Jewelry Art
Exhibition period: December 1, 2022——April 14, 2023
Featuring nearly 300 pieces of ancient Eurasian and Chinese gold jewellery from 1500 BC to 1700 AD, this exhibit outlines China's gold craftsmanship spanning 3,000 years and explains the four main metalworking techniques, including hammering and engraving, casting, beading, gold wire and threading wire.
Germany
Flowers and birds in the snow: a picture of the Japanese season
Venue: Berlin State Museum
Exhibition period: December 14, 2022——March 13, 2023
The exhibition focuses on Japanese paintings from the collection of the Asian Art Museum in Berlin, covering winter flowers, birds and plants, snowy scenes, New Year's customs and other themes, and highlights include works by famous Japanese ukiyo-e painters Hiroshige Utagawa (1797-1858) and Kitagawa Kaki (1753-1806).
United States
New York Art World (1870-1890)
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition period: December 12, 2022——October 29, 2023
Set in New York City in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century, the exhibition investigates the modern art scene in New York after the Civil War, exposing the life of artists during the period of social and economic change through about 50 paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative crafts, and showing the aesthetic trends and innovations of modern art in the United States in the late 19th century.
Cubism and trompe l'oeil tradition
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Duration: Until January 22, 2023
Cubism's founders, George Braque and Picasso, replaced perspective with a new pictorial space. In 1911, they added letters and wood grain to the picture; In 1912, they glued newspapers, wallpaper and other materials to the surface. Their fellow traveler, Juan Gris, went further, inserting ancient carvings into the work, creating pictures within pictures.
The exhibition offers a whole new perspective on Cubism—Braque, Griss and Picasso all imitate classic trompe l'oeil painting and invent new ways to confuse viewers.
The Life of the Gods: Deities in Mayan Art
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition period: November 21, 2022–April 2, 2023
Featuring Mayan mythology, the exhibition features some 120 artifacts and artworks from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, showcasing how the Maya depicted gods in imaginative ways, creating a world in which gods, humans and nature coexisted.
Elephant-headed God: The god of the beginning
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition period: November 19, 2022—February 25, 2024
Featuring the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha, the exhibition features 24 paintings, sculptures, musical instruments, ritual objects and photographs dating from the 7th to the 21st century, showcasing rich depictions of the head gods in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
Pleasing luxury: Chinese lacquerware art
Location: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Duration: Until July 3, 2023
The exhibition is divided into two sections, "Tradition and Technology" and "Symbols and Forms", and displays a total of 27 pieces of Chinese lacquerware in the museum's collection, including court treasures, literati supplies, luxury goods, furniture, etc., clearly and richly presenting the unique luxury and beauty of Chinese lacquerware to the audience.