During the "May Day" period, Shanghai, as the "first choice" for urban tourism and the key source of tourists during holidays, has become a destination that the majority of tourists yearn for. Shanghai will launch nearly 180 "Happy Shanghai May Day" holiday cultural tourism selection activities in 8 major sections, including "watching cultural museums, watching art exhibitions, appreciating good dramas, listening to songs, coming to sea examinations, enjoying aesthetic education, visiting scenic spots, and tasting food", so that many citizens and tourists can enjoy the holiday. Now, let's take a look at the exhibition guide and watch the art exhibition together!
Look at the art exhibition
Event Name: Chinese Landscape - Lin Fengmian and Wu Guanzhong Art Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - May 5
Venue: China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum)
Brief introduction: The first large-scale two-person exhibition of the two art masters highlights the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding artistic achievements at home and abroad, as well as the national self-confidence of adhering to the position of Chinese culture in the exchange of civilizations and mutual learning of cultures, and demonstrates the inherent vitality of Chinese culture in the exchange of beauty and beauty, integrity and innovation, and the influence and appeal in international cultural exchanges.
Event Name: Printmaking • Silk Road - 2024 Shanghai International Print Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - May 20
Venue: China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum)
Brief introduction: The exhibition takes the spread and influence of traditional Chinese prints along the ancient "Silk Road" as a clue, displays the latest creative achievements of the most famous contemporary printmakers in the countries along the Silk Road, highlights the influence of traditional Chinese prints on the world, and reveals the great significance and historical value of the Silk Road for the dissemination of Chinese culture and art.
Event Name: Asking Every Day - Hu Xiangcheng Solo Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - June 9
Venue: Power Station of Art
Brief introduction: Hu Xiangcheng's art transcends the boundaries of culture, region, material and form, like the migration of migratory birds, he walks non-stop, with a special artistic language, looking for answers about the future between man and society, man and nature. At PSA, ask the world with Hu Xiangcheng!
Event Title: A Century of Rhapsody: A Surrealist Masterpiece from the National Gallery of Scotland
Activity time: from now on - August 31
Venue: Museum of Art Pudong
Brief introduction: The exhibition brings together Dalí, Magritte, Ernst and other surrealist masters, and presents about 120 heavyweight works in various forms of media such as painting, sculpture, rubbing, collage, photography, manuscripts and books, connecting a celebration of the centennial of surrealism.
Event Name: The Last Aristocrats – 18th-Century European Masters from the Uffizi Collection
Activity time: from now on - August 25
Venue: Dongyi Art Museum
Brief introduction: The exhibition selects 80 authentic works from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Italy, bringing together the blockbuster works of more than 50 art giants such as Goya, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Boucher, Chardin, etc., and reproduces the great artistic legacy left by the Medici family to the world through painting, aristocratic jewelry, handicrafts, sculpture and other forms.
Event Name: Titian and the God of Flowers: Masterpieces from the Venetian School of Painting at the Uffizi Gallery
Activity time: from now on - July 28
Venue: Dongyi Art Museum
Introduction: This exhibition is the third exhibition of the strategic cooperation between Dongyi Art Museum and the Uffizi Art Museum in Italy, presenting a total of 49 masterpieces from the collection of the Uffizi Art Museum in Italy, among which Titian's most famous work "Flower God" was unveiled for the first time in Chinese mainland.
Activity Name: Landscape Tour
Activity time: from now on - June 2
Venue: Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai
Brief introduction: The exhibition explores the inheritance and transformation of traditional Chinese "landscapes" in contemporary times, and shows the infinite possibilities of "travel" in multi-media and cross-media. The paintings, photography, videos, and installations of 12 contemporary artists, including Yu Youhan, Cao Xiaoyang, You Dongquinone, and Yang Qirui, were exhibited, opening an artistic journey full of inspiration and thinking.
Event Title: Portrait Reflection - Collection of the Centre Pompidou (3)
Activity period: from now until November 5, 2024
Venue: West Bund Art Museum
Introduction: The exhibition explores the history of modern and contemporary art through portraits of different identities, fields or social statuses, and depicts the historical development of "portrait" as a creative technique and its transformation in art history.
Event Name: "Thousands of Miles of Books, Voices of the Rivers and Mountains" Theme Immersive AR Exhibition
Activity time: May 1st - May 5th
Venue: Shanghai Library East
Brief introduction: AR technology is used to integrate traditional art, audio works, historical images and historical documents with real-life exhibitions, time and space through the plot and offline puzzle-solving interaction, and connect the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and the novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which arouses readers' infinite imagination of the future "beautiful scenery of rivers and mountains" in Shanghai, a city of people.
Event Name: The main venue of the 2024 Shanghai (International) Flower Show in Lingang
Activity time: from now on - May 22
Location: Spring and Autumn Colors, Lingang Center, Dingke, South Island
Brief introduction: Relying on the platform of the Shanghai International Flower Show, it integrates "urban garden + new excellent plants + horticultural culture + experience interaction", displays the world's high-quality flower and green plant resources in one stop, enhances the heat of the main venue of Lingang through a series of immersive exhibition experiences, and forms the theme concept of the city's flower show.
Event Name: 2024 Shanghai (International) Flower Exhibition Lingang Main Venue Shanghai Illustration (Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage) Exhibition
Activity time: May 1st - May 7th
Location: Dishui Lake Wharf
Brief introduction: In June 2019, Shanghai-style flower arrangement was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage projects in Shanghai, which is a business card of Shanghai's garden culture and art. The main venue of the 2024 Shanghai (International) Flower Fair Lingang will include intangible cultural heritage Shanghai flower arrangements in the display content, and a total of 21 floral works (including 2 extra-large outdoor floral works) will be arranged at Dishui Lake Wharf.
Event title: "The Glorious Age: Spanish Pastelles at the Prado Museum"
Activity time: from now on - September 1
Venue: Museum of Art Pudong
Description: This exhibition is the largest exhibition held by the Prado Museum in China, and it is also a special project for the Pudong Art Museum. The exhibition presents 70 authentic paintings from the Prado Museum's collection, of which 16 are leaving Spain for the first time, 9 are leaving the Prado Museum for the first time, and more than half of the exhibited works are touring to Asia for the first time. Spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, the "Glorious Age" showcases the works of some 50 outstanding European artists, including Titian, Veronese, El Greco, Rubens, Subalang, Velázquez, Mulero, Ribera, Goya, Fortuny, Sorolla and many others.
Event Name: Tan Jianci settled in Shanghai Tussauds, and the May Day limited blessing was opened
Activity time: May 1st - May 5th
Location: Madame Tussauds Shanghai
Brief introduction: Madame Tussauds Shanghai ushered in another new celebrity wax figure - multi-habitat artist Tan Jianci, and joined hands with Tan Jianci to officially unveil the mystery of the new "Light and Shadow Fashion Fashion Zone", and Tan Jianci wax figure has also become the first wax figure in the area. Participate in the Tan Kenji #Subject MT Challenge# in the museum now for a chance to win a variety of gifts such as Tan Kenji's autograph, and you can get a commemorative ticket stub and a random postcard when you purchase a [Colorful Dance Ticket]. In addition, the new "Light and Shadow Fashion Zone" is inspired by the new Shanghai fashion neon light and shadow and the old Shanghai style golden dream, and a number of celebrities have settled in to bring a new happy check-in experience, unlocking the new gameplay of contemporary special forces. During the May Day holiday, you can enjoy a free postcard service once (except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) when you buy any postcard in the gift shop, and put your blessings in the mailbox so that love and hope will not be missed.
Event Name: 2024 Shanghai (International) Flower Show
Activity time: from now on - May 22
Location: Shanghai Botanical Garden, Xuhui Riverside, Lingang New Town
Brief introduction: The 2024 Shanghai (International) Flower Show will take "Moon Season" as the theme flower and "Flower 'Hui' to make Shanghai more beautiful" as the slogan, and the main venue will be expanded beyond the Shanghai Botanical Garden for the first time to Xuhui Binjiang and Lingang New Area. Among them, the Shanghai Botanical Garden is the "origin" of the flower show, spreading the beauty of horticulture by sowing the "green seeds" of scientific and technological innovation. The Xuhui Riverside represents the artistic height of Shanghai, and the theme of "Converging West Bund" is to bring horticultural art to the public. The theme of "Blossoming Youth City" means that the ecological concept ripples around young people, and shows the prosperity of the "Young City" through "flowers".
Event Title: "Book Love: Ba Jin and Books" Photo Exhibition and Lecture
Activity time: May 1st - May 5th
Location: Tianshan Branch, Changning District Library
Brief introduction: Mr. Ba Jin is an outstanding Chinese literary master in the 20th century and a giant in the contemporary Chinese literary circle. His words are full of affection and sexuality, full of deep love and contemplation for the world. The year 2024 marks the 120th anniversary of Mr. Ba Jin's birth, and the Changning District Reading Festival commemorates Mr. Ba Jin's literary life and literary spirit by holding a photo exhibition entitled "Love of Books: Ba Jin and Books". This exhibition will display Mr. Ba Jin's pictures related to reading, as well as precious objects related to Ba Jin's book collection and book purchase, from which you can feel Mr. Ba Jin's joy of reading and collecting books. On the afternoon of May 4th, Professor Yang Jianlong, Director of the Urban Culture Research Center of Shanghai Normal University, was invited to share "The Road of Youth Literature of Ba Jin and His Contemporaries" to readers, to feel the literary creation life of literary masters, and to understand the "power of youth" across the times.
Event Name: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - The Engraving of Time - Luo Guirong's Works Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - May 5
Location: Changning Culture and Art Center
Brief introduction: In order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the exhibition focuses on more than 70 woodblock prints by Luo Guirong, a researcher of the Printmaking Committee of the China National Academy of Painting, since the 90s of the last century.
Event Name: Wang Xingyun Solo Exhibition "glitch time"
Activity time: from now on - June 6
Location: M50 Creative Park
Brief introduction: Wang Xingyun was born in Beijing in 1997 and now lives in New York. Through painting on paper, her abstract work delves into feminism, queer culture, and cross-cultural experiences, providing a profound exploration of personal and psychological narratives. Wang's artistic process involves layering thin sheets of paper to create surfaces with intertwined textures between fragility and resilience, creating a subtle interaction that reflects the body and the landscape.
Event Name: "Virtual @ Reality" Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - May 15
Location: Shanghai Zhenru Unipark MAX
Brief introduction: Shanghai Zhenru Unipark MAX collaborated with Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University to create the "Virtual @ Reality" exhibition. The "Virtual@Reality" exhibition is not only an artistic display, but also a collision of ideas and cultural exchanges. We hope that every audience can find their own answers in this exhibition and feel the infinite possibilities brought by the combination of art and technology. Let's walk into this world where virtual and reality are intertwined, explore, discover, and create, and witness the glory and progress of this era together.
Event Title: Listening to the Road: Chinese Contemporary Sound Art Practice
Activity time: from now until June 16
Location: Exhibition hall on the first floor of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Brief introduction: The exhibition takes 2010, the first decade of the new century, as the time buoy, and takes the exhibition in the vision of contemporary art as a clue, through documents and archives to review the local process of sound art in China, observe the creative evolution of Chinese sound artists, and think about the current artistic ecology and future possibilities of sound art.
Event Title: "Color Lab: Colorless" Special Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - June 31
Venue: Shanghai Museum of Glass
Introduction: Transparent glass not only plays an indispensable role in our daily life and technological progress. Through 10 sets of exhibits, the exhibition will deeply analyze the transparent nature of glass, encouraging visitors to examine and immerse themselves in these seemingly intangible but ubiquitous dimensions of transparency, and rethink diverse issues such as disappearance, memory, humor, and illusion.
Event Name: Zhang Jiasu Art Education and Art Exhibition
Activity time: May 1st - May 5th
Location: Minhang District Mass Art Museum
Brief introduction: The exhibition collects the art education literature and works of Mr. Zhang Jiasu, a special grade teacher of fine arts, and aims to give art teachers the guidance of professional growth, and give the society an aesthetic feeling and a further understanding of the educational value of art education through the display of Mr. Zhang's achievements and growth process in art education and creation.
Event Name: Classic Antique Car Parade
Event time: May 1
Location: Jiading New Town core area, country park, rural tourism key village
Brief introduction: Gather the classic antique cars with a history of more than 100 years in the Shanghai Automobile Museum to form a parade team, and carry out parade activities in the core area of Jiading New Town, country parks, rural tourism key villages, etc., breaking the barriers of space and cultural exchanges, and narrowing the distance between automobile culture and the public.
Event Name: Appreciation of the 100-year history of automobile development and the theme exhibition of "100 Years of World Motor Sports".
Activity time: the end of April to August
Venue: Shanghai Automobile Museum
Brief introduction: Shanghai Automobile Museum will carry out activities such as "Automobile Culture Science Popularization Activity Season", "'Create' Want You, Embrace 'Leopard' Auto Expo" and "Car Friends Sharing Meeting" to present the audience with several wonderful moments of the century-old development of automobiles, show the historical features of the world's automobile sports in the past 130 years, dissect the real history, popularize the knowledge of automobile sports culture, and enrich the exhibition experience.
Event Name: The 6th Shanghai International Orchid Exhibition
Activity time: April 29 - May 12
Location: Chenshan Botanical Garden
Brief introduction: With the theme of "Orchid on the Sea", the orchid garden display, boutique individual orchid display, orchid theme activities, etc. will be launched.
Event Name: "Restoration Diary II - The Unfading Red" Red Classic Oil Painting Review and Restoration Technology Exhibition
Activity time: from now on - May 19
Location: Fengxian Museum
Brief introduction: The exhibition exhibits more than 20 pieces of original red-themed oil paintings in different historical periods depicted by famous oil painting artists such as Liu Haisu, Hu Yichuan, Luo Gongliu, Yu Yunjie, Ma Hongdao, Qiu Ruimin, Wang Yongqiang, Chen Jian, etc., together with the scientific research achievements of Fengxian Museum and scientific institutions in the field of oil painting cultural relics detection, analysis and restoration, and introduces the historical knowledge of color science and pigment technology related to red. Awaken red memories with red classics, promote the inheritance of red spirit with the protection of red cultural relics, and contribute to telling Chinese stories well, building a cultural power and the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Activity Name: There is Light - Special Exhibition of "Star Map of the North and South of the Equator" Yanzi Academy Station
Activity time: from now on - May 26
Location: Yanzi Academy
Introduction: Xu Guangqi, the first person in the Chinese and Western Cultural Association, presided over the surveying and mapping of the "Equatorial North and South Star Map" is the earliest and largest Oriental royal star map in existence, and it is also the earliest large-scale Chinese all-day star map including the Antarctic sky region that has been seen in the world. In 2024, Yanzi Academy and Xujiahui Academy will jointly hold a special exhibition "There is Light" - "The General Star Map of the North and South of the Equator", aiming to pay tribute to Xu Guangqi and Yanzi, two great pioneers and thinkers, inherit their spirit of daring to accept ideological challenges and break with traditions, and promote their patriotic feelings of enriching the country and worrying about the people, and cherishing the world.
Activity Name: Visit Shenjia Garden and look back at the Nanliang-Nanqiao Historical Retrospective Exhibition
Activity time: from now until the end of May
Location: Shenjia Garden
Brief introduction: Nanqiao, formerly known as Nanliang, is located in the south of Shanghai, with a long history and a gathering of humanities. Chenglu was formed 5,000 years ago, and the market town was formed at the end of the Tang Dynasty. After the development of five dynasties, Song and Yuan dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was already an important town in Punan, and the Qing Dynasty was Fengxian County, which has been more than 100 years old, and is the political, economic and cultural center of Fengxian. Throughout the ages, this water town has given birth to a unique "virtuous culture", and many outstanding characters and places of interest have emerged. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has written a new chapter in the modernization of education, medical care, and industry. Let's follow the footsteps of time and trace the history of the old South Bridge together.
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