Long Museum West Bund
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Expression
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT A retrospective exhibition featuring the works of the Chinese contemporary artist over the past three decades, the presentation is also a reflection of society and time, acting as a mirror for each viewer to see a unique reflection. Over 100 works are on display, including figure portraits from the 1990s - early 2000s; portraits…
Portraits
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT Portraiture as a subject matter is vast and significant. It encompasses depictions of individuals and groups, works that demonstrate high realistic skills, and pieces that reveal the inner world of people within the context of their time. Curated by Wang Wei, the exhibition is a grand display of over 300 selected portrait works over…
Trunk Road and Branch Roads
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT The German artist (1952-2013) was one of the most significant German artists of the post-war generation. As a prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer and photographer, he was renowned for his experimental and radical oeuvres that deeply engage with the modernist tradition. The current museum presentation brings together around 100 paintings made throughout the artist’s…
Xu Qu: Advent
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT The Chinese artist’s (b. 1978, China) first solo exhibition at the museum showcases his new large-scale installations. Also featured are multiple series of recent large-scale paintings. The highlighted installation - sharing the title of the exhibition - creates a scene of an extra-terrestrial descending onto a huge spacecraft. The artist used recycled components from…
The Name of Absence
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT The renowned Chinese contemporary artist (b. 9152, Beijing) is featured in this showcase, which comprises over 60 works done over 4 decades, bringing a new and revised discussion of his artistic journey. The presentation's first curatorial approach expands on the artist’s research in his most recent large-scale exhibition (2021) - in which he delved…
Zang Kunkun-Walking Here and Now
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT Curated by German curator and art historian Ruth Noack, the exhibition is a compilation of six series that have been strung together with visual clues and concepts. The artist's work has long revolved around the mundane nature of the contemporary city. Adopting public images and objects as his artistic vocabulary in a playful and…
a shorn root
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT In the British artist’s first solo exhibition in China, 20 of her works are showcased. While in the past, she has used oil sticks and pastels on unstretched canvases as her preferred form to present abstract motifs, colours, and textures, the present exhibition builds on top of that, focusing on the mouth as a…
Mayflies
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT The prominent Beijing-based Chinese artist (b.1958) is known for producing art that reflects the socio-cultural transformation of China over the past few decades. His works focus on the intersections between the individual and the collective, the private and the public, and between imagination and memory. The artist’s first exhibition in three years gathers over…
Spiritual Journey
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT This is the LA-based American artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Asia and comprises around 50 paintings that all contain the artist’s signature techniques and styles. From bold colours, stylised patterns, bright figuration, and unique calligraphic scripts, each of the works reveal something new about Mesler’s personal art journey. The exhibition features large-scale triptychs,…
Becoming Harmonious: The Art of Li Hongwei
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT Curated by Wang Wei, this is the China-based artist’s first solo exhibition in a Chinese museum. The exhibition features over twenty works, including sculptures and installations from a number of his previous series, from 'Allegory of Balance' to 'Upwelling of Gravity'. Along with these past works, the exhibition also features pieces from his latest…
Zhao Zhao
Long Museum West Bund 3398 Longteng Avenue, XuhuiWHAT As Zhao Zhao’s first large scale solo exhibition in Shanghai, the exhibition focuses on the artist's recent works and presents a few dozen of the most important pieces. The exhibition connects his Green, White, and Pink series from different periods, and also integrates his Western Trilogy with streetwear projects. As an important figure in a new generation…
