ShanghART Moves Away from West Bund
Exhibition Name: Ten Years - ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024
Exhibition Venue: Building 8, West Bund Art Center (2555 Longteng Avenue)
Public Transportation: Metro Line 11, Yunjin Road Station, Binjiang No.1
Exhibition Dates: June 1, 2024 to June 10, 2024
Exhibition Tickets: Free and no reservation required
Exhibition Introduction: The exhibition features over sixty works by 53 artists/groups, spanning mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and video. These works serve as 'evidence,' selected from each exhibition and project held at ShanghART's West Bund space over the past ten years since its opening in 2015, 'witnessing' the history of the space through the timeline. Additionally, the exhibition reviews nearly a hundred important exhibitions held by ShanghART artists at the West Bund space and globally over the past decade, gathering more than 40 related publications and representative visual materials.
Mist's Words: Borrowing a lyric, 'A long sigh and then turning away.' This exhibition announces that galleries like ShanghART and Shanchu are leaving West Bund. Mist considers himself a viewer nurtured by the West Bund Center. Back then, due to its proximity to home, he often wandered around the West Bund Art Center, starting with viewing the river scenery, then the unique landscape of small houses and green trees, and finally slowly getting into exhibitions, learning about the knowledge behind them, writing exhibition impressions, photoshopping and recombining exhibits, and eventually making exhibition viewing a hobby. Alas! Xuhui exhibition viewers lament, the West Bund art line that Xuhui people took pride in will disappear.