Shanghai Special Art Exhibition Highlights (Septemper 2026)
- Cathy Shen
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2026 Shanghai “Images on the Edge” Art Exhibition (painting, text, video, installation, and immersive spatial experiences)
Dates: Aug 15-Dec 13, 2026
Venue: Modern Art Museum Shanghai
“One Porcelain, One Color, One World: Special Exhibition of Ming and Qing Monochrome-Glazed Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection” (ancient porcelain)
Dates: Jul 18, 2026-Feb 14, 2027
Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum
“Beauties of Shanghai: Lin Fengmian and Shanghai-School Paintings of Elegant Women” (modern Chinese painting)
Dates: Aug 14-Nov 15, 2026
Venue: Art Museum of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy
“Chinese Contemporary Art Yearbook Exhibition (Shanghai) 2025” (contemporary art)
Dates: Aug 8-Oct 11, 2026
Venue: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
“Shanghai in Art” (modern and contemporary Chinese painting)
Dates: Ongoing
Venue: 49-meter-level Exhibition Hall, China Art Museum, Shanghai
“Breaking into Uncharted Territory: Fang Zengxian Retrospective” (contemporary Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, sculpture, watercolor, and more)
Dates: Aug 10-Nov 15, 2026
Venue: Prelude Hall and Central Hall on the 0-meter level, and Galleries 20-23, China Art Museum, Shanghai
“In Parallel: Abstract Art from Shanghai and Paris” (painting, photography, sculpture, and installation art)
Dates: Jul 30-Oct 18, 2026
Venue: China Art Museum, Shanghai
“Lina Bo Bardi: The Poetry of Survival” (architectural models, manuscripts, photographs, and furniture design)
Dates: Jul 25-Oct 25, 2026
Venue: 1st Floor, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
“Sculpting This Life: A Major Giacometti Exhibition” (drawings, prints, sculpture, painting, and more)
Dates: Jul 17-Dec 6, 2026
Venue: Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
“The Flowing Venetian Carnival — Glass Stress” (glass art)
Dates: Jul 18-Oct 18, 2026
Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum
“Garden, Stars, Path: Original Works by Emerging Young Artists” (contemporary art)
Dates: Jun 30-Oct 1, 2026
Venue: Hall 3, Powerlong Museum
“Collecting from the Margins” (contemporary texts and art)
Dates: Jul 16-Oct 8, 2026
Venue: Power Station of Art, Shanghai
“CHINA White” (white porcelain art)
Dates: Now through Oct 2026
Venue: 1st Floor, WorldSkills Museum
“Starlight of History: A Research Exhibition on the Chang’an School and the Shanghai School of Painting” (Chinese painting)
Dates: Jul 16-Sep 16, 2026
Venue: China Art Museum, Shanghai
“Wallace Chan: Objects from Another Realm” (sculpture and jewelry design)
Dates: Jul 18-Oct 25, 2026
Venue: Long Museum, West Bund
“A Noble Household: The Aesthetics and Cultivation of Life in the Mawangdui Han Tombs” (artifacts excavated from the Mawangdui Han tombs)
Dates: Jul 3-Oct 7, 2026
Venue: China Art Museum, Shanghai
“Giorgio Morandi: Monologue” (modern painting)
Dates: Jun 17-Oct 10, 2026
Venue: Museum of Art Pudong
“Realm of Color, Soul of Art: Exhibition Marking the 150th Anniversary of André Evard’s Birth” (modern painting)
Dates: Jun 12-Sep 20, 2026
Venue: Hall 1, Powerlong Museum
“On Humanity” Art Exhibition (cultural relics and artworks)
Dates: Apr 3-Sep 30, 2026
Venue: Shanghai Jia Art
“Echoes of the Eight Eccentrics: From the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou to Shanghai-School Art” (Chinese painting)
Dates: May 20, 2026-May 20, 2027
Venue: Gallery 5, 2nd Floor, Shanghai Haipai Art Museum
Youth Palace Art Exhibition (contemporary art)
Dates: Jun 1-Sep 20, 2026
Venue: Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
“Rodin: The Origins and Legacy of Modern Sculpture” (sculpture)
Dates: Ongoing
Venue: Building 1, 1929 Shibo Avenue, Pudong New Area (former French Pavilion, Shanghai Expo Cultural Park)
“Reshaping the Landscape”: A Centre Pompidou Collection Exhibition (Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction, conceptual art, and more)
Dates: Apr 29, 2025-Oct 18, 2026
Venue: West Bund Museum
Notes: The official introductions provided by the respective art galleries serve as the source of the information above.
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