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This group show, featuring works from Rongjun Dou, Sen Lin and Qinghua Xiang, is focused on the ways in which these artists explore and interpret their environment – both the natural kind, as well as the social construct. For example, Rongjun Dou's complex portraits bring out the personality of the protagonists in a complex social environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This newly opened art museum is one of the most exciting happenings on Shanghai’s art scene this year. The inaugural exhibition, “Myth/ History” includes more than 100 works drawn from businessman and Yuz Museum founder, Budi Tek’s personal collection. The Indonesian billionaire has opened the museum in order to share his considerable collection of contemporary art with the Chinese public.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAM has given all six of its floors over to “Advance Through Retreat”, a new exhibition that attempts to show the

ways in which retreat has been employed throughout history as an effective strategy of resistance. This background is then used to explore the development of China’s art world, and in particular, its attitude to traditional methodologies.

 

 

 

A pioneer of Shanghai’s photographic galleries, OFOTO has long been a champion of up-and-coming Chinese photographers, but its latest group show has more of an international flavour. Featuring artists including Cao Yingbin, Chen Zanyun, Luo Yongjin and Christopher Taylor, the subject of the show, is, unsurprisingly, pagodas. Photographed on hilltops and serenely nestled in forests, as well as those located in less obvious settings.