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/Feb/12

Urban Intimacy


O-Gallery will hold a one-night-only exhibition of the work of Shanghai based photographer Stephane Ferrero. Expect highly detailed visions of urban modernity set alongside sensual soft focus images of the human body. Free...

On Feb 09, O-Gallery
 

Film Screening: P.S. I Love You


Vienna Cafe continue their Thursday night screenings in February, this time honoring Valentine's Day and based around the theme of love. P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American drama film directed by Richard LaGravenese, based on...

On Feb 09, Vienna Café
 

Film Screening: WALL-E


Continuing their February of love, Vienna Cafe will screen 2008 Pixar's computer-animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film, WALL-E. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered...

On Feb 16, Vienna Café
 

Fang Wei


In his watercolors and oil paintings, Fang Wei blurs the line between various mediums and traditions to create works that challenge basic assumptions about perception, transforming otherwise conventional subject matter into...

From Feb 18, Shanghai Gallery of Art
 

Film Screening: I Love You Philip Morris


Continuing their month of romantic cinema, Vienna Cafe will present I Love You Phillip Morris, a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film based on the 1980s and '90s real-life story of con artist, impostor, and multiple prison...

On Feb 23, Vienna Café
 

Service Design Jam: Shanghai


Design strategy company CBi China Bridge will host Shanghai's very first Service Design Jam this February, part of a global series of events that sees teams from across the world sign up to the challenge to develop and prototype...

From Feb 24, CBi China Bridge
 

Shanghai Erotic Fiction


Local indie publishers HAL introduce the second installment of the annual Erotic Fiction showdown, this time opening the 10th edition of the Shanghai International Literary Festival - details of that here. The event will see...

On Feb 29, Glamour Bar
 

Shanghai International Literary Festival


Now in its tenth year, the Shanghai International Literary Festival returns to M on the Bund, promising readings and talks led by the likes of Caitlin Reilly, Amy Tan, Jeff Fuchs, Barbara Demick and cartoonist Matt Groening. For...

From Feb 29, M on the Bund
 
 

/Mar/12

Night Market


Part of the ongoing JUE festival, the monthly night market returns to Dada in March, promising once again a whole host of local designers, creators and makers selling their wares. This time round, expect the likes of cool fashion...

On Mar 21, Dada
 

Vhils Solo Show


Following a one month long action in the city of Shanghai, VHILS' solo show at 18 Gallery will showcase his unusual work, chisels-carved walls, acid-engraved metal and laser-cut posters. Through the destruction of walls, the...

From Mar 31, 18 Gallery
 

Ongoing

Fold III: USELESS / Upcycling

The third installment of Art+ Gallery's art and design exhibition series focuses on Shanghai-based artists and designers Gu Yeli, Jonas Merian, Nial O'Connor and Nicole Teng, who use recycling principles as the foundation of...

Until Feb 05, Art + Shanghai
 

Cui Jie, Li Shurui, Zhang Jungang & Li Jie

Cui Jie, Li Shurui, Zhang Jungang & Li Jie features recent works by Beijing-based Cui Jie and Li Shurui, as well as Harbin-based duo Zhang Jungang & Lijie, and gives a perceptive account of the relationship between their life and...

Until Feb 05, Leo Xu Projects
 

MAN: Chen Man

In her largest solo show ever to be held in China, Chen Man manages to combine mainstream ideas and artistic creation in her surreal and highly engaging contemporary fashion photography. The MoCA exhibition discusses the...

Until Feb 07, MoCA
 

Ruby, Roxy Enter the Dragon

Ruby, Roxy Enter the Dragon is the third in a series of exhibitions and events presented by Ruby and Roxy for the festive season. Twenty multimedia artists from China and the world celebrate Chinese New Year in the hues of red,...

Until Feb 28, Studio Rouge
 

Hung Liu Solo Exhibition

Chinese history has long been at the core of Hung Liu's work. This winter, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center present an exhibition of the artist's oil paintings: inspired by historic Chinese photographs, she desires both "to...

Until Feb 29, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center
 

KADIST: Pathways into a Collection

Minsheng Art Museum will host KADIST: Pathways into a Collection, an exhibition comprising artworks from the Kadist collection. The show displays gestures of individuality and autonomy in the context of meta-narratives and...

Until Mar 04, Minsheng Art Museum
 

Lu Yanpeng: Open Air

This atmospheric collection of photographs won Beijing-based artist Lu Yanpeng the top award of Best Photographer at the 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival. Born in 1984, he is the youngest artist ever to receive...

Until Mar 04, m97 Gallery
 

Huang Xiaoliang: Jungle Diary

m97 Gallery present the black-and-white photographs by award-winning photographer Huang Xiaoliang, whose imagery ranges from the natural through to the post-industrial. The artist plays around with shadows, some of which are real...

Until Mar 04, m97 Gallery
 

Cold Comfort

OV Gallery presents a group exhibition examining the psychological, social and symbolic connotations of the season. Working across a variety of media, the international and Chinese artists featured include Chai Yiming, Chen...

Until Mar 18, OV Gallery
 

Illusionary Reality: 2012 Miro Print Exhibition

Comprising some 170 of the Catalan master's prints, this exhibition features works spanning almost five decades of Joan Miró's (1893-1983) prolific career. Widely credited as an early forefather of Surrealism, Miró took an...

Until Apr 03, Shanghai Art Museum