Visit SHANGHAI 🇨🇳 China Street Art, Galleries, Events

[Gentle Mental]

Hi on my way to shanghai. Any good gallery recommendations? I have only 3 houirs to shop before they wisk me away to work... Such is life of a corp slave.

[budoukiba]

Hi gentlemental,

I am living in Shanghai at the moment. I guess your best bet is to go to MoGanShan Lu. Its a large area of loads of galleries and there is some pretty good stuff there. Also, MoGan Shan Lu itself has a lot of street work running down it, which is quite difficult to find in Shanghai. Drop me a PM if you need any more help (although I will be out of town tonight). How long are you in Shanghai for?

[Pure Evil]

If you have time jump on a train and come up to Beijing... im having an AWESOME time up here it RULES... sleeper trains are super cheap.

www.flickr.com/photos/pureevilbunny

[budoukiba]

hey Pure Evil, have you done some pieces outside in Shanghai close to the train station? I have seen a few of your cat/dog thing around but wasn't sure if you or someone copying as they didnt look quite right

[Gentle Mental]

thanks for the tip offs. just got off work! it's past midnight! this town really never sleeps! jeez!

i'm leaving tomorrow afternoon... BUT i will check out the galleries in the morning! yus! what is THE artist of the moment? Is there a takashi murakami/banksy type in Shanghai? might just do some impulse buying...

your help will be very much appreciated...

[Dead Elvis]

gentlemental said:

what is THE artist of the moment?

Chinese Contemporary is hands-down the "art of the moment". Zhang Huan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Yue Minjun are a few of the people you should check out. I think they are all working from Beijing, but you should be able to find some amazing stuff in your area...

[Gentle Mental]

ah thank you! will drop these names and see what happens! good night. +1

[mcnuts]

gentlemental said:

ah thank you! will drop these names and see what happens! good night. +1

good luck... and if you see somethin you like, dont be afraid to drop about a million quid on a painting

[Deleted]

It might be the medication high I'm expriencing, but I've noticed that chinese contemporary art seems to be all over the news lately. I like some of it but, don't know enough about it. any recommendations on artists or sites to check out?

[James Smith 77]

Check out Zhang Huan. IMO he's one of the strongest in the movement.

[Michael Jacob]

takashi murakami is really hot right now

[BK83]

if you're into chinese graffiti check out the king of kowloon. I can't remember his exact name...

[BK83]

crazyjake said:

takashi murakami is really hot right now

Murakami is Japanese.and he's not "hot right now" he is just plain hot always. he is a leader in the contemporary arts movement worldwide...

[Deleted]

crazyjake said:

takashi murakami is really hot right now

I believe that murakami is Japanese, but yeah, he has some very pop culturish stuff.

Thanks guys for the tips!

[valdemar]

Amin!

I like this guy hiroyuki matsuura I think is art is a development from Nara and Murakami. I did bought 4 paintings for 1,5years ago grate pieces and it was a nice investment.

tokyo art gallery PTAP

[Rourke]

valdemar said:

Amin!

I like this guy hiroyuki matsuura I think is art is a development from Nara and Murakami. I did bought 4 paintings for 1,5years ago grate pieces and it was a nice investment.

tokyo art gallery PTAP

valdemar, have you any links.
Cheers ;D

[patrese]

i bought a couple of Han Yajuan's a few months ago, which have been selling very well at sotheby's this month...they are very different..kind of chinese and west culture fusion art...

[paulypaul]

Try here

www.andrewjamesart.com/artists.htm

[Rourke]

;D Thankyou paulypaul, for the link
Brilliant work

[valdemar]

Look at BTAP.com I have heard that he will have a solo show spring 08

/Valdemar

[jtk]

Check out Xioaqing Ding at Jonathan Levine in NY or Roq la Rue in Seattle. I picked this up at her Fall show at Roq la Rue, an original pastel on paper:

[James Smith 77]

A good number of Chinese Artists.
www.elikleinfineart.com

[robbsutt]

Check out Hideaki Kawashima...I can't take my eyes off his work.

[gozgoz]

whys there so many japanese names thrown up in a thread about chinese art???

[paulypaul]

gozgoz said:

whys there so many japanese names thrown up in a thread about chinese art???

Because people are lazy, culturally ignorant and arrogant. They don't bother to check their information and assume 'they' are all the same because the unfamiliar names sound similar to the western ear...

It's a very poor show....

[lostinshanghai]

Thanks Paulypaul for linking and mentioning my website above, I got a lot of traffic to my website because of it.
I now live in China dealing Chinese contemporary art which Amin said is very hot right now and also expensive. If you have any questions about chinese artists just ask away, I know most of them personally now and know what is good and bad here.
Checking out this forum is great, reminds me when I used to work in London for Bonhams and could buy original Banksy's for a grand even at auction.
Actually Bonhams are holding a new sale in London next year 5th Feb called "Urban Art" which will just be Banksy's, Faile, Paul Insect, Haring, Micallef etc. take a look, think you guys might fnd it interesting.
www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=urbanart

[mcnuts]

There was some talk on w a l l k a n d y about wang guangyi, what ya think about his stuff?

[lostinshanghai]

Hi McNuts
Wang Guangyi is recognised as one of the most famous and most important Chinese contemporary artists, he has produced a number of very important early works but the majority of his work is very average, one trick pony, political image different brand, this could go on forever. The quality of the paintings arent always great but the prints that have been produced are fantastic, the small flaws and errors in the original painting (I hate seeing the grid in pencil behind the paint) have been replaced by even flat colours that look great. Really eye catching pieces.
Dont get me wrong, great artist, some great works, lovely prints.

[gozgoz]

paulypaul said:

gozgoz said:

whys there so many japanese names thrown up in a thread about chinese art???

Because people are lazy, culturally ignorant and arrogant. They don't bother to check their information and assume 'they' are all the same because the unfamiliar names sound similar to the western ear...

It's a very poor show....

thanks for vocalising exactly what i thought. geez. it made me well pisssed off.

anyways, back to the point, one of my favourite artist is yue minjun. Go check him out. Go check out EXECUTION.

[gozgoz]

www.timeout.com/london/art/features/3594.html

a simple neat article.