The Paper sorts out the highlights of the past week: In Shanghai, a series of long-planned special exhibitions have been gradually presented recently, including "I.M. Pei: Life is like Architecture" at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, "Poetry of Colors - Zhou Bichu's Donated Art Exhibition" at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, and "Times Flying" at the Pudong Art Museum. Shanghai Haipai Art Museum presents two special exhibitions, "Today's Shanghai" and "Today's Vienna". In Beijing, the "Enjoy the Forest and Springs - Chinese and Foreign Garden Culture Exhibition" at the Palace Museum is on full display, where you can enjoy the strange stones of Song Huizong and Monet's water lilies; at the Anhui Art Museum, the "Endless Mountains" exhibition of Shi Hu's last ten years will be presented.
Overseas, the Nara National Museum in Japan celebrated its 130th anniversary and held its largest national treasure exhibition, showcasing famous Buddhist and Shinto art works; the Kyoto National Museum's "Melting Pot of Beauty" special exhibition presented Japan's national treasures; and in Paris, there was a retrospective exhibition of artist David Hockney's creative journey over the past seventy years.
Shanghai
I.M. Pei: Life is like architecture
Exhibition period: April 26-July 27
Location: Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai
The legendary architect IM Pei (1917-2019) is a household name in China. He is the winner of the 1983 Pritzker Prize and the most internationally influential Chinese-American architect since the last century. "IM Pei: Life as Architecture" will present more than 400 exhibits, including drawings, architectural models, photographs, images and documents from institutional or private collections, many of which are on public display for the first time.
Poetry of Colors - Zhou Bichu Donated Art Exhibition
Exhibition period: April 18 to June 2, 2025
Location: Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute Art Museum
Zhou Bichu (1903-1995) is a pioneer of modern Chinese oil painting and modern art education, and the first generation of Chinese oil painting masters. Last year, Zhou Bichu's family representatives donated more than 100 of his paintings and art documents to the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute. This exhibition brings together nearly 120 of Zhou Bichu's oil paintings, fully presenting the style of his lifelong artistic creation.
Time Yifei: Chen Yifei Retrospective
Location: Shanghai Pudong Art Museum (88 Yonghong Road, Minhang District)
Exhibition period: April 25 to October 16, 2025
On the 20th anniversary of the death of artist Chen Yifei, the annual exhibition of Pudong Art Museum is divided into four sections: "Growing Years", "Bridge of the Heart", "Sea Style" and "Great Visual Era", which comprehensively presents Chen Yifei's creations of different styles in different periods. The exhibition starts with red-themed works such as "Pioneer" and also includes classic works such as "Ode to the Yellow River".
Fabrice Iber: From the Valley
Location: Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: April 2 - June 29, 2025
The exhibition brings together more than 70 representative works by French artist Fabrice Iber from the 1990s to the present, including more than 20 new works created specifically for Shanghai. Through this exhibition, Iber has moved his hometown of living and creating in western France to Shanghai, between metaphor and reality.
East meets West: China-Italy Contemporary Printmaking Exchange Exhibition
Location: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Exhibition period: April 3 - June 2, 2025
Using printmaking as the medium, the exhibition will present nearly 100 representative prints, mixed media and new media artworks created by 15 Chinese and 15 Italian artists since the 1970s, showcasing the vivid cultural creativity and vitality of the two ancient civilizations in the contemporary era.
Grand View of Heaven and Earth: A trace of civilization across time
Location: Long Museum (West Bund)
Exhibition period: March 22 - June 29, 2025
The exhibition brings together about 200 items (sets) from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties collected by private institutions, including oracle bone inscriptions, bronzes, jades, Buddha statues, porcelain, furniture, etc., exploring the history of Chinese civilization spanning 3,000 years. Key exhibits include three boxes of Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions, the bronze Xi Jia plate from the fifth year of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup.
Paintings from various dynasties in the East Hall of Shanghai Museum, Chinese calligraphy from various dynasties
Location: Shanghai Museum, East Building
Exhibition period: February 19, 2025 Exhibits update
In this round of permanent exhibitions of calligraphy and painting, the Shanghai Museum has brought out its national treasures, including the page of "Cursive Calligraphy of Yuan Sheng's Letter" by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the scroll of "Epitaph of Princess Runan" by Yu Shinan of the Tang Dynasty, the scroll of "Deep Valley" by Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the scroll of "Snow Trees and Cold Birds" by Li Di of the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Vienna Today" activates the future - Vienna Contemporary Art Exhibition
Location: 2F, Shanghai Art Museum (No. 1536, Xinzhen Road, Minhang District)
Date: April 22 - May 25
The exhibition presents a large number of works by contemporary Viennese artists. Margarita is a contemporary art curator with a unique vision. She is familiar with Austrian artists and understands China's cultural progress. This exhibition was planned by her.
Deliberate
Location: Shanghai Jing'an Sculpture Park Art Center
Exhibition period: April 1st - June 2nd
The exhibition breaks through the traditional print exhibition model and for the first time uses "woodcut original boards" as the main exhibit. More than 100 woodcut original boards resonate with digital art and virtual reality, fully presenting the artist's original works over more than 40 years of creation. The knife marks are clearly visible, full of the patina of time and emotional support.
Autumn Water and Long Sky: Exhibition of Monochrome Glaze Porcelains of the Qing Dynasty
Location: Fengxian Museum
Time: March 28th - May 18th
The exhibition selects 118 sets of monochrome porcelain from the early Qing Dynasty to the Guangxu period, divided into 11 sections, covering a variety of glaze colors such as red, blue, yellow, white, and green. Minimalism is elegance, and monochrome porcelain is pure and simple, returning to its original nature, reflecting the purest aesthetic concept of the Chinese nation. The exhibition will use the pure beauty of monochrome porcelain to show the ingenuity of Jingdezhen porcelain art in the Qing Dynasty, and watch the ancient porcelain with the audience, feel the ingenuity and wisdom of the ancients, and appreciate the highest realm of porcelain rhyme.
Bronze as a mirror, a guide for action: Exhibition of Song and Jin bronze mirrors from the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum
Location: Jiading Museum
Exhibition period: March 18 - June 20, 2025
The exhibition selects more than 70 bronze mirrors from the Song and Jin Dynasties, and divides them into five parts according to the patterns, namely "Bronze Mirrors with Double Fish Pattern", "Bronze Mirrors with Dragon Pattern", "Bronze Mirrors with Character Stories", "Bronze Mirrors with Auspicious Beasts, Flowers and Birds Patterns" and "Bronze Mirrors with Inscriptions". By comparing the bronze mirrors from the Song and Jin Dynasties, the exhibition shows the phenomenon of ethnic integration between the northern ethnic minorities and the Central Plains in the long-term exchanges, as well as the political, economic and cultural collisions and integrations.
Songyuan: Dongqiao and Songyin celebrate ten years of good fortune
Exhibition period: April 19-May 31
Address: Songyinli, 205 Wukangting, No. 376 Wukang Road, Shanghai
Since the "Dong Qiao Ink Fun" in the spring of 2015, Songyin Art has been associated with Mr. Dong Qiao for ten years. The exhibition presents Mr. Dong Qiao's works from 2015 to the present, which are elegant and graceful. Among them is an eight-meter long scroll of 24 Song Dynasty poems written by Mr. Dong Qiao. This tenth anniversary exhibition with Mr. Dong is both a look back and a continuation.
Mirror Image: Lucio Fontana and Michelangelo Pistoletto
Exhibition period: March 20-June 15, 2025
Location: Prada Rongzhai (No. 186, North Shaanxi Road)
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) and Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) were two giants of the post-war Italian and international art scene. Bringing together 26 works from the 1940s onwards, the exhibition highlights the two artists’ exploration of new forms of expression and their rejection of previously canonical materials, methods and themes.
Conversation with Turner: Echoes of the Sublime
Location: Pudong Art Museum
Exhibition period: October 1, 2024 - May 10, 2025
The exhibition features more than 100 works, showing the development of Turner's artistic career and the changes in his creative style in chapters. The exhibition also dialogues with Turner's artistic heritage through the works of contemporary artists, reinterpreting the artistic concepts of the 18th century from a 21st century perspective, allowing the audience to appreciate the masterpieces of the master and the diverse expressions of the "sublime" of art.
Shanghai: The Capital of Photography 1910s-2020s
Location: Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
Duration: December 25, 2024 - May 5, 2025
The exhibition brings together 268 works by 35 photographers and artists who have lived in Shanghai for a long time, as well as more than 80 pieces (sets) of related materials and exhibits. Starting from the works of artists such as Ding Song, Tao Lengyue, and Jin Shisheng who were active in Shanghai in the early 20th century, it presents the changes and development of Shanghai and photography across a century.
Beijing
Lelinquan - Chinese and Foreign Garden Culture Exhibition
Location: The Palace Museum
Exhibition period: April 1st - June 29th
The exhibition focuses on gardens, with "Garden Elegance" as the narrative focus. It is based on Chinese classical garden art, but also looks at global garden culture. Through the six major garden events of elegant gatherings, collections, mountain tours, meditation, flower viewing, and music, it unfolds a dialogue on garden art that transcends time and space.
See the New Moon Again: Xu Zhimo and Bian Zhilin Joint Exhibition
Location: Luxun Museum, Beijing
Duration: April 3 - June 15, 2025
The exhibition focuses on the stories of Crescent Moon School poets Xu Zhimo and Bian Zhilin. It is jointly organized by the Beijing Lu Xun Museum and the two poets' hometown exhibition halls - Jiangsu Jianghai Museum, Haining Museum and Bian Zhilin Art Museum. More than 160 collections are on display, including cultural relics, paintings, letters, notes, utensils and furniture, presenting to the audience the poetic life of the two who used poetry to express their ideals, express their emotions and expose the current social situation.
Collection Exhibition of CAFA Art Museum
Location: Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum
Duration: From March 30, 2025
The collection exhibition will be divided into the "ancient part" and the "modern part", with more than 500 pieces of collections on display. The most eye-catching thing is that the original painting "Mountain Magpie and Loquat" from the Song Dynasty in the collection will be exhibited for a limited time on the opening day. This painting is also the first time it has been publicly displayed since the construction of the new CAFA Art Museum. Song Dynasty paintings have become a peak in the history of Chinese art with their exquisite skills, profound artistic conception and rich themes. It is hoped that through this work, the audience can feel the vividness and expressiveness of Song Dynasty flower and bird paintings.
Iron Pen Shakes Mountains - Li Luogong Art Research Exhibition
Location: Beijing Art Academy Art Museum
Duration: Until May 11
This exhibition selects more than 120 sets of art works by Mr. Li Luogong, and systematically presents Mr. Li Luogong's artistic exploration path that integrates Chinese and Western art and integrates the past and the present in four major sections: early oil paintings, social seal carving, calligraphy creation and late oil paintings.
The Light of Inclusion - China-Pakistan Art Exchange Exhibition
Location: Art Museum, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University
Duration: From March 1, 2025
The exhibition is themed "Integration and Dialogue" and is divided into three sections: "Gandhara", "Maiji Mountain" and "Light of Integration". Among them, the Gandhara sculptures on display are all reproduced through technical scanning, 3D printing and other technologies. It is a cooperation between China and Pakistan on the digitization and in-depth research of Gandhara art heritage.
Oscillation does not demagnetize: Exploring sound practices in mainland China and Hong Kong since the 1990s
Location: Inside-Out Art Museum
Exhibition period: February 22 - June 1, 2025
The exhibition focuses on the sound creation and its history in mainland China and Hong Kong, aiming to view sound art as a dynamic and permeable practice method and explore its many possibilities for dialogue with reality. The exhibition includes nearly 60 works by 57 sound artists (groups), especially the latest works of artists who have been active in the forefront of sound creation in the past 20 years. The exhibition also presents a wealth of documentary materials related to sound practice since the 1990s, including images, photographs, manuscripts, design drawings, web pages and physical objects.
The Greeks - From Agamemnon to Alexander
Location: Capital Museum
Duration: November 20, 2024 - May 18, 2025
The exhibition brings together 270 pieces of collections from 14 museums and cultural relics institutions in Greece, including the National Archaeological Museum of Greece and the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, covering all periods of ancient Greek civilization.
The Diversity of Beauty: Art and Life in Ancient Greece
Location: National Museum of China
Duration: November 6, 2024 - June 5, 2025
The exhibition will be themed "beauty". Different from the previous exhibition narratives that were based on historical periods, it unfolds a vivid aesthetic scroll of ancient Greece from three perspectives: "daily life", "makeup" and "human body". 279 pieces (sets) of pottery, bronze, gold, glass, murals, sculptures and other representative cultural relics from the National Archaeological Museum of Greece, spanning 5,000 years, covering the Cycladic civilization, Minoan civilization, Mycenaean civilization, as well as all important historical periods of ancient Greece, including the Geometric Pottery Period, Archaic Period, Classical Period and Hellenistic Period. Most of the exhibits are exhibited abroad for the first time.
Anhui
Shi Hu's Last Ten Years of Heavy Color Painting Exhibition in Anhui
Exhibition period: April 22-June 15
Location: Exhibition Hall 3, 1st Floor, Anhui Art Museum
The first large-scale exhibition after the death of the famous artist Shi Hu, "This Mountain Is Endless - Shi Hu's Last Ten Years of Heavy Color Paintings", moved from Shanghai to the Anhui Art Museum. Shi Hu's 18-meter-long large-scale work "Fuwa Pattern Inscription Picture" was also shown to the public for the first time as an important work of this exhibition. This exhibition is not only a commemoration of an artist, but also a collective awakening of cultural confidence and creativity.
Jiangsu
Wu's Northern Friend
Location: Suzhou Museum
Exhibition period: March 21 - June 5, 2025
The exhibition takes the cultural exchanges between the three kingdoms of Jin, Chu and Wu as the main theme, and the struggle for hegemony and ritual culture of the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period as the hidden theme, presenting a magnificent historical story. A total of 116 pieces/sets of cultural relics are exhibited in the exhibition, covering bronze ritual vessels, jade wares and other categories in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Jin Gong Plate, a vessel made by Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, is also exhibited in Suzhou for the first time.
Colleagues in the Art World: Exhibition of Works by Wu Zuoren and Li Kuchan
Location: Wu Zuoren Art Museum
Exhibition period: March 1 - June 2, 2025
This exhibition will present 45 calligraphy and painting works by Wu Zuoren and Li Kuchan, reviewing their 40-year friendship and exploring the similarities and differences in their artistic styles and concepts, as well as their profound influence on the development of modern Chinese art. Wu Zuoren studied in France, where he borrowed the concepts and techniques of Western oil painting to improve the modeling ability of Chinese painting. Li Kuchan studied under Qi Baishi and was good at creating freehand flower and bird paintings with a strong, bold and magnificent style.
View of the World: The World of Ming Dynasty
Location: Nanjing Museum
Exhibition period: January 22 - July 20, 2025
The exhibition narrative spans the 14th to 17th centuries, placing Ming Dynasty China in the first wave of globalization. Through five parts, namely "The Rising Sun and the Moon", "Sailing Legends", "Silver Trade", "East and West", and "Harmony and Coexistence", more than 400 exhibits are presented to showcase the interconnection and integration between Ming Dynasty China and the world.
"Only One Kind of Heroism" Xia Yang Art Exhibition
Location: Jinling Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 10th - July 13th
The 93-year-old well-known artist Xia Yang has been living in Shanghai in recent years. After donating 130 works of art to the Shanghai Power Station of Art at the beginning of this year, he donated another 89 works to Nanjing Jinling Art Museum yesterday. This exhibition is based on Xia Yang's donated works, combined with relevant historical documents and precious pictures, and comprehensively presents the creative process and spiritual world of this old artist.
Horse: A Millennium Symbol of Power from the Mediterranean to Jiangnan
Location: Suzhou Wu Culture Museum
Duration: Until May 18
The exhibition tells the different relationships between humans and horses in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, at different historical stages, through oil paintings, Chinese paintings, prints, sculptures, silk fabrics, chariot and horse equipment, pottery figurines and other types of cultural relics.
Zhejiang
Trek and Pursuit——Huamao Education Collection of the China Academy of Art's Two-session Quanshan Oil Painting Creation and Research Class Exhibition
Location: Huamao Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 10th - July 9th
Huamao Art Museum in Ningbo was reopened after upgrading and renovation, with the first exhibition of "Trekking and Pursuit - Huamao Education Collection of Works from the Two Quanshan Oil Painting Research Classes of the China Academy of Art", presenting the results of the two Quanshan Oil Painting Research Classes.
Treasure Hunting in Zhejiang: 2024 Archaeological Achievements Exhibition
Location: Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Time: March 22 - May 25
This exhibition brings together more than 400 cultural relics unearthed from 26 sites selected by the jury of "Important Archaeological Discoveries in Zhejiang in 2024". It is divided into four chapters: "New Evidence of Civilization", "The Splendor of Yue", "The Rise of the Southeast" and "Symphony of Land and Sea", presenting a magnificent scroll of Zhejiang's ten-thousand-year cultural history.
Vigorous and Magnificent: Art Heritage Exhibition of Wu Changshuo, Qian Shoutie and Hashimoto Kansetsu
Location: Huzhou Art Museum
Time: March 30th - June 29th
In the first half of the 20th century, Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), Qian Shoutie (1897-1967), and Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945), three artists with a clear master-disciple relationship, used calligraphy and painting as a medium to build a cultural corridor across time and space in the long river of Sino-Japanese art. It is precisely by looking back at this period of art history that many stories of Sino-Japanese artistic exchanges are revealed. The exhibition displays the artistic masterpieces of the three artists.
Guangdong
A Thousand Years of History: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 130th Anniversary of Xu Beihong's Birth
Location: Guangdong Museum of Art New Building
Exhibition period: March 1 - June 15, 2025
As a pivotal figure in the modern transformation of Chinese art, Xu Beihong's artistic practice has always been permeated with the academic logic of "being broad and meticulous". Through the three historical slices of Xu Beihong, "Xu Sheng from Jiangnan: Enlightenment, Studying and Artistic Transformation (1895-1925)", "Born in Adversity: Art Education and Patriotism (1926-1936)" and "Self-improvement: National Responsibility and Aesthetic Education Thought (1937-1953)", the exhibition combines the intertextual narrative of 73 representative works and a large number of documents to deeply decode the era generation mechanism of his "art saves the country" concept and "realism" methodology.
Youhan and Yu Youhan: Yu Youhan's Early Experience and Late Style
Location: Shenzhen Art Museum (New Building)
Exhibition period: March 25 - June 16, 2025
This exhibition is the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of Mr. Yu Youhan since his death. It comprehensively presents the artist's creative career spanning more than half a century, covering more than 100 works and rich documentary materials. In this exhibition, the two curators, Liu Ding and Lu Yinghua, based on their own dual perspectives of art history and intellectual history, outline the outstanding achievements of Mr. Yu Youhan based on his own artistic exploration and tireless dialogue with the times, and also extract several key issues related to contemporary art history from his personal practice.
Li Shan: Quantum Leap
Location: Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Art Center
Exhibition period: March 24 - May 23, 2025
This exhibition is curated by internationally renowned curator Hou Hanru, and will present Li Shan's creations across multiple media over the past decade, including his representative biological art installations, large-scale paintings created in recent years, large-scale site-specific installations, research manuscripts over many years, and experimental video works. The exhibition will use an "immersive" experience to lead the audience to explore Li Shan's profound cognition and thinking on life and science, biology and art, and the possibilities of human future from a multi-sensory perspective.
Xue Song: “Natural-Not Natural”
Location: Shenzhen Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Museum
Exhibition period: March 25 - June 29, 2025
The exhibition brings together the essence of Xue Song's nearly 40 years of artistic career, comprehensively presenting his artistic development from pop collage to abstract expressionism, covering a total of more than 60 paintings and archives, and focusing on the artist's new works in the "Law of Nature" series since 2019. The exhibition was specially curated by art critic and independent curator Dr. Jiang Jun.
Shanxi
Ideals and Glory: Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Art Exhibition
Location: Shanxi Museum
Exhibition period: January 1, 2025 - May 5, 2025
The exhibition displays 134 precious sculptures from the National Museum of Liverpool, UK, showing the ancient Greek and Roman sculpture art as the source of Western civilization, and taking the audience to appreciate the ancient human's ultimate display of human beauty and the unremitting pursuit of ideals, harmony and beauty on the distant Mediterranean coast. These sculptures, whether statues of gods, heroes or ordinary people, reflect the ancient Greeks' love for life and their deep understanding of human nature.
Changing Situation: Jin and Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period
Location: Shanxi Museum
Exhibition period: January 1, 2025 - May 5, 2025
The exhibition is jointly organized by Shanxi Museum, Shanghai Museum, Henan Museum, Shaanxi History Museum, Gansu Provincial Museum, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and other 16 cultural and museum institutions. It uses 206 sets of precious cultural relics to show the complex and changing relationship between Jin and Qin during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, especially during the Spring and Autumn Period, and appreciate the style of that era.
Liaoning
Brief Introduction to China: Exhibition of Fine Han Bamboo Slips Unearthed in Gansu
Location: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Time: March 29th - June 15th
The exhibition starts from the history of the discovery of bamboo slips, the magnificent stories of the Silk Road in the bamboo slips, the daily life of people living on the border of the Han Dynasty, and the calligraphy art contained in the bamboo slips. It uses bamboo slips as a medium to decode the unique cultural genes of the ancient Gansu region, and comprehensively and vividly display the Silk Road civilization and Chinese wisdom in the bamboo slips. The key cultural relics on display include the "Edict" wooden box, the "Jiaqu Houguan" wooden slips, the "Xuanquanzhi" wooden slips, etc.
Strolling through the US and China: An exhibition of cultural relics on women in ancient Rome
Location: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: January 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
The exhibition is centered on the collections of Italy's prestigious Capitoline Museums, and is supported by more than a dozen exhibition institutions at home and abroad. A joint curatorial team composed of experts and scholars from Chinese and Italian museums has carefully selected more than 150 sets of cultural relics related to the life courses of women in ancient Rome and the Han Dynasty in my country. The aim is to use real objects to present the rich spiritual world and high vitality of women in the ancient world two thousand years ago, and to reproduce the colorful female narratives.
Hebei
Joseph Beuys: 7000 Dreams
Location: Xinyi Art Museum, Langfang, Hebei
Duration: Until June 15, 2025
This exhibition is the opening debut of the newly established Beuys Research Center (China). It takes Beuys's ecological art project "7000 Oaks" as the starting point and reviews Beuys's art in seven chapters.
Hunan
Only the Chu style: the calligraphy and painting of Hunan scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties
Location: Hunan Museum
Duration: December 17, 2024 - November 16, 2025
The exhibition selects more than 90 pieces (sets) of works by Hunanese or visiting Hunan scholars during the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the collection of the Hunan Museum, attempting to fully and multi-dimensionally display the calligraphy and painting art of the elegant Hunan gentry during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Hongkong
Picasso: Dialogue with Asia
Location: M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Exhibition period: March 15 - July 13, 2025
This special exhibition presents more than 150 works of art, including more than 60 works by Picasso and more than 80 works by Asian artists from the collection of the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, presenting Picasso's influence on Asian art through a cross-cultural and cross-temporal dialogue.
Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Transfiguration
Location: M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Duration: December 14, 2024 - May 5, 2025
The exhibition features important early series of works by Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born in 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born in 1954), tracing the origins of their creations and describing how they reconstruct classic images from art history, film, and media culture. These creative acts of cross-dressing and avatars are not simply imitations of the original works, but also reflect the unique perspectives and backgrounds of the two artists. The images they reproduce often deviate from the original images, making people feel both familiar and ambiguous. Morimura and Sherman reveal that identity is a malleable concept by establishing a fluid and changeable relationship with their impersonation objects.
The World of Cézanne and Renoir: Collections of the Orangerie and Musee d'Orsay in France
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Art
Duration: Until May 7
The exhibition is themed on two representatives of Impressionism, Cézanne and Renoir, and displays 52 paintings from the Orangerie Museum and the Orsay Museum, aiming to present the artistic styles of Cézanne and Renoir and reveal their friendship.
A Moveable Feast: Chinese Food Culture
Location: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Exhibition period: March 19 - June 18, 2025
Naturally, food culture is also an important part of Chinese traditional culture. This exhibition is divided into four units: "Across Life and Death", "Across Culture", "Across Landscapes", and "Across Time". From Neolithic sacrificial and burial food utensils to multimedia tables, it explores the past and present of contemporary food utensils.
Clear Stream Flows Far Away: A Clear View of Chinese Landscape Art
Venue: Hong Kong University Art Museum
Exhibition period: February 14 - May 11, 2025
The exhibition will display landscape paintings from the early Qing Dynasty (17th century) to the present day from the collection of the Hong Kong University Art Museum. The works on display reflect the development of Chinese landscape painting over three centuries: Zha Shibiao of the Xin'an School in the early Qing Dynasty inherited the literati painting tradition, the Lingnan School in the late Qing Dynasty advocated a compromise between Chinese and Western styles, the Guangdong Chinese Painting Research Association in the Republic of China advocated seeking improvement in tradition, and the works of Huang Binhong, Liu Haisu and others reflected the trend and form of the diversified development of modern Chinese painting.
Xiuming Wubei: Military Artifacts from the Qing Dynasty in the Palace Museum
Location: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Exhibition period: January 22, 2025 - January 21, 2026
The exhibition is divided into six units: "The Rise of the Eight Banners", "The World of Swords", "Riding and Archery with Guns and Cannons", "Drills and Military Salutes", "History in Pictures" and "Defending the Sea Borders". It presents the development of military organization, technology and art in the Qing Dynasty through about 190 Qing Dynasty court military cultural relics collected by the Palace Museum, including helmets, bows and arrows, swords, horse harnesses, paintings, textiles, books, scientific instruments and many other categories of items.
When the Forbidden City meets the Palace of Versailles – Cultural Exchange between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Duration: Until May 4, 2025
The exhibition features nearly 150 treasures from the Palace Museum and the Palace of Versailles, presenting the history of mutual appreciation, inspiration and exchange between the Chinese and French courts in the fields of culture, art, science and technology, as well as the long-standing friendship between the two countries.
Taipei
Pleasant to the ears: Listen to the sounds in the painting
Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei
Duration: April 19 - June 22, 2025
Su Shi (1037-1101) and others in the Northern Song Dynasty paid attention to the integration of painting and poetry, and regarded painting as "silent poetry" and poetry as "invisible painting" or "sound painting". In this context, how to express "sound" painting is not only challenging for painters, but also a unique way of creation in the development of painting. This exhibition will focus on the works of ancient handed-down paintings that present "listening to pines", "listening to springs", "listening to rain", "listening to piano" and other works that express the sounds in the natural world or the human world.
National Treasure Spotlight: The Bust of Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Xiaozong of Song
Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei
Duration: April 19 - June 22, 2025
The focus of this national treasure is the half-length portrait of Emperor Xiaozong of Song, the wife of Emperor Gaozong of Song. The portrait should be of Empress Wu, who was succeeded by Emperor Gaozong of Song. The figure in the painting wears a nine-dragon flower hairpin crown, pearls on her face, and a dark blue robe embroidered with a pair of pheasants, with vermilion as the border, and dragon patterns on it, which is extremely bright and gorgeous.
overseas
Japan
Super National Treasure: The Light of Faith
Location: Nara National Museum
Duration: April 19 - June 15, 2025
Since its opening in 1895, the Nara National Museum has been dedicated to collecting and preserving Buddhist and Shinto art. To commemorate its 130th anniversary, the Nara National Museum will hold its largest-ever exhibition of national treasures, presenting approximately 140 masterpieces of Buddhist and Shinto art, including approximately 110 national treasures and approximately 20 important cultural properties of Japan.
Japan, the melting pot of beauty: the trajectory of cross-cultural exchange
Location: Kyoto National Museum
Duration: April 19 - June 15, 2025
To celebrate the 2025 Osaka World Expo, the exhibition will bring together about 200 representative artifacts dating from the Yayoi and Kofun periods to the Meiji period, covering a variety of categories such as paintings, sculptures, calligraphy and crafts. The exhibition aims to trace the trajectory of Japan's interaction and exchange with other civilizations, and show how Japanese art flourished in the integration of ancient and modern times and the fusion of East and West.
Exhibition from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Location: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Time: March 13th - June 29th
This exhibition is the first collection exhibition of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 2025, with a total of 148 works on display, covering categories such as paintings, ceramics, sculptures, and textiles.
Hilma af Klint Exhibition
Location: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Duration: March 4 - June 15, 2025
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish artist who completed her first abstract painting as early as 1906. She entered the field of abstract art earlier than Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian and others, and is therefore regarded as an important pioneer of Western abstract painting. This is the artist's first large-scale retrospective in Asia, focusing on her representative series "Temple Paintings", with a total of about 140 works on display. Combined with relevant documentary materials, it comprehensively reviews Af Klint's artistic career and explores her creative characteristics and sources of inspiration.
Monet's Water Lily Hour
Location: KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Exhibition period: March 7-June 8, 2025
The exhibition focuses on Monet's "Water Lilies" series of paintings, and displays about 50 Monet paintings collected by the Musee Marmottan in France, combined with collections in Japan, to comprehensively review Monet's artistic creation in his later years. When this exhibition was held in Tokyo, it caused a great response.
Singapore
Mirror in Mirror: A Journey of the Soul
Location: ArtScience Museum
Exhibition period: March 1 - July 6, 2025
The exhibition uses cutting-edge technology and creative art to make the human inner world visible, allowing viewers to choose their own exploration path and feel the potential and endless creativity of the human mind in an immersive experience.
France
David Hockney-25
Location: Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Exhibition period: April 9th - August 31st
The exhibition displays more than 400 works by David Hockney in various media including oil paintings, acrylic paintings, pencil drawings, charcoal drawings, digital art, etc., presenting his creative journey over more than 70 years.
Aperitif and show: Belle Époque dinner party pastel poster
Location: Musee d'Orsay
Time: March 18th - July 2nd
This exhibition is a derivative of the Musee d'Orsay's "Art in the Streets" exhibition, which displays poster designs by poster designer Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942). Leonetto Cappiello is known as the "father of modern advertising." Unlike previous poster designers who pursued a sense of overall picture and oil painting composition, he innovatively tried to highlight the central figure with a simple background and color contrast, emphasizing the visual focus, which had a great influence on later advertising design. The exhibition will present the important advertising projects that Cappiello participated in from 1899 to 1939, and trace his creative process from practice, sketches to final drafts.
Exhibition of works by French Art Deco designer Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann
Time: March 12th - June 1st
Location: Museum of Decorative Arts
This exhibition is one of the "100 Years of Decorative Art" series of commemorative exhibitions, paying tribute to the representative of the Art Deco movement, French designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann is a furniture designer and interior designer. His works are known for their rare materials and exquisite designs, and are representatives of luxury and modernity in the Art Deco movement. The exhibits include 26 sketchbooks left by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, wallpapers from the exhibition hall of the 1925 Expo, and original wallpapers provided by two wallpaper manufacturers, the French Wallpaper Society and Desfossé & Karth.
Suzanne Valadon
Location: Centre Pompidou
Duration: January 15 - May 26, 2025
The Centre Pompidou’s 2025 blockbuster exhibition is dedicated to one of the most important artists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: Suzanne Valadon. Bringing together more than 200 paintings and drawings, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Valadon’s daring and original career, tracing the artist’s unique trajectory from her days as a sought-after model in Montmartre to her recognition by her peers and critics.
U.K.
Astonishing: Sketches by Victor Hugo
Location: Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London
Exhibition period: March 21 - June 29, 2025
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) created an immortal literary classic. What is less known is that he was also a powerful visual artist. From his early cartoons and travel works to his dramatic landscapes and experiments with abstraction. This exhibition brings together exquisite works on paper to reveal Hugo beyond literature.
Edvard Munch Portrait Exhibition
Location: National Portrait Gallery, UK
Duration: Until June 15
Nietzschean enthusiasm, symbolism and expressionism, madness, early death... This is the impression people have of the humorous and cynical Edvard Munch. Of course, he is best known as the creator of the painful "Scream" in 1893. The exhibition brings together more than 40 paintings and works on paper, most of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. These works allow viewers to enter Munch's social circle and discover another side of this artist.
Siena: The Rise of Painting (1300-1350)
Location: National Gallery, London
Exhibition period: March 8 - June 22, 2025
In the early 14th century, Siena, as the artistic capital of Italy, attracted a large number of artists to come to learn, collaborate and explore. The exhibition will bring together more than 100 paintings, sculptures, metal objects and textiles from the early European Renaissance, illustrating the creativity of Sienese artists and their influence on the surrounding area. Highlights include the "Mesta" altarpiece by Duccio (c. 1255-1319) and the "Orsini" polyptych by Simone Martini (1284-1344).
From Goya to Impressionism: The Oscar Reinhardt Collection
Location: Courtauld Gallery
Exhibition period: February 14 - May 26, 2025
The Courtauld Museum of Art will host the first large-scale exhibition of the Oscar Reinhardt Collection outside of Switzerland, taking advantage of the closure of the Oscar Reinhardt Museum for renovation in 2025. The exhibition will focus on works by Spanish painter Francisco Goya, French Romanticist pioneer Theodore Géricault, French Realist founder Gustave Courbet, and many Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Exhibits include Manet's "In the Café", Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Chaucau, the Clown", Cézanne's still life and two works created by Van Gogh during his hospitalization in Arles.
Turner: Light and Shadow
Location: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Duration: Until November 2, 2025
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of Britain's most popular artists. This exhibition displays a series of Turner's prints and watercolors. Among them, "Liber Studiorum" (Study Book) is a series of 71 prints that took Turner 20 years to complete. This exhibition is able to display all of them, showing how he used lines, tones and space in prints and paintings from a unique perspective.
Mughal Empire: Art, Architecture and Luxury
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Duration: November 9, 2024 - May 5, 2025
The exhibition will bring together more than 200 works by artists and craftsmen from ancient Iran and northern India, showcasing the artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire's Golden Age (c. 1560-1660), spanning the reigns of three emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Tirza Garwood: Beyond Ravilius
Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Duration: November 19, 2024 - May 26, 2025
The exhibition features more than 80 works, exploring her style of "exquisite naivety" - seemingly innocent subjects conveying deeper meanings. The exhibition covers all areas of her practice, including almost all of her existing paintings, as well as her humorous woodcuts, pencil drawings, experimental mica paper designs and collage constructions.
Germany
The Blue Rider Universe: From Kandinsky to Campendink
Location: Berlin State Museum
Exhibition period: March 1 - June 15, 2025
The exhibition is divided into seven chapters, introducing Kandinsky's prints, Franz Marc's paintings of plants and animals, August Marc's paintings on paper, female artists in the Blue Rider group, the Blue Rider yearbook, and the Berlin avant-garde gallery "Storm Gallery" which hosted the Blue Rider exhibition in 1912.
Kandinsky's Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century
Location: Kunsthalle Barberini, Potsdam
Exhibition period: February 15 - May 18, 2025
The exhibition brings together 125 works by 70 artists (with 12 works by Kandinsky in between), showing the development of geometric abstract art in Europe and America in the 20th century. This is not only a visual exploration, but also a review of the ultimate pursuit of modernism. Since Kandinsky, Western artists have gradually shifted from depicting the visible world to exploring the interaction of color, line and shape, viewing it as a visual language that transcends national boundaries.
Switzerland
Northern Lights
Location: Fondation Beyeler
Exhibition period: January 26 - May 25, 2025
The exhibition presents 74 landscapes created between 1888 and 1937 by artists from Scandinavia and Canada, including masterpieces by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch. These artists all used the boreal forest as a common source of inspiration. Natural phenomena such as the seemingly endless forests, endless summer glow, long winter nights and the northern lights gave rise to a specific form of Nordic modern painting, which continues to exert an enduring appeal and fascination.
USA
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Location: Jewish Museum, New York
Duration: Until August 10
Esther was a famous Persian queen and a Jewish heroine who saved her compatriots from extinction. In the 17th century, the story of Queen Esther also inspired the Dutch people during the War of Independence. This exhibition presents works by many Dutch artists, including Rembrandt, depicting the story of Esther.
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
Location: Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Exhibition period: February 25 - May 25, 2025
The exhibition, co-organized by the Getty Museum, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago, focuses on Caillebotte's frequent depictions of male figures, even in traditionally female spaces. His paintings highlight the surprising innovation in his work by highlighting his unique treatment of gender roles in figure painting.
Breaking the Paradigm: The Brooklyn Museum’s 200th Anniversary
Location: Brooklyn Museum
Exhibition period: February 28, 2025 - February 22, 2026
The exhibition aims to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Brooklyn Museum. It is divided into three chapters: "Made in Brooklyn", "The Construction of the Brooklyn Museum and Its Collection", and "The Gift of Art". It explores the rich history and future development prospects of the collection in a novel narrative way.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition period: February 8 - May 11, 2025
Under the brush of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the charm of nature is not limited to direct description, but also the habitat of emotions and souls. The concept of romanticism is not only reflected in the interweaving of light, shadow and color on the canvas, but also in the secret resonance between landscape and heart. Through the works, the exhibition invites the audience to appreciate the poetry of nature and soul.
Melting the Ancient to Create the New: Exhibition of Bronzes from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition period: February 28 - September 28, 2025
The exhibition is co-organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Shanghai Museum. It brings together about 100 collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and nearly 100 loaned collections from many cultural and museum institutions such as the British Museum, the Cernuschi Museum, the Palace Museum, the Shanghai Museum, and the Liaoning Provincial Museum. It focuses on bronze ware, supplemented by different types of cultural relics such as paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquerware, and jade. It expounds on the interpretation, inheritance, and development of the early bronze ritual tradition in China's Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and presents the unique artistic value of China's late bronze ware.
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