As the "Cultural Heritage Day" approaches, a series of new art and cultural relics exhibitions have been launched in various places recently.
Following the exhibition on I.M. Pei, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai recently continued to present an exhibition on another architectural master, the 92-year-old Portuguese architect Siza; the "Chinese Left-wing Cultural Movement Cultural Relics and Historical Materials Exhibition" at the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall traces the ideological waves of the turbulent era through more than 200 exhibits including manuscripts, prints and publications.
In Beijing, the "Free Spirit - Chinese Freehand Painting Exhibition" was on display at the National Art Museum of China. In New York, the Rockefeller Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened to the public with a new look, presenting African art and ancient American art. At the British Museum in London, new special exhibitions include "Utagawa Hiroshige: The Scenic Path".
Shanghai
Alvaro Siza's Archives
Location: Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Exhibition period: June 6th - September 7th
Álvaro Siza, the 92-year-old Portuguese Pritzker Prize-winning architect, is one of the most important architects of our time. This is the largest retrospective of Siza's work in Asia to date. The exhibition consists of nine sections and more than 800 exhibits, creating an architectural topography that transcends time and space and intertextualizes.
I.M. Pei: Life is like architecture
Location: Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai
Exhibition period: April 26th - July 27th
The exhibition presents more than 400 exhibits related to I.M. Pei, including drawings, architectural models, photographs, images and documents from institutional or private collections, many of which are on public display for the first time.
Chu Feng Lie - Anhui Chu Culture Cultural Relics Exhibition
Location: Minhang District Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition period: June 15th - October 8th
The cultural relics in this exhibition mainly come from Anhui Museum, Anhui Chu Culture Museum and Huainan Museum. They unveil the mysterious veil of Chu culture and introduce other civilizations influenced by Chu culture during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The Voice of the Times: Exhibition of Cultural Relics and Historical Materials of China's Left-wing Cultural Movement
Location: Shanghai Luxun Memorial Hall
Exhibition period: June 6-October 9
From publications and documents such as "The Vanguard" and "Mount Bardi" to Lu Xun's manuscript "In Memory of Forgetting" as well as woodcut prints, oil paintings, etc., the exhibition reviews the development of the left-wing cultural movement with more than 200 exhibits.
Dragon Roars in the Nine Provinces: China Dinosaur Exhibition
Location: Shanghai Natural History Museum (Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Branch)
Exhibition period: May 31st - November 30th
The exhibition displays 118 representative dinosaur fossil specimens from all over the country. These more than 100 dinosaur specimens and models show dinosaur groups from different geological eras and regions in my country's prehistoric period, and are of great scientific and educational significance.
Painting and Painting: 2025 Shanghai Press Association Calligraphy and Painting Academy Invitational Exhibition
Location: Xinhua Art Space (6th floor, Shanghai Book City Center)
Exhibition period: June 7-July 18
The exhibition features calligraphy and painting works by members of the Shanghai Press Association Calligraphy and Painting Academy and famous artists from Shanghai. Shanghai's newspapers have always been a gathering place for humanities, and many media professionals are well-known in society for their art reviews and calligraphy and painting accomplishments.
Revlon Deep - Tang Dynasty Life Aesthetics Exhibition
Location: Fengxian District Museum
Exhibition period: June 18th - October 18th
The exhibition selects more than 300 exquisite cultural relics. Starting from the concept of the aesthetics of life in the Tang Dynasty, it showcases the Tang Dynasty as an international trade center through tea ceremony, incense ceremony, makeup, etiquette, music, poetry and calligraphy.
So Long, So Rich - Huang Yongyu's New Works Exhibition
Location: World Expo Museum
Exhibition period: Closed on June 8, extended opening to 24:00 midnight, last admission time is 22:00.
More than 200 exhibits were on display. Each work was accompanied by a QR code, and visitors could scan the code to appreciate the "Huang style humor" between the lines.
Ancient rhinoceros treasures: Rhinoceros horn artifacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Shanghai Museum
Location: Shanghai Museum, People's Square
Duration: May 30
The exhibition selects more than 100 rare rhino horn artifacts from the Shanghai Museum's collection, supplemented by bronze, porcelain, jade, bamboo and wood, lacquerware and other cultural relics related to rhino horn carving art, presenting the unique charm and profound connotation of rhino horn artifacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties from multiple angles.
Top of the Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition
Location: Shanghai Museum (Renguang Pavilion)
Exhibition period: July 19, 2024 - August 17, 2025
The exhibition presents 788 artifacts from different periods of ancient Egyptian civilization. The exhibition aims to reveal the secrets of ancient Egyptian civilization to visitors and announce the latest archaeological discoveries and research results of ancient Egypt.
Unity in Diversity: The Origin of Chinese Civilization Exhibition
Location: Fudan University Museum
Exhibition period: May 26th - October 13th
The exhibition presents the origin, formation, development and diversified integration of Chinese civilization through more than 140 cultural relics and archaeological research results, including bone flutes from the Jiahu culture period (more than 8,000 years ago), jade cong from the Liangzhu culture 5,000 years ago, and painted pottery jars from the Yangshao culture.
Shanghai Sculpture Exhibition
Location: Exhibition Hall on the first floor of Shanghai Art Museum
Exhibition period: May 30-June 29
The exhibition brings together 69 masterpieces by three generations of Shanghai sculpture artists, vividly demonstrating the diverse development of sculpture art in the contemporary era, as well as the profound heritage and innovative spirit of Shanghai as the birthplace of modern Chinese sculpture.
Southern School and Northern Style: Research Exhibition of Painting and Calligraphy from Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties
Location: Hall 5, 2F, Shanghai Art Museum
Time: June 6 - May 10, 2026
The exhibition displays 47 pieces of calligraphy and painting works from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, covering landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, calligraphy and other categories, which showcase the unique charm of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty calligraphy and painting art.
Swiss Classic Design Exhibition
Location: Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Exhibition period: May 28th - June 29th
From the 18th century Engadine milking stool to the modern armchair, from the Victorinox multi-purpose folding knife to the invention of aluminum foil, the exhibition tells the story of the evolution of Swiss design over the past four centuries with 75 exhibits, as well as the simplicity and aesthetics in between.
Star Cluster - Mutual Learning of Chinese and Western Classics Exhibition
Location: Shanghai Duoyunxuan Art Center
Exhibition period: May 24 - June 15, 2025
The exhibition displays a total of more than 110 precious Chinese and Western classics. Many of the exhibits are on public display in Shanghai for the first time, including the third and fourth editions of Darwin's "Origin of Species" and other precious versions, as well as the only Ming edition of "The Picture Album of Romance of the West Chamber".
The Journey of Swords and Woodcuts: Narratives of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai and Emerging Woodcuts
Location: China Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 25th - September 7th
The exhibition uses emerging woodcuts as a sample of the development of modern Chinese art, analyzing how emerging woodcuts gradually became localized and modernized by learning from Western modern art and combining it with the actual needs of Chinese society.
Lingguang: Neolithic Jade Exhibition
Location: 5th floor, Aurora Museum
Duration: May 16
The exhibition organizes and sorts out more than 200 jade artifacts with different regional characteristics and design ideas, spanning the Hongshan Culture, Liangzhu Culture, Longshan Period and Qijia Culture, presenting the beauty of jade artifacts from the "four major cultural lineages" of the Neolithic Age.
"2025 Spanish Art Season" Gaudi Theme Exhibition
Location: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum
Exhibition period: May 23 - October 8, 2025
"From Splendor to Simplicity - Gaudi and His Times" is exhibited at Jiushi Art Space, No. 18, The Bund, and "The Joy of Everything - The Voice of Gaudi" is exhibited at Jiushi Art Salon, No. 230, Beijing East Road.
Time Yifei: Chen Yifei Retrospective
Location: Pudong Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 25 - October 16, 2025
The exhibition presents Chen Yifei's works 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".
Reshaping the Landscape: Exhibition of the Pompidou Centre Collection (IV)
Location: West Bund Art Museum
Duration: April 29, 2025 - October 18, 2026
With a new modernist perspective, the exhibition re-examines the evolution of art and pioneering explorations over the past 100 years since 1906, and invites the audience to explore a number of important art movements, including Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstractionism.
David Hockney Immersive Exhibition
Location: West Bund Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 29 - November 30, 2025
The exhibition is divided into six major thematic chapters, revealing the stories and thoughts behind his sixty-year creative career. The audience will follow Hockney's explanation and gain a deeper understanding of how he broke the rules to conduct perspective experiments.
"Peach Blossom Stone" at the Foot of Helan Mountain - Xixia Cultural Relics Exhibition
Location: Shanghai History Museum
Exhibition period: April 29 - September 14, 2025
More than one hundred cultural relics exhibits from Ningxia show the mysterious and splendid history of Western Xia from different angles, and also demonstrate the historical and cultural identity of the various ethnic groups in the northwest region with Chinese civilization during the Liao, Song, Xia and Jin dynasties.
Beijing
"Free Spirit - Chinese Freehand Painting Exhibition"
Location: National Art Museum of China
Exhibition period: June 7, 2025 - June 17, 2025
The freehand brushwork spirit of Chinese painting is the unique artistic gene of Chinese civilization. From the initial appearance of the word "freehand brushwork" in "Strategies of the Warring States", to its becoming an important category of painting in the Song and Yuan dynasties, to the aesthetic pursuit of "similarity in dissimilarity" in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese freehand brushwork painting has always carried the Chinese nation's profound thinking on nature and life. More than 100 artists participating in this exhibition, from octogenarians to young talents, have interpreted this theme with full brushwork, showing the diverse expressions of the freehand brushwork spirit in the contemporary era.
Seeing the Shang Dynasty
Location: Beijing Grand Canal Museum
Exhibition period: May 19-October 12, 2025
The exhibition presents a panoramic view of the splendid picture of Yin and Shang civilization, and brings together 338 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics from 27 cultural and museum institutions across the country.
Color Painting for Thousands of Years: Exhibition on the Inheritance and Innovation of Chinese Official Color Painting
Location: Yongshou Palace Exhibition Hall, Palace Museum
Exhibition period: May 27th - August 26th
In the Forbidden City, a treasure trove of Ming and Qing dynasty official architectural murals, we can see the aesthetic wisdom and thousand-year continuity of ancient Chinese mural art.
Harmony of All Things: Special Exhibition of Animal-Themed Paintings from the Palace Museum
Location: Wenhua Hall Calligraphy and Painting Gallery, Palace Museum
Exhibition period: April 30 - June 29, 2025
The exhibition carefully selected 63 sets, totaling 117 precious works from the Five Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, including Huang Quan's "Sketch of Rare Birds" from the Five Dynasties, Song Huizong Zhao Ji's "Hibiscus and Peacock" and other famous works.
Shanxi
"Jade narrates the ancient times: Respect for the ancient times and innovation in ancient Chinese jade" exhibition
Location: Shanxi Bronze Museum
Date: June 7 - September 7, 2025
This exhibition selected more than 230 jade artifacts collected by Shanxi Museum, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, and Institute of Qing History of Renmin University of China, of which more than 70% were first-, second-, and third-level artifacts.
Tianjin
Molinhuiguan——Exhibition of Fine Calligraphy and Paintings from the Museum’s Collection
Location: Tianjin Museum
Duration: From May 1, 2025
The exhibition focuses on the museum's collection of Ming and Qing Dynasty calligraphy and paintings, more than half of which are national first- and second-class cultural relics. Exhibits include "Walking Along the Willow Bank" by Wu Wei, an important painter of the Zhejiang School, and "Boating on Luzhou" by Jiang Song.
Building Mountains and Rivers Together - Theme Exhibition of Historical Relics of the Northern Dynasties
Location: Tianjin Museum
Exhibition period: May 1 - July 31, 2025
The exhibition brings together more than 220 pieces/sets of cultural relics from 14 cultural and museum units in eight provinces (autonomous regions). The exhibits cover a number of categories, including murals, gold and silver wares, bronzes, glassware, pottery, and stone sculptures.
Sichuan
We built a boat to see the world
Location: Taihetai Center, Tianfu New District, Chengdu
Time: May 20-June 20, 2025
In 2025, the year of the opening of Taihe Tai Center, which marks its 25th anniversary, the exhibition invites 19 domestic and foreign artists, including Antony Gormley, Cai Lei, and Deng Xiao, to use installations, sculptures, paintings and other works in multiple forms to tell the story of the shrinking world and the internalized public nature, and to explore the internalized public nature of urban space in the context of globalization. The theme forum "Exploration of Public Art in Urban Space under the Perspective of Globalization" held at the same time will focus on the logic of artistic intervention in vertical architecture, and provide a sample of thinking for the construction of urban public culture.
Hebei
Chang'an of the World - Exhibition of Tang Dynasty Cultural Relics
Location: Hebei Museum
Exhibition period: May 17 - August 18, 2025
The exhibition is themed on the Chang'an civilization of the Tang Dynasty. It is divided into three parts: "The Eastern Capital", "Happy Living in Chang'an" and "Silk Road Hu Feng". It selects 220 pieces (sets) of representative Tang Dynasty cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi and Hebei.
Anhui
Lingjiatan Site Museum Opening Exhibition
Location: Lingjiatan Site Museum
Duration: From May 16, 2025
The Lingjiatan site dates back 5800-5200 years, hundreds of years earlier than the Liangzhu culture. About 1,100 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics are on display, many of which are on display for the first time.
Shi Hu's Last Ten Years of Heavy Color Painting Exhibition in Anhui
Exhibition period: April 22 - June 15, 2025
Location: Anhui Art Museum
The first large-scale exhibition after the death of the famous artist Shi Hu, "This Mountain Is Endless - Shi Hu's Heavy Color Painting Exhibition in the Last Ten Years", moved from Shanghai to the Anhui Art Museum. Shi Hu's 18-meter-long large-scale work "Fuwa Pattern Inscription Picture" was an important work in this exhibition and was also shown to the public for the first time.
Jiangsu
"Only One Kind of Heroism" Xia Yang Art Exhibition
Location: Jinling Art Museum
Exhibition period: April 10 - July 13, 2025
The exhibition is based on Xia Yang's donated works, combined with relevant historical documents and precious pictures, to comprehensively present the creative process and spiritual world of this old artist.
Zhejiang
The VAST Elephant: Ancient Sculpture Art in Zhejiang
Location: Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Exhibition period: May 9 - August 31, 2025
The exhibition is divided into four units: "The Miraculous Shadow of Buddha - From the Three Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "The Clear Shadow of Buddha - The Five Dynasties and Wu Yue Kingdom Period", "The Transmitting Shadow of Buddha - The Song Dynasty", and "The Remarkable Shadow of Buddha - The Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties".
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
Combining the intertextual narrative of 73 representative works and a large amount of literature, it deeply decodes the contemporary generation mechanism of his concept of "saving the nation through art" and "realism" methodology.
Liaoning
Love between mountains and seas, singing sands in the desert - meeting Dunhuang in Liaoning
Location: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Time: May 18 - August 18, 2025
Brief Introduction to China: Exhibition of Fine Han Bamboo Slips Unearthed in Gansu
Location: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Time: March 29 to June 15, 2025
Henan
Secrets of the Rainforest - Mexico's Mayan Civilization Exhibition
Location: Henan Museum
Exhibition period: May 28th - October 8th
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
Hongkong
Life planning for ancient literary youth: Selection of Chinese calligraphy and painting from Xubaizhai Collection (Second issue)
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Art
Exhibition period: May 1 - September 17, 2025
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.
A Moveable Feast: Chinese Food Culture
Location: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Exhibition period: March 19 - June 18, 2025
Taipei
The Beauty of Edo Floating World
Location: Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Exhibition period: May 30th - August 31st
The exhibition focuses on Edo Castle in the Edo period, and brings together more than 200 works, mainly Ukiyo-e prints. Through four units: splendor, city time, travel fun and cross-border exchanges, it showcases the fun and charm of Edo city life and leads viewers to appreciate the beauty of Edo's floating world.
Traveling back in time to see Hongwu
Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei
Exhibition period: April 29 - July 20, 2025
Pleasant to the ears: Listen to the sounds in the painting
Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei
Duration: April 19 - June 22, 2025
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 "National Treasure Focus" exhibits the busts of the empress of Emperor Gaozong of Song and the empress of Emperor Xiaozong of Song. The bust of Emperor Gaozong of Song should be Empress Wu, who was succeeded by Emperor Gaozong of Song.
overseas
Japan National Treasure Exhibition
Location: Osaka Museum of Art
Exhibition period: April 26 - June 15, 2025
The exhibition leads the audience to trace the history of Japanese beauty from the source of Japanese beauty - the plastic arts of the Jomon period, to Buddhist art, medieval ink paintings, gorgeous Momoyama paintings, as well as cultural relics from various eras and categories such as calligraphy, swords, armor, lacquerware, dyeing and weaving, and ceramics.
The World of Yayoi Kusama's Prints: Repetition and Proliferation
Location: KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Exhibition period: April 25 - September 7, 2025
Super National Treasure: The Light of Faith
Location: Nara National Museum
Exhibition period: April 19 - June 15, 2025
A total of approximately 140 masterpieces of Buddhist and Shinto art are on display, including approximately 110 national treasures of Japan and approximately 20 important cultural properties of Japan.
The melting pot of beauty: the trajectory of cross-cultural communication
Location: Kyoto National Museum
Exhibition period: April 19 - June 15, 2025
Exhibition from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Location: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Time: March 13 to June 29, 2025
An Adventure in Dyeing and Weaving: Focusing on Kyoto Craftsmen
Location: KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Exhibition period: April 11 - June 15, 2025
19th Venice Architecture Biennale
Location: Venice
Exhibition period: May 10 - November 23, 2025
The theme of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale is "Intelligence, Nature, Artificial, Collective", focusing on the relationship between architecture and different disciplines such as cities, environment, technology, energy, etc., and exploring how architecture should "intelligently" respond to environmental crises.
Passion for China: Adolf Thiels Collection
Location: Louvre Museum
Exhibition period: May 14 - August 25, 2025
Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was the French Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President. The exhibition displays about 180 Chinese cultural relics from his collection.
David Hockney-25
Location: Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Exhibition period: April 9 - August 31, 2025
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 18 to July 2, 2025
Ancient India: A Tradition That Lives on
Location: British Museum
Exhibition period: May 22 - October 19, 2025
The exhibition brings together more than 180 objects from the British Museum and other institutions, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and manuscripts, to look at early Indian religious art from multi-faith, contemporary and global perspectives.
Utagawa Hiroshige: The Scenic Road
Location: British Museum
Exhibition period: May 1 - September 7, 2025
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 enduring literary classic. Less well known is that he was also a powerful visual artist.
Siena: The Rise of Painting (1300-1350)
Location: National Gallery, London
Exhibition period: March 8 - June 22, 2025
Turner: Light and Shadow
Location: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Duration: Until November 2
The Blue Rider Universe: From Kandinsky to Campendink
Location: Berlin State Museum
Exhibition period: March 1 - June 15, 2025
Sargent and Paris
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition period: April 27 - August 3, 2025
Back and forth: Roussell, Titian, Cézanne
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition period: April 26, 2025 - April 25, 2026
This exhibition will reveal the process of art history moving forward in cycles through the unexpected connections between the works of American contemporary artist Rozeal, French post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, and Italian Renaissance painter Titian.
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 focuses on bronzes, supplemented by different types of cultural relics such as paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquerware, and jade.
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