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《can U？》ULIO
The Sustainable Fashion Exhibition
📅 Time：22 July, 2022 - 2 August, 2022
📍 Location：No. 52 Yongfu Rd, Shanghai
🎟️ Fee：Free of Charge
How to build connections between "sustainability" and "fashion"?
"Sustainable fashion" is undoubtedly the hottest topic in recent years. The founder of canU sustainable fashion platform - Cui Dan, as the initiator, together with the platform's creative director Monica Mong and independent sustainable content planner Yidi Chen, in Shanghai's beautiful protective historical building, will bring a salon of sustainable aesthetics.
©Shanghai Fashion Week
ULIO The Sustainable Fashion Exhibition focuses on aesthetics and sustainability. Nine focal questions centering on sustainability are raised. Divided into twelve spaces with different themes, the exhibition features 52 works, casting light on the different perspectives from artists, designers and other players of the industry, their insights and interpretation of "sustainable fashion", their reflection upon the roles they play in the big picture, and their concerns, confusions and explorations.
The Voice of Things: Highlights of the
Centre Pompidou Collection vol.II
©West Bund Museum
📅 Time：28 July, 2021 - 5 February, 2023
📍 Location：WEST BUND MUSEUM, Shanghai
🎟️ Fee：100 RMB
After “The Shape of Time”, the inaugural exhibition of the collection, the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project is revealing the second chapter of its semi-permanent exhibition, “The Voice of Things”, on display from the summer of 2021 until the start of 2023.
©Centre Pompidou
The new exhibition brings together a collection of emblematic works, ranging from the avant-gardes of the early 20th century testifying to the revolution in aesthetic norms and the very status of the work of art, to the most recent artist creations that question our globalised world, and illustrates the importance of the object in the history of modernity.
©Centre Pompidou
「Yeyuan · Sustainability」
My Casa Exhibition
©安邸AD
📅 Time：8 July, 2022 - 5 August, 2022
📍 Location：No. 8 Hengshan Rd, Shanghai
🎟️ Fee：100 RMB
AD（Architectural Digest）Magazine, together with Mr. Ju Bin, an internationally renowned architect, combined architecture, design, art and plants to create a contemporary garden, creating an exhibition fo home called "Yeyuan · Sustainability" (AD CASA). AD CASA launched a month-long exploration of the sustainable relationship between people and home, inviting the public to experience everything about home and life aesthetics, and explore the relationship between nature and artificial, design and aesthetics, coexistence and sustainability.
At present, there are many architects and interior designers all over the world who present the concept of "sustainability and environmental protection" in the design of "home". The designer Mr. Jubin has been awarded the AD100 Most Influential International Architecture and Design Elite for 3 consecutive years, and has devoted himself to researching the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space for many years. "As the perpetuity of individual life and existence; the perpetuity of humanistic values is the extension of personal consciousness.” Based on this consensus, AD and Mr. Ju Bin chose "Garden" as the formal carrier of 2022 AD CASA. This inspiration comes from William Temple's discourse on the natural irregularity of Chinese gardens in UPON THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS, OR OF GARDENING IN THE YEAR 1685.
Undefined Island
©Liang Project
📅 Time：9 July, 2022 - 14 August, 2022
📍 Location：102, Building 18, No. 50, Moganshan Rd, Shanghai
🎟️ Fee: Free of Charge
In "Undefined Island", Chen Xin uses her own hands to transform her inner spiritual world into a unique, persevering and existential utopia through works such as paintings and installations. Different from the compensatory utopian imagination based on the insufficiency of reality, this is based on fully respecting the inner life vitality of every kind of life and every individual, and faces all kinds of uncertainties such as fear, difficulty, pain and so on in reality, under the guidance of a certain enthusiasm towards future reality, an organic utopia is gradually generated, an "indefinable world" where everyone can find inner peace in scenery, smile and love.
©Liang Project
It can be that "tough yet warm" state that manifests itself in a harsh, in different state of exception. It can also be the kind of perseverance and unyielding "stubbornness" shown in the face of a cool situation and huge pressure. It can be the female power that has been suppressed in the patriarchal system for a long time but full of wisdom, or it can be the inclusive and diverse, restrained but flexible potential that bursts out in the face of adversity.
In this utopia, all things have acquired a relaxed and harmonious state of life.
「Refuse」Exhibition by Ed Atkins
©Tank Shanghai
📅 Time：9 July, 2022 - 1 January, 2023
📍 Location：2380 Longteng Avenue., Shanghai
🎟️ Fee：50 RMB
"Refuse" is the culmination of years of dialogue and preparation between Ed Atkins and Tank Shanghai, and represents a unique expression of the artist's past creative process. Just like the English title of the exhibition "refuse", it also symbolizes the meaning of "waste" of "rejection". All the works in the exhibition have a common point of irreconcilability between meaning and meaninglessness that leans towards the experiential.
Atkins hopes to exhibit a group of works that dialogue with space and reactivate space through soundand vision. He believes that, as a very post-industrial project, the exhibition "Refuse" somehow forms an echo with TANK Shanghai through its connection with waste, uselessness and excess production.
Long Life Design: Thinking and Practice
©Shanghai Pearl Art Museum
📅 Time：3 July, 2022 - 6 December, 2022
📍 Location：8F, Aegean Shanghai, No. 1588, Wuzhong Road, Minhang District, Shanghai, Pearl Art Museum
🎟️ Fee：80 RMB
The concept of "Long Life Design" was proposed by Japanese design activist Nagaoka Kenmei, which advocates treating objects with love and understanding the value of objects that can withstand long-term use. The exhibition aims to provide everyone with a re-examination of utensils and vegetable meals, rediscover the charm of "regional design", re-experience "cherishing things" and "long love", and learn many fresh and specific concepts and methods.
©Shanghai Pearl Art Museum
The exhibition displayed more than 600 pieces of excellent design in 9 units. It includes the fruitful achievements of "Long Life Design" in Japan, and goes deep into the tradition and modernity of regional characteristic products, and specially planned the "Echo: The Exploration of Local Designers" unit, which presents the long-term effects of 10 Chinese designers and brands. Designs, which include (in alphabetical order): Bishan Crafts Cooperatives, engraft, klee klee, Song Youyang (PEELSPHERE®), Wu Bin (weimo), Yang Tao (SE-P®), Yi Sheji, Yi Hongbo (SUMMERWOOD) , Zhang Lei & Christoph John & Jovana Zhang (PINWU), Zhang Na (Reclothing Bank).
Awakening the Future
Sustainable Art Festival
©NEEDART
📅 Time：28 June, 2022 - 13 August, 2022
📍 Location：NEEDARY Art Exhibition Hall, Wangjing Street, Beijing
🎟️ Fee: Free of Charge
Using the beauty of art to present the infinite reverie of human beings on nature, cities, technology and the universe. Not only that, the exhibition also presents a topic that should attract everyone's attention - "sustainable development" using endless imagination for artistic presentation, exploring the infinite possibilities of sustainable ideas in the form of art. The exhibition is divided into four areas: painting, installation, digital art, and video, presenting the ecological art carnival gathered by more than 40 artists to the audience.
©NEEDART
This art festival also cooperates with Meta-Curation Venice Metaverse Annual Exhibition "Twin Cities Linkage". It also echoes the "Digital Twin Art Farm" of the One Ton Project - Symbiosis of All Realms, presenting a metaverse sustainable art attitude of space biodiversity, interstellar eco-friendliness, and focusing on the universe of agriculture, farmer and rural area.
Find sustainable vitality
in dialogue & nature
©Peace Carnival
📅 Time：23 June, 2022 - 7 August, 2022
📍 Location：Chengnan Reading Room, No. 90 Zhongshan East Street, Nantou Ancient City, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
🎟️ Fee: Free of Charge
From the very beginning of life, art and expression have had a crucial impact on the development of human civilization. As we grow up, we gradually become accustomed to enriching the communication between people with a broader and more flexible language, and the role of art in it is to elevate the connection of life.
Centered on artistic expression, this exhibition invites several young artists to approach the theme of "interaction and connection" from three levels: Self-dialogue, small family dialogue, mass dialogue; use plants, photography, installations, films, music, art, literature and other forms to create. The purpose of this exhibition is to convey that artistic expression must be close to people and communicate with nature.
—— Curator: Wu Lan
ISPO Environmental Sustainability
Exhibition Area - Sharing the Natural
©ISPO
📅 Time：29 July, 2022 - 31 July, 2022
📍 Location：Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing
🎟️ Fee: Free of Charge
ISPO sets up an environmental sustainable exhibition area for the first time. ISPO Shanghai 2022 – Nanjing Edition and SEE Fund, in the "Jingcao Carnival" project, jointly create an environmental protection public welfare exhibition area with the theme of "sharing the natural". The exhibition area adheres to the principle of respecting nature and calls for traceless camping to discover and protect the beauty of biodiversity.
There is also a biodiversity photography exhibition in the exhibition area. Through the photography of biodiversity in Jiangsu, it introduces the situation of endangered animals in China, the importance of biodiversity, and pays attention to how to participate in biodiversity protection in outdoor sports; as well as specially welcomed biodiversity DAKA to be shared in the exhibition area.