26 Amazing Art Shows This May in Guangzhou

By That's Guangzhou, April 28, 2025

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Guangzhou/Bari Art Prize—Cityness, Ecologies and Community

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Strengthening the bond between Guangzhou and Bari since 1986, this artistic dialogue celebrates creativity, sustainability, and cross-cultural perspectives, weaving a vibrant tapestry of urban regeneration and youthful imagination between two sister cities.

Until May 5, 2025

Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, No.168 Waihuan Xi Lu, University City (Metro Line 4) 番禺区大学城外环西路168号广州美术学院美术馆


Emotional Attachment to the Greater Bay Area

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Step into the vibrant cultural tapestry of the Greater Bay Area through Pan Lusheng’s 38 colorful ink works, capturing the dynamic coexistence of tradition and modernity across cities and villages, past and future.

Until May 8, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


Architecture of Wine—Spanish Wine Routes

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Discover how Spain’s most iconic wineries have transformed into cultural landmarks where architecture and winemaking intertwine. These modern bodegas are more than just functional spaces — they reflect brand philosophy, embrace natural landscapes, and elevate wine tourism into an art form. Whether sleek and minimalist or bold and sculptural, each design tells a story of passion, terroir, and innovation. Through elegant structures shaped by sun, wind, and earth, architecture becomes part of the winemaking journey—turning every visit into a feast for both the senses and the soul.

Until May 11, 2025

FEI Arts, Building 9, Nan Er Jie, Haizhu Tongchuang Hui, No.88 Xinjiao Zhong Lu, Haizhu 海珠区新窖中路88号海珠同创汇南2街9栋


How Far Can We See Within?

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The exhibition brings together the works of Sino-Canadian artists, born in China and adopted in Canada. Having grown up estranged from their original home and culture, they attempt to reconnect with their Chinese identity through creativity and the contact with pieces of their past. Originating from common ideas, the artworks echo each other, inviting the public to enter into a contemporary dialogue about identity.

Until May 29, 2025

Guangdong San Ta Museum of Art, Building 87, Zone A, Zinitang Cultural and Creative Park, No.7 Xi’an Lu, Zini Cun, Shawan Jie Dao, Panyu 番禺区沙湾街紫坭村西安路7号紫泥堂文化创意园A区87栋广东三塔美术馆


Myriad Waves

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This exhibition features nearly a hundred masterpieces from the Guangzhou Museum of Art’s vast collection, celebrating the spirit of laborers. Through vivid depictions, these works honor the contributions of labor to shaping history, capturing the essence of human strength and resilience, and paying tribute to the hardworking heroes that build our world.

Until May 31, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


He Tianquan: Folding Theater

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The exhibition invites you to experience a narrative that unfolds through time and space. He's works explore the intersection of memory and the contemporary world, creating a personal theatrical experience that resonates deeply with the viewer’s own perception of history, society, and the self.

Until May 31, 2025

Shangrong Gallery, NO.10 Datianjinan, West of Chengjie village, Tianhe 天河区员村程介西大田基南10号(员村二横路与临江大道交叉口东200米)


Emerging Woodblock Printing and Guangdong Printmaking

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Step into the emerging world of printmaking with works created by 11 artists between the 1930s and the founding of the People's Republic of China. This exhibition covers an important period in Chinese modern printmaking, during which the art form made an indelible mark on the cultural landscape, capturing societal movements and evolving artistic trends. Discover the emotional impact and power of woodblock prints from this era.

Until May 31, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


Across the West of China

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Zhuang Xueben was a native of Shanghai. He worked as a special photographer for the Shanghai pictorials The Young Companion (《良友》), Zhonghua(《中华》), and Shun Pao ( 《申报》; Shen Bao). He was an outstanding pioneer of modern Chinese visual anthropology and an excellent photographic artist, and his photographs' historical significance and cultural quality are undoubtedly something to be truly proud of in the history of Chinese photography. During the period of 1934-1942, Zhuang set off for multiple field trips to ethnic minorities’ habitation in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and took more than ten thousand photographs and wrote nearly a million words of research reports, travelogues and diaries, leaving us a credible visual archive and survey for the history of China's ethnic minorities.

Until May 31, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


All in the New Year Dreams

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The folk art is rooted in the soil of folk culture, and its natural and vivid language to express the simplest spiritual demands and life aspirations of people makes it the cultural root of the Chinese nation. Benefiting from the unique and prosperous folk culture in Guangdong, GDMoA has been focusing on the collection and research of folk art with an open and inclusive academic attitude since its inception and has accumulated a considerable number of fine folk art that covers the major varieties. On the occasion of the opening of our museum’s new site, as well as the coming Spring Festival, GDMoA curates this exhibition to tell the stories that are impressive, lovely and respectable.

Until May 31, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


The Pace of Times: Collection from Guangdong Museum of Art

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The exhibition showcases over 150 outstanding pieces from its collection. Through a comprehensive exploration of social life and cultural thought, these works reflect the development of both the people’s lives and their spiritual landscape in 20th-century China. The exhibition highlights the societal realities of the time while serving as a microcosm of the evolution of Chinese art. This collection invites both scholars and the public to engage in a deeper discussion about the trajectory of modern Chinese art in the 20th century.

Until May 31, 2024

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


Curated Art Collections from the 16th to 20th Century

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Embark on a journey through time with this curated art exhibition, which spans 16th to 20th-century treasures. Featuring over 300 pieces from prestigious institutions like the Palace Museum and Hong Kong Two-Yi Museum, the exhibition highlights the delicate artistry of Chinese jewelry and the dazzling luxury of European masterpieces. Explore the aesthetic dialogue between East and West, and admire the timeless beauty of these historical gems.

Until June 2, 2025

Guangdong Museum, No.2 Zhujiang Dong Lu, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe 天河区珠江新城珠江东路2号


Landscape: Layers and Reflections

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Kui Yuan Gallery presents the duo exhibition ‘Landscape: Layers and Reflections’ by artists Ke Kanfa and Ke Ronghua, showcasing the diversity and complexity in the concept of ‘landscape’ as interpreted through their distinct artistic visions.

Until June 8, 2025

Kui Yuan Gallery No.9 Xuguyuan lu, Yuexiu 越秀区恤孤院路9号


Centennial Reflections

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This exhibition, generously supported by the Yan Huang Art Museum, offers a comprehensive retrospective of Huang Zhou's artistic journey through 100 masterpieces, along with a wealth of historical photographs and video. The exhibition highlights Huang Zhou's multifaceted identities as a painter, soldier, collector, cultural ambassador, and pioneer in the modern art museum movement, showcasing his significant achievements in both artistic creation and the broader art world.

Until June 15, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


YAO - Zhong Weifan Solo Exhibition

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Through her wood sculptures, the artist presents a unique interpretation of Buddhism, Daoism, and Zen philosophy, exploring spiritual depth through the intricate craft of carving. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on her distinctive vision of these ancient practices, portrayed through the textured layers and forms of her sculptures.

Until June 15, 2025

Another Art Museum, No.11 Gantang Da Dao, Panyu 番禺区甘棠大道11号另一个美术馆


Legacy Through Time: Xu Bei Hong

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As a pivotal figure in China's modern artistic transformation, Xu Beihong's artistic practice consistently embodied an academic logic of 'reaching breadth while achieving precision.' From epic thematic creation to allegorical image reconstruction, from innovation in brush and ink language to breakthrough in artistic conception, he pioneered a modern grammatical system fusing Chinese and Western art. The exhibition examines three historical segments of Xu Beihong's life. Through an intertextual narrative combining 73 representative works and extensive documentation, it deeply decodes the contemporary generative mechanism of his 'saving the nation through art' ideology and 'realism' methodology.

Until June 15, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan 荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号之一


Land of the Sun: Treasures of Iranian Culture and Art

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Discover 5,000 years of Persian civilization with 151 treasures from Iran’s leading museums, revealing the vibrant cultural exchanges between East and West along the ancient Silk Road and the rich artistry of Iran.

Until June 17, 2025

Guangdong Museum, No.2 Zhujiang Dong Lu, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe 天河区珠江新城珠江东路2号


Pearl River Time (1984/2024)

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Witness four photographers’ evocative portraits of the ever-changing Pearl River, where diverse landscapes and rich local cultures converge, offering a powerful visual chronicle of the river’s historical and cultural evolution.

Until June 20, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


Zishi Han: Echoes from the Gaps of Walls

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The exhibition draws inspiration from the museum’s unique architecture, reimagining the space as a narrative vessel that contrasts domestic intimacy with public exposure. It explores subtle sound-related narratives from Qian Xuesen’s U.S. house arrest during the early Cold War. It unfolds into two subplots—one drawn from 19th-century entomological research and the other from the Nüwa creation myth—while situating cybernetics within a broader framework to examine tensions between surveillance, confinement, and resilience. Based in Frankfurt am Main, Han employs installation, sculpture, video, and performance to examine power structures and their psychological effects. 

Until June 22, 2025

Times Museum, Times Rose Garden lll, Huangbianbei Lu, Baiyun Da Dao, Baiyun 白云大道黄边北路时代玫瑰园三期广东时代美术馆


AI as Seen at the End of Ownership

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The exhibition brings together 19 artists and groups from around the world, utilizing a diverse range of media including plotter drawing, generative art, AI system, video, game, animation, and robotic interactive installation. It explores how technology reshapes art traditions and fosters new conceptual expressions through human-machine collaboration. This exhibition is a response to the history of conceptual art and a question for the future: as algorithms infiltrate into art practices, what evolutionary paths will conceptual art follow?

Until June 22, 2025

Times Museum,Times Rose Garden lll, Huangbianbei Lu, Baiyun Da Dao, Baiyun (Huangbian Station, Guangzhou Metro Line 2) 白云大道黄边北路时代玫瑰园三期(地铁2号线黄边站)时代美术馆


Five Colours in Various Manifestations of Nature

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Explore the timeless dialogue between traditional Chinese color philosophy and contemporary art through an immersive exhibition of 61 historic and modern works centered on the elemental hues of black, green, red, yellow, and white.

Until June 23, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


Simplify the Complex to Open New Horizons

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Immerse in the refined artistry of Huang Banruo, a steadfast guardian of tradition, whose masterful landscape paintings blend ancient techniques with a distinctive personal expression, illuminating new paths from classic roots.

Until June 29, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


The Elegant Charm of Lingnan and Excellent Combination of Nature

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Celebrate the 120th anniversary of Zhao Shao’ang, a master of the Lingnan School of Painting, whose vibrant birds, flowers, and landscapes reflect a lifetime of devotion to nature’s silent poetry and the enduring spirit of Lingnan art.

Until June 30, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


New Amphitheater of Time

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Experience time and space reimagined by 33 rising contemporary artists as they reconstruct dimensions, challenge perceptions, and spark emotional resonance in a groundbreaking new exhibition celebrating the infinite possibilities of the present.

May 1-August 1, 2025

Guangzhou Museum of Art, N0.198, Yiyuan Lu, Haizhu 海珠区艺苑路198号广州艺术博物院(广州美术馆)


Prince, Hostage and King

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Step into the extraordinary life of Zhao Yingqi, the South Yue prince turned Han court hostage and later king, whose journey weaves together the destinies of Lingnan and the Central Plains in a vivid historic dance.

Until August 20, 2025

Nanyue King Museum (The Site of King's Tomb), No.867 Jiefang Bei Lu, Yuexiu 越秀区解放北路867号南越王博物院(王墓展区)


Reflection of Life: Stories from the Tombs of the Han and Jin Periods

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Journey through ancient Guangzhou’s Han and Jin eras, where over a hundred archaeological treasures reveal profound reflections on life, death, and the enduring spirit of resilience and reverence across the ages.

Until September 7, 2025

Guangzhou Museum, Yuexiu Park, No.988 Jiefang Bei Lu, Yuexiu 越秀区解放北路988号越秀公园广州博物馆


To Heaven at Five Feet

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Uncover the intertwined lives and traditions of the prestigious Wei and Du families in Han and Tang Chang’an, as this heartfelt exhibition explores family legacy, moral values, and enduring cultural spirit across generations.

Until October 16, 2025

Guangzhou Maritime Museum, No.22 Xuri Jie, Miaotou, Huangpu 黄埔区庙头旭日街22号广州海事博物馆


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