That's Shanghai takes a look at the best art exhibits on this weekend:
I Hear Your Dreams – Group Exhibition
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Opening this weekend, OCAT Shanghai invites five of Norway’s leading contemporary artists together for a group exhibition which aims to elucidate and investigate the nature of dreams, the subconscious and memories. While many great thinkers have dwelt on the significance of dreams, we are largely, as a society, still in the dark when it comes down to it. Video work stands alongside installation, as we are carried into a parallel universe where our dreams and deeper thoughts reside.
Until Sep 8, OCAT Shanghai.
Nine Journeys Through Time – Group Exhibition
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Having first appeared at the Apartment of the Prince, Royal Palace, Milan, this exhibition is brought to Yuz Museum in Shanghai and see nine wildly different and vital artists investigate temporal relationships, with explorations in fashion, architecture and sculpture. The nine artists on show come from all over the world, and have differing relationships with art. As such, the thoughts and ideas that their differing works summon clamber all over the very large idea of time and its relationship with space.
Until Oct 10; RMB60. Yuz Museum.
Channel Orange: Xavier Veilhan Solo Exhibition
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Also the name of a very good Frank Ocean album, Channel Orange presents Veilhan’s latest experimental sculptures which focus on the transmuting and often subjective view of the human form. Known for his interest in exploring and playing with gallery and public space, Veilhan is a long-time affiliate of Perrotin, with this show his eight with the gallery.
Until Aug 17, Perrotin.
An Opera for Animals
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This large-scale group exhibition includes over 40 artists’ views on the histories and principals of classical opera in European and Chinese cultures, applying the canon’s language to traditions and reimagining the theatrical practice through a variety of lenses. Moving between cities, Cui Jie, Robert Zhao Renhui, Lee Bul and Wang Wei are among the extensive list of artists who used their works to transform the space in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay into a vibrant and pulsating urban jungle, before the show arrived in Shanghai, where Tang and Hsieh have helped to re-contextualize it by adding even more Chinese artists.
Until Aug 25, Rockbund Art Museum.
Perpetual Present – Daniel Arsham Solo Exhibition
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Famed New York-based artist Daniel Arsham brings his magnificent concept of future relics, of petrochemicalized items from the modern day which will soon fall into disuse as technology and our lust for more and newer products continues to accelerate. Arsham has achieve the elusive status of fashionista and influencer, lauded by publications such as Hypebeast, and teaming up with brands like Dior. His first show in China will show off some of his most iconic recent works.
Until Oct 24, How Art Museum.
Chong Lai: Zhang Yexing Solo Exhibition
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Closing this weekend, catch this exhibition as Beijing-based contemporary artist Zhang Yexing here eschews his usual warm palatte in favor of colder and more impersonal tones of blue and green. His characteristic ‘empty views’ offer viewers the opportunity for deep meditation and reflection. In this exhibition, the dank, shadowy white, green and blue shower curtain hangs like a human body in the center of one painting, while elsewhere Zhang’s highly detailed self-portrait also makes for moments of careful thought.
Until Jul 7; RMB20-30. Qiao Space.
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