This Weekend! Comedy, Art Shows & Walking Tours

By T+ Tickets, September 5, 2025

Comedy

Herlarious @ Soda Comedy Club

Shanghai's funniest female comedians deliver sharp, honest takes on modern dating, relationships, the quirks of men, modern life, and more.

Expect laughter, catharsis, and maybe a few all-too-real moments. Herlariously relatable comedy shows that we all need!

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Every Sat, 9pm; RMB128

Soda Comedy Club, 7/F, Block A, 830 Nanjing Dong Lu, by Xizang Zhong Lu, Huangpu District 南京东路830号A馆7楼, 近西藏中路

SpicyComedy English Stand-Up Showcase @ SpicyComedy Lounge

SpicyComedy is stand-up in Shanghai featuring some of the funniest local and traveling comedians.

With shows held throughout the week at the SpicyComedy Lounge in Xintiandi, audiences are in for an unforgettable night of laughs.

Each show features five to six talented English-language comedians, each performing 8-15 minute sets, mixing it up with everything from spotlight specials to open mic nights for newcomers.

Upcoming Shows

Fri Sep 5, 8.10pm, RMB228
Sat Sep 6, 7.30pm, RMB288
Sun Sep 7, 4.30pm, RMB228
Wed Sep 10, 7.30pm, RMB120
Fri Sep 12, 8.10pm, RMB228
Sat Sep 13, 7.30pm, RMB150
Sun Sep 14, 7.30pm, RMB228

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SpicyComedy Lounge, 3/F, Building 6-7, South Block, 123 Xingye Lu, by Madang Lu 兴业路123弄，新天地时尚一期6-7号楼3层南里食集北区, 近马当路

Art Shows

Sebastião Salgado @ Fotografiska Shanghai

The first major posthumous retrospective of the recently departed Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025).

As one of the most influential documentary photographers of the contemporary era, Salgado's photographs operate not only as historical documents but as interventions within cultural and political discourse.

From the famines and wars of 1970s Africa to laborers in the tide of global industrialization, from rural Latin American cultures to the untouched wonders of Genesis, his work documents the human condition, global inequalities, and the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world through incisive insight and a distinctive aesthetic.

Widely recognized for the aesthetic rigor and ethical urgency of his work, Salgado's images transcend conventional documentary photography, offering a visual language that merges journalistic inquiry with a profound humanist perspective, creating timeless works of both social significance and artistic mastery.

His lens gave visibility to the invisible, the marginalized, and the endangered—all are rendered visible with clarity and monumental beauty, challenging audiences to confront the social, environmental, and ethical urgencies of our time.

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Until Nov 11

Daily, 10.30am-11pm; RMB80-120, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska

Fotografiska Shanghai, 127 Guangfu Lu, by Jinyuan Lu, Jing'an District 光复路127号, 近晋元路

Lawrence Lek | Nøtel @ Fotografiska Shanghai

The first comprehensive showcase in China of Nøtel, a groundbreaking solo exhibition by artist Lawrence Lek.

Continuously evolving since 2015, the project envisions a speculative model of future habitation, one that is fully globalized, standardized, and fundamentally transient.

During the exhibition, Fotografiska’s space will be transformed into a real estate marketing suite for the fictional Nøtel Corporation, Lek’s design for the luxury hotel of the future.

This immersive advertisement allows visitors to experience Nøtel through interactive video games, guided walkthrough trailers, and CGI prints, presenting the global hotel chain as if it already exists.

With music composed by electronic musician Kode 9 (Steve Goodman), the exhibition immerses audiences in a futuristic space oscillating between luxurious experiences and technological alienation.

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Until Nov 11

Daily, 10.30am-11pm; RMB80-120, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska

Fotografiska Shanghai, 127 Guangfu Lu, by Jinyuan Lu, Jing'an District 光复路127号, 近晋元路

Welcome to the World of Mafalda: 60th Anniversary @ Instituto Cervantes

Mafalda was born in Argentina in 1964 at the hands of her creator, Quino, but soon became an icon throughout the Spanish-speaking world—and eventually a global phenomenon.

Today, she appears in statues, on t-shirts and in films, but the real magic happens when you open her comic strips.

Her humor, reflections, and wit remain as relevant as ever. An eternal child, irreverent and always concerned about the state of the world, a lover of peace and an enemy of soup, Mafalda has just turned 60.

To celebrate her anniversary, the Instituto Cervantes, together with NeoCogito—the publisher responsible for the Chinese re-edition of the comic strip—presents the exhibition Welcome to the World of Mafalda.

Supported by the Consulate of Argentina in Shanghai, the exhibition offers a chance to enjoy her classic comic panels and includes life-size reproductions of the character, her dining room, and her bedroom.

Until Oct 31

Daily, 11am-6.30pm; Free

Instituto Cervantes, 208 Anfu Lu, by Wulumuqi Zhong Lu, Xuhui District 安福路208号，近乌露木齐中路

Photographic Geomancy @ Fotografiska Shanghai

Artists group exhibition 'Photographic Geomancy: Image, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography,' featuring the works of 20 artists working at the intersections of art, geography, geology, and geopolitics.

The exhibition uses the metaphor of 'geomancy' to demonstrate how artists use on-site geographical research to address complicated themes including aesthetics, culture, environment, identity, and geopolitics in Chinese geography.

The exhibition is organized into multiple interconnected sections, which are based on the substance and issues explored by the artists in their work. It invites the audience to explore the mountains, rivers, and historical aspects of China, following the artists' journey.

The exhibition aims to reinterpret the expansive Chinese landscape by combining visual art, geography, and history.

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Until Oct 8

Daily, 10.30am-11pm; RMB80-120, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska

Fotografiska Shanghai, 127 Guangfu Lu, by Jinyuan Lu, Jing'an District 光复路127号, 近晋元路

Too Rich City: The Old White Swan Passenger @ Fotografiska Shanghai

Digital artist Huang Hexhan's latest solo exhibition 'Too Rich City: The Old White Swan Passenger' will guide audiences through a phantasmagoric journey traversing virtual and physical realities.

The exhibition presents a chrono-virtual voyage centered around the fantastical journey of the 'Old White Swan'—a narrative depicting how, after the demolition of Zhongshan Park, an antiquated pleasure craft retrieves its final passenger: the goddess statue Jingyue.

Visitors will board this temporal vessel to navigate through Too Rich City's surreal landscapes, ultimately returning to the park's inaugural day, thus completing an ouroboric cycle of urban memory.

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Until Sep 7

Daily, 10.30am-11pm; RMB80-120, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska

Fotografiska Shanghai, 127 Guangfu Lu, by Jinyuan Lu, Jing'an District 光复路127号, 近晋元路

Cirque

Era 2: Spirit of Shanghai @ Shanghai Circus World

Acrobatics, dance, theater and even extreme sports—long-running Shanghai multimedia spectacular Era's second season is in full swing at Shanghai Circus World.

The latest show, Era 2: Spirit of Shanghai, is a collaboration between a French choreography team and Chinese artists, featuring a completely new storyline and scenes, thrilling acrobatic skills, magnificent stage effects and the latest technologies.

Fans of the first season of Era, which attracted more than 5 million visitors over its 15-year run, will also be happy to hear they retain some of the classic attractions too, such as the bowl balancing act and thrilling, white-knuckle motorbike ball finale.

Tickets

Era 2: Spirit of Shanghai is on at the following times:

Mon-Fri, 7.30pm
Sat & Sun, 2pm & 7.30pm

Tickets are priced RMB380-880.

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Shanghai Circus World, 2266 Gonghexin Lu, by Guangzhong Xi Lu 共和新路2266号, 近广中西路

Walking Tours

GPS Walks

GPS Walks is a walking tour WeChat mini-program which uses your location to play commentary automatically, so that while you walk you can listen and focus on your surroundings.

You can start your walk at any time and stop whenever and wherever you like, for as long as you like. You don’t even need to hit pause; when you start moving again, the playback will continue.

You can follow your progress on a map, but the commentary also gives you directions, so you don’t need to be glued to your screen.

They currently have seven walks online, each one lasting around one-and-a-half hours. On each tour there are some well known and famous places, and great photo opportunities, but also some hidden gems tucked away for people to discover.

The aim is to pick out the stories that bring a bit of Old Shanghai to life, and go a little bit deeper than the dry statistics there might be on the plaque on the outside of a building.

Price: Each walk is RMB60 individually, or RMB99 for a one day unlimited pass, and RMB149 for a two day unlimited pass.

Languages: Chinese, English, French, and German.

Scan the QR code for the GPS Walks WeChat Mini Program: