China

Art in Shanghai

Shanghai is China's largest city and one of Asia's defining contemporary art capitals. The Shanghai Biennale, staged at the Power Station of Art — a converted power plant on the Huangpu riverfront — has anchored the city's art calendar since 1996, and the West Bund corridor has grown into a museum district in its own right. Alongside the Power Station of Art, the city pairs the classical collections of the Shanghai Museum on People's Square with the contemporary program of the Rockbund Art Museum near the Bund, making it one of the few cities where a single weekend can move from ancient bronzes to a biennale-scale installation.