PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai announces today its gallery and exhibitor line-up for its forthcoming 8th edition. Organised by Creo and presented in partnership with Porsche, the fair returns to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre on April 20-23, 2023. Over 50 exhibitors, comprising high-end galleries, art spaces, institutions, publishers, and studios, are taking part in the different sectors including Main, Platform, Publishing and Culture Spaces.
Featured: Li Lang, 2011.12.31., 2022, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space（Chengdu）
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PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is Asia Pacific’s leading fair dedicated to photo-based and digital artworks. This year’s edition brings together a strong line-up of galleries from across China; it is a point of convergence, providing a platform for the most exciting emerging voices in Chinese contemporary photography whilst showcasing the historically significant and globally recognised artists that played a key role in shaping visual culture in the region.
Fan Ni, Director, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai said: ‘We are very happy to return to the Shanghai Exhibition Center this April and present exceptional new photo-based and digital art created both by established artists, as well as young talents from all over the world. Around a third of the galleries and publishers are new to the Fair this year and we are excited to introduce them, together with our long-standing exhibitors, to audiences here in China. Many institutions and organisations are joining us as well this year to showcase their new developments on photography and digital art, among them are local institutions and international cultural organisations. I would like to thank our partners who share with us a passion for photography and I invite you all to experience and enjoy the fair.’
Main and Platform
Galleries participating in the Main and Platform sectors present diverse artworks from established galleries to emerging newcomers. The artists being presented include contemporary pioneers of photography and celebrated video artists, as well as leading names in photography from within China.
Among the established galleries, Three Shadows + 3 Gallery (Beijing and Xiamen) presents works by Daidō Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Koo Bohnchang and Hisaji Hara. Daidō Moriyama’s work is recognised for its candid approach to the urban landscape and its inhabitants, while Hisaji Hara’s meticulous portraiture, inspired by Balthus’s painterly practice, places his subjects in a dreamlike narrative, somewhere on the trajectory between imagination and reality.
Gabriela Morawetz, At That Time, 2017-2021, see+ gallery(Beijing & Shenzhen)
see+ Gallery (Beijing, Shenzhen), presents a series of contemporary photographers, including Gabriela Morawetz, Till Leeser, Yan Ming, Lu Yanpeng and Wang Juyan. The gallery also focuses on two critical figures of the post-photographic era: Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, whose works invoke complex symbolisms through photomontage and post-production techniques, creating precisely altered photographic realities. Bringing together the best of Eastern and Western contemporary art, Matthew Liu Fine Arts (Shanghai) exhibits three fine artists whose works are increasingly resonant with Chinese collectors and audiences: Candida Höfer, Vik Muniz, and Yang Yongliang.
Hisaji Hara, A Study of the “Because Cathy Taught Him What She Learnt, 2010, Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing, Xiamen)
GALLERIA CONTINUA (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, Dubai) returns with a solo presentation of new works by Giovanni Ozzola. Ozzola, who specialises in capturing the variability of light, explores concepts of time, infinity and existence in his works. A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu) showcases the works of Li Lang, Chen Qiulin, and Chen Xiaoyi, three key figures in Southwestern Chinese contemporary photography. Their perceptive and meticulous practices demonstrate a keen insight into social issues, as they consider China’s changing lifestyles and landscapes.
Giovanni Ozzola, where are you?, 2021, Galleria Continua(San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, Dubai)
DUMONTEIL (Shanghai, Paris) presents three French contemporary artists, including Hugo Deverchère, whose most recent work, La Isla de Las Siete Ciudades, reconstructs the origins of a group of islands on the Iberian coast that were believed to exist in the 15th and 16th centuries but have since disappeared from maps.
Hugo Deverchere, La Isla de las Siete Ciudades – Excavation #03, 2021, Galerie Dumonteil（Paris & Shanghai）
BONIAN SPACE (Beijing), established in 2019, presents the works of important figures in 20th century Chinese photography, including Luo Bonian and Jin Shisheng, who were highly prolific in the 1930s, capturing the daily life of China’s urban centres and tracing the history of these rapidly growing cities. EAST GALLERY (Nanjing), which takes oriental aesthetics as a starting point, presents Dong Wensheng, Sun Xiaozhou, and other artists who explore the experience of traditional Chinese culture. EYECANDIES (Shanghai), a hub for emerging artists, launches three young female photography artists, Li Yushi, Yu Ruojie, and Winnie Tse. Li Yushi’s intimate portraits frame questions of gender and sexuality with a particular focus on the role of the gaze, whilst Yu Ruojie tests the limits of the camera lens, as she focuses on creating photographic abstraction with minimal post-production.
Hassan Hajjaj, Puma Veil, 2016, 193 Gallery (Paris)
193 Gallery (Paris) showcases the vibrant and powerful works of Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu and Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Fisheye Gallery (Paris) brings several emerging photographers, such as Léa Habourdin, works with drawings and photographs exploring fields such as ethology, applied science research and botanics, and Delphine Diallo, whose approach to portraiture shows an empathy and responsibility in her role as photographer, as well as a willingness to empower the subject.
Delphine Diallo, The Oracle, 2020, Fisheye Gallery (Paris)
Exhibiting Galleries
193 Gallery (Paris), A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu), BONIAN SPACE (Beijing), Cipa Gallery (Shenzhen), DUMONTEIL (Paris, Shanghai), EAST GALLERY (Nanjing), EYECANDIES (Shanghai), Fisheye Gallery (Paris), GALLERIA CONTINUA (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, Dubai), Gaotai Gallery (Urumqi), Ginkgo Space (Beijing), HdM Gallery (Beijing, London), Inter Gallery (Beijing), M ART CENTER (Shanghai), Matthew Liu Fine Arts (Shanghai), Maypark Gallery (Chengdu), Nine Art Gallery (Shenzhen), O2art (Beijing), Pan-View Gallery (Zhengzhou), RUIPIN Gallery (Shanghai), see+ Gallery (Beijing, Shenzhen), ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore), Studio Gallery (Shanghai), Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing, Xiamen), V&E Art (Paris, Taipei), View Contemporary Art Center (Lanzhou), Visible Gallery (Beijing), WhyWhyArt Art Center (Shanghai), X Contemporary Art (Changsha), Yiwei Gallery (Los Angeles)
Opening
Collector Preview (by invitation only) Thu 20 April 14:00-21:00
VIP Preview Fri 21 April 12:00-20:00
Public Day Sat 22 April 12:00-20:00
Public Day Sun 26 April 12:00-18:00
Venue Address: Shanghai Exhibition Center, 1000 YanAn Road (C), near Tongren Road
