Built in 1849, ‘No.1 Waitanyuan’ (33 Zhongshan East Road No.1) is located at the intersection of the Suzhou River and the Huangpu River. It is a ‘Shanghai Excellent Historical Building’ and also an important part and origin of the national key cultural relics protection unit ‘Bund Architectural Complex’. For more than 170 years, this humanistic and historical landmark with profound heritage has witnessed the past and present of Shanghai becoming a world-class oriental metropolis.
The modern urbanization process and the development of culture, finance, and commerce in Shanghai all originated from here. During the ART SHANGHAI exhibition, this historical building with a special position in both the urban history and urban architectural history of Shanghai is open to the public as an art exhibition space. Different from the traditional art museum’s ‘white cube space’, the series of exhibitions abandon the linear order related to time sequence, process, and category in the exhibition layout. The building space is divided into several independent fields to restore and recall the’storiness’ and context of this building itself, ultimately presenting an in-depth, vivid, and complete sensory experience.Opening hours: It is not open to the public during non-exhibition periods. The exhibition opening hours are subject to specific exhibitions.
