Fotografiska Shanghai

Fotografiska Photography Center is located in a century-old warehouse by the Suzhou Creek. World-class photographic works and exhibition themes, within the warehouse's mottled structure, bring a modern vibe and artistic tranquility. In addition to the distinct and diverse exhibitions, this historic building presents a multifunctional space. Cafes, restaurants, art shops, terrace bars, street-side leisure spaces, and the warm spring breeze along the Suzhou Creek make this a place where you can spend an entire day in a daze, filled with the charm of Shanghai's metropolitan flavor. ❤Recommendation: One ticket for 5⃣️ exhibitions, covering all the popular photographic artworks and dialogues with top global artists. The package also includes afternoon tea on the terrace, offering excellent value for money. 🌟Highlights: ✔️Coffee, bar, ice cream shop, art shop. Mona Restaurant is highly acclaimed, with its street-side outdoor seating in high demand during the day and transforming into a landmark Western restaurant at night. The art shop's display and ambiance exude a casual yet elegant style. Bright sunlight streams through the floor-to-ceiling windows, blending the experience of selecting artworks with the scenery of pedestrians along the river. ✔️4th Floor Terrace Bar Afternoon Tea After enjoying a world of light and shadow, from humanity to animals, ascend the industrial-style staircase to the 4th-floor terrace. Overlook the Suzhou Creek or gaze at the bullet-scarred walls of the Sihang Warehouse. A cup of hot tea or coffee, paired with a chocolate-based dessert, calms the excitement and complex emotions, welcoming the approaching night. ✔️Five Art Exhibitions 1⃣️Swiss surrealist artist Erik Johansson's latest solo exhibition, "Now Is All," is a visual feast combining real-life imagery and surreal creativity, featuring a total of eight works. You can comfortably lie or sit in the venue, immersing yourself in the world of art. 2⃣️"The Secret Life of Pets" brings together 24 artists and over 100 works. This exhibition, themed around pets, outlines the emotional bond between us and our pets. The themes "Shake" and "Wet Dog" are particularly adorable, offering a unique perspective. 3⃣️Rinko Kawauchi's "Distant, Glittering Stars, Twinkling in My Hand" is a journey of life, time, and perception, filled with warmth and healing. 4⃣️Local emerging artist Wang Hanlin's solo exhibition, "Animal Capital," uses "pets" as a starting point to examine humanity and explore the structure of human society. 5⃣️The Pictet Photography Prize "People" themed exhibition presents over 100 works by 12 photographers. Encompassing documentary, portraiture, and landscape, it addresses issues such as the plight of indigenous peoples, conflict, childhood, the collapse of economic processes, traces of human habitation and industrial development, gang violence, borderlands, and migration.

#discoverchina If you’re tired of squeezing through crowds at the Bund, why not take a slow walk along the quieter, more charming Jing’an section of Suzhou Creek? This area, known for its graceful curves, is often referred to as “Suzhou Creek Bay (苏河湾)”. It’s perfect for a peaceful stroll, blending history, culture, and photogenic spots all in one go! Recommended Route: Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce (Old Site) Shenyu Li (慎余里) MadeIn Gallery (没顶画廊) JK1933 Fotografiska Shanghai (摄影美术馆) Tianhou Temple (天后宫) Suzhou Creek MixC World (苏河湾万象天地) TBCA Art Center People’s Café (人民咖啡馆) Sihang Warehouse (四行仓库) Fuxin Flour Mill (福新面粉厂) Suzhou Creek Post Office (苏河皓司) Must-See Historic Architecture: Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce (上海总商会旧址) Tianhou Temple (天后宫) Shenyu Li (慎余里) Sihang Warehouse (四行仓库) Fuxin Flour Mill (福新面粉厂) It’s a perfect half-day walk for history buffs, architecture lovers, and anyone craving peaceful city vibes with great photo ops. #thingstodo #travel

📍Located on the Suzhou Creek waterfront in Shanghai 📝The fifth Fotografiska in the world, following Stockholm, Tallinn, New York, and Berlin. Fotografiska Shanghai continues the innovative model of its global counterparts, combining world-class photography exhibitions with a visitor-centric philosophy. ❤What truly sets Fotografiska apart from traditional art institutions is its emphasis on a deeply immersive experience. Feel free to lie on the floor and enjoy the art at your own pace. 🌟Open until 11pm, Fotografiska allows visitors to experience art on their own terms, whether it's with a glass of wine or a lively conversation with friends.

In the past, the area north of Suzhou Creek in Zhabei District, Shanghai, was considered a place of little importance. Nowadays, when night falls, the area is as quiet and peaceful as a European town. The Fotografiska Shanghai, a creative space transformed from an old factory, exudes warmth and romance through its windows!

Martin Parr【Short & sweet】 Mar 14, 2025–Jul 13, 2025 Nearly 400 representative works from the 50+ year photography career of the master of everyday humor “Through photography, I hope to transform reality into fiction. I try to achieve this by twisting society's natural prejudices.” — Martin Parr Friend: The Japanese writer next door is better looking, and you're actually looking at this so seriously. 😂If you stay in England for eight years, you'll understand why you like some village fashion, even a photo of chewing gum can resonate~ This vibe~ British tattoos, British piercings, I'll never forget making belly bars and selling teenage stuff to earn pocket money, and then getting so into it that I went to Selfridge's to get a belly piercing, and the guy asked me to either bring a parent or a passport to prove I was an adult, so I dragged a foreign classmate to pretend to be my parent😂 Then I went back to Shanghai and got beaten up by my parents~ Who understands the craze for piercings back then~ The love for England was something I used to despise, desperately wanting to go home, and then later it turned out to be a curse~ What is British humor? It's humor that no one but the British finds funny😂 Just like how others will question what's so good about these things😂 It's all about self-entertainment, simple happiness, that's the British spirit~ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rinko Kawauchi​【a faraway shining star, twinkling in hand】 Feb 21, 2025–Jun 22, 2025 Philosophical poems about "life" presented through images (SIGMA collaborative exhibition) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wawi Navarroza【Wild at Heart】 Mar 14, 2025–Jul 13, 2025 Labor, Handicraft, Identity Definition Tradition and contemporary, handmade and mass-produced, local and global Challenging traditional narratives of female imagery, using layers of color and objects combined in a unique way to reflect cultural fusion, forming a "tropical gothic" artistic world of her own ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Erik Johansson【All We Have is Now】 Jan 17, 2025–May 4, 2025 A surreal visual feast (immersive dynamic multimedia imagery) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yin Hang【Elevated Flame】 Mar 14, 2025–May 4, 2025 The artist's unique works in the field of sculpture and photography overlap, focusing on the symbolic interaction of "discipline" and "complicity" to create a way for originally binary opposites to intertwine. 👆🏻 One ticket for multiple exhibitions! White sunglasses are a gift from the Martin Parr exhibition~ Atmospheric outfit😂 Unique British humor🥳

💐The weekend in the Magic City finally cleared up, with bright sunshine, so I went to the citywalk by the Suzhou River. I passed by the Fotografiska Center of Photography and went in for a visit, and it was truly stunning! 🌈On the second floor of the Fotografiska Center of Photography, there's a newly opened retrospective exhibition of the French photography master Elliott Erwitt - 'Adventures in Photography'! It offers a perspective into the soul of the city and explores human emotions! 🌸Under the strong Swedish color scheme, one can fully experience the French romanticism. The exhibition has about 100 pieces, and through these decisive moments, you feel that he must be a person filled with human warmth, humor, and depth... 🎊The entire exhibition space from F1 to F4 is very photogenic, almost as if the Swedish color palette supports the whole exhibition, creating a very Nordic atmosphere. ⌚️Exhibition Dates: March 1, 2024 - June 2, 2024 🏠Exhibition Venue: Fotografiska 💰Admission Fee: 120rmb

As someone passionate about photography, I've always been keen on various photography art exhibitions. A few days ago, I took Pumpkin to Fotografiska for an exhibition, which is currently the largest photography art exhibition in the Magic City. I thought it would be a good opportunity for a cultural and aesthetic education trip for the child, to enhance their sense of beauty. The entire exhibition area is nearly 4600 square meters, including exhibition halls, a cafe, a restaurant, and an art shop. It's indeed huge! And it's quite photogenic, walking with a child for a whole day is no problem at all. This time we saw four exhibitions: ✨ 'Elliott Erwitt: Adventures in Photography' A photographer with a humanistic perspective, including a 'Children' series that is more suitable for parent-child interaction and explanation. Easier for the kids to understand. Ps: This exhibition ends on 6/2 - sisters who want to go should hurry! ✨ 'River Stories' Conveys the story of rivers over the decades to the present, realistic with a touch of poetry, relatively profound. ✨ 'Cooper & Gorfer: The Sirens' Song' My personal favorite exhibition! About female power, the overall use of color is very bold. ✨ 'Alien Flora Sequence' 'When electronic waste is given new life...', the so-called 'symbiosis', this area is a bit dreamcore, and a bit profound for the kids. Besides being family-friendly, I didn't expect the exhibition to also be pet-friendly!! For example, what's it like to see a dog in the exhibition hall? Well, it's a heartfelt feeling of camaraderie~

❤️ “Only by loving animals can a part of our soul awaken.” 🐶 Only after raising a pet do we understand that the touch between hand and paw is a bond that transcends species. 🐰They teach us love and responsibility, heal loneliness, become creative inspiration, and are the protagonists of fairy tales. We cherish everything about them and are grateful that they accept us for who we are. 📷Come to the "The Secret Life of Pets" pet-themed photography exhibition (Dec 7, 2024–Mar 9, 2025) at Fotografiska Shanghai, and feel the love and warmth on the banks of Suzhou Creek. 👉Other exhibitions running concurrently at the museum include: Rinko Kawauchi "The Sparkling Stars, Twinkling in My Hand" Exhibition period: Feb 21–Jun 22, 2025 Patek Philippe Photography Award "Human" Themed Exhibition Exhibition period: Jan 17–Mar 9, 2025 Wang Hanlin "Das Kapital of Animals" Exhibition period: Jan 17–Mar 9, 2025 Eric Johansson "Now Is All" Exhibition period: Jan 17–May 4, 2025 📍Located next to the Sihang Warehouse, 🚇a 5-minute walk from Qufu Road Station (Lines 12/8) above Joy City. 💁🏻‍♀️Let's thank our furry friends for their companionship!

There are many young people at the Fotografiska Center for Photography and Visual Arts. Their keen sense of color and shape in cultural and creative products makes them linger and forget to leave. They either come with friends or wander alone, quietly appreciating the art in this temple as if savoring a visual feast. In this ocean of art, young couples are also a common sight. They come hand in hand to experience and enjoy the visual journey together, sharing the power and charm of art with other young people. They use images to depict life and love, constantly sparking new ideas and thoughts about the world in this artistic sanctuary. Here, they seek inspiration, find themselves, and leave their unique marks on the world. Their presence is like a beautiful landscape, adding endless vitality and charm to the Fotografiska Center for Photography and Visual Arts. This place is their stage and the starting point of their dreams.

The Fotografiska Image Art Center at No. 127, Guangfu Road, Shanghai, is an old warehouse built in 1931 and has now been transformed into a 4-story art space. Recently, it has brought us an unprecedented African photography exhibition - "MARVELLOUS REALISM". • Myth: Explore the mysterious stories and ancient legends of Africa. • Flow: Feel the vitality of the African land and the circulation of culture. • Memory: Look back at the history and memories of the African people through the lens of the photographer. This exhibition brings together the masterpieces of 16 photographers and is one of the largest African photography exhibitions in Asia. Each piece tells a story with its unique composition, vivid expressions, and real emotional transmission. The exhibition hall uses the changes of shadows and lights to enhance the sense of hierarchy of the picture, giving people a movie-like immersive visual effect. • Address: No. 127, Guangfu Road, Shanghai. • Time: 10:30-23:00 (closed on Mondays). • Exhibition period: August 30, 2024 - December 1, 2024. • Ticket: CNY 160 (a pass can be used to visit 4 exhibitions, including coffee and dessert on the 4F terrace).

When the TV series Blossoms was a hit last year, there was a big controversy: many netizens thought the scenes in the drama didn't look like Shanghai in the 1990s, but more like Hong Kong. What was Shanghai like in 1990? Remove the filter of memory and see the real thing through a photography exhibition and the photos of a Dutch photographer. 🖼️ 1990-1993 Shanghai: Moments and Eternity 📌 Venue: Fotografiska Shanghai 📍 Address: No. 127 Guangfu Road, Shanghai (next to Sihang Warehouse) 💰 Tickets: 120/adult, 80/concession (children, seniors, students, etc.) In 1991, the French fashion magazine Vogue Hommes hired Dutch photographer Robert and writer and film director Emmanuel Carrère to come to Shanghai to shoot a special report. They didn't shoot too many famous attractions in Shanghai. Apart from some historical neighborhoods and the rising Pudong, the photographer and director chose to go deep into the streets and alleys of the city to feel and discover the real life of the people, leaving many vivid and interesting moments. I took my aunt, who recently returned to Shanghai to visit relatives, to the exhibition. She moved to the United States with her daughter in 1992, and these photos brought back many old memories for her and also took me back to my childhood. Fotografiska is a gallery focusing on photographic art, and there are currently four exhibitions going on. The pass allows you to visit all the exhibitions in the gallery. In addition to this photography exhibition about Shanghai in the 1990s, Extraordinary Realism is the first and largest African photography exhibition in Asia. It is rich in content and worth seeing. We bought a ticket + afternoon tea package. The café is located on the top floor of the 4th floor, with a spacious space, comfortable sofas, and an outdoor terrace. The package is cost-effective, but the taste is slightly ordinary. You can also choose to buy some souvenirs or have a cup of coffee at the art center store on the first floor. In the warm autumn sunshine, everything is so pleasant. Fotografiska Shanghai

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Fotografiska Shanghai and it was an enriching experience that truly enhanced my trip. The standout exhibition showcasing Shanghai in the 1990s was particularly captivating. The photographs beautifully captured the city’s vibrant transformation during that decade, reflecting both its struggles and triumphs. I was fascinated by the contrast between the past and present, as the images brought to life a Shanghai that was rapidly evolving. This exhibition provided profound insights into the city's history, making my visit feel complete. Fotografiska is a must-visit for anyone wanting to appreciate Shanghai's rich cultural narrative! #shanghai #art