Exhibitions

The Bank Show: Hito Steyerl

If the inaugural The Bank Show: Vive le Capital marked an effort to come to terms with the fact that contemporary at is - and can only be, for a while - embedded and operative in a world calibrated by global capital, its sequel The Bank Show: Hito Steyerl focuses on a single artist whose singular approach to navigating the unstable grounds of contemporary life "in the neo-liberal thick of things" feels more relevant than ever, perhaps eerily so. When Liquidity Inc., the main attraction in this exhibition, first came out in 2014, the fate of its protagonist Jacob Woods - and adopted Vietnam War orphan-turned Lehman Brothers financier-turned MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter after losing his job in the 2008 economic crisis - already felt like an all-too-familiar narrative with the last global financial fiasco securely tucked into the past. Yet now as you sit on the Hokusai-inspired ramp specially constructed to experience this video, 1.93 million euros had just been raised on a crowd-funding platform that ultimately failed to resuscitate the Greek economy and, together with China's stock market downfall, one can only forecast continued instability for today's global economy and the world that it sustains.

Date: Until August 30, 10:30 am to 6:30 pm (closed Mondays)

Venue: BANK Gallery

Address: 1/F, 59 Xianggang Road

香港路59号1楼

Admission: Free

Call 6301-3622 for details

Dual Exhibition: The Dream City

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are well-known Russian-born artists based in the US whose work is deeply rooted in the Soviet social and cultural context. In their recent exhibition, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Dream City, held at the Power Station of Art, the couple invite the audience into a Utopian world with their works of universal significance. The Dream City is their largest exhibition thus far. For its Shanghai debut, the audience can walk through a labyrinth of installations. Born in Dnipropetrovsk, the former Soviet Union, in 1933, Ilya Kabakov began his career as a children's book illustrator during the 1950s. He found fame in the field of conceptual art, a discipline which is characterized by the practice of making art while questioning its finality.

Date: Until December 6, 11 am to 7 pm (closed Mondays)

Venue: Power Station of Art

Address: 200 Huayuangang Road 花园港路200号

Admission: 60 yuan

Call 3110-8550 for details

Exhibition of Revolutionary Art

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Long Museum Pudong is presenting an exhibition of revolutionary art. The 100-or-so exhibits, ranging across woodcuts, oil paintings, gouache and watercolors come from the museum's own collections. During the anti-Japanese war, due to the shortage of necessities as well as to meet the needs of the revolutionary course, engravings - mainly woodcuts - were the major form of art in Yan'an. Engraving artists from across the nation came to Yan'an and created numerous artworks mainly about the local lives and the struggle of the Chinese people against the invaders.

Date: Until August 31, 10 am to 6 pm (closed Mondays)

Venue: Long Museum Pudong

Address: No.210, Lane 2255 Luoshan Road

罗山路2255弄210号

Call 6877-8787 for details

Dual Exhibition: Inner Reflection

AroundSpace Gallery will present a dual exhibition of Chinese artists Chen Xiaowei and Zhuang Ying's recent works. Both female artists, Chen and Zhuang, share the same sensitivity that they sense from the outside world and their inner emotions. In Chen's detailed and delicate drawings, we can peek at space as grand as the cosmos; while through Zhuang's rendering of objects and plants, we see the abstraction of her own recognition of form and color. The two artists are not bothered by the madding crowd formed by today's contemporary art scene. Instead, they focus on projecting the reflections of their inner worlds onto paper, and creating distinguished yet vivid, powerful art. Having lived in Boston for 10 years, Chen is an active young artist with a rather quiet surface. She received a distinguished artist award in Boston in 2007, and was the first Chinese artist to take residence at the renowned ISCP in New York, where she created a most acclaimed 15-meter-long drawing scroll. Zhuang graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and resides in Shanghai. Her art exceeds the restraints of mediums or genres thanks to her strict training in classic Chinese painting and thorough understanding of Western art.

Date: September 5 to October 12, 11 am to 6 pm (closed Mondays)

Venue: AroundSpace Gallery

Address: Room 703, 33 Sichuan Road Middle

四川中路33号703室

Admission: Free

Call 3305-0100 for details

On Stage

Emmanuel Pahud Flute Concert

Emmanuel Pahud is a Franco-Swiss flute player. Born in Geneva, in 1970, Pahud's father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutist is most known for his baroque and classical flute repertory. Pahud was born into a nonmusical family. As a young boy living in Italy, Pahud was captivated by the sounds of the flute. From the age of 4 to 22, he was tutored and mentored by flutists such as Carlos Bruneel and Aurèle Nicolet. Classically trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, he leapt into the international orchestral and solo music scene when he joined the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1992. The Guardian said Pahud's versatility in music styles over the years has "signalled the arrival of a new master flautist." He plays in diverse music genres, ranging from baroque, jazz and contemporary to classical, orchestral and chamber music.

Date: September 9, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 880 yuan

Call 6854-1234 for more information

Theater 12 Angry Men

Chinese version of 12 Angry Men produced by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre is on stage till September 6. Following a story of a jury of 12 men discussing on a criminal case, in which a boy is suspected to have killed his father, 12 Angry Men was originally a teleplay created by Reginald Rose in 1954 and later was adapted by him to a drama and a feature film under the same title. It has become a classical story that celebrates people's "reasonable doubt" and meanwhile addressed to universal topics as stereotype and prejudice in the society. The Chinese version is directed by Tian Shui, an award-winning actress who performed in Chinese version of Mamma Mia!, Death and the Maiden, and 4:48 Psychosis.

Date: Until September 6,

7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre 上海话剧艺术中心

Address: 288 Anfu Road

安福路288号

Tickets: 200 yuan to 280 yuan

Call 6473-0123 for details

Concert by MozART Group

Polish music ensemble MozART Group will stage a lighthearted concert in Shanghai. All four gentlemen of the MozART group are well-educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Lodz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. The group created a worldwide unique musical cabaret, where the music, not the words are the source of joy and laugh. The musicians of the group have been playing together since 1995. At the beginning, they presented short musical jokes on Canal Plus Television and gave their first debut in 1997 at the PAKA competition of young Polish cabarets in Krakow. In the same year, they presented their first cabaret program entitled Mozart's Still Alive and since then, they have given concerts in all of Europe, Canada, the US and Asia. The quartet give also performances with colleagues around the world including shows with the mime Irek Krosny or the multi-talent Bobby McFerrin.

Date: September 20, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 280 yuan

Call 6854-1234 for details