Fotografiska Shanghai Night at Museum Jul 25: DJs, skate exhibits, guest. RMB100 incl drink & all galleries. 9pm-late.
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Tonight, Fotografiska Shanghai teams up with Nike SB for an electrifying Night at The Museum—a summer kickoff celebrating youth culture and the opening of Skate of the Art: Skateboarding Across Cultures.
Curated by skater Kyle Ke, the night features a powerhouse lineup of DJs including BAADAAM, GUZ, MMQ, and Chiral across the third floor Event Space and fourth floor Lounge, alongside a special guest performance by BCW.
From 9pm until 11pm, roam five immersive exhibitions after dark—check them all out below.
Whether you live for skateboarding, photography, or music, this is where sound, image, and street culture collide.
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Sat July 25
9pm-Late
RMB100, ticket includes 1 drink and covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska Shanghai
New Shows
Skate of the Art | Skateboarding Across Cultures
Skate of the Art: Skateboarding Across Cultures is a major group exhibition that redefines skateboarding not merely as a sport, but as a global visual and cultural language.
The Concrete Swell, Viper Bowl, Hollywood, CA, 1976 © Hugh Holland (USA)
The show traces the culture’s evolution from the sun-drenched empty pools of 1970s California to the dynamic streets of contemporary cities worldwide.
From the series Imilla Skate, Bolivia, 2021 © Luisa Dörr (Brazil)
Featuring over 20 photographers from five continents—including iconic figures like Hugh Holland and Ed Templeton, alongside global documentarians such as Luisa Dörr and local Chinese artists like Jedi Zhou and Jeff Yiu—the exhibition charts skateboarding’s migration and its adaptation across diverse cultures.
When the Earth Seems to Be Light 10, Tiflis, 2013 © David Meskhi (Georgia)
Highlights include the historic image of Danny Way jumping the Great Wall and intimate portraits of communities from Bolivia to Beijing.
Landing Ramp, China, 2005 © Mike Blabac (USA)
Beyond photography, the exhibition integrates multimedia installations and street-textured environments to create an immersive experience.
Xiao Wu, Shanghai, from the series Skater&Room, 2020 © Wan Yize (China)
As a cultural partnership with Nike SB, the show extends beyond the gallery with public programs, celebrating how the camera lens has not only documented but actively shaped skate culture.
Rooftop Landscape, Marcus, Saizhi, Brian, Per, Shanghai, 2018 © Jedi Zhou (China)
It is an invitation to explore the freedom, creativity, and cross-cultural dialogue that define this enduring global youth movement.
The small park behind home practice, Ngari District, Tibet, from the series 1000 Miles, 2016 © Terry Xie (China)
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Until Oct 25
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80-100, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska
Robert Zhao Renhui | Trying to Remember a Tree
Trying to Remember a Tree is a contemplative solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui—the representative for the Singapore Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Robert Zhao Renhui, 2023. Image courtesy of the Artist
The show centers on the complete lifecycle of a single fallen rain tree, transforming overlooked urban debris into a profound meditation on nature, memory, and human perception.
Through five interconnected bodies of work—spanning photography, moving image, surveillance footage, and installation—Zhao presents the meticulous documentation of 28,017 individual leaves, severed trunk fragments, and 24-hour monitoring of the tree's decomposition.
Every Tree is Its Own Universe © Robert Zhao Renhui
In modern cities, dead trees are routinely cleared as waste; Zhao's patient observation reclaims these remnants, inviting us to truly attend rather than merely see.
His guiding axiom—"without looking at a tree, there is no forest"—grounds the exhibition in a micro-level focus that resists grand ecological narratives in favor of intimate, grounded encounters.
Every Tree is its Own Universe © Robert Zhao Renhui
Running until November 6, 2026, the exhibition asks viewers to slow down and reconnect with the vital, often invisible entanglements between urban life and the natural world.
It is a quiet but powerful reminder that remembering a single tree might be the first step toward remembering our shared ecosystem.
The Centre of All Things © Robert Zhao Renhui
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Until Nov 6
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80-100, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska
Ongoing Shows
Li Chenchi | Man With Good Taste
Man With Good Taste is an exhibition that challenges how we define aesthetic value.
Part of the museum's Emerging Artist Program, this solo exhibition presents the Li Chenchi's signature "in-between aesthetics"—a space where good and bad taste become ambiguous, fleeting moments rather than fixed judgments.
Working across painting, photography, and printmaking, Li Chenchi responds to our era of image saturation, accelerated visual consumption, and fragmented attention.
His layered compositions, created through superimposition and collage techniques, resist straightforward storytelling. Instead, they invite viewers to slow down and rediscover the hidden poetry within ordinary life, personal memory, and historical narration.
The works move between the mundane and the sacred, the poetic and the fractured, constructing a contemplative field where seeing becomes a ritual.
Curated as part of Fotografiska's commitment to emerging voices, this exhibition offers a profound reflection on how we perceive images today—and what it truly means to have "good taste."
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Until Aug 9
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80-100, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska
Thomas Sauvin | Beijing Silvermine: Archive Anthology
Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine: Archive Anthology celebrates 15 years of one of the world's most important vernacular photography archives.
Curated by Holly Roussell, the exhibition brings together over 1,500 salvaged 35mm negatives, books, installations, and collaborative artworks.
The archive originated from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing, where Sauvin rescued millions of anonymous film negatives destined for silver extraction.
These images document Chinese daily life from the Reform and Opening-Up period to the early 2000s—capturing aspirations, wedding rituals, and material culture in a rapidly changing society.
The exhibition unfolds across four sections: a monumental archive installation, a reconstruction of Sauvin's studio, a tribute to the cult photobook Until Death Do Us Part, and collaborations with artists including Lei Lei and Kensuke Koike.
Reflecting Fotografiska's mission to inspire new perspectives, the show demonstrates how images made to record ordinary life can acquire profound cultural meaning long after their original context has faded.
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Until Aug 9
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80-100, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska
Tony Oursler | mAcHiNe CrYsTaL
American multimedia artist Tony Oursler presents mAcHiNe CrYsTaL, a major solo exhibition now on view at Fotografiska Shanghai.
The show features large-scale immersive optical installations created specifically for the space, using crystal as a medium to bridge natural geometry, digital technology, and artificial intelligence.
At the heart of the exhibition is a sculptural arrangement of faceted crystal structures that function as both physical objects and dynamic projection surfaces.
Multicolored digital imagery—including live-action footage, hand-drawn animations, and AI-generated content—reflects and refracts across the crystals, creating a constantly shifting perceptual field that changes with the viewer's position.
Inspired by crystalline formations in nature and the role of crystals as the synchronized "heartbeat" of digital devices, Oursler asks whether technology can lead audiences back to nature.
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Until Sep 13
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80-100, ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska Shanghai
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