[2025 Shanghai Attraction] Travel Guide for Ota Fine Arts (Updated Apr)

Exhibition Name: Rina Banerjee: What Kind of Bird Are You? Dates: Mar 21–Apr 26 Location: Ota Fine Arts Free admission, no reservation required This is the first exhibition in China by Indian-American artist Rina Banerjee. The exhibition features sculptures, paintings, and mixed-media works on paper, reflecting Banerjee's long-term exploration of postcolonial diaspora identity, tradition, and cultural complexity.

Exhibition Name: On the Way · Southeast Asia Time: July 27, 2024 - August 31, 2024 Location: Taka Ishii Gallery The exhibition is free and no reservation is required This exhibition aims to provide a window into contemporary Southeast Asian art. Here, concepts such as mythology, tradition, identity, history, and cultural heritage are actively explored, leading the audience into some distinctly different stories of Southeast Asia.

Recently, the exhibitions in Shanghai have really reached the next level. The happiness of the people in the Magic City is enviable. The Japanese Queen of Polka Dots👸🏻's new works 56 paintings and manuscripts have come to Shanghai first after Tokyo! And it's free to book! Who understands its value! Yayoi Kusama has created countless masterpieces during her 70-year art career. Especially her technique of repeatedly using nets and polka dots to fill canvases and spaces has earned her the reputation of the 'Queen of Polka Dots'. In this exhibition, she has updated her expressive language in the form of 'text'. While her representative patterns such as nets, dots, and profiles reappear, she often mixes markers and acrylic paints to draw one or more circles on the canvas and writes her poems and messages in Japanese or English within the circles. The varying pressure of her brushstrokes vividly conveys her breathing rhythm. These texts are filled with the poet Kusama's infinite longing for life and her desire to share art with the world, as well as her perception of her own death. 💗Every day I pray for love 💓Every Day I Pray for Love 🩵Yayoi Kusama 💙24.06.01-07.13 (Tuesday to Saturday 10-18 o'clock) 💚Official 👸🏻 account: 'Rockbund Art Museum' Free🆓booking 💛Hidetomo Ota Gallery PS Currently, it's fully booked, but if you go to the venue, tickets are released daily, and you can probably book after waiting at the door for a while, the staff will inform you. The exhibition space is not large, but the number of visitors is limited, so the experience is quite good. After the exhibition ends in Shanghai, it will tour to Singapore in September! ～～～～～～

💙The solo exhibition of artist Maria Fara, "Girls as Girls", presented by Otani Shuzo Gallery, has come to the last week of its exhibition. This is the artist's second solo exhibition in Shanghai, showcasing 12 of her new paintings. Interested friends should hurry up! 💙Fara is good at using bright colors to depict daily life, unforgettable scenes, and animals or pastries she is interested in. She captures the complexity of women by excavating images of parallel cultures and events from her adolescence to today. 💙The exhibition, titled "Girls as Girls", is a transformation from the original phrase "Girls will be Girls", which contains a certain compliance or acceptance of gender-specific behaviors. By changing it to the present participle tense, Fara brings the phrase back to the moment before any judgment is made about gender. 💙Fara emphasizes the importance of contrast in the painting of the same name as the exhibition. In terms of color and form, brightness is neutralized by darkness, and sharp angles contrast with soft blurs. In her new paintings, patterns that are common and recurring in the artist's works, such as high heels and makeup tools, are intertwined with various thematic images. The fascination with smartphone content, the involuntary crying posture facing broken glass, creates a scene questioning this concept of "girlhood". The key colors of black, white, and red run through the entire exhibition and are deliberately chosen to create eye-catching contrasts in each painting.