The latest collaboration between Shanghai's Museum of Art Pudong and the Tate in Britain, Dialogues with Turner: Evoking the Sublime, invites visitors to dive into the artistic world of one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century.

The exhibition, which features more than 100 artworks with approximately 80 original oil paintings and watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), is being held from Oct 1 to May 10, 2025 at MAP in Pudong New Area, presenting a holistic picture of the artistic developments and changing painting styles during the various key periods of his career.

Turner, who is one of Britain's most admired and influential artists, is known as "the painter of light". His paintings are renowned for indistinctness and vaporous visions, characterized by an expressive use of colors, mastery of light and an extraordinary dynamism that seems to border on abstraction, according to Elizabeth Brooke, Tate's senior project curator for international partnerships, who is also the curator of this exhibition.

Many of his works are on exhibition in China for the first time. A documentary about Turner, produced by Tate exclusively for the exhibition, is projected at an immersive space at MAP. It invites visitors to journey alongside Turner and experience the landscapes that inspired him.

Aside from Turner's masterpieces, the exhibition intersperses works by more than 10 renowned contemporary artists, including Katie Paterson, Richard Long, Olafur Eliasson and so on. Collectively they provide a 21st century interpretation of the 18th century idea of "the Sublime", creating the first exhibition in Asia that brings Turner into dialogue with the artists that heinspired.

Tate is one of Britain's national museums and home to the largest collection of works by Turner, as the artist bequeathed to the British nation a large number of his paintings.