The Power Station of Art near Shanghai's mother river, the Huangpu River, is home to the Shanghai Biennale.

An aerial view of the Power Station of Art in Shanghai. [Photo/powerstationofart.com]

It served as the Pavilion of Future during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

These are some of the items displayed in the museum.

A Pile of Balls (I) by Zhang Enli in 2010

"The series is representative of my works regarding containers. I borrowed the technique of Chinese line drawing to depict the net, using lines and spheres of color blocks to create psychological contrast and balance. This is the portrait of everyday objects," said Zhang Enli.

Listen to the Silkworms/Nature Series No 96 (PSA Edition) by Liang Shaoji in 2021

The artwork is exhibited in an empty and quiet room. The sound can only be heard when the audience wears earphones. Owing to the location where the artwork is displayed and the fact that sericulture involves humanity and science (such as the biological clock), Listen to the Silkworms offers weary city dwellers a sense of hope of returning to nature for enlightenment and redemption. 

Noon Rest by Vinu V.V. in 2014

These sickles, inscribed with caste names and geography, are neither symbols nor an assembly but a concatenation of singularities. On a tree trunk, they propose labor in a different moment of its manifestation: of repose and defiance. The field they evoke is at once essential and a threat to the ideologies and imaginaries of productivity.

Address: No 678 Miaojiang Road, Huangpu district

Source: powerstationofart.com