Power Station of Art
Address ： No. 678 Miaojiang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Address ： No. 678 Miaojiang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
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Introduction：
Founded on October 1, 2012, the Power Station of Art (PSA) is the first stat-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in China’s mainland and the main venue for the Shanghai Biennale. Standing tall west of the Huangpu River, PSA has a gross floor area of 42,000 square meters, including 15,000 square meters of exhibition area, with an interior height up to 27 meters. Renovated from the former Nanshi Power Plant, PSA retains the 165-meter-tall chimney of the plant, an urban landmark carrying the memory of industrial development and people’s life of Shanghai and a renewed independent exhibition space. PSA was once the Pavilion of Future during the World Expo 2010 Shanghai. It has witnessed the city’s vast changes from the industrial age to the IT era. Here, the rough, unrestrained industrial architectural style contrasts nicely with artistic creation, resource integration and spatial regeneration. As Shanghai’s “generator” for its new urban culture, PSA draws its vitality from continuous self-renewal and an orientation toward the future. The museum has been striving to provide an open platform where the public can experience, learn about, and share contemporary culture and art, break the barrier between life and art, and promote cooperation and knowledge generation between different schools of art and culture, in an effort to shape a culture and art ecosystem that is rooted locally and future-oriented with a global vision.
*The above information is subject to the official release by the venue, and this platform is for reference only.
Opening Hours
Introduction
Founded on October 1, 2012, the Power Station of Art (PSA) is the first stat-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in China’s mainland and the main venue for the Shanghai Biennale. Standing tall west of the Huangpu River, PSA has a gross floor area of 42,000 square meters, including 15,000 square meters of exhibition area, with an interior height up to 27 meters. Renovated from the former Nanshi Power Plant, PSA retains the 165-meter-tall chimney of the plant, an urban landmark carrying the memory of industrial development and people’s life of Shanghai and a renewed independent exhibition space. PSA was once the Pavilion of Future during the World Expo 2010 Shanghai. It has witnessed the city’s vast changes from the industrial age to the IT era. Here, the rough, unrestrained industrial architectural style contrasts nicely with artistic creation, resource integration and spatial regeneration. As Shanghai’s “generator” for its new urban culture, PSA draws its vitality from continuous self-renewal and an orientation toward the future. The museum has been striving to provide an open platform where the public can experience, learn about, and share contemporary culture and art, break the barrier between life and art, and promote cooperation and knowledge generation between different schools of art and culture, in an effort to shape a culture and art ecosystem that is rooted locally and future-oriented with a global vision.
*The above information is subject to the official release by the venue, and this platform is for reference only.
