The eighth edition of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai opens its doors for spring debut

PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, organised by Creo and presented in partnership with Porsche, returns to the
Shanghai Exhibition Centre for its eighth edition on April 20-23, 2023. As Asia Pacific’s leading
destination for collecting photo-based art, #Photofairs Shanghai acts as a site for discovery,
spotlighting galleries and artists working at the forefront of the medium. Over 50 local and
international exhibitors, comprising established galleries, institutions and publishers present
innovative and diverse works in photography, digital art, and photo books. The Fair additionally
hosts special exhibitions, projects and programmes, and a dedicated series of talks.

Insights, Screen and Special Exhibitions and Projects
Introduced in 2016, the Insights programme focuses on significant themes and moments in the
development of photography. Each year, a different curator is invited to provide their perspective on
the medium. This year, with the support of The New York Times Life and Arts China as lead
partner, independent curator Yang Zi presents a special exhibition titled Listen, Listen to the World,
an adaptation of the magazine’s December 2022 cover story, exploring the structures of
contemporary living, and the human response to the many external stimuli, notifications, signals
and commands we receive day-to-day. The featured artists are Hu Weiyi, Hu Yinping, Liu Chuang,
Liu Fujie, Li Hanwei, Shi Guowei, and Wu Ding, and the presentation will include new work created
especially for the fair. The newly unveiled programme Screen, focuses on experimental photography, multimedia and new
media artworks. Participating institutions include TRLab, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern
Art, the Centre for Experimental Film (Shanghai) and TANK Shanghai.
TRLab presents its first cross-media art project, AI2041, a collaboration between artists, renowned
science fiction writer Chen Qiufan and AI pioneer Li Kaifu, authors of a book of the same title. In
this project, seven artists contemplate an imagined future in artificial intelligence. Shanghai Duolun
Museum of Modern Art shows a selection of video artworks collected since its establishment in
2003, under the theme Twenty Years of Iteration, highlighting issues of identity, environment, and
China's unique online ecology and language in the internet age. The Centre for Experimental Film
presents artists Yang Zhenzhong and Zhou Xiaohu, offering a retrospective of avant-garde
approaches to contemporary photography. TANK Shanghai showcases the Diary of a Madman Trilogy
by artist Cheng Ran,exploring themes of self, loss and alienation.
Tmall Luxury presents a special project titled Pixel Evolution, engaging in dialogues about art in the
Metaverse era, curated by virtual human, TIMOthy. At the exhibition site, visitors can collect NFT
artworks issued by luxury brands, as well as using the Meta Pass, an innovative blockchain tokenized
ticket. In an effort to expand its exploration of the convergence of photography and digital art,
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai has invited ALiCE, a virtual human, to serve as its official ambassador, with
the aim of co-creating a themed video, Reality and Imagination, and exploring the future of video art
through a series of creative visuals.
Porsche, presenting partner of #Photofairs Shanghai, has worked with artists over the years to
convey the brand’s enduring appeal whilst spotlighting a variety of innovative works to audiences.
Porsche presents the group exhibition Dream In Colour in four sections: Origin, Inspiration, Passion,
and Vision. In addition to the installation Dream Big by Scottish artist Chris Labrooy, Porsche has
invited Yang Yongliang to create a special artwork, Nebula, depicting the classic Porsche 356 and
the first all-electric Porsche Taycan. Yang also presents Glows in the Arctic, a digital artwork that
compiles urban photographs, digitally synthesising and reconstructing them into images reminiscent
of traditional Chinese landscape art.
Parisian fashion brand AMI and Magnum Photos present the themed exhibition, F.AMI.LY, with
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai as the third and final stop, after presentations in Paris and Miami in 2022.
Thirteen photographers from Magnum Photos, including Alec Soth, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Jim
Goldberg, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and two guest artists, Cao Fei and Young Joo Lee, contributed to this
project. The artists depict their understanding of ‘home’, presenting a global perspective, showing
the diverse backgrounds of the participating artists, originating from twelve different countries
across the world.
SIGMA, founded in Japan in 1961, works with optical manufacturing, producing DSLR/MILC cameras,
compact digital cameras and interchangeable lenses. Under the themes of Origin, Craft and Sense,
SIGMA highlights its Aizu factory and displays photographic works spotlighting the craftsmanship
behind the brand.
Gallery Highlights
This year, a number of established galleries return to the Fair, including GALLERIA CONTINUA (San
Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, Dubai), A Thousand Plateaus Art
Space (Chengdu), Matthew Liu Fine Arts (Shanghai), ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, Beijing,
Singapore), see+ Gallery (Beijing, Shenzhen), Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing, Xiamen), M ART
CENTER (Shanghai), DUMONTEIL (Shanghai, Paris) and HdM Gallery (Beijing, London, Paris).
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai also welcomes a variety of emerging galleries from China and abroad,
including 193 Gallery (Paris), BONIAN SPACE (Beijing), Fisheye Gallery (Paris), Gaotai Gallery
(Urumqi), Maypark Gallery (Chengdu). The booth presentations at the Fair comprise globally
recognised international artists, such as Eikoh Hosoe, Issei Suda, Alberto Peral, Valery Katsuba
and Bernard Faucon, and leading names in photography from within China, such as Lu Yuanmin,
Ma Liang, Liu Ke & Huang Huang, Guo Guozhu, Ma Hailun, and Xu Guanyu.
X #contemporaryart (Changsha) presents recent works by artists Niao Tou and Sun Yanchu in a
duo exhibition. GINKGO SPACE (Beijing, Shanghai) displays a series of works by Li Shun, from the
series We survive on nothing but a fading reality, which contemplates the relationship between time
and objects. Artists presented by Studio Gallery (Shanghai) highlight the visual language of the
younger generation. Among them, Zheng Andong revisits the journey of Chinese immigrants to the
United States, exploring the role of identity and recognition. Shi Yangkun, presented by Visible
Gallery (Beijing) examines the untold stories behind archival imagery through his work Forty Scenes
of Yuanmingyuan, commissioned by the Peabody Essex Museum last year. Yiwei Gallery (Los
Angeles) presents a selection of photographers, including Yu Quan, Chi Haibo, and Ye Wenlong,
using landscape as a medium for their artistic expression. O2art (Beijing) showcases works by artists
Huang Xiaoliang, Yin Hang, Zhang Wei. Inter Gallery (Beijing) brings two series of works: The
Golden Age: Chinese Photography in the 1980s and 1990s and Poetry and Balance by Zhang Gengqi.
Notably, the Golden Age series consists of ten iconic works taken by ten photographers of the era.
Hai Zi, a photograph taken in 1986 by artist Sun Libo, a close friend of the poet, appears for the first
time on the art market.

Publishing Highlights
The Publishing sector includes leading international publishing institutions such as ACC ART
BOOKS (London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore), GOST Books (London) and Atelier EXB
(Paris), as well as pioneering photography-focused publishers from Japan such as AKIO
NAGASAWA PUBLISHING (Tokyo), AKAAKA (Kyoto), T&M Projects (Tokyo), and Libro Arte
(Tokyo). Local art and creative institutions that continue to focus on photography publishing,
such as Jiazazhi (Ningbo, Shanghai), and Same Paper (Shanghai), also join this sector. Meet
Camera (Shenzhen), more more artbook (Shanghai), Photism Photography Art Space
(Chengdu), ysy_studio (Shanghai), and 1908 Photobook Library (Hangzhou) present a range of
self-published works by emerging artists, and limited vintage books or signed out-of-print works
by famous photographers such as Sebastião Salgado, Richard Avedon, and Araki Nobuyoshi.
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai endeavours to inspire photographers around the world, especially in China,
to develop their design abilities and insights through unpublished photobook dummies. This year, in
collaboration with Jiazazhi and with the support of Dan Nong, the Fair presents an exhibition titled
Dummy: The Starting Point of Art and Photography Publishing. This exhibition emphasises the role of
dummies and publications in the development of photography in two sections, including an
overview of International photography book awards such as the Kassel Dummy Award, the d’Arles
Book Awards, and the Singapore International Photography Festival Dummy Award, and a
review of the Chinese photographic and publishing community, and self-organised photographic
events such as the Imageless Dummy Photobook Award. The Fair looks forward to launching
further projects with Jiazazhi pertaining to photobook dummies and publications, to support the
continued elevation of standards of editing, design, printing and production.
Non-profit cultural organisation Northing, showcases a selection of Norwegian photobooks in
collaboration with Fotobokfestival Oslo 2023, including Photography: The Web for the Future, which
promotes interactions and partnerships between the Chinese and international photography
communities, particularly in photography book publication.

GALLERIES
193 Gallery (Paris), A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu), BONIAN SPACE (Beijing), Cipa
Gallery (Shenzhen), DUMONTEIL (Paris, Shanghai), EAST GALLERY (Nanjing), EYECANDIES
(Shanghai), Fisheye Gallery (Paris), GALLERIA CONTINUA (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins,
Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, Dubai), Gaotai Gallery (Urumqi), Ginkgo Space (Beijing), HdM
Gallery (Beijing, London), Inter Gallery (Beijing), M ART CENTER (Shanghai), Matthew Liu Fine Arts
(Shanghai), Maypark Gallery (Chengdu), Nine Art Gallery (Shenzhen), O2art (Beijing), Pan-View
Gallery (Zhengzhou), RUIPIN Gallery (Shanghai), see+ Gallery (Beijing, Shenzhen), ShanghART
Gallery (Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore), Studio Gallery (Shanghai), Three Shadows +3 Gallery
(Beijing, Xiamen), V&E Art (Paris, Taipei), View #contemporaryart Center (Lanzhou), Visible Gallery
(Beijing), WhyWhyArt Art Center (Shanghai), X #contemporaryart (Changsha), Yiwei Gallery (Los
Angeles)

PUBLISHERS
1908 Photobook Library (Hangzhou), ACC ART BOOKS (London,New York, Shanghai, Singapore),
AKIO NAGASAWA PUBLISHING (Tokyo), AKAAKA (Kyoto), Atelier EXB (Paris), Fotobokfestival Oslo
2023 (Oslo), GOST Books (London), Jiazazhi (Ningbo, Shanghai), Kinakaal Forlag (Bergen), Libro
Arte (Tokyo), Meet Camera (Shenzhen), more more artbook (Shanghai), Northing (Bergen),
Photism Photography Art Space (Chengdu), Same Paper (Shanghai), SEISODO (Kyoto),
SHUSHUSHUSHU BOOKS (Berlin), The Eriskay Connection (Breda), T&M Projects (Tokyo),
ysy_studio (Shanghai)

Culture Spaces
Fotografiska (Stockholm, New York, Tallinn), Miguel de Cervantes Library (Shanghai), Pro
Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council (Shanghai), Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai)