Shanghai Expo New Exhibition!

 "Impression Party: Impressionist Art from the Collection of the Pola Museum of Art" has opened2025-01-22 

　　
At 2 p.m. on January 21, 2025, the Shanghai Museum will hold a press conference on "Impression Party: Impressionist Art from the Collection of Pola Art Museum". Hiroko Noguchi, Director of POLA Art Museum, Chu Xiaobo, Member of the Party Leadership Group of Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism and Director of Shanghai Museum, and Keiko Ito, Senior Executive Director of Nikkei Shimbun, attended the press conference and introduced the POLA Art Museum, the exhibition and the exhibition cooperation. The press conference was presided over by Li Feng, deputy director of the Shanghai Museum.

　　
At 4 p.m., the exhibition officially opened in the East Wing. The opening ceremony was attended by Japanese guests such as Murashi Suzuki, Chairman of the POLA Foundation for the Promotion of Fine Arts, Hiroko Noguchi, Director of the POLA Art Museum, Keiko Ito, Senior Executive Director of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, representatives of the Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai, Zhong Xiaomin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, and Chu Xiaobo, Member of the Party Leadership Group of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism and Director of the Shanghai Museum. The ceremony was presided over by Tang Shifen, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Museum.

　　
Hiroko Noguchi, Director of the Pola Museum of Art, said in her speech that in 2002, the Pola Museum of Art opened in Hakone with the concept of coexistence with nature, becoming the largest private art museum with the best quality, the largest collection and the largest scale in Japan in the 21st century. This exhibition showcases the best of the POLA Museum of Art's collection, and I sincerely hope that the passionate and wise works of these trend-setting artists will allow you to fully appreciate the POLA Museum's purpose of creating a "moving art museum".

　　
Chu Xiaobo, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism and director of the Shanghai Museum, said that 2025-2026 is the Year of Cultural Exchange between China, Japan and South Korea, and the exhibition is held at the right time. Japan is the center of the Asian collection of Impressionist paintings, and we are very honored to co-organize this exhibition with the Pola Museum of Art and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, bringing the Impressionist and modern and contemporary art collections of the Pola Museum to China for the first time. This is not only an artistic exchange and collision between the East and the West, but also a wonderful presentation of the art collection dominated by the delicate taste of Asia.

　　
Keiko Ito, senior executive director of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, said when talking about the cooperation between the two sides, as a reporting agency, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun began to support cultural undertakings in the 50s of the last century, and cultural exchanges with China began as early as 1958. In 2019, we co-hosted the "Tang Zhaoti Temple Jianzhen Cultural Relics and Dongshan Kaiyi Fan Painting Exhibition" with the Shanghai Museum. I believe that this exhibition will be a success in the cooperation with the Shanghai Museum.

　　
At the ceremony, Zhong Xiaomin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director General of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, Chu Xiaobo, Member of the Party Leadership Group of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism and Director of the Shanghai Museum, Hiroko Noguchi, Director of the POLA Art Museum, and Keiko Ito, Senior Executive Director of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, jointly launched the exhibition.

　　
The exhibition opens to the public today and runs until 21 April. As the first major exhibition in 2025, "Impression Party: Impressionist Art from the Collection of Pola Art Museum" is the fifth exhibition in the series of "Dialogue with the World" Cultural Relics and Art Exhibition of Shanghai Museum, the largest and highest-level special exhibition of Pola Art Museum overseas, and the first time that the Shanghai Museum presents the beginning, development and prosperity of Impressionism in a complete and textbook way, as well as its extensive and lasting influence on later art.

　　
With the theme of "Party", the exhibition is divided into six units, and a total of 69 works by 36 artists are displayed in the second and third special exhibition halls, respectively from the POLA Museum of Art in Japan, the National Art Museum of China, Liu Haisu Art Museum and Anhui Museum, covering representative works of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, to Matisse, Picasso and other Impressionist and Post-Impressionist representative works, especially presenting the creations of contemporary artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yayoi Kusama, etc., involving a full range of famous artists and artistic genresThe time span is unprecedented. Professor Shen Yubing, Executive Dean of the Art Research Institute and Head of the Department of Philosophy of Art, Fudan University, commented on the exhibition: "The exhibition concept is very concise and clear. It tells the story of the rise, development, and lasting influence of Impressionism through the lens of East Asian aesthetics, providing the audience with a textbook journey through the universal appeal of Impressionism and its unique resonance in Asia. ”

　　
The exhibition not only presents the visual and aesthetic preferences of Asians for Impressionist art, but also uses light, shadow and nature as clues to connect the profound significance of Impressionism to Fauvism, Cubism and contemporary art, and demonstrates the eternal creativity and innovative spirit of the artists. The exhibition hall adopts the design technique of blank space, integrates different styles of artworks in a simple space, uses the representative colors in the paintings as embellishments, and combines the changes of space blocks, so that the audience can focus on the works at the same time, but also feel the change of the genre of the painting through the switch of space.

　　
In conjunction with this exhibition, Shangbo Cultural and Creative also developed around the classic elements of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, and Van Gogh art masters in the exhibition, and launched 62 cultural and creative products, covering canvas bags, plush toys, refrigerator magnets, notebooks, postcards, painting cores and other categories. Among them, the "Sugar Bowl, Pear and Tablecloth" series of plush toys draw inspiration from Cézanne's still life paintings, and incorporate the design expression of cute and healing style, with delicate and soft textures, becoming an ideal choice for art lovers to carry around every day; In addition, there is a series of movable refrigerator magnets printed with master craftsmen, using different materials such as acrylic quicksand, wooden swivel, wooden door opening and metal slide rails, showing the unique charm of art and fun. The catalogue of the same name of the exhibition will also be available for sale at the same time.

　　
Tickets for "Impression Party: Impressionist Art from the Collection of POLA Art Museum" are sold according to the real-name ticket sales model, and the audience can purchase them by searching for the "Shanghai Expo Visit Reservation Mini Program" on WeChat, and the tickets are divided into two types: full-price tickets (80 yuan) and preferential tickets (40 yuan). For details, please pay attention to the information released on official platforms such as Shangbo's official website, WeChat official account, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, etc.

　　Highlights of the exhibition

　　A complete panoramic perusal of Impressionism

　
As an open art museum, the Shanghai Museum has been exploring the artistic process of Impressionist painting with the audience for many years. Since 2013, he held the exhibition "From Barbizon to Impressionism", focusing on the beginning of Impressionist painting; In 2019, the exhibition "The Birth of Fine Arts" explores academic art, which has long been regarded as the antithesis of Impressionism in art history; and the 2023 exhibition "From Botticelli to Van Gogh", which presents how Impressionism is an important part of artistic transformation; This exhibition is the first panoramic view of Impressionism.

　　  · The first large-scale overseas exhibition at the Pola Art Museum

　　
The POLA Museum is known for its rich collection of art from Impressionism to Modern. Based on the principle of "promoting the natural environment of Hakone with art", the POLA Museum of Art opened in 2002 in Sengokuhara, Hakone-cho, Kanagawa Prefecture, in Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The Pola Museum of Art's collection is one of the largest private collections in Japan in the second half of the 20th century, both in terms of quality and quantity. This exhibition is the most complete display of POLA Art Museum's collection overseas, showing the characteristics and charm of its collection to the greatest extent, and it is also a wonderful presentation of the art collection dominated by Asian delicate taste.

　　  An art party where great masters gather

　　
This exhibition brings together a number of wonderful works of European art giants, and sincerely presents a grand and enthusiastic art party for the audience. This glamorous "party list" includes Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Braque, Picasso, and more. The Asian art scene also includes famous artists such as Kiyoki Kuroda, Liu Haisu, Pan Yuliang, Yayoi Kusama, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

　　  Exchanges and dialogues across time and space

　　
Another highlight of the "Impression Party" exhibition is to lead the audience into the artistic exchanges and dialogues that transcend time and space behind the Impressionism. When talking about the formation of the style of Impressionism, it is often impossible to ignore the influence of oriental art such as ukiyo-e. Western painting, represented by Impressionism, in turn, shaped the Asian art scene represented by China and Japan from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. This exhibition also focuses on the reception and dissemination of Impressionist painting in Asia. In addition, today's art is still inspired by the great changes of Impressionism, and the exhibition will continue to showcase a number of important collections of contemporary art from the POLA Museum, continuing to lead the audience to appreciate the light and space in contemporary art.

　　 Special exhibition guide resources

　　
To visit this special exhibition, you can use the WeChat guide function of the Shanghai Museum. The WeChat guide selects 26 representative works in the exhibition, and on the basis of introducing the works, it supplements and expands the relevant art history knowledge and photo materials, so as to enrich the educational interpretation of the exhibition and promote the audience's understanding of the exhibition content.

　　  Identify the QR code and quickly enter the special exhibition tour

　　  Method 1:

　　
Follow the official account of Shanghai Museum and click on the menu "GO Shangbo - Special Exhibition Guide - Impression Party"

　　  Method 2:

　　  Scan the QR code of the exhibition hall

　　
The leaflet of this special exhibition is marked with 26 key works and exhibition hall maps from the WeChat Charity Tour, as well as a brief list of art historical genres related to the exhibition. The fold features a special collection of works by Renoir, Signac, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, allowing the audience to intuitively experience the unique brushstrokes of the masters and understand the evolution from Impressionism to Cubism.

　　
(Fold-out eggs: Six beautiful paintings that can be collected as posters, or cut and made by hand, let your imagination run wild!) ）

　　
Visitors can pick up the leaflet at the entrance of the special exhibition hall. You can also click on the menu "GO Shangbo - East Hall Guide" through the WeChat official account of the Shanghai Museum to enter the mini program, and download the electronic version of the foldout in the "Explore and Learn" column.

　　
In order to enable the audience to obtain better exhibition resources and visiting experience, this exhibition provides a variety of guided tour forms and services, which can be freely chosen by audiences of all ages. For more information, please visit the East Building.

　　  ·Exhibition Name·

　　  Impression Party: Impressionist art exhibition from the collection of the Pola Museum of Art

　　MASTERPIECESOFTHEPOLAMUSEUMOFART：FROMIMPRESSIONISMTOCONTEMPORARYART

　　 ·Exhibition Time·

　　  January 22 - April 21, 2025

　　  ·Exhibition Venue·

　　 The second and third special exhibition halls of the East Hall of the Shanghai Museum

　　  Visit the ticket purchase guide

　
"Impression Party: Impressionist Art from the Collection of POLA Art Museum" will be held from January 22 to April 21, 2025 in the second and third special exhibition halls of the East Building of the Shanghai Museum. As the fifth major exhibition in the "Dialogue with the World" series, this exhibition is curated by the Shanghai Museum and co-presented by the Pola Museum of Art and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. This is not only the largest and highest-level special exhibition held by POLA Art Museum overseas, but also the first exhibition in Shanghai Museum to provide a panoramic overview of the development of Impressionist art and its extensive influence on later generations. Tickets for this exhibition are sold according to the real-name ticket sales and sales on a demand-to-date basis. The specific visit ticket purchase guide is as follows:

　　  Ticketing Instructions

　　  1. Exhibition information

　　
Exhibition period: January 22 to April 21, 2025 (closed on Tuesdays, except national holidays)

　　  Exhibition Venue: The 2nd and 3rd Special Exhibition Halls of the East Hall of the Shanghai Museum

　　  2. Ticketing channels

　　
Tickets for this time will be sold through the official WeChat mini-program and on-site ticket sales outlets.

　　  How to enter the applet:

　　
1. WeChat search "Shanghai Museum Visit Reservation" applet click to enter.

　　
2. Click on the "Visit Reservation" column of the official WeChat public account of the Shanghai Museum.

　　  On-site Ticketing Locations:

　　 Ticket office and self-service ticket vending machines on the first floor of the East Building

　　  3. Ticket prices

　　
Tickets to the exhibition are available at full price and at a discounted rate. The full-price ticket is 80 yuan, and the discounted ticket is 40 yuan.

　　 4. Ticket purchase time

　　  January 13, 2025 to April 21, 2025

　　  5. Discounts and free tickets

　　 The Shanghai Museum will implement the following preferential ticketing policies:

　　
Preferential tickets are available for seniors over the age of 60 (inclusive), minors over the age of 6 and under the age of 18, full-time students with a bachelor's degree or below, and active-duty military personnel with valid certificates; Children under the age of 6 (inclusive) (one adult can bring one free child) and disabled people with valid certificates are entitled to free ticket benefits.

　　  6. Tips for making an appointment to visit

　　
The exhibition adopts a "first-to-serve" ticket reservation method. From 16:00 on January 13, visitors can purchase tickets for the temporary exhibition within 30 days through the "Shanghai Museum Visit Reservation" mini program, on a first-come, first-served basis. When purchasing, you need to fill in the real-name information of the reserved visitor, and select the date and number of visits. After the reservation is successful, you can enter the museum with your original ID card.

　　
After purchasing tickets, visitors must bring their original valid documents to the museum for inspection.

　　
Visitors who meet the conditions for free admission shall enter the museum with their original valid documents for verification.

　　  VII. Reminders for changes and refunds

　　  1. Changes

　　
All tickets can be changed 2 times after successful reservation, and all open days can be changed.

　　  2. Refunds

　　
Unused and unexpired tickets can be refunded before 23:00 on the day before the visit date, and the refund will be returned within 1-15 working days. As a general rule, refunds will not be made after the expiration date.

　　
If you have any questions, please call (021) 20729999 ext. 134 or 137.

Source: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism