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Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum offers free admission for visitors 2025-05-14
Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum is open for free to all visitors starting in May.
Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) recently announced that it will open for free to all visitors starting this month.
Visitors can make an online appointment at the RAM official website or WeChat platform before entering the venue.
The museum, which opened in 2010, is a non-profit art organization located within an Art Deco building that was originally built in 1932 for the Royal Asiatic Society. The historical building was restored and renovated by the David Chipperfield Architects.
An installation at the A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In exhibition by Canadian artist Ash Moniz at the Rockbund Art Museum.
To make art accessible and free to all is the shared dream of the museum and the whole Rockbund community, a neighborhood consisting of 11 historical architectures and 6 new structures at the juncture of Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, according to Zhu Xiaorui, director of the Rockbund Art Museum. "Art institutions are among the few places that can turn the impossible into possible and provide a space for imagination that creates new wonders."
Currently three exhibitions are ongoing at the museum.
A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In marks the first survey exhibition held in Asia by Canadian artist Ash Moniz, taking place from May 2 to Sep 28.
Spanning three floors of the Rockbund Art Museum, the exhibition draws from over a decade of Moniz's research-driven practice that investigates the hidden violence embedded within global supply-chain logistics, and the fragile cracks where resistance, solidarity and political imagination persist.
Irene Haiduk, The Night Cast, 2022, digital image for various formats. Produced by Yugoexport and the Swiss Institute. © Irena Haiduk. Image courtesy of Irena Haiduk.
Meanwhile, hybrid project Nula is also currently ongoing at the museum. It is both a solo exhibition by New York-based Serbian artist Irena Haiduk and her debut feature film, which the artist is filming within the exhibition, transforming two floors of the museum into an immersive film set. Opening on May 2, the project will go on till Feb 8, 2026.
The third exhibition Cici Wu: Lanterns from the Unreturned marks the first institutional solo exhibition of the Chinese artist, bringing together key works from the past decade and centering on the artist's year-long, site-specific installation of the same title in the Rockbund Art Museum's historic East Staircase. It will go on till Sep 28.
Source: China Daily
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