Power Station of Art
People's Republic of China · Asia
About
The Power Station of Art (Chinese: 上海当代艺术博物馆; lit. 'Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum' and often abbreviated as PSA) is a contemporary art museum in Huangpu, Shanghai, China. As China's first and only state-owned contemporary art museum, it is an institution directly under the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism and hosts exhibitions free to the public.
Power Station of Art sits at the former site of the Nanshi Electric Plant, which opened in 1897 and relocated to the museum's present site on the Huangpu riverside in 1935. After being used as the Pavilion of Future during Expo 2010, the site underwent nine months of repurposing as a museum, before opening to the public on October 1, 2012.
The museum is over 41,000m2 in total building space, and has 15,000 m2 of space dedicated to exhibitions. It has hosted the Shanghai Biennale since 2012, when it opened by hosting the 9th Shanghai Biennale, "Reactivation". Apart from contemporary art, the museum also holds design exhibitions under the Power Station of Design moniker, and has hosted the Emerging Curators Project since 2014.
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