The Third Shanghai Biennale: “Shanghai Spirit” was held in two different venues across Shanghai: Shanghai Art Museum, a newly renovated building that repurposed the colonial Shanghai Race Club at 325 Nanjing West Road, and the former Shanghai Museum at 456 Nanjing West Road.
Fuck Off, curated by Ai Weiwei and Feng Boyi, was held at Eastlink Gallery by the Suzhou Creek at 1133 West Suzhou Road Shanghai. The venue was a former grain barn repurposed as a gallery space when Eastlink Gallery relocated there that year.
‘Useful Life’ took place in a storage warehouse on Dong Daming Road, Hongkou district, It was organised by and featured the work of three artists: Yang Zhenzhong, Xu Zhen and Yang Fudong.
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Outside the Shanghai Art Museum where a work by Cai Guo-Qiang 蔡国强, Self- Promotion for the People 为大众做的自我宣传计划 (2000), was installed. -
Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank 沙的银行或银行的沙 (2000) by Huang Yong Ping 黃永砯, a twenty-tonne sand replica of the former HSBC bank building in Shanghai, exhibited in The Third Shanghai Biennale. -
On the first-floor of the Shanghai Art Museum, visitors could find by Heri Dono’s Angels Caught on a Trap (1996). Five ink-and-acrylic paintings by Marlene Dumas hung on the walls to the right, Further along to the right were paintings by Bernard Frize and Lu Fusheng 卢辅山. -
The second exhibition room on the first floor hosted three large-scale works. Seen here, Cai’s gunpowder drawing Year of the Dragon No.1 龙年 (2000). -
Lee Weng Choy speaking at the third Shanghai Biennale symposium, ‘Shanghai Spirit: A Special Modernity’, 2000. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Floor plans from the catalogue of the Third Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Floor plans from the catalogue of the Third Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Floor plans from the catalogue of the Third Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Floor plans from the catalogue of the Third Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Floor plans from the catalogue of the Third Shanghai Biennale. Courtesy Asia Art Archive -
Crowd outside the exhibition venue, by the Suzhou River. -
Ai Weiwei’s installation F.U.C.K. with his work Gold Distribution (right). -
Huang Yan’s installation Flesh Landscape I and II 肉山水之一和二 (2000) included landscapes painted on bacon and cow bones (see also next spread). -
The upper floor of the exhibition venue, Eastlink Gallery’s regular exhibition space. From left to right: works by Gu Dexin , Chen Lingyang, Wang Yin and Yang Maoyuan. -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi -
Fuck Off original floor plans. Courtesy Ding Yi
