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Complete Guide to the 15th Shanghai Biennale: Hidden Works Missed by 90% + Must-See Highlights

The 2025 Autumn-Winter Art Feast is coming! The PSA Biennale offers a stunning five-sense immersive viewing experience, with hidden spots and core highlights fully mapped out. Visitors can check in precisely without missing a thing 🎨 📌 Basic Exhibition Information - Exhibition Name: The 15th Shanghai Biennale "Do Flowers Hear the Bees?" - Dates: 2025.11.8 - 2026.3.31 (11:00-19:00, closed on Mondays) - Location: Power Station of Art (PSA), 678 Miaojiang Road, Shanghai - Ticket Price: 60 RMB (great value, long exhibition period allows off-peak visits) - Scale: 67 domestic and international artists/groups, over 250 works, including multi-venue city-linked projects 🌟 Core Highlight Works (Must-See Without Missing) 1. "Phantom of the Forest" (1st Floor Lobby): 170,000 artificial yellow flowers suspended from ceiling and spread on the floor, replicating branchless yellow trumpet trees. A visually striking installation addressing colonial deforestation issues, a signature large-scale PSA piece perfect for photos; 2. "Fleeting Shadows" (Next to 1st Floor Lobby): Simulates light spots filtering through the forest, creating a tranquil atmosphere easily overlooked. Stop and savor for a deeply immersive experience; 3. "Peach Blossom Spring (421–2008)" (Huang Yong Ping’s Manuscript): A modern political allegory interpreting a classic, with cultural and institutional conflicts hidden behind the text, worth slow reading; 4. "Resonance Etude" (Includes live performance + wall exhibit notes): Artist Ami Yamazaki performs in a white "bird costume," delivering a unique "non-human" vocal tone full of tension, an auditory shock to the senses; 5. Hidden Work on Garage Roof: Missed by 90% of visitors! Requires referencing the brochure to find the spot. Though only viewable through glass, the unique perspective is worth a special visit. 💡 Key Viewing Tips - Hidden Spots: Head straight to the garage roof to unlock niche works. No clear guide available, relying on the exhibition booklet is more efficient; - Five-Sense Experience: Many works engage smell and hearing. Slow down, close your eyes, listen carefully, and immerse yourself for a reward far beyond visual appreciation; - Concurrent City Projects: Jiayuanhai Art Museum, Shanghai Botanical Garden, and other locations host city projects, allowing you to check in batches for the full exhibition line; - Time Recommendation: Reserve 3-4 hours. The works are rich in meaning; a slow stroll is needed to understand the curatorial logic (a diverse dialogue between human and non-human intelligence); - Off-Peak Strategy: Avoid the opening week crowds. Visiting on weekday afternoons is more relaxed and convenient for in-depth reading of manuscript works. ✨ Curatorial Core Highlights Rooted in the diverse wisdom of nature and culture, focusing on the ongoing dialogue between form perception and static-dynamic visuals, breaking the single-dimension viewing mode. It activates artistic perception across all senses from sight to touch. Affordable tickets unlock a high-level international art feast—an absolute must for art lovers~
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Posted: Dec 9, 2025
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