All in Shanghai: Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017 Exhibition

The Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017 Exhibition was held at Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum. From the museum’s terrace, one can see the historic Broadway Mansions with its glowing art-deco facade, which has stood out from its neighbors on Shanghai’s iconic riverside cityscape since the 1930s. In his video works, *LI MING*—one of the finalists featured in the exhibition—renders the still functioning five-star hotel as a coliseum wherein a spectrum of tales have unfolded, adding narrative and affective dimensions to the building’s architecture. All photos by Chloe Chu for _ArtAsiaPacific_.

In late June, the four finalists for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017 were announced. The artists—Li Ming, Tao Hui, Yu Ji and Robert Zhao Renhui—were chosen from a pool of over 30 nominees for their standout exhibitions and artworks produced over the last three years, and for their potential future contributions to artistic discourse. The four were then each allotted one floor of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum to present a showcase of their past and newly commissioned works. Representing a diverse range of artistic inquiries, from concerns with space and the body to materiality, historical narratives and cinematic representations, the finalists each claimed unique stakes in the prize. The winner of the award will be announced on November 23—in the meantime, audiences can make their own predictions for who will take it home.

Chloe Chu is the associate editor of ArtAsiaPacific.

Works by the 2017 finalists of the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists are on view at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, until February 11, 2018.

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