EXHIBIT
THE SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024 - part of YRD(iCiE)
Curated by the Chinese Government for Culture | Opening Soon
Deadline: October 2024
OPENING SOON
Applications open for the ONLINE ART GALLERY. You can apply to exhibit in our online art gallery here
The Shanghai International Art Fair proudly part of the successful YRD International Industries Expo (iCiE) hosted by the Governments of Shanghai. The YRD event is China’s largest Cluster for international cultural trade, with an estimated visitor numbers of 120,000, including 25,000 professional buyers.
EVENTS FACTS & STATS
The Shanghai International Art Fair is part of the YRD International Industries Expo (iCiE). Celebrating the development of the region’s cultural industries. Building upon the success of the first edition the YRDICIE expands the exhibition space to 81,000 sqm delivering a more international event generating a bigger impact at a bigger scale.
Estimated visitor numbers of 120,000, including 26,000 professional buyers, and 2.3 million online audience.
Only 100 Exhibitors can participate. The selection is fierce based on the interest of the Chinese art collectors, buyers and investors.
There are four separated art exhibition areas
1) Galleries (1-3 yrs)
2) Galleries (3+ yrs)
3) Solo-Platform (Established artists with proven track record) Paintings, Photography Art, Illustrations, Ltd Ed prints, Sculptors, Digital Assets (NFTs)
4) Lifestyle: Fashion, Designers, Glass Art, Jewellery, Video, New Media
All works are intended for sale. Displaying a wonderful curated high class art fair.
The event is China’s largest Cluster for international cultural trade. Hosted by the Governments of Shanghai.
The 2022 Yangtze River Delta International Cultural Industries Expo was covered in 725 original articles with a total of 807 thousand words by 173 media outlets, and generated 1.39 million related news messages online.
In 2016, sales in the global art market reached over 45 billion US dollars. The Asian art market ranked number 3 globally in sales, and had the largest auction market worth 6.81 billion USD. [Source: artnet, various auction houses, Orbis, and the 2017 Global Dealers Study]
China ranked number 1 in global art auction sales in 2016, with 6.33 billion US dollars.
Attracting world-renowned art institutions, symbolic museums and art galleries, top art collectors, and so on, to come to Shanghai.