The 2026 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair brings together top galleries and artists from around the world, offering collectors and visitors carefully curated art projects and viewing experience. Since its first edition in 2013, ART021 has continued to attract leading international galleries and institutions, helping to make Shanghai a key stop on the global art circuit. This edition comprises of the MAIN GALLERIES sector, the APPROACH sector, the BEYOND public projects sector, and SPECIAL PROJECTS. They gather artistic expression from different regions and cultural contexts across the world and present everything from practices of art-historical significance to the experimental explorations of a new generation of artists. With a forward-looking perspective, ART021 will open up for the international art world a vision of the future that originates in Asia, expand the boundaries of exchange within the global art ecosystem, and serve as an important platform that both connects global art resources with China’s art ecology and helps Chinese galleries reach the world.
