Bvlgari at Power Station of Art — KALEIDOS: Colors, Cultures and Crafts (2026)

Power Station of Art hosted BVLGARI's KALEIDOS exhibition, presenting jewellery, colour and cross-cultural craft across museum galleries.

The venue

Power Station of Art is a contemporary art museum housed in a former power station on the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Its industrial volumes, tall halls and large open galleries are normally used for contemporary art exhibitions, large-scale installations and public programmes. The building retains power-generation infrastructure and provides a sequence of interior spaces suited to timed, ticketed exhibitions.

How the space was used

For KALEIDOS, the museum galleries were converted into a continuous colour-led route. Curved surfaces, translucent partitions and layered lighting replaced conventional glass-case display. Three chapters — colour rhythm, colour meaning and colour radiance — structured the visit, with contemporary installations by Liang Manqi and Zhang Ding placed among jewellery, archival material and a recreated 1930s Roman jewellery gallery.

Why it works here

The museum's public, cultural setting allows a luxury house to present jewellery as art rather than retail. Its large, flexible galleries support narrative exhibition design, while the museum audience and ticketed exhibition format encourage slower viewing, media coverage and visitor-generated content.