Chanel at Museum of Art Pudong — la Galerie du 19M Shanghai (2026)

Museum of Art Pudong hosted la Galerie du 19M Shanghai, an immersive exhibition pairing French métiers d'art with Chinese craft practice.

The venue

Museum of Art Pudong is a contemporary art museum on the Lujiazui waterfront, its terraced volumes rising beside the Huangpu River with large windows facing the Bund skyline. Inside, stacked white-cube galleries with high ceilings and neutral floors accommodate touring and loaned exhibitions. Visitors move between levels by lift and escalator, entering on a ticket and following controlled circulation typical of a large institution.

How the space was used

The museum's third-floor galleries were given over to the project: built-in exhibition zones introduced the métiers of the le19M ateliers alongside Chinese craft practitioners, with works, demonstrations and participatory elements arranged along a single route. Temporary partitions and lighting were installed inside the existing white-cube rooms, leaving the museum's river-facing windows and structural grid visible throughout.

Why it works here

Museums of this kind suit slow, object-based presentations: ticketed entry, climate control and adaptable white-cube galleries allow delicate craft work to be displayed, while the waterfront location draws local and visiting audiences who arrive for exhibitions rather than retail, giving a craft project room to be read as culture.