Prada at Prada Rong Zhai — Schema: AMO/OMA Project (2026)

Prada Rong Zhai, the restored heritage mansion in Shanghai, hosted the exhibition Schema: AMO/OMA Project across both of its floors.

The venue

Prada Rong Zhai is a restored early-twentieth-century mansion in central Shanghai, originally built as a private residence and later reopened by Prada as a cultural venue. Its sequence of reception rooms, corridors, staircases and upper-floor apartments retains original panelling, plasterwork and joinery. Between exhibitions the house operates as a heritage interior rather than a white-cube gallery.

How the space was used

The exhibition occupies both floors, distributing five thematic sections — human environments, the body, resources, truth and value — through the existing room sequence. AMO/OMA inserted lightweight display structures into the historic interiors rather than closing them off, so books, images, film and digital material sit within the original panelling and doorways. Circulation follows the house's domestic route from ground-floor reception rooms to upper-floor private quarters.

Why it works here

The house suits research-led exhibitions because its rooms already read as a sequence of distinct, enclosed settings, each able to carry a single theme. Prada's custodianship keeps the building in cultural use, and visitors arrive expecting to move slowly through interiors rather than scan a single open hall.