Yongkang Lu Art is located on the east side of Yongkang Lu, in the former French concession of Shanghai, at the junction of Xiangyang Nan Lu and Jiashan Lu, between Mingyuan Art Center and Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum.
The former vegetable market street has been redeveloped in 2009 by the architects Platform-Yonkangli.

Early 2010, the artist-curator Zane Mellupe opened five spontaneous art spaces, including the gallery YK art space, and created Yongkang Lu Art, a new platform for contemporary art, organising exhibitions and performances.

From summer 2010 to February 2011, ifagallery occupied a space in Yongkang Lu Art, ifa²gallery, showcasing artists represented by the gallery since its establishment in Shanghai in 2006.

www.yongkanglu-art.com

Published every two months, Shanghai Detour is a bilingual orientation tool that will accompany the art public through the whole year. It offers a city map, provides an extended overview of commercial galleries, museums, non-profit showrooms and independent exhibitions; it informs visitors about the program and additionally includes a comprehensive listing of upcoming exhibition opening events.

Shanghai Detour is distributed at every listed art space and at Glamour Bar, Urbn Hotel, InterContinental Shanghai Pudong, LIM | Lifeismore, KEE Private Members Club, Shanghai, THE VILLA, Embassies, Goethe-Institut and Language Schools.

Shanghai Detour was first initiated and launched by Arthub and Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff at the time of ShContemporary 2008 and the Biennal the same year.

www.shanghai-detour.org

ARTLINKART is an online database project for Chinese contemporary art and a bilingual art website, for both Chinese and English readers.
It is targeting to archive the complete Chinese contemporary art history more accurately and subjectively and a basic information register for everything from academic study to investment reference and other professional purposes.

www.artlinkart.com

URBN hotels shanghai is set in the heart of the city, within a hub of local activity and close to shops, restaurants, colonial lanehouses and shanghai’s famous French concession area.
It is a sustainable project developed from a renovated factory warehouse. The interiors are made with 100% local materials and recycled wood from old houses, reclaimed bricks and walls stacked with vintage suitcase made in shanghai.
URBN hotels shanghai is also china’s first carbon-neutral hotel –the carbon footprint of its operations and hence of its guests is completely offset.

www.urbnhotels.com