“One pink map seemed to be everywhere during Shanghai Art Week. Titled ‘Annotated Shanghai,’ the bilingual guide charmingly described the city’s art spaces and their quirks. It quickly became a cult object, with many wondering who made it.”
Critic Cathy Fan
@cathyfxy wrote warmly about this “pink mania” that swept through the city during the art season on
@artnet , describing it as “the best navigation tool for exploring the city’s many compelling alternative spaces, especially for a visitor like me.”
Indeed, Annotated Shanghai was a gift. Last November, editor You Yiyi
@youyiyi , writer Nie Xiaoyi
@3_ears , and designer Scene Peng
@scenepeng together made the bilingual Annotated Shanghai in their leisure time, drawing on personal experience and a deep familiarity with the city’s unwritten anecdotes.
This Thursday evening, Minor Space will host a sharing by Scene Peng and Nie Xiaoyi, in conversation with artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang
@garyzhexizhang , reflecting on the making of Annotated Shanghai, the mapping of Shanghai’s art ecology, and the passion and fun in trans-disciplinary collaboration. Come to Deptford, pick up a map and join a conversation.
🎙️About the speakers
Scene Peng (1997) designs (&SCENE), publishes (In Good Company Intl.), tastes (JOYFOR), listens (EGRET), lives and works in Shanghai after graduating from CSM and KABK.
Nie Xiaoyi, writer, researcher and educator, one of the editors of Qilu Criticism, Curatorial Fellow of De Ying Foundation (2024–2025), tutor in Curating Contemporary Art department, Royal College of Art. She was the senior editor of ArtReview China and LEAP from 2022 to 2024.
Gary Zhexi Zhang‘s work explores systemic connections between cosmology, technology and economy. He operates individually, in collaboration and within organisational frameworks. He recently edited a book of fictions, essays and interviews about finance and time, Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press, 2023).
