London, August 22 2017: With less than one month until the opening of its fourth edition, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai today announces the prominent Chinese collectors and their artworks for its new Collectors’ Exhibition alongside the complete 2017 gallery list. The fair’s Presenting Partner, Porsche, also announces the debut of its ‘Fascination’ exhibition.

PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai was created to serve the growing demand for the collection of contemporary photography in China and across the Asia Pacific. The fair’s success since launching in 2014 has been key in driving the Chinese art market forward and positioning photography as the collectable medium of our generation.

Through its hand-selected galleries and curated public programming, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai meets the demand for collectable, fine-art photography by giving individual collectors and curators from public museums and private collections unparalleled access to the leading Chinese and international artists working at the cutting-edge of photography and the medium’s foremost experts.

PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai 2017 is specifically curated so that artists seen in the Collectors’ Exhibition can also be heard in the Conversations talks and events program, and bought from many of the fifty galleries participating at the fair.

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Exhibition curator Erin Barnett (Director of Collections and Exhibitions, International Center of Photography, New York) describes the show as “a unique opportunity to see photographic and video works from some of China, Japan and Europe’s most compelling artists”. It is the first time these collections have been seen together publicly.

Confirmed artists in the exhibition include renowned artists René Burri, Annie Leibovitz, Yang Fudong, Araki Nobuyoshi and Robert Capa. They are presented alongside the next generation of contemporary artists of Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Jiang Pengyi and Zhang Kechun.

Conversations talks and events
For a greater understanding of the work within the Collectors’ Exhibition, all four collectors and curator Erin Barnett will feature in the fair’s much anticipated program titled Conversations.

In addition, several of the Collectors’ Exhibition artists will give talks during the fair and will be sold by the fair’s galleries. This includes contemporary artist Jiang Pengyi (seen in Jenny Wang’s collection) whose work is also featured in the Insights exhibition courtesy of Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong) and in the stand presentation of ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, Beijing & Singapore).

Younger artists from the Collectors’ Exhibition will also give audiences in-depth talks on their practices. This includes Shen Wei (being sold at the fair by Flowers Gallery, London, New York & Hong Kong) and Cheng Ran (in Adrian Cheng’s collection and Insights courtesy of Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai).

The showcase of private collections is balanced with an exploration of building a photography collection for a private or public museum in Conversations with Naomi Cass (Director, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne), Photographie, Jean-François Dubos   Maison Européenne de la (Director, Paris), Christopher Philips (curator) and Arthur Walter (Collector & Founder, Arthur Walther Collection).

Main |Featuring presentations of modern and contemporary photography and moving images by leading international galleries. ArtCN (Shanghai) | A Thousand Plateaus (Chengdu) | Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong) | CAMERA WORK (Berlin), Lucie Chang Fine Arts (Hong Kong) | Galerie Dumonteil (Shanghai, Paris, New York) | Flowers (London, New York, Hong Kong) | In the Gallery (Copenhagen) | Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo) | Matthew Liu Fine Arts (Shanghai) | Longmen Art Projects (Hong Kong, Shanghai) | Magnum Photos (London) | M-Art Center (Shanghai) | Mohsen Gallery (Iran) | Nong Art (Shanghai) | OFOTO + ANART (Shanghai) | Pan-View (Zhengzhou) | Gallery Photo12 (Paris, Santa Monica, Shanghai) | Prolab (Moscow) | See+ (Beijing) | ShanghART (Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore) | Tasveer (New Delhi, Bangalore) | Three Shadows + 3 Gallery (Beijing, Xiamen) |Timeless Gallery (Beijing) | Timespace Gallery (Beijing, Zhengzhou) | UP Gallery (Hsinchu City) | Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai) | Galerie Stephan Witschi (Zurich) | Leo Xu Projects (Shanghai). Platform | Celebrating the fair’s international ethos this sector offers a site of discovery: AG Galerie (Tehran) | AM project (Tokyo) | Books & Photographs (Paris) | Rubber Factory (New York) | Robert Mann Gallery (New York) | Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam). Staged | Exploring the relationship between photography and other art forms such as installation art, sculpture, video and painting: Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney) | Center for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne) | Chronus Art Center (Shanghai) | Luxelakes A4 Art Museum (Chengdu) | Shanghai Himalayas Museum (Shanghai) | International Center of Photography (New York) | Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris) | PACE Gallery (New York, Palo Alto, London, Paris, Seoul and Beijing) | ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore)