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Fosun Foundation is an artwork in itselfWang Jie
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FOSUN Foundation (Shanghai) is a non-profit organization launched in 2016. It was supported by the Fosun Group and the Fosun Foundation.
The Fosun Foundation was established in November 2012 as the main humanitarian arm of the Fosun Group. In recent years, the Fosun Foundation has donated over 45 million yuan (US$6,2 billion) to support more than 40 social initiatives, primarily in the arts and education sectors.
Fosun Foundation (Shanghai)’s programming is characterized by contemporary, international and highly interactive artworks. Apart from an array of exhibitions, the foundation also organizes a wide variety of educational programs.
Through these talks, forums, film screenings, workshops, and other events, Fosun Foundation (Shanghai) offers its visitors many opportunities to engage closely with art.
Since its opening, a cluster of heavyweight exhibitions have won the museum’s fame in the art community, including Julian Opie in 2017, Yayoi Kusama in 2019 and Alex Katz in 2020.
Today it is a must-see art destination among local art lovers.
Situated in the Bund Finance Center, the building spans four floors above ground and three below. It was designed by the British design firm Foster + Partners, in collaboration with the creative vision of Heatherwick Studio.
Drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese theaters, this three-story building features a curtain wall composed of copper tubes.
These tubes are suspended across three floors, forming a golden, rotating curtain reminiscent of bamboo that shields the windows and balconies. This visual element, which merges Eastern and Western aesthetics, evokes the image of an ancient Chinese crown and a Western harp.
For several hours each day, the screen rotates in time with music, transforming the structure into a “dancing building” along the Bund.
The Counter Sky Garden is another highlight of Fosun Foundation (Shanghai). Designed by renowned Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima, the garden is an installation artwork on the fourth-floor rooftop.
It features 300 LED lights displaying numbers that count down from nine to one at varying speeds—some rapidly, others more slowly. The blinking numbers represent the diversity of individual personalities, each shining with the unique light of different lives. The five distinct colors symbolize a variety of races and cultures.
The artist personally selected 300 Shanghai residents to choose the speed at which each numbered light would count down, a direct representation of how art is rooted in life.
The Counter Sky Garden also serves as a platform through which Shanghai residents reveal what it means for different lives to coexist.
Sited on the fourth floor of the building, CLOUD Bistro applies dark gold and classic black as its background colors. The flowing metal line structure creates the elegance of an art restaurant together with minimalist furniture.
The outdoor terrace offers a panoramic view of the Huangpu River.CLOUD Bistro’s self-developed new wine list features six specialty cocktails with flowers as the theme, offering a wide selection of drinks.
Visitors can drink and dine for a sensory collision of art and taste buds after viewing an exhibition.
Fosun Foundation (Shanghai) building block toys
The product adopts 424 parts in grey and white colors to show the classic charm of the building. When all the parts are assembled, “the dancing building” fused with Chinese and Western cultural elements, is presented in model form.
Mugs in black and white
The mugs are the art derivatives of Thomas Heatherwick, the architect of the building who also held his exhibition there. It is said that the mug will take one to find the exit of one’s soul in his emotional worlds.
Fridge magnets
The fridge magnets are inspired by Annie Morris’s iconic sculptures. These irregular spheres that maintain a precarious balance are Morris’s visual interpretation of “lost shapes” — they are the egg and the swollen belly of a pregnant woman. The fridge magnet transforms Morris’s huge sculptures into small, portable magnets with rich colors.
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