THE SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR IS BACK!

Hosted by the Governments of Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Anhui Province.

The Shanghai International Art Fair (SIAF) NECC, NOV 2022.

EVENTS FACTS & STATS

The Shanghai International Art Fair is part of the Yangtze River Delta International Industries Expo (iCiE). Celebrating the development of the region’s cultural industries. Building upon the success of the third edition the iCiE 2022 expands the exhibition space to 54,000 sqm delivering a more international event generating a bigger impact on a bigger scale.

• Estimated visitor numbers of 120,000, including 25,000 professional buyers.

• Only 50 Exhibitors can participate. The selection is fierce based on the interest of the Chinese art collectors, buyers and investors.

• There are three separated art exhibition areas

  1) Galleries (1-3 yrs)

  2) Galleries (3+ yrs)

  3) Solo-Platform (Established artists with proven track record)

• The event is China’s largest Cluster for international cultural trade. Hosted by the Governments of Shanghai.

• The 2021 Yangtze River Delta International Cultural Industries Expo was covered in 725 original articles with a total of 807 thousand words by 173 media outlets, and generated 1.39 million related news messages online.

• In 2016, sales in the global art market reached over 45 billion US dollars. The Asian art market ranked number 3 globally in sales, and had the largest auction market worth 6.81 billion USD. [Source: artnet, various auction houses, Orbis, and the 2017 Global Dealers Study]

• China ranked number 1 in global art auction sales in 2016, with 6.33 billion US dollars.

• Attracting world-renowned art institutions, symbolic museums and art galleries, top art collectors, and so on, to come to Shanghai.