
“Pendulum” is commissioned by the Melbourne RISING Festival. It won the 2021 Green Room Award and was invited to major international art platforms such as the Venice Biennale.

As the public project of ARTRA, the 2025 Global Talk will explore the theme of “Visual, Performance and Festival Arts”, initiating a deep dialogue on the innovation, openness, and integration of art festivals and creativity.

“Tangent” synthesizes Shiro Takatani's three decades of interdisciplinary artistic exploration across installation art, theater, and modern dance, pioneering a new expressive form in contemporary performing arts.

Continuing Manabe and ELEVENPLAY’s long-standing exploration at the intersection of dance, technology, and visual art, the piece presents a fluid, multidimensional stage language that exists between the real and the virtual.

The newest invited work in the "Urban Exploration" public programme is "Not the Moon", a large-scale public light installation created by MAD Architects, led by renowned architect MA Yansong. This project combines art and technology, and displaying the multi-dimensional expression of the contemporary city in the era of new media, thus triggering the public's cultural empathy in the real space of the city. It triggers the public's cultural empathy in the real space of the city, thus bringing people closer to each other, art to the city, and art to life.

The first ARTRA public project "Urban Exploration: Home-coming for Art" invites renowned artist NI Zhiqi and young artist NI Hao to use the external building of the The Center for China Shanghai International Arts Festival as a creative space to create a customised field of creation, and to convey ARTRA's innovative concepts and exploratory spirit through the revitalisation and rejuvenation of the public space.