Island6
 Location of Island6 Arts Center in Shanghai
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| Established | 2006 |
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Shanghai China |
| Coordinates | 31°14′58″N 121°26′39″E / 31.24942°N 121.44411°E |
| Type | Contemporary art |
| Director | Thomas Charveriat, Yeung Sin Ching杨倩菁, Guan Yan 官彦 |
| Public transit access | Zhongtan Road 3 4 |
| Website | www |
Island6 Arts Center (Chinese: 六岛艺术中心) is an artist-run space and creative platform established in Shanghai, China, in 2006 by French curator/artist Thomas Charvériat. With three branches in Shanghai, one in Hong Kong and one in Thailand, Island6 aims to support "European and Chinese artists whose work is exhibited in a series of tightly curated group shows."
In 2006, Thomas Charvériat, Margherita Salmaso, Zheng Guoyang, and Kang Jingfang established the Island6 Arts Center at its first location, Fou Foong Flour Mill complex at 120 Moganshan Road in Shanghai. On April 1, 2006, Invisible Layers, Electric Cities became the first art exhibition to be presented at the Center, curated by Allard van Hoorn and Margherita Salmaso. From June 2006 to June 2008, Charvériat assumed the direction of the space. For these two years, Island6 Arts Center was noted for its location in a field of rubble surrounded by "high-rises creeping in from the distance", standing as an example of Shanghai's transformation from old to new.
In June 2008, facing imminent eviction by real estate developers, the Island6 Arts Center was relocated to a space at 50 Moganshan Road, a district of galleries inside old warehouses and factories, where it remains. From its new location at M50, Island6 continues to promote emerging and prominent Chinese and international artists.
Beginning in January 2009, Thomas Charvériat, seconded by Zane Mellupe, took over direction of the space. In 2012, Yeung Sin Ching became the CEO of Island6 Arts Center, Island6 ShGarden and Island6 Bund. In 2015, Island6 was voted "Best Art Gallery" in the City Weekend Reader's Choice Awards.
As of July 2015, the center showed its 76th exhibition. Island6 has exhibited more than 500 artists from 21 different countries, sponsored 139 resident artists and helped in the creation and the production of around 2000 art projects.
The art collective Liu Dao is the most frequent and extensive presence in the Island6 Arts Center. The group’s works often use video recordings of simple movements to be turned into an animated sequence of bitmaps. The results are LED representations that blink and shift in their own realities. Liu Dao’s works tend to move in the themes of sensory engagement, voyeurism, urban development, tradition versus modernity and technology, and Chinese cultural history.
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