Original title:[Leyou]Exhibition of exotic flowers, plum garden party, ballet “Giselle”… This week’s cultural and tourism life guide is here→
This week’s cultural travel guide is here! Activities such as the Shanghai World Expo Cultural Park’s Wonderful Flower Art Exhibition, Century Park Plum Blossom Garden Party, Meichuan Park Plum Blossom Exhibition, Guyi Garden’s “Double Plum Elegant Rhythm” Bonsai Exhibition, Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park New Year Citizen Daffodil Exhibition and other events are successively open to the public. In terms of performances, the classical ballet “Giselle” and a concert of selected timeless classics from “La La Land” will also appear one by one. Come and take a look
Latest activities
Wonderful Flower Art Exhibition
Time: February 14th – May 20th
Address: Shanghai World Expo Cultural Park
The exhibition focuses on century-old rare flower-viewing trees, focusing on representative spring flowers such as weeping plum, weeping cherry, wisteria, rhododendron, iris, rose, etc. It also introduces contemporary art sculptures to highly integrate “flowers” and “art” to build a unique artistic conception in the garden space where nature, art and people coexist harmoniously and are full of interest. 16 major theme attractions + 3 major art groups + 2 special markets, extending from early spring to late spring, let the spring spirit unfold in the park in stages. Entering the park at different times will provide different scenery, leading visitors into an immersive art environment that is visible, perceptible and meditative.
2026 Century Park Plum Blossom Garden Party
Time: From now on to March 15th
Location: Century Park
The plum blossom exhibition this time consists of the five major scenic spots of the Plum Garden and the “Three Friends of Suihan” small scenes. Visitors can not only wander in the sea of plum blossoms, appreciate the plum blossoms, smell the plum fragrance, and appreciate the charm of the plum blossoms, but also carefully appreciate the plum blossoms and wintersweet bonsai, and appreciate the essence of Chinese garden culture.
2026 Umekawa Park Plum Blossom Exhibition
Time: From now on to March 10
Location: Umekawa Park
The theme of this flower show is “Plum plums welcome the new spring breeze into the arms”. It aims to combine the vitality of galloping horses with the elegance of plum blossoms heralding spring, symbolizing the New Year’s high spirits, triumphant spring breeze and contentment. Visitors encounter the romance of winter in the fragrant Meichuan Park, feel the vigorous and stubborn vitality, and learn about the noble and persevering character of plum blossoms.
“Shuangmei Yayun” Bonsai Exhibition in Guyi Garden
Time: From now on to February 28
Location: Guyi Garden
At the beginning of the New Year, Guyi Garden’s “Shuangmei Yayun” bonsai exhibition was officially launched in the bonsai garden, giving citizens and tourists a poetic New Year gift. Stepping into the bonsai garden, the plum blossom bonsai has either sparse shadows and slanting shadows, or twisted branches, with pink, white and bright red flower buds dotted all over the branches, showing the poetic elegance of “sparse shadows and slanting water, clear and shallow water”; wax plum bonsai embellishes the vigorous branches with bright yellow flowers, and the floating dark fragrance conveys perseverance and unyielding character.
New Year Citizen Daffodil Exhibition
Time: From now on to February 23
Location: Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park
This flower show is divided into two exhibition areas: “Darcissus for the New Year” and “Narcissus Sculpture Works”. At the same time, a citizen narcissus sculpture competition will be held, aiming to create a New Year gathering for the general public and tourists that integrates viewing, experience, and culture.
One week show
Original Musical “Matilda”
Time: February 11th – March 29th
Location: Shanghai Grand Theater
Winner of 101 international awards and 24 Best Musical Awards, the original London West End musical “Matilda” returns to the Shanghai Grand Theater to embark on a journey of healing as a child. The play is adapted from the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, a national writer in the British children’s literature world, and is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It tells the story of a little girl, Matilda, who faces selfish parents and a rigid principal, and relies on courage and wisdom to create miracles and save herself and those around her.
Classical ballet “Giselle”
Time: February 14th
Venue: Shanghai International Dance Center Grand Theater
The Shanghai Ballet will perform the most extreme “light” and “shadow” of love for everyone – the classical ballet “Giselle”. Giselle, a simple and kind-hearted rural girl, fell in love with the passionate and funny nobleman Albert who was disguised as a farmer. When she found out that Albert was a nobleman and already had a fiancée, she died in pain and depression. Albert, who was extremely remorseful, came to Giselle’s grave to express his heartfelt feelings. The ghosts who had been harmed by the betrayed wanted to kill her. The power of love made Giselle’s ghost protect Albert with all their strength.
“La La Land” Concert of Timeless Classics
Time: February 14th
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
The repertoire of this concert can be called a “romantic universe collection”. Each song is a classic that spans time and space, and each melody hides an unfading love. It will present tear-jerking songs such as “Titanic” and “If Love Is Provident” to create an immersive romantic night for the audience.
High-definition FUN screening series “Twelfth Night”
Time: February 13
Location: 1862 Fashion Art Center
“Twelfth Night” is Shakespeare’s classic comedy. The director used an all-male cast to perform the play, and the three female roles were all played by men. The story begins with a twin brother and sister being separated due to a shipwreck. In order to make a living, her sister Viola disguises herself as a man and enters the Duke of Illyria’s mansion, but is accidentally involved in the Duke’s pursuit of Countess Olivia.
TYGA China Concert Shanghai Station
Time: February 14th
Location: Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
TYGA, the rapper who best controls the scene, brings the most rhythmic and danceable music scene to China! His signature lazy, grainy vocals and high-energy stage tension, combined with top-notch lighting and sound effects, create an immersive party experience.
Rene Liu “Flight Day” 2026 Concert Tour
Time: February 13-14
Location: Mercedes-Benz Arena
The concert takes “I want to see you when I miss you” as the core, concretizing reunions and promises, and conveying warmth and power. The stage adopts a deconstructed four-sided rotating design and is equipped with devices such as an annular flying whale and a giant bear in the captain’s suit to create an immersive flight visual experience.
New exhibition recommendations
Yushan Gathering Special Exhibition
Yushan Pu—Gu Ying’s world of poetry and painting
Time: February 10th – March 15th
Location: Liu Haisu Art Museum (branch)
The exhibition takes the artistic spirit inherited by Gu Ying, a great literary figure in the late Yuan Dynasty, and his “Yushan Manuscripts” as the entry point, and shows the development of Jiangnan culture in the new era through 120 poetry and painting manuscripts by famous contemporary calligraphers and painters in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Flowers Bloom Sometimes – Bao Ying’s Works Exhibition
Time: From now on to March 8
Location: Liu Haisu Art Museum
The exhibition uses flowers as the medium and the brush as the language to present the contemporary new realm of Shanghai-style fine brushwork. The artist captures the beauty of the four seasons with delicate brushwork, condensing urban poetry and oriental aesthetics on the end of the paper, finding a balance between traditional fine brushwork and modern aesthetics, and telling the gentle dialogue between life and time in the sequence of flowers blooming.
Carolina Caicedo: Tribute to the Whale
Time: February 12, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Location: Pudong Art Museum
“Carolina Caicedo: Tribute to the Whale” is a joint project between the Pudong Museum of Art and the Tate Museum, “El Anazu: After the Red Moon” (2024). The two parties have once again launched an important cooperation in the field of contemporary art and appointed artist Carolina Caicedo to tailor-made art works for the central exhibition hall of the Pudong Museum of Art.
Endless Origin·The Nothingness of Settings
Time: From now on to March 1
Location: chi K11 Art Museum
The exhibition uses installations and images to construct a set of interrelated system models. Artist Wang Yuqi explores how the subject is shaped by the intersection of algorithms, culture and technology through the juxtaposition of Zhouyi hexagrams, gene sequences, chess game structures, memory cores and bionic humanoid machines.
“Paper Fantasy” He Xia Paper-cutting Art Solo Exhibition
Time: From now on to February 14th
Location: Mingche Shanfang
He Xia, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, uses impromptu paper-cutting to break traditional boundaries and blend Longdong folk customs with modern aesthetics. The exhibition presents his masterpieces of paper art created casually in recent years. The memories of his hometown are hidden among the smart lines, and the original intention of art is reflected in the colorful colors, allowing you to appreciate the contemporary charm of traditional intangible cultural heritage.
*The performance activities are for reference only, details are subject to the actual situation on site.
Information: Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau
