In spring 2023, we're moving to our newly built home and are preparing to reopen for our first summer season since the launch of the ICA in 2019!
Located in NYU Shanghai's New Bund campus, the ICA's new home is over three times the size of our former space and includes two floors of exhibition space, a reading room, and events space.
We will reopen on 20 May with "Walking China: Stories yet to be told", an exhibition made in collaboration with the Out of Eden Walk, journalist Paul Salopek, film and literature scholar June Ke, and over a dozen artists and contributors from all over China.
Scroll down for more details about the New Bund campus and ICA’s upcoming exhibition.
NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus
After over three years of anticipation, the NYU Shanghai New Bund campus has finally been unveiled for the 2023 spring semester. Built in 2022, the New Bund campus serves as NYU Shanghai’s main campus and thriving intellectual center. With the unique design of four interlinked buildings surrounding a spacious courtyard, the New Bund campus offers a 600-person auditorium, 78 seminar rooms and lecture halls with advanced digital equipment, laboratories for various disciplines, a 5,000-square-meter library, as well as a two-floored reading hall and colloquium. Artists and athletes can also enjoy a spacious campus courtyard, state-of-the-art recital hall, black box theater, a contemporary art gallery, and a 4,000-square-meter athletics center. The nine-story Academic Building is easily accessible by subway, bus, car, and bicycle.
NYU Shanghai's New Bund campus is located at 567 West Yangsi Road, in the Qiantan (New Bund) neighborhood of Pudong District.
Out of Eden Walk
The Out of Eden Walk is a global storytelling project supported by the National Geographic Society, through which Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing our human ancestors’ ancient migration on foot and across the globe. His 38000 kilometer (24000 mile) multiyear odyssey began in Ethiopia—our evolutionary “Eden”—in January 2013 and will end at the tip of South America. In October 2021, Salopek embarked on the “Middle Kingdom” chapter of this journey through China, beginning from the southern border in Yunnan province, walking over 6000 kilometers along the transversal Hu line, and continuing through China’s northern frontier with Russia.
