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Asia’s largest museum, the China Art Museum in Shanghai, has dedicated its entire tenth floor to Forms of Devotion, a collection of sacred art from Belgium’s Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA). 

The exhibit, which opened on November 6th and is on display until February 21st 2016, is part of the “Celebrating India in Shanghai” program put on by the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. It is drawing over 30,000 visitors daily.

It features 430 works of art from some of India and the world’s most prominent visual artists. All are inspired by religious, cultural and social visions of India, and rendered in the spirit of devotion and the betterment of humanity.

Forms of Devotion is curated by Sushma K. Bahl, the former head of the British Council of India’s Arts and Culture department. It’s the largest exhibition of Indian and Indian-inspired art ever to travel outside of India, and covers an area of more than 1,500 square meters.

Art --- fine arts [discipline] --- spiritualism --- devotional objects --- religious art --- mandalas --- spiritualiteit --- celestial --- Bikaner --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- India