SHANGHAI, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Power Station of Art (PSA) will present the 16th Shanghai Biennale in November 2027, curated by Ferran Barenblit. Titled LOUDER, the Biennale will explore how popular culture shapes our identities, our sense of belonging, and the way we perceive the world. Music plays a particularly important role in this process, offering a space for identification, shared experience, and the production of imaginaries. Fashion, images, scenes, fandoms, media, and digital platforms also shape contemporary culture, generating new affects, desires, languages, and forms of collective recognition.
Today, images, sounds, messages, and stimuli compete constantly for our attention, while identities are constructed and negotiated within cultural networks that are increasingly fast-moving, global, and fragmented. Popular culture can create community and emancipation, but also exclusion, homogenization, and new forms of control. To speak louder means both to raise the volume and to ask what becomes visible and audible, what cuts through the noise, and what remains outside our perception. LOUDER will explore how the visual arts perceive, interpret, and rework these contradictions, and how art can intervene in economies of attention, alter their hierarchies, and propose other ways of listening, looking, relating to one another, and imagining collectively.
Conceived from Shanghai, a city defined by the intensity of its cultural, technological, and urban transformations, LOUDER will develop over the coming year as an open process. Artists, curators, and a range of interlocutors will gradually shape a Biennale that engages with contemporary culture from within its contradictions, rhythms, and forces.
For full details, please visit PSA's official website: https://www.powerstationofart.com/whats-on/news/16-shb-title-louder
About the Chief Curator
Ferran Barenblit (Buenos Aires, 1968) is a Barcelona-based curator whose career spans curatorial practice and museum leadership. He studied Art History at the University of Barcelona and Museum Studies at New York University. From 2015 to 2021, he served as Director of MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Previously, he was the founding director of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, helping shape the institution from its inception, and Director of Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona. Throughout his career, his work has explored the social, cultural, and historical forces that shape contemporary life.
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The 16th Shanghai Biennale Announces Its Title: LOUDER
HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Yang Bo, Founder and CEO of Hoymiles, has been recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential leaders shaping climate action in its TIME100 Climate 2026 list. The honor highlights Dr. Yang's leadership in advancing solar technology and expanding access to clean energy. The recognition comes shortly after the company's HiFlow Pro microinverter was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
From Microinverter Pioneer to Global Energy Solutions Provider
Since founding Hoymiles in 2012, Yang has led the company through more than a decade of development in solar power electronics. Built on a strong R&D foundation, Hoymiles began with a focus on MLPE (module-level power electronics) and microinverter technology, and has since evolved into a global provider of solar and energy storage solutions. Today, its portfolio spans microinverters, string inverters, hybrid inverters and battery energy storage systems, serving residential, commercial and utility-scale applications.
With global cumulative shipments exceeding 5 million units across more than 190 countries and regions, Hoymiles has steadily expanded its global presence. Its growth reflects a long-term commitment to making energy technologies more efficient, flexible and accessible, while responding to the increasingly diverse needs of energy users around the world.
Making Distributed Solar More Accessible
A central part of this strategy is advancing distributed energy. As solar adoption expands beyond conventional rooftop installations, Hoymiles continues to develop technologies to lower barriers to the adoption of solar energy. Its HiFlow Pro microinverter is a notable example. As the first microinverter certified to meet North America's UL 3700 safety standard for PIPV, it brings a new level of accessibility to residential solar, particularly in the emerging plug-in balcony solar market.
Building a More Flexible Energy Future
Hoymiles' broader ambition is to support a more decentralized and resilient energy ecosystem for homes and businesses. By combining power electronics expertise with energy storage capabilities, the company is working to connect solar generation, energy management and storage in increasingly integrated ways.
"This recognition is not just a personal honor, but a tribute to Hoymiles and our team's 14 years of dedication to R&D and technological innovation," said Dr. Yang Bo, Founder and CEO of Hoymiles. "It inspires us to keep pushing the boundaries of solar and energy storage technologies and make clean energy more accessible worldwide."
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Hoymiles CEO Yang Bo Named to TIME100 Climate 2026, Following HiFlow Pro's Recognition as a TIME Best Invention
