Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
.jpg) |
|
| Established | November 2007 |
|---|---|
| Location | 798 Art Zone, Beijing |
| Coordinates | 39°59′21″N 116°29′17″E / 39.989057°N 116.48793°E |
| Visitors | 851,347 (2014) |
| Founder | Guy and Myriam Ullens |
| Director | Philip Tinari |
| CEO | May Xue |
| Website | http://www.ucca.org.cn |
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Abbreviation: UCCA; simplified Chinese: 尤伦斯当代艺术中心; traditional Chinese: 尤倫斯當代藝術中心; pinyin: yóu lún sī dāng dài yì shù zhōng xīn) is a non-commercial contemporary art museum situated in Beijing, China. Founded by Belgian art collector baron Guy Ullens and his wife Myriam Ullens, the UCCA was officially opened on November 5, 2007.
The center, located at the heart of the 798 Art District, was reconstructed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte in collaboration with Qingyun Ma who leads the Chinese architectural office MADA SPAM.
The building covers a floor space of 8,000 square meters with 31-foot-high ceilings.
With its contemporary arts library (one of the first libraries of its kind in China) and three large art galleries, the center is annually visited by upwards of one million people.
UCCA’s four main spaces play host each year to around fifteen exhibitions of varying scale. Educational and interpretive programs expand the reach of these displays, bringing viewers into closer contact with the ideas behind the work on view. As an international museum operating on Chinese soil, UCCA has a focus on recent developments and historical movements in Chinese contemporary art, pairing this with exhibitions devoted to major trends and figures from around the region and the world.
The Center has presented more than a hundred exhibitions and attracted more than 4 million visitors. Beginning its curatorial program with “85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art”, it has presented large-scale group shows “Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists” (2009), “ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice” (2013), and “Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names” (2014); along with solo exhibitions “Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy” (2010), “Wang Jianwei: Yellow Signal” (2011), “Gu Dexin: The Important Thing Is Not The Meat” (2012), “Wang Xingwei” (2013), “Xu Zhen: a MadeIn Company Production” (2014), and “Liu Wei: Colors” (2015)
...
Wikipedia