Come to China, with the profound interest in arts, do you want to take a look at the art calleries here? Now we elect 10 galleries from a large number of Chinese art galleries in accordance with the history, the size and the influence of them. Believing the your “China Art Tour” will not be disappointed.
1. Modern Gallery
Founded in Beijing in 2004, is located in the Beijing Workers Stadium, the gallery was built in lakefront, covering an area of 230 square meters, full of soft lighting, it is a professional organizations operating Chinese avant-garde art. The purpose of the gallery is "Keep the Chinese art staying in China", "Left the Chinese art to the world."
2. Beijing Tang Contemporary Arts Center
Located in 798 art districts, Beijing, the gallery was converted from a 600 square meters factory, the interior space is extremely broad and spacious, the exhibition area which up to 12 meters provides a good environment for various arts activities. Beijing Tang Contemporary Arts Center is a multifunctional arts institution, it is actively building an international system of Chinese contemporary arts.
3. Galleria Continua
Opened in May 8, 2005, with an area of 1000 square meters, up to 13 meters, Galleria Continua can be carried out large-scale exhibition of art. It was opened by Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo in 1990, aimed at promotes the development of modern art. The Gallery hopes to establish a new platform by this communication channel.
4. ShanghART Gallery
Started 1996 in a hotel walkway in Shanghai, ShanghART gallery has over the course of the past decade acquired a substantial reputation for artistic innovation, integrity and high quality in dealing with contemporary Chinese art. The Gallery became not only the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel, FIAC, Arco and Art Basel Miami Beach etc, but was also selected as the only gallery from China to be featured in ‘International Art Galleries, Post-War to Post-Millennium, a narrative chronology of the dealers, artists and spaces that have defined modern art.
5. Arario Beijing
It’s the new branch of the Arario Korea. Arario was founded in 1989, had planned numerous criticize arts exhibitions which occupying significant positions in Asia. Arario Beijing is the first step in the realization of the dream, the majority of viewers in Asia can be closer to the contemporary art of the world, Asia's best contemporary artists can also be more extensive.
6. Soka Arts Center
Founded in 1992, Taiwan, acting the outstanding works of Chinese artists, it’s the first systematic agent to act the works of the mainland artists. During the past 15 years since its establishment, Soka has done a great deal of research, collection and collation about the Chinese classical paintings, at the same time, organize exhibitions for those artists whom has been forgotten by later generations, to enable them to re-recognized. Soka displays the Chinese arts to the world, meanwhile bring the world arts back to China.
7. Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art
Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art was founded in year 2000 in Beijing (China). Xin Dong Cheng’s vocation is to establish a cultural bridge between China and the rest of the world. By exhibiting western artists in China he gives the Chinese public an opportunity to widen their knowledge about western modern and contemporary art after half a century of interruption. By holding exhibitions of Chinese artists in his gallery in Beijing, and outside of China (for example in Paris, Greece, Moscow. est.), Xin Dong Cheng also leads the western public towards a discovery and appreciation of the Chinese contemporary art, that is already widely appreciated in international art circles.
8. Faurschou Gallery
This Gallery was established in 1986 in Denmark, and opened a new 1,000-square-meter museum in Beijing, China in November 2007. The new gallery's name from the Chinese interpretation of “faurschou”: "Lin Guan”. The Gallery is committed to promote and display of the arts works by the highest international standard. The works it acts, including the masterworks of the modernist art in the world, as well as the most excellent works of the contemporary arts.
9. Star Gallery
Star Gallery is a professional art institution advocating the art of China's newest generation - the "post '70s" generation - through exhibitions, publications and other promotion activities. Now it is acting a number of great potential artists, and will continue to strive to become China's new art and the most powerful promoter.
10. Universal Studios
Universal Studios-Beijing is a new venue created in Beijing to support exhibitions, research and communication related to contemporary visual arts, films, design, architecture and other aspects of visual culture in Beijing. As an independent organization, it is positioned as a mediator between an infrastructure of public institutions, such as museums, and an increasingly number of commercial galleries. Moreover, the studio wishes to establish new relationships between contemporary culture and the public, in order to stimulate and innovate the artistic practice. At the same time, it explores the dynamic in China's contemporary culture.