Shenzhen Art Museum

Published on January 1, 2009 by brooks | This story has been viewed 281 times

Chinese Title:深圳美术馆

Address: 32 Donghu Street 1, Aiguo Road, Shenzhen City
Postal Code: 518021
Tel: 0755-25426069
Exhibition Opening: from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Museum is closed to the public on Monday, and free of charge on Friday and open normally on holidays.
Transportation: Take bus 3, 17, 360 and 320, and get off at the “Reservoir” station, then enter the West Lake Park and walk slowly to the destination as the direction board shows.

Brief Introduction

The predecessor of Shenzhen Art Museum is Shenzhen Exhibition Hall, one of the earliest exhibition institutions for artworks, which was established in 1976 and was renamed as Shenzhen Art Museum in 1987 under the approval of the municipal government after the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The museum now has a floor space of 5500㎡, a building area of 2800㎡ and an area of 1200㎡ for the exhibition hall.

30 years has passed since its establishment, Shenzhen Art Museum has been actively pushing forward art exchanges both at home and abroad through activities of multiple forms, taking advantages of the function of “a cultural window” of the Special Economic Zone and neighboring Hong Kong and Macao,. Since 2001, the museum has established its academic target as “pay close attention to contemporary urban native arts” and has been plotting Annual China Theme Exhibition on Contemporary Art and Theme Exhibition on Native Art of Shenzhen by which the museum has propelled the developments of the contemporary city art of China and native art of Shenzhen and shaped a fine image of city museum.

Shenzhen Art Museum will continuously stick to its academic target, namely, “pay close attention to contemporary city arts and native arts” and simultaneously provide all-around services to the professional art workers, art amateurs and the mass through all available resources and jointly and actively establish a service system for socially public culture and try to build an art museum servicing the public.

Collections

The collection tenet of Shenzhen Art Museum is to conduct relevant collections with the active execution of the academic orientation of “pay close attention to contemporary urban and native arts” and based on such collections, put emphasis on the variety of sorts of the collections and conduct collections of other kinds of fine art works. In the future, the museum will continuously perfect the collections on the contemporary city art of China and native art of Shenzhen and strengthen the collection force of fine art works.

Chinese paintings, 166 pieces of oil paintings, 17 pieces of sculptures and 1488 pieces of other sorts of collections. The classical collections of the museum are mainly characterized by contemporary art works and native art works. In particular, the collection of contemporary oil paintings has begun to take its shape. The contemporary oil paintings and the native art collections of Shenzhen has successively been sent to countries and places such as Malaysia, Macao and Schleswig Holstein of Germany for exchange exhibitions and received a wide attention.

Exhibitions

Shortly after its establishment, Shenzhen Exhibition Hall started to hold a series of large-scale artistic works exhibitions with the aim to promote the Chinese traditional art, such as “Beijing Rongbaozhai Water-color Woodblock Printings and Original Art and Calligraphy Exhibition” in 1977 and “Original Art and Calligraphy Exhibition of People’s Fine Arts Press” in 1978. It also held a “Shenzhen Art Festival” in 1985. In these activates, a lot of artists were invited to Shenzhen, which fully played the role of cultural exchange connecting the motherland mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Since the establishment of academic orientation of “pay close attention to contemporary urban and native arts” in 2001, Shenzhen Art Museum has successively held a series of exhibitions firmly sticking to such orientation which has conducted academic cleaning to the contemporary art of China. Simultaneously through plotting and holding activities such as annual theme exhibitions, symposiums, Shenzhen Art Museum has deeply unearthed, discovered and organized the native art creations of Shenzhen, which has comprehensively and fully showed the rich creation achievements of the native painters of Shenzhen and enjoyed good comments of all social circles.

In addition, the museum has held various exhibitions of masterpieces of celebrities in the field and such exhibitions have witnessed the succession and changes of the traditional art of China.

In recent years, Shenzhen Art Museum has annually held 24 exhibitions and the number of audience is as high as some 50,000.

The following contents are the important exhibitions held by Shenzhen Art Museum in recent years:

Series of “Pay Close Attention to Contemporary Urban Art”

Images on Ideas —— 2002 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
Image on Image —— 2003 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
Inhabitation in Chengdu —— 2004 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
Sky of Destiny —— 2005 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
Skin of Cities —— Exhibition of Research on Possibility of Images of Contemporary Cities

Series of “Pay Close Attention to Native Arts”

Abstraction of Shenzhen —— Joint Exhibition of Ten Artists of Shenzhen (2001)
No Border for Traveler —— Joint Art Exhibition of Six Artists Coming to Shenzhen in Early Days (2002)
Joint Exhibition of Watercolor Painters of Shenzhen (2002)
Native Soil Complex and City Space —— Joint Exhibition of Xylograph Painters of Shenzhen (2003)
Visual Zone —— 2004 Experimental Art Exhibition of Youth of Shenzhen (2004)
Resplendence —— Exhibition of Art works of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (2004)
Charming Shenzhen —— Celebration for 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and Image Works Exhibition of Painters of Shenzhen (2005)
Disintegration —— 2005 Nomination Exhibition for Mid-aged and Young Oil Panting Painters of Shenzhen (2005)

Series of Classics of Celebrities

Art Exhibition of Lin Fengmian (1997)
Classics Exhibition of Fu Baoshi, a Contemporary Art Master (1998)
Art Exhibition of Zhang Daqian (2001)
Art Exhibition of Xu Beihong and Art Exhibition of Collections of Chinese Ancient Paintings by Xu Beihong (2002)
Special Exhibition for Eighty Years Art Career Exhibition of Huang Yongyu —— Firenze in Eyes of Huang Yongyu (2004)
Exhibition of Sketching Works of Li Keran (2005)
Metaphysical and Empirical —— 2005 New Works Exhibition of Shi Hu (2005)
War and Peace —— Exhibition of Works of Goya, a Art Master of Spain (2005)
Exhibition of Works Donated by Hua Junwu (2005)
Exhibition of Oil Paintings Donated by Kong Baiji (2005)

Institution

Shenzhen Art Museum, with Song Yuming as the current chief librarian, has three divisions and one office. Generalizing and planning division is liable for the work such as exhibition planning, external propaganda, aesthetic education and file establishment and management; research & collection division is liable for work such as academic researches and arts collections; exhibition division is liable for work such as display and exhibition and administration office is liable for administration and management work of the museum.
At present, the museum has 23 staff members in all, including 18 on the job, among whom 7 are business personnel.

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