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Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive Museum, Beijing
Artists began gathering in the Beijing Songzhuang Art District in 1994. In ensuing twenty years, Songzhuang Art District has been a gat- hering place for more than ten thousand professional artists, transforming the area into the world‘s largest, most creative, and most influential contemporary art district.
The establishment of Art Archive has transformed the Beijing Songzhuang Cultural and Creative Industry Zone into a new landmark for the cultural innovation industry in China, and possibly the world, providing comprehensive, detailed, and abundant archival materials. The institution is a high point in the development of contemporary art in the Zone.
In August 2016, Art Archive was fully approved by the government to register as a public institution with the Beijing Tongzhou District Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Art Archive covers a usable space of 4,700 sqm, with 3,100 sqm of exhibition space on three floors.
Archive Collections Room, Library and Reading Room, Offices, and Collection and Auxiliary Space, respectively, cover 400 sqm, 500 sqm, 400 sqm, and 300 sqm.
Archive Art Museum opened South Korean Contemporary Art Research Centre
On April 16, 2019, the "Archive Art Museum South Korean Contemporary Art Research Centre Inauguration Ceremony", co-sponsored by Beijing Archive Art Museum and the South Korean Cultural Institute in China, was opened in Beijing Archive Art Museum. This marks an official beginning of the academic platform for South Korea jointly sponsored by the two institutions. At the ceremony, the South Korean Cultural Institute in China donated a total of 287 volumes of South Korean contemporary art exhibition catalogues, art publications, magazines, etc. to the Archive Art Museum. The donated documents and materials will be displayed in the section “South Korean Contemporary Art Research Special”, specially set up in the library of Archive Art Museum. The Minister Counsellor and Director of the South Korean Cultural Institute in China, Director of the Publicity Department of the South Korean Cultural Institute in China, Director of Archive Art Museum, special artist guests, many friends from art media circles were present at the ceremony. According to Wu Hong, executive director of Archive Art Museum, the “South Korean Contemporary Art Research Centre” was jointly established by Archive Art Museum and South Korea Cultural Institute in China. It is a non-profit independent academic research institution. The research centre takes academic research, documentation, art exhibitions, academic conferences, art visits, etc. as its main functions, and is committed to creating an academic platform for experts and scholars inside and outside the country. At the same time, it also functions as an important window for the cultural exchange between China and South Korea, promoting research and cooperation between China and South Korea in the field of cultural exchange and contemporary art.
Solo Exhibition with the works by Liu Shuiyang opened in Archive Art Museum
On July 14, 2018, Archive Art Museum launched the solo exhibition of the artist Liu Shuiyang, entitled “Form of Social Power – Exhibition with the works by Liu Shuiyang”. The exhibition is hosted by Archive Art Museum and curated by Wu Hong, the executive director and critic of Archive Art Museum. The exhibition exhibited more than 30 works from Liu Shuiyang, with different materials and media. Some of the works are large-size installations and distributed in the exhibition hall on the second and third floors of the Museum. In addition, the exhibition also combined the artist’s experience and early works and exhibited them in document form. This exhibition aims to convey the artist’s perception and thinking of life and society by exploring the inner connections of these works. On the opening day of the exhibition, a seminar about Liu Shuiyang’s work was held on the third floor of Archive Art Museum. The guests were Gao Ling, Hang Chunxiao, Hu Jiebao, Li Hongbo, Qi Zhilong, Sheng Wei, Tang Yao, Wang Duanting, Wu Hong, Xu Xiangqun , Yi Wan. This exhibition will continue until August 14, 2018.
Cultural exchange is the sharing of different ideas, traditions and knowledge with people who may come from a completely different environment from yours. It is important to be aware of cultural differences when you are cooperating or interacting with people from different countries.
Cultural exchange and cooperation are important parts of the comprehensive China-EU strategic partnership. They play an irreplaceable role in enhancing mutual understanding between people and promoting the value of our relations. At the 14th China-EU Summit in 2011, the leaders stressed that cultural exchange is one of the three pillars of China-EU relations. After years of development, the cultural cooperation mechanism between China and EU Member States has become increasingly mature. As for some projects we can refer to a long-term relationship has been established between China's Forbidden City and the Louvre, China's National Museum and the three major German museums, the Palace Museum in Venice, the National Library of China and the British Library, and China's National Theatre and the National Theatre of England. In addition, Chinese cultural centres have been set up in France, Germany, Malta, Spain and Denmark, and institutions such as the Union Francophonie, the Goethe-Institute and the Spanish Cervantes Institute are all at the forefront of Sino-European cultural exchanges. All these projects have paved the way for the 50th anniversary celebrations and strengthen the cultural pillars of the comprehensive China-EU strategic partnership. “The high-level people-to-people dialogue can help to enhance mutual interest, understanding and opinion between the EU and China”, writes the writer Ding Wei.
Promoting respect and understanding of other cultures leads to encouraging cultures to flourish in their diversity in a globalized world. Interacting with other people adds to our understanding of their values and norms. This leads to strong relationships. Cultural exchange also adds value to life by inspiring new forms of artistic expression in a world leading to globalization.
Residing at the center of a multitude of disciplines, globalization an unavoidability in our society. It is an area of inquiry defined more by the questions it asks and by its purpose of study: the world as a whole and parts of it in relation to this whole.
Hu Jiebao (Director of Archive Art Museum) with Nour Nouri (director of Pashmin Art Consortia) and Doki Gao (co-curator)
From another perspective, some see globalisation as the importance of multinational corporations as increasingly present and powerful players in today’s society. Globalization also refers to the rapidly changing process of complex connections between societies, cultures, institutions and individuals around the world. It is a social process that involves a condensation of time and space, a reduction of distances through a dramatic reduction of time needed.
In the course of history, globalisation has been seen from early times but in a different pace. The first instances of grand ancient globalisation happened from east to west and now this is reversing from west to east like the circular waves, appearing on the surface of an enclosed body of water, when something falls within. The waves start from the center and become larger and larger and when they hit the enclosed wall, they return in the reverse direction toward the center. In a holographic world where everything is interconnected to everything, art is no exception.
In the last 30 years, Pashmin Art Consortia has been involved in introducing artists internationally in Europe, China, and the US. Now with the recent quick pace in developing internationalization of art in China, Pashmin Art introduces the range of art from the last decade of the second millennium to two decades of the third millennium. This exhibition will show the need for understanding others in contemporary world in order to have a better world for future generations. More than 400 artworks by artists from Austria, China, England, France, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and USA are exhibited in this grand exhibition.
We hope that this 50 years extends to another 50 years of cultural exchange between China and Europe.
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive Museum, Beijing
Nour Nouri, Kenny Gu (谷澍)
Dr. Davood Khazaie, Dr. Marc Cremer-Thursby, Natalja Nouri
Dr. Ariel (艾蕾尔), Doki Gao (高玉洁)
Pashmin Art Consortia, Germany
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive Museum, Beijing
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive Museum, Beijing
北京通州宋庄艺术区场馆联合会 Beijing Tongzhou Songzhuang Art District Venue Federation
北京市通州区文化和旅游局 Beijing Tongzhou District Culture and Tourism Bureau
北京市公安局通州分局宋庄派出所 Songzhuang Police Station, Tongzhou Branch of Beijing Public Security Bureau
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive Songzhuang Tongzhou, Beijing
Thursday – Saturday: 11 AM – 8 PM
Sunday: 11 AM – 6 PM
