中间美术馆

Inside-Out Art Museum is at No. 50 Xingshikou Road, Haidian District, Beijing, at the western end of the Xishan Cultural and Creative Avenue, close to the West Fourth Ring Road and the city's university cluster. The institution's predecessor was established in 2008 and had been organising exhibitions and cultural programmes since 2007; in 2011 it was registered with the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau as a private, non-profit art institution. The present building opened in September 2012, designed by a team led by Cui Kai of the China Architecture Design and Research Group, with interiors by the New York office Obra Architects. It has 2,600 square metres of gallery space on three floors, professional climate, lighting and security systems, and studios for artists in residence. Rather than chasing blockbuster shows, Inside-Out focuses its research on the art and thought of the second half of twentieth-century China, using archives, documents and curatorial work to re-examine the history of Chinese contemporary art while remaining open to global debates. It regularly produces research-driven group shows, solo exhibitions, lectures and publications, and supports experimental making and curating. The wider Inside-Out art district also contains a theatre, an art-house cinema and education spaces, forming an unusually mixed cultural cluster in western Beijing.