红砖美术馆

Red Brick Art Museum is at Hegezhuang village, Cuigezhuang township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, on the north side of the junction of Shunbai Road and Maquanying West Road, in the No. 1 Art District. It was initiated in 2007 by collector and entrepreneur Yan Shijie and his wife Cao Mei, designed by Dong Yugan, a professor at Peking University, and built over eight years with an investment of nearly 400 million yuan. The main building was completed in December 2012 and opened for trial operation; the museum formally opened on 23 May 2014. The site covers about 22 mu (1.5 hectares) with roughly 9,720 square metres of floor area, and the galleries and garden each account for about 10,000 square metres. It contains nine exhibition spaces, two public lounges, one art-derivative shop, a multi-function hall, a children's room and artist residency studios. Red brick is the basic architectural language: arches, lattice windows, courtyards and water organise a sequence of walks, producing a garden-like museum "embracing nature". Red Brick is known for international exchange. It has presented the French Marcel Duchamp Prize since 2016, took part in "Germany 8" in 2017, staged Olafur Eliasson's "The Unspeakable Openness of Things" in 2018 and cooperated with the French embassy on the 2019 Croisements festival. It promotes an "ecological experience museum" and "art wetland" model and is one of Beijing's key contemporary art landmarks.