chi K11 美术馆

chi K11 Art Museum occupies level B3 of the K11 Art Mall at 300 Huaihai Middle Road in Huangpu District, Shanghai, and opened with the mall in 2013. It is the core exhibition space of the 'art x commerce' model promoted by Adrian Cheng, founder of the K11 brand, and with about 3,000 square metres it is one of the earliest contemporary art museums embedded in a high-end retail complex in mainland China. Visitors enter from the mall atrium and descend by escalator into the galleries, so that shopping and exhibition-going become a single movement. Since opening it has staged more than fifty exhibitions, including large imported shows such as 'Master of Impressionism: Monet' and 'Dali: Genius of Surrealism', alongside solo presentations by Zhang Enli and Oscar Murillo, and has run over two hundred lectures, workshops and art forums. The space combines flexible black-box and white-cube galleries, suited to painting, installation, video and immersive staging, and the museum works with institutions in Paris and London to bring international exhibitions into the Huaihai Road shopping district. Its audience mixes mall visitors with dedicated art followers. It opens daily from 10:00 to 20:00, with last entry at 19:30; some displays are free and blockbuster shows are ticketed. Tel 021-23103132; Metro Lines 1 and 14, Huangpi South Road station.