上海明当代美术馆

Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) stands at 436 Yonghe East Road in Jing'an District, Shanghai, funded by the Mingyuan Group as a non-profit contemporary art centre. It opened in September 2015 with the exhibition '30 Years of Experimental Theatre'. The building is a conversion of a workshop of the Shanghai Paper Machinery Plant, once known as the 'garden factory'; the interior is U-shaped and forms a complete sunken stage, covering 3,500 square metres over two levels with a 15-metre internal height, which lets installation, video and live performance share one space. It was founded by Ling Feifei with Qiu Zhijie as director, and defines itself as a centre for art based on visual performance, with a particular focus on experimental theatre and multimedia performance; installation, painting, sculpture, video, sound, poetry and dance linked to performance are all part of the programme. Beyond exhibitions, the museum runs long-term public projects such as community theatre and a rewritten 'square dance' programme, and works with universities to support young experimental theatre makers through festivals, workshops and production funds. Its position north of the Suzhou Creek, in a residential part of Jing'an, makes it a rare art institution embedded in an everyday neighbourhood rather than a cultural district. It opens 10:00-18:00 Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday; tel 021-56628882.