阿哩哩艺术馆

ALILI ART occupies 71 Zhongshan South Street inside Nantou Ancient Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, deep in the main lane of a settlement with nearly 1,700 years of history. Nantou is the shared origin of Shenzhen's and Hong Kong's urban history and was the seat of Bao'an county government in the Ming and Qing dynasties; after recent wholesale revitalisation it has become one of the densest creative districts in the city, with the Tongyuan pavilions, the Nantou Ancient Town Museum, the Nantou 1820 digital gallery and numerous small shops and exhibition rooms within walking distance. ALILI ART is the district's illustration-led art institution, opening after the revitalised north-south street reopened in 2020 and already staging public exhibitions by November that year, and it works closely with the Shenzhen Illustration Association: from March to April 2021 it hosted the World Illustration Awards 2020 touring show, the award's first official presentation in China, with an exhibition of nineteenth-century European book plates on the second floor at the same time. A 24 solar terms illustration show followed in November 2022 and the Finnish illustration exhibition 'Moi! Shenzhen' in February 2023. On 8 July 2023 the gallery reopened after a full renovation as a four-storey composite space, with the first China solo show of Japanese illustrator Tatsuya Kondo, 'Mr Rabbit's Fantastic Tale', presenting more than fifty works from twenty-four years across forest, ocean, animal, tree spirit and city themes. White walls paired with colour installations suit illustration and graphic design shows, IP exhibitions, co-branded pop-ups and family programmes. Hours are 10:30 to 21:00 Tuesday to Friday and 10:30 to 21:30 at weekends, closed Monday; Nantou Ancient Town station on Line 12, exit D, is a short walk away, and the gallery can be reached on 0755-83746161.