知美术馆

ZHI Art Museum is at 1 Junshan Road, Xinjin District, Chengdu, at the foot of Laojun Mountain, a Taoist site. Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, it has 2,353 square metres of floor area over three storeys above ground and one below. The theme is light and water: locally made tiles, fixed with stainless steel wire into a permeable screen, wrap the façade, while shallow water and courtyards let the building appear to grow from the hillside. The visual identity was designed by Kenya Hara, who turned the tile pattern into rippling water lines. The institution was renamed from Zhi Art Gallery in 2013, held its first exhibition in 2014, registered as a non-enterprise private unit with the Chengdu civil affairs authorities in 2016 and reopened in April 2018 with the exhibition “Open”; a subsidiary space, Zhi Mei Valley, opened in 2022. Its philosophy of “all things, insight, constant renewal” frames an exploration of Eastern aesthetics past, present and future within international contemporary art, with a focus on new media and interdisciplinary practice. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00-17:00; ticket enquiries on 028-82430257 or 028-82430157; website www.zhiartmuseum.com. Galleries unfold around a central court, the route following the slope, with light filtered through the tile screen becoming part of the display. The museum also co-organises exhibitions with institutions at home and abroad and runs residencies and public programmes.