田·当代美术馆

TIAN Contemporary Art Museum sits on the west bank of the Xiang River in Changsha, inside the BOSMIA Bohemia Culture and Art Complex in the Binjiang cultural park, on the second and third floors of the podium north-west of Dibao Tower. The complex was built by BOSMIA, a bridal-photography brand, as its first culture-and-art development, with a total floor area of about 18,000 square metres. The museum was designed by Scope Design, led by Liang Jianfeng and Weng De; design began in July 2021 and the building was completed in June 2022. The design takes "field" and rural memory as its themes. Visitors enter through a separate doorway and climb into a preface hall, where the noise of the street gives way to a still, dim space. A slanted wall grows out of the floor plan to break the conventional central axis, establishing an asymmetrical balance and resolving an awkward lift layout. On the third floor, "earth boxes" and a flowing "earth facade" carry the idea of soil as a carrier of abstract memory. Galleries use white walls, micro-cement and natural light and are suited to painting, photography, video and small installations. The museum shares its building with a photography production base, deliberately placing academic exhibition-making alongside the everyday consumption of images.