Shanghai Himalayas Museum ( zh, 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆), formerly known as Shanghai Zendai MoMA (), is a privately funded, non-profit art institute in Pudong, Shanghai, China, focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and academic exchanges, established by the

Shanghai Zendai Group Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

in 2005. Shanghai Himalayas Museum is the main organizer of the inaugural edition of the

Shanghai Project The Shanghai Project is a multidisciplinary ideas platform bringing together practitioners from a variety of disciplines, including art, architecture, design, film, performance, sound, as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences. The ...

, a yearlong ideas platform co-directed by

Yongwoo Lee Yongwoo Lee is a South Korean art historian and curator based in Shanghai and Seoul. He is currently a professor at Tongji University and was previously the artistic director of the Shanghai International Art City Research Institute and a profe ...

and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

Shanghai Himalayas Museum

Located at the

Himalayas Center The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over ...

, a landmark in Shanghai designed by Arata Isozaki, the new site of the museum was opened to public in 2012. Other than the main space in Pudong, the museum also has two branch spaces. Zendai Contemporary Art Space is located at

Wuwei Creative Park Wuwei may refer to: Philosophy * Wu wei (), Chinese philosophical concept from Confucianism and an important concept in Chinese statecraft and Taoism Places * Wuwei, Gansu (), prefecture-level city *Wuwei, Anhui (), Wuhu, Anhui People * Wuwei Cha ...

in northeast Shanghai. Covering an area of 2,000sqm, the space consists of galleries and artist studios, and focuses on the study and exploration of experimental and avant-garde art. Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum is located at Zhujiajiao town, a picturesque water-town suburb southeast of central Shanghai. Covering an area of 400sqm, the two-storey art museum consists of en-suite artist studios, galleries and a conference room. The space runs an artist-in-residence programme and organizes a variety of public art programmes targeting at local community.

Exhibitions

Since 2011, the museum has presented a series of international art projects including “Designing Design / The Exhibition of Kenya Hara in China 2011”, “ Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings”, Ink Art Exhibition Series, “Ateliers – Ofer Lellouche Solo Exhibition” , 2014

John Moores Painting Prize The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-lis ...

(China) Exhibition, solo exhibitions of Sean Scully and Michael Craig-Martin, and "Welcome to My Life - Moving Image from the Collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître".

References

External links

Shanghai Himalayas Museum website
{{authority control 2012 establishments in China Art museums established in 2012 Contemporary art galleries in China Museums in Shanghai Pudong