The Yuz Museum Shanghai (

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: 余德耀美术馆) is a non-profit organization under the umbrella of the Yuz Foundation. It is located in the West Bund in

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, Shanghai. Yuz is reconstructed from the hangar of the original Longhua Airport and designed by Japanese architect

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. Among the buildings with a total area of more than 9000 square meters, the main gallery alone accounts for more than 3000 square meters. Its enormous and unique structure perfectly complement the installations of YUZ collection. Since its establishment and opening on May 17, 2014, Yuz museum has become a new landmark of Shanghai.

Visiting

Yuz Museum will be open to the public from 10am to 6pm from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Monday). No parking space available.

About the founder

The Yuz Museum was founded by Mr. Budi Tek, a Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur, art philanthropist and collector. Mr. Budi Tek starts art collection about ten years ago. He found the unique charm of art and became a serious collector. Mr. Budi Tek's collection began with Chinese contemporary oil paintings, especially works created from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Now, he has established a considerable collection system of Chinese contemporary art.

About the curator

Wu Hung is currently chair of the Academic Committee of Yuz Museum. He is also the founder and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at

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, the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum, and an elected member of the

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About Yuz foundation

Principle: Collect the contemporary, promote the art museum movement, and actively participate in public welfare undertakings. Motto: Art is a lasting endurance and a gift; it is faith, hope and love of artistic life. Purpose: Yuz foundation is a non-profit organization. Since its establishment in 2007, it has been committed to enhancing the growth of contemporary artists, promoting the development of contemporary art, and actively participating in diversified art activities and projects. Mr. Budi Tek hopes to build a platform for the communication and development of Asian and Western contemporary art and artists. In 2018, Yuz museum and

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announced a cooperation that they will jointly to establish a foundation to preserve Budi Tek's denoted Chinese Contemporary Art Collection. The new foundation in cooperation with LACMA will manage Budi Tek's collection, and it will ensure that most of Budi Tek's collection will remain intact and permanently available for exhibitions and academic research.

Past exhibitions

Ni Youyu: ∞ (2019.8.17 – 2019.10.20 ) Nine Journeys Through Time (2019.7.3 – 2019.10.7 ) Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective 双重奏：谭平回顾展 (2019.6.15 – 2019.9.22 )

Su-Mei Tse Su-Mei Tse (born 1973) is a Luxembourgian musician, artist and photographer. Her work combines photography, video, installations and music. In 2003, she received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale for the best national participation.

: Nested 谢素梅：安棲 (2018.12.18 – 2019.3.24) The Real Deal is Talking with Dad 陈可：和爸爸聊天才是正经事 (2018.12.22 – 2019.3.24)

MAURIZIO CATTELAN Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...

– THE ARTIST IS PRESENT(2018.10.11 – 2018.12.16) Tschabalala Self: Bodega Run (2018.09.22 – 2018.12.09) CHARLIE CHAPLIN. A VISION (2018.06.08 – 2018.10.07) Kaws- where the end starts in Yuz museum

Kaws- where the end starts in Yuz museum

Melike Kara: A Taste of Parsley (2018.07.07 – 2018.09.09) Random International: Everything & Nothing (2018.04.20 – 2018.09.02) Donna Huanca: Cell Echo (2018.03.24 – 2018.06.03) Ye Yongqing: 1982-1992 无中生有的年代 (2018.04.12 – 2018.05.20) Joshua Nathanson: High Flow (2018.02.03 – 2018.04.04)

Alicja Kwade Alicja Kwade (born 1979) is a Polish-German contemporary visual artist. Her sculptures and installations focus on the subjectivity of time and space. Kwade lives and works in Berlin. Early life and education Kwade was born in the industrial cit ...

: ReReason (2017.12.17 – 2018.04.01) Shanghai Galaxy II (2017.11.10 – 2018.02.11) The Dance of Icarus (2017.11.12 – 2018.01.21) QIN YIFENG’S WORKS 秦一峰展 (2017.09.02 – 2017.12.03) Math Bass: Serpentine Door (2017.06.24 – 2017.10.08) Will / We Must 周铁海：必须 (2017.07.11 – 2017.08.27)

KAWS Brian Donnelly (born November 4, 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his c ...

: WHERE THE END STARTS (2017.03.28 – 2017.08.13) Zhou Li: Shadow of the Wind 周力：白影 (2017.02.25 – 2017.06.04) Image about Will-We Must in Yuz museum

Jennifer West: “Is Film Over?” (2017.03.18 – 2017.05.28) Mira Dancy: “FUTURE WOMAN // remake me” (2016.11.8 – 2017.03.12) Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory 孙逊：谶语实验室 (2016.11.19 – 2017.03.05)

ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...

, SHADOWS (2016.09.04 – 2017.01.15) OVERPOP (2016.09.04 – 2017.01.15) Alberto Giacometti’s Retrospective (2016.3.22 — 2016.7.31)

Koo Jeong A Koo Jeong A is a South-Korean born and Paris-based mixed-media and installation artist. Koo studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She worked as an artist-in-residence in the Augarten Contemporary in 2002. Her work has included still and ...

: Enigma of Beginnings (2016.3.26 — 2016.5.29) Liu Shiyuan: As Simple As Clay 刘诗园：像泥巴一样简单 (2015.11.14 — 2016.1.31)

Rain Room ''Rain Room'' is a 2012 experiential artwork by Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass of Random International, which found its first permanent installation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates in 2018. The piece had previously shown in a number of intern ...

by Random International (2015.9.1 — 2016.1.3) Twin Tracks: Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition “南辕北辙 ”——杨福东作品展 (2015.9.1 — 2015.11.23) Secundino Hernández/Entre Primavera y Verano (2015.9.1 — 2015.10.11) Huang Yuxing: Liquidus 黄宇兴：熔流 (2015.9.1 — 2015.10.11) Myth/History II: Shanghai Galaxy Myth / History (2014.5.18 — 2014.11.18)

References

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