Future-focused Chinese contemporary art
Founded by the businessman Zhang Baoquan in 2002, the Today Art Museum (TAM) was the first not-for-profit private museum in China. This 4,000-square-meter complex occupies an old industrial boiler house in the Chaoyang District of Beijing, which was transformed into a museum by the Chinese architect Wang Hui. The museum displays a collection of nearly 1,000 works of modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on painting, and hosts temporary exhibitions by both Chinese and international artists, such as Liu Xiaodong, Liu Wei and Feng Mengbo, James Jean, Isabelle Cornaro and Bob Dylan. With a forward-looking focus on the development of Chinese contemporary art, technology and design, TAM supports young artists in the community, while also hosting the art- and technology-themed “Future of Today Biennial.”
Photo: “One Divided into Three” exhibition, Today Art Museum, 2014. Photograph by Jeon Han, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism,
Korean Culture and Information Service, Korea.net.
