Rockbund Art Museum
The Rockbund Art Museum is an art museum with no holdings of its own in Shanghai , People's Republic of China .
Location and architecture
The museum is located in the former Shanghai International Concession, in close proximity to the Bund , the city's waterfront with dozens of neoclassic and Art Deco buildings . The original six-story building was planned by the British company Palmer and Turner in 1932 and was the headquarters of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) until 1952 . The style of the house is a mixture of modern architecture with Art Deco and traditional Chinese decorative elements.
history
The building of the British Asiatic Society served as a meeting point for the Far Eastern and Western cultures and was also the seat of the first museum called the Shanghai Museum . When the seat of the society was dissolved in 1952, the collections and the library were transferred to two museums in the city, the Shanghai Museum , the Shanghai Natural History Museum , and the Shanghai Municipal Library , which was founded in the same year .
In 2007 the British architect David Chipperfield began planning an exhibition building at the site of the former BAS branch. Chipperfield extended the building to the east and created an open space on the ground floor. Furthermore, an open terrace was created on the roof of the new building. Changes have been made to the interior of the existing building structure, making modern exhibition concepts possible. The top three floors are connected by a dome light. The color concept and furnishings are based on the specifications of the 1930s.
Exhibitions
The museum started its first exhibitions in 2010, including Chinese artists such as Cai Guo-Qiang and Zeng Fanzhi , but also artists such as the Swiss Ugo Rondinone with his project Breathe Walk Die in 2014.
- 2011: Zhang Huan : Q Confucius .
- 2012: Paola Pivi : Share, but It's not Fair .
- 2014: Bharti Kher : Misdemeanours .
- 2015: Chen Zhen : Without Going to New York and Paris, Life Could Be International .
- 2016: Heman Chong : Ifs, Ands, or Buts .
- 2016: Felix Gonzalez-Torres .
Web links
- Official website (English).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 31 ° 14 ′ 34.7 ″ N , 121 ° 29 ′ 3.5 ″ E