IMMERSIVE ART SCENE IN CHAOYANG DISTRICT

Enjoy a vibrant artistic atmosphere

Chaoyang District actively promotes the in-depth integration of cultural undertakings and cultural industries. It helps to improve the effectiveness and expand the scope of public cultural services.

ART & CREATIVITY

751D·PARK

 

751D·PARK Beijing Fashion Design Plaza is a cultural industry demonstration park in Beijing. Built on industrial sites, it has created a public cultural space, an integrated development park, a dynamic open exhibition area as well as a fashionable pedestrian block. It gathers different types of businesses including creation, exhibition, distribution and trade. As an international platform for high-end brand activities and new products release from home and abroad, it has made positive contributions to unleashing the vitality of urban development and serving the functional orientation of "Four Centres" of the capital.

 

Capital Group · Langyuan Vintage

 

Capital Group · Langyuan Vintage is located at No. 6 Langjiayuan, Tonghuihebei Road, Chaoyang District. With a total area of nearly 30,000 square metres, it is positioned as the "Xanadu of Beijing CBD". As the birthplace and basecamp of the brand of Capital Group · Langyuan, it is committed to becoming a "first-rate comprehensive cultural development platform" as well as "the most humanistic urban culture provider". Hosting more than 500 cultural events each year, Langyuan Vintage has become the most vibrant spiritual high ground of Beijing CBD.

 

798 Art Zone

 

A city without an art district can not be deemed as a true art city. Supposing that if Paris doesn’t have Centre Pompidou and New York doesn’t have the SoHo neighbourhood, these metropolises would only be art cities in name. At present, one of the most famous art districts in Beijing is 798, which is called a “contemporary art workshop”.

If it is the first time you visit 798, you will be attracted and enchanted by all these things in the abandoned factory of Bauhaus-inspired style: the interleaving pipelines, rows of old workshop houses, a riot of colourful scribbles and various galleries everywhere. In this distinctive space constructed by the walls painted with blocks of white and red, you can experience almost every kind of contemporary art, from experimental ink and wash, image art, to political pop and gaudy art.

 

Dongyi International Media Industrial Park

 

Dongyi International Media Industrial Park is positioned as a "Media Park". It boasts a trend-setting garden-style office environment and coordinated development of industrial clusters. After 12 years of meticulous operation, more than 200 cultural businesses have settled in. Supporting facilities such as studios, art galleries, conference centres and book bars are readily available. Business offices and cultural recreation areas are integrated here. It is a high-quality, international and eco-friendly cultural industrial park that has much influence in Beijing and even the entire China. 

 

Beijing Marco Polo Culture Industry Creative Park

 

Beijing Marco Polo Culture Industry Creative Park, formerly known as Sanjianfang Handicraft Warehouse for Foreign Trade, opened in 2012. Each year, over 40,000 people participate in more than 200 cultural events organised by Beijing Marco Polo Industrial Park, including the Marco Polo Lectures, Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Exhibitions, and Marco Polo Culture and Art Festivals. In 2020, it was awarded the "Municipal Level Cultural Industrial Park of Beijing", Base for Traditional Cultural Inheritance of Chaoyang District, and Social Classroom for Primary and Secondary Schools of Beijing.

 

Giri (Beijing) International Art Zone

 

Giri (Beijing) International Art Zone used to be a typical industrial site. With the repositioning of Beijing's capital functions, Giri has adopted modern architectural concepts and techniques to reproduce and "collect" its original symbols based on preserving the imprints of the times. It has transformed the site from the "tile economy" of the industrial age to "cultural creativity". Giri (Beijing) International Art Zone meticulously builds cultural facilities such as Shixiang Space, Zhang Guangyu Memorial Hall, Wu Dayu Memorial Hall, Giri StarIn etc. It holds more than 200 non-profit cultural activities every year. 

 

Beijing Music Industrial Park

 

Located in Heizhuanghu Township of Chaoyang District between the core area of the capital and Beijing Municipal Administrative Centre, Beijing Music Industrial Park is adjacent to Taihu Town of Tongzhou District in the east, 7 kilometres away from Universal Studios Beijing and 14 kilometres away from Beijing Municipal Administrative Centre. A music production centre, an immersive music experience centre and a music performance (exhibition) centre are being built in the core area of the industrial park, while the surrounding areas will be divided into three functional zones: a headquarters base of music enterprises, a residential zone, and a zone for commercial facilities. Mainly composed of a copyright trading centre, a music training centre and a hotel, the Phase II section which is currently being examined for approval will further expand the functions of the industrial park and upgrade visitors’ music experience upon completion. Beijing Music Industrial Park is committed to becoming an integrated and professional music park with a complete industrial chain.

 

Jili

 

Located in Dingfuzhuang CBD media industry belt, Jili is a leading cultural and creative park, integrated with office, communication, exhibition, technology and art. Jili introduces the latest scientific and technological achievements and high-end art elements, and uses innovative business models and management models to create an innovation platform for the development of cultural creativity, new media, finance, design, Internet, high-tech, creative agriculture and other industries. Through the design Carnival, Jili (Beijing) International Art Zone hopes to arouse people's interest in life and aesthetic taste, stimulate creative inspiration, and continue to promote all kinds of creative activities. Jili will become the intelligent hub, connecting the administrative sub-centre of Beijing and the core area of Beijing, and help accelerate the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei construction.

 

Beijing Cool Park

 

With the theme of “change”, Beijing Cool Park will deepen the refitting of cultural positions and create unlimited possibilities for cars and a better life. The Cool Park will carry out a series of forums, fairs, parades and exhibitions based on the perfect and distinctive theme of automobile culture, which will fully demonstrate the beauty of automobile personality modification, design decoration, automobile theme architecture, and automobile equipment design. Future-oriented beautiful car lifestyle shows the power of car design brands.

 

CAFA Art Museum

 

The history of CAFA Art Museum dates back to the early 1950s. Originally called the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, it was located on Wangfujing, Shuaifuyuan, Xiaowei Hutong in Beijing. Designed by the noted architect Zhang Kaiji, the Gallery was the first professional art museum built after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. In 1998, the Gallery changed its name to the CAFA Art Museum. In October 2008, the museum moved to No.8 Huajiadi South Street in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, with a new building designed by the noted Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. At the end of 2010, the CAFA Art Museum was selected to be one of the firsts to be listed as the "Key National Museums".  

 

Today Art Museum

 

Founded in 2002, Today Art Museum has collected nearly 1,000 important contemporary art works since its establishment. Its collection is mainly composed of three parts: Today Art Museum’s collection, the virtual collection of Today Art Museum and donated works. Today Art Museum takes advantage of its "Future Museum" and takes the lead in establishing a virtual collection. Today Art Museum continuously provides exhibitions with its collection resources. In 2018, the "Today Art Museum · Future Cloud Pavilion" project was launched. Many new media works have been added to the virtual collection and are available to the audience in the "Cloud Pavilion".

 

Beijing Minsheng Art Museum

 

Beijing Minsheng Art Museum is in Beijing Hengtong International Innovation Park, just across the street from 798 Art Zone. It was designed by the internationally renowned architect Zhu Pei. The exhibition hall covers an area of about 8,200 square metres. The main structure of the exhibition hall is composed of several irregular boxes. It demonstrates a three-dimensional abstract modern art form and the free spirit of rich imagination. Inside the exhibition hall are multiple exhibition halls of different sizes. The exhibition hall with maximum headroom of 14 metres can meet the needs of various types of exhibitions, conferences, forums, screenings and public relations activities.

 

Red Brick Art Museum

 

Red Brick Art Museum is in the No.1 International Art District of Hegezhuang in the northeast of Chaoyang District, Beijing. Red Brick’s facilities cover a total area of nearly 20,000 square metres including 8,000 square metres of an outdoor garden. The space above the ground of the main building consists of 8 exhibition centres, including 3 public recreational areas which provide spaces for children and public educational activities, a reception hall and a design shop. The three screening rooms on the basement floor are suitable for video works (image archives). Supporting spaces such as an academic hall, restaurant, Café and member’s club are set up in the courtyard. 

 

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Capital Citizens' Concert Hall

 

Founded in 2016, Capital Citizens’ Concert Hall is a cultural event for the public benefit provided by Chaoyang District. Procured by the government, professional art groups’ performances are free for the public. In the past five years, Capital Citizens’ Concert Hall has put on nearly a hundred performances in Chaoyang, including the charity performance series about the fight against COVID-19, the "National Music Memory" grand Chinese national symphony concert, concerts of foreign opera excerpts and the "Dream of Red Mansions" series.

 

The Golden Hedgehog College Theatre Festival

 

The Golden Hedgehog College Theatre Festival is an annual student theatre festival held in Beijing every August. Launched in 2001, it has been successfully held for 18 sessions so far. It is committed to supporting college students' theatre creation and performance, cultivating the cultural market for drama, and adding diverse and fresh elements into theatre art.