Dafen Art Museum

Dafen Art Museum

Dafen Art Museum, built in 2007, is located in Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen. It is a public facility invested by the government and a public cultural institution. It is a public welfare Art Gallery integrating exhibition, research, collection, public education activities, lectures and public culture promotion.

Dafen Art Museum covers an area of 11000 square meters, with a construction area of 17000 square meters. It is the first supporting Art Museum in China. From the first floor to the second floor, there are 10 exhibition halls, 2 large exhibition halls and 8 relatively independent small exhibition halls. The total exhibition area is 6300 square meters and the exhibition line is 2080 meters long. The museum has academic lecture hall, VIP Hall, collection room, book bar, mother and baby room and other supporting facilities. The academic lecture hall can be used for 200 people to hold meetings and other activities. The construction of Dafen art museum is an important cultural landmark to promote the international influence of "world oil painting · China Dafen".

brief introduction

Venue: Dafen Oil Painting Village, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Completed in 2007

Scale: 17000 square meters

Architects: Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan, Wang Hui

Dafen art museum is a three story public building, 90 meters long, 85 meters wide, 23.8 meters high and 4.5 meters high. Its functions are perfect, including underground parking lot, comprehensive conference hall, academic lecture hall, collection room and two large oil painting exhibition halls on the first floor, exhibition gallery and five relatively independent exhibition halls on the second floor, artist studio, coffee shop and small square on the roof on the third floor.

Dafen Art Museum has a total exhibition area of 6300 square meters and a total exhibition line of 887 meters. Among them, the exhibition hall on the first floor covers an area of 1800 square meters, with an exhibition line of 300 meters; the exhibition hall on the second floor covers an area of 4500 square meters, with an exhibition line of 587 meters, an exhibition gallery with an exhibition line of 210 meters, and an exhibition hall connecting area of 3600 square meters. The layout has not only the level of vertical height, but also the plane independence of five exhibition halls.

concept

The concept of interior space of Dafen art museum is the extension and internalization of the external architectural space, trying to explore and maintain the existence of "wonder" in every detail. On the functional level, in order to highlight the exhibits and weaken the space itself, the designers try to create a simple but not simple pure, quiet and Zen space atmosphere. Through the in-depth thinking of its own cultural characteristics, this paper expounds the visual value and ideological significance that this village art museum should give people. In 2008, Dafen art museum was selected as "the best public building" in China by business week / architecture record magazine.

exhibition

Dafen art museum holds more than 40 exhibitions every year, including the first Shenzhen Dafen international oil painting Biennale, national (Dafen) young and middle-aged oil painting exhibition, Hakka style oil painting exhibition, oil painting exhibition of teachers and students of Chinese art colleges, oil painting exhibition of Chinese contemporary female painters, beautiful blooming Dafen artists selected into national art works exhibition, Invitation Exhibition of Chinese contemporary oil painting masters, etc Including image brand exhibition, self planning exhibition, foreign exchange exhibition and foreign tour exhibition, etc., it attracts nearly 500000 visitors every year.

Dafen Art Museum constantly promotes local art and traditional culture, and creates the cultural brand of "Shenzhen Dafen international oil painting Biennale" with international influence. It adheres to innovation and constantly enriches its exhibition mode and academic proposition, so as to promote the development of Chinese contemporary art with greater openness.

Collection research

Since its establishment, according to its own characteristics and the long-term development goal of the museum, it has gradually formed a collection system and research direction of "Hakka cultural oil paintings and Chinese contemporary art". There are more than 900 works of art in the collection, including local Hakka culture theme oil paintings, local original oil paintings, national young and middle-aged oil paintings and foreign art works.

service

The art museum regularly holds "art lecture hall" public lecture, public education, sketching, exhibition explanation and other activities, and has a perfect and sound public service system of the art museum. In 2018, Dafen cultural volunteer team "Xiaofen team" was established. The volunteers of Dafen Art Museum provide public welfare cultural and artistic services and help for the society and others, and carry out various activities consultation and exhibition guidance for the audience.

Address: 7th floor, No.3, East 2nd Lane, laowei, Dafen Oil Painting Village, Buji Town

Longitude: 114.13792796503

Latitude: 22.609471666873

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