Yinchuan art town

The town integrates Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, International Artist Village, sculpture park, Art History Park, paddy field Park, fish pond wetland park, hele village, international school, etc.

Yinchuan art town

Yinchuan art town of Huaxia River map is a collection of Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, International Artist Village, sculpture park, Art History Park, paddy field Park, fish pond wetland park, hele village, international school and other places. In the next 10-15 years, it will develop into a sustainable art town with a population of about 80000, featuring art, ecology, culture and tourism, new agriculture and emerging industries.

geographical environment

Location context

Huaxia Hetu Yinchuan art town is located in 2nd Street, Yuyue South Street, Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China (two kilometers north of the intersection of Wangtong road and Binhe Avenue in Wangyuan town), Binhe Avenue in the East (West Bank of the Yellow River), Wangbin road in the South, lizhang highway in the West (under planning) and Qingyin Expressway in the north. It is 8 km away from Yinchuan City Center in the west, adjacent to Binhe new area, Hedong airport and airport logistics park across the Yellow River, and 30 km away from Ningdong energy and chemical industry base in the East. It is close to Qingyin expressway, Zhangzheng town and Yellow River Golf Resort, with Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park. The total area is about 18.8 square kilometers.

Climate and environment

Located in Yinchuan City, Huaxia Hetu Yinchuan art town has a typical continental semi humid and semi-arid climate. The rainy season is mainly from June to September. It is characterized by long winter cold, short summer heat, rare rain and snow, dry climate, strong wind and sand, cold in the South and warm in the North. Because the average altitude of Ningxia is more than 1000 meters, there is no intense heat in summer; the average temperature in January is below - 8 ℃, and the extreme low temperature is below - 22 ℃. The most remarkable characteristics of climate in Ningxia are: large diurnal temperature difference, long sunshine duration and strong solar radiation. The temperature difference between day and night in most areas can generally reach 12-15 ℃. The annual average temperature is between 5 ℃ and 9 ℃. The irrigated area and Guyuan area are high temperature area and low temperature area respectively.

topographic features

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is located in the northern part of the "north south axis" of Chinese geology and geomorphology, between the North China platform, Alxa platform and Qilian Mountain fold. The ecotone of Plateau and mountain area has complex geotectonics. From the west, north to the East, it is surrounded by Tengger Desert, Ulan Buhe desert and Mu Us sandy land, and connected with the Loess Plateau in the south. The terrain is long and narrow from north to south, high in the South and low in the north, large in the West and gentle in the East.

Development history

Under the guidance of the concept of symbiotic city of sustainable development, relying on the resource endowment of the base and international high-end cultural exchange activities, Huaxia Hetu takes the construction of cultural tourism project as an opportunity to build a pastoral ecological town full of vitality and vitality, which integrates human living environment and social life, and promotes the innovation and development of regional social culture.

Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum covers an area of about 5.81 hectares, with a construction area of about 15000 square meters. It started construction in September 2012 and opened on August 8, 2015. The total investment is about 349 million yuan (excluding collection investment). It will take oil paintings and arabic art of the late Qing Dynasty as its main collection, research and exchange features.

Yinchuan International Artist Village started construction in 2013, with Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum in the north, wetland park in the town center in the West and huinongqu ecological park in the East. It covers an area of 8.3 hectares, with a construction area of about 17897 square meters. It was completed in 2015 with a total investment of about RMB 327 million. The first phase of Yutang Wetland Park covers an area of 34.2 hectares, with a total investment of about RMB 166 million. Combined with the requirements of the protective planning for the southern area of Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park, the existing peripheral original wetlands and fish ponds in the base are sorted out and moderately transformed. Huinongqu Ecological Park Phase I covers an area of 16.9 hectares, with a total investment of about 70 million yuan. Through the connection of green ecological corridors such as water systems and roads, the urban ecosystem is incorporated into the whole regional ecosystem, forming a virtuous cycle of the whole ecosystem, and promoting the organic integration of the ecosystem within the planning scope and the regional ecosystem. Combining with the natural mechanism of water system, we can create rich water system space form.

Main attractions

Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum

Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum covers an area of about 5.81 hectares, with a construction area of about 15000 square meters. It started construction in September 2012 and opened on August 8, 2015, with a total investment of about 349 million yuan (excluding collection investment). It will be a non-profit public art museum supported by the people's livelihood culture foundation with the main features of collection, display, research and exchange of Chinese and Islamic contemporary art. Carrying the important functions of Ningxia's cultural and artistic development, international art exchange and literature construction, it will become one of the important cultural supporting facilities in the field of culture and art in Yinchuan.

International Artist Village

Yinchuan International Artist Village is adjacent to Yinchuan Art Museum, covering an area of 8.3 hectares, with a construction area of about 17897.75 m2. It was started in 2013 and completed in 2015, with a total investment of about RMB 327 million.

It is positioned as: a cultural and art settlement that cooperates with international famous art institutions and curators to hold art creation, academic exchange and exhibition activities for a long time. It is a place where young artists, curators and art institutions at home and abroad provide residence plans.

Yutang Wetland Park

The first phase of Yutang Wetland Park covers an area of 34.2 hectares, with a total investment of about RMB 166 million. Combined with the requirements of the conservation planning for the southern area of Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park, the existing peripheral original wetlands and fish ponds in the base will be sorted out and moderately transformed. It will become the area with the highest biodiversity and the most obvious wetland characteristics in Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park.

Huinongqu ecological park

Huinongqu Ecological Park Phase I covers an area of 16.9 hectares, with a total investment of about 70 million yuan. Through the connection of green ecological corridors such as water systems and roads, the urban ecosystem is incorporated into the whole regional ecosystem, forming a virtuous cycle of the whole ecosystem, and promoting the organic integration of the ecosystem within the planning scope and the regional ecosystem.

Sculpture Park

The sculpture park covers an area of about 7.71 hectares, with a total investment of about 136 million yuan. Combined with the creation and academic exchange activities of the artist village, it will become a cultural place to display contemporary sculpture, installation, landscape art works, and carry out large-scale outdoor festival performance activities.

Paddy field Park

The paddy field park will take the large-scale paddy field as the landscape texture, take the artistic ecology as the theme, and design the tourism products with strong participation and experience according to the local resources and market preference.

Cultural Activity

Press conference of Huanghe Yihui · Huaxia River Map

On May 17, 2012, the press conference of Huanghe Yihui · Huaxia River map was successfully held in Hong Kong.

Press conference of Yellow River Arts Centre-River Origins hold in Hong Kong on May 17th,2012.

International Symposium on "dimensions of civilization"

From September 19 to 20, 2014, Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum and Ningxia Minsheng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. jointly hosted the international academic seminar on "dimensions of civilization" in Yinchuan, Ningxia, with 45 experts, scholars and guests from six countries.

Yinchuan contemporary art museum opens exhibition

Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum opened on August 8, 2015, with "dimension of civilization" as its exhibition. It intends to reinterpret and discuss the positioning of cultural exchanges between the East and the West in the context of globalization by carrying out high-quality international cultural and artistic exchange activities. This exhibition will re-examine, exhibit and publish the beginning of cultural exchanges between China and the West from the perspective of art history, and promote a spiritual dialogue between China and the world under the integration of different cultures.

The exhibition is divided into five parts

1. "Visual adaptation" -- Exhibition of early Chinese foreign style paintings

2. "Outline of territory" -- Exhibition of historical collection map

3. Between East and West: Contemporary Art of China and Islam

4. "Extraordinary folk custom" -- Transformation of traditional elements in Contemporary Art

5. "Extraordinary Jordan" -- Jordan Contemporary Art Exhibition

6. "The story of the baby" -- the magic master of the mirror house

"Very addictive" International Animation Art Exhibition

Yinchuan International Animation Art Exhibition "very addictive - a further extension of the aesthetics of daily life" opened in Yinchuan contemporary art museum.

The exhibition is curated by Xie Suzhen, art director of Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, Su Puqi, curator of Fengjia Contemporary Art Museum in Taiwan, and Chieko kitade, curator of Kanazawa Art Museum in Japan. The exhibition shows the animation works of 41 artists from Taiwan, China, Japan and South Korea. All the paintings, sculptures, installations and videos are scattered in the four exhibition halls for viewers to experience and share the beauty of art.

"Yinchuan Biennale - images, super"

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