The Brief Introduction of Shangyuan Art Museum and Chinese Modern Architecture Art Museum
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In 2002, Xiaobei Cheng launched the project, building the museum and organizing artists, which
was finally completed after seven years. Now we believe that the musuem is one-of-a-kind in

the world for these reasons:
1、 Here we have gathered together the most distinguished contemporary artists in China,
including Canxue、Xichuan、Wenbo Sun、Jie Jiang Li Zeng,、
and invested more than 50 million RMB to establish one main exhibition center and more than
twenty studios for individual artists.

2、 We have a group of excellent architects,includin Yonghe Zhang、Jiakun Liu 、Wen-Andy、
Yan Qu、Dan Su、Wei Zhou,whose works are highly original and experimental,aiming
at a revolution of Chinese architects.

3、The artists themselves working together to make decisions for the museum in the
Art committee, the Architecture Committee, and the Service Center.

艺术管理委员会成员（按姓氏拼音字目排序）：
美术部 文学部
钱绍武——中央美术学院教授； 残 雪——中国著名作家、文论家。
田世信——中央美术学院教授； 崔卫平——批评家、北京电影学院教授；
刘 军——中央美院人文学院副院长； 胡续东——著名诗人、北京大学博士；
苏 丹——清华大学美术学院教授， 西 川——著名诗人；文论家；
景育民——天津美院雕塑系教授； 孙文波——著名诗人，文论家；
李天元——清华大学美术学院教授； 肖开愚——著名诗人；文论家；
徐唯辛——中国人民大学徐悲鸿美术学院教授； 唐晓渡——著名批评家；文论家；
岛 子——艺术批评家、清华大学教授 王家新——著名诗人；中国人民大学教授
丁 方——著名画家，南京大学教授。 臧 棣——著名诗人、北京大学博士；
……
Members of Art committee：Xie Chan、Pingxiang Deng、Daozi、Zhaotian He、Yan Huang、
Fangzhou Jia、Hao Jiang、Tao Jiang、Jie Jiang、Yuming Jing、Tianyuan Li、Xiangming Li、
Yaming Liu、Yan Qu、Shaowu Qian、Weiguang Shen、Wenbo Sun、Jian Shi、Dan Su、Xiaodu Tang、
Shixin Tian、Jiaxin Wang、Huaxiang Wang、Xichuan、Kaiyu Xiao、 Qi Yin、
yonghe Zang、 Di Zhang、Li Zeng
Planners for the art exhibition：Xianting Li、Minglu Gao、Xiaoshan Li、Zhengqin Gu、Zhijie Qiu、
Qi Zhu
Duties of the Art committee：
1、They are responsible for recommending the members who would work in the “art base”.
2、 They make the rules for the activities- of the museum——the rules that promote creativity,
poetic language and the freshness of the artists’real presense in the contemporary context.
3、
They make decisions for all the artistic activities and the artist name list(Including art work plan、
art academic exchange、subject dialogue and exhibition.);
4、 、
They are responsible to evaluate the works and activities,including table of contents of art
publication by Publicity Dep., to recommend the yearly name list of the artists, critical reviews
by the writers of the museuem);
5、They supervise the training and workshops of art in the Museum.
Members of the Architecture committee：Yan Qu、Jianming Meng、Dan Su、Fangzhou Jia、
Pingxiang Deng、Wen-Andy、Xiaobei Cheng
They make the rules for the buildings in Shangyuan art base and checked each building’s design
according to these rules;
They will eventually help found The Museum of Modern Chinese Architecture.
As a general mission, the art base will exerts its influence uopn the history of modern Chinese
art and culture. Xiaobei Cheng will write Shangyuan artist communities-constructing the story,a
repotage to retell the history of the founding of the musuem.

Shangyuan Museum of Art
China Modern Architect Museum

Total land area: 30000 m2
Building area：16000m2

Art Exchange Dep：
Exhibition area： 6000m2；Guest room and Restaurant area：3100m2。
Activities must be organized under the Art committee rules.
1、 Art Exhibition: The subjects and schemes would be submitted by the planners.
2、 To invite artists, writers and poets in the world come to visit the museum an exchange their
ideas and do research.
Open artists’ studios for visitors.
Every year, 5-10 foreign artists and 10 Chinese artists will be invited to make their works or
academic exchanges in Shangyuan Museum of Art. These artists should inform and confirm their
schedule with Our Museum in due course. We will provide their travel and accommodation fees.

Publicity Dep.
To communicate with international and domestic pressman. Art and culture communities,
Culture officers, Give publicities for each activity.
To organize the writers to hold “ Shangyuan Art critical Reviews”, and promote the artists works.
To enhance the power of Shangyuan art website.
Edit and Publish the art works timely.

Club and Business center
Facilities provided for artists: Apartment, bar and restaurants, business center
Organize auctions and exhibitions of art works, Art training and education,
International art works and education exchange.

Those twenties Buildings were designed by architects and the artists themselves, these buildings
were designed according to the features and characters of the hill and the land, those buildings
are expressing the unique concept of simplified and recreation which were not any simplified
copies from any Europeanize、ancient and folk styles.
As the founders of the museum, Xiaobei Chen and the artists have gone through all kinds of
difficulties in the past few years. Without their huge efforts it is unbelievable that they could
complete project to establish the art base with their limits resoucese.

Brief introduction of initiator Xiaobei Cheng
Xiaobei Cheng, female, writer, poet, and photographer. In the1980s when she was a doctor she
began to write poems and published “Love of life”“One stolen pen”“She runs in and out”；in 1997she began to write novel and published novel “Life nowhere”、“Are you crazy！”.

In 1987, She travelled to shoot pictures, starting from Chengdu to several revolutionary bases in
Sichuan, Shanbei Plateau, Shanxi, Gunsu, Ningxia and then she went to
Shanxi and Hebei and finally arrived in Beijing. She spent two months and took more than
10,000 photos. She created stories and long poems out of the rearrangement of the pictures,
among which “Season of Weeds” “I should sing” have been published in Youth and Qingnian
Wen Xue, searching for new expressions for literary art. Some of the works have been
exhibited worldwide and used as cover pages for books, journals and magazines. In 2006
she set the unit of “Photography Art” in “Shangyuan Art Museum Architecture action Art
exhibition”.