Shenzhen Art Museum Introduction

Shenzhen Art Museum, located inside the scenic areas of Donghu Park, Luohu district, Shenzhen, which was surrounded by rivers and mountains. Its predecessor was Shenzhen Exhibition Centre, which was established in 1976 and it is the earliest art exhibition institute in Shenzhen. After the Shenzhen special area was set up and had been approved by the government, it was changed the name as Shenzhen Art Museum in 1987. It is occupying an area of 5,500 sqm, the build-up area was 2,800 sqm, and the exhibition area was 1,200 sqm.

During the period of 30 years establishing, it is depending its advantages in geography that near Hongkong and Macau, held the forms of activities facilitating the art communication local and abroad. Since 2001, Shenzhen Art Museum had established the goal for “care the modern city arts, care the local arts”, which had been planning and holding the annually exhibition in order to push the development of local arts.

Now Shenzhen Arts Museum has collected 753 pieces of Chinese painting, 374 pieces of oil painting, 1084 pieces of engraving, and the sculptures, calligraphy, watercolor, cartoon, paper cutting works sum in 2,809 pieces. Its collection has a strong feature combining modern arts and local arts, especially the contemporary oil painting works have been formed a large scale.