Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

UCCA Ullens Contemporary Art Center is a well-known contemporary art organization in China. Adhering to the concept of "art can go deep into life and cross the border", UCCA brings art exhibitions, public projects and research plans to more than one million audiences every year.

UCCA Beijing main hall is located in the core area of 798 Art District, covering an area of about 10000 square meters. Its original site is a factory building built in 1957. In 2019, the renovation of the venue designed by the Netherlands metropolitan Architects (OMA) was completed. Designed by open architects, UCCA dune art museum is located in Anaya community on the Bohai Coast of Beidaihe.

UCCA's commercial sector includes retail platform UCCA store, UCCA children's Art Center and UCCA lab's off-site cooperation projects. UCCA opened in 2007 and completed its restructuring and transformation in 2017 with the support of a group of domestic and foreign directors.

essential information

Chinese Name: UCCA Ullens Contemporary Art Center

UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Floor area: 8000 square meters

Address: 798 Art District, Beijing

Time of establishment: November 2007

Visiting time: 10:00-19:00 from Monday to Sunday (different exhibitions have corresponding adjustment)

Site space

UCCA covers a total area of 8000 square meters, with a large exhibition hall of 1800 square meters and several other exhibition halls of different sizes, a lecture hall that can accommodate 150 people and is equipped with film projection and simultaneous interpretation equipment, an art shop, a coffee shop, a children's education center with eight classrooms and other public facilities that can be used for parties, conferences and various brand activities Common space.

In 2018, UCCA will comprehensively upgrade the architectural space. This transformation will consolidate and expand the existing exhibition space, making UCCA present a new look to the public. During the year-round renovation process, UCCA has built a new exhibition hall to show the works of young artists, restored its iconic large exhibition hall to its original size and scale, built new space to accommodate the lobby, exhibition hall, children's education space, shops and cafes, and opened up an open exhibition space for semi permanent exhibition works.

academic research

Since its establishment, UCCA has been insisting on academic research and publishing art publications. UCCA publications are born from exhibitions and make important contributions to academic discussions centered on curation and criticism.

In 2018, as one of the development priorities of UCCA foundation, the publishing team will develop into a full-scale research department. The key work of the new team includes a series of academic projects around the UCCA exhibition, as well as the centralized arrangement of the ten-year historical exhibition data files of the institution, so as to make it easy for students and researchers to obtain online information. UCCA plans to set up a library and research space in the library in 2019 to display large-scale paper and electronic materials on UCCA institutional history, Chinese contemporary art and art in broad sense.

Public projects

UCCA organizes a series of public projects and activities, including talks, forums, shows, performances, workshops, art festivals, community initiatives and so on, aiming to turn the institution into an open art classroom and provide opportunities for the public to feel and understand contemporary art in close range.

Cultural Activity

In 2018, UCCA planned and held a series of cross-border cultural festivals, covering a variety of themes in different fields, including contemporary art, performance and screen art, history, literature, popular culture, science and technology, etc. From February 2 to February 4, 2018, "context: UCCA Early Spring Art Week" opened the prelude of the cultural festival series. The UCCA film project in 2018 includes drama screenings produced live by the National Theatre of the UK, as well as CNEX documentary screenings by emerging Asian directors and the European Union Film Festival.

Service Items

UCCA children

UCCA children (UCCA kids) is an art museum education program for children aged 2-8. The project mainly includes: Art Workshop and art growth class around the exhibition of the art museum, and at least two children's art exhibitions with the theme of "children · great artists" in a year.

UCCA store

Since its establishment in 2007, UCCA store has been adhering to the concept of "art into life". There are bookstores and art spaces in the store, presenting limited edition works of art, original designs, furniture, limited edition books and limited designs around the exhibition for a long time.

UCCA Lab

The public theme Salon of the second Audi art and Design Award in 2013, the exhibition of 35 Chinese contemporary artists in 2015 "certainly not right, but that's it", and the work exhibition of "volume Studio: Zhu Zheqin's sound works No. 05 - for the book of heaven" created by musician Zhu Zheqin Dadawa for Xu Bing's solo exhibition in 2018.

Management team

Curator of UCCA

Philip Tinari, director of UCCA, is a curator, critic and art historian in the field of Chinese contemporary art. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University, a master's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and a doctorate in art history from Oxford University.

The Ullens Foundation

UCCA foundation is a non-profit entity. Its main business includes UCCA exhibitions, public projects, community services, academic research and development. The foundation adopts the compound financing mode, including exhibition ticket income, member income, enterprise and individual sponsorship, etc;

In 2012, the UCCA Council was formally established, gathering a group of core groups mainly Chinese collectors to continue to provide support for the operation of UCCA. In 2018, the foundation's individual sponsored projects will be reorganized and upgraded, with the addition of a board of directors and other directors with both management and supervision functions.

Art Exhibition

Xie Nanxing: Spices

March 17 - May 27, 2018

"Xie Nanxing: spices" shows seven new oil paintings created by artists in recent two years.

Sarah Morris: Odyssey

Exhibition hall March 24 - June 17, 2018

Sarah Morris (born in England in 1967, now working and living in New York) uses oil painting and video to explore what she calls "typology of city, society and bureaucracy".

Xu Bing: thoughts and methods

21 July - 18 October 2018

The exhibition is jointly planned by Tian Feiyu, curator of UCCA's Ullens Contemporary Art Center, and guest curator Feng Boyi.

"New trend" series -- Young Artists Series

The "new trend" series was founded in 2015 to provide a platform for potential Chinese artists to hold their first institutional solo exhibition and publish their first monograph. The project continues UCCA's consistent exhibition vision: dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of emerging art practice, and aims to show the richness and complexity of Chinese new art tendency with a series of individual overall appearance.

New trend: Zhang Yunhan March 24 - May 27, 2018

New trend: Yang Luzi June 9 - August 12, 2018

New trend: Zhiying August 24 - October 28, 2018

development history

UCCA established

In November 2007, after two years of renovation, UCCA Ullens Contemporary Art Center was completed in 798 Art District.

In November 2007, UCCA officially opened in 798, with Fei Dawei as the curator, launching the opening exhibition "85 new trend: China's first contemporary art movement". At the same time, UCCA art store (uccat) was set up.

In April 2008, the public project Department of UCCA was formally established to popularize contemporary art and culture to the public;

In March 2014, "UCCA creative exploration zone" was officially opened. Located in the lobby area of UCCA, it is an art education project for children and families;

In August, 2014, the UCCA Ullens Contemporary Art Center sponsored Council tour was held.

In November, the 2014 UCCA celebration was held.

In August, 2015, UCCA eurrance Contemporary Art Center sponsored Council tour was held.

In 2016, UCCA's sponsorship Council tour was held in Paris.

In October, on the 10th anniversary of the founding of UCCA, the agency announced new investments