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Dashanzi 798 Art District – 798 Factory –Beijing For Art Lovers 大山子艺术区
Beijing is China’s most vibrant artistic hub – the place where avant-garde artists and curators rub shoulders with
international art dealers and critics. Works by leading artists, including Zeng Fengzhi, Yue Minjun, Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang
Xiaogang and other Chinese artists are fetching millions of dollars, and China displaced France in 2007 as the art world’s
third biggest auction market, after the United States and Britain. The epicenter of China’s Contemporary art world is the
798 Dashanzi Art District. It’s SoHo and Greenwich Village with Chinese characteristics. Since 2001, artists have
converted this cluster of abandoned Bauhaus-style factories into the country’s top studios and galleries. Alongside the
studios and galleries, there are also chic cafés, bars, and restaurants, and a growing number of small designer shops
and showrooms.
Travel Tips for 798 Art District
Galleries and Studios in 798 Art District
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,4.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798工厂内大山子艺术区
Phone.:010-6438-1784
Open Hours: 10am-6pm daily.
Website: www.798photogallery.com
Admission: Free
This cozy gallery is one of the most no-nonsense exhibition venues in Beijing. It is a split-level space with the gallery’s
permanent collection housed upstairs. Many shows here feature stunning black-and-white portraits of Chinese minorities.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, (opposite White Space),
Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7107; 010-6432-2624
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.redgategallery.com
Admission: Free
Red Gate was the first art gallery in Beijing. Its 798 location is reserved for riskier and potentially more controversial
shows. (UPDATE: Red Gate Gallery 798 location has been closed due to the financial crisis).
Red Gate Sister location in Chongwen District
Address: Dongbianmen Watchtower, Chongwenmen, Chongwen District
Phone: 010-525-1005
Open Hours: 10am-5pm daily
Admission: Free
Founded in 1991 by Australian Brain Wallace, Red Gate is arguably the best established gallery to be found in China.
Located in a 16th-century watchtower and offering a wide range of contemporary art idioms it is a must visit for any art
lover coming to the city.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Arts District ,4.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District
Phone.:010-8911-5762
Open Hours: Apr-Oct 10am-6:30pm Tue-Sun; Nov-Mar 10:30am-5:30pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.redt.net
Admission: Free
Red T not only exhibits art and organizes events but is also proving to be an important force in music, bringing Western
bands to Beijing. Brit Tasmin Roberts mixes it up by alternating shows by local artists with a smattering of international
types.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District , 4 Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号大山子艺术区内
Phone: 010-6437-6248,010-6438-4862
Hours: 10:30am-7:30pm
Transportation: Subway Line 2 or 13 or L1 at Dongzhimen, then City Bus 401 or 955
at Dashanzi Station; City Bus 401 or 402 or 405 or 973 or 813 at Dashanzi Station
Website: www.798space.com
The first gallery to open in Dashanzi, 798 Space is an avant-garde and trendy space that hosts high-level cultural,
artistic and commercial activities. It can hold more than 1000 guests with ease:1000 square meters and up to 9 meters
high structural exhibition space + 300 square meters relaxing and eating space + contemporary art book shop + film and
video showing area。 It is worth visiting for the spectacle of the cavernous main hall with its curious multiple-arched roof.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-2862
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.beijingcommune.com
Admission: Free
Leng Lin (冷林), who founded the space and organizes all of the shows here, is both an international art critic and a
curatorial whiz. Most of the shows here revolve tightly around a theme, which is a breath of fresh air in a city in which
many exhibitions are thrown up willy-nilly. Shows range from bizarre installation pieces to surreal videos to good old-
fashioned oil painting.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District , 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8457-3245
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.tokyo-gallery.com
Admission: Free
The first gallery to set up shop in 798, BTAP’s raw space was transformed into its current elegance by renowned
architect Ma Yansong. Previous shows have included installations that recreated a rural Chinese landscape with dirt
mounds, power-lines and billiard tables;
Sleek video performances set to lunge room cocktail music; as well as the latest efforts from Chinese and Japanese
animators.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6431-1900
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.artseasonsgallery.com
Admission: Free
Singapore-owned China Art Seasons is a collector’s favorite, and most of the shows feature the kind of work perfect for
the living room. Many of the artists showing in this elegant gallery space end up in the major galleries and auction
houses in the West.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-2421
Open Hours: 11am-7pm daily
Website: www.chinesecontemporary.com
Admission: Free
With locations in London and New York, Chinese Contemporary deals with some of China’s best-established
contemporary artist. One of its more recent claims to fame happened when artist Huang Rui (黄锐 ), a famous artistic
figure in China, was forced to remove one of the more controversial works from his solo exhibition. Entitled Chairman
Mao Ten Thousand Yuan (毛主席万圆), the work featured one hundred RMB 100 notes that formed the words ‘Long Live
Chairman Mao’.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Arts District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6432-1369
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.contrastsgallery.com
Admission: Free
Opened first in Shanghai by Hong Kong art collector Pearl lam, Contrasts Gallery is a new addition to the Beijing art
scene. Many of the works on show have a strong design element which segues into fine art.
Address: 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010- 8459-9316
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.faurschou.com
The Beijing branch of this Copenhagen-based gallery exhibits established artists from Asia and the West. It opened in
December of 2007 with a retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg's works on paper. Its highlights will include Andy Warhol
silkscreens during the Beijing Olympics and a Picasso exhibition in 2009.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, Rm. 8503 , 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6435-1005
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.galleriacontinua.com
Admission: Free
Galleria Continua made headlines in May 2005 when it became the first foreign gallery in Beijing to focus almost
exclusively on international artists. In addition to its periodic showing of Chinese artists, it regularly shows some of the
most renowned names on the global scene, including Daniel Burin, Anish Kapoor, Chen Zhen and Loris Cecchini.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8459-9335/9336
Open Hours: 10am-7pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.artside.org
Gallery Artside Map
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6433-4055
Open Hours: 10am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.marellabeijing.com
Admission: Free
Run by well-known critic and curator Eleanor Battiston, Marella was one of the first foreign galleries to highlight avant-
garde Chinese photography with exhibitions like ‘Out of the Red’.
Marella has recently moved.
New Address: N C01, Beigao, Cuigezhuang Country, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7107
Open Hours: 11am-7pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.longmarchspace.com
Admission: Free
One of the distinguishing features about New Long March Space, run by curator-organizer Lu Jie, is its heavy emphasis
on making sure that art make it to the masses. To that end, it has engaged in a series of projects aiming to make art
education – not just the art market – a topic of hot conversation in the Chinese community. The shows here often feature
artist interacting with the people of their hometowns and provinces. Many of the artists who show here, like painter Yang
Shaobin and video artist Wang Gongxing, may be educating the locals, but they are fetching hefty prices for their work
among international collectors as well.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Chinese Address: 酒仙桥路2号
Open Hours: 11am-7pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.pacebeijing.com
Pace Beijing was established in 2008 by PaceWildenstein, a leading New York art gallery
and is located in Beijing’s 798 Art District. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art in Asia,
presenting exhibitions by an international roster of artists including names like Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Huan, Chuck
Close, Jeff Koons, Alex Katz, Takashi Murakami, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Housed in a 1950s former factory, the
gallery is 22,000 square feet and designed by Richard Gluckman, a New York architect whose work includes the Andy
Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the recent expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Pace Beijing’s
inaugural exhibition Encounters made its debut in 798 Art Disctrict on August 2, 2008.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing,China
Phone.:010-8456-0591
Open Hours: 10am-6pm daily.
Website: www.stargallery.cn
Admission: Free
Founded by collector Fang Fang, the Star Gallery focuses on a generation of artists born in the 1970s. Collectively
called the Post-70s Generation, these young artists have been criticized for abandoning traditional Chinese symbols in
their art and for imitation Japanese animation. Many of the paintings are violent, cartoonish, highly sexual and meant to
express the alienation of young Chinese today. These self-styled Kurt Cobains of the Chinese art world have yet to find
favor with the Academy, but they are starting to attract the attention of collectors.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Open Hours: 12:00pm-6pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.alexanderochs-galleries.de
Admission: Free
Founded by German gallerist Alexander Ochs, White Space Beijing is a respected gallery in the city and has become an
enviable venue for both established and up-and-coming artists, who are often exhibited in Alexander Och’s gallery space
in Berlin.
White Space Beijing has moved to caochangdi, .
New address: No. 255 Caochangdi, Airport Service Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu,Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8459-9269
Open Hours: 10am-7pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.ucca.org.cn
Admission: RMB30(adult),RMB20(group of over 10),RMB10(student and senior aged 65 above and special needs), free
for childern under 1.3 m, free on Thursday
Add another must-see site to the list in rapidly modernizing Beijing. The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, founded by
Belgian art collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007, aims to be China’s most comprehensive institute for
contemporary arts. Their collection of around 1500 works by contemporary Chinese artists is considered to be the
world's largest and best. The museum’s spare galleries, exposed support beams, and 31-foot-high ceilings recall the
Bauhaus-style building’s original function as an electronics factory. It’s a natural fit for the 798 art district in Beijing’s
Dashanzi neighborhood.
Feng Ling is a young fashion designer whose work is displayed at her boutique, Tianzi, in the same building as White
Space. Trained as an artist, she has taken Mao suits and qipaos (traditional Chinese dresses) modern by emblazing
them with revolutionary symbols and daring colors. Her clothes are Sino Pop Art, and include items such as elegant linen
tunics printed with a phrase from a Mao Zedong poem. She also has a studio at Sanlitun (Tongli Studio, 010-6417-7715)
Dining options in 798 Art District
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7264
A fashionable cafe whose notable feature is a bare-brick dividing wall punctured by massive holes. At Cafe serves as the
unofficial canteen for the artists and gallery staff who work in the area.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6431-6214
This delightfully cozy cafe is owned by two European expats and serves up lattes in cups the size of your head. You will
love the fusion-style munchies, like the spinach and cheese dumpings.
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-4823
Specialized in Breton-style buckwheat crepes. It is lacated just around the corner from the China Art Seasons gallery.
Bookstores in 798 Art District
Address: Off Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi 798 Art District
Open: 10:30 am-7:30 pm Daily
Phone; 010-6438-4862, 010-6437-6248
798 Arts District in Dashanzi, just off Jiuxianqiao Lu on the eastside of the city, offers an unparalleled
opportunity to become familiar with Chinese contemporary art. Bookshops in the district may serve as
perfects gifts and reading material
Address: Dashanzi 798 art district, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Open: 10am-8pm Daily
Phone; 010-8456-0336
Owner: Robert Bernell
Website:www.timezone8.com
Crammed with glossy tomes, this is the place to come for books on contemporary art, architecture,
photography and design, as well as books on the history 798 itself. Here you’ll find the most up-to-date information on
the district’s art gallery openings and closings, and the area’s most current maps. It’s worth visiting here since things
change very quickly at danshanzi. An extension of the bookshop, Timezone 8 Editions, also serves as cafe, restaurant
and exhibition space, where film screening and author events occasionally take place.
Address: 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi art District, Chagyang District 北京市朝阳区大山子798艺术区D09-17号
Phone:010-6435-2584
Website (Chinese only) : cn.cansbook.com
Cans bookshop specialize in art books and have a good selection of Chinese and Western books.
Beijing is China’s most vibrant artistic hub – the place where avant-garde artists and curators rub shoulders with
international art dealers and critics. Works by leading artists, including Zeng Fengzhi, Yue Minjun, Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang
Xiaogang and other Chinese artists are fetching millions of dollars, and China displaced France in 2007 as the art world’s
third biggest auction market, after the United States and Britain. The epicenter of China’s Contemporary art world is the
798 Dashanzi Art District. It’s SoHo and Greenwich Village with Chinese characteristics. Since 2001, artists have
converted this cluster of abandoned Bauhaus-style factories into the country’s top studios and galleries. Alongside the
studios and galleries, there are also chic cafés, bars, and restaurants, and a growing number of small designer shops
and showrooms.
Travel Tips for 798 Art District
- The Dashazi compound is immensely walkable; keep in mind this is solely a pedestrian affair unless you arrive by
private car. Cabs are not allowed to enter the complex and you wil be required to disembark at any of the entrance
gates.
- Avoid the area on Mondays, when many of the galleries are closed.
Galleries and Studios in 798 Art District
- 798 Photo Gallery 百年印象摄影画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,4.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798工厂内大山子艺术区
Phone.:010-6438-1784
Open Hours: 10am-6pm daily.
Website: www.798photogallery.com
Admission: Free
This cozy gallery is one of the most no-nonsense exhibition venues in Beijing. It is a split-level space with the gallery’s
permanent collection housed upstairs. Many shows here feature stunning black-and-white portraits of Chinese minorities.
- 798 Red Gate Gallery 红门画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, (opposite White Space),
Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7107; 010-6432-2624
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.redgategallery.com
Admission: Free
Red Gate was the first art gallery in Beijing. Its 798 location is reserved for riskier and potentially more controversial
shows. (UPDATE: Red Gate Gallery 798 location has been closed due to the financial crisis).
Red Gate Sister location in Chongwen District
Address: Dongbianmen Watchtower, Chongwenmen, Chongwen District
Phone: 010-525-1005
Open Hours: 10am-5pm daily
Admission: Free
Founded in 1991 by Australian Brain Wallace, Red Gate is arguably the best established gallery to be found in China.
Located in a 16th-century watchtower and offering a wide range of contemporary art idioms it is a must visit for any art
lover coming to the city.
- 798 Red T Space 798红T空间
Address: Dashanzi 798 Arts District ,4.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District
Phone.:010-8911-5762
Open Hours: Apr-Oct 10am-6:30pm Tue-Sun; Nov-Mar 10:30am-5:30pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.redt.net
Admission: Free
Red T not only exhibits art and organizes events but is also proving to be an important force in music, bringing Western
bands to Beijing. Brit Tasmin Roberts mixes it up by alternating shows by local artists with a smattering of international
types.
- 798 Space (798 Shitai Kongjian, 798 时态空间)
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District , 4 Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号大山子艺术区内
Phone: 010-6437-6248,010-6438-4862
Hours: 10:30am-7:30pm
Transportation: Subway Line 2 or 13 or L1 at Dongzhimen, then City Bus 401 or 955
at Dashanzi Station; City Bus 401 or 402 or 405 or 973 or 813 at Dashanzi Station
Website: www.798space.com
The first gallery to open in Dashanzi, 798 Space is an avant-garde and trendy space that hosts high-level cultural,
artistic and commercial activities. It can hold more than 1000 guests with ease:1000 square meters and up to 9 meters
high structural exhibition space + 300 square meters relaxing and eating space + contemporary art book shop + film and
video showing area。 It is worth visiting for the spectacle of the cavernous main hall with its curious multiple-arched roof.
- Beijing Commune 北京公社
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-2862
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.beijingcommune.com
Admission: Free
Leng Lin (冷林), who founded the space and organizes all of the shows here, is both an international art critic and a
curatorial whiz. Most of the shows here revolve tightly around a theme, which is a breath of fresh air in a city in which
many exhibitions are thrown up willy-nilly. Shows range from bizarre installation pieces to surreal videos to good old-
fashioned oil painting.
- Beijing Tokyo Art Projects 北京东京艺术工程
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District , 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8457-3245
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.tokyo-gallery.com
Admission: Free
The first gallery to set up shop in 798, BTAP’s raw space was transformed into its current elegance by renowned
architect Ma Yansong. Previous shows have included installations that recreated a rural Chinese landscape with dirt
mounds, power-lines and billiard tables;
Sleek video performances set to lunge room cocktail music; as well as the latest efforts from Chinese and Japanese
animators.
- China Art Seasons 北京季节画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6431-1900
Open Hours: 10:30am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.artseasonsgallery.com
Admission: Free
Singapore-owned China Art Seasons is a collector’s favorite, and most of the shows feature the kind of work perfect for
the living room. Many of the artists showing in this elegant gallery space end up in the major galleries and auction
houses in the West.
- Chinese Contemporary 中国当代画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-2421
Open Hours: 11am-7pm daily
Website: www.chinesecontemporary.com
Admission: Free
With locations in London and New York, Chinese Contemporary deals with some of China’s best-established
contemporary artist. One of its more recent claims to fame happened when artist Huang Rui (黄锐 ), a famous artistic
figure in China, was forced to remove one of the more controversial works from his solo exhibition. Entitled Chairman
Mao Ten Thousand Yuan (毛主席万圆), the work featured one hundred RMB 100 notes that formed the words ‘Long Live
Chairman Mao’.
- Contrasts Gallery
Address: Dashanzi 798 Arts District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6432-1369
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.contrastsgallery.com
Admission: Free
Opened first in Shanghai by Hong Kong art collector Pearl lam, Contrasts Gallery is a new addition to the Beijing art
scene. Many of the works on show have a strong design element which segues into fine art.
- Faurschou Beijing 林冠画廊
Address: 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010- 8459-9316
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.faurschou.com
The Beijing branch of this Copenhagen-based gallery exhibits established artists from Asia and the West. It opened in
December of 2007 with a retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg's works on paper. Its highlights will include Andy Warhol
silkscreens during the Beijing Olympics and a Picasso exhibition in 2009.
- Galleria Continua 北京常青画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, Rm. 8503 , 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6435-1005
Open Hours: 11am-6pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.galleriacontinua.com
Admission: Free
Galleria Continua made headlines in May 2005 when it became the first foreign gallery in Beijing to focus almost
exclusively on international artists. In addition to its periodic showing of Chinese artists, it regularly shows some of the
most renowned names on the global scene, including Daniel Burin, Anish Kapoor, Chen Zhen and Loris Cecchini.
- Gallery Artside 北京阿特塞帝画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8459-9335/9336
Open Hours: 10am-7pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.artside.org
Gallery Artside Map
- Marella Gallery 玛蕊乐画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6433-4055
Open Hours: 10am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.marellabeijing.com
Admission: Free
Run by well-known critic and curator Eleanor Battiston, Marella was one of the first foreign galleries to highlight avant-
garde Chinese photography with exhibitions like ‘Out of the Red’.
Marella has recently moved.
New Address: N C01, Beigao, Cuigezhuang Country, Chaoyang District, Beijing
- New Long March Space 长征空间
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7107
Open Hours: 11am-7pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.longmarchspace.com
Admission: Free
One of the distinguishing features about New Long March Space, run by curator-organizer Lu Jie, is its heavy emphasis
on making sure that art make it to the masses. To that end, it has engaged in a series of projects aiming to make art
education – not just the art market – a topic of hot conversation in the Chinese community. The shows here often feature
artist interacting with the people of their hometowns and provinces. Many of the artists who show here, like painter Yang
Shaobin and video artist Wang Gongxing, may be educating the locals, but they are fetching hefty prices for their work
among international collectors as well.
- Pace Beijing 佩斯北京画廊
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District ,2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Chinese Address: 酒仙桥路2号
Open Hours: 11am-7pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.pacebeijing.com
Pace Beijing was established in 2008 by PaceWildenstein, a leading New York art gallery
and is located in Beijing’s 798 Art District. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art in Asia,
presenting exhibitions by an international roster of artists including names like Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Huan, Chuck
Close, Jeff Koons, Alex Katz, Takashi Murakami, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Housed in a 1950s former factory, the
gallery is 22,000 square feet and designed by Richard Gluckman, a New York architect whose work includes the Andy
Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the recent expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Pace Beijing’s
inaugural exhibition Encounters made its debut in 798 Art Disctrict on August 2, 2008.
- Star Gallery
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2.Jiuxianqiao Road,Chaoyang District,Beijing,China
Phone.:010-8456-0591
Open Hours: 10am-6pm daily.
Website: www.stargallery.cn
Admission: Free
Founded by collector Fang Fang, the Star Gallery focuses on a generation of artists born in the 1970s. Collectively
called the Post-70s Generation, these young artists have been criticized for abandoning traditional Chinese symbols in
their art and for imitation Japanese animation. Many of the paintings are violent, cartoonish, highly sexual and meant to
express the alienation of young Chinese today. These self-styled Kurt Cobains of the Chinese art world have yet to find
favor with the Academy, but they are starting to attract the attention of collectors.
- White Space Beijing 空白空间
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Open Hours: 12:00pm-6pm Tue-Sun
Website: www.alexanderochs-galleries.de
Admission: Free
Founded by German gallerist Alexander Ochs, White Space Beijing is a respected gallery in the city and has become an
enviable venue for both established and up-and-coming artists, who are often exhibited in Alexander Och’s gallery space
in Berlin.
White Space Beijing has moved to caochangdi, .
New address: No. 255 Caochangdi, Airport Service Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). 尤伦斯当代艺术中心
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu,Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8459-9269
Open Hours: 10am-7pm Tue-Sun.
Website: www.ucca.org.cn
Admission: RMB30(adult),RMB20(group of over 10),RMB10(student and senior aged 65 above and special needs), free
for childern under 1.3 m, free on Thursday
Add another must-see site to the list in rapidly modernizing Beijing. The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, founded by
Belgian art collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007, aims to be China’s most comprehensive institute for
contemporary arts. Their collection of around 1500 works by contemporary Chinese artists is considered to be the
world's largest and best. The museum’s spare galleries, exposed support beams, and 31-foot-high ceilings recall the
Bauhaus-style building’s original function as an electronics factory. It’s a natural fit for the 798 art district in Beijing’s
Dashanzi neighborhood.
- Tianzi
Feng Ling is a young fashion designer whose work is displayed at her boutique, Tianzi, in the same building as White
Space. Trained as an artist, she has taken Mao suits and qipaos (traditional Chinese dresses) modern by emblazing
them with revolutionary symbols and daring colors. Her clothes are Sino Pop Art, and include items such as elegant linen
tunics printed with a phrase from a Mao Zedong poem. She also has a studio at Sanlitun (Tongli Studio, 010-6417-7715)
Dining options in 798 Art District
- At Café (Aite Kafei)
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6438-7264
A fashionable cafe whose notable feature is a bare-brick dividing wall punctured by massive holes. At Cafe serves as the
unofficial canteen for the artists and gallery staff who work in the area.
- Cafe Pause
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-6431-6214
This delightfully cozy cafe is owned by two European expats and serves up lattes in cups the size of your head. You will
love the fusion-style munchies, like the spinach and cheese dumpings.
- #6 Sichuan Restaurant
- Vincent Cafe 北京季节咖啡店
Address: Dashanzi 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Phone: 010-8456-4823
Specialized in Breton-style buckwheat crepes. It is lacated just around the corner from the China Art Seasons gallery.
- Jiang Hu Club
Bookstores in 798 Art District
- 798 Art Bookshop
Address: Off Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi 798 Art District
Open: 10:30 am-7:30 pm Daily
Phone; 010-6438-4862, 010-6437-6248
798 Arts District in Dashanzi, just off Jiuxianqiao Lu on the eastside of the city, offers an unparalleled
opportunity to become familiar with Chinese contemporary art. Bookshops in the district may serve as
perfects gifts and reading material
- Timezone 8 Art Books 现代书店艺术书屋
Address: Dashanzi 798 art district, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
Open: 10am-8pm Daily
Phone; 010-8456-0336
Owner: Robert Bernell
Website:www.timezone8.com
Crammed with glossy tomes, this is the place to come for books on contemporary art, architecture,
photography and design, as well as books on the history 798 itself. Here you’ll find the most up-to-date information on
the district’s art gallery openings and closings, and the area’s most current maps. It’s worth visiting here since things
change very quickly at danshanzi. An extension of the bookshop, Timezone 8 Editions, also serves as cafe, restaurant
and exhibition space, where film screening and author events occasionally take place.
- Cans Bookshop 798 罐子书屋
Address: 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi art District, Chagyang District 北京市朝阳区大山子798艺术区D09-17号
Phone:010-6435-2584
Website (Chinese only) : cn.cansbook.com
Cans bookshop specialize in art books and have a good selection of Chinese and Western books.
Location Map of Beijing 798 Art Zone - Dashanzi 798 Art District
北京798艺术区旅游攻略
在北京的东北角，有一个以上个世纪50年代建成的工厂命名的艺术区，这就是798艺术区。它位于北京朝阳区酒仙桥街道大山子地
区，故又称大山子艺术区(英文简称DAD-Dashanzi Art District)，原为原国营798厂等电子工业的老厂区所在地。此区域西起酒仙桥
路，东至京包铁路、北起酒仙桥北路，南至将台路，面积60多万平方米。
798的历史沿革
798区所在的地方，是前民主德国援助建设的“北京华北无线电联合器材厂”，即718联合厂。718联合厂于1952年开始筹建，1954
年开始土建施工，1957年10月开工生产。
718联合厂是由德国德绍一家建筑机构负责建筑设计、施工，这家建筑机构和当年的包豪斯学校在同一个城市，两者在建筑精神层
面上是共通的。其主要特点是：注重满足实用要求;发挥新材料和新结构的技术性能和美学性能;造型简洁，构图灵活多样。这种学派后
来被称为包豪斯学派。
1964年4月上级主管单位撤消了718联合厂建制，成立了706厂、707厂、718厂、797厂、798厂及751厂。 2000年12月，原700
厂、706厂、707厂、718厂、797厂、798厂等六家单位整合重组为北京七星华电科技集团有限责任公司。为了配合大山子地区的规划
改造，七星集团将部分产业迁出，为了有效利用产业迁出空余的厂房，七星集团将这部分闲置的厂房进行出租。因为园区有序的规
划、便利的交通、风格独特的包豪斯建筑等多方面的优势，吸引了众多艺术机构及艺术家前来租用闲置厂房并进行改造，逐渐形成了
集画廊、艺术工作室、文化公司、时尚店铺，于一体的多元文化空间。由于艺术机构及艺术家最早进驻的区域位于原798厂所在地，因
此这里被命名为北京798艺术区。
目前叫798艺术区的这片厂区，是原电子工业部所属706、707、718、751、797、798等6个厂的区域范围。从50年代末到 1964
年，这个区域曾经叫做“718联合厂”，全称为“国营北京华北无线电器材联合厂”。上说的6个厂是联合厂的分厂。1964年，这6个厂开始
独立经营，由联合厂一家一下改变为6个厂，直到2001年。2001年，除了751厂以外的5个厂与华融资产公司(控股)与751厂联合组成
七星华电集团，统一管理这片区域。
从2001年开始，来自北京周边和北京以外的艺术家开始集聚798厂，他们以艺术家独有的眼光发现了此处对从事艺术工作的独特
优势。他们充分利用原有厂房的风格(德国包豪斯建筑风格)，稍作装修和修饰，一变而成为富有特色的艺术展示和创作空间。现今798
已经引起了国内外媒体和大众的广泛关注，并已成为了北京都市文化的新地标。
798旅游攻略
798虽然偏僻，但交通方便。开车走四环路，在大山子环岛上酒仙桥路，然后从酒仙桥路2号入口或酒仙桥路4号入口进入798，在
厂子里可找个安全地方停车。坐公车有401，402、418、420，405，909，955，991，988，445，。注意，出租车不让进厂，天黑
后厂区照明昏暗。
798走一圈下来二十分钟，方圆一平方公里现在有一百多家文化机构，包括出版，建筑设计，服装设计，室内家居设计，音乐演
出，影视播放，艺术家工作室等。除了画廊，还有酒吧，餐馆，服装店，书店，瑜珈中心……应有尽有。这里选择很多，光餐馆就有
法国的，意大利的，还有川菜。游客可以在画廊或酒吧买张艺术区导览图，或干脆自己随意逛。
从酒仙桥4号大门进来直走，看到大山子艺术区的大牌子，就到了艺术区的主体。这里一个通道在艺术区很出名，大山子艺术区的
雏形就在这里产生。
798部分景点
百年印象摄影画廊(中国)
传统前卫等不同种类照片，大多数照片是老板陈光俊自己冲洗制作。这里一些展览平时很难看到，如希望工程解海龙个展刚刚结
束。
798时态空间(中国)
出租空间给新闻发布会和服装发布会等活动，也有以装置为主的展览。这里的房顶为独特的锯齿弧形，是50年前东德人设计监制
的包豪斯建筑，这种风格在德国也已不多见了。
北京东京艺术工程(日本)
艺术区第一个画廊。以当代艺术为主。
天下盐(中国)
川菜地道，直接从四川小地方请来的厨师，没经过大城市的雕琢，怪味鸭是拿手菜。
AT CAFE(中国)
黄锐的咖啡店，他说这里特色是意大利咖啡，比星巴克强多了。比萨、三明治不错。建筑风格突出厂房原貌。
七酒吧料阁子(中国)
重要当代艺术家毛栗子所开，如果你有感触，还可以在墙板留言。著名当代艺术家张小涛，陈文波，彭禹，孙原，庆庆，白宜
洛，苍鑫，付磊，马树青，邢俊勤等工作室汇聚于此。
二万五千里长征文化传播中心(中国)
著名当代艺术家卢杰，这里记录了他早期做过的一个活动：带领许多艺术家沿长征的路线与当地艺术家交流。大部分路线现已走
完。这里民间艺术展很有意思，像陕西的剪纸老艺人高凤莲的作品满墙全是。
西苑雅集画廊(中国)
传统画为主，中国老画复制做得非常好。
北京季节咖啡店(VINCENT CAFE)(法国)
艺术区最值得去的法国家庭式小酒店。店主法国人温森曾在北京一家著名法国餐厅当总经理。他十五岁起在法国巴黎学习烹饪和
管理。这里法国煎饼很地道，可以放肉和菜，也可以放冰激凌和水果。温森做的SHOOTER特别好，就是把三种酒调在一个小杯，一
口干下去。温森人特有意思，他想对来的人说：“我们只有一生，必须试着每天都快乐。
仁俱乐部(中国)
会员制，有音乐会等活动。
798还有很多值得挖掘和探索的艺术之处，你只能亲身体验才能感觉，那里的艺术气息。
在北京的东北角，有一个以上个世纪50年代建成的工厂命名的艺术区，这就是798艺术区。它位于北京朝阳区酒仙桥街道大山子地
区，故又称大山子艺术区(英文简称DAD-Dashanzi Art District)，原为原国营798厂等电子工业的老厂区所在地。此区域西起酒仙桥
路，东至京包铁路、北起酒仙桥北路，南至将台路，面积60多万平方米。
798的历史沿革
798区所在的地方，是前民主德国援助建设的“北京华北无线电联合器材厂”，即718联合厂。718联合厂于1952年开始筹建，1954
年开始土建施工，1957年10月开工生产。
718联合厂是由德国德绍一家建筑机构负责建筑设计、施工，这家建筑机构和当年的包豪斯学校在同一个城市，两者在建筑精神层
面上是共通的。其主要特点是：注重满足实用要求;发挥新材料和新结构的技术性能和美学性能;造型简洁，构图灵活多样。这种学派后
来被称为包豪斯学派。
1964年4月上级主管单位撤消了718联合厂建制，成立了706厂、707厂、718厂、797厂、798厂及751厂。 2000年12月，原700
厂、706厂、707厂、718厂、797厂、798厂等六家单位整合重组为北京七星华电科技集团有限责任公司。为了配合大山子地区的规划
改造，七星集团将部分产业迁出，为了有效利用产业迁出空余的厂房，七星集团将这部分闲置的厂房进行出租。因为园区有序的规
划、便利的交通、风格独特的包豪斯建筑等多方面的优势，吸引了众多艺术机构及艺术家前来租用闲置厂房并进行改造，逐渐形成了
集画廊、艺术工作室、文化公司、时尚店铺，于一体的多元文化空间。由于艺术机构及艺术家最早进驻的区域位于原798厂所在地，因
此这里被命名为北京798艺术区。
目前叫798艺术区的这片厂区，是原电子工业部所属706、707、718、751、797、798等6个厂的区域范围。从50年代末到 1964
年，这个区域曾经叫做“718联合厂”，全称为“国营北京华北无线电器材联合厂”。上说的6个厂是联合厂的分厂。1964年，这6个厂开始
独立经营，由联合厂一家一下改变为6个厂，直到2001年。2001年，除了751厂以外的5个厂与华融资产公司(控股)与751厂联合组成
七星华电集团，统一管理这片区域。
从2001年开始，来自北京周边和北京以外的艺术家开始集聚798厂，他们以艺术家独有的眼光发现了此处对从事艺术工作的独特
优势。他们充分利用原有厂房的风格(德国包豪斯建筑风格)，稍作装修和修饰，一变而成为富有特色的艺术展示和创作空间。现今798
已经引起了国内外媒体和大众的广泛关注，并已成为了北京都市文化的新地标。
798旅游攻略
798虽然偏僻，但交通方便。开车走四环路，在大山子环岛上酒仙桥路，然后从酒仙桥路2号入口或酒仙桥路4号入口进入798，在
厂子里可找个安全地方停车。坐公车有401，402、418、420，405，909，955，991，988，445，。注意，出租车不让进厂，天黑
后厂区照明昏暗。
798走一圈下来二十分钟，方圆一平方公里现在有一百多家文化机构，包括出版，建筑设计，服装设计，室内家居设计，音乐演
出，影视播放，艺术家工作室等。除了画廊，还有酒吧，餐馆，服装店，书店，瑜珈中心……应有尽有。这里选择很多，光餐馆就有
法国的，意大利的，还有川菜。游客可以在画廊或酒吧买张艺术区导览图，或干脆自己随意逛。
从酒仙桥4号大门进来直走，看到大山子艺术区的大牌子，就到了艺术区的主体。这里一个通道在艺术区很出名，大山子艺术区的
雏形就在这里产生。
798部分景点
百年印象摄影画廊(中国)
传统前卫等不同种类照片，大多数照片是老板陈光俊自己冲洗制作。这里一些展览平时很难看到，如希望工程解海龙个展刚刚结
束。
798时态空间(中国)
出租空间给新闻发布会和服装发布会等活动，也有以装置为主的展览。这里的房顶为独特的锯齿弧形，是50年前东德人设计监制
的包豪斯建筑，这种风格在德国也已不多见了。
北京东京艺术工程(日本)
艺术区第一个画廊。以当代艺术为主。
天下盐(中国)
川菜地道，直接从四川小地方请来的厨师，没经过大城市的雕琢，怪味鸭是拿手菜。
AT CAFE(中国)
黄锐的咖啡店，他说这里特色是意大利咖啡，比星巴克强多了。比萨、三明治不错。建筑风格突出厂房原貌。
七酒吧料阁子(中国)
重要当代艺术家毛栗子所开，如果你有感触，还可以在墙板留言。著名当代艺术家张小涛，陈文波，彭禹，孙原，庆庆，白宜
洛，苍鑫，付磊，马树青，邢俊勤等工作室汇聚于此。
二万五千里长征文化传播中心(中国)
著名当代艺术家卢杰，这里记录了他早期做过的一个活动：带领许多艺术家沿长征的路线与当地艺术家交流。大部分路线现已走
完。这里民间艺术展很有意思，像陕西的剪纸老艺人高凤莲的作品满墙全是。
西苑雅集画廊(中国)
传统画为主，中国老画复制做得非常好。
北京季节咖啡店(VINCENT CAFE)(法国)
艺术区最值得去的法国家庭式小酒店。店主法国人温森曾在北京一家著名法国餐厅当总经理。他十五岁起在法国巴黎学习烹饪和
管理。这里法国煎饼很地道，可以放肉和菜，也可以放冰激凌和水果。温森做的SHOOTER特别好，就是把三种酒调在一个小杯，一
口干下去。温森人特有意思，他想对来的人说：“我们只有一生，必须试着每天都快乐。
仁俱乐部(中国)
会员制，有音乐会等活动。
798还有很多值得挖掘和探索的艺术之处，你只能亲身体验才能感觉，那里的艺术气息。
