Shanghai Himalayas Museum ( zh, 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆), formerly known as Shanghai Zendai MoMA (), is a privately funded, non-profit art institute in

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, China, focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and academic exchanges, established by the Shanghai Zendai Group in 2005. Shanghai Himalayas Museum is the main organizer of the inaugural edition of the Shanghai Project, a yearlong ideas platform co-directed by Yongwoo Lee and

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Shanghai Himalayas Museum

Located at the Himalayas Center, a landmark in Shanghai designed by

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, the new site of the museum was opened to public in 2012. Other than the main space in Pudong, the museum also has two branch spaces. Zendai Contemporary Art Space is located at Wuwei Creative Park in northeast Shanghai. Covering an area of 2,000sqm, the space consists of galleries and artist studios, and focuses on the study and exploration of experimental and

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art. Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum is located at

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town, a picturesque water-town suburb southeast of central Shanghai. Covering an area of 400sqm, the two-storey art museum consists of en-suite artist studios, galleries and a conference room. The space runs an artist-in-residence programme and organizes a variety of public art programmes targeting at local community.

Exhibitions

Since 2011, the museum has presented a series of international art projects including “Designing Design / The Exhibition of

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in China 2011”, “

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: Sculptures and Drawings”, Ink Art Exhibition Series, “Ateliers –

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Solo Exhibition” , 2014

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(China) Exhibition, solo exhibitions of

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and

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, and "Welcome to My Life - Moving Image from the Collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître".

References

External links

Shanghai Himalayas Museum website
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