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The Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing (MoCA Beijing) is located at the Art Center Park, Da Xing Zhuang No. 500, Songzhuang Town, Beijing. The Art Center Park encompasses nearly fifty acres of creativity and activity space bringing forth a natural, quiet, and peaceful environment. MoCA Beijing is committed to the exchange and promotion of contempor... ary art. It was formed so as to develop the state of contemporary art in a systematic and extensive way focusing on academia, literature, and exhibitions to foster interaction and integration from multi perspectives and levels to cooperate with one another. Every year MoCA Beijing collaborates with other international museums and holds three to five exhibitions and a nomination show by independent curators. MoCA Beijing also organizes the collaboration of international artists and a platform for academic and information exchange. MoCA Beijing was originally founded as the Gallery for Works of Chinese Professional Painters and the Ammonal Gallery. In the early 1990s, this gallery was the first show for Chinese professional painters to exhibit their work and display non-mainstream culture...This first Chinese contemporary museum of art only existed for a mere 365 days; however, its spirit continued on for 7 years then ended as a exhibition show called ¡13 Chinese¡ in Hamburg. Initially, the Gallery for Works of Chinese Professional Painters and the Ammonal Gallery supported and organized the first exhibition of contemporary artists and front-line activities. In addition, they exhibited the works by various classical world masters: Salvador Dali, George Baselitz, Kiki Smith, and Rauschenberg. Currently MoCA Beijing has assisted in promoting various Chinese artists internationally. It has supported artists such as Shang Yang, Tan Ping, Monroe D, Zhang Fang Bai, He Ling, Ye Yongqing Xu Jiang, Liu Kuo-Sung, Marcus Lvpei Shields, Ahan Mohammed Abdallah, and Gerald Clem Herman Abbott. It has hosted curators and critics such as Li Xianting, Gao Minglu, Fan Di¡¯an, Feng Peng, ...Read More