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Beijing 798 Art Zone

Beijing 798 Art Zone Travel Guide

Beijing is not only a historical, but also a multicultural city. The 798 Art Zone is an influential creative cultural concentration area at home and abroad, while the Baigongfang is the "Living Museum" to appreciate Chinese traditional culture and art. In 2003, 798 Art Zone was appraised as one of 22 city art centers which represent culture best by Time.  
The area occupied by Beijing 798 Art Zone was once the place for Beijing North China wireless joint equipment factory (namely, 718 Joint Factory), which was designed and built by the experts of former G.D.R in the 1950s. The main characteristics of the factory's design genre named Bauhaus are meeting the practical demands, bringing the technical and aesthetic property of new materials and new structure into effect and designing simply and composing pictures vividly with flexibility. Visiting this area, you can appreciate the fantastic views consist of the mottled red-brick wall, scattered orderly industrial plants, crisscross pipelines, slogans of different ages on the wall…

The 798 Art Zone covers a total construction area of 230,000 square meters. It assemblies nearly 400 culture organizations including galleries, artists' private studios, cultural companies like animated cartoon, television media, publishing, design and consultation, which comes from France, Italy, Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Korea, China, China Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. For instance, the Pace Beijing is one of the excellent galleries in that zone.
 
Many important international art exhibitions, art activities and fashion shows which held there attract many worldwide political importance, movie stars and social celebrities. Since 2004, lots of celebrities have been to 798 Art Zone , including Prime Ministers from Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria, ex-prime minister from German (Schroeder), the president of European Union (Barroso), the queen of Belgium, wife of Annan, French ex-president Chirac's wife, Norway prime minister's wife and Belgium Crown Prince. Countless international big brands like Sony, Motorola, West Wasted, Dior, Omega, BMW, and Chinese Yahoo had made promotions there.

Every year, Beijing 798 Art Zone holds a series of international activities and attracts lots of famous artists and art organizations from domestic and abroad. The main ones are the Beijing 798 Art Festival (from the end of April to the end of May) and the Beijing 798 Creative Art Festival (from the end of September to the end of October).

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Take bus No.401, 405, 420, 988

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Every year, Beijing 798 Art Zone holds a series of international activities and attracts lots of famous artists and art organizations from domestic and abroad. The main ones are the Beijing 798 Art Festival (from the end of April to the end of May) and the Beijing 798 Creative Art Festival (from the end of September to the end of October).

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The gate of Beijing 798 Art Zone.

Gallery of Beijing 798 Art Zone: Beijing 798 Art Zone Photo-1, the gate of Beijing 798 Art Zone, Beijing Travel Guide

The gate of Beijing 798 Art Zone.

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Location of Beijing 798 Art Zone, Map of Beijing 798 Art Zone.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
Thorn Egg.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
The dwarfs Country.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
The Truck in the Wenchuan earthquake.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
Memory of childhood.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
Dragons have been dressed Chinese tunic suit.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
The matrix.

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Artwork in Beijing 798 Art Zone
Very poor handwriting.

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