Posted on 11/26/2018
After more than three years of extraordinary effort, OPEN’s UCCA Dune Art Museum has at last been completed, opening to the public with its inaugural exhibition, After Nature, during a celebration held on October 13th. Commissioned by Aranya and operated by the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China’s leading independent contemporary art institution, the museum is a significant new destination in the Chinese art world.
Designed by OPEN’s founding partners LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing, the Dune Art Museum is simple, pure, and touching—a return to primal and timeless forms of space. Carved into a dune several meters high along a quiet beach in Qinhuangdao, the 930 square meter museum, whose rich program includes ten galleries and a café, gently disappears beneath the sand. Largely enveloped b...