| Shanghai Himalayas Museum | |
| Native Name: | 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆 |
| Native Name Lang: | Chinese |
| Former Name: | Shanghai Zendai MoMA |
| Location: | Pudong, Shanghai, China |
| Type: | Private art museum |
| Director: | Yongwoo Lee |
| Architect: | Arata Isozaki |
| Website: | www.himalayasmuseum.org |
Shanghai Himalayas Museum (Chinese: 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆), formerly known as Shanghai Zendai MoMA (Chinese: 上海证大现代艺术馆), is a privately funded, non-profit art institute in Pudong, Shanghai, China, focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and academic exchanges, established by the Shanghai Zendai Group in 2005.[1] 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 Hans-Ulrich Obrist.[2]
Located at the Himalayas Center, a landmark in Shanghai designed by Arata Isozaki, the new site of the museum was opened to public in 2012.[3]
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.[4] [5] Covering an area of 2,000sqm, the space consists of galleries and artist studios, and focuses on the study and exploration of experimental and avant-garde art. Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum is located at Zhujiajiao 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.[6]
Since 2011, the museum has presented a series of international art projects including “Designing Design / The Exhibition of Kenya Hara in China 2011”, “Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings”, Ink Art Exhibition Series, “Ateliers – Ofer Lellouche Solo Exhibition”, 2014 John Moores Painting Prize (China) Exhibition,[7] solo exhibitions of Sean Scully[8] and Michael Craig-Martin,[9] and "Welcome to My Life - Moving Image from the Collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître".