Get To Know: Three Shadows Gallery
If you happen to be visiting the Caochangdi Art District in Beijing, be sure to look for the Three Shadows Photography Art Center. Since 2007, the gallery’s mission has been to produce educational programs, exhibitions, publications, and programs serve artists (such as residencies) that - and I quote from the website:
“• Explore and showcase contemporary Chinese photography
• Rediscover important photographic works from the past and give them the place they deserve in the history of photography in China
• Initiate a dialogue between China and the international art scene in order to establish China's presence in the global photography world
• Serve as an independent mechanism to introduce contemporary photography to the general public
• Influence and facilitate the development of China's contemporary photography”
There are two locations. One has 4600 square meters of space placed on 2600 square meters of landscape architecture that was designed by internationally known Ai Weiwei; the other spacious location was designed by Liu Na. Accompanying the exhibition spaces are what you would expect— libraries, classrooms, production equipment, a cafe, and a book store.
The gallery also organizes exhibitions, some of which are open to Chinese photographers from anywhere in the world, such as the annual “Three Shadows Photography Award” contest. The contest is intended to discover contemporary Chinese photography and then promote it to the world at large.
陈维，《新漆》，2017
摄影，收藏级喷墨打印，裱于铝塑板，硬化亚克力，150(H)*187.5(W)cm
图片由艺术家提供
Chen Wei, Fresh Paint (detail), 2017
Photography, Archival inkjet print, mounted on aluminum composite panel, toughened acrylic, 150(H)*187.5(W)cm, from the website showing exampled of works on exhibition