798 District –Artist Galleries
| Provider | CTS (港中旅国际旅行社) |
Price : $ 55 UP
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| Code | SEP012 |
| Duration | 1 days |
| Departing city | Beijing |
| Destinations | Beijing, |
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Feature
798 used to be a factory area originally founded by the Democratic Republic of German in 1950’s as a help to the young communist country, China. In 1990’s it developed into a fashionable art area. This area of redecorated factories which, like New York’s SOHO, is full of new art galleries, bars and restaurants.
4 years’ after the new China was founded. Chinese Communist under the leadership of Chairman Mao decided to focus on the heavy industry. The location of today’s Beijing 798 art galleries was the address of 6 electron and telecom factories at that time, which were sponsored by Soviet and Germany. All those 6 factories were named with numbers as 718 unite factory because they belonged to military affairs.
Deputy Prime Minister of the East Germany came to China in person to support with techniques, experts and equipment to finish the giant project. A Germany architecture company was responsible for the building design. Under the influence of the nonobjectivism at that time, a new industrial arts and architecture style was born, called “Bauhaus School”. 718 unite factory was in Bauhaus style, the typical example of perfect combination with practicality and terseness. Anti-seismic Reinforcement was beyond 8 ML and all the north-toward windows would reflect the light.
Since 1990, most of military industries had converted into civil industries and the six factories formed up to Seven Star Group in 2000. Lots of workshops were left unused. In 2002, an American Robert, a Chinese art website maker, rented the 120 km2 dinning hall and reconstructed it as a shop with the base company behind. Some of Robert’s business partners were also attracted by the capacious room and low rent. More and more workshops were hired as studios or exhibition rooms. Some artists even settled down here as home. Thus, the art atmosphere was gradually strong. Van galleries, art studios, design companies, fashion shops and restaurants and bars sprung up like mushrooms.
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