Beijing Century Gallery·Can Art

Beijing Century Gallery, which is founded in 1992, is one of the professional galleries which operated and generalized the contemporary Chinese oil painting art the first in China. The gallery is worthy of the forerunner of the gallery industry. It has ever held the solo exhibitions of Cao Li and Qiao Xiaoguang and the associated exhibitions of Jin Shangyi, Liu Xiaodong, Xia Xing, Shi Liang, Chao Ge, Long Liyou, Li Yanzhou, Wang Huaiqing, Chen Yu, Wei Guangqing, Chen Qingqing, Kong Weimeng, Xu Xiaoyan, Sun Biao, Pan Yue and so on. In 1996, the gallery sponsored and hatched out the grand exhibition of "Recommencement" and made a great success. Since the gallery moved into the new site in Guan Yin Tang Art Avenue, it held the works exhibition of "Fifteen Years of Chinese Oil Painting form 1990 to 2005" in February, 2006, the "Soul Script-Contemporary Paper Works Exhibition of Qiao Xiaoguang" in April, 2006, the "Tension form the Wild" oil painting works exhibition of Guan Jian in June, 2006, the "Chaos-Solo Exhibition of Female Painter Jiang Congyi" in September, 2006 and the "As If Previous Generation-Photography Works Exhibition of Pan Yue", and all of them are successful in the market and acquired good remarks from the commentary circle.

Beijing Century Gallery mainly collects contemporary oil paintings, engravings and sculpture works, and most of the oil paintings are realism ones of the contemporary academic style, with representative painters of Wang Yidong, Yang Feiyun, Long Liyou, Shi Benming, Li Guijun, Shi Liang, Xia Xiaowan, Qiao Xiaoguang, Li Yanzhou, and so on. Besides, the gallery also pays attention to artists whose works bearing more contemporary styles, such as Jiang Congyi, Zhou Chunya, Sun Kan, Guan Jian,Pan Yue ,zhao Guangchen and so on. All of the works of the above mentioned artists represent the high-quality art level of Beijing Century Gallery. At the same time, the gallery endeavors to explore more young artists, who are talented and vigorous but unknown to public and undiscovered by the market and the art circle, and mobilize and make use of all effective propaganda measures and approaches to push their works to the frontier of the art market. Meanwhile the gallery is keeping close eyes on the changes and development of the markets of photography and sculpture works. As a bridge between artists and the market, Beijing Century Gallery will actively propagandize, generalize contemporary oil painters, photographers, print artists and sculptors, as well as their excellent works, and cooperate with all art expositions and all domestic and overseas binding companies to introduce them into the art market.

The Can Art, which is affiliated to Beijing Century Gallery and has an area of 700 square meters, will ceremoniously enter upon business in the 798 Art District of Beijing in the first half year of 2007, so as to push out more excellent contemporary artists and works.

With more powerful integrated strength and more professional and modern concept of art operation, the gallery will actively advance the favorable interaction between artists and collectors in China and overseas countries, so as to develop into a famous gallery and command the attention of the public.