M WOODS 798
Former munitions factory turned experimental museum for international contemporary art.
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This guide follows Lin Han and Wanwan Lei, a young couple barely into their twenties, who in 2014 turned a former munitions factory in Beijing's 798 art district into a museum with no state funding, naming it after Lin's mother. It traces how a year later a twenty-two-year-old collector, Michael Xufu Huang, joined them as a third founder, and the run of ambitious international and Chinese exhibitions, from Wolfgang Tillmans to virtual reality installations, that filled the raw industrial space. Look for the bare concrete and steel trusses still framing the galleries.
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