木木美术馆 M WOODS

木木美术馆(M WOODS)是由收藏家林瀚、雷宛萤(晚晚)夫妇和黄勖夫共同创立的民营非营利艺术机构。

美术馆艺术项目主要依托美术馆馆藏——涵盖从古代到当代不限时代、地域、媒介的艺术品。在致力于强调艺术普世性的同时,探寻艺术的纯粹性及恒久性,探索并诠释美术馆的当代性和当代职责。

木木美术馆的 “FAT” 展览和收藏理念,将在无时间维度(timeless)中,搜寻如炼金术般(alchemical)由不分明的物质凝炼成的真实灵性,最终,成全人和艺术向自由(free)的临近。

除艺术展览之外,木木美术馆将向公众定期开展系列论坛讲座、艺术活动和电影放映等公共教育项目,推动艺术在公众中的普及与传播。

2015年,木木美术馆由经北京市文化局和北京市民政局批准,正式成为 “非营利艺术机构” ,并将持续在公众文化服务上做出贡献。

 

M WOODS is an independent, not-for-profit art museum founded in 2014 by collectors Lin Han and Wanwan Lei, and co-founded by Michael Xufu Huang. Housed in a former munitions factory in Beijing’s 798 Art District, M WOODS opened to the public with a permanent collection based on the founders’ private collection of international art.

To be ‘new’ is of no intrinsic value for M WOODS; an alternative set of guiding principles organizes the collection, which stretches beyond narrow notions of art history to enfold positions as diverse as those of Olafur Eliasson and Buddhist sculptors from the Northern Qi dynasty, or Paul McCarthy and the followers of Hieronymus Bosch.

In describing the wide focus of the museum, M WOODS has espoused a core of three fantastically huge beliefs, namely that art should be Free, Alchemical, and Timeless (FAT).

“FAT Art” encapsulates the expanded narrative the museum seeks in its program and collection, and has come to represent the ambition to remove delineations of time, geography and medium and to focus on a universal quality across all art forms.

Alongside the exhibitions, the museum runs an education program manifest in talks, events, film screenings, and art activities for all levels of engagement. In 2015, M WOODS received official not-for-profit status in acknowledgement of its cultural services to the public.

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