宋庄艺术家群落概况

宋庄艺术区

宋庄艺术家群落概况

    在北京市通州区北部，有一块温榆河与潮白河环绕的秀美土地，这就是宋庄。它西距朝阳区CBD十三公里，北距首都国际机场两公里，交通便利，是文化创意产业和临空经济发展的重要区域。丰富的文化底蕴，淳朴的民风，造就了中国乃至世界规模最大的当代艺术大本营——宋庄艺术家群落。

    1994年著名画家方力钧、刘炜、王音、岳敏君、杨少斌和批评家栗宪庭等作为首批拓荒者相继来到宋庄。沐浴着改革开放春风的这片土地无疑为激情澎湃的艺术家们提供了展示智慧和才华的广阔舞台。宋庄镇政府和人民接纳着来自五湖四海的文化艺术同仁，目前700多名艺术家在这里抒发热情，追求梦想，形成以小堡村为核心、分布在大兴庄、辛店村、喇嘛庄、任庄、白庙村，北寺村、疃里、六合、小杨村等十几个村的艺术家群落。在宋庄，你会看到各具特色的艺术家生活区、艺术家公社、启蒙艺术营及艺术家原创景观工作室。

     宋庄艺术家由原来单纯的架上画家，增加到现在的雕塑家、观念艺术家、新媒体艺术家、摄影家、独立制片人，音乐人、自由作家等。上世纪九十年代以来兴盛不衰的当代绘画艺术、公共艺术、综合材料艺术、艳俗艺术及新媒体艺术等主要现代艺术流派都集中在这里。其中一些人的作品在全世界几十个国家做过个展，并在国际上最有权威的艺术展中展出、获奖，并被几十家世界著名博物馆、美术馆收藏。

    随着宋庄艺术家群落在国内外声名鹊起，世界上许多当代艺术家、批评家、画廊、收藏家和拍卖行把目光聚焦在宋庄。为了让宋庄走向世界，让世界了解宋庄，宋庄镇党委制定了“文化造镇”战略，成立了宋庄文化造镇工作领导小组，统一协调和整合文化艺术资源，打造一个以当代艺术原创为主要特色，以发展文化创意产业增强地区经济实力，确保地区经济持续发展和构建和谐社会为目标的地域品牌――“中国·宋庄”

    为了给艺术家们营造更好的生活、创作空间，扩大对外交流途径，将文化艺术资源与市场化、社会化运作平台很好的结合在一起，宋庄组织成立了艺术促进会、文化产业发展服务中心和宋庄文化创意发展公司，努力把宋庄建设成为世界级的艺术创作基地、艺术品交易基地及国家级文化创意产业示范基地。

    继首届中国·宋庄文化艺术节成功举办之后，每年十月拉开帷幕的中国·宋庄文化艺术节活动更为宋庄带上了耀眼的光环。多元化、国际化的文化艺术建筑集群，如国际艺术空间、当代艺术馆、新媒体艺术园以极及具国际影响力的文化艺术机构的入驻和艺术场馆的落成将会吸引全国及世界各地的专家、学者和众多的艺术爱好者来此进行文化艺术交流和旅游。

    宋庄艺术家群落是属于中华民族的，更是属于世界的。宋庄正以鲜明的艺术特色向世人展示着独特的魅力！

Introduction of Songzhuang Artists Group
There is a piece of fertile land in the north of Tongzhou district of Beijing, which is surrounded by Wenyu River and Chaobai River. The place is Songzhuang town. It is only 13 kilometers away from the CBD of Beijing, and 2 kilometers west to the Beijing International Airport. Songzhuang town is also the important area of culture creation industry and airport-oriented economy development. Abundant in culture background and folk customer, Songzhuang town has been the biggest contemporary art camp of China or even the world—Songzhuang artists group.
In 1994, celebrated artists, such as Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, Wang Yin, Yue Minjun, and critic Li Xianting, came to Songzhuang as the earliest pioneers. Under the circumstance of reforming and opening policy, artists here found a wide stage for them to create more excellent artworks. Government and people of Songzhuang took up a friendly attitude to all the artists coming here. Now there has been more than 700 artists who live and work here pursuing their dreams in Songzhuang town, which is centralized around Xiaopu village scattering in 9 villages of Daxing, Xindian , Lamazhuang, Renzhuang, Baimiao, Beisi, Tuanli, Liuhe and Xiaoyang. You can see various unique artists living area, art camp and original sight studios of artists.
If you come to Songzhuang, sculptors, conception artists, new media artists, photographers, independent film producers, free writers can be found here. The main art genres are contemporary painting art, public art, new media art and the synthetic material art. Many artists have won the international prizes and held exhibitions in lots of authoritative art fairs, and even have been collected by a few world famous museums and art galleries.
Now worldwide contemporary artists, critics, art galleries, collectors and auction agents are focusing on Songzhuang. Letting outside world know more about Songzhuang town and artists, the local government adapted the policy of “creating a cultural town”. They set up work panel using and coordinating cultural resources to create a name brand—Songzhuang·China, a developed and harmonious society.
In order to provide artists with better living and working space, expand the external communication, and build a platform of the combination of art resource and market operation, Songzhuang people established Art Promotion Association, Culture Industry Development Service Center and Culture Creation Development Co.,Ltd. They manage to turn Songzhuang into the base camps of world level art creation, transaction, and the base of state culture creation industry.
Annual Songzhuang·China  Art Festival is held in October. More and more specialists, scholars and art fans will come here communicating and traveling since they are attracted by so many artists and art architecture buildings, such as International Art Space, Contemporary Art Museum, New Media Art Garden.
    Songzhuang artists group is showing its unique art character to people. It belongs not only to China, but also to the world.  

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