The new site of Shanghai Minsheng Modern Art Museum is located in Jing'an Xinyefang Park, which is the former site of Shanghai Metallurgical Mining Machinery Factory. After the protective renovation of the original factory building, the industrial factory building in the Great Leap Forward era has been transformed into a public art gallery across time and space. An unexpected encounter for more than half a century has revitalized the sleeping old factory building with the new birth of the art gallery. A seemingly familiar but quite different encounter has created a gap dialogue between modern cultural industry and industrial history.
Faced with industrial remains, the design team refines the spiritual core from traditional culture and expresses it in an intentional spatial language.
On the other hand, space is set as a stage without any trace. This kind of impartial design attitude is called "mid-view", and the whole gallery space, as the background of art works, presents itself in a certain form of "emptiness", which enables the works of art to maximize their aesthetic value. And the audience is not disturbed by the background to the greatest extent, using their own soul to experience the aesthetic characteristics of the works of art.
In the whole gallery, the expression of space and the use of design language always adhere to a moderate rationality and restraint, and use an implicit and restrained mood to express the concealment and concealment of art exhibition space.