四方當代美術館成立于2005年8月，分別坐落在南京的玄武區(qū)、浦口區(qū)與江寧區(qū)，共有展覽面積近8000平方米，是面向中國當代藝術，以展覽、收藏、研究、教育為主要功能，以改善中國當代藝術的生存環(huán)境，提高公眾對當代藝術的認知度，倡導當代藝術與全社會進行交流為宗旨的復合型民間藝術機構。我館專門委托享有國際聲譽的美國建筑大師Steven Holl先生與著名奧地利前衛(wèi)建筑師Rainer Pirker先生分別設計浦口區(qū)與江寧區(qū)兩處展館建筑，以構建符合展示當代藝術氣質的空間。
Founded in August 2005, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art sets her exhibition places in Xuanwu District, Pukou District and Jiangning District in Nanjing separately, which are 8000 square meters in total. It’s an unofficially compound art institution, with the main functions of exhibition, preservation, research and education. The principle of this gallery is to reform the environment for contemporary Chinese art, improve the public understanding of it, and promote the communication between contemporary art and the whole society. To create the proper space, which could help showing contemporary art, the gallery invited the world- known American architect Mr. Steven Holl and Austrian architect Mr. Rainer Pirker to design these two exhibition buildings in Pukou District and Jiangning District respectively.
我館計劃在美術館館體建筑落成以后，每五年舉辦一屆當代藝術大型文獻展。并且為了及時反映當代藝術思想觀念的變化趨向，我館將不定期舉辦有建設性的主題展覽，以調動本地區(qū)當代藝術的學術氣氛。館內還將針對中國一百多年的異于傳統(tǒng)的視覺表達史，專門開辟了重要藝術家作品的永久性陳列館，常年向公眾開放，并且將開設關于當代藝術的講座向公眾普及當代藝術的知識。我館將根據自身條件，廣泛地開展當代藝術方面的地區(qū)與國際性的民間交流合作，參與國際性當代藝術活動，將四方當代美術館建設成公眾了解當代藝術一扇的窗口，藝術家創(chuàng)作當代藝術一座的基地，學者研究當代藝術一個的中心。
The gallery plans to launch a significant art exhibition every five years after the buildings’ completion, meanwhile it will hold constructive exhibitions occasionally to display the trend of contemporary art and evoke the local arty atmosphere. Aiming at the untraditional Chinese visual expression history, which lasts over a hundred years, the gallery will set up a permanent exhibition room for important artists, open to the public perennially, it will also arrange art lectures to popularize some common sense to the public. The gallery will take part in the regional and international cooperation and communication in the globe art areas energetically. We hope to make Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art as a window open for the public, as a base for the artists, as a center for the researchers.