Ullens center for contemporary art (UCCA)
Beijing, China
Architect: Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Missions: Conception - Positioning - Development managing - Architectural planning
Dates: 2008 — 2012
Pour Ullens center for Contemporary Art Conception, Jérôme Sans en charge du développement ainsi que du positionnement structurel, culturel et architectural à intégralement repensé l’institution.
De 2008 à 2012, Jérôme Sans a été directeur de l’UCCA, l’établissant comme la première institution culturelle privée en Chine et le modèle de nombreux projets de musées privés chinois. Jérome Sans a contribué à développer une nouvelle économie autour d’un programme ambitieux d’expositions et d’événements à l’échelle internationale avec entre autres Olafur Eliason & Ma Yansong, Cao Fei, Liu Xiaodong ou Erwin Wurm.
Il a collaboré avec l’architecte Jean-Michel Wilmotte pour redéfinir la structure du centre d’art en un espace d’exposition malléable, établie dans une ancienne usine des années 1950 inspirée du Bauhaus.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, For Tomorrow For Tonight, poster of the exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2011-2012
Erwin Wurm, Narrow House, exhibition view, Narrow Mist, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2010
Olafur Eliasson, Ma Yansong, Feelings are facts, 2010, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing © Photo: Sebastian Behmann
Peter Lindbergh, The Unkown, exhibition view, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2011
Tatsuo Miyajima, MEGA DEATH, 1999, LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, installation view, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, 2011, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
OUR FUTURE (entrance), exhibition view at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (exterior)
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (restaurant by Michael Lin)
OUR FUTURE: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection (Wang Du), exhibition view at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (restaurant by Michael Lin)
Yan Pei-Ming, Landscape of Childhood, 2009, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Photo: Liang Cuo, Courtesy of the UCCA
Zhang Huang, exhibition view, Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2010
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, For Tomorrow For Tonight, poster of the exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2011-2012
Erwin Wurm, Narrow House, exhibition view, Narrow Mist, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2010
Olafur Eliasson, Ma Yansong, Feelings are facts, 2010, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing © Photo: Sebastian Behmann
Peter Lindbergh, The Unkown, exhibition view, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2011
Tatsuo Miyajima, MEGA DEATH, 1999, LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, installation view, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, 2011, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
OUR FUTURE (entrance), exhibition view at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (exterior)
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (restaurant by Michael Lin)
OUR FUTURE: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection (Wang Du), exhibition view at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing (restaurant by Michael Lin)
Yan Pei-Ming, Landscape of Childhood, 2009, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Photo: Liang Cuo, Courtesy of the UCCA
Zhang Huang, exhibition view, Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2010