Red Brick Art Museum
Beijing / Founder: Yan Shijie
About
Located in the Cuigezhuang International Art District, the Red Brick Art Museum is an architectural masterpiece designed by Dong Yugan. The museum is renowned for its extensive use of red bricks, creating a unique dialogue between the built environment and surrounding traditional Chinese gardens. Founded by Yan Shijie, the institution seeks to provide a contemplative space that blends modern white-box galleries with a labyrinthine landscape of brick courtyards and water features.
Current Program
Rao Fu: Aurora
21.03.2026 — 21.06.2026 Red Brick Art Museum will present the major solo exhibition Aurora by Chinese artist Rao Fu, on March 21, 2026. Curated by Yan Shijie, the museum’s founder and director, this exhibition marks Rao Fu’s most comprehensive and largest-scale presentation in China to date. It comes after his 25-year journey of study, life, and artistic creation in Dresden, Germany, since 2001, and offers a thorough survey of his artistic trajectory.
Featuring his monumental “Decalogy” series as its core, the exhibition will present over fifty works, including oil paintings and works on paper. Through a profound integration of painting with architectural space, it invites viewers into a contemplative journey concerning human existence, civilizational migration, and the dwelling of the soul.
Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths
21.03.2026 — 21.06.2026
“To me, surviving such challenges is resilience. Presenting oneself with all weaknesses and all the weight of past experiences openly, responsibly, and with confidence is an act of dignity.”
— Tesfaye Urgessa
Red Brick Art Museum will present Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths On 21 March 2026, a major solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa (b. 1983, Addis Ababa), curated by Yan Shijie, Founder and Director of Red Brick Art Museum. Marking Urgessa’s first museum exhibition in Asia and his most comprehensive international solo presentation since representing Ethiopia at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, the exhibition will systematically survey the artist’s practice since 2019, bringing together over sixty works—including oil paintings, works on paper, and selection of archives s—to unfold Urgessa’s sustained reflections on migration, displacement, and questions of racial and cultural identity.
Anselm Kiefer: Arsenal
Permanent Exhibition
21.03.2026 — 21.06.2026 Red Brick Art Museum will present the major solo exhibition Aurora by Chinese artist Rao Fu, on March 21, 2026. Curated by Yan Shijie, the museum’s founder and director, this exhibition marks Rao Fu’s most comprehensive and largest-scale presentation in China to date. It comes after his 25-year journey of study, life, and artistic creation in Dresden, Germany, since 2001, and offers a thorough survey of his artistic trajectory.
Featuring his monumental “Decalogy” series as its core, the exhibition will present over fifty works, including oil paintings and works on paper. Through a profound integration of painting with architectural space, it invites viewers into a contemplative journey concerning human existence, civilizational migration, and the dwelling of the soul.
Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths
21.03.2026 — 21.06.2026
“To me, surviving such challenges is resilience. Presenting oneself with all weaknesses and all the weight of past experiences openly, responsibly, and with confidence is an act of dignity.”
— Tesfaye Urgessa
Red Brick Art Museum will present Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths On 21 March 2026, a major solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa (b. 1983, Addis Ababa), curated by Yan Shijie, Founder and Director of Red Brick Art Museum. Marking Urgessa’s first museum exhibition in Asia and his most comprehensive international solo presentation since representing Ethiopia at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, the exhibition will systematically survey the artist’s practice since 2019, bringing together over sixty works—including oil paintings, works on paper, and selection of archives s—to unfold Urgessa’s sustained reflections on migration, displacement, and questions of racial and cultural identity.
Anselm Kiefer: Arsenal
Permanent Exhibition
Location
Hegezhuang, Cuigezhuang Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Winter (until April 30): 10:00 – 17:30
Final Entry: 17:00 | Closed Monday
Winter (until April 30): 10:00 – 17:30
Final Entry: 17:00 | Closed Monday