Y Contemporary Art Center

Y Contemporary Art Center is a newly established contemporary art institution in Fuzhou, one of the earliest port cities open to the outside world. Located on the 6th, 7th, and 8th floors of the 200-meter-high Yasheng Tower, the Center offers over 3000 square meters of space for exhibitions, public events, and a research-centered artist-in-residency program. It is expected to open to the public in 2027.

Situated at the confluence of three rivers that meander through the city and its complex past, the Y Contemporary Art Center can be seen as lying at the intersection of past and present. The Art Center supports art and research practices that bridge history and contemporary reality.

The Y Contemporary Art Center focuses on art that advances conceptual exploration and intellectual engagement—work that interrogates cultural canons, challenges normative paradigms of artistic practice, and addresses social conditions. The Center incorporates diverse creative practices in its programming, including performing arts, social practices, and creative writing that are traditionally outside the purview of visual art. This programming also aims to render visible the knowledge production and creative processes that usually unfold behind closed doors.

The art center operates through a three-pronged approach: an exhibition program, a series of periodic events including workshops, lectures, symposia, and performances, and a residency program.

Within this framework, the Center positions itself as a cultural project that traces vanishing imprints of the region’s long history of cultural encounter while encouraging contemporary reinterpretation. The region’s early maritime trade, colonial entanglement, and emigration continue to shape contemporary social and economic reality. The Y Contemporary Art Center invites artists to use the site’s overlapping temporalities as a palimpsest through which to rethink contemporary art and its role in shaping new understandings of entangled social, cultural, and historical realities.

三度当代艺术中心是一家新近成立的当代艺术机构，位于中国最早对外开放的港口城市之一——福州。艺术中心坐落于高达200米的亚升大厦第6、7、8层，拥有超过3000平方米的空间，用于举办展览、公共活动以及以研究为导向的艺术家驻留项目。该中心预计将于2027年正式向公众开放。

艺术中心位于三条河流交汇之处，这些河流蜿蜒穿过城市及其复杂的历史语境，因此三度当代艺术中心可被视为处于过去与当下的交汇点。艺术中心支持连接历史与当代现实的艺术与研究实践。

三度当代艺术中心关注推动观念探索与思想参与的艺术实践——即那些质询文化经典、挑战既有艺术范式，并回应社会现实的创作。艺术中心在项目中纳入多样的创作形式，包括表演艺术、社会实践以及通常被排除在视觉艺术范畴之外的写作实践。同时，这些项目也致力于使通常在幕后发生的知识生产与创作过程得以显现。

艺术中心通过三大板块运作：展览项目、周期性公共活动（包括工作坊、讲座、研讨会及表演），以及艺术家驻留项目。

在这一框架下，艺术中心将自身定位为一个文化项目，既追溯该地区漫长文化交汇历史中逐渐消逝的痕迹，同时也鼓励当代性的再阐释。该地区早期的海上贸易、殖民纠葛以及移民历史，至今仍持续塑造着当下的社会与经济现实。三度当代艺术中心邀请艺术家将这一场域中交叠的时间维度视为一种“重写的羊皮纸*”（palimpsest），以此重新思考当代艺术及其在塑造对复杂交织的社会、文化与历史现实的新理解中的角色。

*注：“palimpsest（重写的羊皮纸）”：这一场域并非单一时间的呈现，而是在不断覆盖与显影的历史痕迹之间，被持续书写与重构的意义现场