Past Exhibitions

Hunanese Exhibition of Hunan History and Culture 2nd Floor 2017.11.29 - 2020.11.10 Free admission	Qi Baishi：Modern Master of China The Bowers Museum, California, the United States 2016.11.01 - 2017.11.07 Jointly held by the Hunan Museum and the Bowers Museum，the exhibition- Qi Baishi：Modern Master of China was opened in the Bowers Museum, California on April 11, 2015 and closed on July11, 2015, which was the debut of Qi Baishi’s works in the United States.	Passion Cast in Chinese Ink and Brush- an Exhibition of Paintings by Wu Bangsheng Passion Cast in Chinese Ink and Brush- an Exhibition of Paintings by Wu Bangsheng Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum 2016.10.19 - 2016.10.25 Organizers：The Hunan Museum, Hunan Federation of Literary and Artistic Circles Co-organizer: Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum Time: September 19, 2016 —September 25, 2016 Venue：The 5th Floor, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum
Paintings by Guan Liang-Exhibition Commemorating Guan Liang’s 115th Anniversary of his Birth Exhibition Commemorating Guan Liang’s 115th Anniversary of his Birth Hunan Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum 2015.08.09 - 2015.09.08 Guan Liang, impressing people with his exquisite, childlike innocent and ingenuous Chinese opera figures paintings, is famous for his unique style. The exhibition presents some of his typical works featuring Chinese characteristics, such as The Monkey King Subdues the Skeleton Demon (A classic story from Journey to the West), The Drunken Beauty (A concubine in the Tang dynasty who was drunken) and A series of Peking Opera Figures, which has drawed wide public attention.	THE OTHER MASTERS Appreciation of the 19th Century European Classical Realistic Oil Paintings Hunan Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum 2015.06.06 - 2015.06.28 The exhibition falls into two categories of “Portraits and Genre School Paintings” and “Landscapes and Still Lifes” according to traditional classification in western history of fine arts.Apart from consideration of historical periods and geographical locations, it also includes criteria such as the styles of the artists, the techniques employed and the feelings attached to the works. All these works are realistic ones, with the characteristics of real scenes, truthful textural expression, exquisite detail and high summary in the tableau. And these works almost cover the whole spectrum of important schools of that time: pre-Raphaelitism permeated with a strong sense of literature and narration, German romanticism with its mysticism and profundity, French neo-classicism with its modesty and elegance, realism with its praise of nature and labor, and the French Barbizon School with its sense of on-site painting from life are all presented before us.	American Car Culture in Photography Exhibition hall on the fifth floor of Tan Guobin Museum of Contemporary Art. (Xiangjiang No.1 , the intersection of Xiangjiang North Road and Chuangyuan Road, in Kaifu District of Changsha.) 2014.12.30 - 2015.02.28 American cars not only occupy an important role in the automobile world but also dominate our contemporary lifestyle. The speed with which America has embraced the car has made America a world leader in car design and culture. This exhibition as one of the cross-year blockbuster exhibitions, taking a comprehensive review of cars-products of the industrial revolution, showing 163 pieces of works by five contemporary American photographers, provides an outline of the world’s most famous cars through history, followed by a look at the major events in American automobile development and finally, a view of contemporary life and art inspired by the automobile. Nowadays, cars and the culture of cars are popular among nearly every country while the flow of moving cars looks like the lifeline of human beings in modern society. This exhibition is the first of its kind with the theme of “the culture of cars” introduced by the Hunan Provincial Museum, which is also a blockbuster exhibition we present cross the year. Let’s follow the cameras of those photographers to learn more about the history of cars, enjoy their art and culture.