Art galleries in Beijing

Looking for art in Beijing, Beijing? There are 31 galleries mapped here. That's 31 galleries mapped around Beijing. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Ask the gallerist what's on — they're usually delighted someone asked.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Beijing (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Lumin Art Space and Mountain Art Beijing Frank Lin Art Center, plus The First Sound Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Beijing's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Beijing gallery lineup

31 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Beijing

3 of the 31 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Beijing gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Lumin Art Space, Mountain Art Beijing Frank Lin Art Center, The First Sound Gallery, Polar Bear Gallery, Tabula Rasa Gallery, 今日美术馆 on 32 32 Baiziwan Rd, ShuangJing, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100022, 隆福美术馆, and 筑中美术馆. That's 31 stops on the Beijing gallery walk. 23 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Beijing

A few things worth knowing before you work through Beijing's art galleries:

• Look at the building too at Lumin Art Space. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.
• Buy the catalogue at Mountain Art Beijing Frank Lin Art Center. Exhibition catalogues are the affordable art book. They sell out after the show closes.
• Go to opening nights. Free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that wants to talk about the work. The best gallery experience there is.
• Buy local art if you can. An original from a local artist costs less than you think and means more than any print. Start with works on paper.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Beijing — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Beijing can take a while to appear. The 31 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 31 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.