Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM)

Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) is a non-profit contemporary art museum founded by Ming Yuan Group in Shanghai, 2015. Transformed from the renowned Shanghai Paper Machine Factory of last century, McaM keeps the frame structure of the industrial architecture and its characteristics of simplicity.

Among the numerous private art museums in Shanghai, Ming Contemporary Art Museum distinguishes itself through its promotion of contemporary art activities based on visual performance, with a special focus on experimental theatre and multi-media exhibition & performance with the involvement of other activities related to the concept of performance, including installation, painting, sculpture, video, sound, poem and dance, McaM aims to promote the profound experimentation and interaction in these diverse domains, and to establish broad international exchanges and advance the exclusive stage for multi-media exhibition and performance.

McaM has presented numerous large-scale exhibitions and activities such as Maywa Denki: Nonsense Machine, Silent Stories: Jan Lauwers, Why the Performance? , Continuum – Generation by Generation China Pavilion at The 57th Venice Biennale Tour exhibition in Shanghai, Ho Tzu Nyen: One or Several Works, Thomas Hirschhorn: Re-Sculpt, etc.