四方當(dāng)代美術(shù)館成立于2005年8月，分別坐落在南京的玄武區(qū)、浦口區(qū)與江寧區(qū)，共有展覽面積近8000平方米，是面向中國當(dāng)代藝術(shù)，以展覽、收藏、研究、教育為主要功能，以改善中國當(dāng)代藝術(shù)的生存環(huán)境，提高公眾對當(dāng)代藝術(shù)的認(rèn)知度，倡導(dǎo)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)與全社會進(jìn)行交流為宗旨的復(fù)合型民間藝術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)。我館專門委托享有國際聲譽(yù)的美國建筑大師Steven Holl先生與著名奧地利前衛(wèi)建筑師Rainer Pirker先生分別設(shè)計(jì)浦口區(qū)與江寧區(qū)兩處展館建筑，以構(gòu)建符合展示當(dāng)代藝術(shù)氣質(zhì)的空間。

　　Founded in August 2005, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art sets her exhibition places in Xuanwu District, Pukou District and Jiangning District in Nanjing separately, which are 8000 square meters in total. It’s an unofficially compound art institution, with the main functions of exhibition, preservation, research and education. The principle of this gallery is to reform the environment for contemporary Chinese art, improve the public understanding of it, and promote the communication between contemporary art and the whole society. To create the proper space, which could help showing contemporary art, the gallery invited the world- known American architect Mr. Steven Holl and Austrian architect Mr. Rainer Pirker to design these two exhibition buildings in Pukou District and Jiangning District respectively.

　　我館計(jì)劃在美術(shù)館館體建筑落成以后，每五年舉辦一屆當(dāng)代藝術(shù)大型文獻(xiàn)展。并且為了及時(shí)反映當(dāng)代藝術(shù)思想觀念的變化趨向，我館將不定期舉辦有建設(shè)性的主題展覽，以調(diào)動本地區(qū)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)的學(xué)術(shù)氣氛。館內(nèi)還將針對中國一百多年的異于傳統(tǒng)的視覺表達(dá)史，專門開辟了重要藝術(shù)家作品的永久性陳列館，常年向公眾開放，并且將開設(shè)關(guān)于當(dāng)代藝術(shù)的講座向公眾普及當(dāng)代藝術(shù)的知識。我館將根據(jù)自身?xiàng)l件，廣泛地開展當(dāng)代藝術(shù)方面的地區(qū)與國際性的民間交流合作，參與國際性當(dāng)代藝術(shù)活動，將四方當(dāng)代美術(shù)館建設(shè)成公眾了解當(dāng)代藝術(shù)一扇的窗口，藝術(shù)家創(chuàng)作當(dāng)代藝術(shù)一座的基地，學(xué)者研究當(dāng)代藝術(shù)一個(gè)的中心。

　　The gallery plans to launch a significant art exhibition every five years after the buildings’ completion, meanwhile it will hold constructive exhibitions occasionally to display the trend of contemporary art and evoke the local arty atmosphere. Aiming at the untraditional Chinese visual expression history, which lasts over a hundred years, the gallery will set up a permanent exhibition room for important artists, open to the public perennially, it will also arrange art lectures to popularize some common sense to the public. The gallery will take part in the regional and international cooperation and communication in the globe art areas energetically. We hope to make Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art as a window open for the public, as a base for the artists, as a center for the researchers.