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798 Art Space

798 Art Zone, or Factory 798, the Beijing "Greenwich Village" or "SoHo", a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that holds a rich artist community. It is located in a 50-year old out of service military factory complex with a functional Bauhaus-influenced design.



Factory 798 is one of several structures within a complex formerly known as Joint Factory 718. The factory was originally built startng from the year 1954. At the height of the construction effort, more than 100 East German foreign experts worked on the project. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, most sub-factories had ceased production. Now many artists and organizations have set up studios or offices in the area.



In the 798 Space gallery, old Maoist slogans are visible on the ceiling arches.


One of the old machine tools in front of the contemporary art space, a former workshop.


Some of the workshops are still operational on a small scale. But people are not allowed to go inside


There are quite a number of art exhibitions in the workshop-turned showrooms in the Factory 798






Outside some of the galleries and spaces in the Factory 798, there are many and abstract Avant-garde statues.






The the former huge joint factory 719 ( later split into more manageable components, such as sub-Factories 706, 707, 751, 761, 797 and 798) once had its own steam locomotives.