The trade channel of an art hub

Siji Art Hub

Siji Art Hub (四季艺术汇) opened on the shore of Lüdao Lake in Nanzhuang, Foshan, in December 2021. It was built as a free-admission art complex with a stated investment of 500 million yuan: eight themed pavilions and a single-storey lakeside hall, alongside an art-training base, an artist-creation base and gardens.

Its collection runs to more than eleven thousand works, and it has displayed originals by Qi Baishi, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. The founder and chairman is the collector Jin Jian, previously a vice-president of Haichang Group and president of Orient Landscape.

Since 2022 the hub has held a strategic partnership with the state-run Foshan Academy of Art Creation, which keeps a practice base and a dedicated Foshan hall on site. The Hunan Academy of Painting and the Liaoning Artists Association are also resident. In 2021 the project was selected as one of ten "cultural and tourism integration innovation projects" by the China Tourism Academy and the China Tourism Association.

What that means for a buyer

Two things, practically.

It is backed by a working exhibition programme. More than fifty shows have run at the hub, with professors of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and members of the China Artists Association among the exhibitors. That programme, not a production line, is what stands behind iHomeArt.

Everything is painted by hand. There are no giclée prints in the catalogue and no print runs. Each piece is hand-painted to order, which is also why it can be made in any size you need.

Siji Art Hub's programme and collection are documented in Chinese media including Southern Daily, Yangcheng Evening News, The Paper and Artron. We describe it as an art hub and complex, not a registered museum, and its exhibition programme to date has been domestic.

See the exhibition programme (26)