Departure from the status quo with a display of works of art function of art institutions in China can be roughly divided into three categories, namely, the nature of the various art galleries, art galleries, as well as the increasingly popular art space. The original single of the National Art Gallery is no longer just assume the functions of display, and gradually the trend set display, research, collections, education for the whole posture of the diversity, while a variety of names, the purpose and nature of many of the arts to such an extent that art institutions in China The functions in the overall market showing a natural transition, and to some extent, have a look at a wide range of so-called convergence effect,We have had to be led to their classification analysis.

The functions of art institutions in China in transition includes the fact that the three levels: first, from the phenomenon of level of performance space and the space agencies of profit. Second, its impact has led to the concept of the internal functions of art galleries and art institutions refinement convergence. The third is the most important, its existence is based on the logic of contemporary art capital of the operation.
The nature of the various art galleries, art galleries, as well as the increasingly popular art space of the three categories of classification in accordance with the strict definition of the arts and the Western mode of operation of a mature perspective, all of which are included in the public and specialized, for-profit and non-profit-type type public and private, such as a wide variety of real, the functions of the three should have different emphases, and go hand in hand, complement each other, however, the current status quo is to gradually break the boundaries of the original and the dividing line between the field from the inside engaged in restructuring, reorganization and co-exist.

First of all, on behalf of a variety of nature and an increasing number of art galleries. However, these new franchisees, as the main body - private art galleries, its predecessor, is a public display of private collections, but also close to the original sense of the gallery, and in this form today, the growing proliferation of private art galleries are more performance for investors in the culture of image-building efforts and diversification of investment, art planners and creative artists and the executive branch and local cultural policies will combine. Thus, private art gallery will be transformed into a realistic sense of the vague concept of private art institutions. Similarly,Part art gallery in the entire operation based on system expansion needs, but also actively seeking business in its own space outside the art of public open space, and even the operating target for the gallery and to start this type of specialized work, in combination with the concept of to practice full-penetration, non-profit momentum space, making the arts institutions have the same space to the art form of transformation, that is, "the space of bodies." In fact, these institutions often drifted away from the venue and management of public space between the more or less Have three characteristics: the capacity of vague, generalized position, full-featured. "Fuzzy identity" refers to the name of such institutions, and its ownership structure, mode of operation between the ambiguous or does not deserve its name, contains the public dissemination of such properties of space and capital appreciation potential contradiction between the demands and thus determine its the operation of the "position of generalization." "Identity ambiguity" and "the position of the generalization of" uncertainty, making this type of space in the course of the operation of the specific art exhibitions and activities for the choice of more freedom to demonstrate. "Comprehensive" does not refer to all types of functions with the detailed division of labor, but the overall sense of the all-inclusive type of activity.

Secondly, the so-called "space-profit" and not simply the operation of such art the same as the operating agency and corporate art sale and purchase behavior. First, as a result of the operation of contemporary art system determines the display space in the works of art to explain the process and the entry into force of the important role of arts institutions such objective will be placed in the interests of art and the distribution of price formation in the Vanity Fair, at the same time lag and the initial policy the development of contemporary art has made the environment for the development of a non-profit organization development still faces many difficulties; Second, as some of the arts institutions in the nature of the purpose and operation of the fuzzy and ambiguous,Led to a subjective form of the exhibition has become the art of marketing an extension of industrial chain, so that the profit of the arts of space is inevitable.

Level in a museum, art institutions of the trend to be the generalization of the Museum of the system in turn affect the function of internal detail, as well as the specific operation in the process of art galleries with different inclinations. Let us put aside the public museums and private art galleries in essence, how much difference there, it is undeniable that the overall trend of the construction of the Museum of the impact caused by the following: First of all, the operation of this space has resulted in the traditional sense as a major symbol of the National Museum Art Gallery and other art galleries in the function and purpose of widening differences. Although contemporary art has come out of the ground floor of the state,
Not only in the economic field was a great success, and has been officially involved in the official art exhibition system bodies, but the position, culture and values of image distance between identity still exists. Arts institutions, especially the arts of various forms of art galleries institutions play a more active role in enriching the contents of the Museum of the operation, but also strengthened slightly between the two words co-existence of the relationship between tension. Second, in every art gallery itself, the nature of the two different exhibitions of the economy reflected in the balance between academic and increasingly becoming an important issue.

It should be recognized that these phenomena in the above-mentioned role of the underlying reasons behind that is the logic of contemporary art capital of the operation. In recent years, for all walks of life talked about the Chinese contemporary art market's prosperity and the birth of a variety of different forms of arts institutions, but also fertile ground for these institutions has given the characteristics of market-based, making as if the original plant, ornamental plants, as the nature of the economic plants of various art institutions, has become a hot market for human consumption under the category of SHELTER, ornamental type, economic type of agricultural products, can become the object of measurement and valuation. Of course, the existence of the status quo itself is always the multiple positive and negative attributes,In particular, are in the Chinese art institutions from the developed to the mature self-regulation, self-improvement period, the transformation of its functions as well as the diversity can be regarded as a representation in order to promote a new thing to improve the existing checks and balances a significant force in the state.

Early in 2008, the State Council issued one after another in various National Museum is open free to the notice. While this measure the actual social effects remain to be inspected, but this form to the policies implemented by executive order in the Art Gallery of the public nature of a big push forward. It can be seen as complementary measures of the National Gallery of Art to change the way of financial support to a greater extent by changes in the growing market of the National Museum of operating mode, thereby strengthening the market other than the driving force. This information gives us a lesson that the Chinese arts professional differentiation, complementarity and positive interactions, multi-industry consensus
But to complete the transition from awareness to the reality of the implementation of the changes, the key lies in how to market-driven situation, other constraints led to strong intervention, and the gradual formation of new checks and balances, it is clear that this ratio for the current functions of the academic significance more practical significance.

2009-6-27