Tsinghua AAD exhibition open
Tsinghua AAD’s exhibition “New Era, New Grace” is on view now and runs through May 5, offering contemporary work framed around the institution’s program (x.com). The show was flagged across culture feeds this weekend as a current, on‑view milestone in campus-linked art programming (x.com).
Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design has opened “New Era, New Grace, New Momentum,” a contemporary survey now on view in Beijing through May 5. (enad.tsinghua.edu.cn) The exhibition opened on April 3, 2026, at Tsinghua University Art Museum, filling Halls 7 and 8 on the museum’s fourth floor. Tsinghua University is the host, and the academy and museum are the organizers. (artmuseum.tsinghua.edu.cn) The academy lists Fang Xiaofeng as chief curator, with Qin Chuan and Wu Qiong as chief planners and five associate curators. The show’s English-language foreword says it is organized around “newness” in the academy’s work since the start of the 21st century. (enad.tsinghua.edu.cn) This is not a student degree show but an institutional achievements exhibition tied to the academy’s own history and program. A symposium scheduled for April 20 says the exhibition marks the academy’s upcoming 70th anniversary and is the third entry in a retrospective series. (enad.tsinghua.edu.cn) That anniversary framing matters at Tsinghua because the academy traces its roots to the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, founded in 1956 before later becoming part of Tsinghua University. The academy’s official site describes it as the first higher-education institution for art and design established in the People’s Republic of China. (ad.tsinghua.edu.cn) The museum is presenting the show alongside other spring programming, including collection and design-history exhibitions listed on its April calendar. That places the academy survey inside Tsinghua’s broader museum schedule rather than as a one-off campus display. (artmuseum.tsinghua.edu.cn) Tsinghua’s art-and-design exhibitions have recently drawn wider public attention beyond campus. In June 2024, the academy’s undergraduate exhibition at the same museum opened with more than 230 students’ works, according to China.org.cn. (china.org.cn) For visitors, the practical detail is simple: “New Era, New Grace, New Momentum” is already open, it runs from April 3 to May 5, and it is installed at the Tsinghua University Art Museum’s fourth-floor galleries. (artmuseum.tsinghua.edu.cn)
