International art to be on show include works of arte povera (poor art), a movement originating in Italy in the 1960s in which artists make use of worthless and daily objects to create. Works once shown at six important arte povera shows will come to Beijing and some 20 Italian artists will attend the opening at TAM.

Meanwhile, there will be an exhibition of the works by five Japanese artists of ukiyo-e, a photography exhibition in tribute to Henri-Cartier Bresson's two journeys in China, in 1948 and 1958, and an exhibition to review the modernism development of world design from 1880 and 1980.