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Pace Beijing is a 22,000-square-foot space in a former munitions factory. The place is located in the heart of the city’s gallery neighborhood, the Factory 798 District. The $20 million project is scheduled to open on Aug. 8, in time for the Summer Olympics.

Beijing is a crossroad between Taiwan and Hong Kong. Shows there sell out to other parts of Asia. Pace Beijing will be in a neighborhood that is the equivalent of New York’s Chelsea, also is a main tourist destination. The gallery is being designed by Richard Gluckman, a New York architect whose work includes the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the recent expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Mr. Leng will be the president of Pace Beijing and as well as founded the Beijing Commune, a new model for promoting Chinese contemporary art, in 2004. The Beijing gallery would present four to six exhibitions per year with a focus on Chinese art. The inaugural show, “Encounters,” will be a group exhibition in which Zhang Huan and Zhang Xiaogang will be joined by longtime members of Pace’s stable, like Chuck Close, Alex Katz and Lucas Samaras.