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Art Basel Hong Kong is Asia’s largest contemporary art fair. The annual event was launched in 2013 when it took over Art HK and is hosted at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is run by the same company that holds Art Basel fairs in Basel and Miami Beach. During the week there are countless gallery exhibitions and parties that take place across the city on the back of all the excitement that the fair generates.
Busy agenda packs Art Basel, a cultural summit, global investors’ symposium and pop-culture festival into one week, soon to be followed by the Rugby Sevens.
The pandemic shutdown practically pulled the city off the global arts map, but a series of coming events will help re-establish its position.
Transactions have surged since pandemic measures were eased, in a sign that the city remains an important global player in this sector.
- Visible from kilometres away, M+ museum’s massive LED screen has been beaming films out across Victoria Harbour since 2021 – the latest offering is Sparrow on the Sea, a black and white work by Chinese artist Yang Fudong
- Last year’s Art Week offering saw Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist working in real time, while Ellen Pau’s 2022 film was created with light interference from the M+ building and the wider city in mind
The carmaker’s i7 car appeared at the show in collaboration with an AI-driven experience by artist Alex Israel – just the latest in the brand’s creative tie-ups that have even involved Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein
Noh Jae-myung, 33, has already amassed nearly 300 artworks by emerging artists. He talks about launching a new art fair, called Art OnO, in Seoul, with booths significantly cheaper than usual.
Tai Kwun is an unrivalled heritage art space, TeamLab: Continuous and Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck transformed Victoria Harbour, while the West Kowloon waterfront has hosted anthropomorphic grapes
Organisers of the Art021 Hong Kong fair are inviting selected gallery owners from China, the Middle East and other nations in the Global South to increase exposure to their artists’ ‘exceptional’ art.
TeamLab has scattered giant light-emitting ovoids from Tamar Park into the harbour, while the Hong Kong Heritage Museum has a sculpture exhibition that brings to life characters from Jin Yong’s novels
In this week’s issue of the Global Imapct newsletter, we take a look at Hong Kong’s ‘Art March, as the city seeks to hang on to its tag as Asia’s commercial art hub.
Family office advisers see higher demand for art advisory services, including impartial expertise, collection governance and legacy planning from Chinese family offices.
After decades of being sidelined by the art establishment, women painters are enjoying long-overdue exposure – in the wake of Art Basel Hong Kong, here are 6 talents you should really already know
The only photographer who doesn’t know how to use Photoshop is German Wolfgang Tillmans’ jokey self-description. His unfiltered images and video installation at David Zwirner Hong Kong are mesmerising.
Art fair and Hong Chi Association host exhibition of 13 pieces from artists with intellectual disabilities.
Famous for his Billie Eilish Vanity Fair cover, Lemons has shot his share of A-listers, but his most powerful work addresses issues of queer identity and helping people find their authentic selves
Alexie Glass-Kantor’s Encounters includes an imposing Daniel Boyd installation at Pacific Place, while Li Zhenhua’s film sector has work from Luka Yuanyuan Yang
Sarah Morris presents ETC, a film on the outdated tech featuring Josie Ho, while Tsai Ming-liang’s The Monk from Tang Dynasty stars Lee Kang-sheng
Gallerists says 2024 event is offering more higher-quality pieces than last year, showing city’s continued status as leading art trading hub.
The city is alive with art! Don’t miss the public artworks around the harbour, from those giant ovoids floating in Victoria Harbour to the Harbour Wonder installations by the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront
Ghosn’s tongue-in-cheek creativity has gained her celebrity fans and led to collabs with a famous pastry chef ... and even McDonald's
Hong Kong has launched a dozen high-profile arts and culture events this month as part of ‘Art March’ drive, coinciding with an earlier-than-usual Easter break.
Insights features ‘exceptional historical material’, Encounters includes an off-site installation at Pacific Place by Daniel Boyd, while Kabinett has more galleries than ever before
While Art Basel Hong Kong has plenty to keep the fine art-minded enthralled, simultaneous off-site events also showcase creative curiosities
More international VIPs than in 2023 attend opening day of the fair, which in scale is back to what it was before pandemic. Galleries report strong sales.
The city’s biggest art fair returns for an 11th edition, hosting a total of 242 galleries from 40 countries, which organisers hail as a bounceback to full strength
Illustrations by local artists cover 220-metre-long hoarding wrapped around city’s most expensive commercial plot at Central harbourfront.
Leading Hong Kong painter Stephen Wong talks about his exhibition The Star Ferry Tale, in which he shows the city from space, being compared to painter David Hockney, and why he doesn’t fear AI in art.
