The Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong, Where Poignant Artworks Explore Various Crises BY REENA DEVI March 22, 2023 4:22am The scene at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS Art Basel Hong Kong launched its first quarantine-free edition since 2019, with two VIP preview days beginning March 21, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Reportedly its largest edition since the pandemic, with 177 exhibitors from 32 countries and territories participating in the 2023 edition, there is a…Read More
Hong Kong galleries thrive despite lockdowns and crackdowns Dealers were expanding old spaces and opening new ones as the city’s art market surpassed London’s Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong MARCH 16 2023 Opening a gallery in Hong Kong early last year seemed unwise. At the time, the former British colony was reeling from the world’s deadliest Covid outbreak, and a now-scrapped weeks-long quarantine inspired an exodus of residents. The gloom, heightened by the city’s isolation from the rest of…Read More
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023: Tatler’s guide to the artists and works to look out for By Aaina Bhargava. Feb 14, 2023 From the humorous to the grotesque, here is everything you should look out for at the city’s biggest art fair in March Art Basel Hong Kong is back in its biggest iteration since 2019, and will take place from March 23 to 25, 2023, now that restrictions for travelling and social gatherings have been lifted. More than…Read More
The Collector by Enid Tsui Are intense emotions fueling a great period of art-making in Hong Kong? Long dismissed as a place where art is sold and not made, a recent exhibition reflected a new energy in the city’s art scene. Organised by the artists themselves, ‘What’s On Paper’ exhibited works linked by community not theme. To much of the international art world, Hong Kong is not where art is made but where it is traded. We can shout all we…Read More
