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In light of the Covid-19 situation, Art Basel has now announced that it will launch online viewing rooms.

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In light of the Covid-19 situation, Art Basel has now announced that it will launch online viewing rooms.

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Enduring 6 months of anti-government protests and riots, the coronavirus just might be the final nail that cancels Art Basel HK 2020

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If it’s March in Hong Kong it must be “art month”, and much of the activity and focus during the city’s international fine-art carnival revolves around its most established world-class event: Art Basel. Along with Basel itself and Miami, Art Basel in Hong Kong is one of three venues on the fair’s annual circuit, during which it presents commercial-gallery displays and related exhibitions, lectures and screenings, as well as collaborative arts and lifestyle events, on three continents.
Its first ever art fair, naturally, debuted in Basel, Switzerland in 1970; then came the Miami Beach fixture in 2002; and finally Hong Kong’s own event joined the party in 2013. Held in the same venue – the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre – as in the previous seven years, this year’s show promises that roughly half of the 241 galleries expected to display artwork have exhibition space in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although much attention is on contemporary artists – both the big-name collectable variety and emerging practitioners – Art Basel also offers the opportunity to view work by some of the biggest names in modern art and other 20th-century genres, which regularly grace the pages of western and Asian art-history tomes and websites. So, expect to see works from the likes of Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, Haruki Murakami, Yue Minjun, Marc Chagall, Chen Yifei, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, David Hockney, and Pablo Picasso, among many other living and late stars of the fine-art world. While a few galleries usually display a handful or two early 20th-century works, it’s art in all forms – from painting to sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, installation and edgier media drawn from the last seven decades – that make up the bulk of what’s on show.
As ever, the Art Basel experience is enhanced by obtaining a VIP card, which means no waiting in queues but instead using priority entrances to the show, unlimited viewing over the three-day event and access to the VIP lounge, which also houses a restaurant and bar, as well as the hospitality booths of the main Art Basel partners.

[caption id="attachment_187210" align="alignnone" width="1460"] Gallerie Urs Meiler, Marion Baruch, Endless Going Trying To Say, 2020.[/caption]

Close Encounters

Always making a dynamic impact are the shared display areas known as Encounters, which are sited in prominent locations throughout the show and dedicated to large-scale sculptural installations and performances.
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, executive director of Artspace in Sydney, this year’s 12 Encounters pieces are collectively entitled While We Are Here. The renowned and emerging artists comprise Marion Baruch, Gimhongsok, Lee Bae, Lim Oksang, Andrew Luk, Mike Nelson, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Imran Qureshi, Asad Raza, Handiwirman Saputra, Adeela Suleman and Yuk King Tan.
Korean Kukje Gallery shows Gimhongsok’s Solitude of Silences, 2017, 2019, a performance work that at first appears amusing and then gives pause for thought. Nine of the Encounters works shown are making their premieres in Hong Kong, including a new textile-based sculptural piece called Endless Going Trying to Say by Romanian artist Marion Baruch, which questions the clothing industry’s production processes and use of natural resources.

[caption id="attachment_187209" align="alignnone" width="1705"] Gallery Exit, Wilson SHIEH, ESWN (Male Version) 2019, Chinese ink and gouache on silk.[/caption]

Making Discoveries

Emerging talents in the art world are regularly highlighted in an area called Discoveries, which shows solo artists’ works from various galleries – this year there are 25 in all. The variety of pieces include include A+ Contemporary’s new work by Taipei and Berlin-based artist Musquiqui Chihying, entitled Three Amazing Moments (2019), featuring a composite of 3D-printed sculptures, video, and sound works; a new project by Hong Kong-based artist Leelee Chan called Pallet in Repose (Resurfacer) at Capsule Shanghai; Fine Arts, Sydney’s presentation of new work by New Zealand-based South Korean artist Yona Lee; a performance by the artist duo Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin at David Lewis; and British artist Flo Brooks’s new installation of five paintings at Project Native Informant.

[caption id="attachment_187207" align="alignnone" width="1331"] Jan Murphy Gallery, Tjungkara Ken, Seven Sisters 25-19, 2019.[/caption]

Sharing Insights

Art Basel Hong Kong incorporates a spotlight on curatorial projects on Asian art history – called Insights – this year being presented by 21 galleries all of which have spaces in Asia. Highlights include Shanghai-based gallery Bank’s presentation that pays tribute to the modern fibre-art tradition in China, showcasing work by Shi Hui in dialogue with pieces by her late Bulgarian teacher, the artist Maryn Varbanov; Jan Murphy Gallery’s inclusion of work by two Tjala artists and leaders in the Western Desert-painting movement, Sylvia Ken and Tjungkara Ken; Nova Contemporary’s showcase of influential contemporary Thai artist Chatchai Puipia; and first-time participant Axel Vervoordt Gallery’s solo booth with Korean artist Kimsooja: her installation Encounter – A Mirror Woman (2017-2019) is a vertical mirror erected on a mirrored floor, standing as a form of painting without a trace of the artist’s hand, in which the viewer becomes an active performer in a three-dimensional canvas.

[caption id="attachment_187206" align="alignnone" width="1307"] Kukje Gallery, Gimhongsok, Solitude of Silences, 2017, 2019.[/caption]

Conversations Worth Hearing

The daily Conversations programme offers in-depth dynamic discussions that explore key issues in today’s art world. Panellists are prominent figures from across the international art world, each offering a unique perspective on producing, collecting and exhibiting art. Exact details can be found online and these free seminars can be pre- booked.

50th Anniversary Project

Christina Li, curator of Hong Kong’s art showcase at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, is curating the Hong Kong iteration of Art Basel’s intercontinental art project to mark its 50-year history in 2020.
Art Basel is staging an ambitious art project, with distinct facets unfolding at all three fairs – beginning at the Hong Kong show in March, continuing at Basel in June, and concluding in Miami Beach in December. The international project, organised by a cross-borders curatorial team with different cultural backgrounds and perspectives, is under the artistic direction of renowned Berlin-based curator Kasper König. The Hong Kong leg, curated by Li, will be a one-off highlight of Art Basel 2020 here, with no specifics revealed at the time of writing.

Art Basel in Hong Kong 2020 runs from March 19-21; details can be found here.

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Liberal-minded Hong Kong is drawing a growing arts audience locally and internationally even as Beijing restrictions loom.

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Liberal-minded Hong Kong is drawing a growing arts audience locally and internationally even as Beijing restrictions loom.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

Art Week has officially kicked off, and as a media partner of Art Basel Hong Kong, we're thrilled to be a part of the international art fair that brings together 242 of the world's top galleries from 36 countries together. The Prestige booth set up shop in time for yesterday’s private viewing, so we invited some of our nearest and dearest friends -- including fashionista Faye Tsui, art and culture writer Diana d’Arenberg, graphic artist Ruth Chao, and more -- to join us for an ‘arty’ cheers. Check out the gallery to see who stopped by our booth.

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Don’t forget to come visit us to grab a free copy of the March issue and our Art Basel supplement, and sign up for a chance to win an amazing 3-night stay at CHAO hotel in Beijing.
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Art Basel will open to the public from Friday, 29 March to Sunday, 31 March at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition in Wan Chai.

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Art Basel mounts its seventh Hong Kong exposition next month, with 242 galleries filling the halls of the Convention and Exhibition Centre with modern and contemporary art from around the world. The Hong Kong show is one of three annual Art Basel extravaganzas, the others being the original, founded in 1970, in Basel, Switzerland, and Miami Beach, which premiered in 2002 after the September 11 attacks forced the organisers to postpone the North American launch by one year. The Hong Kong iteration is focused in particular on showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

[caption id="attachment_116270" align="alignnone" width="1712"] Liu Kuo-Sung, Landscape, 1963[/caption]

Of the 242 galleries chosen by the seven-person selection committee – including such art-world heavyweights as Massimo De Carlo, David Maupin of Lehmann Maupin, Bo Young Song of Kukje Gallery and Zhang Wei of Vitamin Creative Space – more than half have exhibition spaces in the region. That includes seven galleries dedicated to emerging or Asian artists moving into the main Galleries sector for the first time, with Hong Kong represented by Galerie du Monde and Tang Contemporary Art.

The host city is represented by a total of 25 galleries this year, while nine highly influential galleries from the United States and Europe make their Art Basel Hong Kong debut. Southeast Asia also enjoys a strong presence, with Richard Koh Fine Art presenting Thai artist Natee Utarit and Nova Contemporary showing works by Burmese artist Moe Satt, among many others.

In addition to the Galleries sector, with its extensive range of high-quality works from 196 of the world’s leading art galleries, the show features the Insights and Discoveries sectors as well as programmes dedicated to film, large-scale installations and panel discussions on art-world topics.

Insights, as the name suggests, offers an insightful look into Asian art history through works by important artists from the region. This year 21 galleries present one or two artists each, including Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery with works by New York-based Tishan Hsu, Shanghai’s Don Gallery with an exhibition by painter Li Shan and New Delhi’s Gallery Espace with 30 years of work by Zarina Hashmi.

[caption id="attachment_116275" align="alignnone" width="1697"] Gerasimos Floratos, Untitled, 2018.[/caption]

Discoveries, meanwhile, shifts the focus to emerging contemporary artists from around the world. Highlights of this year’s show, presented by 25 galleries, include South Korean artist Jong Oh, Los Angeles-based artist, writer and curator Aria Dean, and Czech artist Anna Hulačová, who is being presented by the first Czech exhibitor to join the Hong Kong show. Christian Andersen, Nova Contemporary and Tabula Rasa Gallery are among other first-time exhibitors.

Impossible to miss – by virtue of size and prominent positioning – is the Encounters sector, 12 institutional-scale installations placed along the four meridians that run through the two cavernous exhibition halls. The diverse pieces have been selected by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor under the theme “Still I Rise” – a call to action inspired by the Maya Angelou poem of the same name. The transcendent works range from a 10-metre-long replica of a Zeppelin by Lee Bul to an upside-down installation of a modern cityscape by Elmgreen & Dragset.

The final exhibition sector is Kabinett, a precisely curated set of projects returning for its third year. The 2019 line-up is still to be announced but is expected to feature a diverse range of media as well as artists both established and emerging.

[caption id="attachment_116272" align="alignnone" width="1706"] Wu Chi Tsung, Still Life, Date Unknown.[/caption]

Also still to be announced are the Film and Conversations programmes, but visitors should be prepared for a variety of special screenings and dialogues surrounding the global contemporary art scene. Stephanie Bailey, an experienced art writer and editor, returns to curate Conversations for the fifth consecutive year while Li Zhenhua, founder and director of Laboratory Art Beijing, continues to oversee the always-exciting Film programme.

Visitors to this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong can also enjoy access to a wide range of local exhibitions and institutions, from the gallery scene as well as museums such as M+ Pavilion (showing Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint), Hong Kong Arts Centre (the fifth Collectors Contemporary Collaboration, among other exhibits) and the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life).

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