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Art Basel 2017

Art Basel 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, the largest contemporary art fair in Hong Kong, takes place from March 23 to 25. Now in its fifth edition, Art Basel is the biggest event in Hong Kong Art Month. The fair will draw hundreds of art collectors and connoisseurs from around the world to the city. Galleries and satellite fairs will be doing their utmost to attract a share of the attention and crowds with exhibitions of their own. Read this page for tips about the artworks to see and places to go, and for news and views about Art Basel from the South China Morning Post's Culture team.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
The Central Police Station Barracks under renovation to become part of Tai Kwun. Picture: David Wong
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The Collector | What Hong Kong art lovers can look forward to in 2018

The wait for launch of art space at former Central Police Station will soon be over, there are solo shows for Michaël Borremans and Robert Indiana, Art Basel, and biennales galore – with Bangkok’s featuring Marina Abramovic

The Collector | Why Budi Tek wants to make his private Yuz Museum public

Then & Now | Opinion: art fairs a magnet for Hong Kong’s uncultured rich

Hans Ulrich Obrist, the most powerful man in the art world

The fast-talking Hans Ulrich Obrist, recently in Hong Kong for the opening of a Zaha Hadid exhibition, recalls how he got into art and the impact of the architect’s death last year

The fast-talking Hans Ulrich Obrist, recently in Hong Kong for the opening of a Zaha Hadid exhibition, recalls how he got into art and the impact of the architect’s death last year
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Monochrome artist CJ Hendry turns to colour for Christian Louboutin

Scrapping of Guggenheim’s Shanghai show was talk of Art Basel

Last-minute cancellation of Middle East contemporary art show in China raises questions about right way to work with museums there. V&A Museum’s deputy director offers a three-step strategy

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China’s post-1989 art scene through the eyes of the Guggenheim

Co-curator says that while the New York museum’s show acknowledges global stars such as Ai Weiwei and Cao Fei, the 75 artists featured highlight the arch innovation of the less collectible avant-garde

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Theatre of the World (1993) by Huang Yongping is the titular exhibit of the Guggenheim show. Photo: Collection of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

The Collector | Got the art bug? Here’s a common sense guide to collecting

Doug Woodham looks at the pitfalls of buying art at the top level in his new book and suggests five questions you should ask before splurging

Graphic artist Enki Bilal stages first solo Hong Kong show

The writer and film director, who is known for his graphic novels such as the Nikopol trilogy, is bringing his brand of dark, surreal art to the city for the first time

In pictures: Art Basel fascinates Hong Kong

City Weekend

Art market takes hit from Beijing’s efforts to curb capital outflows

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Jean Bernier of Bernier-Eliades Gallery says most of his regular mainland clients are still coming to the fair. Photo: Nora Tam

What’s caught our eye at Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central

Back in Hong Kong: Theaster Gates, artist who’s doing it for himself

The American, in Hong Kong for his second exhibition, sees hope in his latest work, but ‘not the world’s hope’; making art ‘is a selfish act’, he says. Yet in Chicago he’s opened, at his expense, a ‘repository for black American culture’

Art becomes virtual reality: Chinese artist Lin Yilin teams up with Nonny de la Peña, the ‘godmother of VR’

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Gucci’s Alessandro Michele puts on art show at PMQ, Hong Kong

Fashion house’s chief creative force has made three-dimensional version of A Magazine issue he guest-edited in 2016 for exhibition on the theme Blind For Love

Part of Gucci’s show A Magazine curated by Alessandro Michele at The Qube, PMQ, in Central. Photo: Handout
Korea Times

Korean art fascinates Hong Kong

What it’s like to ‘step inside’ virtual reality artworks, and draw one

Bernice Chan dons a VR headset and walks through a 3D Chinese ink landscape drawn by Chinese artist Yang Yongliang using Tilt Brush, a new Google tool – then has a go at making art herself

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Global sales of art fell 11pc in 2016, new report says

Greater China becomes biggest art auctions market as US sales value drops and more art is exchanged in private deals, says first Art Basel/UBS art market report – more gloomy than rival Tefaf’s recent verdict

Visitors to Art Basel Hong Kong view a painting by Tan Tan Bo. Dealers report fewer collectors from China at the fair than last year. Photo: May Tse

Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 in 60 seconds

Shock and awe: first impressions of Art Basel Hong Kong 2017

There’s stunning and enticing art aplenty at this year’s fair, and from some big names too. Shen Shaomin’s installation Summit and Shi Guorui’s stark camera obscura images of Hong Kong are among works that caught our eye

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Eat before art: dining gets creative during Art Basel

Whisk adds to the many art menus on offer during Art Basel

Art Basel showcases global talent in carnival of high culture

Kingsley Ng’s “Twenty-Five Minutes Older” is on exhibition as part of Art Basel 2017

Artist Christo, in Hong Kong for Art Basel, on the point of his art

Bulgarian-born Christo, once a refugee, says he scrapped long-planned US project because of ‘that man’, and tells of his hope he can sell art in Hong Kong to fund 150-metre-high sculpture in UAE he planned with his late wife

How a four-metre light bulb sprouted in Peninsula’s fountain

‘A sculpture of a drawing of a light bulb’ is how artist Michael Craig-Martin describes his Bright Idea 2016, a work that intentionally misleads but has, he hopes, a clear message

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Art and the internet in China and West is focus of Hong Kong show

Curiously named .com/.cn exhibition, a collaboration between Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation and New York’s MoMA PS1, offers sharp and humorous commentary on a hot topic, but demands too much of its audience

Curiously named .com/.cn exhibition, a collaboration between Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation and New York’s MoMA PS1, offers sharp and humorous commentary on a hot topic, but demands too much of its audience
Hong Kong gigs

Six hot gigs for when the galleries shut in Hong Kong Art Week

Jazz legend Chick Corea, British singer Sophie Barker, Japanese band Bo Ningen and DJs Headhunterz, Goldie and Noah Pred will cater for a range of musical tastes during Hong Kong Art Week

Sophie Barker and band perform on Friday.

Art Basel Hong Kong will be a test of market for high-end art

With more art bought through private sale than at auction in 2016, there could be a lot of action at art fair, which opens to VIPs first, and at the scores of gallery exhibitions riding on its coattails.

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Anita Mui to Roman Tam: a Hong Kong pop culture celebration

Canto-pop godfather Roman Tam’s peacock feather gown, Anita Mui’s androgynous outfits, Yonfen's films and Leslie Cheung’s red Manolo Blahniks – M+ show explores sexual ambiguity in Canto-pop and film

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