After Hong Kong officially cleared customs,
It has become the first stop for many people to travel in 2023.
In addition to delicious food and beautiful scenery,
Many people are still paying attention to the Hong Kong art circle that is ready to go.
In Hong Kong, art is also a very important part of the city. In recent years, M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum have been completed one after another, slowly activating the artistic atmosphere of the whole south.
March of this year is destined to be an unprecedentedly lively Hong Kong art season! With the return of Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Week has started~
Xiaoxing compiled a map of Hong Kong art for everyone, let's check in together!
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Hong Kong Island
Art Basel Hong Kong Exhibition
This year's Art Basel Hong Kong gathered a total of 177 galleries from 32 different countries and regions, covering Asia, Europe, North and South America and Africa. More than two-thirds of participating galleries have exhibition spaces in Asia, and 33 of them have exhibition spaces in Hong Kong.
The number of participating galleries is not only a new high since 2020, but also a wind vane event that releases the signal of the Hong Kong art market after the opening of offline activities.
? Art Basel Hong Kong Exhibition 2023
Date: March 23-25, 2023
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Art Central
This year is Art Central's largest exhibition since 2019, gathering 72 galleries and presenting works by nearly 400 artists.
This year's fair includes not only local galleries in Hong Kong, such as Contemporary by Angela Li and Square Street Gallery, but also internationally renowned galleries such as Whitestone Gallery, Guns & Rain (Johannesburg) and MARC STRAUS (New York).
? Art Central
Date: March 21-25, 2023
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
H Queen's
A new landmark with 7 major art galleries
Known as "the world's first vertical art museum", the complex gathers well-known international art institutions including Zwirner Gallery, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Pace Gallery, Tang Contemporary Art, and Whitestone Gallery.
During the art season in March, various galleries also simultaneously launched new exhibitions for readers. Recently, Kentridge's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong was exhibited here
? Hauser & Wirth William Kentridge: The Weight of Tears
Date: March 17-May 29, 2023
Location: 15th and 16th floors, H Queen's Building
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11:00am - 7:00pm
Pedder Building, Central
Yet another gathering place for galleries
Pedder Building
Less than 1,000 meters away from H Queen's, the ancient building "Pedder Building" (Pedder Building), which is also clustered with galleries, used to be the art landmark with the most concentrated galleries in the Central area. Although some institutions have moved away in recent years, Gagosian, International galleries such as Pearl Lam Galleries and SimonLee.
? Pedder Building
Location: 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong
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West Kowloon Cultural District
The West Kowloon Cultural District, located on the banks of Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, is one of the largest and most watched cultural and artistic projects in the world.
With the completion of various world-class cultural and artistic projects, such as M+ Museum, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Art Park, Xiqu Center, Free Space and other artistic landmarks here... a colorful cultural area is gradually formed.
M+ Museum
M+ is the first global museum of contemporary visual culture in Asia and the largest museum in Hong Kong, helping to create a new cultural zone.
M+ has a total of 33 exhibition halls, which exhibit more than 10,000 pieces of collections from Hong Kong, Asia and around the world. In addition, special exhibitions will be held from time to time, so that people will have different harvests every time they come.
? M+ Museum
Address: 38 Museum Road, West Kowloon Cultural District, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Opening hours:
Monday: Accessible with Art Basel VIP APP 10:00-16:00
Tuesday to Thursday and weekends: 10:00–18:00
Friday: 10:00-22:00
Recently, Yayoi Kusama's 70-year creative career retrospective exhibition "Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Present" was exhibited at the M+ Museum.
More than 200 of Yayoi Kusama's masterpieces and latest works are displayed in the exhibition hall, which is the largest exhibition held by the artist outside of his native Japan in Asia so far.
? Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to present
Time: November 12, 2022 - May 14, 2023
Venue: 38 Museum Road, West Kowloon Cultural District, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Palace Museum
Hong Kong Palace Museum and M+ Museum are only 5 minutes away. This museum is full of presence in Hong Kong, a place where every inch of land is very expensive.
The 914 exhibits seen in the regular exhibition "The Forbidden City - Architecture, Collection and Cultural Inheritance" are the joint efforts of the Hong Kong Palace Museum team and the Beijing Palace Museum. handpicked.
The recent new exhibition "Golden Splendor - Ancient Gold Artifacts Collected by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Mengdiexuan" is the largest exhibition of ancient goldware in Hong Kong in recent years.
? Hong Kong Palace Museum
Venue: 8 Museum Road, West Kowloon Cultural District, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Visit time:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday: 10:00-18:00
Friday, Saturday and public holidays: 10:00-20:00
Closed on Tuesdays (except public holidays)
March is not over yet, and the art event has just begun.
In addition to the above exhibitions, West Kowloon Xiqu Center, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Tai Kwun Heritage Art Center, Para Site art space... are also worth visiting!
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