Political turmoil poses an additional challenge for initiatives such as UNSCHEDULED, announced today.

As Hong Kong gradually reopens after lockdown, explore the exhibitions taking place this summer.

Taipei Connections seeks to build a bridge between galleries and collectors separated by COVID-19.

Ho Sin Tung's Swampland at Hong Kong's Hanart TZ Gallery references wetlands and boggy political sloughs.

'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...

China's post-80s artists are no longer all that 'young', nor do they much need that moniker. With the oldest of that generation fast approaching 40, to call them young would be misleading given how rapidly many of them rose to prominence during the tail-end of China's foreign collector-powered art boom and subsequent influx of domestic collectors....

Johnson Chang, gallerist and curator, is a pioneer of the Hong Kong art scene. Through the establishment of Hanart TZ Gallery in 1983, Chang created a platform for new art from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, redefining the market with his organisation of China's New Art, Post-1989, held at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1993. Over 200 works by...

For those visiting during Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2019), the smell of fresh paint may still be in the air at the latest heritage conservation project, The Mills, which opened on 16 March to encompass the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textiles (CHAT), joining the ranks with ex-prison complex Tai Kwun, along with Eaton HK—a retro...

For the first edition of Taipei Dangdai (18–20 January 2019), connections with the theme of the 11th Taipei Biennial 'Post Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem', came through on the fair floor.

'With a strong selection of returning exhibitors, the 2018 edition welcomes 87 galleries in the Galleries section, among which 39 are participating for the first time.' – West Bund Art & Design (8–11 November 2018).

Since meeting in Iceland in 1990, Inga Svala Thórsdóttir and Wu Shanzhuan have developed a cosmic database of signs, words and forms as a result of their continual and unbiased questioning of the nature of things. 'Our studio was basically a piece of A4 paper,' explains Thórsdóttir, recounting the initial years of their collaboration. From this...

'The anchor of Art Basel's show is its Galleries sector. Art Basel 2018 edition welcomes 16 galleries that join the fair for the first time, further rejuvenating the show and giving younger galleries the opportunity to present their program alongside today's leading established galleries.' –Art Basel (14–17 June 2018).

'The sixth edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong brought together a uniquely global mix of galleries spanning six continents, outstanding artworks by established and new artists from across theworld and a singular gathering of international collectors and institutions.' –Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2018).

With an ever-expanding list of exhibitions and happenings, here is a selection of things to see during Art Basel Hong Kong (29–31 March 2018).

Fang Lijun 's immense woodblock print 2016 (2016) encompasses one wall of the artist's solo exhibition at Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong, This All Too Human World (3 November–2 December 2017). The work features, in Fang's bright and graphic signature style, a throng of anonymous, bald-headed figures cluttered across the picture plane....

Born in Guangzhou in 1945, Leung Kui Ting moved to Hong Kong as a child and has gone on to have a marked influence on the city's art scene. Although originally a carpenter, Leung studied painting under Lui Shou Kwan and graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he studied design under Wucius Wong. Today, he continues as a lecturer...

Hot on the heels of the Hong Kong International Arts Festival, Hong Kong this week welcomed the fifth edition of Art Basel. You've flown thousands of miles, endured over eight hours of screaming spawn on a long haul flight, paralysing jetlag, and visual and social overload at the Art Basel preview. And now you want to experience more than Hong...

Connected by high-fiving metro systems, Shenzhen is a short commute from the leading city in Asia for trading art. While it has nothing to rival Hong Kong’s Gagosian, White Cube, Art Basel, Sotheby’s or Christie’s commercially, it is rapidly improvising its own distinct art ecosystem, a mix of public and private...

Imagine a floating island, with no roots at the bottom of the sea: an unanchored site that drifts slowly across the water. This idea of a transient, fictionalised space is at the centre of Annals of Floating Island (22 July - 27 August 2016),   a group exhibition curated by Song Zhenxi and Zhang Cheng at Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong....

‘He truly is a great discovery for the artworld outside Taiwan’ said Johnson Chang (Chang Tsong-zung) about Chinese artist Yeh Shih-Chiang. Chang, the founder and owner of Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong has been showing the artist, first at the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) with Illuminated Presence in November 2015, and then more...

Following a breakthrough 2015 edition – which placed the Hong Kong show squarely in the center of Asia’s international art scene – the upcoming Art Basel in Hong Kong offers a premier platform for showing works from across the globe, more than half from Asia and Asia Pacific. The show provides an in-depth overview of the...

I'm very much a fan of the public institution. I think only the public institution can provide the long-term guarantee that it will continue to exist and it will be 'the' public memory.

Art Basel Hong Kong has started early this year. I don't mean just the dates, which have been pushed forward from May to March. I mean inboxes are already flooded with invitations for previews and dinners taking place well ahead of the March 22 VIP preview. There are more events, more exhibitions, and certainly more collectors descending upon Hong...

Australian curator Alexie Glass-Kantor has held a range of senior roles in independent art centres across the country. These include Gertrude Contemporary and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, both in Melbourne. Currently, Glass-Kantor divides her time between working as executive director of Artspace, Sydney, one of Australia’s...