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My Art Guide� Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel/ Exhibitions/ My Art Guide Events/Galleries/ Museums/ � Hong Kong 2019 Openings/ Hotels/ Restaurants/ City Maps WHERE ART IS TRULY ALIVE. Basel is the perfect place to embark on a fascinating > With the free BaselCard you benefi t from journey through the world of art. An exceptional density a 50 % discount on admission to museums of museums, the world’s most important art fair and (incl. special exhibitions) a lively urban art scene make Basel a compact city of culture with an appeal that reaches well beyond Europe. BASEL.COM Dear Art Basel Guests, attachment programmes and Arts Space Scheme, the latter Art Basel Hong Kong is held year providing artists with arts in, year out and I welcome you to studios at reasonable rent. Our this years’ edition of the world “ADC Artspace” open day will FIND class art fair, that provides be held on 29 March at Wong galleries from around the Chuk Hang where you can rub world the chance to showcase shoulders with a variety of adiverse collection of artworks visual and media artists and by established and emerging their artworks. Among them YOUR artists globally alongside their are Mr Magus Yuen, who won curated projects and associated the Director’s Choice prize events. from Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2017 with his work The seventh edition of Art Basel Closet and Mr Yeung Leung INNER this year features 242 premier Chuen who garnered the Best art galleries from 36 different Director at the 12th Fresh Wave countries with 25 of them based International Short Film Festival in Hong Kong. Throughout the with The Bridge. We look SOUL week, you can enjoy artworks forward to your visit we hope from all over the world and, in for a fruitful exchange with our Immerse yourself in Miami’s rich particular, artworks from Asia artists on the open day. and the Asia-Pacific region from Art, Heritage and Culture traditions, where half of the participating I wish you all a wonderful time and sample its contemporary wave of galleries come from. visiting Art Basel Hong Kong art galleries and live performances. and enjoy the fascinating and I am delighted that two grantees vibrant art scene throughout of Hong Kong Arts Development Hong Kong. Council (HKADC), namely “Asia Art Archive” (AAA) and Wilfred Wong “1a space” are joining the art Chairman fair. AAA will display artworks Hong Kong Arts Development from its collection named “The Council Body Collection” followed by a series of performance art and talks, while 1a space will offer guided tours led by local artists providing insights into and an appreciation of art education during the week. Over the years, HKADC has been proactively incubating © Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau — local emerging artists by The Official Destination Sales & Marketing Organization for Greater Miami and the Beaches. CS02863 implementing its scholarships, My Art Guide Hong Kong Lightbox Publishing Once again and for the seventh show “Once Lost but Now time, Art Basel takes place in Found” where local artist Editorial Committee Publishers Hong Kong, the fair’s Eastern Leung Chi Wo, Zheng Bo and Tobias Berger (Head of Matteo Bartoli outpost where galleries from MAP Office have been invited Arts, Tai Kwun), Christina Li Mara Sartore America and Europe meet Asia to respond to the environment (Independent Curator), William and the South Pacific. This and location of Oi! historic Zhao (Curator and Collector) Global Pr and Sales edition of the guide is curated building by creating artworks Ilaria Malagutti by our Hong Kong-based to tell stories with the elements Guest Artist Carlotta Santini Editorial Committee composed of a city by the sea. “Kollectors Shirley Tse Lara Morrell of Tobias Berger (Head of Arts at Series: Media in Motion” at chi Tai Kwun), Christina Li (Curator) art space, a show exploring Web and App Developer and William Zhao (Curator and the approaches that artists My Art Guides Andrea Serrani Collector) who together have use to communicate their selected the best art spaces interpretations of the practical Editor-in-Chief For advertising please write to and events in town and provided uses and creative potentials of Mara Sartore [email protected] tips for our leisure chapter. new media in the digital age; The opening interview for this “Counterpoint” exhibition at M+ Deputy Editor Lightbox Group HQ edition features the artist who Pavilion presenting a dialogue Claudia Malfitano Cannaregio 3527 is to represent Hong Kong at between the celebrated modern 30121 Venice, Italy the upcoming Venice Biennale sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Deputy Editor Online Magazine T +39 041 2411265 with the Official Collateral Danh Vo. Finally, within the H Carla Ingrasciotta www.lightboxgroup.net Event ”Stakeholders” curated Queen’s Building, Mary Corse’s by Christina Li: Shirley Tse, the solo show at Pace Gallery and Translations and Proof Readings For other enquiries first woman to be appointed this “Louise Bourgeois: My Own Lara Morrell [email protected] prestigious role. Voice Wakes Me Up” at Hauser & Wirth. Editorial Team For updated info check our The art week officially starts Alessandra Bellomo website www.myartguides.com on March 25 with the gallery This is only a hint of the many Xu Moru or download our App from night in Central where the exhibitions on show, so I iTunes and Google Play H Queen’s Building and the suggest you build your own Graphic Designer Pedder Building share the itinerary using the My Art Camilla Rigo Langé centre of attention with Guides tools via our website or their many simultaneous app for iOS and our brand new gallery openings. Among the app for Android, or simply by shows in town I would like to flipping through the pages of personally recommend are Para this guide. Site’s exhibition “An Opera for Animals” a group show Enjoy art week, exploring the highly controlled © Lightbox. All rights reserved. Printed in Hong Kong environment under the operatic Mara Sartore Reproduction in whole or in part without by Service Print Co., LTD setting, as a response to our Editor-in-Chief written permission is strictly prohibited. contemporary reality; German All credits, information, times, prices are accurate at time of going to press. musician and artist Carsten Lightbox cannot be held responsible for Nicolai’s installation at the any change after March 4, 2019 Goethe- Institut; the group 8 How to Use the Guide Useful Numbers 9 HOW TO USE 6 Agenda USEFUL NUMBERS Blue Taxis (Lantau Island) THE GUIDE A day-by-day, hour-by hour calendar of all events. Airports Lantau Taxi Association “My Art Guide Hong Kong 2019” Information on openings, Hong Kong International Airport Phone +852 2984 1328 is divided into 6 parts providing performances, special events, Phone +852 2181 8888 a complete overview of Hong press previews and parties. Web hongkongairport.com Lantau Taxi Association 2 Kong’s art scene and related Phone +852 2984 1368 events taking place during Art Index and City Maps Emergencies Basel in Hong Kong. The index is composed of 4 Phone 999 Hong Kong Tourism Board elements: website and Visitor Centres 1 Your Compass in Hong Kong 1 ID Number of the article, the There is no centralised taxi sys- offer visitors useful information The city’s districts with the most one that you’ll also find on tem. Taxies are easily available about getting to and around important events, landmarks, the map on the street and taxi areas. town, maps and guides. The galleries and museums in each 2 Title of the article Taxis are red, green and blue: website offers different smart- area of interest. 3 Map number Red taxis cover urban Hong phone and tablet apps to help 4 Page number Kong, including the airport. you navigate Hong Kong: Island 2 Interview Green taxis the New Territories, Walks, Heritage Walks, City Multidimensional Thinking to Key to ID Symbols while the blue taxis exclusively Walks, AR, 720°, Travel Packs. Practice a New Ecology: an AB Art Basel run towards Lantau Island. Interview with Shirley Tse. F Other Fairs Visitor Centres E Exhibitions/Events Red Taxis (Urban Hong Kong) Phone Available from 9am to 6pm 3 Art Basel M Museums and Cultural daily, +852 2508 1234 A description of Art Basel Institutions Happy Taxi Operator’s Association Web discoverhongkong.com including useful info on the G Galleries Phone +852 2728 8282 show’s different sectors; Other R Restaurants Hong Kong Fairs and all the most important H Hotels Hong Kong Taxicab Call Centre International Airport exhibitions and events Phone +852 2186 6866 Address Buffer Halls A and B, during Art Basel including Map References Arrivals Level, Terminal 1. performances, parties, etc. Map M01 – M02 – M03: Kowloon, Wai Fat Taxi Tsim Sha Tsui Phone +852 2861 1008 Hong Kong Island 4 Art in Hong Kong Map M04: Sheng Wan Address The Peak Piazza, The A selection of Museums, Map M05: Central Wing Tai Radio Taxi Peak, Hong Kong Island. Galleries and Art Spaces in Map M06: Wan Chai Phone +852 2865 7398 Hong Kong, active all year Map M07 – M08: South Island, Kowloon round. Wong Chuck Hang and Green Taxis (New Territories) Address Star Ferry Concourse, Tin Wan Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. 5 Leisure Map Z01: Quarry Bay New Territories Taxi Merchants A selection of the best Map Z02: Tseung Kwan O Association Lo Wu restaurants, cafés, bars and Map Z03: Fo Tan Phone +852 2476 4247 Address 2/F Arrival Hall, Lo Wu hotels in Hong Kong with Terminal Bldg, Lo Wu, New contact information. Taxi Association Territories. Phone +852 2475 0417 10 Hong Kong Editorial Committee Hong Kong Editorial Committee 11 HONG KONG Assistant Curator of “Making in Europe and after his MBA in EDITORIAL COMMITTEE (Perfect) World: Harbour, Finance and management posi- Hong Kong”, “Alienated Cities tions in investment banking, He and Dreams”, the Hong Kong relocated to Hong Kong in 2004 Participation of the 53rd Venice and began writing as an art critic Biennale.