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“It is my belief that the gallery’s crucial role can never truly be replaced.” ASIA —Benjamin Hampe, gallerist

CHINA CONTACT: aroundspace.gallery 10 CHANCERY LANE [email protected] Hong Kong +86 21 3305 0100

ARTISTS: ARROW FACTORY Sutee Kunavichayanont, Petroc Beijing Sesti, Vu Dan Tan, Vincent Fantauzzo ARTISTS: ESTABLISHED: Cai Hui, Liu Yin, Li Yueyang, 2001 Liang Yue, Liu Wei CONTACT: ESTABLISHED: 10chancerylanegallery.com 2008 info@10chancerylane CONTACT: gallery.com arrowfactory.org.cn +852 2810 0065 [email protected]

AIKE-DELLARCO ART LABOR Shanghai

LEADERSHIP: LEADERSHIP: Roberto Ceresia Martin Kemble ARTISTS: ARTISTS: Chen Jie, Lee Kit, Tang Dixin, Lu Xinjian, Ying Yefu, Christy Wang Yi, Hu Yun Lee Rogers, Li Lihong, Zhou Fan ESTABLISHED: ESTABLISHED: 2005 2007 Wu Jian’an, Nirvana of CONTACT: CONTACT: CHAMBERS FINE ART | BEIJING, the White Ape, 2014. aikedellarco.com artlaborgallery.com Colored wax on wood, [email protected] [email protected] ARTISTS: Ai Weiwei, GAMA, Taca Sui, Wu Jian’an, 70¾ x 98½ in. +86 21 5252 0010 +86 21 3460 5331 Zhao Zhao

AM ART SPACE AURA GALLERY ESTABLISHED: 2000 Shanghai Beijing INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: , U.S. ARTISTS: LEADERSHIP: CONTACT: Hugo Dalton, Peter Vink, Bas William Zhang chambers neart.com Köhler, Sibylle Hofter, Kerry ARTISTS: Ann Lee Araki Nobuyoshi, Klavdij Sluban, bj@chambers neart.com ESTABLISHED: Kuan Yun, You Li,Wang Mengsha +86 10 5127 3298 2009 ESTABLISHED: CONTACT: 2000 CHRISTOPHE W. MAO, FOUNDER amspacesh.com INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: AND DIRECTOR [email protected] Taipei, Taiwan How did you get your start as a gallerist? +86 21 6384 2432 CONTACT: aura-art.com During the 1990s, as I began my career in the nancial AROUNDSPACE [email protected] world, I became increasingly interested in the visual Shanghai +86 10 5978 9280 arts. At the end of the decade I felt that the time had come to open a gallery in New York devoted to contem- LEADERSHIP: BEIJING ART NOW porary Chinese art. There was increasing international Jeff Zou Beijing interest [in Chinese art] but no outlet for it in the U.S.A. ARTISTS: Lu Yuan min, Qiu Jia,Tang Shu, LEADERSHIP: I was taking a risk, but from the beginning the response

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How have you generally discovered new artists? BOERS-LI GALLERY FAURSCHOU FOUNDATION Are there any new discoveries for the gallery Beijing Beijing whom you’re especially excited about? LEADERSHIP: LEADERSHIP: Very often through the recommendation of other artists. Pi Li and Waling Boers Jens Faurschou However, it can also happen serendipitously when a ARTISTS: ARTISTS: work by a young artist stands out in an exhibition and I Chen Shaoxiong, Gade, Song Ai Weiwei, Louise Bourgeois, immediately feel that he or she belongs in my gallery! Kun, Tang Song, Xue Feng Bill Viola, Danh Vo, Zhang Huan I am excited about Fu Xiaotong, a young Chinese artist ESTABLISHED: ESTABLISHED: 2005 2011 who creates extraordinary works using only handmade CONTACT: INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: paper and a needle. boersligallery.com Copenhagen, Denmark; , What was your biggest show of the past year? [email protected] Ai Weiwei in New York at the end of last year. +86 10 6432 2620 CONTACT: What’s one show you loved in the past year at a faurschou.com gallery other thanyour own? BTAP (BEIJING ART [email protected] PROJECTS) +86 10 5978 9316 Richard Serra at Gagosian in New York. Beijing What trend do you see happening in your region GALERIE -BEIJING right now? LEADERSHIP: Beijing It would certainly be the emergence of new collectors and Yukihito Tabata institutions in China, neither of which existed 15 years ago ARTISTS: LEADERSHIP: Chiharu Nishizawa, Oscar Flore Degoul and Romain when I opened the gallery. Oiwa, Lee Ufan, Miki Taira, Degoul What might you be doing if you weren’t a gallerist? Gyoko Yoshida ARTISTS: In different circumstances I would like to be a collector. ESTABLISHED: Liu Bolin, , Zhu Ideally, an artist! 2002 Xinyu, Li Wei, Wang Haiyang Name the last great book you read, art-related or INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: ESTABLISHED: otherwise. Tokyo, 2006 CONTACT: INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower. tokyo-gallery.com , ; If cost were no object, what work of art would you [email protected] Paris, have in your bedroom? +86 10 5978 4838 CONTACT: Paul Gauguin’s Nevermore in the Courtauld Institute. galerieparisbeijing.com C-SPACE [email protected] Beijing +86 10 6401 8782

ARTISTS: ARTISTS: LEADERSHIP: GALERIE URS MEILE Hong Shaopei, Zheng Wei, Zhou Miquel Barceló, Candida Höfer, Melle Hendrikse Beijing Jie, Yu Xiao, Yao Peng Claude & François-Xavier ARTISTS: ESTABLISHED: Lalanne, Heinz Mack, Ren Han, , Yu Ji, LEADERSHIP: 2004 Vik Muniz Zhang Shujian, Wang Xin Urs Meile CONTACT: ESTABLISHED: ESTABLISHED: ARTISTS: beijingartnow.com 2004 2008 Wang Xingwei, Cheng Ran, [email protected] INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: CONTACT: Li Gang, Qiu Shihua, +86 10 5127 3292 , U.K. c-spacebeijing.com Yan Xing CONTACT: [email protected] ESTABLISHED: BEIJING COMMUNE benbrownfinearts.com +86 10 5127 3248 1992 Beijing hkinfo@benbrown INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: finearts.com EDOUARD MALINGUE Lucerne, LEADERSHIP: [email protected] GALLERY CONTACT: Leng Lin +852 2522 9600 Hong Kong galerieursmeile.com ARTISTS: [email protected] Lu Yang, Xiao Yu, Ma Qiusha, BLINDSPOT GALLERY LEADERSHIP: +86 10 6433 3393 Xie Molin, Wang Guangle Hong Kong Edouard Malingue and Lorraine ESTABLISHED: Malingue GALLERY 2004 ARTISTS: ARTISTS: Shanghai CONTACT: David Boyce, Dick Chan, Liu Jeremy Everett, Ko Sin Tung, beijingcommune.com Zheng, Martin Parr, Zhang Tromarama, João Vasco Paiva, LEADERSHIP: [email protected] Haier Yuan Yuan Magda Danysz +86 10 8456 2862 ESTABLISHED: ESTABLISHED: ARTISTS: 2010 2010 JR, , Erwin Olaf, BEN BROWN FINE ARTS CONTACT: CONTACT: Huang Rui, Vhils Hong Kong blindspotgallery.com edouardmalingue.com ESTABLISHED: info@blindspot mail@edouard 1999 LEADERSHIP: gallery.com malingue.com INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS: Ben Brown and Andreas Hecker +852 2517 6238 +852 2810 0317 Paris, France; London, U.K.

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