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SUMMARY:Art Central 2026
DESCRIPTION:Art Central\, together with Lead Partner UOB\, today announced details of its eleventh edition\, to be held from 25 to 29 March 2026\, with a VIP Preview on 24 March. The Fair will feature the curatorial leadership of Enoch Cheng and Zoie Yung and launch Central Stage\, a platform celebrating artists who have recently received institutional recognition. \nFirmly rooted in its commitment to Hong Kong’s arts ecosystem while engaging audiences globally\, the Fair—a cornerstone of the city’s annual Art Month—returns to the iconic Central Harbourfront with a dynamic presentation of contemporary artworks and curated programmes from pioneering local and regional galleries\, alongside mid career and established artists from across Asia and beyond. \nWith 20% of its presentations featuring Hong Kong-based artists and galleries\, and 75% representing the broader Asia Pacific region\, the Fair serves as a vital platform for collectors and art enthusiasts to encounter and acquire works that embody the region’s remarkable creativity and diversity. \nLooking ahead with renewed purpose\, Corey Andrew Barr\, Fair Director of Art Central\, shared that “Art Central opens its next chapter with intent and urgency\, a platform where new artistic voices meet a shifting global conversation. Central Stage deepens this vision by spotlighting artists at defining moments in their practice\, bringing institutional recognition and gallery presentation into the same arena to spark new encounters between Hong Kong\, Asia\, and the international art scene. The Fair celebrates the bonds between artists\, galleries\, and audiences\, fostering a sense of kinship that empowers collectors and visitors to support the art community while pushing the discourse of contemporary art forward from Hong Kong to the world.” \nOpening Dates and Hours\nTuesday 24 March: VIP Preview (by invitation)\nWednesday 25 March: Fair Hours 12 pm – 5 pm\nNight Central 5 pm – 9 pm\nThursday 26 March: Fair Hours 12 pm – 7 pm\nFriday 27 March: Fair Hours 12pm – 7 pm\nSaturday 28 March: Fair Hours 11 am – 7 pm\nSunday 29 March: Fair Hours 11 am – 5 pm
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/art-central-2026/
LOCATION:Central Harbourfront Event Space\, Central Harbourfront\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Fairs & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Art Central 2025
DESCRIPTION:Art Central and its lead partner\, UOB\, announce gallery and artist highlights for its milestone tenth edition. Cementing Art Central as a cornerstone event of Hong Kong’s much-celebrated art week\, the Fair will be held from 26 to 30 March 2025\, with a VIP Preview on 25 March\, at its iconic Central Harbourfront location. Enoch Cheng returns as curator of gallery programmes and the celebrated Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation Projects sector\, shaping visitor experiences that foster creativity through connection and engagement. \n\n\n\nArt Central 2025 will present over 100 galleries and 500 artists from Asia and across the globe. Committed to fostering Asia’s arts ecosystem\, the Fair showcases diverse artwork and programming\, from established galleries and renowned artists to young galleries introducing a new generation of talent. The Fair is a must-visit event for collectors and art enthusiasts during Hong Kong Art Month. \nTo celebrate the tenth edition of Art Central\, the Fair introduces exciting new features to its gallery programmes. Among these is Legend\, a curator-led initiative to highlight the work of one artist born before 1970 in a dedicated area of their booth; Duo Projects\, which aims to encourage curatorial connectivity between artists in a shared booth space; and a focused emphasis on Photography that seeks to place a spotlight on contemporary attitudes toward photography and extend the narrative around this expansive medium. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNight Central\nWednesday\, 26 March | 5 pm – 9 pm \nGeneral Admission\nWednesday\, 26 March | 12 pm – 5 pm\nThursday\, 27 March | 12 pm – 7 pm\nFriday\, 28 March | 12 pm – 7 pm\nSaturday\, 29 March | 11 am – 7 pm\nSunday\, 30 March | 11 am – 5 pm
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/art-central-2025/
LOCATION:Central Harbourfront Event Space\, Central Harbourfront\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Fairs & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Art Central 2024
DESCRIPTION:Art Central and its Lead Partner\, UOB\, announces the return of one of Hong Kong Art Week’s cornerstone events to the Central Harbourfront. From 28 to 31 March\, Art Central 2024\, a project financially supported by the Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund under the Culture\, Sports and Tourism Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government\, will once again present a sweeping array of artwork and programming from many of Asia’s most innovative galleries\, as well as distinguished artists and speakers from around the globe. A must-visit destination during Hong Kong’s annual celebration of the arts\, Art Central offers visitors an accessible\, engaging and social experience\, with this year’s programme extended to be the largest and most dynamic since its introduction in 2015. \nReturning to its iconic location at the Central Harbourfront in the heart of the city’s Central Business District for the first time since 2019\, Art Central will once again overlook Victoria Harbour within a pop-up architect-designed and purpose-built structure. Located a short walk from Art Basel Hong Kong and a ferry ride to West Kowloon Cultural District’s M+ Museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum\, Art Central is a must-attend Art Week event for locals and international visitors alike. \nA place of discovery\, the art fair will showcase emerging Asian artists alongside global artists and is set to challenge the boundaries of contemporary art and its mediums. This year’s showing of Art Central will feature over 90 participating galleries and is expected to welcome 40\,000 visitors. \nA new gallery sector\, “NEO”\, will be launched at this year’s event\, which will highlight first-year exhibitors who are showing artists that are also making their debut at the fair. In addition to the exhibiting galleries\, Art Central will feature an expanded offering of in-depth talks\, large-scale installations\, and the return of its popular dining terrace – a social highlight of Hong Kong Art Week bringing collectors\, art lovers and visitors together over food and drinks. Night Central\, talking place on Thursday\, 28 March\, is set to attract the arts-loving social set and is a key event to see-and-be-seen during Hong Kong Art Week. \nThursday 28 March – 12–5pm\nNight Central – 5–9pm \nFriday 29 March\nSession 1 – 12–3pm\nSession 2 – 3–6pm \nSaturday 30 March – 11am–7pm \nSunday 31 March – 11am–5pm
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/art-central-2024/
LOCATION:Central Harbourfront Event Space\, Central Harbourfront\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Fairs & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Art Central 2023
DESCRIPTION:Art Central\, a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week\, showcases the next generation of talent from Asia’s most innovative galleries alongside distinguished artists from around the world. Presented in partnership with United Overseas Bank (UOB)\, the eighth edition of Art Central will be held 22 to 25 March 2023 (Preview 21 March) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre\, running alongside Art Basel Hong Kong. \nArt Central 2023 welcomes the participation by 70 diverse and ambitious galleries from around the globe – from Hong Kong to Busan\, Johannesburg to New York\, Madrid\, Tokyo and beyond. With the recent lifting of travel restrictions in Hong Kong\, the Fair looks forward to reuniting local and international audiences in a truly multicultural celebration of art. \nFor this year’s Fair\, Art Central is honored to welcome Hong Kong-based independent curator Chris Wan as Curatorial Advisor\, to oversee a programme of immersive installation art. Art Central 2023 will once again work with the Fair’s long-standing Education Partner\, Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, to host a critically acclaimed programme comprising public talks\, performances\, and media art.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/art-central-2023/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)\, 1 Expo Drive\, Wan Chai\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Fairs & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Art Central 2022
DESCRIPTION:Art Central\, recognised as a place of discovery for seasoned collectors and new buyers alike\, will return to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from Thursday 26 May to Sunday 29 May 2022 (VIP Preview on Wednesday 25 May). Tickets to Art Central 2022 are now on sale online. \nArt Central is widely recognised as an important incubator for artists and galleries in the rapidly growing market for contemporary art in Asia\, presenting younger artists alongside established names\, and showcasing progressive works that challenge the boundaries of contemporary art. \nIn response to a successful edition in 2021\, and despite ongoing international travel restrictions\, Art Central 2022 occupies a significantly larger space than the previous edition and will feature a dynamic group of over fifty galleries with strong representation from Hong Kong-based exhibitors. Over twenty galleries will join Art Central for the first time in 2022\, including Hong Kong-based exhibitors Touch Gallery\, Double Q Gallery and Square Street Gallery\, as well as notable international exhibitors including Gin Huang Gallery\, based in Taichung\, and Mwimbi Fine Art\, Lusaka\, amongst others. \nArt Central 2022 will welcome the participation of a record number of Hong Kong artists spread across its diverse programme of gallery booths\, public art projects\, curated installations\, and which will continue throughout a compelling series of public talks\, video and performance art presented by Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, the Official Education Partner of the Fair. \nArt Central’s Yi Tai Sculpture & Installation Projects sector provides a platform for the support and development of contemporary artistic practice with a focus on works of scale and conceived through non-traditional methods. Coalescing around the curatorial theme Thinking magic\, according to 2022 Curatorial Advisor Qu Chang “the projects selected for Yi Tai 2022 exhibit a kind of magical charm that isn’t completely removed from reality\, but rather deeply entangled with the memories\, beliefs\, affects\, conventions and crises of our time.” The selected projects include those by Afa Annfa (JPS Art Gallery\, Hong Kong); Batten and Kamp (Jeeum Gallery\, Seoul and Hong Kong); Marton Nemes (Double Q Gallery\, Hong Kong); Bing Lee (Soluna Fine Art\, Hong Kong); Louis To Wun (CWC Art Gallery\, Hong Kong) and Sueyong Yang (Art Projects Gallery\, Hong Kong). \nThe 2022 fair will continue to inspire discovery and dialogues amongst collectors and visitors alike as they engage in art activities. Presented for the sixth consecutive year with Lead Partner\, UOB\, Art Central demonstrates a shared commitment to developing the local art ecology in Hong Kong and encourages cultural inclusion of the wider community through outreach partnerships with educational institutions across the territory. \nGallery highlights for the 2022 edition of Art Central \nThe Fair is set to showcase gallery presentations in three sectors: Chung Dim Central Galleries\, Gwo Wai Curated Booths and Duk Dak Solo Presentations. The Art Central programme is presented with dual Cantonese-English designations. Literally “centre point”\, Chung Dim Central Galleries represent leading artists from across the globe and affirm the Fair’s position at the centre of Asia’s market for contemporary art. \nSelected highlights:\n• Novalis Art Design (Hong Kong) presents a showcase of Programmed and Kinetic Art\, looking back to avant garde art movements from the 1960s and 70s. Inspired by developments in psychology\, political theory\, and with increasing economic stability\, these artists merged art with architecture and industrial design in an attempt to liberate art from ‘expression’ by investigating light\, optical illusions and colour theory. The presentation includes works by Marina Apollonio (Italy)\, Herman De Vries (The Netherlands)\, Yvaral (France)\, Marcello Morandini (Italy) and Horacio García Rossi (Argentina). \n• LEE & BAE (Busan) showcases the work of three established Korean artists: Jinwook Yeom\, Seungtaik Jang and Seontae Hwang. The presentation includes works from Jinwook Yeom’s acclaimed ‘Memory of Mountain’ series of paintings\, hung alongside minimal and conceptual explorations of color\, opacity and superposition by Seungtaik Jang. Seontae Hwang’s etched and printed light boxes create three-dimensional spaces which elicit tactile responses to comfort\, temperature and time. \n• JPS Art Gallery (Hong Kong) returns with full roster of artists including Afa Annfa (Hong Kong)\, an emerging star in the local art scene whose works probe the complexities of human emotions and capture tensions between human psyche and the material world; and Adam Linn (United States)\, whose drawings depict flamboyant contortions of an anthropomorphic world and probe topics of self- discovery and intimacy. \n• Touch Gallery (Hong Kong) presents works by Ogata Kamio (Japan)\, Sara Tse (Hong Kong) and Szelit Cheung (Hong Kong)\, three artists expressing life and culture in different forms and tones yet finding a shared sense of simplicity and calmness at the heart of their ingenuity. \n• Leading international participant Whitestone Gallery (Hong Kong\, Tokyo\, Karuizawa\, Taipei) returns with a group exhibition of leading young artists from Japan and emerging artists from China\, presented alongside an important selection of works by post-war avant-garde artists Shinoda Toko and Yayanagi Go\, both having developed idiosyncratic styles of global influence. \n• Jason Shin (Seoul) presents a booth featuring works by Huseyin Sami (Australia) and Eunjeong Choi (South Korea). Huseyin Sami deconstructs the process and substance of painting – colour\, form and material – in order to formulate what he calls ‘a unique material language of painting’. Eunjeong Choi’s wild\, illusionary oil paintings create cityscapes with kaleidoscopic forms\, cascading in two and three dimensions. \nA platform for innovative projects of up to three artists\, Gwo Wai Curated Booths at Art Central demonstrate a strong concept developed specifically for the Fair. Gwo Wai is a term from Cantonese opera which describes the movement of performers crossing paths on the stage. \nHighlights include: \n• First time exhibitor Mwimbi Fine Art (Lusaka) presents artists Lee du Ploy (Hong Kong) and David Makala (Zambia) with works that explore themes of race\, power\, traditions\, place and identity. \n• Soluna Fine Art (Hong Kong) showcases the works of three contemporary artists from South Korea: Kim Young-Hun\, Kim Sun-Doo\, Lee Kyou-Hong and Song Kwangik\, demonstrating a diversity of aesthetic approaches – from traditional Korean landscape painting\, to Dansaekhwa\, minimal mixed media work and contemporary abstract painting. \n• Square Street Gallery (Hong Kong) presents a Gwo Wai Curated Booth by Hong Kong-based artist Lousy. \nA common Cantonese phrase meaning “individually special”\, Duk Dak Solo Presentations feature both emerging and established artists. \n• Double Q Gallery (Hong Kong) presents a solo exhibition of acclaimed Hungarian artist Gizella Rákóczy. A central figure in Hungarian and international geometric art\, Rákóczy’s artworks are deduced by mathematical laws\, which lead to an outcome of speculative knowledge exuding the charm of rational aesthetic. The booth is curated by Mónika Zsikla\, who has also curated the Hungarian Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. \n• Galerie Zink (Waldkirchen) presents new paintings by Gregory Forstner. The artist is known for paintings that capture human nature with expressive brush strokes and bold colours. Art Central 2022 will be the occasion of the artist’s first show in Asia\, featuring paintings and charcoal drawings from his most recent series\, ‘Flowers For The Bold’. \n• Contemporary by Angela Li (Hong Kong) unveils a new collection of paintings by local artist Wong Sze Wai. A heralded\, emerging talent among the next generation of Hong Kong artists\, Wong’s artworks address the loss of memories and the process of recollection through inscription and erasure.\nPopular feature Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation projects includes six large scale installations\, curated by Qu Chang.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/art-central-2022/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)\, 1 Expo Drive\, Wan Chai\, Hong Kong
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