PRESS RELEASE HONG KONG FEBRUARY 24 2015 Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces details of its talks program in Hong Featuring leading artists, gallerists, collectors, museum directors, curators, and critics from across the world, Art Basel s talk program in Hong will again offer a wide range of discussions between prominent figures of the international art world. Featured artists will include Cao Fei, Clara Cheung, Guan Xiao, Isaac Julien, Jitish Kallat, Leung Po-shan Anthony, Lu Yang, Taus Makhacheva, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Stephanie Sin, Song Kun, Shooshie Sulaiman, Mika Tajima, Frank Vigneron, Wang Jianwei, Ming Wong, Wu Tsang, Haegue Yang and Muhammad 'Ucup' Yusuf. This year s Conversations program in Hong will open on Sunday, March 15, with the Premiere Artist Talk, which will feature Chinese artist Cao Fei. The artist will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Serpentine Gallery, London. On Monday morning, a collectors' panel consisting of Alan Lau, Member of Tate s Asia Pacific Acquisition Committee, Hong ; Anurag Khanna, Director, Carbon Edge Industries and winner of the Forbes Young Collector 2014, Gandhidham, and Phillip Keir, Co-Founder of the Keir Foundation and Chairman of the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney will share insights into trans-pacific collecting. The panel discussion will be moderated by William Lim, Collector and Managing Director, CL3 Architects Limited, Hong. On Tuesday, the program will continue with a panel discussion entitled 'Moving Without Moving How Global Institutions Travel', with Joselina Cruz, Director/ Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines; Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Singapore; Doryun Chong, Chief Curator, M+, Hong and Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, who will draw on their experiences as directors and curators of leading organizations to debate the importance of the traveling of global art institutions and the impacts this has on the art world. The discussion will be moderated by Ingrid Chu, Public Programmes Curator, Asia Art Archive, Hong. A platform for shorter, often more informal presentations, the afternoon Salon program will feature artist talks and panel discussions with artists, curators, museum directors, professors and researchers. It will cover a wide range of topics, from a panel on the Pakistan and India presentations at the Venice Biennale, a discussion on social engagement by artists in Southeast Asia, to a talk on expanding the impact of archiving to make art history global, and a discussion focusing on the Caucasus region and beyond. Salon will also include talks between artist Isaac Julien and Yung Ma, Associate Curator of Moving Image, M+, Hong, and between Wang Jianwei and Thomas J. Berghuis, The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, Professor of Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong, Hong, Clara Cheung, Artist and Co-Founder C&G Apartment, Hong with artists Leung Po-shan Anthony and Stephanie Sin will be part of a discussion on the topic: Rebel City: Hong as Site and Situation. The discussion will be moderated by John Batten, writer, art critic, curator and organizer, Hong.
Conversations takes place daily from Sunday, March 15 to Tuesday, March 17, 10am to 11.30am. Salon talks are held daily in the afternoon from Sunday, March 15 to Tuesday, March 17. Both programs take place in the auditorium on Level 1, at the entrance of Hall 1A of the Hong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Talks from the Conversations program are free to the public. Art Basel VIP card or ticket includes admission to all Salon talks. The talks will be accessible in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. The full talks program is available at artbasel.com/hongkong/talks. High-quality videos of all Conversations and Salon talks will be available at artbasel.com/hongkong/talks. DETAILED CONVERSATIONS PROGRAM Sunday, March 15, 2015 Premiere Artist Talk Cao Fei Cao Fei, Artist, Beijing, in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London Monday, March 16, 2015 Collectors Talk Trans-pacific collecting Alan Lau, Collector, Member of Tate's Asia Pacific Acquisition Committee, Hong ; Anurag Khanna, Collector, Director, Carbon Edge Industries and winner of the Forbes Young Collector 2014, Gandhidham; Phillip Keir, Co-Founder of the Keir Foundation and Chairman of the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Moderator: William Lim, Collector and Managing Director, CL3 Architects Limited, Hong Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Moving Without Moving How Global Institutions Travel Joselina Cruz, Director/ Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines; Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Singapore; Doryun Chong, Chief Curator, M+, Hong ; Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. Moderator: Ingrid Chu, Public Programmes Curator, Asia Art Archive, Hong DETAILED SALON PROGRAM Sunday, March 15, 2015 1pm-2pm Abstract Space Parallel Histories in Abstraction Umer Butt, Gallerist, Grey Noise; Dubai, Mika Tajima, Artist, New York; Moderators: Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath, Co-Founders, Art Reoriented, Munich/New York 2pm-3pm Venice Biennale: Focus Pakistan and India Natasha Ginwala, Curatorial Advisor and Public Programmes Curator for the Gujral Foundation s project My East is Your West at the 56th Venice Biennale, Berlin; Jitish Kallat, Artist, Artist and Curator of the 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Mumbai Moderator: Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive, Hong 3pm-4pm Sharjah Art Foundation Salah M. Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Africana Studies and Research
Center and History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca NY; Further participants to be announced. For the latest information, please visit artbasel.com/hongkong/salon. Moderator: Stephanie Bailey, Writer and Editor, Hong /London 4pm-5pm News From Nowhere Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho Moon Kyungwon, Artist, Seoul; Jeon Joonho, Artist, Seoul Moderators: Sook-Kyung Lee, Research Curator, Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific and Curator, Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee, Tate Collection, London; Gregor Muir, Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 5pm-6pm Reaching out: (Beyond) the Caucasus Suad Garayeva, Curatorial Director Exhibitions and Permanent Collection, Yarat, Baku; Dina Nasser-Khadivi, Curator and Founder of DNK Art Consulting, Geneva/Dubai; Taus Makhacheva, Artist, Makhachkala; Mila Askarova, founder and Director of Gazelli Art House, London/Baku Moderator: Princess Alia Al-Senussi, London 6pm-7pm SEA (Social Engagement Artists / South East Asia and beyond) Shooshie Sulaiman, Artist, Kuala Lumpur; Muhammad 'Ucup' Yusuf, Artist, Yogyakarta; Bo Zheng, Artist and Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Moderator: Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-chief, ArtReview / ArtReview Asia, London Monday, March 16, 2015 1pm-2pm Artist Talk Isaac Julien Isaac Julien, Artist, London in conversation with Yung Ma, Associate Curator of Moving Image, M+, Hong 2pm-3pm Making History Global Expanding the Archive Michelle Wong, Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong ; Elaine Ng, Editor-in-Chief, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Moderator: Charles Merewether, Visiting Professor, Baptist University, Hong 3pm-4pm What s Next Johannes M. Hedinger, Co-Founder, Com&Com, Professor, Zurich University of the Arts and Editor of the book 'What's Next?' Zürich/New York; Song Kun, Artist, Beijing; Zhang Yehong, General Manager, Beepub, Beijing; Lu Yang, Artist, Beijing Moderator: Li Zhenhua, Curator, Art Basel Film sector, and Director and Founder, Beijing Art Lab, Beijing/Zurich 4pm-5pm Alternative Models Hybrids and Non-Profits Aaron Seeto, Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive, Hong ; Cosmin Costinas, Executive Director/Curator, Para Site, Hong ; Zhang Wei, Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou Moderator: Inti Guerrero, Inti Guerrero / Associate Director, TEOR/éTica, San José,Costa Rica 5pm-6pm Artist Talk Wang Jianwei Wang Jianwei, Artist, Beijing in conversation with Thomas Berghuis, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
6pm-7pm Rebel City: Hong as Site and Situation Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, Professor of Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong, Hong ; Leung Po-shan Anthony, Artist, Hong ; Stephanie Sin, Artist, Hong ; Clara Cheung, Artist and Co-Founder C&G Artpartment, Hong Moderator: John Batten, writer, art critic, curator and organizer, Hong Tuesday, March 17, 2015 1pm-2pm Towards An Informal Comparison Ming Wong, Artist, Berlin/Singapore; Haegue Yang, Artist, Berlin/Seoul; Moderator: Venus Lau, Consulting Curator at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2pm-3pm Post Global: Art After Identity Politics Guan Xiao, Artist, Beijing; Wu Tsang, Artist, Los Angeles Moderator: Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, MuHKA, Antwerp 3pm-4pm Into Asia: Publishing Asian Editions Alessio Ascari, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Kaleidoscope, Milan; Teiya Iwabuchi, Chief Editor, Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo; Daniel Szehin Ho, Editor and Co-Founder, randian 燃点, Hong Moderator: Robin Peckham, Deputy Editor, Leap, Beijing 4pm-5pm How Does an Artwork 'Go To Work'? Chang Tsong-zung (Johnson Chang), Director, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong ; in conversation with David Clarke, Art Historian, Hong ; Frank Vigneron, Critical Theorist and Artist, Hong NOTES TO EDITORS About Art Basel Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the world, each show's singular exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas and new inspirations. Partners UBS is Art Basel's global Lead Partner, supporting all three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong. The firm has been the Lead Partner of the Basel show for the past 20 years and of Art Basel in Miami Beach since its inception in 2002. In 2013, UBS extended its partnership to a global level, also becoming the Lead Partner for Art Basel's show in Hong. UBS has a rich history of supporting cultural and artistic endeavours across the world, with a focus on promotion, collection and educational activities in the world of contemporary art. The Art Basel show in Hong is supported by the Davidoff Art Initiative and Audemars Piguet as Associate Partners. Ruinart and Le Freeport are the show's Lounge Hosts, with BMW supporting as Official Automotive Partner, AXA Art as Official Insurance Partner, Mandarin Oriental, Hong as Official Hotel Partner and Quintessentially Lifestyle as Official Concierge Partner. The Financial Times is the show's Media Partner. For further information on Art Basel's partners, please visit artbasel.com/partners.
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