Art Basel
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 first impressions: contemporary art fair, back at full scale, draws a diverse VIP crowd
The Art Basel Hong Kong contemporary art fair opened on Tuesday with an invitation-only preview for VIPs, and some galleries reported strong first-day sales.
With 242 galleries from 40 countries and territories exhibiting, the fair’s scale is back to what it was before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Art Basel, which runs for five days at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, drew a notably more international crowd on its opening day than in 2023, when most of the visitors from outside Hong Kong were mainland Chinese.
It is pretty amazing how many people are here. Everyone is networking here
Sheikha Nawar Al Qassimi, Sharjah Art Foundation vice-president
What should everyone have in their bag when visiting an art fair?
Aileen Agopian: An iPhone, one extra charger, and definitely mints.
Sabrina Buell: I wear a small cross-body bag. It’s the Art Olympics and you don’t want to carry unnecessary weight all day. In it is my phone, which I use to take pictures of the works I acquire for my clients. I always have a fair map circled with galleries and works of interest noted.
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Organisers of more than 40 art fairs, including Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf, have pledged to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in a new alliance formed by Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC). The commitment coincides with Climate Week NYC, the largest annual event of its kind (to September 29). Data provided by GCC found that, for a typical, midsize commercial art gallery, one-third of annual carbon emissions related to activities around art fairs. Air travel (of art and people) accounts for the bulk, while these pop-up events, many held in temporary structures, have specific issues of their own, including single-use materials and energy consumption.
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Art Basel recently announced its program and exhibitor list for the upcoming Miami edition next December. The 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will be the first headed by Bridget Finn, who assumed the directorship of the event last year, taking over from Noah Horowitz, now Art Basel’s CEO, during a period in which the mega fair brought on several new faces, including Maike Cruse (director of Art Basel Basel), Clément Delépine (director of Art Basel Paris) and Angelle Siyang-Le, Director (director of Art Basel Hong Kong). Observer caught up with Finn to discuss how her vision for Art Basel Miami Beach has evolved and where she hopes to take the fair in the future.
Read more: https://observer.com/2024/08/interview-bridget-finn-on-her-first-art-basel-miami-beach/
