All posts tagged: Antony Gormley

Asia Art Archive 2025 Annual Fundraiser

Published by Artomity Magazine

aaa2025auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA) announces the return of its Annual Fundraiser this October and November, celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary. This year’s fundraiser features an auction of over sixty-five works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. The auction presents major pieces by prominent and emerging artists from Asia and beyond, showcasing AAA’s intergenerational and cross-regional reach. Proceeds from the auction will support AAA to continue its mission of preserving contemporary art histories in Asia and providing free public access to resources and education. In partnership with Christie’s Hong Kong, a preview of the artworks opens to the public from 7 to 11 November. The works are available for bidding online at aaa2025auction.com from 27 October, 12nn, to 14 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Au Hoi Lam, Cao Fei, Luis Chan, Huma Bhabha, Ding Yi, Nicole Eisenman, Antony Gormley, Ha Bik Chuen, Ho Tzu Nyen, Heidi Lau, Lee Kit, Hao Liang, Liu Wei, ruangrupa, Vishwa Shroff, Yee I-Lann, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen, Samson Young, and more. Since …

Sculpture Parks and Street Art: Curating Hong Kong’s Public Art Agenda

Published by Aaina Bhargava

Hong Kong, renowned for its booming art market, is widely regarded as Asia’s art hub. While commercial success has unquestionably been essential in validating this rising status, so has been the provision of proper education and exposure of the public to a diverse range of artistic practices. To fulfil its potential as an art capital, Hong Kong needs more of the latter. There are still sectors of the art community that are severely under-represented, from local art initiatives to experimental art spaces and, in particular, public-art projects. Public-art programmes are vital to cultural development in cities, due to the easy accessibility to art they provide. Hong Kong has suffered from a lack of quality programmes, but two recent initiatives seek to change this. One is Hong Kong’s first sculpture park, and the other is the formation of HKwalls, a non-profit organisation facilitating street-art projects citywide. Harbour Arts Sculpture Park opened in late February, altering an iconic space on the harbour front between Central and Wan Chai. Co-curators Tim Marlow and Fumio Nanjo have emphasised the significance of the park in developing public arts …

Art Partners

Published by Artomity Magazine

Meet the three women behind some of Hong Kong’s most ambitious large-scale public exhibitions. By Fionnuala McHugh On a recent December afternoon at the Ladies’ Recreation Club, three women gathered to discuss art. They were passionate, vocal and slightly stunned at the speed with which their lives have shifted. For Levina Li-Cadman, Sarah Pringle and Vita Wong-Kwok, art is not about recreation. This is a high-octane, professional partnership, reflected in the name they chose when they launched their company exactly a year ago: Art-Partners.  The core founder was Li-Cadman, whose background is in luxury-goods and media marketing. In 2003, when the Financial Times launched its Asia edition in Hong Kong, her job was to build its relationships with high-end clients. One of these was Christie’s, and she was subsequently asked to become the auction house’s Asia-Pacific director of business development.  After that, she began consulting for White Cube and for the Royal Academy of Arts in London. As Hong Kong’s second Art Basel fair approached in May 2014, the Peninsula hotel was keen to demonstrate its artistic …