Hong Kong art galleries you don't want to miss
Wikitopia -- Audiovisual Mashup Party at Videotage, 2010.Hong Kongers are a tough crowd. Every second person that I meet protests that we have no real art scene and pronounces the city barren of creativity. But I beg to differ.
In recent years, the Hong Kong gallery scene has evolved significantly. Dealers are bringing in big name artists like Shazia Sikander, Tatsumi Orimoto and Edward Burtynsky for solo shows. Alternative spaces devoted to new media and subculture art have cropped up. Two international galleries -- Ben Brown and Sundaram Tagore Gallery -- opened outposts in Central. Famed New York gallery Gagosian has a space under renovation and rumor has it that Marlborough and Pace Gallery are next.
Admittedly, we don’t have a bona fide gallery district like 798 or Moganshan Lu, but buried among the bars of Wyndham Street, the knickknacks of Hollywood Road and the depths of high-rise buildings, are a spate of galleries worth the visit.
Click to the next page to see Hong Kong's essential art galleries.
