Highlights from Beijing’s Jingart 2018

The inaugural edition of Jingart took place in Beijing from May 17 to 20, 2018. The modern and contemporary art fair was organized by the team behind Shanghai’s Art021 and was similarly aimed at a young and fashionable crowd. Jingart is capitalizing on the distinct lack of solid fairs in Beijing, with the capital’s other two main offerings, Art Beijing and the China International Gallery Exposition, losing much of their luster and support from galleries in recent years. The event’s exclusive location was a talking point: Beijing Quanyechang is a grand structure, a stone’s throw from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Built in 1905, it was one of Beijing’s first commercial complexes; in 2014, the structure was refurbished as part of a government-led, design- and culture-focused regeneration of the Dashilan area. 

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