New Galleries in Hong Kong
By Kathy Zhang
Exhibition view of ANSELM KIEFER’s "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom," at White Cube, Hong Kong, 2012. Courtesy White Cube.
This year has seen a wave of new international blue chip galleries opening branches in Hong Kong. White Cube opened with a debut exhibition of Gilbert and George’s “London Pictures” in early March, followed by Galerie Perrotin, Simon Lee Gallery and Pearl Lam Galleries in mid-May, whose launch coincided with this year’s Hong Kong International Art Fair (Art HK)—in which all four galleries also took part. At the same time, Sotheby’s launched its third permanent gallery space, taking over the entire fifth floor of the designer label shopping mall Pacific Place. For their opening, Sotheby’s, in collaboration with Tokyo’s Ota Fine Arts, exhibited works by Yayoi Kusama produced from the 1980s until today, calling the show “Hong Kong Blooms in My Mind.”
