Largest-Ever Art Central Celebrates Milestone Tenth Edition
By ART CENTRAL
*presented by ART CENTRAL
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MAY FUNG, She Said Why Me, 2016, single-channel digital video (colour, sound), 9 min. Courtesy the artist.
One hundred and eight galleries, and the work of more than 500 artists from 45 countries across the globe, mark the fair’s most extensive presentation to date. An onsite video art cinema, lecture-performance program, and commissioned installation by Nadim Abbas, curated by Aaditya Sathish, alongside daring gallery programs curated by Enoch Cheng, push the Fair to new creative heights. The tenth edition of Art Central will take place on Hong Kong’s iconic Central Harbourfront from 26 to 30 March 2025, with a VIP Preview on Tuesday, 25 March.
GALLERY PROGRAMS
Legend
In celebration of Art Central’s tenth edition, the Fair unveils “Legend”, highlighting the work of six pioneering artists from the Asia-Pacific region with special in-booth gallery presentations. Ay-O (b. 1931, Ibaraki Prefecture) will be presented by Whitestone Gallery (Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Tokyo, Karuizawa, Singapore, Seoul); photographs by Eikoh Hosoe (b. 1933, Yonezawa; d. 2024, Tokyo), will be shown by see+ Gallery (Beijing, Shenzhen); paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye (b. c.1910, Northern Territory; d. 1996, Alice Springs), will be presented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery (London); a significant display of art by Dean-E Mei (b. 1954, Taipei) will be on view in the booth of Astar Gallery (Taipei); video works by May Fung (b. 1952, Hong Kong), will be shown in the Fair’s dedicated onsite cinema, Karin Weber Gallery (Hong Kong); and Lee In Seob (b. Busan, 1952) will install a special exhibit in the booth of Suppoment Gallery (Seoul).
EIKOH HOSOE, Ordeal by Roses #32, 1961, gelatin silver print, 139 × 94.5 cm. Courtesy see+ Gallery, Beijing/Shanghai/Chengdu.
Neo
Neo creates an entry point for galleries to feature cutting-edge or undiscovered artists in their first and second years of participation. Amongst the fifteen presenting galleries from Asia, Europe, and the Americas are Cub_ism_Artspace (Shanghai), FIM (Seoul), Gallery CNK (Daegu), and Intersections Gallery (Singapore). Notably, Neo will introduce the Fair’s first galleries from Serbia: Monolog Gallery (Belgrade) and Lithuania: Meno Parkas Gallery (Kaunas).
Yi Tai Sculpture & Installation Projects
Five artists have been selected based on their proposals to present large-scale works as part of this long-standing feature which inspires adventure and dialogue; the presenting artists and galleries are Mark Lawson Bell, Swanfall Gallery (London); Dai Ying, Yiwei Gallery (Los Angeles); Shinduk Kang, Galerie Pici (Seoul, New York); Dean-E Mei, Astar Gallery (Taipei); and Roxane Revon, The Locker Room (New York).
DAI YING, Temple, 2020, marble, printmaking paper, galvanized iron sheet, 600 × 600 × 500 cm. Courtesy the artist and Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles.
CREATIVE PROGRAMS
Nadim Abbas
Art Central has commissioned Hong Kong-based Nadim Abbas to create a large-scale installation for the Fair’s tenth edition. Titled A Brazen Rift (After Branzi) (2025), the artwork is inspired and modelled after architectural drawings created by the Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi. Using modular forms, Abbas frees, interrogates and reworks Branzi’s two-dimensional visions into complex set pieces, breathing new life into their ambitious and cellular-like structures.
NADIM ABBAS. Photo by Pak Chai. Courtesy the artist.
Video Art
Art Central’s Video Art program offers a platform for leading artists to present video art at a dedicated onsite video theatre. Titled “On the Shores of…”, the program explores and challenges how contemporary networks regulate access to people and information, empowering artists to challenge hegemonic narratives and arrive at undiscovered shores of logic, reason, and understanding. Highlights include Shu Lea Cheang’s Virus Becoming (2022); You Don't Know Me, But. . . (1998) by Kary Kwok; New Delhi-based practitioners Raqs Media Collective’s The Bicyclist Who Fell Into a Time-Cone (2023); and Hong Kong-based Indonesian artist Riar Rizaldi’s Mirage – Eigenstate (2024).
SHU LEA CHEANG, Virus Becoming, 2022, single-channel video, 6 min 30 sec. Courtesy UKI, digital film and the artist.
The Akeroyd Collection
The Video Art program will feature a curated selection of works from Akeroyd Collection, the moving image facet of the collection of Shane Akeroyd, a Hong Kong-based philanthropist and moving-image champion. Presented for one hour each day at the Fair, visitors can experience an exclusive showing of moving image-based works by artists Stephanie Comilang, Rei Hayama, Shuang Li, and Robert Sandler.
Performance Art
Art Central also unveils a compelling program of lecture-performances to be presented each day in the fair’s Central Theatre. The program, titled “In Search of the Miraculous”, after Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s final unfinished work, assembles artists who approach history, materials, and the body with resonant gestures grounded in seeking, inviting audiences into open, generative spaces of play. Highlights include Singaporean artist and documentarian Charmaine Po’s in the shadow of the cosmic (2023); Guangzhou-based artist Xiaoshi Qin’s The Landscape Between Us II (2022); and Hong Kong artist IV Chan’s Our Birthdays (uncut) (2025). Also on stage showcasing ambitious new projects will be Hou Lam Tsui and Wong Pak Hang, Reaching This Point is the Limit (2025); Shavonne Wong’s Talking to Machines: When AI Becomes More Than a Tool (2025); and Wong Ka Ying (KY), Hong Kong Art Market Overview, Analysis and Forecast (2025).
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CHARMAINE POH, in the shadow of the cosmic, 2023, lecture-performance, 30 min. Courtesy the artist.
Art Central
26 – 30 March 2025 (VIP Preview 25 March)
Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong
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