Hong Kong

Institutions culturelles

Les musées de Hong Kong offrent un large éventail de possibilités, de l'art moderne et contemporain à la calligraphie chinoise et aux articles de thé. Avec les grandes galeries d'art internationales et locales, ces institutions façonnent le paysage culturel moderne de la ville.

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1a space, founded in 1998, is an independent, non-profit contemporary art space founded by a collective of Hong Kong artists. 1a space aims to promote the making, experimentation, exchange, and dissemination of contemporary art in Hong Kong and the international arena. It has produced multifaceted exhibitions and activities and has been active in international exchanges, cultural festivals, participatory community art, art education, and publication.
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1a space

Opened in 1971,&nbsp;The Art Museum of CUHK advances object-based scholarship to illuminate the development of Chinese civilization for a global audience. Through its collections, exhibitions, publications, outreach, and educational programmes, the Museum aims to enrich the cultural experiences of the community and help realise the goals of the University. With the inauguration of Lo Kwee Seong Pavilion in March 2025, an extension of the Art Museum and a new landmark on campus, we will enhance the integration of &nbsp;art-making, curating, and teaching, while diversifying and enriching the museum experience for a broader audience.

The Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation co-founded by Claire Hsu and Johnson Chang in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. With one of the most valuable growing collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, freely available from their website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, educational programmes, and publications.
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Asia Art Archive

Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) is an independent non-governmental educational organization established in 1990. As part of Asia Society&rsquo;s global network, with centers in New York, Japan, Switzerland and more, its mission is to navigate shared futures for Asia and the world in the fields of arts and culture, business and policy. Since 2012, ASHK has been situated at the Former Explosives Magazine of the Victoria Barracks, a site steeped in history, cultural significance, and natural beauty. ASHK&rsquo;s Chantal Miller Gallery, which is free for public entry, hosts three to four world-class exhibitions every year. These exhibitions are complemented by multifaceted programs such as talks, workshops, and guided tours, which not only highlight artistic talents but also provide a creative platform for art enthusiasts to share knowledge and appreciation.
On view during the fair 
'Objects of Play: Hoo Mojong Centennial Retrospective' (March 26 to July 6, 2025)

Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong is a partner foundation of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Inc. founded by J D Rockefeller 3rd in 1963. The ACC began its Hong Kong program and ACC Hong Kong Friends&rsquo; Committee in 1986 with the help of Kenneth H.C. Fung and J. S. Lee. Today, ACC is headquartered in New York with its regional office in Tokyo and partner foundations in Hong Kong, Manila and Taipei. ACC Hong Kong oversees the ACC fellowship program principally in Hong Kong, as well as other regions in China and Asia.

Asian Cultural Council

CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) is Hong Kong's textile heritage museum located on 2/F of The Mills, the former cotton-spinning mills of Nan Fung Textiles in Tsuen Wan. Opened in March 2019, CHAT offers new knowledge while nurturing ideas and talents through exhibitions, workshops and community programmes. Committed to preserving local tangible and intangible textile heritage, CHAT invites everyone to experience the innovative spirit of Hong Kong&rsquo;s textile industry and engage in new dialogues and inspirational journeys that interweave heritage, arts and textile.

CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile)

Design Trust was established in 2014 by Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity in Hong Kong since 2007, as a grant funding and community platform. Design Trust supports creative projects that develop expertise, build research initiatives and content related to Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Working across a multiplicity of design disciplines from graphics, media, architecture to the built environment, Design Trust aims to actively accelerate creative research, design and development of meaningful projects that advocate for the positive role of design.

Design Trust

HASS Lab is an art collective founded in 2022 by visual artist Pak Sheung Chuen and cultural producer Cherry Chan. The team comprises diverse artists and cross-disciplinary producers dedicated to exploring the role of art in everyday life. Collaborating with educators, social workers, and community organizations, HASS Lab aims to unlock various possibilities for artistic intervention in society, advocating artistic thinking as a way of understanding and improving society.
The collective believes that every individual possesses inherent creative instincts, which often manifest more directly in marginalized communities. By observing, organizing, and showcasing these creative expressions, HASS Lab seeks to challenge and transform societal perceptions through art, and ultimately the value of art.

HASS Lab

Founded in 2012, the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association is a member-based non-profit organisation of established art galleries in Hong Kong. With over 60 art galleries as members, their mission is to advance the Hong Kong art gallery community by providing one voice to its members, reaching out to the local and international art community, and helping deepen market knowledge and best practices amongst its members.
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Hong Kong Art Gallery Association

Since 1977, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) has been a platform for nurturing and supporting artists, and infusing art into everyday life. Established more than four decades ago, the HKAC bring art to the people of Hong Kong &ndash; by presenting programmes for visual arts, performing arts, moving images and media arts, comics and animation. Other areas also cover arts education, conferences, festivals, public art and community projects, all done with the vision and mission of engaging and inspiring creativity in the Hong Kong community.

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Converted from the "Shek Kip Mei Factory Building" built in 1977, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) is Hong Kong's only vertical art village, combining nostalgic features with avant-garde vitality. It houses over a hundred artist studios and welcomes visitors to explore exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, and experimental theatre. As a self-financed registered charity, JCCAC supports artists' development and promotes appreciation of the arts.

Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC)

Founded in early 1996 as an artist run space, Para Site is Hong Kong&rsquo;s leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia. It produces exhibitions, publications, discursive, and educational projects aimed at forging a critical understanding of local and international phenomena in art and society. Since 2012, Para Site has been running an International Art Residency Programme and has been organizing an annual international conference. This is accompanied, starting from 2015, by a new educational format aimed at training young curators and other art professionals.

Para Site

Tomorrow Maybe opened in late-2018 with a programme of exhibtions that takes Hong Kong as its starting point. Located in Eaton HK, a new hospitality company that marries social change with contemporary culture, Tomorrow Maybe offers a lens into the city for first time visitors and at the same time proposes nuanced readings into the familiar for those who have an intimate relationship to Hong Kong. Projects include new commissions by artists based in Hong Kong, works by international artists providing counterpoint perspectives into the city and group shows by young curators.

Tomorrow Maybe

<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has a long history for creative talent building since 2005. With a focus on hands-on trainings and student-oriented teaching approaches, we empower students to develop their professional skills and artistic vision as well as academic excellence. Our alumni have attained significant achievements with contributions to the art scene, locally and internationally.

The Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), Hong Kong Baptist University

The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of The University of Hong Kong was founded in 1953 as the Fung Ping Shan Museum.&nbsp;It is the oldest continuously operated museum in Hong Kong and over the past seventy years it has built up a diverse collection of ceramics and bronzes. In addition to these permanent collections, UMAG regularly hosts exhibitions of contemporary and ancient Chinese and Western art, as well as on early Hong Kong history.
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University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong

An initiative of WYNG Foundation, WMA is a non-profit platform dedicated to facilitating greater understanding of Hong Kong through the lens-based art form.

Established in 1962, Hong Kong Museum of Art is the first public art museum in the city, now custodian of an art collection of over 18,800 items, representing the unique cultural legacy of Hong Kong's connection across the globe. By curating a wide world of contrasts, from old to new, Chinese to Western, local to international, with a Hong Kong viewpoint, we aspire to refreshing ways of looking at tradition and making art relevant to everyone, creating new experiences and understanding.

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Located at the western tip of the West Kowloon Cultural District and adopting an innovative curatorial approach, the Hong Kong Palace Museum presents over 900 priceless treasures from the Palace Museum, and most of the objects on loan are exhibited in Hong Kong for the very first time.

Hong Kong Palace Museum 

Hong Kong&rsquo;s global museum of visual culture, M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong&rsquo;s West Kowloon Cultural District, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world&rsquo;s leading cultural institutions. M+ is a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong&rsquo;s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia&rsquo;s twenty-first century.

Tai Kwun Contemporary is the non-profit visual art programme of Tai Kwun. Realising five to eight exhibitions a year and curatorially driven, Tai Kwun Contemporary presents and commissions artists from Hong Kong and beyond, while offering an extensive range of public programming as well as an extensive Asia-centred Artists&rsquo; Book Library.

Tai Kwun Contemporary

Videotage is a leading Hong Kong-based non-profit organization specializing in the promotion, presentation, creation, and preservation of moving images and media art across all languages, shapes and forms. Founded in 1986, Videotage has evolved from an artist-run collective to an influential network, supporting the creative use of media art to explore, investigate and connect with issues that are of significant technological, social, cultural, and historical value.

Videotage 

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<a href="https://www.cityu.edu.hk/bg/">Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong</a>
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<a href="https://www.craftsonpeel.com/">Craft on Peel</a>
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<a href="https://www.current-plans.com/">Current Plans</a>
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<a href="https://hkdi.edu.hk">Hong Kong Design Institute</a>
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<a href="https://www.open-printshop.org.hk/">Hong Kong Open Printshop</a>
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<a href="https://www.apo.hk/en/web/apo/oi_projects_and_programmes.html">Oi!</a>
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<a href="https://www.apo.hk/en/web/apo/va.html">vA!</a>
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