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The Rosewood Hong Kong
Hotel Details
The Rosewood Hong Kong
18 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui
T: +852 3891 8888
Transportation from The Rosewood Hong Kong to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
A shuttle bus will be arranged from The Rosewood Hong Kong to the first events on the press trip itinerary from March 26 to March 28, 2025. Other transportation options between The Rosewood Hong Kong and HKCEC include:
- MTR: Take the MTR from Tsim Sha Tsui Station, interchange at Admiralty, then continue to Wan Chai Station (Exit A5), followed by a 5-minute walk. Estimated travel time: 20 minutes.
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Taxi/Uber: Pick-up is available at the hotel entrance (18 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui). Estimated cost: around 120 HKD. Estimated travel time: 15-20 minutes.
Tuesday, march 25
Partner Event | Join our Press Tours
See individual event details below.
Press Tour: "WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR" at AIRSIDE
3.00pm-4.00pm
GATE33 Gallery, L312, AIRSIDE, 2 Concorde Rd, Kai Tak, Hong Kong
GATE33 Gallery presents WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR, an immersive multi-sensory exhibition debuting in Hong Kong's Art March 2025. Co-presented by ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, and the Design Museum, London, Hong Kong will be the first Asian city to host this acclaimed exhibition.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Renee Chan at renee@suttoncomms.com.
Press Preview: Sarah Sze at Gagosian
4.30pm-5.30pm
7/F, Pedder Building, Central
Gagosian is pleased to announce Sarah Sze’s first solo exhibition in Asia, and her sixth with the gallery, opening in Hong Kong on March 25, 2025. The exhibition features new large-scale mixed-media paintings alongside a new series of hanging sculptures.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Press Trip Exclusive | Press Welcome Cocktail
7.00pm
Art Basel is delighted to invite you to an exclusive Press Welcome Cocktail at XX Bar, Rosewood Hong Kong, starting at 7.00pm Join us as we kick off this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong press trip and celebrate the start of Hong Kong Art Week with a spectacular nighttime view of the city.
Press Welcome Cocktail
The Rosewood Hong Kong, XX Bar
Website
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com. Please submit your RSVP by Monday, March 17, 2025.
Wednesday, march 26
Art Basel Media Breakfast
10.00am
Art Basel is delighted to invite you to an official Media Breakfast to mark the opening of the 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. Join us for a moment of exchange with Angelle Siyang-Le, Director of Art Basel Hong Kong, followed by a celebratory gathering and a short film screening from this year’s Film Program.
Art Basel Press Conference & Media Breakfast
Room N101B, Level 1, HKCEC
Access with Art Basel Digital Press Pass QR Code
Press Trip Exclusive | Curator's Tour Encounters
2.00pm-3.00pm
Discover this year's ambitious large-scale Encounters projects during a curator-led tour with Alexie Glass-Kantor.
Art Basel Encounters Curator’s Tour with Alexie Glass-Kantor
Meeting Point: Sector 1B, Pacita Abad's work
Spaces are limited. RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Partner Event | Hong Kong Tourism Board Cocktail Tasting
3.30pm-4.30pm
Join us for a cocktail tasting session at the Sun Moon Star Base, powered by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Hong Kong Tourism Board Speakeasy Bar Tasting
Level 3, Sun Moon Star Bar
Spaces are limited. RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Claris Lam at claris.lam@hktb.com.
Partner Event | BMW Opening Reception & Champagne Toast
5.00pm
Join us and BMW for the exclusive Opening Reception & Champagne Toast in the BMW Lounge at Art Basel Hong Kong, celebrating the 20th BMW Art Car by Julie Mehretu as part of the Art Car World Tour.
BMW | Opening Reception & Champagne Toast
BMW Lounge at Art Basel Hong Kong
HKCEC, L3 Concourse (Opposite Hall 3D)
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Syche Shum at syche@suttoncomms.com.
Thursday, March 27
Partner Event | UBS One - Media Brunch
10.30am-11.45am
Join us for a Media Brunch and get-together in the UBS Lounge at the fair.
UBS One - Media Brunch
UBS One, Level 3, HKCEC
9.30am: Bus arrives at the Rosewood, then departs to HKCEC
10.15am: Media Brunch and get-together in UBS One, Level 3, HKCEC
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Jackie Li at jackie@suttoncomms.com.
Partner Event | Chubb Life Hong Kong Lounge
5.00pm-6.00pm or individual slot
We encourage you to check out Chubb’s wishing well. “Conversations of Life: Every Wish Lasts”, an immersive experience hosted at the Chubb Life Hong Kong Lounge, invites you to explore the power of conversation at Art Basel through a personal journey of reflection and intention.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Dayvic Leung at dayvic.leung@chubb.com.
M+ Open House
All Day
Discover the exciting exhibitions on view at Hong Kong's M+ Museum. A museum press pass will be delivered directly to your hotel.
- ‘Picasso for Asia: A Conversation’
- ‘Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand’
- ‘Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades’
- ‘Danh Vo In Situ: Akari by Noguchi’
- ‘Making It Matters’
- ‘Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination’
M+
38 Museum Drive
West Kowloon, Hong Kong
Access with M+ press pass.
Partner Event | Conversations | Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre Show Tune
5.30pm-6.00pm
Timed to Art Basel Hong Kong, artist Natasha Tontey will debut a new performance as part of Art Basel Conversations, presented by Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Stemming from the artist’s exhibition Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary and currently on view at Museum MACAN in Jakarta, Indonesia through 3 April 2025, the performance draws on cabaret performance and presents a satirical extension of the commission’s themes.
Art Basel Public Program Reception
6.00pm-7.00pm
Art Basel is delighted to invite you to the official Reception for it's 2025 Public Program in Hong Kong.
Art Basel Public Program Reception
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Access with Art Basel VIP card or Art Basel digital press pass.
Partner Event | The Peninsula “Art in Resonance” Media Tour & Drinks
7pm-9.30pm
Join us for Peninsula's "Art in Resonance" Media Tour & Drinks.
Originally introduced in 2019, Peninsula's commission-based art programme "Art in Resonance" has been designed to shine a light on important emerging and mid-career artists with the funding, curatorial support and logistical capabilities that allow them to produce significant new public artworks.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with peninsulaart@sinclaircomms.com.
Partner Event | Swire Properties Artists’ Party
9pm-late
Join Monster Chetwynd, Andrew Miller, Random International, and Sara Shakeel for an evening of cocktails, canapés, live music, and a DJ set at the Swire Properties Artists’ Party. A separate invitation has been sent for this event.
Swire Properties Artists’ Party
The Continental
L4 Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong
RSVP required: please confirm your attendance via the link in your invitation.
Friday, march 28
Institutions Press Tour
9.00am-1.00pm
Join us for an exciting press tour through Hong Kong's key cultural institutions, with exclusive moments for exchanges with exhibiting artists, featuring:
- MILL6CHAT
- Asia Art Archive
- Para Site
- Artist Meet and Greet and Brunch with refreshments at CHAT
Institutions Press Tour & Visit
8:30am: Bus arrives at the Rosewood, then departs to CHAT.
9:00am: Start of the tour led by curators at CHAT
10.00am: Brunch with refreshments at CHAT
11.00am: Tours at Asia Art Archive and Para Site
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Performance | Lanternfly Ballet by Monster Chetwynd
1.30pm
A newly commissioned site-specific work for this year’s offsite Encounters, Lanternfly Ballet by Monster Chetwynd transforms Pacific Place into a surreal, shifting ecosystem – an arena of play, ritual and choreography that is both a theatrical installation and a fleeting performance.
Take this opportunity to immerse yourself in the installation and watch as a duo of dancers animate the space, becoming extensions of the lanternflies flickering between presence and disappearance.
Lanternfly Ballet is presented by Swire Properties, the Official Partner of offsite Encounters, with the support of Galerie Gregor Staiger, Massimodecarlo, and Sadie Coles HQ. The Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Encounters sector is curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Award Ceremony | MGM Discoveries Art Prize
4.00pm-5.30pm
Join us in celebrating the winners of the inaugural MGM Discoveries Art Prize.
MGM Discoveries Art Prize | Awards Ceremony
MGM Lounge, HKCEC
4.00pm: Start of the ceremony, MGM Lounge, HKCEC
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Press Trip Exclusive | Tai Kwun Press Tour
6.30pm-8.00pm
We welcome you to a private press tour for Tai Kwun's major spring exhibitions in 2025, featuring three ambitious solo exhibitions. These are part of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s “Breakthrough” series, which underlines emerging artistic positions through solo presentations, commissions, and innovative formats.
- Alicja Kwade: Pretopia
- Hu Xiaoyuan: Veering
- Maeve Brennan: Records
Tai Kwun | Press Tour
Prison Yard and F Hall Studio, Tai Kwun 10 Hollywood Road, Central
6.00pm: Meet outside of HKCEC for the bus transportation to Tai Kwun.
7.00pm: Start of the Press Tour
Prison Yard and F Hall Studio, Tai Kwun 10 Hollywood Road, Central
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
Tai Kwun Artist Night
8.00pm-late
Presented by Tai Kwun and supported by Art Basel Hong Kong, the annual Artists’ Night will once again take place on Friday, March 28, presenting a captivating fusion of visual art, live performance, experimental events, and music that revolves around the themes of AI, the body, and ritualistic encounters.
RSVP Required: Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Tai at kelly@suttoncomms.com.
A wealth of exclusive events are available to you via our Online Events calendar. Log in to your Art Basel account to explore all events happening during the week. Our team is available for any questions you may have.