By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-22 07:01:31 | Updated at 2025-03-22 16:24:11
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Hong Kong turns into a playground for all things visually creative every March, with contemporary art fairs, festivals, exhibitions and auctions held across the city.
Many of the events are recipients of the government’s Mega Arts and Cultural Events (ACE) Fund, which promotes the city as a centre for cultural exchanges and the development of the arts, while also luring tourists back to Hong Kong following the end of the pandemic.
The Post takes a look at some of the prominent happenings as Art March goes into full swing.
Art Basel Hong Kong
March 28 to 30
Art Basel Hong Kong is the largest international art fair in the city, and this year will feature 240 galleries from 42 countries and territories at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
Organisers said that more than half of the galleries were from the Asia-Pacific region and 23 were new to the fair, which is being divided into the zones of “Galleries”, “Insights”, “Discoveries”, “Film”, “Encounters” and “Kabinett”.
“During what we call the ‘closet years’ of the pandemic, we lost our sense of connectivity,” fair director Angelle Siyang-Le said. “Now we are rebuilding and we want to accelerate it, connecting beyond what we used to know as the art world.
