Peres Tasks gallery—a participant on the Artwork Basel in Hong Kong truthful this week—is opening a second area in Seoul subsequent month, additional cementing the South Korean capital as a key artwork market hub within the area.
The brand new gallery, because of launch 28 April, might be housed throughout 4 flooring in a constructing situated within the Sagan-dong neighbourhood near establishments such because the Nationwide Museum of Fashionable and Up to date Artwork. Three exhibition areas might be unfold over the primary and second flooring of the brand new gallery.
“We all know the significance of Asia as a area,” says Javier Peres, the gallery founder. “Crucially, we’d like more room to accommodate our artists. There may be additionally a giant collector base in Seoul and a growth in personal museums which implies there may be numerous room for content material.” Peres Tasks opened its first gallery, a smaller venue in The Shilla Seoul resort, final April; it additionally runs galleries in Berlin and Milan.
The launch of the brand new area might be marked by two exhibits together with an exhibition of works by the London-based artist Cece Philips. The second present, an in depth group presentation, consists of works by artists similar to Emily Ludwig Shaffer and Rafa Silvares.
Cece Philips, tbt (2023) Picture: Courtesy of Peres Tasks
Different Artwork Basel in Hong Kong taking part galleries are additionally bolstering their presence in Asia. Hauser & Wirth is shifting out of its present venue on the fifteenth and sixteenth flooring of H Queen’s tower in Hong Kong and is relocating to a ground-floor block—refurbished by Selldorf Architects—on the junction of Ice Home Road and Duddell Road.
Marc Payot, the gallery’s president, says in a press release that “the transfer to a brand new website comes at a time after we look ahead to deepening our connections within the area”. The brand new street-level area is because of open by the tip of the yr.
Tang Up to date Artwork—which runs galleries in Beijing, Hong Kong and Seoul—additionally plans so as to add one other area to its roster in Singapore, a transfer confirmed by Charlotte Lin, advertising supervisor. The brand new gallery is because of open later this yr.
