H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
Yoshitomo Nara, 26 March – 12 May 2018, Pace Hong Kong
H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong
Loie Hollowell, 26 March – 31 May 2018, Pace Hong Kong
15C Entertainment Building, 30 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong
Left: Portrait Image of Loie Hollowell, 2017. © Loie Hollowell, Photograph by Kerry Ryan McFate, Courtesy of Pace Gallery. Right: A Headshot of Yoshitomo Nara, Courtesy of the Artist and Pace Gallery.
左：洛伊•霍洛韦尔，2017年© 洛伊•霍洛韦尔，Kerry Ryan McFate摄影，图片由佩斯画廊提供；右： 奈良美智， 图片由艺术家及佩斯画廊提供
January 11, 2018 Hong Kong – Pace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery in Hong Kong, its second in the city and its fourth space in Asia. Designed by Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture – the same firm designing Pace’s new flagship gallery opening in fall 2019 in Chelsea, New York – the gallery will open during Art Basel Hong Kong on March 26, 2018 in the H Queen’s building in the city’s Central District. Pace will inaugurate the gallery with an exhibition dedicated to Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, coupled with an exhibition of works on paper and paintings by New York- based artist Loie Hollowell in its original Hong Kong gallery.
Pace has long been deeply engaged with the region’s dynamic community of artists, collectors and institutions. 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of Pace’s presence in Asia, which began with the opening of its 2,500 square-meter gallery in Beijing in 2008. Over the course of the last decade and under the strategic vision of Marc Glimcher, Pace Gallery President & CEO, and Leng Lin, Partner and President of Pace Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Pace has expanded its Asian presence—opening its first gallery in Hong Kong in 2014, followed by the opening of its gallery in Seoul in 2017. The opening of its second gallery in Hong Kong will further strengthen Pace’s engagement with artists, collectors and institutions across the region and provide an important platform to showcase the gallery’s renowned program of the leading international artists of the 20th and 21st–centuries.
“We’re very excited to open our new gallery in H Queen’s – exhibiting in the company of Pearl, David, Iwan and Manuela – this center will be a phenomenal addition to Hong Kong’s growing arts ecosystem,” says Marc Glimcher. “The arts renaissance that has been underway in Asia for the last 30 years or so has triggered a global shift and brought new energy to artists, collectors, and institutions across the art world. It has been a privilege to play a role in that evolution for the last decade, particularly to work with many of the artists who have shaped that renaissance, and our engagement with the Asian market continues to inform the way we see and work around the world. The opening of the new gallery in Hong Kong represents an important continuation of this commitment to the region, but certainly not the culmination.”
As with the new flagship gallery under construction in New York, the design and development of the new space in Hong Kong has been the product of a vibrant collaboration between Pace leadership and the architects at Bonetti/Kozerski. Pace’s new gallery will occupy a full floor of the H Queen’s building. Spanning 4,800 square feet, the gallery will have flexible wall features, which can be easily shifted to meet the installation needs of a range of media, as well as an over 45-foot-long wall for the presentation of large-scale works.
Following the inaugural exhibition of ceramics, paintings and drawings by Yoshitomo Nara, the new gallery in Hong Kong will present exhibitions dedicated to Mao Yan, Leo Villareal, Robert Rauschenberg, Nigel Cooke, Adam Pendleton, Alexander Calder, and Adrian Ghenie over the course of 2018 and 2019. The upcoming program in Hong Kong will be complemented by exhibitions at Pace’s galleries in Seoul and Beijing featuring Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, Richard Tuttle, Mark Rothko, and Li Songsong.