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Since opening ShanghART in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai in 1996, Lorenz has been friend and mentor to scores of artists, including Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead, among many others. Sardonic and understated, Helbling’s Swiss roots are routinely noted but as Zhou Tiehai comments, “Lorenz has long been one of us”. >> Read more

This fall, Shanghai’s profusion of events made it almost seem like the central hub of contemporary art in China. Here is an overview of what happened—with more coverage to come later. 
 
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One of London's leading contemporary art gallerists, Simon Lee opened his eponymous gallery in 2002 and fortuitously expanded to Hong Kong in 2012, where the gallery has quickly gained a reputation for rigorously curated exhibitions of leading international artists including Cindy Sherman, Angela Bulloch and Hans Peter Feldmann. >> Read more

Almine Rech is one of the leading gallerists in Paris and Brussels, and had early on developed a strong taste for conceptual and minimalist art, including presenting James Turrell's first commercial show in Europe. Other important solo shows have included John McCracken, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons and now Liu Wei... >> Read more

Esther Schipper, one of the most influential gallerists in Europe, represents many of the artists who have come to dominate the intellectual scene in what is often described as “relational aesthetics,” a term Schipper herself eschews. >> Read more