New model of selling and exhibiting art gives Hong Kong artists more control
- Set up earlier this year, the Hong Kong Arts Collective exhibits wherever will give them space and sells work at whatever price artists want
- The platform addresses issues in Hong Kong like the high rents that see most commercial galleries reluctant to sell art priced lower than US$4,000
A new artists collective plans to exhibit wherever will give them free space and sell work at whatever price the artists want as Hong Kong’s art market becomes increasingly high-end and pushes out those just starting out.
Hong Kong-born Pete Ross and Marc Allante, who both left professional jobs to pursue full-time careers as artists, decided to set up the Hong Kong Arts Collective earlier this year as a platform to give artists more control. The collective is open to all local artists regardless of whether they have gallery representation.
To stay nimble and keep costs down, the collective appeals to property developers to provide discounted, temporary space for pop-up exhibitions.
Its inaugural group exhibition is currently being held at The Nate, a new serviced apartment block in Kowloon’s Jordan area with retail space that has yet to be let.
