Tag Archives: Chinese art market

ArtTactic’s November 2011 report indicates that the outlook on the Chinese art market remains positive, despite weak sales in Sotheby’s and Christie’s 2011 autumn auctions.

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Christie’s Hong Kong November 26 Private Collection Sale provides a dramatic example of single-owner sales’ susceptibility to the faltering Asian art market.

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A rainy night in November 2011 saw the Hong Kong opening of Art Supermarket. We popped in to investigate this new concept store and nabbed an interview with the director.

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In an Observer article, writer Ben Lewis reveals the influence that Charles Saatchi-and his Young British Artists had on the emerging Asian art scene.

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CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET ART HK 11 has joined forces with ArtTactic to publish two art market reports, one focussing on the Chinese art market and the other on the US and European markets. The reports show, perhaps unsurprisingly, that … Continue reading →

We talk to MoMA about 3 photographs by Chinese artists Ai Weiwei, Rong Rong and Huang Yan, on show for the first time since their acquisition by the museum in 2008.

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In it’s 2011 edition, ART HK has reported a gallery attendance of over 250, an enormous number for any fair. We compare this number with that of other fairs around the world.

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Does the addition of a new three-dimensional art catalogue category to Sotheby’s Spring 2011 Asian Contemporary Art sales mean the art form is becoming more collectable?

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Interested in Taiwanese art but struggle to find information? Art Island is a new publication that holds 200+ artist biographies.

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The traditional art of Chinese ink painting has so far received little attention in the international art market. This state of affairs may finally be changing.

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ASIAN ARTISTS CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS ART MARKET Three Chinese artists feature in Artprice’s top 10 of contemporary painters by revenue, alongside four Americans and three Europeans. Artprice claims there is a turn towards ‘‘figurative American and Chinese painting, at the … Continue reading →

Apparently oblivious to the recession, the Chinese art market posted its best-ever six-month auction earnings in the second half of 2009. Reflecting the rising importance of the Middle Kingdom in the world economy, China’s auction houses are claiming more and more spots in the world’s top 10 by revenue. Three of them appear in the Artprice Contemporary Art Market 2009/2010 Annual Report rankings. Continue reading →

Chinese digital artist and photographer Miao Xiaochun held his first solo-show at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany from 15 August to 3 October this year. The show was entitled “Macromania” and showcased a selection of his work from the past ten years. Art Radar had a chance to catch up with him in his studio in Beijing to discuss his latest works, his artistic process and his views on the art market. Continue reading →

The seven day Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2010 sales series was a revealing and record-breaking event. Most artworks sold for well above estimates, mainland Chinese buyers outnumbered those from Hong Kong and Asian art sales eclipsed those of Western art. Art Radar trowels the media to find and summarise the best reports on the sales. Continue reading →

CHINA ART MARKET TRENDS ART COLLECTORS A recent article published on English.news.cn by the Xinhua News Agency has highlighted the emergence of Chinese mainland buyers of high-priced modern and contemporary Western art. The article reports that top art dealers and auctioneers … Continue reading →

SHANGHAI ART FAIR INTERVIEW Colin Chinnery was in a precarious position as the new direction of ShContemporary, the Shanghai art fair, in 2009. The young art fair, having its 3rd incarnation in 2010, faced an uncertain future last year while the … Continue reading →

ART INVESTMENT Earlier this week China Merchants Bank  launched a new ‘art banking’ service for China’s rich says the People’s Daily Online.  The unusual model allows private banking clients to pay a deposit for an artwork and take it away to enjoy … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART MARKET Larry Warsh of AWAsia in New York, a private organisation which provides Chinese contemporary art sourcing and curatorial services to global institutions such as MOMA and the Getty Museum, talks about his take on the outlook for the Chinese art … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART MARKET INTELLIGENCE In July 2008, Chinese art portal Artron published its first 50 plus page industry report Artworks Auction Market of China: Spring 2008. The report is available in English and will be updated quarterly. Analysis is based … Continue reading →

MARKET WATCH GLOBAL ART SALES The growing interest shown by emerging markets (China, the United Arab Emirates, India…) and good performances from traditional markets resulted in spectacular figures for the first half of 2008. This has silenced the sceptics who … Continue reading →