Art Basel Hong Kong, Chine

Since its explosion at the end of the 20th century, Chinese contemporary art doesn't cease questioning and enthralling the amateurs. The art fair  of contemporary art of Hong Kong has established itself since 2008 as the most important artistic event of Asia. The event 2013 will be taken back by Art Basel, the biggest and the most renowned of the fairs of contemporary art which adds so the Asiatic metropolis its addresses of Basel and of Miami Beach. Before it, direction Beijing and Shanghai to discover artists' workshops, ancient plants transformed into galleries, to meet specialists...

16 days, on May 11th, 2013, 6250 euro

The strong points of this exceptional trip: 

► Beijing - Shanghai - Hong Kong

3 key places for Chinese contemporary creation. 3 fantastic cities which change every day: Beijing since 2008, and summer Olympic Games. Shanghai since 2010, and the last world fair. Hong Kong since always!

In every city we prepared you of appointments with specialists, visits of workshops, neglected museums, renowned galleries.

But you will also visit the places impossible to miss of imperial Beijing, of Shanghai art deco or futurist, of cosmopolitan Hong Kong.

► amazing hotels,

well far from negative plates on Chinese hotel business, you will domicile in places where creativity and innovation burble, in districts close to the most interesting sites.

► Hong Kong Art Fair

The first Asiatic edition of the most prestigious fair of contemporary art will indeed be an event. You will benefit from a personal invitation to preview day and to private view, as well as from a permanent entrance to the fair. You will also leave to the discovery of the best galleries and of the places of creation of the city. Because Hong Kong, who was always in full economic boom, is now in full cultural boom. And prepare a lot of surprises for future.

► classical Beijing

The prohibited City, Tian An Men, the biggest place of the world, the small palaces and temples of the city steak tartare nestled

around lakes, Chinese city and nicest temple of the city, the Temple of the Sky and the Temple of the Lamas: Beijing not

miss no trumps to entice you, and the old heart resists to galloping urbanization. 

► contemporary Beijing

Artists' communities outside the city, artistic districts of Dashanzi with UCCA (Ulles Center for Contemporary Art) and from Caochangdi, galleries of photographs, Today Art Museum (TAM), National Art Museum of

(NAMOC), and the first Skyspace of China bargain-hunted that the American artist James Turrell inaugurated at the end of 2011 in a magical place...

► classical Shanghai

This city kaleidoscope kept the traces of the numerous cultures which it accommodated in its buildings