Shenzhen’s inaugural art week is scheduled to take place between 18 and 24 March, at various exhibition spaces across the city, the South China Morning Post reports.
The acclaimed multimedia artists Liang Shao-ji and Xu Zhen are set to headline. Liang is best known for incorporating silkworms into his work, while Xu is a conceptualist whose body of work spans photography, video and performance.
Venues will include the Sea World Culture and Arts Centre, the OCT Loft creative complex and historic Nantou old town, according to the Post.
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Art Week Shenzhen’s organisers aim to piggyback off Art Basel Hong Kong, which takes place four days afterwards and is likely to attract a number of international collectors to the city – just a 15-minute high-speed train ride from Shenzhen.
“We hope that when collectors from Beijing or Shanghai come for Art Basel Hong Kong, some of them will consider a stopover in Shenzhen,” Art Week Shenzhen’s director, Hu Zijing, told the Post.
Hu said that while 20 galleries and institutions had initially been expected to participate in the event, that number had since doubled.
