Established in 2006, Art Beijing has become one of the top art and exhibition brands in all of Asia. This year’s fair hosts more than 150 select exhibitors. More than 350 media agencies cover the event, proving that Art Beijing now ranks among Asia’s most competitive and among China’s most influential art fairs. This year the fair covers more than 25000 square meters of exhibition space, sectioned into four parts – the Contemporary, the Classic and the Design Pavilions, and the public art “Art Park”. 

With the core idea of being “Locally Based and Asia-Oriented”, Art Beijing 2017 consists of contemporary art, design, classic and public art. We have selected a diverse selection of art from over 160 exhibitors from 15 different countries and regions.

Among them is a German-Chinese gallery, Pashmin Art Gallery. This gallery is exhibiting again at the international art fair Beijing. This is the result of a long-standing cooperation with the flourishing Chinese art center and a further sign of the cultural exchange between Eastern and Western culture. This exchange can be strengthened in the form of intercultural dialogue and art becomes an intermediary.

Facing the fluctuation of the contemporary art market, it has steadily maintained the same scale and style as past exhibitions and has integrated all significant artistic forces in China. Art Beijing has also bonded with galleries in the process of development.

Art Beijing receives nearly 100,000 visits each year, reflecting the passion that has grown among the general public for our fair. Ordinary visitors can indulge in the visual pleasures of the fair, as well as the cultural feast that is the diversity of classical, modern and contemporary artworks and design works alike.

China has developed one of the world’s largest art markets with its incomparable breadth and depth. However, the purchasing power in China shouldn’t be ignored by the world. With its profound culture and core values, the art market of China is comparably distinctive to that of others globally. Additionally, the situation of quick success in the Chinese art market through replicating the western operation mechanism and artistic style at the beginning of its development has completely vanished. There are however some notable differences between the artworks offered in comparison to the demand of the art market becoming more professional, rational and diverse in the current economic cycle. Therefore, how to provide a large variety of high-level works based on the market demand while keeping it professional has become not only a question to be answered by galleries and other entities, but also an issue to be studied and should be put under consideration from the fair in the intermediate market between primary and secondary markets.      

The Art Beijing fair was held from April 29 to May 2, 2017. This brings it to its 12th consecutive exhibition organized under the Art Beijing brand. In just twelve years, Art Beijing has experienced the rise and fluctuation of the art market, and the eruption and cool-down of financial crisis, as well as its fair share of criticisms and praises. Now without further ado, here it is.

During the selection of galleries and reviews of art pieces, Art Beijing has taken into account the changes in the demand for art, and has confirmed that the Classical Beijing and Art Beijing are to be held in the same pavilion and platform, as the previous arrangement of the exhibition’s layout and boundaries were not so clearly laid out. Furthermore, artworks are exhibited in different areas based on their style in an attempt to enrich and diversify the exhibition.

Art Beijing first appeared at a time when it was considered rare to consider a gallery as an exhibitor in China, so rare in fact that it was considered groundbreaking to even organize and host a gallery fair in the mainland. Based on the development laws of the mature art markets and the growing rise of collectors in China, it was an inevitable trend to follow for the development of galleries in the primary art market. The appearance of Art Beijing must be best oriented to promote the development of galleries with an agency mechanism to a large degree. Luckily, we grasped the opportunity during the rapid development of galleries to grow and advance with new galleries. Today, galleries have become the most important support in discovering great artists and to nurture their growth. More and more galleries have scattered throughout Beijing and welcome have had more and more visitors learning and appreciate art at its highest level.

Art Beijing embraces the qualities of Beijing as it was born and developed here in the city. In China, Beijing is certainly a center for the arts, as well as a center for creation and transaction of artworks, and accommodates the largest number of artists, galleries, auction houses and other artistic forces. Hence, it has not only become a place displaying the latest development of art in China, but also gradually become a metropolis for the culture and arts in the whole of Asia and has presented the current situation to the whole world