2024 Calendar of Events
- Our Late Night Openings: Saturday 2nd November in Kensington Church Street, Sunday 3rd November in St James’s, and Monday 4th November in Mayfair.
- We are thrilled to be holding a one-day Symposium with our Education Partner, SOAS-Alphawood on Sunday 3rd November. Click here to secure your tickets
- Our Gala Party, taking place at the V&A on 30th October. Please click here to purchase your tickets.
- An exciting range of expert-led talks and events.
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Gala Party
Our Gala Party will take place on Wednesday 30th October at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The evening is a chance for guests to mark this year’s edition of Asian Art in London: to socialise with Participants, collectors, museum directors, curators, journalists and friends of Asian Art in London. Tickets are available here.
The evening will be filled with curator-led talks in the main Asian galleries, we will also have a photo booth for your entertainment and the museum shop will be open throughout the evening. Our sponsors, ATG and Apollo, will give out this year’s Art Awards to the winners and our sponsor, The Ritz, will be holding a competition for Afternoon Tea for two. The name of the winner will be drawn after the speeches.
Symposium
This Symposium will take place on Sunday 3 November. The Symposium is co-hosted by the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art and Asian Art in London.
This Symposium brings together curators, scholars, artists and art market specialists to explore diverse perspectives on a variety of media and materials across Asia; specifically: ceramics, textiles and metalwork. Panellists will speak about a range of artworks and objects which can be seen in London during Asian Art in London.
The event will open with a keynote lecture from Professor Stacey Pierson of SOAS University of London, and close with a keynote lecture from Rachel Dedman, Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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London’s major auction houses host commercial Dealer and Gallery exhibitions
14 of Asian Art in London’s Participants will exhibit in these first-class central London locations, providing visitors with a wealth of exhibitions and auction viewings within short walking distance of each other in Mayfair and St James’s.
At Sotheby’s, three prime ground-floor galleries will host twelve Asian Art in London Participants, including first-time Participant, the blue-chip Contemporary gallery, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, with Eastern Exposure: Meaning & Materiality in Contemporary Asian Art. In Sotheby’s Wemyss and St George Street galleries, 11 Participants (ArtChina, Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Fine Art, Hanga Ten, Ming Gu Gallery, Susan Ollemans, Simon Pilling, Runjeet Singh, Jacqueline Simcox Ltd, Schoeni Projects, Slaats Fine Art, Anastasia Von Seibold Japanese Art) will exhibit an exceptional wide-ranging presentation including Vietnamese Fine Art, Japanese Works on Paper, Rare Chinese Silk Textiles, Contemporary Chinese Art, Asian Arms and Armour, and Japanese Design. Christie’s will host returning Taiwanese Gallery, Mo Hai Lou’s contemporary Chinese and Japanese exhibition, Sublimation. Bonhams New Bond Street will host first-time Participant Thang Long Art Gallery, with their post-French colonial era (1954) exhibition: A Glimpse of Vietnam.
Late Night Openings
Late Night Openings will take place in Kensington Church Street, St James’s and Mayfair on Saturday 2nd November, Sunday 3rd November and Monday 4th November respectively. Please check the guidebook here for further details.
Auctions
Bonhams Knightsbridge, Bonhams New Bond Street, Christie’s, Dore & Rees, Lyon & Turnbull, Roseberys and Sotheby’s are hosting no fewer than 21 auctions between them, with auctions spanning Indian & Islamic Art, Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern and South Asian Art, as well as Works of Art and Modern and Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea and South East Asia. Please check the guidebook here for further details.
Curator tours
Asian Art in London is delighted to announce curator-led tours for 2024. We are working teaming up with the likes of London Art Week and SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art to provide lucky visitors with an informative and personal experience. Check out our Events Calendar for details.
FLORA VESTERBERG VIDEO SERIES
Asian Art in London continues its video series with Flora Vesterberg, an art historian and broadcaster. In this episode, Flora visits the inspiring Wallace Collection to learn about two compelling examples of bejewelled Asian arms and armour. She meets Arthur Bijl, the Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour to discuss the two works of art and their significance within a wider collection that includes Sèvres porcelain as well as Venetian paintings by Canaletto and Rococo masterpieces.
Press
Asian Art in London is delighted to work with a variety of the world’s leading publications, both print and digital. Click here for the 2024 Press Lounge.
