Hong Kong was being hit by Covid-19, and also coming off an intense year of protests that sometimes became violent. Jhunjhnuwala and Mr.Glavatsky-Yeadon, 29, a British freestyle skier who competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics, organized a F.art Basil (Free Art Basel) exhibition to boost morale. In 2020, after hearing that Art Basel Hong Kong was canceled, Mr. The Young Soy Gallery itself was born from a joke. Chandiramani’s work, giving the show a playful edge. Chandiramani’s exhibition opening, hiring a bartender to create a variation on a White Russian topped with the cereal brands depicted in Ms. Knowing their audience, the gallery’s millennial founders also added a culinary dimension to Ms. They see the artists whose work they show as “philosophers, educators, rebels, visionaries, perhaps even degenerates.”Īs Hong Kong continues to position itself as an international art hub - opening the contemporary art museum M+ and the Palace Museum, and promoting its prowess and significance on the global art scene - Young Soy and other new galleries are looking to transcend the idea that art should come in a cold, intimidating cookie-cutter white cube space that only caters to the wealthy. The gallery’s strong mission statement, or manifesto, is to be inclusive, unconventional in their approach, and to cultivate artists with potential to claim a position in art history.
“Young Soy” is Cantonese slang for ugly, and the “ugly” gallery is determined to shake up the conservative local art scene. Now it has a new purpose, as a gallery space for a new venture - the Young Soy Gallery.
3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari. There has been soul-searching, and freshness injected with the addition of some radical (for this city) young newcomers.Īt No. HONG KONG - The art scene here was largely closed off to the world for three years, but the city’s self-imposed pandemic isolation has been an unexpected boon to the local art scene.
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