Following success in London, New York and Morocco, African art fair 1-54 will debut in Hong Kong with a March 2024 show at Christie’s to coincide with Art Basel. A full-scale fair will follow in 2025 if the project is successful, says 1-54’s founder Touria El Glaoui, as experts talk about the rise of African art in Asia.
An art fair specialising in works from Africa and its diaspora is launching its first Asian project in Hong Kong next March. The London-based 1-54 fair, so called because there are 54 countries in Africa today, announced on Thursday that it would make its first foray into Asia to provide more access to African art there amid growing interest from the region’s collectors.
“Around 25 galleries will provide artworks for the Hong Kong show, and the exhibition will have 25 to 30 pieces in total,” says Touria El Glaoui, who founded the fair in London in 2013 before launching editions in New York in 2015 and Marrakech, Morocco, in 2018.
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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