HONG KONG.- Pace Gallery announced the opening of the second space in Hong Kong in the H Queen’s building, an award-winning development on 80 Queen’s Road Central, by end of the year. Having recently expanded into Korea with the opening of Pace Seoul, the gallery looks forward to a greater reach throughout Asia and beyond.

The new space at H Queen’s will showcase a strong line up of exhibitions by the most prominent artists represented by Pace Gallery, including Julian Schnabel, Chuck Close, David Hockney, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Ufan, Adrian Ghenie, Robert Mangold, Li Song song, Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun. The existing gallery in The Entertainment Building will continue to operate, with exhibitions by Leo Villareal, Kevin Francis Gray and Prabhavathi Meppayil which are confirmed for 2017.

As one of the world’s leading galleries, Pace has long been deeply involved with Asian artists and the Asian art environment which is an important component of its global strategy. The gallery opened the 2,500 square meter Pace Beijing in 2008 as the headquarters for their Asia operations. During Art Basel Hong Kong in 2014, Pace opened Pace Hong Kong in the Entertainment building, using the city's status as an international hub to establish closer connections to collectors in Asia and around the world. Pace Seoul, founded in 2017, aims to establish an additional foundation and new entry point for the gallery’s growing presence in Asia.

‘Since 2008, when we opened Pace Beijing, it has become clear that we needed a space in Hong Kong, which has undoubtedly become a key center in the global art world. Collectors and the curatorial community rely on Hong Kong as a place where they can see important work being made by artists around the world,’ says Marc Glimcher, President of Pace Worldwide. ‘In 2014, we opened a small gallery in Central where we have showcased a number of exciting exhibitions and artists to the audience here. Now with the advent of the H Queen’s building, the opportunity to open a new space which is curated specifically for major exhibitions of our Asian and western artists was timely and the next step to our expansion strategy.’

‘In the past three years, Pace Gallery has established extensive networks in Hong Kong, and realises the increasing importance the diversity here can present,’ says Leng Lin, Pace Asia Partner and President of Pace Beijing and Pace Hong Kong. ‘H Queen’s provides us the opportunity to step up into a more prominent role in the art market here, and through this new outlet, we hope to create more connection between the contemporary art scene in Asia and the West.’