The world knows it already: China is leading the game, and Chinese artists are high jacking the market for contemporary art! Art fairs are booming everywhere in Asia: it is no coincidence that the historical Art Basel opened in Hong Kong in 2013 to benefit from the artistic dynamism of the Pacific Asia area! 2011 was the year when China…

The Chinese artistic landscape has quite changed since China opened its gates with Den Xiaoping in the early 90s. A first wave of artists emigrated to Europe and the US after the Tienanmen repression in 1989. They created bastions of resistance against the Chinese intellectual diktat. Then, a second wave of young artists obtained more intellectual liberty. They gathered in particular in 798,…