The art world has a new destination on its 2007 agenda.
ShContemporary the new Asian Pacific contemporary art fair, representing a unique challenge for the global art market, will inaugurate its first edition in Shanghai from 6th to 9th September 2007.
ShContemporary aims to create a key opportunity for networking the best galleries, dealers, artists, collectors and professionals in the Asian Pacific & the top international areas as well as developing and stimulating existing and emerging markets, enabling new interaction between Asian & Western art systems. Created by a strong partnership of three leading experts in the field of modern and contemporary art, international art fairs as well as trade show business.
ShContemporary will be organized by a society whose majority is controlled by BolognaFiere spa, which is one of Europe’s leading fair organizers, presided by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, and highly reputed expert in large scale exclusive lifestyle fairs with branches in the United States, Russia and, particularly China where it has become one of the main foreign trade show organizers.
As owner and organizer of Arte Fiera Bologna,
the most important art show in Italy, it has all the operational know how and infrastructure to run a top art fair. In particular, the organization in China of SH Contemporary will be directed and guaranteed by the BolognaFiere offices in Shanghai.