Swire Properties x art-partners Art Basel Lounge Talks Programme 2017

Speakers Profile

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Swire Properties Lounge Talks Programme

The Swire Properties Lounge at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017 is an intriguing and welcoming space where invited guests can engage

with new ideas about art, architecture, design, fashion and the built environment, and participate in panel discussions with some of the

world's most distinguished opinion leaders.

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Talk 1 - "Art and Technology“ Mar 22 (Wed) 11AM

Technology has always provided artists with new ways to express themselves, but how is it affecting the production, appreciation and value perception of art today? The digital technology revolution makes it easier to create and share art, but with all the tools and techniques available are we in danger of losing our sense and ability to distinguish between that which is great art with enduring value and that which is merely a trivial piece of entertainment?

Moderator: Amira GAD, Exhibition Curator, Serpentine Galleries Speakers: Peter BORIS, Executive Vice President, Pace Gallery Takashi KUDO, Communication Director, teamLab Freya MURRAY, Program Manager and Creative Lead, Google Arts and Culture Lab

Amira GAD, Exhibition Curator, Serpentine Galleries

Amira Gad is Exhibitions Curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London, where she has curated

exhibitions of works by Zaha Hadid (2016), Helen Marten (2016), Simon Denny (2015), Jimmie

Durham (2015), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2015)’s show that received the Sky Arts Award for

visual arts, Julio Le Parc (2014) and Reiner Ruthenbeck (2014). Gad also worked on

Serpentine’s 2016 Architecture Programme that included architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG),

Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi (NLE), Yona Friedman, and Barkow Leibinger. Together with Hans

Ulrich Obrist, she co-curated the group exhibition Hack Space that was presented, in 2016, at the

K11 Art Foundation’s pop-up space in Hong Kong and the chi K11 art museum in Shanghai. Prior

to this, Gad was Managing Curator & Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

in Rotterdam where she worked from 2009 to 2014 and where she curated exhibitions and public

programmes including the show The Temptation of AA Bronson (2014) that received the AICA

Best Exhibition of the Year Award. Outside of the Serpentine Galleries, curated exhibitions

include Considering Dynamics & the Forms of Chaos with artists Angela Bulloch and Maria

Zerres at the Sharjah Art Museum (2016); Blue Times at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria

(2014-2015). She was also curator at Fogo Island Arts of the conference series that took place on

Fogo and in Vienna at the MAK. She is a regular contributor to artists catalogues and has edited

a number of books on contemporary art including the title Character is Fate: Mondrian’s

Horoscopes that received the Dutch Best Book Design Award. Gad is also Commissioning Editor

for Ibraaz (ibraaz.org), an online platform dedicated to visual culture in the Middle East and North

Africa.

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Peter BORIS, Executive Vice President, Pace Gallery

Peter Boris is the Executive Vice President at Pace Gallery. He has worked

extensively with private clients and public institutions, organizing exhibitions in the

United States, Europe, and Asia. Peter oversaw the launch of Pace Beijing in

2008 and continues to help coordinate the gallery’s strategy for Asia and the

Middle East. In 2014, Peter organized the first U.S. exhibition of teamLab, a

collaborative of digital artists based in Tokyo. Since then he has helped organize

teamLab’s “Living Digital Space and Future Parks” in Menlo Park and

“Transcending Boundaries,” recently opened in London. He has been an advocate

for Pace’s growing involvement with art and technology. His particular interest in

this emerging field of art practice is focused on its cross discipline, cross cultural

aspects and its potential for developing credible platforms for mass audience

participation.

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Takashi KUDO, Communication Director, teamLab

Takashi Kudo, Communication Director of teamLab was born in Tokyo in 1977. teamLab is a collective, interdisciplinary creative group that brings together professionals from various fields of practice in the digital society: artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, web and print graphic designers and editors. Referring to themselves as ultratechnologists, the group aims to go beyond the boundaries between art, science, technology and creativity, through co-creative activities.

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Freya MURRAY, Program Manager and Creative Lead, Google Arts and Culture Lab

Freya Murray is the Program Manager and Creative Lead at the Google Arts and Culture Lab in Paris / London. The Lab is a place where tech and creative communities come together to share ideas and discover new ways to experience art and technologies. Prior to Google, Freya ran Stamp-House, an arts development consultancy, working with artists, arts organisations, brands and broadcasters to develop and produce a range of creative projects, working at the intersection of art and technology. Before then, Freya was an Arts Manager at Sky TV working on Sky's off air investment in the arts, where she set up the Sky Academy Arts Scholarships to support emerging artists aged 18 – 30.

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Talk 2 - “The Future of Funding the Arts” Mar 22 (Wed) 2PM Hong Kong has seen the rapid development of the arts and culture supported by institutional infrastructure spending but the costs of running art organisations and the daily production of art has outpaced any increases in public funding. Individual artists and arts organisations have had to focus on raising private funds to meet their own artistic and financial needs and sustain their growth. Are other alternatives available?

Moderator: Yana PEEL, CEO, Serpentine Galleries Speakers: Leong CHEUNG, Executive Director, Charities and Community, Hong Kong Jockey Club Jenny MOORE, Director, Chinati Foundation Philip TINARI, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Yana PEEL, CEO, Serpentine Galleries

Yana Peel is CEO of the Serpentine Galleries, London, one of the most recognised organisations in the global contemporary art, design and architecture worlds. Prior to this she ran Intelligence Squared Group, the leading forum for live debate.

Having co-founded Outset Contemporary Art Fund in 2003 as a hub for creative funding solutions for cultural projects, Peel maintains advisory positions across the arts that include: Tate, British Fashion Council, V-A-C Foundation Moscow, Lincoln Center and Asia Art Archive. At ParaSite Art Space and Intelligence Squared, she serves as board co-chair.

Peel is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a regular contributor to the Davos Annual Meeting and DLD, particularly on topics at the intersection of technology and visual art. Her two children provide inspiration for her best-selling book series, Art for Baby, which benefits the National Society for the Protection against Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).

Most recently, she was named by the South China Morning Post as one of "10 Outstanding Women for this Year", selected by Debrett’s as one of “Hong Kong’s 100 People of Greatest Influence” and featured in the Evening Standard Progress 1000.

Peel was born in St Petersburg, Russia, attended McGill University, completed her post-graduate studies in Economics at LSE, and started her career at Goldman Sachs.

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Leong CHEUNG, Executive Director, Charities and Community, Hong Kong Jockey Club

Joined in 2014, Mr Leong Cheung is the Executive Director of Charities and Community at The Hong Kong Jockey Club, managing a philanthropic portfolio with close to HK$ 4 billion annual donation through the Club’s Charities Trust for the betterment of Hong Kong.

Over the years, the Club has been a staunch supporter of Hong Kong arts, culture and heritage. In 2007, The Club announced to take on the Central Police Station Revitalisation Project to conserve and revitalise one of the largest remaining heritage sites in Hong Kong into a new cultural destination for all to enjoy. The Club also helps keep alive intangible heritage like the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, Tai O Traditional Dragon Boat Water Parade and Cheung Chau Jiao Festival to enable such century-old practices and values will be passed to our next generation.

Mr Cheung has had extensive experience before joining the Club and held various senior positions in business, most recent being an operating partner of Bain Capital. Besides professional career, he has been serving the community in multiple public appointments including University council, the Elderly Commission, the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation and the like.

Curious in literature and history, Mr Cheung is an amateur marathoner and co-founded an innovative social enterprise, RunOurCity. He graduated from Harvard Business School with a Master in Business Administration.

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Jenny MOORE, Director, Chinati Foundation

Jenny Moore is Director of the Chinati Foundation, a contemporary art museum founded by the artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Prior to her appointment at Chinati, Moore was Associate Curator at the New Museum in New York City, where she curated Pictures from the Moon: Artists’ Holograms 1969–2008 (2012) and solo presentations of the work of Charles Atlas, Ellen Altfest, Erika Vogt, Stanya Kahn, and Brian Bress. She also co-organized Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos (2012), NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (2013) and Chris Burden: Extreme Measures (2013). From 2005 to 2010, Moore was Project Curator for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In addition, she was Exhibitions Coordinator and Assistant Curator for 10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennial (2010), working with Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni.

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Philip TINARI, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

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Philip Tinari has served as director of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), the museum at the heart of Beijing's 798 Art District, since late 2011. In his five-year tenure, he has mounted more than sixty exhibitions and organized a wide range of public programs and development activities. His program has introduced to China major international artists including Robert Rauschenberg, William Kentridge, Taryn Simon, and Tino Sehgal, and has tracked the evolving Chinese art scene through retrospectives and surveys of artists including Zeng Fanzhi, Liu Wei, Xu Zhen, Wang Xingwei, Kan Xuan, and Gu Dexin, as well as initiatives focused on emerging artists such as the 2013 survey “ON | OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice” and the ongoing exhibition series “New Directions.” Prior to joining UCCA, he was founding editor of LEAP, the internationally distributed, bilingual art magazine published by the Modern Media Group. He is a contributing editor of Artforum, having previously served as founding editor of that magazine's online Chinese edition, artforum.com.cn. Tinari was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015 and to the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in 2016. He is currently a D.Phil. candidate in art history at Oxford and co-curator, with Alexandra Munroe, of the exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” which opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in October 2017.

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Talk 3 – ‘’Art and Soul of the City“ Mar 22 (Wed) 4PM Cities have cosmopolitan vitality and a critical mass of people that can both enliven the urban experience and lead to dissent and social problems. Can art, architecture and design be a catalyst for social transformation? Can they contribute directly to economic and social development and create a better and more empowered city for everyone or are they only window dressing? Moderator: Jan DALLEY, Arts Editor, Financial Times Speakers: Brendan CORMIER, Lead Curator, V&A Gallery, Shekou at Design Society Hugh DUTTON, Architect, Hugh Dutton Associés LU Xun, Founder, Sifang Art Museum Hans Ulrich OBRIST, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

Jan DALLEY, Arts Editor, Financial Times

Jan Dalley is the arts editor of the Financial Times, appointed in November 2004. She joined the FT in 1999 as the literary editor. Previously, she was literary editor of the Independent on Sunday for eight years, and has written arts and literary journalism for fifteen years. Before becoming a journalist, she worked in publishing. Jan has judged literary prizes including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread, the Hawthornden prize and the Encore Prize. Her latest book is Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire, a study of the Black Hole of Calcutta, published by Penguin in 2006. In 1999 she published a biography of Diana Mosley. Jan appears regularly on television and radio and has been a guest on BBC’s Newsnight, Today Programme, Front Row and the Saturday Review.

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Brendan CORMIER, Lead Curator, V&A Gallery, Shekou at Design Society

Brendan is the lead curator for the V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shenzhen, China. The gallery features over 250 objects from the museum’s permanent collection and explores broad themes concerning value and design. In 2015, he also co-curated Unidentified Acts of Design, which appeared at the Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale in Shenzhen, as well as the V&A’s Tsui Gallery in London. The exhibition attempted to locate acts of creativity and design taking place in Shenzhen not typically associated with the design field. In 2016, he also curated A World of Fragile Parts for the inaugural Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which explored how copies could be soon as a tool for the preservation and perpetuation of material culture. Prior to working at the V&A, he served as the managing editor of Volume magazine, an international quarterly on architecture and urbanism. He writes regularly for books and magazines on design and architecture.

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Hugh DUTTON, Architect, Hugh Dutton Associés

Hugh Dutton founded HDA in 1995, a Paris-based design studio. He qualified as an architect at the Architectural Association in London in the early 80’s. Hugh began his professional experience in Paris with Peter Rice, an engineer known for his inventiveness, notably for the Sydney Opera house and Pompidou Center. HDA’s designs, are generally iconic features where these multidisciplinary skills contribute to cohesive, holistic design fragments. Examples include well-known European iconic cultural works in such as the Louvre museum, the Acropolis museum and the recent Paris Philharmonie and the Brickell City Centre Climate Ribbon in Miami in association with Arquitectonica, the inspiration for the design of the Swire Properties Art Basel Lounge 2016.

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LU Xun, Founder, Sifang Art Museum

Lu Xun is an art collector who lives and works in Nanjing, China. Graduated from Cambridge University in 2008, he started his collection of contemporary art in 2009 and in 2013 he founded and opened the new Sifang Art Museum collaborating with American architect Steven Holl. He has a specific interest in working closely with architect and artist, commissioning over forty site specific buildings and permanent installations in Sifang park. Recently, sifang was nominated by New York Times “World’s Top Cultural Destinations” and Lu Xun was named by Apollo magazine top 40 most inspiring young people under 40 years old in Asia Pacific, and by Artnet world’s top 100 art collectors. He is a member of Tate modern’s acquisition board.

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Hans Ulrich OBRIST, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 300 shows. So far in 2016, Obrist has co-curated at the Serpentine Galleries solo shows for Michael Craig-Martin, Simon Denny, Hilma af Klint, DAS INSTITUT, Alex Katz, and Etel Adnan. In 2014 he curated the Swiss Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, where he presented Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price—A stroll through a fun palace; the building was designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the program was developed with artists Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, Tino Sehgal and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Obrist's Art of Handwriting project is taking place on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hansulrichobrist/) and is a protest against the disappearance of handwriting in the digital age.

In 2013, Obrist co-founded with Simon Castets the 89plus, a long-term, international, multi-platform research project, conceived as a mapping of the digitally native generation born in or after 1989. In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2009 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and in 2015 he received the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals. Obrist’s recent publications include Conversations in Mexico, Conversations in Colombia, Ways of Curating, The Age of Earthquakes with Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar, and Lives of The Artists, Lives of The Architects.

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Talk 4 - "Public Art and the City” Mar 23 (Thu) 2PM Creative cities are made up of individual neighbourhoods that all offer a diverse range of structures, open spaces and community places, and a diverse range of living, working and recreational activities at different times of the day and night. These things are what make the best cities truly liveable. Good public art is an important part of this creative diversity but what is good and how do we get it? Moderator: Tim MARLOW, Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts Speakers: Michael LIN, Artist Andrew MEAD, Chief Architect (ARBUK), MTR Corporation Limited, Hong Kong Mathias RASTORFER, CEO and Co-Owner, Galerie Gmurzynska

Tim MARLOW, Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts

Tim Marlow joined the Royal Academy of Arts in 2014 as Artistic Director. His remit includes the RA’s exhibition programme and Collection, as well Learning, Architecture and Publishing. Prior to this Marlow was Director of Exhibitions at White Cube (2003-2014).

He has worked with many of the most important and influential artists of our time including, Antony Gormley RA, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume RA, Anselm Kiefer Hon RA, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Chuck Close, Tracey Emin RA, Gilbert & George, Julie Mehretu and Doris Salcedo.

Marlow is an award-winning radio and television broadcaster who has presented over 100 documentaries on British television. He was the founder editor of Tate magazine and is the author of numerous books and catalogues. He has lectured, chaired and participated in panel discussions on art and culture in more than forty countries.

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Michael LIN, Artist

Michael Lin (b. 1964) is an artist who lives and works in Taipei. Lin turns away from the idea of painting as object of contemplation towards one of painting as a bounded, physical space, one we can settle into and inhabit. Lin orchestrates monumental painting installations that reconceptualize and reconfigure public spaces. His works, which use patterns and designs appropriated from traditional textiles, have been exhibited in major institutions and international biennials around the world, including: the Venice Biennial; MoMA PS1, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Vancouver Art Gallery; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and most recently at the Museum of Art and Design, Manila. Transforming the institutional architecture of the public museum, his unconventional paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces, and to become an integral part of the work, giving meaning to its potential as an area for interaction, encounter and re-creation.

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Andrew MEAD, Chief Architect (ARBUK), MTR Corporation Limited, Hong Kong

Mr. Andrew Mead has been MTR's Chief Architect since 2013. He is responsible for the architectural design of all new MTR stations, trains and transit facilities with a special focus on raising the MTR's transit design standards. In addition, he oversees the critically acclaimed Art in MTR programme. Prior to joining the MTR, Mr. Mead worked for the Land Transport Authority of Singapore. During the course of his 30-year career in the transit sector, the London-born Mr. Mead has been responsible for the design of over 200 metro and light rail stations in London, Toronto, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong.

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Mathias RASTORFER, CEO and Co-Owner, Galerie Gmurzynska

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Mathias Rastorfer, born in 1961, is CEO and Co-Owner of Galerie Gmurzynska Zurich, St. Moritz and Zug. Rastorfer worked during the Eighties in New York with Annina Nosei and Hirschl and Adler that led him to a managing director post of New York’s Pace gallery. After moving back to Europe with his family in 1991, he joined Galerie Gmurzynska, becoming eventually partner in 1996. Serving on various fair committees Mathias Rastorfer was the first non-French member of the FIAC selection committee. He currently serves as on the selection committee of Art Basel Hong Kong and on the joint committee for all three Art Basel fairs.

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Talk 5 -‘’From Private Collecting to Public Institution.” Mar 24 (Fri) 2PM Unlike national art collecting institutions that are generally mandated to reflect a national culture and thus need to somehow be broadly representative of styles, schools and disciplines, private collections have no such limitations. Private collections are a reflection of the personal preferences of the individual whose collection it is. What happens when these collections become part of the public realm? What role do they play in making taste? Moderator: Charlotte APPLEYARD, Director of Development, Royal Academy of Arts Speakers: Budi TEK, Founder of Yuz Foundation and Yuz Museum

Charlotte APPLEYARD, Director of Development, Royal Academy of Arts

Charlotte Appleyard is Director of Development at the RA. She previously worked at Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and in the curatorial departments at The National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2012 she published "Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook" a history and survey of corporate collections. She is a graduate of Oxford University, the Courtauld Institute and Harvard Business School. She also sits on the board of Trustees with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

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Budi TEK, Founder of Yuz Foundation and Yuz Museum

Mr. Budi Tek is a Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur, philanthropist and collector who founded Yuz Foundation in 2007, dedicated to contemporary art from China and the rest of the world. It aims to popularize international contemporary art through its ideas, collections, museums, sponsorship and academic projects. In 2008, Yuz Foundation established the first private museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2014, Yuz Museum was formally settled in West Bund in Xuhui District, Shanghai under the umbrella of Yuz Foundation.

Budi Tek was born in Jakarta, and grew up in Singapore to become a successful entrepreneur specializing in agriculture. In 2004, he became obsessed with the contemporary art and began to study art collection. Over a decade, as a top Asian collector, he built up Yuz Collection, which balances equally art from the East and the West. For Budi Tek, art is a sensory experience that is more important than the object itself.

So he generously exhibits and often lends art works from Yuz Collection to other accredited art institutions in order to raise the profile of Yuz Collection and create understanding of contemporary Chinese art worldwide.

Besides collecting, he has also donated valuable Chinese artworks from Yuz Collection to world-class museums under the name of Yuz Foundation, to bring Asian cultural art to the world stage, such as the donation of an oil painting by Ding Yi to Centre Pompidou in May 2015, as well as the donations to Brooklyn Museum New York previously. Mr. Budi Tek has sponsored international museums like Moma, New York, Tate Modern London, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and artist projects spanning across the globe such as Adel Abdessemed: Je Suis Innocent (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2012), Zeng Fanzhi Solo Exhibition (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, 2013), Xu Bing’s exhibition Things Are Not What They First Appear (SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA, 2015)

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Talk 6 - “Art X Brand” Mar 25 (Sat) 11AM

Luxury brands have conquered large parts of the world and like many empires before them memorialise themselves with spectacular landmark buildings and stunning interior designs, but are art and luxury businesses truly compatible? Do wealth and the global marketing power of a brand result in a positive influence on art and culture? Does a brand’s involvement in art boost their cultural clout in the long term or is art-based brand integration just a trend?

Moderator: Rosalind CHIN, Reporter, Bloomberg Television Speakers: Axelle DE BUFFÉVENT, Style Director, Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët CJ HENDRY, Artist collaborating with Christian Louboutin Elsa RAMEAU, Managing Director, Hong Kong and Macau, Hermes

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Rosalind CHIN, Reporter, Bloomberg Television

Rosalind Chin is a reporter for Bloomberg Television. Based in Hong Kong, Rosalind provides in-depth reports on business and current affairs across the Asia-Pacific. Rosalind has reported from the frontlines of major events across the region including China's National People's Congress meetings, Hong Kong's pro-democracy "Occupy" demonstrations and the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

An accomplished field producer, Rosalind oversaw Bloomberg Television's coverage of the Malaysia elections in 2013 as well as multiple World Economic Forum meetings in Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and several in China. She was also a series producer of Bloomberg's talk show series High Flyers.

Prior to Bloomberg Television, Rosalind held various roles with CNN, Reuters and the BBC World Service. Born and raised in London, she received her Masters in Pacific Asian Studies from London University's School of Oriental & African Studies and undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics.

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Axelle DE BUFFÉVENT, Style Director, Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët

Trained in Arts, Axelle de Buffévent has built herself for about 20 years a unique expertise in the business world, while watching to maintain the integrity of the creative people with whom she collaborates. After a Master in Design at ESAG Atelier Met of Penninghen in Paris, Axelle is Creative Director for luxury tableware houses, luxury American, Japanese and French cosmetic brands before becoming MMPJ Style Director in 2012. She forges for Martell Mumm and Perrier-Jouët houses strong and coherent visual identities, thanks to her experience in Design and creation. Image consistency, relevance and creativity of all proposals, and perfection in execution are her main missions. She provokes and guides the creative collaborations with Designers and world-famous or emergent Artists, whom she chooses and manages personally.

Among others, Axelle recently managed for MMPJ, collaborations with the Designers and Artists Ross Lovegrove, Tord Boontje, Yorgo Tloupas, Klein Dytham, Aldo Bakker, Glithero, mischer' traxler, Bernar Venet, Vik Muniz, Brochet-Lajus-Pueyo, Matsys...

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CJ Hendry, Artist collaborating with Christian Louboutin

CJ Hendry is a New York-based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia who transforms her fascination with contemporary material culture into large scale, photo realistic black-and-white drawings of consumer goods ranging from the ordinary to the aspirational. A self professed “lover of products, "Hendry is heir to the Pop art tradition that brought depictions of everyday objects into the gallery and museum. But where's the Pop artists were often known for sly, sarcastic critiques of midcentury consumerist culture. Hendry gleefully embraces the capitalist ethos of our time-in particular, the valorization of the entrepreneur, the ascription of personalities and values to brands; and the new authority of views and “impressions "as measures of influence. After spending seven years unenthusiastically studying architecture and finance in the belief that a degree was a prerequisite for success, Hendry finally abandoned the endeavor to pursue art full time in 2014.Within months she sold her first work. After a group exhibition and two solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne, in 2015 she moved from Australia to establish her New York Studio. Her debut New York show, the forthcoming “Trophy Room” debuted in the fall of 2016.

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Elsa RAMEAU, Managing Director, Hong Kong and Macau, Hermes

In 2010, Elsa RAMEAU was appointed as Managing Director of Hermès Asia Pacific Limited overseeing the management, operations and business development of 11 Hermès Stores in Hong Kong and Macau.

Elsa joined Hermès in 1998 as Assistant to Gloves Department Manager for Hermès Sellier in France. In 1999, she took the role of Assistant to Sales Manager on fashion products for Hermès Greater China based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, she was also in charge of training on all Hermès products for South-East Asia.

Upon returning to Paris in 2003, Elsa was assigned as Fashion Trade Coordinator, advising and coordinating purchases for the 18 subsidiaries in France. After three years, she was promoted to Deputy Manager of the Hermès flagship store at 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

In 2008, Elsa RAMEAU took on the responsibility as the Manager of the flagship store, managing over 200 salespersons, 9 sales sectors and 3 supporting teams.

A graduate of ISEM (European Superior Education Fashion Institute), part of the ESMOD International Group, Elsa also holds a Master Degree in Fashion Studies & Researches from University Lumière Lyon II. In June 2016, Elsa accomplished her Kellogg HKUST Executive MBA.

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