Tai Kwun Contemporary’s BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair is back for its sixth year. Held from 30 August to 1 September 2024, the latest edition hosts the largest number of exhibitors since its inception: over 110 local and international publishers, artists, booksellers and organisations will be featured across all floors of JC Contemporary at Tai Kwun. The three-day event will also feature a robust series of programmes (displays, performances, talks, workshops), together with Code.Xcess in the Artists’ Book Library. The special project explores how artists play with “codes”—using calendars, cartoons, dictionaries, digital programming language, guidebooks, karaoke, and more—to rethink how such structures form and affect our knowledge, understanding, and behaviour.
This year’s BOOKED: promises to be another exciting edition, and features a range of new and returning exhibitors from Hong Kong and abroad, including Printed Matter (New York), The Book Society / mediabus (Seoul), ZINECOOP (Hong Kong), Lubok Verlag (Germany), Center for Art Research and Alliances (New York), Hauser & Wirth Publications (Hong Kong, Zurich), Zen Foto Gallery (Tokyo), one half in (Zhejiang), In Plain Words (Singapore), and more. Various exhibitors in this year’s art book fair present publications that explore the idea of regeneration, be it rediscovering tradition, revitalising talent, or reinventing convention. From new publications to their articulation through timely projects and thought-provoking public programmes, this edition of the fair will offer various cultural and artistic perspectives to reimagine the familiar.
Venue address: JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Central