Upon a very bustling yet memorable opening party of our Banksy exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery would like to thank you for all your continuous support and interest in our events. Undoubtedly it has been our privilege to be able to present the debut solo exhibition of this legendary and globally renowned artist in Hong Kong. This first ever groundbreaking urban art show hosted by Schoeni marks a new chapter for our gallery into the next generation while fortifying our position in the cutting-edge art world.

Schoeni Gets Ready For The Urban Art Scene

Dear Friends of the Gallery,

Upon completion of our participation at the Bridge Art Fair in New York and 'The Chen Family' exhibition at Today Art Museum in Beijing, once again we are bringing focus back to our galleries in Hong Kong. It has definitely been a busy yet compelling period for the gallery with 3 of our spectacular events coming up from the end of April till May, including our gallery's much anticipated first ever urban art show. It will surely be one of the most happening months in 2008 for us at the Schoeni Art Gallery and we look forward to your continuous support in these exciting upcoming events.

Schoeni Art Gallery is delighted to announce our latest exhibition The Chen Family in association with Today Art Museum's gallery in Beijing on 13 April 2008 that will showcase the greatly anticipated work by the Chen family for the second time. By now, many will recognise the familiar faces of Yu Chen's Red Babies Series and Chen Yu's linear rows of multiple selves poised in satirical uniformity. This is, however, the youngest sibling Chen Li's second debut as an artist in his own right, and Schoeni Art Gallery, along with his elder two siblings are united in their support of not only his potential, but also his clearly defined talent.

bridgeArtFair New York 2008 will be at The Waterfront 222 12^th Avenue, New York.

Art London 2007 - the UK's leading art fair for contemporary and modern art - returns in 2007 for its 9^th year.

The fair showcases over 80 leading UK and international galleries - encompassing painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, ceramics and glass - with prices ranging from £500 to £250,000.

The venue is a 65,000 square ft. marquee set in the grounds of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London SW3. Due to the ever increasing number of exhibitors showing historically significant works, the organisers are once again dedicating a section of the fair to twentieth century and modern art.

Asia's most exciting contemporary art fair, Art Beijing 2007, will take place in the heart of Beijing in autumn 2007, with a Preview Evening for invited guests on September 19^th 2007. Along with the development of the Chinese economy, the contemporary art market is expanding rapidly in China. Art Beijing 2007 aims to promote the local Chinese art market and establish itself as the most important contemporary art fair in Asia with world-wide influence and recognition.

There will be a VIP reception on the 19th of September 2007, from 7 - 10 pm. If you would like invitations to this event please contact us before 17 August 2007.

We are proud to announce and congratulate the four artists that we had recommended and submitted to the Sovereign Asian Art Fund Competition 2007 have been selected for the Top 30 Shortlist.

Chen Li and Su Jia Shou were also selected as the Top 30 Shortlist for the Louis Vuitton prize that will be held in conjunction with the 2007 Sovereign Asian Art Prize.

Schoeni Art Gallery is proud to announce that we have sponsored the Today Art Museum's project for supporting young and talented artists called "Green Idea, Green Hope."

Since the inception of the Schoeni Art Gallery, we've seen tremendous growth and dynamism in the contemporary Chinese art market. As we approach the 15^th anniversity of the gallery, we're taking this opportunity to refresh the gallery and to prepare for the future 15 years!

Schoeni Art Gallery is pleased to showcase stunning photographic images of asanas (postures) selected from the book Yoga from the Heart, to mark the official launch of the book.

The book is a collection of four hundred beautifully taken extraordinary asanas chosen from a few thousand, many of which have never been photographed before. Indeed it is the first and only Yoga book featuring the most number of postures and languages in one book.

You may wish to know, that Schoeni Art Gallery has recently generously donated the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation an exquisite piece by Yu Chen.

The Yu Chen, will be auctioned off during their Dinner gala held on the 4^th of May 2007 in Hong Kong. Please also note the deadline for the absentee bid form is 10am, 4th May 2007.

Now in its seventh year, Hong Kong ArtWalk is Hong Kong's biggest art charity event with participants walking from gallery to gallery in the areas including Central, Soho, Sheung Wan, Wanchai and Aberdeen. The date has been set on 7 March 2007, tickets are @HK$420 for adults and @HK$90 for tertiary students; and can be purchased from our branch gallery on 27 Hollywood Road. It will be a fantastic evening to view an array of art from 5 pm to 12 midnight.

Schoeni Art Gallery Ltd is delighted to re-invite Renate Kant, the Artistic Director and Chief Conservator of the Studio for Conservation and Restoration Pte Ltd - SINGAPORE, back to Hong Kong.

Due to the success of last year's informative educational lecture, Every Good Painting Cracks: Art Demands Attention, conservation will become a regularly discussed topic, as we share the common belief in the importance of art preservation and conservation. Due to Hong Kong's climate with its high humidity and pollution levels, it is crucial that we all pay urgent attention to this serious threat of deterioration posed to the lifespan of paintings, and it is crucially important to avoid and stave off the rapid decline of organic materials through environmental damage by taking preventive measures.

Asia's most exciting contemporary art fair, Art Beijing 2006, will take place in the heart of Beijing in autumn 2006, with a Preview Evening for invited guests on October 5th. Along with the development of the Chinese economy, the contemporary art market is expanding rapidly in China. Art Beijing 2006 aims to promote the local Chinese art market and establish itself as the most important contemporary art fair in Asia with world-wide influence and recognition. The art fair will include over 100 art galleries from China, Asia, the USA, Europe and Latin America, offering a window on to the local contemporary art market and recent developments in the art scene.

Schoeni Art Gallery will be participating in this exciting art fair, focusing solely on its exclusive artists; Chen Yu, Chen Li, Dai Dai, Liu Hong Yuan, Shen Hua, Shuai Mei, Wang Yi Guang, Yu Chen, Zhao Fang, Zhang Lin Hai and Zhou Jin Hua.

Highlight: In addition we are delighted to announce that Zhu Yi Yong's highly anticipated exhibition debut entitled Memories will first take place at Art Beijing, where one out of our two booths will be solely devoted to the exhibition of these works. (Exhibition will also take place at Schoeni Art Gallery's main branch in Hong Kong from 9 November - 6 December 2006.)

The motif of the children's game Cat's Cradle is whimsically rendered at the forefront of all the canvases in Memories to great effect, not least for its recollection of Chinas most famous symbol in its history of Revolution, the red star. Pitched starkly into relief by its monochromatic backdrop, the gaps in the vibrant scarlet string, as it is plied apart by bewitchingly posed fingers, are in fact a day-glo portal from which the subject looming in the backdrop peers defiantly out of. Zhu Yi Yong thus artistically detonates this multi-faceted symbol with connotations of a tremulous political past whilst it simultaneously suggests notions of anti-materialism and a vision of renewal in the current climate of change and progress, as it is seen by China's ever growing population.

Zhu Yi Yong Memory of the Past Series No. 6 Oil on Canvas 151.5 x 126.5 cm, 2005

Schoeni Art Gallery is delighted to announce that Zhu Yi Yong's highly anticipated exhibition entitled Memories will be taking place on two different occasions and locations; in Beijing from 6 ¨C 10 October 2006 and Hong Kong from 9 November ¨C 6 December 2006. This will be the 3rd solo exhibition of the prominent professor of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts held at Schoeni Art Gallery Ltd. Hong Kong, and it is with great pleasure that we share with you almost 20 of his newest works contained in the Memories series. For almost a decade, we have been privileged in the closeness with which we have followed Zhu Yi Yong's climb to success, and we are pleased to announce that this series will be debuting at the highly esteemed Art Beijing on the 6th of October 2006, where one out of our two booths will be solely devoted to the exhibition of these works.

Asia's most exciting contemporary art fair, Art Beijing 2006, will take place in the heart of Beijing in autumn 2006.

We are proud to announce and congratulate three artists that we had recommended and submitted to the Sovereign Asian Art Fund Competition 2006.

This year MiArt, International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, which will be held in Milan from 30 March to 2 April 2006, will be focusing on China, which will be the special guest country of this 11^th event.

In response to a growing interest that the Chinese art phenomenon is arousing in Italy and Europe, China will be at the centre of a series of initiatives, leading to the 1 April 2006 round table on the phenomenon of Chinese art, entitled: "CINA INTRA / EXTRA OVEST", coordinated by MiArt and Galleria Continua, curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Now in its sixth year, ArtWalk is Hong Kong's biggest art charity event with participants walking from gallery to gallery in the areas including Central, Soho, Sheung Wan, Wanchai and Aberdeen. The date has been set on Wednesday, 1 March 2006, tickets are @HK$400 for adults and @HK$75 for tertiary students; and can be purchased from our branch gallery on 27 Hollywood Road.

Schoeni Art Gallery has recently returned from a successful trip to Miami Beach and the 16^th Annual Art Miami, the Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, which welcomed 24,000 visitors. The art fair hosted 130 galleries from 27 different countries.

From 6^th - 9^th Jan 2006, Schoeni Art Gallery will have a booth at the Art Miami and will be focusing on four of its exclusive and prized Avant-garde artists; Chen Yu, Shen Hua, Yu Chen and Zhang Lin Hai.

The Schoeni Art Gallery Ltd. is delighted to host an illustrated lecture entitled "Every Good Painting Cracks: Art Demands Attention" by the Director of Renate Kant Studio for Conservation and Restoration Pte Ltd, which will take place on the 1^st of September at the main branch of Schoeni Art Gallery on Old Bailey Street at 7:00pm sharp. Prior to the lecture, guests are also invited by Schoeni Art Gallery for some wine tasting of the South African label Ashanti. This includes their "Hat Range" and premium wines Cabinet Sauvignon and Shiraz. All proceeds from the admission fee will be donated to the Asia Art Archive, a registered charity in Hong Kong.

This month from the 2^nd till the 5^th of May Schoeni Art Gallery had a booth at the 2^nd Annual Chinese International Gallery Exposition, which was held at the Exhibition Hall of the China World Trade Centre.

From 28^th April to 3^rd May 2005, Escada hosted an event called "Scent of a Woman" at their branch on 1 Peking Road, TST, Hong Kong.

I am very proud to announce that my late-father's intentions of having a museum show for Zhang Lin Hai and Wang Yi Dong has been realised.

Schoeni Art Gallery latest international exhibition will be held, in joint vision, with the distinguished MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Germany, where the gallery's exclusive artists Wang Yi Dong and Zhang Lin Hai have been invited to artistically support their contemporaneous leader in Chinese Contemporary Art, Cai Guo Qiang in a three manned show called "Light and Shadow". The exhibition will be held at the museum from the 10^th of May and continues until the 3^rd of July.

We are proud to announce and congratulate four of our artists that we had recommended and submitted to the Sovereign Art Fund Competition 2005.

Established in 2003, The Sovereign Art Foundation Ltd is a registered charity in Hong Kong whose goal is to promote awareness and offer support towards the development of Asian art and artists. In 2004 all funds raised by the charity were donated to the Asian Cultural Council ("ACC") (affiliated to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund) and "The Sovereign Art Foundation Fellowship" was created.

By now, most of you would have heard of the tragic loss of our gallery's founder, Mr. Manfred Schoeni, who passed away on the 2nd of May 2004.

He has left behind his devoted staff, artists, family and friends, who will all miss him. His energy and vigour for life was almost contagious and one could not help but be charged by his charisma. He will live on in all of us.

Steering his dream into reality, in 1992 Schoeni Gallery Ltd, the creation of Manfred Schoeni, opened its doors to the public. Centrally located in the heart of Hong Kong's SOHO area, it was with incredible entrepreneurial vision that Manfred Schoeni forged an unprecedented artistic liaison with China and exhibited their works internationally. Manfred Schoeni's greatest ambition was to devote his life to art, and soon his gallery space, with an impressive 3,000 square feet, became home to some of the first exhibitions of pioneering Chinese and Russian artists.