K11 Art Foundation
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| Formation | 2010 |
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| Founder | Adrian Cheng |
| Founded at | Hong Kong |
| Website | www |
The K11 Art Foundation (KAF) is a non-profit art foundation registered in Hong Kong that supports the development of Chinese contemporary art from Greater China by providing creative incubation platforms to nurture young talents and brings them to the international stages.
KAF was founded in 2010 by Adrian Cheng, one of the world's youngest billionaires, with a mission to raise the profile of contemporary Chinese art.
KAF aims to promote Chinese contemporary art, and to incubate young Chinese artists and curators through various platforms; with the extensive network and resources of K11 in Hong Kong and Mainland China, it offers the Chinese public a diverse range of programs and exhibitions through research, initiatives and partnerships that foster the appreciation of arts and culture in Greater China.
The K11 Art Village in Wuhan is an example of how promising young artists could establish themselves while making art accessible to all. This is achieved through the Artist-in-Residence Programme, which invites those with passion and a creative, unique thinking to the 11 artist studios in the village. The participants are able to cultivate their artistic accomplishments by making use of the village’s resources and networks. Programmes are also in place to give further support by bringing the artists’ works to the national and international stage.
The K11 Art Village hosts open activities and exhibitions for the artists-in-residence as well as features works of renowned artists to bring art into the community, so that the public could interact with the artists through various performances, screenings or talks.
The village will be relocated to the first K11 Art Mall in Wuhan opening in May 2017, equip with studios, exhibition spaces.
Master of impressionism – Claude Monet
KAF organized, with the Musée Marmottan Monet, the first ever exhibition of Claude Monet in mainland China. The exhibition re-introduced Monet’s illusionistic style of what the artist sees rather than perceives and which gave birth to the Impressionist movement in the late 19th century.
The show included 40 original Monet paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet, including the iconic Water Lily and Wisteria, and 12 original paintings by Impressionist artists Berthe Morisot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Half of the Monet paintings owned by Musée Marmottan Monet, which has the largest collection of Monet's works in the world, were in the exhibition. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Musée Marmottan Monet and held at the Chi K11 Art Museum inside K11 Art Mall in Shanghai, from March 8 to June 15, 2014, and attracted 3409,000 visitors.
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