Cover Jonathan Cheung, Suhanya Raffel, Maria Balshaw and Ed Tang (Photo: courtesy of Jonathan Cheung and Ed Tang)

Jonathan Cheung and Ed Tang invited members of the local and international arts scene to The China Club to fête Balshaw, director of the Tate art museums and galleries

Where? The China Club

When? March 22, 2023

Who? Jonathan Cheung, Ed Tang, Suhanya Raffel, Alan Lo, Victoria Tang-Owen, Dee Poon

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The founders of independent art advisory company, Art Bureau, Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung and members of the Tate International Council hosted the creative community for an intimate soirée at The China Club.

The event was in honour of Maria Balshaw, the director of British art institution, Tate, who had flown in for art week. The event took place early in the art week schedule—and perfect timing too—before the madness of the Art Basel fair and all the afterparties kicked off. Touching speeches by Balshaw, council member Andreas Kurtz, Cheung and Tang set the tone for the evening—which was filled with camaraderie and admiration of one another.

Notable faces among the crowd included Ed Tang’s sister, Victoria Tang-Owen, Alan Lo, Princess Alia Al-Senussi, Dee Poon and Uli Sigg, who were on hand to support Balshaw and other members of the art community in Hong Kong.

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Photo 1 of 17 Andreas Kurtz, Ed Tang, Maria Balshaw and Jonathan Cheung
Photo 2 of 17 Suhanya Raffel, Uli Sigg and Rita Sigg
Photo 3 of 17 Jonathan Cheung, Suhanya Raffel, Maria Balshaw and Ed Tang
Photo 4 of 17 Christopher Owen, Victoria Tang-Owen and Alan Lo
Photo 5 of 17 Cecilia Cheung, Maria Balshaw, Andreas Kurtz, Claire Gylphé and Princess Alia Al-Senussi
Photo 6 of 17 Geoffrey Chuang, Sabrina Ho, Jonathan Cheung, Jieun Kim, Seia Lee, Ed Tang and Boyoung Song
Photo 7 of 17 Marisa Chearavanont and Lawrence Chu
Photo 8 of 17 Kai Yin Lo, Dee Poon and Alan Lau were seen in the crowd
Photo 9 of 17 Rudy Sun, Ellie Lai, Magnew Renfrew and Patrick Sun
Photo 10 of 17 Philip Tinari, Takeo Obayashi, Janice Wang and Magnus Renfrew
Photo 11 of 17 Pauline Yao, Marc Spiegler and Maria Balshaw
Photo 12 of 17 Takeo Obayashi, Suhanya Raffel, Yoshiko Mori, Boyoung Song and Kyoko Mori
Photo 13 of 17 Shareen Khattar Harrison
Photo 14 of 17 Kankuro Ueshima, Kyoko Hattori, Katharina Grosse and Takeo Obayashi
Photo 15 of 17 Magnus Renfrew, Jonathan Cheung, Ed Tang, Janice Wang and Geoffrey Chuang
Photo 16 of 17 Jonathan Cheung, Maja Hoffmann and Ed Tang
Photo 17 of 17 Andreas Kurtz, Maria Balshaw, Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung