History of Schoeni Art Gallery
1992 - 2013

Schoeni Art Gallery’s first exhibition was Liu Dahong’s debut solo show, which was held in China Club, Hong Kong.
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Schoeni Art Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in it’s first gallery space at On Hing Terrace, Hong Kong was a group show including 18 contemporary artists from China and Russia, such as Hong Ling, Liu Xiaodong, Wang Yi Dong, Leonid Purygin and Oleg Tselkov.
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A collaboration with Connaught Brown Gallery in London, Schoeni Art Gallery presented Selected Works by 21 European Masters, such as Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Raoul Dufy, David Hockney, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
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Chinese artists Yang Shaobin and Yue Minjun, who have become iconic CCA avant garde of artists today, held their two-men show for the first time in Hong Kong with Schoeni Art Gallery.
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Besides artists from Beijing, Schoeni Art Gallery also provided an exhibition platform for CCA from other regions in China, such as the 6 Sichuan artists in the exhibition; Guo Jin, Guo Wei, He Sen, Xie Nanxing, Xin Haizhou and Zhang Bin.
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This group exhibition of 40 artists was held in collaboration with Galerie Théorèmes (Brussels, Belgium) and was a very important documentation and introduction to the different genres of CCA at the time. A milestone publication was also published that included essays written by important curators and critics.
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Besides exhibitions, Schoeni Art Gallery attended many international art fairs, introducing CCA and Russian artists to the West in the 1990s, such as this art fair in Miami, USA.
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In total, Schoeni Art Gallery published between 1992 – 2013 over 80 publications. In the early years, the gallery took part in Book Fairs such as this one, presenting its then 15 publications as a means to promote and educate the public about its artists.
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Schoeni Art Gallery was a strong advocate for the Realism Artists of CCA, such as the artist Li Guijun. This exhibition was his first solo in Hong Kong. The gallery held three solo exhibitions for this artist and published three publications on each occasion.
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Celebrating the Gallery’s 5th Anniversary, this group exhibition demonstrating the breadth of the artists that that gallery represented and focused on both Chinese and Russian Artists.
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This exhibition was a very important milestone for the gallery where (now) leading avant-garde Chinese artists were encouraged to present a body of work on small canvases that responded to the world order at the time. It was also a travelling exhibition that was shown in Switzerland, Germany, USA, UK and Canada.
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A supporter of women artists within a male dominated art world, Schoeni Art Gallery represented several women artists. This exhibition was a group show of 5 CCA artists. The women met at Beijing’s Central Academy where four of them, Li Hong, Cui Xiu Wen, Feng Jia Li and Yuan Yaomin, formed the artistic group, Siren Art Studio (SAS). The fifth artist Chen Xi was included in the exhibition because of her shared ideals.
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Milestones
1992 - 2013