When the free bloom of art meets the professional safeguard of law

From December 4 to 7, 2025, Art Shenzhen Contemporary Art Fair—the annual flagship event of China’s contemporary art world—was once again held successfully. Following the establishment of a long-term legal cooperation partnership in 2024, Tahota Law Firm continued to act as the exclusive legal service provider for Art Shenzhen this year. With more targeted and cutting-edge legal services, we have laid a solid legal foundation for the high-quality development of the art ecosystem in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

From Consensus to Symbiosis: The Profound Accumulation of Long-Term Cooperation

This time last year, we kicked off the long-term collaboration between Tahota Law Firm and Art Shenzhen with a signing ceremony and a thought salon.

"Law Enhances the Beauty of Art" is more than just a slogan; it has become the guiding principle that runs through all our actions. As a benchmark player specializing in legal services for the cultural and art sectors, we have always focused on the core pain points of the art market. We provide full-process legal support for the fair, covering everything from the compliance of artwork transactions and the standardization of exhibition services to risk control for brand cooperation and safeguards for operation and management.

This approach is highly aligned with Art Shenzhen’s philosophy of "building a high-quality platform for the contemporary art market", and it has turned our original aspiration of "Law Enhances the Beauty of Art" into tangible professional practice.

This year, the cooperation between the two parties has entered a new stage of in-depth synergy. This is another important art event where Tahota lawyers provide professional services following their successive engagements with Art Beijing, Shanghai Art021, Hong Kong Art Fair, Art Chengdu, and other major art exhibitions.

Tahota's Cultural and Art Legal Center boasts dozens of top-tier lawyers specializing in cultural and art legal services. It has long provided legal support to renowned domestic and international art museums, leading galleries, well-known domestic and foreign artists, auction houses, art foundations, and other entities. The center has successfully represented dozens of domestic and international art dispute litigations and arbitrations, setting numerous industry precedents.

Leveraging Tahota's office network covering 36 major domestic and foreign cities, we will fully support Art Shenzhen, making law a solid backbone for the freedom of artistic creation, fairness of art transactions, and stability of the art market.

ART SHENZHEN

As a key project of the "1+N" exhibition series of the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair, Art Shenzhen was founded in 2013 and designated as a contemporary art fair in 2015. Over the past decade, Art Shenzhen has been committed to building a high-quality platform for the contemporary art market and actively participated in the development of Shenzhen’s contemporary art ecosystem—including enhancing public aesthetic appreciation, discovering emerging galleries and nurturing art collectors. It has made remarkable contributions to the steady upgrading of the regional art market and has now established itself as one of the most influential contemporary art fairs in China. Meanwhile, it has also elevated Shenzhen to the status of China’s third most prominent hub for contemporary art, trailing only Beijing and Shanghai.

Law as Wings, Art for Distant Horizons

The collaboration between Tahota Law Firm and Art Shenzhen is a mutual alignment of professional value and industry needs, as well as a lasting resonance between law and art. We firmly believe that culture and art can exert a positive influence on the future society, and law can make art more thriving. Faced with an increasingly dynamic, complex and ever-changing art market landscape, Tahota Cultural & Art Law Center is seizing the valuable opportunities bestowed by the times and actively devoting itself to supporting and safeguarding all aspects of the cultural and art industry.

Our lawyers will continue to refine and innovate legal services in a more professional, efficient and flexible manner, ensuring the legality, compliance and sound operation of market activities. We are committed to facilitating the high-quality development of the cultural and art industry, and contributing our wisdom and strength to propelling the prosperity and progress of China’s cultural and artistic undertakings.