Tsang Kin-wah and Mark Chung are the first Hong Kong artists to exhibit at the cutting-edge contemporary Yalu River Art Museum in Dandong
This summer, Hong Kong artists Tsang Kin-wah and Mark Chung escaped their hometown’s stifling heat by heading up to Dandong, the mainland Chinese frontier city best known for its border crossing with North Korea.
Far-flung and with fewer than a million citizens, Dandong has become an unlikely magnet for contemporary artists and art lovers from all over the world.
The reason is the Yalu River Art Museum, perched on a resort island just 500 metres (0.3 miles) from North Korean soil.
The museum was founded in 2006 by businessman Ji Dahai, a Dandong native now based in Hong Kong.
