Para Site

Name

Para Site

Website

https://para-site.art

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contemporary Arts Organization

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121)

akta.pro primary industry

Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) Sponsors (BPAGAKAF)

Keywords

• Contemporary art organization
• Arts grant programs
• Curatorial practice
• Arts capacity building
• Nonprofit arts funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Hong Kong

HQ country

Hong Kong SAR China

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Para Site is an independent nonprofit arts organisation that operates contemporary art exhibitions, curatorial programs, and educational initiatives. In partnership with Asia Art Archive, it co-administers the Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant, distributing funding of up to US$10,000 per project (from a US$60,000 total pool) and tailored mentorship to artist-led collectives and independent arts organisations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with project cycles running up to two years beginning in 2026.

Product overview

No product information available. The provided sources consist of a news article about the Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant initiative (a funding program for artist-led collectives in Central Asia offering up to US$10,000 per project from a US$60,000 pool) and a website placeholder page indicating a verification process. No substantive product, service, or platform information could be extracted from the available data.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant A grant and mentorship program for artist-led collectives and independent arts organisations in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan), providing up to US$10,000 per project from a US$60,000 pool, plus tailored mentorship to support organisational capacity-building, sustainable programming, professional development, and infrastructure. Projects can run up to two years beginning in 2026.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Asia Art Archive (AAA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAsia Art Archive and Para Site have formed a strategic partnership to co-launch the Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant for Central Asia. This collaboration combines AAA's expertise in archiving and documenting Asian art history with Para Site's focus on contemporary art and organisational development. The partnership provides a total grant pool of US$60,000 to support organisational capacity-building, sustainable programming, professional development, and infrastructure in Central Asian arts organisations over two-year project cycles beginning in 2026.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• UCCA Center for Contemporary Art: Independent contemporary art institution in Beijing; comparable in scale, mission (nonprofit contemporary art and curatorial practice), and regional Asian footprint to Para Site.
• Rockbund Art Museum: Shanghai-based nonprofit contemporary art museum; comparable independent, exhibition-and-programming-focused nonprofit operating in Greater China.
• Asian Cultural Council: US-based nonprofit providing grants and fellowships for Asian arts and culture exchange; peer grantmaker with comparable geographic scope and capacity-building orientation.
• Prince Claus Fund: International cultural grantmaking organisation funding artists and cultural practitioners in developing contexts; directly comparable grant-based, capacity-building mission to Para Site's Impact Grant.
• Asia Art Archive: Hong Kong–based nonprofit focused on documentation and archiving of recent art in Asia; co-launch partner on the Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant and operates in the same contemporary-art ecosystem as Para Site.
• KADIST: International nonprofit contemporary art foundation supporting artists and curators through grants, residencies, and programming; directly comparable grantmaking-plus-curation model.

Broad incumbents

• Tai Kwun Contemporary: Contemporary art centre in Hong Kong's Central Police Station compound; broader incumbent in the local contemporary-art scene with overlapping curatorial and audience-development goals.
• M+: Hong Kong's flagship museum of contemporary visual culture; a much larger incumbent in the same Hong Kong contemporary-art ecosystem where Para Site operates and fundraises.
• Aga Khan Trust for Culture: Large international foundation funding culture across Central Asia and other regions; comparable Central Asian geographic focus and cultural-grantmaking mission but at vastly greater scale than Para Site.

Regional players

• Power Station of Art: Shanghai's state-affiliated contemporary art institution; comparable independent-curatorial contemporary art programming in Greater China though operating under public-museum governance rather than nonprofit model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/parasite.hk

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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