WHAT This retrospective exhibition of over 80 photographs focuses on everyday life in Hong Kong in successive periods around the middle of the 20th century. From the post-war recovery of 1946-1947, to its resilience of the 1950s, to its resurgence of the 1960s to 1970s, the three photographers highlight the dramatic changes that took place…
WHAT Poetic Enigma I is an exhibition of NFTs created by 3 notable artists of the contemporary art world, and 4 NFT creators established in the digital world. The showcase engages audiences with its unique perspectives on philosophy and life, and reflects the trending digital culture of the NFT world. The exhibition takes place in…
WHAT Annie Leibovitz bought her first camera after her freshman year at the San Francisco Art Institute, and while still a student, she approached ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine – just three years after its inception – with a few of her photographs. She soon embarked on what would develop into a symbiotic relationship between the young…
WHAT The duo exhibition by Hong Kong artists Fatina Kong and Kwong Man Chun centres around the theme of memory. Articulated with the artists' unique aesthetics through overlaying colours and mediums, both Kong and Kwong visually represent the hazy and distant scenes within one’s mind –– which could be a memory, or a fragment of…
WHAT Presented by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE), Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, and Soluna Fine Art, this special exhibition is part of the bigger project ‘Living by Design’ to showcase various works such as paintings, photography, objects, and crafts by 12 contemporary Korean artists. Divided into 3 zones: Sky 天,…
WHAT In the 1970s, when monochromatic art (Dansaekhwa) was prevalent, Lee was a trailblazer. In addition to being a founding member of the artist group Space and Time, he was also a pioneer of performance art in Korea. However, his practice also includes sculpture, installation, and video work. For the artist’s third exhibition at the…
WHAT French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel’s enchanting aesthetics revolves around the notion of emotional geometry. Through the repetition of modular elements such as bricks or his signature beads, he creates exquisite jewelry-like sculptures whose relationship to the human scale ranges from intimacy to monumentality. His predilection for materials with reversible and often reflective properties—particularly blown glass,…
WHAT The exhibition follows the success of ‘Now Showing’ (2020), which was centred on the world of film. In his signature style, Chow Chun Fai explores themes in Johnny To’s films, presenting film strip oil paintings for the first time as well as ceramic pieces. Chui Pui Chee is inspired by Stephen Chow’s movies, and…
WHAT Josef Albers (1888–1976) is considered one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century, but he was also as a designer and an educator. Albers’s artistic career, which bridged European and American modernism, was focused on an investigation of colour and spatial relationships. He worked with simple geometric forms to produce the…
WHAT Cerith Wyn Evans continues to explore perception through the transposition of form, presenting new installation, sculpture, painting and sound work. Conceiving the gallery as a form of ‘vernacular temple’, the artist draws on several key moments of Modernism, namely from Frank Stella’s (b.1936) ‘Black painting’ series, and Lucio Fontana’s (1899-1968) ‘Concetto spaziale’ aesthetic. …
WHAT For the beginning of the new year, ‘Celebration’ is a group exhibition showcasing artworks of 10 artists from all over the world and their own interpretations of what ‘celebration’ means. Through diverse media ranging from animation and interactive mapping installation to ink on paper works, to name a few, the group show invites audiences…
WHAT 24th Jan. - 4th Feb., 2022: Sala Samnak – NFT charity sales for Sa Sa Art Projects Created by multi-disciplinary Cambodian artist Vuth Lyno in collaboration with fellow artists Alina Nazeemeva and Kong Siden & Prak Dalin, the exhibition is inspired by its namesake. Meaning ‘House of Fire’, the 'sala samnak' is a Cambodian…
WHAT A group exhibition of four artists based in different cities working in the expanded field of painting and abstraction, the works of Paul Barlow, Harminder Judge, Osamu Kobayashi, and Andrew Luk are presented. Painting in the manner of sculptor, builder, archeologist, and designer, these artists inhabit the precarious balance between stability and entropy, ideation…
WHAT The exhibition introduces the works of three artists from different parts of the world, who make sculptures using different materials such as wood, ceramics, and paper. Julio Anaya Cabanding (Spain) reinterprets the works of the great classical masters by painting on discarded and deteriorated cardboard. This results in the decontextualization of those rigid structures…
WHAT A physical showcase of Non-Fungible Tokens (‘NFTs’), Q9 Crypto Hub's collaboration with Digital Art Fair Asia (DAFA) features DAFA’s new as well as returning artists. Following the success of DAFA’s initial 2021 edition, the current exhibition is a platform where more exciting artworks are shown. Audiences will no doubt be familiar with the works…
WHAT Part of a thrilling two-part exhibition, the exhibition showcases two leading and widely-admired Chinese artists, Chen Yingjie and Huang Yulong. Chen has long been influenced by Chinese traditional culture, materialising the concepts of essence, qi and spirit, which audiences can appreciate through his animal paintings that convey the vigour of life and the force…
WHAT The exhibition marks the first solo institutional show featuring the 27-year-old British artist, born Sam Cox. Showcasing 108 paintings from collectors around the world, new paintings are also presented. The new works in the exhibition are a proclamation and documentation of Mr Doodle’s love for his wife, Mrs Doodle (aka Alena Cox), whom he…
WHAT A pioneering figure in the Hong Kong contemporary art scene since the 1990s, and furthermore previously a professor at the Department of Fine Art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for 27 years, Kurt Chan fuses the ideologies in Chinese calligraphy with the style of cold abstraction to form a hybrid creative voice.…
