Tai Kwun Contemporary
Current and Past Events
Green Snake: women-centred ecologies
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT The group exhibition explores the connections between art and ecology in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Featuring a mix of mediums, including video, installation, sculpture, and performance art, it asks what alternative narratives can be activated through artists’ visions that celebrate nature as a generative force; many of them are…
Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT This is the artist-choreographer's (b. Cyprus) first solo exhibition in Asia. Comprising elements of performance, sound, photography and painting, the exhibition brings her pathbreaking practice to Hong Kong, with all works newly commissioned for Tai Kwun's architectural environment. The central body of work on 3/F gravitates around the production of image through the usage…
HOPE
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT Sculptural, photographic, and filmic works are presented in this immersive exhibition by the renowned Australian artist (b. 1965). Known for her hyper-realistic sculptures featuring distinctive-looking anthropomorphic animals, the presentation taps into our hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity. Piccinini’s surreal and often grotesque works, which are rooted in historical art…
BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT This is the 5th edition of the fair, with over 80 local and international artists, publishers, organisations, and booksellers participating. The fair includes special displays by Hong Kong photographer Kurt Tong, Swiss independent publishing house Nieves, and French publisher onestar press/Three Star Books, along with a wide range of talks, workshops, and performances. This…
Myth Makers – Spectrosynthesis III
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT The exhibition circles around the core notion of 'queer mythologies' and delves into modern and contemporary mythologies along with practices of the body, by gathering a diverse range of artistic idioms related to LGBTQ+ perspectives from over 60 artists from Asia and its diasporas. Through 3 distinctive chapters spread out over 3 floors of…
Behind Your Eyelid
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT Internationally renowned Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist is known for her colourful palette. From her early music-video-style works to her later immersive projection environments, Rist’s unique artistic vocabulary is rooted in popular culture, technology, human body, nature and historical feminist video art. This major exhibition brings together Rist’s iconic works from the past three…
Double Vision
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT Toying with doubles, the exhibition explores the concepts of déjà vu and parallax, considering how seemingly superficial differences may reveal much more than expected. While some works are doubled serially or thematically, with subtle slippages and variations, some other artists in the exhibition have works that gesture towards memory and the murky everyday lines…
Emo Gym
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT The exhibition is a presentation of works by seven Hong Kong artists, and viewers get to witness the theme of emotional gymnasium AKA ‘emo gym’ showcased in a variety of different forms and mediums. The artists examine the vulnerability of our current times with regards to relationships, technology, and institutions, representing these emotions in…
Poetic Heritage
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT WE KNOW What does heritage mean to you? Are discarded objects culturally important? The show explores the critical and creative relationships between heritage and contemporary art through the works of 6 artists/artist groups from Hong Kong and beyond. Rather than focusing on rare or expensive materials, the thought-provoking show elevates mundane objects to items of value, prompting a discussion…
trust & confusion
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT WE KNOW An intergenerational, international, and cosmopolitan group of artists addresses the topic of conversation, certainty and chance. This unusual show is an invitation to observe how things emerge in relation to each other through both visible and invisible performances – via sounds, gestures and smells – as you walk through the presentation. WHY…
INK CITY
Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, CentralWHAT WE KNOW Having Hong Kong roots and an endless passion for ink art bind these 19 artists together. Contrary to the common association of ink art with classical subjects and vertical scroll presentations, these artists expand upon that vision in a contemporary manner, and use art to communicate their emotions about the ever-changing world…
