• About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Membership
  • Buy
  • Contributors

ARTOMITY 藝源

Hong Kong's Art Magazine

Menu
Search
  • Features
  • Reviews
  • Studio
  • Profiles
  • Galleries & Spaces
    • 1a space
    • Alisan Fine Arts (Central)
    • Axel Vervoordt Gallery
    • Blindspot Gallery
    • Denny Dimin Gallery
    • de Sarthe
    • Goethe-Gallery
    • Kiang Malingue
    • Opera Gallery
    • Pékin Fine Arts
    • Ping Pong 129
    • Rossi & Rossi
    • Tai Kwun Contemporary
    • Tang Contemporary Art
    • White Cube
    • Whitestone Gallery
    • David Zwirner
Close Menu
  • Virtue Village

    by Brady Ng

    Even in the most diverse communities, clusters of people must share culture, space and experiences for bonds to form. As individuals mingle and interact with each other, their identities are sculpted by external forces. We may conform to norms established by others, or rebel to smash the status quo and shatter homogeneity.  Village Porn, the first major solo presentation by the artist duo Virtue...

    June 21, 2022
    comments 0
    Features
  • Law Yuk Mui

    by Caroline Ha Thuc

    There Is No One Singing on the River /Oil Street Art Space, Oi! / Dec 12 – Jul 31, 2022 / There Is No One Singing on the River relates Law Yuk Mui’s experience and fieldwork along the Ng Tung River, located in Hong Kong’s northeastern New Territories. The river drains a large area and flows down on the western slope of Wong Leng,...

    June 2, 2022
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • Arthur Hacker’s Unique Hand 許敬雅的藝術之手

    by John Batten

    Arthur Hacker left London in 1967 for a job as an art director in the colonial Hong Kong Government’s Information Services Department. Among his luggage would have been the air of London’s cultural whirl, glimpsed in the ambience of movies of the time: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup; revolutionary youth against the whole (damn) system in Lindsay Anderson’s If… ; and the violence and Stalinist social...

    May 21, 2022
    comments 2
    City
  • Wesley Tongson 唐家偉

    by Artomity Magazine

    Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson 靈山:唐家偉的藝術世界 / Berkeley Art Museum 美國柏克萊大學藝術博物館 / Jan 12–Jun 12, 2022 2022年1月12日至6月12日 / DeWitt Cheng / Originality is the tacitly assumed essence and sine qua non of creative art. Young artists in the ultra-individualistic US sometimes avoid looking at older artists’ work for fear of being influenced or contaminated – to their detriment. Artists of the past...

    March 25, 2022
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • Cerith Wyn Evans 凱裡斯·懷恩·埃文斯

    by Diana d'Arenberg Parmanand

    Since the 1990s, Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans has created work about language, perception and representation. The artist skilfully weaves in elements of the musical, literary, philosophical and cinematic, resulting in exhibitions that are densely layered and at times even cryptic, and that have won him acclaim from international institutions such as the Tate Britain, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and Austria’s Kunsthaus...

    March 1, 2022
    comments 0
    Features
  • Sin Wai Kin 單慧乾

    by Brady Ng

    Even if you don’t like boy bands, chances are you know the lyrics to at least one song that topped the charts, with harmonised backing vocals by four or five young men in their 20s, each with a different haircut and colour, each dressed in a distinct style: sporty, refined, street-smart, bad boy, whatever. Maybe one raps, maybe one is a crooner, and the...

    February 6, 2022
    comments 0
    Features
  • Fault Lines 斷層線

    by Aaina Bhargava

    Kay Mei Ling Beadman / Andy Li San Kit / South Ho / Arielle Tse / Eunice Tsang / Yuk King Tan / Huey / Chan x Joey Zhu / Batten and Kamp / Glossy tiles in shades of pink appear to be airy pieces of foam, while actual foam is concealed by a deceptive brick facade. From afar, white, interlinked chains look like party decorations, but...

    November 6, 2021
    comments 0
    Features
  • Joseph Chen 陳敬元

    by Artomity Magazine

    By Andreas Hecker /  In 2018, Joseph Chen was sauntering through the street markets in Sham Shui Po when he happened upon a stack of 50 hard drives. The Hong Kong artist bought all of them for “under HK$100” and extracted the deluge of personal images and documents.  That exercise culminated in Shameplant in Glory Hole, a series of performances, a series of performances, a...

    October 28, 2021
    comments 0
    Studio
  • Tang Kwong-san, Szelit Cheung, Tap Chan 鄧廣燊, 張施烈, 陳沁昕

    by Artomity Magazine

    Space and Memory 空間與記憶 / Whitestone Gallery 香港白石畫廊 / Hong Kong / Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2021 / Christie Lee / Hong Kong provides interesting material to mull over ideas of space and memory. The city’s density means that every day there are legions of personal and collectives memories being made. But the city’s ultra-capitalist mindset means that the new often replaces old...

    October 8, 2021
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • Event Scores by Artists-Parents 事件譜之又係藝術家又係阿爸阿媽

    by Artomity Magazine

    Published by Rooftop Institute 出版社:天台塾 /Ysabelle Cheung / There is a backwater thought that once an artist (usually female, according to patriarchal hierarchies) bears children, they become somewhat infertile in their creative practices. “After I gave birth, some people apparently thought that I had retired to take care of my child,” Wong Wai Yin once stated in an article. In truth, she had only...

    September 23, 2021
    comments 0
    Book reviews

Recent e-announcements

Recent e-announcements

Gretchen So at HKI Gallery

Gretchen SoEvolving Territories – Hong Kong in TransitionJun 28 – Jul 20, 2022Opening: Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022, 6pm–8pm HKI GallerySuite 701, 7th Floor, Chinachem Johnston Plaza178-186 Johnston Rd, WanchaiHong Kong+852 2153-3325Tue–Sat, 12pm–7pm...

June 27, 2022
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts BA (VA) Graduation Exhibition

2022 HKBU AVA BA Graduation Show /Jun 5 – 18, 2022 / Kai Tak Campus, AVA, HKBU /51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon (Choi Hung MTR, Exit A2)  Monday –...

June 3, 2022
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Liste Art Fair Basel

Jun 13 – 19, 2022 / Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 /Entrance behind Art Unlimited Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113 /4058 Basel, Switzerland Preview, Monday, Jun 13, 2022, 11am – 6pmPublic opening, Monday,...

June 1, 2022
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Arthur Hacker drawings and limited edition prints at Wattis Fine Art

Arthur Hacker /Drawings and limited edition prints / Wattis Fine Art /12/F, 20 Hollywood Road, Central /+852 2524 5302 /Monday – Saturday, 12pm – 6pm / wattis.com.hk  In conjunction with the...

May 27, 2022
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Leang Seckon at Rossi & Rossi

Leang SeckonGrowing WingsMay 21 – July 9, 2022 Rossi & Rossi11F, 54 Wong Chuk Hang RoadWong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong+852 2116 5282Tue–Sat, 11am–6pm rossirossi.com Leang Seckon (b. 1970s) has lived...

May 26, 2022
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Georg Baselitz at White Cube Hong Kong

Georg Baselitz /Sofabilder / Sofa Pictures /May 24 – Sep 3, 2022 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube...

May 24, 2022
comments 0

Features

Virtue Village

Published by Brady Ng

Even in the most diverse communities, clusters of people must share culture, space and experiences for bonds to form. As individuals mingle and interact with each other, their identities...

June 21, 2022
comments 0
Features

Cerith Wyn Evans 凱裡斯·懷恩·埃文斯

Published by Diana d'Arenberg Parmanand

Since the 1990s, Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans has created work about language, perception and representation. The artist skilfully weaves in elements of the musical, literary, philosophical and...

March 1, 2022
comments 0
Features

Sin Wai Kin 單慧乾

Published by Brady Ng

Even if you don’t like boy bands, chances are you know the lyrics to at least one song that topped the charts, with harmonised backing vocals by four or...

February 6, 2022
comments 0
Features

Fault Lines 斷層線

Published by Aaina Bhargava

Kay Mei Ling Beadman / Andy Li San Kit / South Ho / Arielle Tse / Eunice Tsang / Yuk King Tan / Huey / Chan x Joey Zhu...

November 6, 2021
comments 0
Features

Social

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Recent e-announcements

Gretchen So at HKI GalleryGretchen SoEvolving Territories – Hong Kong in TransitionJun 28 – Jul 20, 2022Opening: Tuesday, Jun 28,...June 27, 2022

Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts BA (VA) Graduation Exhibition2022 HKBU AVA BA Graduation Show /Jun 5 – 18, 2022 / Kai Tak...June 3, 2022

Liste Art Fair BaselJun 13 – 19, 2022 / Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 /Entrance behind Art Unlimited Maulbeerstrasse /...June 1, 2022

Arthur Hacker drawings and limited edition prints at Wattis Fine ArtArthur Hacker /Drawings and limited edition prints / Wattis Fine Art /12/F, 20 Hollywood Road, Central...May 27, 2022

Leang Seckon at Rossi & RossiLeang SeckonGrowing WingsMay 21 – July 9, 2022 Rossi & Rossi11F, 54 Wong Chuk...May 26, 2022

Georg Baselitz at White Cube Hong KongGeorg Baselitz /Sofabilder / Sofa Pictures /May 24 – Sep 3, 2022 / White...May 24, 2022

Studio

Wing Po So 蘇詠寶

by Caroline Ha Thuc

Wing Po So’s studio is tiny and very tidy: between a large collection of shells, dried molluscs and plants, various other species rest on shelves in glass jars, all properly labelled. The Hong Kong artist, who grew up in a family of Chinese medicine practitioners, also surrounds herself with essential books about Chinese medicine, including a two-volume work dating from the Ming dynasty. Her practice confronts this scientific background with her personal observation of nature, as she transforms and creates organic yet surreal sculptures and installations. Caroline Ha Thuc: You grew up spending a lot of time in your parents’ traditional Chinese medicine shop in Hong Kong, and this family background plays an important part in your art practice. When and why did you decide to draw from this experience and to become an artist? Wing Po So: It was due to the closure of our family’s shop in Soho [in 2012]. I spent all my childhood in this medicine shop and in the neighborhood. Several months after the closure, my parents decided to...

April 14, 2022
comments 0
Studio

Profiles

February 9, 2021

Andio Lai 黎仲民

By John Batten / Andio Lai’s path as an artist has been refreshingly indirect. Each personal misstep and doubt...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
November 18, 2020

Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen 蔡鈺娟

By John Batten / Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen reminded me that we first met when she and fellow Chinese...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
September 19, 2020

Tobe Kan Kiu Sin 簡喬倩

By John Batten / Tobe Kan Kiu Sin graduated from the Hong Kong Art School/RMIT University with a fine...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
January 19, 2020

Onnie Chan 陳安然

By Richard Lord / No one’s route into as niche and demanding a field as immersive theatre is a straightforward...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0

Collector

Uncategorized

Octavia Fox

Food historian Octavia Fox talks about three of her favourite pieces in her collection. Antonio Casadei was an Italian artist working in Hong Kong during the 60s and 70s. His...

April 3, 2020
comments 0
Uncategorized

Michelle Garnaut

Founder and CEO of the M Restaurant Group Michelle Garnaut talks about three of her favourite pieces in her collection. One of my first pieces of art was Yau...

November 8, 2019
comments 0
Uncategorized

Whitney Ferrare

Pace Gallery senior director Whitney Ferrare introduces three Hong Kong pieces from her collection.  When I was approached by the editor of Artomity about potentially discussing works in my private collection, I...

March 26, 2019
comments 0
Uncategorized

Yuk King Tan and Tobias Berger

Artist Yuk King Tan and her husband, head of art at Tai Kwun Tobias Berger, talk about three of their favourite pieces in their collection. All of the art work we have...

November 27, 2018
comments 0
Uncategorized

Caroline Chiu & Paul Aiello

Caroline Chiu, RTHK Radio 4 presenter and art critic with her husband Paul Aiello, discusses three of her favourite pieces from their collection. Chiu saw Chris Huen Sin Kan’s solo...

November 4, 2017
comments 0

Reviews

June 2, 2022

Law Yuk Mui

There Is No One Singing on the River /Oil Street Art Space, Oi! / Dec 12 – Jul 31,...

by Caroline Ha Thuc
comments 0
March 25, 2022

Wesley Tongson 唐家偉

Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson 靈山:唐家偉的藝術世界 / Berkeley Art Museum 美國柏克萊大學藝術博物館 / Jan 12–Jun 12, 2022 2022年1月12日至6月12日...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
February 9, 2022

Sherrie Levine 谢丽·利文

Hong Kong Dominoes / David Zwirner / Hong Kong / Sep 4 – Oct 13, 2021 / American artist...

by Diana d'Arenberg Parmanand
comments 0
January 10, 2022

cucurrucucu (咕咕), Starry Kong, Liao Jiaming 廖家明

Reality Overdose / RNH Space / Hong Kong / Sep 25 – Dec 12, 2021 / Wearing a silicone...

by Aaina Bhargava
comments 0
January 7, 2022

Ko Sin Tung 高倩彤

An acute manner 更尖銳的方式 / Kiang Malingue / Hong Kong / Nov 11 – Jan 15, 2022 / If...

by Fizen Yuen
comments 0
October 22, 2021

Oscar Chan Yik Long 陳翊朗

Don’t leave the dark alone / Gallery Exit / Hong Kong / Aug 14 – Sep 18, 2021 /...

by Aaina Bhargava
comments 0
October 8, 2021

Tang Kwong-san, Szelit Cheung, Tap Chan 鄧廣燊, 張施烈, 陳沁昕

Space and Memory 空間與記憶 / Whitestone Gallery 香港白石畫廊 / Hong Kong / Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2021 /...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
June 29, 2021

The world is a show for my chosen eye’s delight 臆想錄

Gallery Exit / Hong Kong / Mar 13 – Apr 30, 2021 / Tiffany Leung / In times of...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0

Book Reviews

September 23, 2021

Event Scores by Artists-Parents 事件譜之又係藝術家又係阿爸阿媽

Published by Rooftop Institute 出版社:天台塾 /Ysabelle Cheung / There is a backwater thought that once an artist (usually female,...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
March 27, 2021

Besiege Me

Nicholas Wong 黃裕邦 / Noemi Press, 2021年 /Jacqueline Leung 梁婉揚 / In Besiege Me, Nicholas Wong’s latest poetry collection, physical desire...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
November 25, 2020

Library 圖書館

By Chihoi 智海 /Published by nos:books, 2019 出版社:nos:books,2019年 /Ysabelle Cheung The day I visited Chihoi’s exhibition at ACO Art Space...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
September 19, 2020

Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong

ed. Holmes Chan / Published by Small Tune Press, 2020 / Jacqueline Leung /   The cover is a photograph...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0

Classical Music Reviews

February 18, 2020

Sebastian Fagerlund

Höstsonaten / Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre / Hong Kong / Oct 18–19, 2019 / Ernest Wan /...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
November 24, 2019

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert Hall, Hong Kong / Cultural Centre / Hong Kong / Jun 29, 2019 / Ernest Wan / Near the...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
August 17, 2019

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Concert Hall / Hong Kong Cultural Centre / Feb 21, 2019 / Ernest Wan / This year’s Hong Kong...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
June 25, 2019

Fung Lam, Teriver Cheung, Anthony Lai

Hong Kong Episodes (Re-run) / JC Cube, Tai Kwun / Hong Kong / Jan 26–28, 2019 / Ernest Wan...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0

City

Arthur Hacker’s Unique Hand 許敬雅的藝術之手

Published by John Batten

Arthur Hacker left London in 1967 for a job as an art director in the colonial Hong Kong Government’s Information Services Department. Among his luggage would have been the...

May 21, 2022
comments 2
City

The Moon is Leaving Us 月逝無聲

Published by Artomity Magazine

By Aaina Bhargava /  Roughly 300 years ago, after studying ancient records of eclipses, British astronomer Edmond Halley conceived of a theory that the moon was in fact physically...

June 11, 2021
comments 0
City

Kung Chi Shing

Published by Artomity Magazine

By Aaina Bhargava / The first part of Kung Chi Shing’s haunting video City Inside a Broken Sky, Deep Night alternates black-and-white imagery of a construction site amid debris...

February 26, 2021
comments 0
City

「阿輝」A’fair

Published by Artomity Magazine

By Aaina Bhargava / In the midst of Wan Chai, a neon pink roller shutter poses a seemingly innocent question: “What did you dream of last night?” Reading like an...

January 28, 2021
comments 0
City

Recent Posts

June 27, 2022

Gretchen So at HKI Gallery

June 21, 2022

Virtue Village

June 3, 2022

Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts BA (VA)...

June 2, 2022

Law Yuk Mui

June 1, 2022

Liste Art Fair Basel

May 27, 2022

Arthur Hacker drawings and limited edition prints at Wattis...

May 26, 2022

Leang Seckon at Rossi & Rossi

May 24, 2022

Georg Baselitz at White Cube Hong Kong

May 24, 2022

Sudhee Liao dances to Arthur Hacker at Ping Pong Gintonería

May 21, 2022

Arthur Hacker’s Unique Hand 許敬雅的藝術之手

May 20, 2022

Yeung Hok Tak at Kiang Malingue Hong Kong

May 18, 2022

Un Cheng at Blindspot Gallery

May 13, 2022

Tickets to Art Central 2022 are now on sale!

May 11, 2022

Solo Exhibition of Arthur Hacker and Performances by Sudhee...

May 3, 2022

Double Vision and emo gym at Tai Kwun Contemporary

April 14, 2022

Wing Po So 蘇詠寶

April 8, 2022

Ibrahim Mahama at White Cube Hong Kong

April 5, 2022

Entrance lobby of Tang King Po School, Ma Tau Wei, Kowloon,...

March 25, 2022

Wesley Tongson 唐家偉

March 7, 2022

Unloading a container of fruit near the wholesale fruit...

Tags

Blindspot Gallery Caroline Ha Thuc Christie Lee Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand Edouard Malingue Gallery Elliat Albrecht Ernest Wan Hong Kong John Batten Lehmann Maupin M+ Margot Mottaz Samson Young Tai Kwun Tai Kwun Contemporary Tang Contemporary Art Valencia Tong West Kowloon Cultural District White Cube

Back Page

Back Page

Entrance lobby of Tang King Po School, Ma Tau Wei, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 29 December 2021.

A few days after hearing of the closure of another of Hong Kong’s remaining pro-democracy news outlets, Stand News, and its web archive, I decided I needed a good walk...

April 5, 2022
comments 0
Back Page

Unloading a container of fruit near the wholesale fruit market, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 26 September 2021.

Daily, from the late afternoon until the early hours of the following morning, the streets surrounding the wholesale fruit market in the old district of Yau Ma Tei are...

March 7, 2022
comments 0
Back Page

Statue of Sun Yat-sen on National Day, Shek Tong Tsui, Hong Kong, 1 October 2018

Seemingly facing the flags of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the statue of nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen is itself overlooked by the hovering presence of the...

February 14, 2022
comments 0
Back Page

Seafront assemblage, Peng Chau island, Hong Kong, 9 December 2020.

On the small, carless island of Peng Chau (pop: 6,487), this is a typical scene: the contents of a ground floor apartment spilling onto adjacent public space, absorbing it as its...

December 28, 2021
comments 0
Back Page

‘Jesus’ graffiti in Arcadia (lazing lovers, roped-off picnic area next to waterfall), near Mui Wo,Lantau Island, Hong Kong, August 14, 2020. 

After summer rain, this peaceful park has a cascading waterfall and a full water hole. Groups of young people lounge in the late afternoon sun after a swim. A languid couple relax, chatting,...

September 15, 2021
comments 0

Follow

Enter your email address to follow Artomity and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Top Posts & Pages

  • Front Page
  • Contact
  • About
  • Gretchen So at HKI Gallery
  • Contributors
  • Virtue Village
  • Advertise
  • Tobe Kan Kiu Sin 簡喬倩
  • Membership
  • Jin Meyerson

Archives

Artomity

  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Membership
  • Buy
  • Contributors

Hong Kong's Art Magazine

  • Copyright © 2022 ARTOMITY 藝源
  • Contact
  • Proudly powered by