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  • Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, Su Yu-Xin

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    Inside the White Cube: New Moroism / White Cube / Hong Kong / May 31 – Sep 9, 2023 / By Christina Ko / Blurred lines are very much the theme at White Cube’s summer exhibition, Inside the White Cube: New Moroism. In the literal sense, it refers to the Moroism movement, which emerged in Japan in the 19th century and saw stark outlines...

    September 13, 2023
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  • Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova

    by Brady Ng

    Door to Door / The Shophouse / Hong Kong / Jul 15– Aug 13, 2023 / Doors open memories. Portals from our past are linked to significant locations or major milestones – the entrance to our childhood home or the gate leading into a campus where we embarked on intellectual explorations, for instance. When we think about important moments that we’ve experienced, those journeys...

    August 31, 2023
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  • Antonio Casadei

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    By Fionnuala McHugh In March 1968, the United States Patent Office received an application filed by one Antonio Casadei of York Road, Kowloon Tong. It was a design for an inflatable sled that could transport goods across ice and snow.  Cover 1966 Hong Kong Report.Courtesy of Hong Kong Design Institute. The subtropical address wasn’t the only unexpected aspect; Casadei, the hopeful inventor, was an...

    August 21, 2023
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  • Rirkrit Tiravanija

    by Christie Lee

    The Shop / David Zwirner / Hong Kong / Mar 20 – May 6 / Stepping out of the elevator at David Zwirner Hong Kong, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were in the wrong location. What lies before you is an old-fashioned umbrella shop – the kind more commonly seen at street level in Hong Kong. The shop is stuffed to the gills...

    August 5, 2023
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  • signals… at Para Site

    by Christie Lee

    In 1996, on the eve of Hong Kong handover to China, a bunch of Hong Kong artists founded one of the city’s longest-running independent art spaces in Kennedy Town. Some 27 years later, it has moved to North Point, with the city it is in also facing uncertain times, not least because it has just emerged after three years of pandemic restrictions.  Executive director...

    July 7, 2023
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  • Postmodern Tales

    by Christine Chan Chiu

    HART / Hong Kong / Mar 20 – Apr 29, 2023 / Showcasing the latest works from HART’s artists-in-residence, Postmodern Tales was a multimedia group show featuring eight different artists whose practices are as thought-provoking as they are diverse. From various cultural backgrounds, they are connected via their unique contemporary sensibilities, as well as their willingness to approach art using novel ideas – or...

    June 18, 2023
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  • Shubigi Rao 舒比吉·拉奧 

    by Caroline Ha Thuc

    Eating One’s Tail / Rossi & Rossi / Hong Kong / Mar 18 – May 13, 2023 / Eating One’s Tail, the title of Shubigi Rao exhibition at Rossi & Rossi, conjures up an image of a self-ingesting creature. As a metaphor, it questions human beings’ tendency to destroy, transform and reappropriate their own creations – and, more generally, it suggests the limits of...

    May 12, 2023
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  • Bouie Choi 蔡鈺娟 

    by Caroline Ha Thuc

    Crossing the nights Filling the lines / Grotto SKW / Mar 8 – Apr 1, 2023 / With what she calls her “emotional landscapes”, Bouie Choi continues to portray Hong Kong as a city on fire, undergoing perpetual mutation. Large, watery flows of paint merge with finer architectural elements in dynamic, poetic compositions where human beings seem lost: in the shape of either tiny...

    April 28, 2023
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  • Luis Chan 陳福善

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    By Joyce Wong All the World’s a ‘Gung zai soeng’: Modernity and Cultural Belonging in the Art of Luis Chan In the whimsical, peculiar pictures of Luis Chan (1905-95), dancers, thespians, circus clowns and magicians brush shoulders with Hong Kong everymen like all the world’s a stage. It was not in Shakespeare, though, that he found inspiration for his paintings of modern life, but...

    March 29, 2023
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  • Vaevae Chan

    by Brady Ng

    She Told Me to Head to the Sea @ Juen Juen Gung / Hong Kong / Ceramist Vaevae Chan has built a private cave. Located within a nondescript industrial building in Sun Po Kong, Kowloon, the space is where Chan retreated while contending with health problems, a parent’s death and upheaval in Hong Kong. Between 2018 and 2021, the artist toiled in private, turning...

    March 18, 2023
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Lin Guocheng in conversation with Dr. Susan L. Beningson

Ink in Our Modern TimesTalk will be bilingual in English and Chinese Wednesday, Sep 27, 20236pm – 7pmRSVP assistant@alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central  Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday –...

September 26, 2023
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Julie Curtiss at White Cube Hong Kong 

Bitter Apples /Sep 21 – Nov 11, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present...

September 21, 2023
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Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen at Blindspot Gallery

Solo · Exhibition · Twice II: Of Seeing / Sep 12 – Oct 28, 2023 /  Opening: Saturday, Sep 9, 4pm – 6.30pm / Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial...

September 7, 2023
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Patricia Piccinini at Tai Kwun Contemporary

HOPE—Patricia Piccinini /May 24 – Sep 3, 2023 / JC Contemporary / Tai Kwun /10 Hollywood Road /Central, Hong Kong /Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm / taikwun.hk Featuring more than...

June 9, 2023
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New Moroism at White Cube Hong Kong 

Inside the White Cube: New Moroism /May 31 – 9 Sep, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong /50 Connaught Road, Central /Hong Kong /+852 2592 2000 /Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / whitecube.com...

May 31, 2023
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Katherine Bernhardt at David Zwirner Hong Kong

Katherine Bernhardt /Dummy doll jealous eyes ditto pikachu beefy mimikyu rough play Galarian rapid dash libra horn HP 270 Vmax full art /May 20 – Aug 5, 2023 /...

May 24, 2023
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

Six years after his first solo exhibition at Para Site, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has come back to Hong Kong to present his recent artworks at Kiang Malingue Gallery. The Thai...

January 13, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Lin Guocheng in conversation with Dr. Susan L. BeningsonInk in Our Modern TimesTalk will be bilingual in English and Chinese Wednesday, Sep...September 26, 2023

Julie Curtiss at White Cube Hong Kong Bitter Apples /Sep 21 – Nov 11, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught...September 21, 2023

Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen at Blindspot GallerySolo · Exhibition · Twice II: Of Seeing / Sep 12 – Oct 28,...September 7, 2023

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Leung Chi Wo

by Caroline Ha Thuc

For decades, Leung Chi Wo has been exploring the history and historical sites of Hong Kong, mixing archival material with photographs, videos, texts and multimedia installations. While his research-based practice brings forth the contradictions and complexities of historiography, it also injects fantasies, intimacy and emotion into collective narratives. Time, and how to embody its multiple dimensions, is the artist’s main subject, reflected in the title of his new solo exhibition, Past-Future Tense, opening in May 2023 at Blindspot Gallery. Caroline Ha Thuc: You have recently been to London to look for archives dealing with British plans for the future of Hong Kong after World War Two. What drove you to do so? Leung Chi Wo: I don’t really know why, but I always feel dragged to stories which read unreal but are true, or vice versa. And historical subjects are mostly such: they always claim to be real. They’re sort of far away and so close at the same time. And supposedly, I am part of a colonial history which has been erased and...

May 29, 2023
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August 21, 2023

Antonio Casadei

By Fionnuala McHugh In March 1968, the United States Patent Office received an application filed by one Antonio Casadei...

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February 9, 2021

Andio Lai 黎仲民

Andio Lai’s path as an artist has been refreshingly indirect. Each personal misstep and doubt forced a self-assessment and...

by John Batten
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November 18, 2020

Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen 蔡鈺娟

Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen reminded me that we first met when she and fellow Chinese University of Hong Kong...

by John Batten
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September 19, 2020

Tobe Kan Kiu Sin 簡喬倩

Tobe Kan Kiu Sin graduated from the Hong Kong Art School/RMIT University with a fine arts degree in 2017....

by John Batten
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 13, 2023

Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, Su Yu-Xin

Inside the White Cube: New Moroism / White Cube / Hong Kong / May 31 – Sep 9, 2023...

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August 31, 2023

Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova

Door to Door / The Shophouse / Hong Kong / Jul 15– Aug 13, 2023 / Doors open memories....

by Brady Ng
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August 5, 2023

Rirkrit Tiravanija

The Shop / David Zwirner / Hong Kong / Mar 20 – May 6 / Stepping out of the...

by Christie Lee
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June 18, 2023

Postmodern Tales

HART / Hong Kong / Mar 20 – Apr 29, 2023 / Showcasing the latest works from HART’s artists-in-residence,...

by Christine Chan Chiu
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May 12, 2023

Shubigi Rao 舒比吉·拉奧 

Eating One’s Tail / Rossi & Rossi / Hong Kong / Mar 18 – May 13, 2023 / Eating...

by Caroline Ha Thuc
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April 28, 2023

Bouie Choi 蔡鈺娟 

Crossing the nights Filling the lines / Grotto SKW / Mar 8 – Apr 1, 2023 / With what...

by Caroline Ha Thuc
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March 18, 2023

Vaevae Chan

She Told Me to Head to the Sea @ Juen Juen Gung / Hong Kong / Ceramist Vaevae Chan...

by Brady Ng
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March 10, 2023

Chu Chu 

Awakening / Alisan Fine Arts, Central / Feb 1 – Mar 16, 2023 / Chu Chu’s second solo exhibition...

by Christine Chan Chiu
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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,...

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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...

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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...

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September 19, 2020

Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong

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

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Classical Music Reviews

May 4, 2023

Bamberg Symphony

Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre / Hong Kong / March 18, 2023 / Ernest Wan Formed mainly by...

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February 10, 2023

Kit Armstrong

Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre / University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong / Dec 11, 2022...

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October 23, 2022

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre / Hong Kong / Jun 11, 2022 / Ernest Wan / In the...

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May 20, 2021

Chiyan Wong 王致仁

Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall / Hong Kong / April 26, 2021 / Ernest Wan / The 32-year-old,...

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signals… at Para Site

Published by Christie Lee

In 1996, on the eve of Hong Kong handover to China, a bunch of Hong Kong artists founded one of the city’s longest-running independent art spaces in Kennedy Town....

July 7, 2023
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Luis Chan 陳福善

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By Joyce Wong All the World’s a ‘Gung zai soeng’: Modernity and Cultural Belonging in the Art of Luis Chan In the whimsical, peculiar pictures of Luis Chan (1905-95),...

March 29, 2023
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Noteworthy Shows in Hong Kong Autumn / Winter ’23 Edition

Published by Aaina Bhargava

“Hong Kong is back!” seems to be the city’s official PR motto since quarantine for incoming travellers to the city was essentially abolished in October, and restrictions were dropped....

February 24, 2023
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Hong Kong in Transition 1995 – 2020 香港過渡(1995-2020年)

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by Jonathan Thomson / Hong Kong in Transition 1995 – 2020: An open access photographic archive for anyone interested in Hong Kong and its history The word “monument” comes...

October 13, 2022
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signals… at Para Site

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Family having cake and coffee, overlooking a misty Victoria Harbour, from Rooftop Garden, M+, West Kowloon, Hong Kong, 12 February 2023.

After allowing free entry for the first year of its operation, M+ – Hong Kong’s new international museum – recently introduced admission charges. The museum has however maintained free access to...

April 1, 2023
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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...

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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
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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...

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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...

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