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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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  • Noteworthy Shows in Hong Kong Autumn / Winter ’23 Edition

    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. If the succession of gala fundraisers and exhibition openings and the general year-end frenzy is anything to go by, the slogan applies to the city’s art scene, which seems to be overcompensating for its dearth...

    February 24, 2023
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  • Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III

    by Brady Ng

    Tai Kwun Contemporary / Hong Kong / Dec 24 – Apr 10, 2023 / There’s a quote that aspirational content creators like to share online: “Those who tell stories rule the world.” It’s often attributed to Plato or Aristotle, while some say it is wisdom passed down by the Hopi or Navajo Native Americans, but nobody can pin down its origins. Perhaps the line...

    February 17, 2023
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  • Kit Armstrong

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    Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre / University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong / Dec 11, 2022 / Ernest Wan / For his debut recital in Hong Kong, 30-year-old pianist and composer Kit Armstrong presented a programme that, at first glance, seemed a mere attempt at maximum eclecticism, consisting as it does of music ranging from that of the Renaissance all the...

    February 10, 2023
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  • Wing Sze Lam and Heiwa Wong

    by Ophelia Lai

    Dailyscape / 1999 Art Space / Hong Kong / Oct 8 – 30, 2022 / In Wing Sze Lam’s stars in the woods (2016) and stars in the water (2018), a pair of moving-image works, darkness descends gradually over dense foliage and docked boats until the only sources of illumination are streetlamps and passing vehicles. The camera never moves in either sequence, registering the...

    January 24, 2023
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  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    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 artist and film director has played with the gallery’s unusual architecture, filling its high ceilings and empty spaces with haunting presences, widening hitherto invisible fault lines and holes from which the mind can easily flee...

    January 13, 2023
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  • Vvzela Kook

    by Christie Lee

    Phantom Island / Oi! / Hong Kong / Sep 5 – Jan 2, 2023 / In 1851, the government used rubble left by a giant fire in Sheung Wan to extend the shoreline by 15 metres. Since then, many more reclamation projects have taken place in Hong Kong, and 20 or so islands have disappeared from the city’s map.  The extension of our city...

    December 21, 2022
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  • Wu Jiaru 吳佳儒

    by Brady Ng

    To the Naiad’s House / Flowers Gallery / Hong Kong / Sep 29 – Nov 12 / The story of Southeast China in the 1990s is one of breakneck transformation. Cranes worked in tufts of dust, new structures climbed steel frames to scrape the sky, and opportunity was in the air. For many millions of people in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and smaller townships, the proverbial...

    November 28, 2022
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  • Jaffa Lam 林嵐

    by Caroline Ha Thuc

    Chasing an Elusive Nature / Axel Vervoordt Gallery / Hong Kong / 15 Oct 2022 – 7 Jan 2023 / A long piece of dark wood welcomes visitors at the entrance of the gallery. Like a totem, or the unique remnant of a larger structure, A Piece of Silence from Lying (2022) simply stands on the floor, vertically, as if abandoned. Its delicate, carved lines...

    November 4, 2022
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  • Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

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    Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre / Hong Kong / Jun 11, 2022 / Ernest Wan / In the programme of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s César Franck at 200 concert, it is baffling to see, amid a pair of works by the French composer born two centuries ago in what is today Belgium, the utterly irrelevant Viola Concerto by the Hungarian Béla Bartók....

    October 23, 2022
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Kimsooja at Axel Vervoordt Gallery

Topography of Body Mar 18 – Jun 3, 2023 Axel Vervoordt Gallery21/F, Coda Designer Centre62 Wong Chuk Hang RoadEntrance via Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang+852 2503 2220Tuesday – Saturday, 11am...

March 24, 2023
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Solo exhibitions at Kiang Malingue / Zheng Bo, Liu Yin, Tiffany Chung

Tiffany Chung /entangled traces, disremembered landscapes / Mar 20 – May 6, 2023 /Opening: Monday, Mar 20, 6pm – 8pmWan Chai Gallery Zheng Bo Beech, Pine, Fern, Acacia Deep DiveMar 18 –...

March 22, 2023
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Wang Jiajia at DE SARTHE

A/S/LMar 18 – Apr 29, 2023 / DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong+852 2167 8896Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm desarthe.com DE SARTHE is pleased to...

March 22, 2023
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Antonio Casadei at Ping Pong Gintonería

Antonio Casadei & Hong Kong’s first public art commissionsExhibition and TalksMar 18 – Jul 10, 2023 Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035...

March 18, 2023
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones at White Cube Hong Kong

Deep Dive /Mar 22 – May 20, 2023 /Opening: Mar 21, 6pm – 8pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com...

March 17, 2023
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Shubigi Rao at Rossi & Rossi

Eating One’s TailMar 18 – May 13, 2023 Opening: Mar 18, 11am Rossi & Rossi11F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang RoadWong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2116 5282Tuesday – Saturday, 11am –...

March 16, 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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Kimsooja at Axel Vervoordt GalleryTopography of Body Mar 18 – Jun 3, 2023 Axel Vervoordt Gallery21/F, Coda Designer Centre62...March 24, 2023

Solo exhibitions at Kiang Malingue / Zheng Bo, Liu Yin, Tiffany ChungTiffany Chung /entangled traces, disremembered landscapes / Mar 20 – May 6, 2023 /Opening: Monday,...March 22, 2023

Wang Jiajia at DE SARTHEA/S/LMar 18 – Apr 29, 2023 / DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang...March 22, 2023

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Studio

Sharon Lee

by Caroline Ha Thuc

Sharon Lee’s practice explores and questions photography as a medium. Inspired by her family life and by the everyday, the Hong Kong artist experiments with various techniques, textures and materials to mould the blurry remains of memory, poetically capturing the slippery layers of time. Her work revolves around the notions of absence and disappearance as tangible and often constructed presences. Caroline Ha Thuc: From the start, you have explored photography in association with various modes of printing, including ceramics. Where does that come from? Sharon Lee: I use photography; meanwhile I do not conform to photography. I embrace alternative image-making as a form of negotiation, not necessarily with a single photograph but with the history, culture, art, science and technology that it carries.  I started photography when I found myself with no resources for art making – no studio, no art supplies but a 55-sq-ft shared bedroom. I find the medium a great tool to construct a visual reality. It frames and unframes, hides and reveals simultaneously. I was in Vienna for an academic exchange...

January 20, 2023
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Profiles

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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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...

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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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Reviews

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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February 17, 2023

Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III

Tai Kwun Contemporary / Hong Kong / Dec 24 – Apr 10, 2023 / There’s a quote that aspirational...

by Brady Ng
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January 24, 2023

Wing Sze Lam and Heiwa Wong

Dailyscape / 1999 Art Space / Hong Kong / Oct 8 – 30, 2022 / In Wing Sze Lam’s...

by Ophelia Lai
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December 21, 2022

Vvzela Kook

Phantom Island / Oi! / Hong Kong / Sep 5 – Jan 2, 2023 / In 1851, the government...

by Christie Lee
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November 28, 2022

Wu Jiaru 吳佳儒

To the Naiad’s House / Flowers Gallery / Hong Kong / Sep 29 – Nov 12 / The story...

by Brady Ng
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November 4, 2022

Jaffa Lam 林嵐

Chasing an Elusive Nature / Axel Vervoordt Gallery / Hong Kong / 15 Oct 2022 – 7 Jan 2023 /...

by Caroline Ha Thuc
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October 4, 2022

Haim Steinbach

tin drum / White Cube / Hong Kong /Sep 14 – Nov 12, 2022 / Four horizontal display shelves line...

by Diana d'Arenberg Parmanand
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September 10, 2022

Gloria Awareness

Sickroom / Hong Kong / Jun 16 – Jul 17, 2022 / Yang Jiang / “Sickroom” is a term...

by Artomity Magazine
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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

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...

by Artomity Magazine
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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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February 18, 2020

Sebastian Fagerlund 施巴斯坦‧費格倫特

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

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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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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
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The Moon is Leaving Us 月逝無聲

Published 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 moving away from the...

June 11, 2021
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March 16, 2023

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February 24, 2023

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Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III

February 15, 2023

Collect Art Fair Returns to Somerset House this March

February 10, 2023

Kit Armstrong

February 2, 2023

First Release Tickets are On Sale Now for Art Central 2023

February 1, 2023

Imi Knoebel at White Cube Hong Kong

January 24, 2023

Wing Sze Lam and Heiwa Wong

January 20, 2023

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January 12, 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...

April 5, 2022
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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...

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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...

February 14, 2022
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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...

December 28, 2021
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‘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
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