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

ARTOMITY 藝源

Hong Kong's Art Magazine

Menu
Search
  • Features
  • Reviews
  • Studio
  • Profiles
  • Galleries & Spaces
    • Alisan Fine Arts (Aberdeen)
    • Alisan Fine Arts (Central)
    • Axel Vervoordt Gallery
    • Blindspot Gallery
    • Blue Lotus Gallery
    • David Zwirner
    • DE SARTHE
    • Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio
    • Kiang Malingue
    • Ping Pong Gintonería
    • Rossi & Rossi
    • Tai Kwun Contemporary
    • Tang Contemporary Art
    • White Cube
    • Whitestone Gallery
Close Menu
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • Luis Chan 陳福善

    by Artomity Magazine

    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
    comments 0
    City
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • 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
    comments 0
    City
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • Kit Armstrong

    by Artomity Magazine

    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
    comments 0
    Classical Music Reviews
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews
  • 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
    comments 0
    Features
  • 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
    comments 0
    Reviews

Recent e-announcements

Recent e-announcements

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
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Liste Art Fair Basel

Jun 12 – 18, 2023 Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113 4058 Basel liste.ch Founded in 1996, Liste Art Fair Basel is the international fair for discoveries in contemporary...

May 23, 2023
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Tromarama, Lai Chih-Sheng at Kiang Malingue

Tromarama /Contraflow /May 23 – Jun 30, 2023 /Opening: Saturday, May 20, 3pm – 6pm /Tin Wan Studio / Lai Chih-Sheng /It’s a quiet thing /May 27 – Jul 8,...

May 19, 2023
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

Pierre Mon Frere

Pierre Mon FrereSolo ExhibitionMay 12 – 14, 2023Opening: Friday, May 12, 6pm G/F, 90 – 92 Hollywood RoadCentral, Hong Kong pierremonfrere.com This is Pierre Mon Frere’s first solo exhibition in...

May 3, 2023
comment 1
Recent e-announcements

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
comments 0
Recent e-announcements

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
comments 0

Features

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
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

Current Issue

Social

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Recent e-announcements

Katherine Bernhardt at David Zwirner Hong KongKatherine Bernhardt /Dummy doll jealous eyes ditto pikachu beefy mimikyu rough play Galarian rapid...May 24, 2023

Liste Art Fair BaselJun 12 – 18, 2023 Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113 4058 Basel liste.ch...May 23, 2023

Tromarama, Lai Chih-Sheng at Kiang MalingueTromarama /Contraflow /May 23 – Jun 30, 2023 /Opening: Saturday, May 20, 3pm – 6pm...May 19, 2023

Studio

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
comments 0
Studio

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
comments 0
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
comments 0
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
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

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
comments 0
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
comments 0
March 18, 2023

Vaevae Chan

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

by Brady Ng
comments 0
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
comments 0
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
comments 0
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
comments 0
December 21, 2022

Vvzela Kook

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

by Christie Lee
comments 0
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
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

May 4, 2023

Bamberg Symphony

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

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
February 10, 2023

Kit Armstrong

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

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0
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
comments 0
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,...

by Artomity Magazine
comments 0

City

Luis Chan 陳福善

Published by Artomity Magazine

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
comments 0
City

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
comments 0
City

Hong Kong in Transition 1995 – 2020 香港過渡(1995-2020年)

Published by Artomity Magazine

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
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

Recent Posts

May 29, 2023

Leung Chi Wo

May 24, 2023

Katherine Bernhardt at David Zwirner Hong Kong

May 23, 2023

Liste Art Fair Basel

May 19, 2023

Tromarama, Lai Chih-Sheng at Kiang Malingue

May 12, 2023

Shubigi Rao 舒比吉·拉奧 

May 4, 2023

Bamberg Symphony

May 3, 2023

Pierre Mon Frere

April 28, 2023

Bouie Choi 蔡鈺娟 

April 1, 2023

Family having cake and coffee, overlooking a misty Victoria...

March 29, 2023

Luis Chan 陳福善

March 24, 2023

Kimsooja at Axel Vervoordt Gallery

March 22, 2023

Solo exhibitions at Kiang Malingue / Zheng Bo, Liu Yin,...

March 22, 2023

Wang Jiajia at DE SARTHE

March 18, 2023

Antonio Casadei at Ping Pong Gintonería

March 18, 2023

Vaevae Chan

March 17, 2023

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones at White Cube Hong Kong

March 16, 2023

Shubigi Rao at Rossi & Rossi

March 16, 2023

Wang Tuo at Blindspot Gallery

March 15, 2023

The Streets of Hong Kong at Blue Lotus Gallery

March 10, 2023

Chu Chu 

Tags

Blindspot Gallery Caroline Ha Thuc Christie Lee Christine Chan Chiu Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand Elliat Albrecht Ernest Wan Hong Kong John Batten Lehmann Maupin M+ Nooshfar Afnan Samson Young Tai Kwun Tai Kwun Contemporary Valencia Tong West Kowloon Cultural District White Cube White Cube Hong Kong

Back Page

Back Page

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
comments 0
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

Instagram

Conversation: Caroline Ha Thuc talks to Leung Chi Wo. #leungchiwo #carolinehathuc #blindspotgallery Linkin.bio.
Caroline Ha Thuc reviews "Eating One’s Tail" by Shubigi Rao at Rossi & Rossi. #ShubigiRao #EatingOnesTail Linkin.bio.
Caroline Ha Thuc reviews "Crossing the nights Filling the lines" by Bouie Choi at Grotto SKW. #bouiechoi #carolinehathuc #grottofineart Linkin.bio.
Brady Ng reviews 'She Told Me to Head to the Sea' by Vaevae Chan. Linkin.bio
The Artomity Annual / Cover story: Luis Chan by Joyce Wong / Linkin.bio ⁠
Visit us at our booth at Art Basel Hong Kong on level 3 opposite entrance 3C. Photo: Cinematographer Chris Doyle with Artomity magazine, Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Centre, during Art Basel 2023, Hong Kong, 21 March 2023 #artbaselhongkong #hongkongkey

Follow

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

Top Posts & Pages

  • Leung Chi Wo
    Leung Chi Wo
  • Zheng Mahler
    Zheng Mahler
  • Sharon Lee
    Sharon Lee
  • Shubigi Rao 舒比吉·拉奧 
    Shubigi Rao 舒比吉·拉奧 
  • Bouie Choi  蔡鈺娟 
    Bouie Choi 蔡鈺娟 

Archives

Artomity

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

Hong Kong's Art Magazine

  • Copyright © 2023 ARTOMITY 藝源
  • Contact
  • Proudly powered by