Month: March 2024

Louise Giovanelli at White Cube Hong Kong

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Louise GiovanelliHere on EarthMar 26 – May 18, 2024 White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present Louise Giovanelli’s first solo exhibition in the city. Louise Giovanelli’s (b.1993, London, UK) work considers the significance and history of painting as a system of representation. Titled Here on Earth, the exhibition debuts a new group of paintings in which the central female figure is doubled and repeated–frozen in a moment of ecstasy – exploring the tension between representation and materiality, figuration and abstraction. Working from found imagery drawn from a wide range of sources, the artist seeks to isolate narratively ambiguous moments. As she explains, ‘a painting should be the beginning of something. The best paintings are those that endure in your mind – because there’s this sense of mystery to them.’ Giovanelli’s first museum exhibition in China takes place concurrently at He Art Museum (HEM) from 23 March until 16 June 2024.

ARTS • TECH Exhibition 2.0 – Beyond the Singularity

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Kurt Chan Yuk-keung, Chow Yiu-fai, Chui Pui-chee, Mak2, So Hing-keung, Phoebe Wong, Stephen Wong Chun-hei, David Chan, Kingston Lo, Frog King, Frog Queen, Virtue VillageBeyond the SingularityMar 16 – Apr 7, 2024  Curator: Isaac Leung SHOWCASE UG/F, Landmark South39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk HangTuesday – Sunday, 12pm – 7pm arts-tech.hk/en/ The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) proudly presents Beyond the Singularity, the highly anticipated final exhibition of ARTS • TECH Exhibition 2.0. Curated by Isaac Leung, Beyond the Singularity is the first of its kind, Hong Kong’s premier AI-themed exhibition that delves into the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human existence and artistic expression, construction a journey through dynamic landscapes and dialogue to probe its ever-evolving potentiality.  Inspired by the metamorphic term “singularity” – which at its advent described the infinite density and gravity of the black hole’s centre – and expanded to denote a future where AI surpasses human cognition, Beyond the Singularity aspires to establish a benchmark in the use of AI technology while raising thought-provoking questions about the role and significance of humanity in …

Artist-parents’ ideas: alternative ways for parents 藝術家父母的創意：別樣的親子互動方式

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Talk 講座 Artomity at Art Basel Exchange CircleFriday, Mar 29, 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm 3月29日下午1時30分至2時30分John Batten, Yim Sui Fong, Joey Chung 約翰百德、嚴瑞芳、鍾晧怡 Art Basel Exchange CircleLevel 1 Concourse near Entrance 1AHong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Artomity at Art Basel Exchange CircleRooftop Institute Inspired by the 1960s art collective Fluxus, Hong Kong’s Rooftop Institute has published a new book, Event Scores 2: Ideas between Artist-Parents and Their Kids, exploring ‘instructional art’ between artist-parents and their children, contributed by 45 artist-parents from around the world. These alternative ways for parent-child interactions are suggestions for action open to the reader’s interpretation, ranging from helping parents and children co-create with anything around them, to reflecting on their relationship and getting along with each other. Editors Yim Sui Fong and Joey Chung introduce the story behind the book and share examples, when as artists and young mothers they originally collected ideas from other artist-parents that all parents could use while their children were at home during COVID.Event Scores 2 is a new book, published in English and Chinese, of further alternative ideas by artist-parents from around the world. 香港的天台塾受1960年代的激浪派（Fluxus）文藝派流啟發，新出版了《事件譜2：藝術家父母與子女的點子》，邀請 45位來自世界各地的藝術家父母共享他們與子女的「指令藝術」。這些別樣的親子互動方式提供了行動建議，任由讀者解讀和演繹，有的幫助親子利用身邊事物共同創造，亦有對雙方關係和相處的思考。 …

Howie Tsui 徐浩恩

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When Howie Tsui and his family settled in Canada’s Thunder Bay, a sparsely populated, blue-collar corner of northern Ontario, his connection to Hong Kong was getting stretched. It was 1984, after a few years in Lagos. But like many members of the Hong Kong diaspora who were born in the 1970s and 80s, one medium dropped him back into the city’s orbit: its pop culture and entertainment.  It arrived on videocassettes, mailed from Hong Kong and flown across the Pacific Ocean before it landed in the city, situated by Lake Superior. For young Tsui, that connection had a particularly personal layer: to satisfy the requirements for being new immigrants, his father had started a videocassette manufacturing business in Canada. The tapes that his uncle used to record programmes in Hong Kong could have been products made by the family business. On these tapes were slapstick comedies, wuxia action flicks and other output from a golden age of Hong Kong cinema, starring the likes of Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Stephen Chow and Michael Hui. There were …

Wolfgang Tillmans at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Wolfgang TillmansThe Point Is MatterMarch 25 – May 11, 2024Opening Reception: Monday, March 25, 3pm – 7pm David Zwirner5-6/F, H Queen’s 80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm+852 21195900 davidzwirner.com David Zwirner is pleased to present The Point Is Matter, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Wolfgang Tillmans at the gallery’s location in Hong Kong. The exhibition’s title stems from Tillmans’s long-term understanding of his work sitting between the physical reality and presence of the world he works and lives in and the conceptual, sociopolitical, sensual, and spiritual concerns that underpin his practice. Presented across both floors of the gallery, the works on view include depictions of changing forms of atmosphere and elusive natural phenomena; pictures that explore notions of time and temporality; and images that engage with the artist’s expansive conceptions of the still life and the portrait. Tillmans punctuates the exhibition with works made in Addis Ababa, Berlin, Lagos, and Mongolia, along with those taken in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, sensitively invoking resonant associations between the local and the world at …

Wong Ping at Kiang Malingue

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Wong Ping /anus whisper/Mar 25 – May 4, 2024 /Opening: Monday, Mar 25, 3pm – 8pm /Opening Performance: Monday, Mar 25, 7.30pm – 7.32pm / Kiang Malingue 10 Sik On Street, Wan Chai, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm +852 2810 0317 kiangmalingue.com Kiang Malingue presents anus whisper, an exhibition of recent installations, sculptures, and films by Wong Ping. Inspired by the experience of paracusia, Crumbling Earwax, Georges Bataille’s The Solar Anus, and a tête-à-tête with a stranger in bed in the afternoon, the sizeable artworks thematically and formally correspond to one another, exploring the aesthetic meaning(-lessness) of bullshit, expanding Wong’s curious body of art that revolves around circular narratives and motifs.

Xiyadie at Blindspot Gallery

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XiyadieButterfly DreamMar 26 – May 11, 2024 Opening: Saturday, Mar 23, 4pm – 6.30pmArtist will be present Artist talk: Xiyadie in conversation with Hera ChanSaturday, Mar 23, 3pm – 4pm (conducted in English and Mandarin) Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2517 6238 Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pmSpecial opening hours on Monday, Mar 25, 12pm – 6pm blindspotgallery.com Butterfly Dream is Xiyadie’s debut solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery. Presenting over thirty works including unseen works from the early 1980s to the present, it is the largest exhibition of Xiyadie ever presented.  Born in 1963 in Weinan, Shaanxi province, Xiyadie is a self-taught traditional Chinese papercut artist who uses a medium with origins dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE) to narrate his journey of coming out from rural China as a homosexual person. His autobiographical papercuts chronicle his transformation through an environment that does not lend political agency to queer identifying people, while also reflecting the struggle of a marginalized individual as a migrant worker in the big city. The exhibition titled Butterfly Dream alludes …

Hung Up on You at Ping Pong Gintonería 

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Chan Ting, Dony Cheng Hung, Magdalen Wong, Annie Wan Lai Kuen, Kwan Sheung Chi, Wong Ping, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Winsome Wong, Nadim Abbas, Wong Kai Kin, Andrew Luk, Benny To Kai On, Doris Wong Wai Yin, Lulu Ngie, Howie Tsui, Hilarie Hon, Louise Soloway Chan, Tap Chan, Chow Chun Fai, Angela Su, Green Mok Hung Up on You Mar 19 – Jun 15, 2024 Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm – 10pm pingpong129art.com Hung Up on You, which features paintings, drawings, video installations and sculptures by some of Hong Kong’s leading contemporary artists, marks Ping Pong Gintonería’s 10th anniversary.

Kongkee 江康泉（江記）

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Warring States Cyberpunk /Tai Kwun Contemporary /Hong Kong /Dec 9, 2023 – Mar 3, 2024 / Futuristic DIY attitudes, military-style uniforms, grimy tech gear and the “high tech, low life” motif—the aesthetics of cyberpunk saturate our visual media so much that its countercultural origins are drowned out in its neon glow. Maybe this is because fiction is spilling into real life, and our survival instincts are kicking in as the consumer technology presented to us becomes increasingly enmeshed with our daily activities, algorithms and capitalistic overdrive shaping new habits without us realising. Invoking cyberpunk in East Asian metropolises such as Hong Kong and Tokyo is a dicey proposition. It’s too easy to let the look of things overshadow the big ideas. But that didn’t stop animation director and visual artist Kongkee (aka Kong Khong-chang) from using the genre as one of his starting points in the show Warring States Cyberpunk, in which he layered imagined undertakings and musings of Qu Yuan, a poet whose suicide by drowning inspired the annual Dragon Boat Festival, over the …

Neo Rauch 尼奧·勞赫

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Field Signs / David Zwirner / Hong Kong / Nov 16, 2023 – Feb 24, 2024 / Throughout history, human beings have always sought signs: from zodiac signs that give meaning to what they believe in or do to literal signs that provide instructions during an election or protest. The pursuit of signs often reaches a climax at the end or beginning of the year, when we want to peer into a crystal ball and figure out what the new year has in store.  Field Signs, Neo Rauch’s latest exhibition at David Zwirner Hong Kong, also features plenty of signs. While anyone hoping to find easy meaning in Rauch’s art will be sorely disappointed, the exhibition feels as contemporary and relevant as the artist’s work always does.  The exhibition title has a double meaning, referring not only to signs farmers use to mark a crop variety but also to signs used by warring states or parties in the past. The exhibition trots out Rauch’s usual bevy of people at work or play, following socialist realist …