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Tenzing Rigdol at Rossi & Rossi

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Tenzing Rigdol /Chitra Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time / Mar 22 – May 10, 2025 /Opening: Saturday, Mar 22, 12pm – 6pm / Rossi & Rossi 11F, 54 Wong Chuk Hang RoadWong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong+852 2116 5282Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm Art Basel Hong KongBooth 1B07: Siah ArmajaniKabinett: Szelit CheungConvention and Exhibition CentreMar 26 – 30, 2025 rossirossi.com Rossi & Rossi is thrilled to announce Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time, a solo exhibition on the work of Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol (b. 1982). Derived from the Sanskrit words Chitra (light or awareness) and Kala (time or emptiness), the exhibition’s title Chitra-Kala translates to ‘art’. Reflecting a deep philosophical framework rooted in Eastern thought, it also speaks to the interplay between awareness and the passage of time. Opening on 22 March 2025, the presentation, which features a new body of paintings and drawings, marks the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. It follows his large-scale 2024 Met commission Biography of a Thought – – a site-specific installation of paintings and carpets, which was juxtaposed with traditional Himalayan art and ritual objects in the museum’s exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist …

Samson Young 楊嘉輝

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By DeWitt Cheng / In The Invention of Morel, a 1940 novella by Adolfo Bioy Casares, a Venezuelan writer sentenced to exile on a deserted island in the South Pacific hides from a group of tourists who arrive suddenly. Observing them daily, he becomes fascinated and begins a journal recording their doings – and starts falling in love with a young woman named Faustine, who strangely ignores him when he approaches her. Even stranger, all the intruders repeat their actions again and again, as if caught in a Groundhog Day time loop. Later, the narrator discovers that the group’s host, Morel, is a scientist, and that the visitors are projected recordings of his guests, all of them granted technological immortality. After the guests have departed, the writer, having learned to operate Morel’s machine, interpolates his image into the projection, pretending to interact with Faustine. Eighty-odd years later, such plot lines may be commonplace in movies – like Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, with its movie characters stepping off-screen and into the real world …

The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics at Soluna Fine Art

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Choi Young-Wook, Ha Tae-Im, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Hyun-Sik, Kim Keun-Tai, Woo Jong-Taek /The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics /Mar 20 – May 17, 2025 /Opening: Thursday, Mar 20, 4pm – 8pm / Soluna Fine ArtG/F, 52 Sai StreetSheung Wan, Hong Kong Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm Art Central Hong KongBooth B3Central HarbourfrontMar 26 – 30, 2025 solunafineart.com Soluna Fine Art proudly presents The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics, a group exhibition featuring six prominent Korean contemporary artists: Choi Young-Wook, Ha Tae-Im, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Hyun-Sik, Kim Keun-Tai, and Woo Jong-Taek. Curated in collaboration with esteemed curator Dr. Ahn Hyun-Jung, this exhibition draws inspiration from her acclaimed book “Layers of Korean Beauty”, exploring the depth of Korean art and offers profound insights into the nation’s rich cultural tapestry. Viewers are invited to experience diverse artistic expressions that reflect timeless themes of harmony, craftsmanship, and nature, which are central to Korean aesthetics and cultural heritage.

Flautist Egor Egorkin at Ping Pong Gintonería

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Egor EgorkinHybridset: live flute & dj sessionThursday, Mar 13, 8.30pm – 10.30pmFree entry Dinner package HK$380.For reservations please email info@pingpong129.comor WhatsApp Juan +852 9158 1584 Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm till late interlude.hkpingpong129.comberliner-philharmoniker.de Berliner Philharmoniker virtuoso flautist and 2025 Institute of Creativity distinguished visitor at HKBU, Egor Egorkin brings a new concept flute recital to Ping Pong Gintonería – an entire evening of classical flute x club music performance. A member of the world’s greatest orchestra, Egorkin is also an innovator in sound design and production, pioneering a new direction for the flute, through abstract textures over an ambient DJ set into a full-on lounge atmosphere. Says director, Juan Gregorio Martinez, ‘We, at Ping Pong, are delighted to welcome Egor Egorkin to Hong Kong. This programme is a rare opportunity to explore a true crossover performance from elite classical music to the dance club.’ 

NOĒMA樂季

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Auditorium, Tsuen Wan Town Hall /Hong Kong /Jan 11, 2025 /Ernest Wan / Founded by Sanders Lau as recently as 2022, NOĒMA has already taken to calling itself “Hong Kong’s leading chamber choir” – and indeed, with its programmes in this 2024/25 season of numerous serious and challenging works, it puts other local choral groups in the shade. It had a slightly different line-up of singers for each of its past concerts, and for its recent performance at Tsuen Wan Town Hall, it comprised four sopranos and three each of altos, tenors and basses. Among them were four members of the renowned British choir Tenebrae — one of each voice type — who in the days before the concert had shared with the other performers their expertise in the British 20th-century a cappella music that constituted that evening’s programme. The evening opened with John Tavener’s The Lamb (1982), a simple setting of William Blake’s famous Songs of Innocence. This served as a gentle warm-up for the choir, producing a sense of rapt wonderment. In the …

Austin Bell at Blue Lotus Gallery

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Austin Bell /Shooting Hoops, All 2,549 of Hong Kong’s basketball courts /Jan 17 – Feb 23, 2025 /Solo exhibition and book launch / Blue Lotus Gallery G/F, 28 Pound LaneSheung Wan, Hong Kong +852 5590 3229 Monday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm bluelotus–gallery.com Blue Lotus Gallery is proud to announce the latest exhibition, Shooting Hoops by Austin Bell, coinciding with the release of his self-published book of the same title. In this ambitious project, Bell catalogued every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong—an impressive total of 2,549 courts. His journey took him through the city’s nooks and crannies, relying solely on public transport. Through aerial photography, the images highlight the unique designs of these courts, their ubiquity, and their stark contrast against the city’s vertical density. This exploration not only mapped the locations of the courts but also captured the diverse topography of Hong Kong.

Alicja Kwade at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Alicja Kwade /Pretopia /Jan 10 – Apr 6, 2025 / Tai Kwun Contemporary10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTu – Su, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary proudly presents renowned contemporary artist Alicja Kwade’s inaugural solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Alicja Kwade: Pretopia showcases nine works that spanning different periods of the artist’s career, together with newly commissioned installations tailored to the history and architecture of Tai Kwun’s F Hall. Blending various mediums, including sculpture, sound, light, and performative installation, Kwade draws inspiration from abstract scientific and philosophical concepts, posing questions about reality and social structures. Alicja Kwade: Pretopia is on view from 10 January to 6 April 2025 as part of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s new Breakthrough series. Additionally, Kwade’s first site-specific public art in Hong Kong, Waiting Pavilions, is now on view. The work transforms the landscape of the Prison Yard, investigating the passage of time in the setting of a former prison, bridging the past and present within this landmark heritage site. The work was unveiled on December 20, 2024, and will remain on display through the second …

Gillian Ayres at Tang Contemporary

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Gillian Ayres /Song of Hours Fled /Jan 9 – Feb 15, 2025 /Opening:Thursday, Jan 9, 6pm – 8pm / Tang Contemporary Art10/F, H Queen’s80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pmT +852 2682 8289 tangcontemporary.com Gillian Ayres (1930 – 2018) was an influential English painter renowned for her large, vividly colored abstract works and prints, characterized by thick layers of pigment that draw from diverse styles and movements.  Ayres viewed abstract painting as a vital language reflecting the energy of the 20th century and its evolving relationship with nature and society. Rather than depicting figures or landscapes, she explored the materiality of painting, often placing the canvas on the ground to engage with the physicality of her work. This approach allowed her to experiment with shapes, colors, and textures that convey a spectrum of emotions. Her early works featured thin vinyl paint in simple shapes, while her later oil paintings became more exuberant and colorful, created with thick layers of paint. Titles were often assigned post-creation, resonating more with the work’s mood …

Immersive Performance manτεία at Freespace

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manτεία /Sunday, Dec 22 /3.30pm – 4.30pm and 7.30pm – 8.30pm / The BoxFreespaceWestK Tickets metamaps.hk manτεία (meaning prophecy or divination) is a new performance written and produced by MBow (Roberto Alonso Trillo and Peter Nelson) that examines how ancient practices of geomancy and divination relate to our desire to find meaning in AI. Apophenia is the human tendency to look for meaningful patterns in random patterns, from the shapes of clouds to the scratches in oracle bones, to the outputs of AI generators. As our cultures grapple with the rapid evolution of AI, manτεία returns us to the ancient quest to communicate with the transcendent, by looking for messages in clouds and melodies in noise. Premiering at Freespace West Kowloon on the 22nd of December 2024, manτεία uses a unique approach to artistic collaboration, where artists produce sculptures, compositions and virtual worlds that send signals to one another, linking them together into a chain of creation via a technical process known as ‘multimodal mapping’. A giant mechanical sculpture will create an irregular heartbeat that drives a …