All posts tagged: Oscar Chan Yik Long

Oscar Chan Yik Long at The Radvila Palace Museum of Art Vilnius 

Published by Artomity Magazine

Oscar Chan Yik Long /They always look from an imagined above /Nov 27, 2025 – Mar 15, 2026 / The Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art 24 Vilniaus StreetVilnius, Lithuania T +370 5 250 5824Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 11am – 7pmThursday 12am – 8pmSunday 11am – 5pm lndm.lt Oscar Chan Yik Long (Hong Kong, 1988, lives in Helsinki) works mostly in Chinese ink. His paintings and drawings are mostly based on motifs from East Asian mythology or other esoteric traditions. This is his first solo exhibition in a museum, and it contains both new and existing works. Its title, They always look from an imagined above, also names a temporary ink mural (2025) on the vaulted ceiling of the a seventeenth-century Radvila Palace. Who are ‘they’? What is the ‘above’ and why is it ‘imagined’? Chan is not telling us. He has placed Cosmic egg (2021), a woollen rug, under the mural. The rug alludes to a creation myth, but again without explanation. In an adjacent space, the walls and ceilings receive the projected work Patrol (2025), where ‘they’ …

Oscar Chan Yik Long 陳翊朗

Published by Gerhard Mack

To Sleep and Wake Unafraid /PF25 cultural projects /Basel, Switzerland /Jun 14–22, 2025 / For his solo exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, Oscar Chan Yik Long created an environment of ink drawings.  Entering the space feels like entering a body, the inner skin of which is covered with images. They are wild and tender, haunting and peaceful, bleeding from memories and experiences, as bodies always carry the traces of our traumas and happy moments. Bleached out in black and white, they are like repercussions of moments lived through: monsters and guardians at the same time. There is no limit, there are no boundaries, only flow, like associations of the mind and bodily fluids, sour and sweet at once.  The space where this happens is a living room in a 16th-century building at the heart of medieval Basel. The walls are structured by painted panels and the ceiling is held up by mighty wooden beams, which together already create the atmosphere of a cosy cave, where time takes a breath and the heartbeat can slow. This most …

Oscar Chan Yik Long at PF25 cultural projects Basel

Published by Artomity Magazine

Oscar Chan Yik Long /Jun 14 – 22, 2025 /Opening: Friday, Jun 13, 5pm – 8pm / PF25 cultural projectsPfeffergässlein 25Entrance via Nadelberg 33 to Pfeffergässlein 254051 Basel, SwitzerlandT +41 61 209 92 59By appointment onlyExhibition viewing request link pf25.org PF25 cultural projects is delighted to present To Sleep and Wake Unafraid, Oscar Chan Yik Long’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland and the opening chapter of his two-part solo series unfolding in 2025. Part of PF25’s Spring Programme and the Art Basel VIP Programme, this site-specific presentation takes place in a 16th-century building in the heart of Basel’s Old Town. Known for his ink paintings and large-scale ephemeral murals, Chan’s practice draws from East Asian philosophy, mythology, and spiritual traditions, interwoven with Western classical and symbolist influences. Horror cinema and global pop culture further shape his visual language, bridging ancestral memory with contemporary experience. In recent years, he has focused on the holistic links between the human body and emotions in Chinese tradition—particularly how fear, anger, anxiety, sadness, and joy correspond to internal organs. Titled after a line …

Hung Up on You at Ping Pong Gintonería 

Published by Artomity Magazine

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.

Oscar Chan Yik Long 陳翊朗

Published by Aaina Bhargava

Don’t leave the dark alone / Gallery Exit / Hong Kong / Aug 14 – Sep 18, 2021 / Two women and a man with a horned goat’s head sit around a table, bearing frustrated and contemplative expressions, a crucifix affixed on the wall behind looming over them. In this latest ink creation, Not Even God or the Devil Know How to Handle This (2021), artist Oscar Chan Yik-Long puts a reversed anthropomorphic twist on a scene from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Here, Chan replaces Fassbinder’s head with that of a goat, often used as a demonic symbol, removing the scene from its original context and transforming it into his own phantasmagoric creation. This practice is ubiquitous throughout his most recent exhibition, Don’t leave the dark alone, at Gallery Exit. “’Fear eats the soul’ is exactly what I’ve been feeling and thinking,” says Chan in an interview, reflecting on the harrowing events engulfing the world over the past few years. “The world has gone through so much trauma, from …

Andy Li, Stanley Shum, Sean Wong, Ho Sin Tung, Oscar Chan Yik Long, and Chloe Cheuk at Goethe-Institut Hongkong

Published by Artomity Magazine

Tongueless Sep 3 – Oct 3, 2020Opening: Thursday, Sep 3, 7pm Online Goethe-Gallery and Black Box StudioGoethe-Institut Hongkong14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre2 Harbour Road, Hong Kong Goethe-Institut Hongkong is presenting a series of programmes on the topic of “Civil Society, Arts and Mental Balance” in this September and October. To kick off the programme series, the exhibition Tongueless will open with an artist talk on Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 7pm on Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s Facebook and Instagram pages. The artworks by six Hong Kong artists take a multitude of forms, exude a kind of rawness and authenticity which heightened the individuality of each person’s journey. The exhibition serves to be the vehicle for self-expression that allows someone else a tiny glimpse into another world. The artworks demand engagement and draw attention to often otherwise silenced issues, experiences or perspectives. Through the exhibition, the audience is invited to experience elements of mental issues for themselves. Guided Tours Friday, Sep 4, 4 – 5pmWith curator KY Wong and artist Sean Wong Due to the government social distancing measures, limited number of visitors will be admitted at …

Various artists

Published by Artomity Magazine

Contagious Cities: Far Away Too Close / Tai Kwun Contemporary / Hong Kong / Jan 26 – Apr 21 / Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand / In 2003, the SARS outbreak led to a shutdown of Hong Kong. The virus infected 1,755 people in the city, killing 299. Fear of the epidemic led many, mainly expats, to flee. Those who didn’t leave avoided public spaces. A housing estate was put under quarantine, public transport and public areas were deserted, and schools were closed. At the height of the SARS crisis, iconic Hong Kong actor and singer Leslie Cheung jumped to his death from Central’s Mandarin Oriental hotel, adding to the trauma, gloom and anxiety that were already consuming the city. The crisis impacted Hong Kong physically, psychologically and economically, and like epidemics before, it shaped the city and its habits, policies and people. Contagious Cities: Faraway Too Close at Tai Kwun Contemporary, a group show with works by 10 local and international artists, attempts to explore the psychological and emotional dimensions of disease and contagion. Presented by the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical institution …

Oscar Chan Yik Long

Published by Christie Lee

Hong Kong artist Oscar Chan Yik Long talks demons, horror films and his big move to the City of Lights  Chatting with Oscar Chan Yik Long at a coffee shop on D’Aguilar Street, Central, it’s hard to imagine that the sunny artist, decked out in one of his trademark vibrantly patterned shirts, lives his life haunted by demons.  Born in Hong Kong in 1988, Chan studied at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts but it was an “abstract” fear of demons, planted in the artist’s mind when he was still a young boy, that weighs most heavily on his paintings. As much as he fears and is repelled by fear, he is also drawn to it. In his art, screaming skeletons, amorphous beasts and ghoulish, tear- or blood-shedding creatures fill walls and life-sized canvases. “I need to give fear a form,” he says.  Chaotic and unabashedly confessional, they’re the portraits of a tangled mind that vacillates between fearing and repelling these creatures, and being drawn towards them. We sat down with Chan on the eve …