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Asia Art Archive 2025 Annual Fundraiser

aaa2025auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA) announces the return of its Annual Fundraiser this October and November, celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary. This year’s fundraiser features an auction of over sixty-five works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. The auction presents major pieces by prominent and emerging artists from Asia and beyond, showcasing AAA’s intergenerational and cross-regional reach. Proceeds from the auction will support AAA to continue its mission of preserving contemporary art histories in Asia and providing free public access to resources and education. In partnership with Christie’s Hong Kong, a preview of the artworks opens to the public from 7 to 11 November. The works are available for bidding online at aaa2025auction.com from 27 October, 12nn, to 14 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Au Hoi Lam, Cao Fei, Luis Chan, Huma Bhabha, Ding Yi, Nicole Eisenman, Antony Gormley, Ha Bik Chuen, Ho Tzu Nyen, Heidi Lau, Lee Kit, Hao Liang, Liu Wei, ruangrupa, Vishwa Shroff, Yee I-Lann, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen, Samson Young, and more. Since …

Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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aaajiao, Cao Fei, Chen Chieh-Jen, Chen Zhe, Cheng Xinhao, Ge Yulu, Gong Jian, Guan Xiao, Guo Cheng, He Zike, Phoebe Hui, Jiang Zhi, Kong Chun Hei, Vvzela Kook, Lam Pok Yin, Lawrence Lek, Li Hanwei, Li Shuang, Li Yi-Fan, Lin Ke, Liu Xinyi, Lu Yang, Ma Lijiao, Miao Ying, Shao Chun, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wong Kit Yi, Wong Ping, Xijing Men, Yao Qingmei, Ye Funa, Samson Young, Yu Guo, Zhang Yibei, Payne Zhu Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud Sep 26, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026 JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008, a panoramic exhibition comprising two chapters and featuring over 70 artists, curated by Dr Pi Li, Head of Art, and Ying Kwok, Senior Curator. The first chapter, Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud (Sep 26, 2025 to Jan 4, 2026), with more than 35 artists, is installed across three floors of JC Contemporary and in F Hall Gallery at Tai Kwun. Beginning with Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud and continuing …

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 …

Noteworthy Shows in Hong Kong Autumn / Winter ’23 Edition

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“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 of activity over the past two years. There were numerous shows and events last autumn, from Asia Art Archive and Para Site auction fundraisers to blockbuster exhibitions like Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now at M+ to smaller exhibitions such as John Batten’s showcase at Ping Pong to online initiatives such as the launch of David Clarke’s digital archive. Here are eight noteworthy exhibitions. Behind Your Eyelid, Pipilotti Rist at Tai Kwun ContemporaryTai Kwun Contemporary’s blockbuster exhibition surpassed expectations, providing an experience that cultural institutions should aspire to. Serving as a mini survey of Rist’s practice, the show featured a number of highlights from the artist’s career, including I’m not the Girl who …

Samson Young at Kiang Malingue Hong Kong

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Samson YoungMusic for selective hearing, or assisted livingSep 24 – Nov 5, 2022 Kiang Malingue13/F Blue Box Factory Building25 Hing Wo StreetAberdeen, Hong Kong+852 2810 0317By appointment kiangmalingue.comWeChat Kiang Malingue is pleased to present Samson Young’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s Hong Kong space. Titled Music for selective hearing, or assisted living, this exhibition will feature five sets of artworks created by the artist in the last two years. Known for exploring the fabric of the socio-political by examining the history and contemporary conditions of sound and music, Young considers in the exhibition the complicated nature of ‘sound conditioning’ – the active control of ambient sounds, as exemplified by such devices as white-noise sleep aids – as self-care and recuperation, but also as self-imposed isolation, control, and wilful disengagement. Included in the exhibition is Samson Young’s collaboration with his long-time friend, violist William Lane. The installation Often easy, sometimes impossible (2021 – 2022) consists of a two-channel video, in which Lane performs Young’s original composition that was scored for a triangle, a viola, and a synthesised glass harmonica …

Sigg Prize 2019 exhibition

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Dec 7, 2019 – Apr 13, 2020 M+ PavilionWest Kowloon Cultural DistrictTsim Sha TsuiHong Kong Web M+, Hong Kong’s museum of 20th- and 21st-century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, is pleased to present the inaugural Sigg Prize exhibition. The exhibition brings together work by the six artists shortlisted for the prize: Hu Xiaoyuan (born 1977, lives and works in Beijing), Liang Shuo (born 1976, lives and works in Beijing), Lin Yilin (born 1964, lives and works in New York), Shen Xin (born 1990, lives and works in Minneapolis and Amsterdam), Tao Hui (born 1987, lives and works in Beijing), and Samson Young (born 1979, lives and works in Hong Kong). In recent years, each has articulated a distinguished artistic language to address topics that defy easy categorisation. Concentrating on work produced in the last two years, the combination of six practices in this exhibition reveals multiple connections with our current time. Some of the shortlisted artists react to and reflect on social and political realities, while others pursue the refinement and expression of personal languages and inner worlds. Together, these artists show the diversity …

Samson Young

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It’s Heaven Over There / Centre A / Vancouver / Feb 23 – Jun 4 / Justin Ramsey / When the Sun Wah Centre was constructed in the 1980s, it was envisioned as a neighbourhood mall for Vancouver’s Chinatown, the kind one might find all over Hong Kong: a fountain on the main floor, central escalators wending their way up through glitzy tiers of fashion and food. This never materialised. The building’s few vendors nestle in a near constant state of pink-walled disrepair. The setting is apt for Samson Young’s exhibition It’s Heaven Over There, curated by Tyler Russell at Centre A, which has recently moved into the Sun Wah Centre, alongside other arts organisations that are transforming this under-realised mall into a cultural hub. The first display in Young’s exhibition resembles a shopfront: blaring pop music, a glass case full of trinkets. It is an appropriate beginning to an exhibition focused on the mall itself. It’s Heaven Over There is the second in a trilogy of site-responsive exhibitions by Young that critique utopian projects and their fraught, often unexpected …

Register for ‘Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour’ talks

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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour is the Hong Kong edition of the exhibition Songs for Disaster Relief conceived by multidisciplinary artist Samson Young for the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2017. Featuring a series of sculptures, objects, videos, sound installations, and site-specific pieces, the exhibition offers a unique audiovisual experience that re-examines the popularity of charity singles from the 1980s. Creatively repurposing and misreading iconic songs made by popular artists for charitable causes, Young draws on seemingly unrelated past and current events to explore the social, political, and philosophical implications of charity singles in a cross-cultural context. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of talks, guided tours, and live performances. Access services can be arranged in advance. The exhibition is curated by M+ Guest Curator Ying Kwok, with M+ Deputy Director and Chief Curator Doryun Chong as Consulting Curator. Exhibition Period: 9 February to 6 May 2018 Wednesday to Sunday and public holidays 11:00am to 6:00pm M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District westkowloon.hk Talks Where is the Voice – …

‘Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief’ public programme – ‘We Are One?’ Screenings & Conversations

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To accompany Hong Kong’s collateral event at the Venice Biennale 2017, ‘Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief’, M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Centre are co-presenting a programme of film screenings and conversations on the theme of charity efforts. Through a local feature film, a Taiwanese music video, and two international documentaries, ‘We Are One?’ explores some of the central issues raised in the exhibition, providing both a wider context for Young’s newly commissioned work for Venice. Charity Songs That Rocked The World In The 1980s Date: 16 October 2017 (Mon) Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm Screening: Band Aid: The Song That Rocked The World (2004) Post-screening conversation with RubberBand and Wong Chi Chung Charity Initiatives Go East Date: 17 October 2017 (Tues) Time: 7:30 – 10:00pm Screening: Tomorrow Will Be Better MV (1985), The Banquet (1991) Post-screening conversation with Jass Leung Wai Sze and Poon Yuen Leung The World As One? Date: 23 October 2017 (Mon) Time: 7:30 – 10:15pm Screening: We Come As Friends (2014) Post-screening conversation with Keith B. Richburg and Simon Shen Xu-hui Venue: Hong Kong …

Art in the Bar, 14 September, 6 pm

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Locations Cobo House I Duddell’s I Halcyon I Ping Pong I Potato Head I Runway I Salon 10 I Shore I Tartine I The Pawn Artists Adrian Wong (Hong Kong) I Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia) I Chen Tianzhuo (China) I Morgan Wong (Hong Kong) I Chim↑Pom (Japan) I Rabbya Naseer and Hurmat Ul Ain (Pakistan) I Come Inside (Hong Kong) I Samson Young (Hong Kong) I Deng Dafei (China) I Tao Hui (China) I Erkka Nissinen (Hong Kong based) I The Utopia Group (China) I Hu Weiyi (China) I Tromarama (Indonesia) I Korakrit Arunanondchai (Thailand) I Wong Ping (Hong Kong) I Li Ming (China) I Xu Qu (China) About Asian video art will take over Hong Kong’s hottest bars for one night only this September when CoBo Social, Asia’s first online and offline art community platform, presents Art in the Bar. On 14 September (Thursday) from 6pm onwards, Art in the Bar will take place across 11 of the city’s hottest bars, who will team up with CoBo Social to offer special promotions, performances and screenings of cutting-edge video art. Art in the Bar aims to introduce the best of Asian video art to diverse audiences by bringing art directly to the community. The …