All posts tagged: Tai Kwun Contemporary

DigiRadiance | Zhang Peili: A Day by Tai Kwun Contemporary

Zhang Peili /DigiRadiance | Zhang Peili: A Day /Jan 21 – Feb 20, 2026 /Talk: Jan 20, 6pm – 7pm /Zhang Peili, Shuman Wang (curator), Dr Pi Li (Head of Art) / F Hall StudioTai Kwun 10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongMon – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary presents DigiRadiance | Zhang Peili: A Day, a new digital art exhibition from internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Peili, on view from 21 Jan to 20 Feb 2026 at F Hall Studio. Curated by Tai Kwun’s Associate Curator Shuman Wang, Zhang Peili: A Day features a newly commissioned eight-channel video installation that explores notions of temporality, illness, and the body. This exhibition creates a new experience of reality through different media technologies, guiding viewers through everyday public and private spaces that reveal an interwoven yet alienated sense of time and space. In this exhibition, the newly commissioned installation A Day emphasises subjective visual experiences and consists of real-life footage captured from a first-person perspective, along with videos from news sources and surveillance cameras, medical imagery, and data-generated images. Interspersed are scenes of …

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 …

On Kawara at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules /Curated by Hou Hanru and Ying Kwok, with Jill Angel Chun /May 23 – Aug 17, 2025 / JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present the work of pioneering conceptual artist On Kawara, in the first major retrospective in the world conceived after his passing in 2014. On Kawara revolutionised how art can be constructed and experienced, building a lifelong artistic practice defined by a deeply human approach. Consisting of profound gestures that transform the mundane act of marking time into a meditation on human consciousness, each piece from the artist is remarkably personal and yet speaks to universal human experiences. Tai Kwun’s exhibition presents the artist’s most iconic series and features an episodic section dedicated to the artist’s visit to Hong Kong in 1978. On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules will be on view from 23 May to 17 August 2025 in the 1st Floor gallery space of the JC Contemporary and the …

Maeve Brennan at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Maeve Brennan /Records /Mar 21 – Jun 8, 2025 / JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun /10 Hollywood Road / Central, Hong Kong /Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk For her inaugural solo exhibition in Asia, Maeve Brennan (b. 1990) creates three newly commissioned works including a film shot in Puglia, Italy, and two sculptures. Brennan is a cinematic storyteller and filmmaker whose practice investigates material histories, underground economics, and ecological issues. Adopting a unique approach that blends forensic investigation with poetic tales drawn from real-life stories, Brennan has quickly established herself as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary documentary filmmaking. Through deep research and long-term collaboration, the exhibition uncovers the hidden world of stolen antiques, exposing the networks that shape our cultural past and present. Running from 21 March to 8 June 2025 at the JC Contemporary, Records features ongoing projects from the artist, spanning moving image, sculpture, works on paper, and printed matter. The exhibition title Records speaks to the documentation, and preservation, of often-overlooked narratives surrounding places and objects. Resembling documentaries in their style, Brennan’s films draw the …

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 …

Tao Hui at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Tao Hui /In the Land Beyond Living /Sep 26, 2024 – Feb 2, 2025 / JC ContemporaryTai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present Tao Hui’s first institutional solo exhibition in Hong Kong, In the Land Beyond Living. Through painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation, and set design, the artist Tao Hui (b. 1987, Chongqing) constructs an absurdist, surreal landscape. Viewers are invited to reconsider the lives and spiritual states of ordinary folks as they navigate the ebb and flow of social development in China — from north to south, inland to coast, urban to rural, and industry to nature. In the Land Beyond Living highlights the ways in which Tao Hui explores various individual struggles through his artistic practice. These include ethnic minorities living in the Hexi Corridor in the western province of Gansu, migrant workers eking out a living in rapidly developing cities, and new elites pursuing spiritual fulfillment. Weaving together stories of harsh conditions, migration waves, and regional disparities with the relentless search for a …

Bruce Nauman at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Bruce Nauman /May 15, 2023 – Aug 18, 2024 / JC ContemporaryTai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk “The point where language starts to break down as a useful tool for communication is the same edge where poetry or art occurs.” — Bruce Nauman Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present a major survey of the US-born artist Bruce Nauman, one of the most influential artists working in the present day. Known for his broad range of works made in a variety of media from sculpture, photography, and video, to neon, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Nauman is widely recognised and admired as an “Artist’s Artist”. Part of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s series of major exhibitions spotlighting pioneering artists of our time, Bruce Nauman will be on view to the public from 15 May to 18 August 2024. Bruce Nauman at Tai Kwun Contemporary is the first major exhibition of Nauman’s in Hong Kong and features 35 works that traverse six decades of the artist’s career. The exhibition revisits fundamental elements ever-present in the …

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 …

Maria Hassabi at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror /Oct 13 – Nov 26, 2023 / JC ContemporaryTai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk One of the leading figures of live art, the artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus) has long pioneered live installations which explore the relations that the human figure has with the still image and the sculptural object, while disrupting our sense of time. Her works bring the performing body into museums, theatres, and public spaces, shifting the boundaries between visitors and performers, subjects and objects. I’ll Be Your Mirror is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia, bringing together her practice of choreography, sound, sculpture, photography and painting, in two connected live installations. In this exhibition, Hassabi uses her signature choreographic style, defined by sculptural physicality, stillness, and quietness, to confront the notion of one’s own image through a gold scheme of reflections. Proposing an alternative to the way we perceive ourselves and those around us, she invites viewers to question the fluidity of an image, one that is similar to …

Patricia Piccinini at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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HOPE—Patricia Piccinini /May 24 – Sep 3, 2023 / JC Contemporary / Tai Kwun /10 Hollywood Road /Central, Hong Kong /Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm / taikwun.hk Featuring more than 50 sculptural, photographic and filmic works by the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, Tai Kwun Contemporary’s immersive exhibition HOPE taps into our hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity. The artist’s hyperrealistic sculptures of human-animal hybrids, both endearing yet grotesque, explore the unexpected consequences of tampering with nature. Visitors will get to explore an engrossing, perplexing, and deeply touching world that is at once fantastical yet one with which we identify naturally and instinctively. While her work concerns scientific progress and humankind’s destructive power over nature, a resilient optimism shines through. HOPE is Patricia Piccinini’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong and encompasses all of the gallery spaces of JC Contemporary. Among the largest works in the show is Celestial Field (2021), a vast, immersive installation comprising 4,500 individual flower stems sprouting both upward from the floor and hanging downward from the ceiling, inviting visitors to contemplate on “progress”. Elsewhere, …