All posts tagged: Tao Hui

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 …

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 …

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 …