June 7, 2015, 19/F Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan, Hong Kong A live electronic music event at the Empty Gallery – I was looking forward to see Lee Gamble’s performance the most, as it was a first time for me. Mark Fell and Kouhei Matsunaga were returning to town and to…
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_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shenzhen
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal: Leung Chi Wo “Press The Button…”
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April 25 – June 30, 2015; China, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Kaiping St, 华侨城创意文化园F1、F3、F4、E5栋OCAT, curator: Carol Yinghua Lu What a beautiful and HUGE banner! I was a bit confused about the overall message conveyed by Leung Chi Wo’s show. Leung’s work seems to be about language most of all. More precisely about an impossibility communicate. About all…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
HKBU, KMK Exhibition Gallery: “Urban Exotic Dilemma 城市刺探“
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June 4 – 8, 2015, curated by Craig Cooper and Wang Dong What a short time for a show! The show was quite special in the aspect that it was curated by two current doctoral students at Hong Kong Baptist University, yet did not show (only) works by students, but works by a number of…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Para Site: Sheela Gowda
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May 30 – July 19, 2015; Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Sheela Gowda is a well-established artist from India, who participated in major biennials and exhibitions. The exhibition is only titled only by the artist’s name and it surveys a rather broad range of works and…
Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
The Empty Gallery: NHK’Koyxen, Gábor Lázár, Mark Fell, Lorenzo Senni, Suishou No Fune 水晶の舟
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The Empty Gallery, 19/F Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan, Hong Kong It has been about two months since The Empty Gallery first opened its doors, and given my recent second visit for the Suishou No Fune gig, I thought it would be good to record some of my impressions. The Empty…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Osage Gallery Hong Kong: South by Southeast – First Impressions
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4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 03.08.2015 – 05.03.2015. Curated by Patrick Flores and Anca Verona Mihulet This exhibition came as a pleasant surprise: Osage invited two guest curators to put together a complex show comparing, contrasting and connecting the “Southeast” of Asia and the “Southeast”…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Para Site: “A Hundred Years of Shame” – First Impressions
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Para Site: A Hundred Years of Shame – Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations. Mar 06 – May 10, 2015, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (link) The inaugural show in Para Site’s new space opened yesterday. The title of the show followed the established format of…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
GHMP: Milan Grygar “Visual and Acoustic”
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Prague, December 17, 2014 – May 5, 2015, Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library Branch, http://en.ghmp.cz/past-exhibitions/milan-grygar-the-visual-and-the-acoustic/
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Center for Contemporary Art Futura: Jan Pfeiffer “Hidden Power”
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Prague, November 25, 2014 – January 4, 2015, http://www.futuraproject.cz/en/futura/event/19-hidden-power
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Center for Contemporary Art Futura: COMET
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Prague, October 1, 2014 – January 4, 2015, http://www.futuraproject.cz, exhibition press release: cz / en Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Václav Girsa, Isabela Grosseová, Dominik Hejtmánek, Nikola Ivanov, Stanislav Karoli, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Jan Kolský, Pavel Sterec, Vojtěch Rada, Rafani, Sláva Sobotovičová, Jan Šerých, Lenka Vítková, Junsheng Zhou; Curator: Edith Jeřábková