Hong Kong, June 4 – June 29, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ The yearly exhibition of Chinese University of Hong Kong’s art students and more. Getting to the “University” MTR station is quite convenient, but finding one’s way around the maze of buildings widely spread on a big mountain slope is another one. But I managed. The determined…
Hong Kong, May 16 – 22, 2016, http://isea2016.isea-international.org/ ISEA is a conference/symposium dedicated to electronic arts. Not an exhibition or festival, but still centered on the topic of art and creation in digital art. The main difference to “usual” art events has been a certain inward-orientation of the event which has not been advertised publicly…
Hong Kong, May 8 – ?, 2016, https://streetartreloading.wordpress.com/ A mini-festival bringing graffiti into different location in Hong Kong. I somehow missed most of it, but the large graffiti wall inside of Creative Media Centre’s 3F Gallery could not be missed: Smash137 aka Adrian Falkner (Basel) on one side vs. Parents Parents (Hong Kong) on the…
Hong Kong, March 12 – April 29, 2016, http://oneaspace.org.hk/, curator: Lawman An exhibition about Hong Kong and the feelings of desperation shared among many of less wealthy majority. The identity crisis is not surprising: Being simply “transferred” as colonial subjects from one master to another, while fed with manipulative promises and simultaneously experiencing a claustrophobic…
Hong Kong, March 22 – April 21, 2016, http://www.themills.com.hk/gallery/ The Mills Gallery, renamed just after the inaugural exhibition to Mill6, is a “future” gallery that does not exist yet, and thus organizes exhibitions pop-up spaces, like this time, in a shopping mall in the Nan Fung Tower, owned by Nan Fung Group, who also own…
Hong Kong, March 22 – April 24, 2016, http://www.k11artfoundation.org For this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong circus, K11 Art Foundation (affiliated with the K11 Art Mall in Tsim Sha Tsui) partnered with Serpentine Galleries and it’s curators Amira Gad and Hans Ulrich Obrist to set up a “pop up” show expanding New Zealand artist’s Simon…
Hong Kong, March 19 – May 29, 2016 http://www.para-site.org.hk The main theme of the exhibition was the population of domestic workers in Hong Kong, as well as the more general topic of economic migration throughout the Asian region. The exhibition was quality and dense, as can be expected at Para Site. It took time to…
Hong Kong, March 20 – April 10, 2016, http://www.hkac.org.hk The exhibition was part of an ongoing annual series at the HKAC in which collectors of contemporary art show pieces from their collections. Each year the show is regionally delimited, and this year it was Japanese collector’s turn to show some of the treasures of their…
Hong Kong, March 22 – 26, 2016, HKCEC Another year and another Art Basel fair in Hong Kong. It’s close to impossible to encompass everything that has been going on, but here a few random moments from the fair itself, which I found worthy enough to pull my phone out of the pocket and press…
Hong Kong, March 22, 2016, Open Platform 2016 Booth, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, http://www.aaa.org.hk/OpenPlatform2016 I just had a faint memory of Paul Chan from seeing his work at documenta 13 in Kassel: A room full of book covers that have been ripped apart from the content and painted over in monochome grey. The…