Seoul, July 27, 2016 – February 5, 2017 (Kim Sooja), July 6 – October 3, 2016 (YAP2016), http://www.mmca.go.kr Kim Sooja’s (김수자) solo show was the only larger art show taking place in MMCA Seoul during my visit. In addition to that, Julius Popp’s bit.fall pulse was still around, and it seemed to be nearing its…
Seoul, July 22 – September 3, 2016, http://www.insaartspace.or.kr A group of young artists (Bahc Heeza 박희자, Suh Yoona 서윤아, Son Hyunseon 손현선, Choi Byeong Seok최병석 and curator/captain Jintaeg Jang 장진택) decided to go on a mission into outer space, a metaphor for the journey an artist takes into the ‘unknown’ beyond existing social norms and…
Hong Kong, July 30 – September 2, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ It was thanks to a set of coincidences that I passed by this exhibition. It showed up on my facebook thanks to a few of my friends “going”, it happened to be along my planned route, and there was a short rain in the afternoon which…
Hong Kong, August 4, 2016 18:30 – 20:00, http://www.springworkshop.org An artist talk by Tyler Coburn. Coburn wrote a book in which a schizophrenic writer-for-hire is fantasizing about the internet cloud, what it is, where it is and what it means (based on Coburns personal experience as a writer-for-hire). Coburn then organized readings from his book…
Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, 3/F Gallery, Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Sara Lai Cheuk Wah’s ( 黎卓華 ) installation stood out from the other exhibits at the CUHK MFA Graduation Show. At first it just impressed through its ability to express and transmit a certain feeling to the…
Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Yet another hike up into the mountains of CUHK, this time for the MFA exhibition. Same as the prior BA exhibition, also this show spanned two locations – the CUHK Museum and the studio spaces on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the Cheng Ming…
Hong Kong, May 28 – July 22, 2016, http://www.oneaspace.org.hk/ The definition of collecting has been left very open by the curators (Enoch Cheung 長康生 / Jeff Leung 梁展峰) of this exhibition. It could be anything from a “real” collection of artworks to a random grouping of material leftovers, implying the meaning as it is used…
Hong Kong, July 2 – July 30, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/amspacehk/ Three artists, showing three works. Chen Tong 陳侗showing crude quick drawings of Hong Kong’s urban corners, conceptually – allegedly – held together by a reference to a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Szelit Cheung 張施烈 showing very small and delicate pencil drawings – copies of photographs of…
Hong Kong, July 8 – August 20, 2016 A small exhibition by the youngest generation of Hong Kong artists: artist collective Brainrental 大腦出租, Elvis Yip Kin Bon 葉建邦 and Joyce Lung Yuet Ching 龍悅程. As the title suggests, the inspirations reflected in the show came from the small things in the artist’s life: Small to…
Hong Kong, June 11 – August 21, 2016, http:// www.para-site.org.hk The show surveyed Chinese art of the last two decades that stood on the sidelines of the official (art market) narrative of political pop and cynical realism. The artworks presented in the show link to the everyday directly, circumventing stereotypical pop imagery and instead telling…