Hong Kong, July 2 – 11, 2016, http://www.connectingspaces.ch/ The exhibition consisted of a combination of photos of trash collected around Hong Kong and actual objects dug out from the trash. Mostly things were found on the beaches: bottle caps, parts of plastic dolls, lighters, etc. The artist collective (from Mexico) seemed to have attempted a…
Hong Kong, May 27 – September 3, 2016, http://www.massimodecarlo.com Massimo De Carlo (MDC) is a new gallery of Milano fame now occupying one half of the 3F Pedder Building space that used to belong to Ben Brown Gallery before. It is therefore somehow fitting that the exhibition presents late work of Günter Förg whose early…
Hong Kong, May 27 – August 13, 2016, http://www.gagosian.com For this show Gagosian Hong Kong removed all partitions. Only one row of mid-size drawn paintings (by a sculptor) was present. On the shorter ends of the room, two slightly larger canvases were placed, titled “Fathers Ghost I (astronaut)” and “Fathers Ghost III (dancer).” Other canvases…
Hong Kong, May 12 – June 30, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com One cannot but think of Francis Bacon the painter when looking at images of Micallef’s paintings. They are portraits, but anonymized and presented as a strange thick mash of skin-tone colors, hinting at the energy of a living body without freezing it in time. Looking at…
Hong Kong, June 4 – 29, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Hou Chun Ming 侯俊明 is a well-known artist from Taiwan who represented the country at the Venice Biennale twice. He is best known for his woodcuts touching on political and personal topics. In the show at CUHK he presented a site-specific iteration of his Asian Father Interview…
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…