Hong Kong, March 5 – April 24, 2016, http://www.blindspotgallery.com/ Two shows at Blindspot Gallery, hidden away on the 15th floor of a Wong Chuk Hang (South Island) warehouse, my first visit. The space is surprisingly large for Hong Kong circumstances and with nice design touches. Maridet seems to like travelling, I remember him showing infrared…
Hong Kong, agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre, March 26, 2016, 12:30pm Christian Jankowski | Crying for the March of Humanity | 2012, 26ʹ02ʺ; Contemporary Fine Arts A parody on oversentimental Latin American soap operas. A video composed of scenes where actors exclusively communicated by crying. No words, only sobbing and sighing and crying,…
Hong Kong, March 12 – 29, 2016, http://floatingprojectscollective.net/ Lee Kai Chung 李繼忠, who has previously built his artist brand with projects related to Hong Kong government archives, that have been besides other occasions also been exhibited at the Para Site booth of the Art Basel Hong Kong 2014 art fair, prepared an exhibition extrapolating his…
Hong Kong, agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre, March 23, 2016, 12:30pm Adel Abidin | Michael | 2015, 16ʹ02ʺ; Lawrie Shabibi An exclusive live TV interview with Michael Jackson who came back from heaven. Great production and an idea that is both funny and deep, uncovering the fears and desires of every one of…
Hong Kong, November 27, 2015 – March 28, 2016, http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/about_oi.html A space located in a Hong Kong heritage building, run by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. There is a strong sense of community engagement at this place with different…
Hong Kong, January 29 – March 5, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/starprojects.space/ Artists: aaajao, Keith Lam, Michael Lee, Li Liao, Liu Shiyuan, Tang Kwok Hin; Curated by Leo Li Chen, Qu Chang, Wenqi Zeng My first visit to starprojects made me hopeful. It is always nice to escape the claustrophobic grime of Hong Kong and Kowloon and head…
Hong Kong, January 15 – February 14, 2016, http://www.floatingprojectscollective.net Floating Projects is a new space in the South of Hong Kong Island in Wong Chuk Hang. The place, which is run by a group of artists, is a combination of a cozy coffee shop and an experimental art space with a laidback atmosphere. Wong Chun…
Hong Kong, November 25, 2015 – January 9, 2016, http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/ Very gentle colorful drawings that flock together at a distance to create large cloud-like shapes. Looking at the drawings from a close distance, one can recognize thousands of calligraphy-like stokes. While the gallery release stresses the universality of the motives that can be understood as…
Hong Kong, December 2, 2015 – February 4, 2016 http://www.benbrownfinearts.com This was a great collection of German art, yet what lead the gallery to re-stage the same collection in a scaled-down version again in a resized, smaller space of the same gallery, right after the original exhibition has been finished? Rather than an exhibition, this…
Hong Kong, December 10, 2015 – January 16, 2016, http://www.hanart.com/ A group show with many artists, which stood out by its attempt to create a space reminiscent of a Chinese literati “reading room”. Small tables with books and chairs were placed throughout the exhibition space. The works were primarily drawing on the Chinese culture circuit,…