Wet feet __ dry feet: borders and games gathers for the first time in Hong Kong important recent works by Francis Alÿs, one of the most influential conceptual artists of our time. Structured around the artist’s interest in migration, borders, and his fascination with children’s games from around the world, this solo exhibition highlights Francis Alÿs’s poetic, imaginative sensibility, anchored by geopolitical concerns and individual will while being grounded in everyday life.

Tai Kwun Contemporary presents SNEEZE, a solo exhibition by Mika Rottenberg featuring immersive video installations about surreal alternative worlds of global everyday life. This is the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by the artist. With an engaging yet rigorous artistic practice combining film, architectural installation and sculpture, Mika Rottenberg is fascinated by processes of labour and of technology as well as the effects of distance and the production of value in our contemporary world. Her works bring to the fore some of the absurdities in our global world.

Hong Kong is the heart of cyberpunk culture. “Blade Runner” a Hollywood film co-produced by Shaw Brothers in 1982, has depicted stunning futuristic Cyber cityscapes that was heavily influenced by Hong Kong and was famously considered to be the classic cyberpunk film of all time that spearheaded and cultivated the genre.

Since after that, cyberpunk can never be separated from Hong Kong, and tons of work belong to the cyberpunk genre have been produced with Hong Kong as part of the futuristic aesthetics. Some scenes in Ghost in the Shell were filmed in Sham Shui Po, where saturated neon lights and metropolitan style high-rises create the ideal aesthetic and mood.

Discussions that use works of art as blueprints have long been divorced from materials or tools of production and other foundational elements; instead, they have expanded to encompass chance encounters and feedback that arose as they grew and developed. In the infinite extension of its chain of life, publishing labels serve as intermediate points and not endpoints.

Humanity’s interest in the process of spiders making a web has almost completely disappeared, and the arrangement, reorganization, hunting, and counterattacks that take place after the cobwebs form have become the subjects of a new kind of observation. However, artists are not content to have their subjectivities taken as samples to be observed, and with their rackets of cobwebs, they echo society’s voices. The best works that arise out of this back and forth are rackets that have survived countless tests, and in different contexts, the artists’ reactive movements and hitting methods reflect a personal style.

Perrotin Hong Kong is pleased to inaugurate its new location at K11 ATELIER Victoria Dockside with a group exhibition exploring meanings of portraiture through the lens of selected artists.

Perrotin’s first group exhibition on contemporary portraiture features ten artists working from a range of cultures and practices to explore different manners of representation and self-representation, and the methods from which they are derived.

Alternating between dualities of figuration/abstraction and introspection/perception, the exhibited works examine the formation of identity and humanistic ideals as they become subject to scrutiny and change.

Anamnesis – the chasm between forgetting and remembering; the perplexity and helplessness when suffering is recalled. Bombarded with an abundance of information every day, there had been simply too much to remember in 2019. While obscure memories struggle to stay, our minds remain blank the next day when we wake up, as if everything were just a – “dream”. As a sense of hopelessness grows with time, recollecting all the scenes that we saw and the feelings that we had over the past year may do us more harm than good – it’s our instinct to evade misery. Now we are often benumbed by the false sense of peace in the society. Our sensations and throbs are gradually becoming blurry bits and pieces of history in our heads like parallel universes.

Tai Kwun Contemporary has commissioned five local and international artists to create public artworks at Tai Kwun. We welcome you to check them out at the Prison Yard.

Sin Sin Fine Art is pleased to present a duo exhibition “It’s About Time” by Indonesian contemporary artists Bob Yudhita Agung & EddiE haRA. In this unprecedented time, we are making every effort to keep ourselves and loved ones safe, while under the attack of constant fear and anxiety about the unknown. Curator Sin Sin Man wants to set a reminder for us to think carefully before returning to “the normal”.

Creating a dialogue of "14 local artists and 14 Museum's highlight collections", the exhibition "Classics Remix: The Hong Kong Viewpoint" incorporates new elements into the four major collections showcased in the "Ordinary to Extraordinary: Stories of the Museum" exhibition. It tracks the people and stories behind the collections, allowing the artists to display their unlimited imagination inspired by the classics to explore new creative possibilities, along with telling the unfolding stories of Hong Kong.

抒發 Callisupply and local preservation group 街招 streetsignhk worked together on the upcoming pop-up exhibition named Reconnect, Recreate at THE NATE in June.

Combing traditional Chinese calligraphy with diminishing Hong Kong local neon signs, it's time to think ahead for the future of traditional art forms in the pearl of the orient.

Over the Influence is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Mark Nixon in Hong Kong “MuchLoved.” The selection of 14 photographs from the series includes the famed teddy from the TV show “Mr Bean” along with a stuffed bear that belonged to a close friend of the musician Bono. Each photograph is accompanied by a descriptive paragraph sharing the story of the stuffed animal and their owner. “MuchLoved” will be on view from 28 May – 02 July 2020 from Tuesday – Saturday during the hours of 11 AM – 7 PM. In lieu of an opening reception, the gallery will be open all day on Thursday 28 May 2020 from 11 AM – 7 PM.

In a time when we are forced to reflect on the current state of our globalized economy and the social fabrics of our towns and cities, these artworks share a complicated view of contemporary society. CONNECTIONS is a group show exploring current issues of our time with a focus on urbanization and the human condition featuring works by Liu Bolin, Taku Obata, Daisuke Tajima, and Alexandre Farto aka Vhils.

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to present “Thunder Afar”, a solo exhibition by one of the iconic Chinese lyrical realists He Duoling, at Hong Kong gallery. The exhibition features the artist’s creation since 2010, including latest series like “Wild Garden”, “Various Flowers”, “Nymph”. He Duoling is long acclaimed by his idyllic, sentimental and mysterious figuration. With his sophisticated use of palette and composition, both figures and still objects show an unrestrained liveliness. His latest paintings are an epitome of how He embraces the freedom of painting and mastery of skills.

Set in the historic F Hall—a former printing facility and women’s prison—this exhibition of five artists circles around the expansion of limits and constraints, working through how they could serve as an artistic framework rather than as objects of antagonism. In the metaphorical shape of a body, the exhibition is alive from the first hour to the last. Experimenting with concepts of “sculpture”, the artworks are ways of exploring our multifaceted facts and ecologies, spanning lived-through stories and realised imaginations.

The exhibition They Do Not Understand Each Other brings into dialogue commissions and artworks from the collections of the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), which consider the negotiations and expectations of culture. After all, if the premise of culture is representation, then the promise of cultural exchange—as one might reasonably suppose—is understanding.

Through these artworks, a range of connections—and thus the possibilities of understanding—are manifest, in various forms as well as intensities. They speak to boundaries, borders, gaps, spaces, surfaces, interfaces, and divisions that exist because of—for lack of a better word—an unevenness in encounters between individuals, peoples, and things. Such unevenness is inevitable, and from this unevenness, curiosity in the unfamiliar and the new springs forth, as well as the impulse to discover. In fact, one might even say that cultural experience is couched upon this encounter and the disclosure that follows.

Flowers Gallery is delighted to announce a new gallery space in Hong Kong, its first location in Asia.

The new gallery opens in the city's Sheung Wan district this year, with a spotlight exhibition of works by the celebrated German photographer Michael Wolf (1954 - 2019), who lived and worked in Hong Kong.

Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong features research-based works by 10 local artists that respond to the shared history and collective memories of Hong Kong. Throughout the creative process, each artist focused on different research methodologies as a starting point for their inspiration and thinking process.

This process culminates in a collection of exciting works that are visually impactful, interactive, and performative. We encourage visitors to open their senses and imagination when viewing the works by delving into the past to form new perspectives, savor the present, and contemplate what the future holds.