On the occasion of his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, artist Nicolas Party will be in conversation with art and culture journalist Aaina Bhargava to discuss his exploration into the complex and ever-changing relationship between man and nature, ‘sampling’ in the context of the confluence of sources he draws from, and the evolution of his distinctive aesthetic.

Please register

On Zoom from Hong Kong and New York.
The Zoom talk will be conducted in English.

Moon, house, Star Ferry… These little things around us have been transformed into vivid characters in the pen of local illustrator Kazy Chan. His works are bright in color and delicate in visual sense. At first glance, his drawings seem to be full of fantasies, but a closer inspection reveals the absurdity and sadness behind. As a creator, how does he find inspiration in his daily life and tell stories through his illustrations? In this lecture, Kazy will share with us his everyday life as an artist, and the highlights of his recent solo exhibition “Ketchup”.

Kazy Chan is a Hong Kong based artist who graduated from the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. His work is influenced by the “superflat” art style and his love for Japanese “manga” since childhood, resulting in the creation of unique characters and stories. The theme of his work revolves around a boy, combined with imagined scenes of growing up. Together, the two form a story about exploring the other side of the world.

Online registration is required. Free admission with limited quota on first-come, first-served basis.

Registration Form：https://forms.gle/F3tDo62pKto61BeV7
Deadline for registration : 16.5.2022 (Mon) 10:00 a.m.
(Conducted in Cantonese and broadcasted online simultaneously)

Venue address: Lecture Theatre, 4/F, vA!

Wed, 27 Apr 2022, 6–7pm
Zoom ID: 816 5584 7904
Passcode: 515977
Cantonese
Hosted by Kobe Ko (Project Manager/Assistant Curator, Para Site)

Jeremy Ip is interested in the unique quality and language of painting and is particularly drawn to curved elements. He transfers his experiences and extrapolations in life onto paint and conveys a pure state of being through the spontaneous precipitation and mixing of paint. Evoking primeval sensations, his paintings raise awareness of the synchronicity within change.

Wed, 20 Apr 2022, 7:30–8:30pm HKT
Zoom ID: 820 7929 0144
Passcode: 240908
English
Hosted by Cusson Cheng, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator

Working simultaneously in installation, interactive media, photography, and video, Chloë Cheuk focuses on the ‘structure of feelings’ between people and society by exploring emotional connections with objects and mechanical devices. Cheuk metaphorically reconstructs ready-made objects with a spiritual and reduced aesthetic reminiscent of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, addressing themes such as love and loss, freedom and suppression, and happiness and detachment. Cheuk graduated from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2012 and is now pursuing an MFA, majoring in sculpture, at Concordia University in Quebec, Canada.

Supported by the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao

Tue, 19 Apr 2022, 6–7pm HKT
Zoom ID: 826 0666 5517
Passcode: 639900
Cantonese
Hosted by Kobe Ko, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator

Li Ning (b. 1992, Hong Kong), is inspired by dreams and daily scenarios, often presenting multiple scenes and characters in the same composition. He constructs a bizarre world of unique characters in a boundless territory without a definitive start or end. Li’s artistic style incorporates his practice and experience as a tattoo practitioner. He applies delicate lines to form positive and negative spaces, adopting the sensibility and techniques of tattooing in his print works. Both mediums are remarkably similar: they are processes of pigment insertion and conversion of inked-lines into patterns onto human skin or canvas. His technique is also a form of collaging—instead of using ready-made images as his source material, he applies his own design patterns accumulated as a tattoo practitioner in his print works.

Register now to ‘Open Up M+: South Galleries’ online talk on 13 April, where Pauline J. Yao, Lead Curator of Visual Art at M+, will share some of the key issues discussed and considerations made during the making of ‘Individuals, Networks, Expressions’, one of M+’s opening exhibitions. On view in the South Galleries, the exhibition explores over fifty years of artmaking that situates Asian artists within a global context.

Alessandra Guarascio, M+ Conservator of Installation Art, will also join the conversation and explain the challenges to installing and conserving works of art created by living artists who use a range of techniques and, often, surprising materials. Keri Ryan, Curator of Learning and Interpretation at M+, will moderate this talk.

Conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese

Register now: mplus.org/en_openup_southgalleries

Rachel Lau is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and radio producer based in what’s colonially known as ‘Vancouver, Canada’. Through sound art, photography, and zine-making, they contemplate what it means to experience longing in a world that is transient. Inspired by the tenderness and strength of queer and racialised communities, they create work that embraces feeling and communality. Currently, they are a co-librarian of Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of queer books and zines based in Hong Kong and Vancouver.

Zoom ID: 815 3179 8706
Passcode: 200414
English
Hosted by Celia Ho, Para Site Curator

Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 7–8pm HKT
Zoom ID: 893 8603 2625
Passcode: 235339
Cantonese
Hosted Kobe Ko, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator

Lam Wing Sze is a Hong Kong-based video artist. She received her BA from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, in 2015. Lam’s image narratives are often composed of scenes and situations she encounters by chance, but also those that she both anticipates and manipulates. Her role as an image-maker is to create a situation that gives the audience a viewing experience, opens up a conversation with that which was captured, and generates new meaning. Lam looks at scenery in the city and inverts daily observations into moving images that depict the perception and reflection of seeing. Lam currently works in museum education. Exhibitions and projects include ‘Our Manifestos II: Videography, Documentary Impulses’ (Floating Projects, Hong Kong, 2021), ‘Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys’ (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021), ‘Sightlines’ (Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 2019 and 41 Ross, San Francisco, 2017 ), ‘DREAM Video 100′ (West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, 2018), ‘Wonder Foto Day’ (Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, 2019), ‘The Aerial Actor’ (Art Omi, New York, 2018), ‘Observe / Scrutinise / Perceive’ (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018), ‘Weighty Light’ (Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, 2018), ‘from here to there’ (Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2016).

In consideration of the pandemic and existing social distancing measures, the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association will be organising a Stay-Home-Safe edition of #SouthsideSaturday on 2 consecutive Saturdays – 26 March and 2 April!

Enjoy the showcase of 15 art galleries on the Southside in the comfort of your home! Virtual gallery tours with livestream walk-through will be broadcasted on Zoom, where visitors can directly interact with gallery representatives. All sessions are free of charge and open to the public.

All sessions are free of charge and open to the public.

Remy Siu (b.1990) is a composer and new media artist based in Vancouver, BC. Recently, his work has involved the construction of automated and variable performance apparatuses that employ light, sound, software, and the body. He is interested in creating friction and stakes between the performer, the interface, and the system through the use of game mechanics and failure. His output spans chamber music, dance, theatre, installations, and audio-visual work. He actively creates with Hong Kong Exile (interdisciplinary arts company) and Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien (choreographer), and has worked with Vicky Chow, Turning Point Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Centre A Gallery, Pi Theatre, Theatre Replacement, the Western Front, and others.

Zoom ID: 898 0782 1528
Passcode: 122849
English
Hosted by Cusson Cheng, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator

Fri, 25 Mar 2022, 6–7pm HKT
Zoom ID: 883 6368 1197
Passcode: 586993
Cantonese
Hosted by Kobe Ko, Para Site Project Manager/Assistant Curator

With vastly different personalities and past experiences, the members of the Hong Kong-based artist duo IHAVENTSTARTEDEITHER, Tiffany Law and Sami Lee, have contrasting rationales in artistic practices whilst sharing similar artistic visions. Together they reexamine minutiae in everyday life and seek moments of sparks and resonance, which they then share with others through the common language of art. Since graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016, the duo has continued to launch collaborative projects, including jointly curating the exhibitions ‘–/–/–‘ (2017), ‘Observe / Scrutinise / Perceive’ (Gallery Exit, 2018), and ‘Bland Blank’ (2019), as part of Hong Kong Arts Centre’s ‘Creators for Tomorrow Project 2019’.

Galerie du Monde is thrilled to present German-Indian artist MICHAEL MÜLLER’s exhibition series in Hong Kong from Sep 2021 to Mar 2022. Three Biographical Attempts  is like Michael Müller’s personal diary from the past three decades. Through each chapter, Müller unveils his journey of self-discovery, embracing change, and self-formation.

We will be hosting an online talk on 23 March with MICHAEL MÜLLER and YING KWOK, moderated by ANQI LI at 19:30 HKT via Zoom.

Zoom ID: 252 505 2929
Passcode: 220323

Join Zoom meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2525052929?pwd=UVdMdUxORFpBcGhoN1ZjUWtSWitQQT09 

Join us this Thu 17 Mar at 6pm, via Zoom, for the first sharing session of exhibition ‘Noble Rot’ Part Two, with artists Chung Wing Shan, Hong Wah, and Tam Rafael Vun Kwan. The first session will investigate spatiality, urban development, sound, and a sense of loss in the artists’ respective featured works.

Pictured: As a child, Hong Wah accidentally taught himself pucker whistling. Even now, the artist does it all the time as it helps him to regain a sense of freedom. He has just begun practicing other types of whistling, like tongue whistling, and happened to record the exercises at the time. At the moment, he has only succeeded in making a few notes, but yearns to perform a melody that he has already composed in his head. Hong Wah’s ‘How I Learn to Whistle in One Video’ therefore proposes the following: the most fundamental musical instrument is one’s body, and it is all one’s own.

Thu, 17 Mar 2022, 6PM HKT

Zoom ID: 859 7356 9818

Passcode: 798684

English

Do not miss out on the Zoom talk with Greg Girard on 27 November 21, he will share more stories about his never previously exhibited Hong Kong 80s photographs of the ‘HK UNSEEN’ exhibition, and transports us back to the 80s reliving the memories of times now long gone.

Saturday 27th Nov 2021 Sat, 11am. Meet at the gallery or log in online
++ Free Event, RSVP required, Conducted in English
Contact kozaf@bluelotus-gallery.com to register for the Zoom talk

Gallery address: 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan

“Untold Stories: Women and the Asian Art Trade” highlights the often overlooked—but nevertheless profound—influence of women on the circulation of Asian art objects. The historical analysis of the market has long focused on contributions of male dealers and collectors, as cultural norms provided them more access to formal education, financial resources, and exclusive social circles. While women were part of these networks, their participation and contributions were often less documented and have sustained little scholarly focus. This webinar attempts to recover the histories of these women and place them within the history of Western consumption of Asian art.

Focusing on historical figures, this webinar reveals how women shaped private and public collections, thereby influencing the field of Asian art history. Bringing together historians, museum curators, archivists, and provenance specialists, “Untold Stories: Women and the Asian Art Trade” features new research that illuminates the diversity within the interconnected networks that moved Asian art around the globe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Organized by:
Joanna Gohmann, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC
Christine Howald, Zentralarchiv/Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Sarah Laursen, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/.../WN_2D4k4zHOQM2pjkCFSiUa7A

A Panel Discussion with Michael Lim, Lukas Tam, and Bocheng Shen.

Coinciding with Sam Gilliam’s inaugural exhibition at Pace Gallery in Hong Kong, this panel discussion brings together three distinguished voices in contemporary art to speak about the history of Abstract Expressionism in the East Asia region.

Seoul-based educator and scholar Michael Lim, Hong Kong-based artist and educator Lukas Tam, and Taipei-based educator and scholar Bocheng Shen will discuss the introduction and development of Abstract Expressionism in East Asia. The event will also consider artistic, philosophical, and cultural exchanges between the east and the west from the 1950s to the 1970s. The discussion will be moderated by Andria Hickey, senior director and curator at Pace.

Please RSVP

7 PM HKT / 8 PM KST / 7 AM EDT

Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to invite you to join us in a conversation with Debra Burchett-Lere, Director of the Sam Francis Foundation as well as John Seed, Board member of the Sam Francis Foundation. Together with gallery director, Daphne King they will talk about the life and art of celebrated American abstract painter Sam Francis and Chinese Diaspora artist Walasse Ting with a focus on their life long relationship as well as their influences on each other’s work.

This event is held on the occasion of the gallery’s current exhibition Celebrating a Friendship: Walasse Ting & Sam Francis which is on view until April 30 at our Central Gallery. Organised together with the Walasse Ting Estate and in cooperation with the Sam Francis Foundation, the exhibition juxtaposes nine action paintings by Sam Francis with nine brush paintings by Walasse Ting. Also on display are archival material as well as the iconic book 1 Cent Life, conceived by Ting and edited by Francis. The unbound folio includes the works of 28 well-known artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Tom Wesselmann.

Register

Zoom Talk with Yasuhiro Ogawa (meet at the gallery or log in online)

Yasuhiro Ogawa was born in 1968 in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.

He has had solo and group exhibitions including Futashika-na-Chizu at Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo (1999), Slowly Down the River at Nikon Salon Ginza, Tokyo (2006), Winter Journey at Doozo Gallery, Rome (2013), Caascade at Sokyusha Gallery, Tokyo (2018) and Contes des iles et Paysages de la Mer du Japon at Inbetween Gallery, Paris (2018).

He has won several awards including the Taiyo Award for his first solo exhibition Futashika-na-Chizu (2000) and The photographic Society of Japan New Comer Award for his first book Slowly Down the River. He was a finalist at the Oskar Barnack Award (2006) and the Hayashi Tadahiko Award (2015). He currently lives in Tokyo.Contact christina@bluelotus-gallery.com to register to the online talk

Gallery address: G/F 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan

Led by Tan Bo, Senior Vice President & International Director, Impressionist & Modern Department at Christie’s, this lecture will cover women artists and collectors from the Impressionist period. Covering artists such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Eva Gonzales, and collectors Louisine E. Havemeyer, Potter Palmer, and the Davies sisters of Wales, Tan Bo will discuss their place in an art scene dominated by men, together with their unique contribution to the creation of the canon for Impressionism.

Online event at Zoom.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, artist Christopher K. Ho often returns to the themes of identity and belonging within his work. In honor of his installation and sculpture Always Stop Eating While You’re Still a Little Hungry (2020) at ASHK’s "Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong," Willem Molesworth, Director of de Sarthe gallery, will join Christopher to talk about identity, pre- and post-COVID transnationalism, internationally recurrent signs and symbols, cultural hegemony, and more through the lens of Ho's recent artworks and projects, including his recently published anthology, "Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts."

Watch at Facebook or Youtube.

This talk is held in conjunction with Learning What Can’t Be Taught, an exhibition about art education in China from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring case studies of three generations of artists from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou (previously known as the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts). The exhibition focuses on the experience of these artists and how they influenced the next generation with a spirit of experimentation, encouraging them to creatively explore different artistic expressions.

The talk will be led by Anthony Yung, AAA Researcher and co-curator of the exhibition. Yung will give an introduction to the development of tertiary art education in China through the decades, its changing sociopolitical contexts, and how art teachers and students in China have promoted artistic innovation and freedom under the specific limits of different eras.

Register here.

“The Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées)” is coming back to Hong Kong! This year, the event is co-organized with the Hong Kong Museum of Art, under the theme “ST[ART] AGAIN”. This event will take place online from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, 28th January 2021. Come to our Facebook and YouTube to participate.

For this edition, you are invited to rediscover the role of art plays in our society, to revisit the definition of museums, culture and art, and to learn the great challenges and evolutions they will face post-2020. Pre-register here: https://forms.gle/heB3y1F9k3rpkTQa9

Moderator: Enid Tsui, Arts Editor and Journalist at SCMP
Speakers: Helen So, Lead of Arts & Culture, Our Hong Kong Foundation, Jonathan Prince, Head of Jonathan Prince Studio and Berkshire House Digital and Jeffrey Shaw, Artist, Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Media Art at School of Creative Media, City University

Art Tech is the next major global movement in the cultural and creative industries. In Hong Kong, the Government’s recent commitment to further developing Art Tech offers much hope and opportunity for the arts community. This talk will cover the latest development of Art Tech in Hong Kong, the key Art Tech trends globally, and consider the implications of this investment on the industry. 

Register to join via Zoom

On the occasion of Takesada Matsutani’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Takesada Matsutani’, we are thrilled to host a live virtual conversation on the artist’s practice and the Gutai Movement with M+ Deputy Director and Chief Curator Doryun Chong and Art & Culture Journalist Aaina Bhargava.

As one of the most important Japanese artists still working today, Matsutani continues to demonstrate the spirit of Gutai throughout his practice. The discussion will reflect on the artist’s new exhibition of mixed-media paintings—made mostly during quarantine—works on paper, assemblages and an important site-specific installation from the artist’s archive.

Join us on Zoom on Saturday 23 January 3pm HKT. Click here to register.

Join Italian contemporary artist Elisa Sighicelli and Hong Kong University fine arts professor Dr. Susanna McFadden, as they discuss their perspectives on Roman art and culture and Italian institutions.

Artist Elisa Sighicelli will be present via Live Stream from Turino, Italy

Please RSVP by 28th October, 2020 to alex@rossirossi.com