Another Day in Hong Kong borrows from precedents established by Oscar Ho’s 1990 exhibition, One Day in Hong Kong, and expands upon it by exploring new dimensions. Using archival materials as its starting point, the exhibition will meticulously reconstruct one day from Hong Kong’s art historical past, examining what a day in and of art history could look like. Materials from AAA’s Hong Kong collections and other local archival resources are carefully selected for display. The exhibition will also invite six groups of Hong Kong artists to create new works, offering personalised perspectives that represent different generations, to provide an intimate glimpse into this snapshot of history. This exhibition is part of the project Recalling Disappearance: Hong Kong Contemporary Art.

Venue address: 11F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Tai Ping Shan

Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s 2023 Annual Fundraiser features an auction of over 55 works, generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. Following the recent expansion of its library, Asia Art Archive continues to grow its Collections, research, and programmes with a renewed focus and broader reach. The fundraiser provides a vital source of funding to support free public access to these resources on the histories of contemporary art in Asia. In partnership with Christie’s Hong Kong, a preview of the artworks on auction will be open to the public from 25 to 27 October. The works will be available for bidding online at www.aaa2023auction.com from 25 October to 10 November.

PREVIEW EXHIBITION:
25 October, 12–5:30pm
26 October, 10:30am–5:30pm
27 October, 10:30am–3pm
 
Venue address: 22/F Alexandra House, Central

View more than 45 works of art in person at the opening reception of AAA’s annual fundraiser auction on 20 October, 6–8pm. Sign up now: https://bit.ly/3l5hCLx

This year’s auction features work by artists including Birdhead, Luis Chan, Elizabeth and Iftikhar Dadi, Simryn Gill, Jeff Koons, Andrew Luk, Sopheap Pich, Song Dong, Angela Su, Charwei Tsai, and Cecilia Vicuña.

The fundraiser is an essential source of funding for AAA, proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards building our library and research collections on the history of contemporary art in Asia and keeping the materials free and accessible for all. Online bidding will open from 12 October at 12pm until 29 October at 11pm at www.aaa2021auction.com.The preview exhibition will be on view from 20–23 October at Christie's Hong Kong. Registration is not required for regular viewing hours listed below.

𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙀𝙓𝙃𝙄𝘽𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉
Wed, 20 October, 12–5:30pm
Thu, 21 October, 10:30am–5:30pm
Fri, 22 October, 10:30am–5:30pm
Sat, 23 October, 10:30am–3pm

Venue Address: Christie’s, 22/F Alexandra House, 18 Chater Road, Central

bewitched, bewildered, bothered  is Banu Cennetoğlu’s artistic intervention for AAA’s exhibition Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys on view at Tai Kwun Contemporary from 23 April to 1 August 2021.

bewitched, bewildered, bothered is a three-day public programme and a publication that explore the politics of posthumous archives. Taking AAA’s temporary custodianship of the late Ha Bik Chuen’s personal archive as a starting point, this programme brings together artists and thinkers to discuss the challenges and inadequacies of archives to recover and represent what is “lost.” Developed as part of an ongoing dialogue with AAA’s Public Programmes Lead Özge Ersoy, the talks, the film screenings, and the publication together investigate art’s contested claims and repeated attempts to recover the lost, to remember the forgotten, to resurrect the dead, or to speak for the silent.

15.06 8pm–9:30pm Talk | In Conversation: Banu Cennetoğlu, Michelle Wong, and Özge Ersoy (Zoom)

16.06 7pm–9:30pm Screening and Talk | The Proposal with Jill Magid (JC Cube, Zoom)

17.06 7pm–9:30pm Screening and Talk | Narcissister Organ Player with Paul B. Preciado (JC Cube, Zoom)

Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys stems from Asia Art Archive’s research since 2014 into the personal archive of the late Hong Kong–based artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925–2009). A self-taught sculptor and printmaker, Ha left behind a vast personal archive—his “thinking studio.” He documented exhibitions that he attended from the 1960s till the 2000s, and kept records in the form of ephemera, negatives, contact sheets, and photo albums. He also collected printed matter like illustrated magazines, and created book collages from these publications. As an autodidact, Ha’s library contained books on art and visual culture from far beyond the port city of Hong Kong. Ha’s idiosyncratic ways of collecting, organising, and regrouping materials blur the boundaries between document and artwork.

Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys is part of AAA’s 20th anniversary programmes, and is curated by Michelle Wong, with support from Vivian Poon, Garfield Chow, the Tai Kwun Contemporary Team, and the AAA Team.

Gallery address: JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Central

Learning What Can’t Be Taught reflects on changes in art education in China from the 1950s to the 2000s. It focuses on six artists from three generations who were each other’s teachers and students at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. The school, now called China Academy of Art, was established in 1928 as the first art academy in the country. The exhibition explores how Chinese artists across generations learnt in and outside of classrooms, and proposes lines of continuity among these artists: what guidance did they receive from their teachers, and how did this, in turn, influence the way they taught art? On display are rarely seen artworks, archival materials, and video interviews with Zheng Shengtian, Jin Yide, Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Lu Yang, and Jiang Zhuyun.

Learning What Can’t Be Taught is curated by Anthony Yung and Özge Ersoy, with the production support of Helena Halim and Young One Cheung.

Venue address: 11/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan