Imaginations are illusions.  
A certain scene in nature is a reflection of us. A certain illusion.

Once thought, nature was the most optimistic entity.

Imagine a person standing on a vast meadow, surrounded by endless green grass, with a bright blue sky above. She said, our relationship with nature may be merely an interpretation and comprehension.

Leung Pui Yi graduated with the BA of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She works with Chinese fine brush and mineral pigment painting, exploring the subtle relationships between living beings and her daily lives.

Opening: 3/1 (Fri) 4-7pm
Every Friday to Sunday 1-7pm
Venue: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan

Nowadays, Big Data Analytics plays a pivotal role in our daily lives, but some of their capabilities and limitations are astounding. The observed correlation and representativeness of the data are also biased. In preparation for her solo exhibition, Wong Wai Yin embraced "Contemporary Art" calculated by big data and used the trilogy Healing Watercolour Art, Pastel Nagomi Art, and Beaded Crafts as the starting point and as a medium to reflect on what "Contemporary Art" is in big data and the market and for her. In the first part of the series, Wong appropriates the Watercolour teaching materials and settles the landscape theme in this show. While replicability challenges the artist's uniqueness, the depiction of bright colour tones urges the artist and the viewers to think about the predetermined perceptions of various landscapes. When the work is no longer unique but simultaneously authentic, the artist rediscovered her identity and the meaning of her practice. This show invites the visitors to gaze at the world in fragments within the landscape of landscape paintings.

Opening: 7/12 (sat) 4-7pm

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

“Have you ever heard about watermelons growing in your stomach?”

“We have a same saying in Hong Kong.”

In recent years, Wong has been immersing herself in a non-native language environment, experiencing the world with a sense of wonder akin to that of a child. The constant shifts between languages, cultures, and places often result in feelings of disorientation and silence. Whether navigating her native or non-native linguistic landscapes, she encounters various forms of distance that cultivate moments of stillness, allowing for deeper feelings, observations, and listening. At times, the world seems to contract to the space around her, while at other moments, it expands infinitely. 

WONG MEI YIN HAZEL, based in Hong Kong and Sapporo, graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. She focuses on painting and prints. Her work transforms unforgettable details from everyday life into narratives or sequential scenes.

Date : 8/11-1/12 , Every Friday to Sunday 1-7pm 

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Light comes in various color temperatures, shapes, and textures, embodying every pure space. Most organisms exhibit phototropism. Since childhood, I have been drawn to light; in its warmth and softness, different surface textures create unique patterns. My journey into painting began when I was fascinated by “Kame Hame Ha” in the anime “DragonBall Z”. I often find myself wanting to capture light in my work, which I describe as a “sense of gaze.” From stones enveloped in water to the transparent plastic packaging, this time it is about the “lights” itself. Painting is a magical process that allows me to capture the intangible, leaving behind traces with each brushstroke, even creating. I liken this process to finding a saving point in a video game.

Chino NG, a Hong Kong artist, primarily uses painting and installation as his creative mediums. His works around the concept of “gaze,” utilize rich textures and light reflections to explore the sensations that emerge when light scatters across different materials.

Opening : 5/10 (Saturday) 4-7pm

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

"Sizzles" is a word that describes the sound of wind and flames burning in the forest. It is an exhibition about the expression and experience of auditory elements in the painting, where they are transformed into soft brushstrokes on the canvas, dazzling color collisions, and dynamic light and shadow within the paintings. 

Local Artist. Tabu Tsang: "I love the twisted Bauhinia trees by the roadside, rejecting straight lines, blurred images, overlapping and ambiguous colors, and imperfect rough textures. I strive to materialize the chaotic consciousness, and release the emotional memories that cannot be transformed into language." 

Artist from Singapore. Pearlyn SIM: “ Nature has always worked mysteriously and wondrously — in a structured yet organic manner. The imaginative painted picture of nature in our heads is presumed, but the spark when experiencing nature bodily will always be ethereal. This is an introspection — an open dialogue to ruminate.“ 

Opening : 3/8 (Saturday ) 4-7pm 

Gallery address: Flat365, 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai,

In two-dimensional space, we can perceive length and width; three-dimensional space adds depth, allowing us to perceive the environment more volumetric. "DIMENSION 2*3" is an exhibition about the transformation, fusion, and breakthrough of images and objects in the 2D/3D dimensions.  

Wong Sze Chit works across mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. It is fascinated by folk beliefs and the visual elements of temples, engaging with the imagination and energy associated with the mystical and the mythical. By deeply invested in the process of drawing — its intuitiveness and immediacy — he often starts with a mark on the canvas, which then explodes into bizarre and traditionally intimidating motifs. Each motif ceases to perform its narrative function; its existence becomes a strange and singular phenomenon. 

Ram2 is a Hong Kong artist who creates paintings and experimental sculptures. His ideas stem from extracting characters or objects from the narrative context of the anime world, allowing them to transcend the two-dimensional space. In his sculptural works, he focuses on themes of abandoning the three-dimensional object, its functionality, and material form. Ultimately, both the imagery and the objects become impossible to define by the experienced world. 

Opening : 6/7 (Saturday ) 4-7pm 

(Monday to Thursday by appointment) 

Gallery address: Flat 365 ,10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

“spine won’t remember its wings” is a duo exhibition by Shum Hok Kiu and Yuen Lai Yi. The paintings document the artists' contemplation of time and space.  

Echoing the line from Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong by the Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, Shum reconstructs blurred scenes on the surfaces of the canvases and reexamines the relationship between the environment and the individual. Meanwhile, Yuen connects the scattered and insignificant parts of life to the stream, contemplating the forgotten values and meanings. Both artists were preserving those transient and unforgettable moments in the form of paintings, reminding us to look at the present, as if to feel and capture the past on their backs that may have existed just before in those fleeting moments. 

Opening: 8/6 (Saturday ) 4-7 pm

Gallery address: Flat365,10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Born and raised in South Korea, Park's artistic focus lies in the realms of lifestyle photography and portraiture. With an eye for capturing moments that are simultaneously cool and humorous, her work often delves into the realm of the unconventional and peculiar.

Drawing inspiration from the everyday, Yenny's photography evokes a sense of playfulness and spontaneity. Whether it's freezing a split-second of laughter or capturing a fleeting expression of bewilderment, her images are a testament to the complexity and diversity of the human spirit.

Opening reception: 4/5 (Saturday ) 4-7 pm
Every Friday to Sunday 1-7 pm
(Monday to Thursday by appointment)

Gallery address: Flat365, 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

How to intervene due to uncertainty, using misplacement as a point of entry?

When the boundaries between normal and abnormal become blurred, the uncertainty and fluctuation of relationships and positions, the alternation of misplacement, also brings about new choices/perspectives.

This project invites four groups of artists to observe and explore misplacement through interventions in the changing present. From the perspectives of generational shifts, evolving roles, creative media, and how individuals relate to their emotions, history, and power dynamics, the artists understand and interpret misplacement in four non-mainstream independent spaces and bookstores.

Throughout this process of deconstruction and reconstruction, they experience ambiguity, concealment, misplacement, distortion, and opposing positions. By establishing new relationships and divergences, they seek to understand the essence of misplacement and establish new relationships with themselves.

Chan Sai Lok X Lut Ming
Sharon Lee X The Memory Machine
Reds Cheung & Amie Chan X Cassandra Lau
Elaine Wong X Humchuk

Opening Gathering
3.2.2024
15:30 -17:30 Mist Gallery
18:00 - 20:00 Artspace 1999 + ACO
18:00 - 20:00 POINTSMAN
**You can arrive at Mist by 15:30, and there’s a shuttle service to Wan Chai’s Fu Tak Building and Sai Ying Pun at 17:45.

Venue: Unit B16, 6/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

The Dancing plant,  also known as the telegraph plant, dances when it hears a sound. 

Sending stones, when held in hands, can communicate across long distances. 

The exhibition is divided into three chapters: 1) Picking up a stone. 2) When plants are everywhere. 3) They have ears. It is a collage of lithographs, image letters, and prose poems. Plot: one day, she got into the habits of reading newspapers , writing letters, and listening to the radio. In her eyes, nothing is of the past anymore. There exists another her, who goes to the coast to look at stones whenever the wind blows. There exists yet another her, who tries to pick up the most ancient printing techniques and hammer the silent communication underneath the earth into audible telegraph codes, in order to connect to the barriered present; to whisper through the walls using natural objects; to reach and connect with each other.

If one’s feet, covered with sand, touch the seawater. 

Wiping the stones repeatedly. 

You have to keep moist even if the oil and water are separated.

Sharing: 17/12 (sun)  3pm-4:30pm  - Ernest Ip x Au Wah Yan 

Performance: 30/12 (sat)  6pm-7pm  - Wong SIn

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

After death, is all lost, or does love and strength live on?

A photographic series of death, irrelevant to superstition and the disembodied spirit; a dialogue with the living and the deceased, irrelevant to social structure and taboo; a conversation with oneself, irrelevant to others.

The series explores the borders of living and dying, and begins a journey of self-discovery, and grieving, by getting closer to my grandfather’s death.

Fri to Sun 13:00 – 19:00
Mon to Thu by Appointment

Venue address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai (Studio Residency Sponsor by Art & Culture Outreach)

The exhibition is created based on the imagination from the artist that captured moments of objects in a state of pause. These compositions depict scenes of existence under external force while maintaining a sense of calmness and resilience. There was light passed through fingers and diffused by hands that are captured by film. The one “hand” at the end of a handrail was waiting for another ‘hand’ to grasp it firmly. The body went up and down without a staircase. Let’s put our hands at the place of reassurance. 

Mei-to Man (b.1990) is currently studying for a Master's degree in MFA (Sculpture) at the Slade School of Art, University College London. Man’s artworks tell stories with materials as the point of departure, and delves into various mediums on a technical level. Through observing the intimacy of the body, she explores urban vistas, life under urbanisation, and transient things.

Reservation required one week in advance. Monday - Thursday.

Gallery Address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Two individuals have continued their family's grocery store, named "Yu Kee," located in the Shuang Feng Street Market in Wong Tai Sin since 2017. They take walks along the way, piecing together a small space of common and unremarkable daily fragments. They create a series of works through painting, hand molding, and metalworking, exploring the connection between people and surroundings, paying attention to the disappearing natural environment, and seeking more companionship and honesty in their surroundings.

Lai Ching Ching explores the essence of the material and the representation of cell flow through mediums such as sketching, photography, and contemporary jewelry-making. The most commonly appearing element in her work is the form of plants thriving and withering.

Ting Sze Lok primarily uses painting and hand molding as her creative mediums. Through daily walks in the city and small observations in mountain path jungles, her works display common and unremarkable fragments.

Opening: 6/5 (Saturday ) 4-7pm (Monday to Thursday by appointment)

Gallery address: 10/F,Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

An art exhibition on pause explores the relationship between humans and time. Artists use various techniques to illustrate the concept of stillness in life, from still-life paintings to capturing moments, from static to dynamic, from concrete to abstract, and from ceramics to painting. They freeze time and state, allowing viewers to appreciate, reflect on and experience the aesthetic of pause from different perspectives, reflecting on the numerous pauses in the world.

Niki Tse is interested in creating spaces that meditate on memory and the transient nature of time. She is currently building on an archive of various photographs, drawings, and prints exploring themes of sentimentality, nostalgia, and the ephemeral. Playing with the relationship between chance and intention, she embraces the notion of serendipity and happy accidents. She believes that abstraction resists immediate categorization; hoping that her abstracted images will encourage a pause within the viewer, urging them to slow down and look. She has studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, and is currently completing a fine art degree at Newcastle University.

LEE Wing Chi, Dallas is fascinated with the power of painting and drawing. She thinks it can interact with people and meanwhile within every part of the work. Her works lie between representation and abstraction. She intends to construct a world connecting reality and imagination at the same time to fulfill dreams. She paints like drawing and draws like painting unconsciously. She seldom defines whether her work is a painting or drawing as she believes the blur brings the work to life.

Ying Sheung Wong, a Hong Kong-based ceramic artist, graduated from the Visual Arts Department of Hong Kong Baptist University. After graduating in 2012, she worked as a visual arts teacher and studied for a Master degree in Ceramic Art and Design at Bath Spa University in the UK. Her works have been exhibited in Bath and Frome, England. By choosing clay as a medium, Wong believes that a ceramic artist and clay are in a close, cooperative relationship. They pull and push each other to form a bond that converts the intangibles into tangibles, like the balance between “yin yang”. In the process of ceramic making, she means to show the hidden nature of humankind and its unity, in order to embody the Taoist "way of nature."

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road,Wan Chai

NEGOTIATIONS explores the inescapable space between any two things: points in space, thoughts, and experiences. The largest body of work, Stalemates, meditates on the plausibility of two material bodies sharing and occupying space, alike in form and volume but at inherent odds with the other in the struggle for co-existence; the reconciliation of eternal differences in the infinity of space that exists between anything. Most of the showpieces were created in transient spaces, porting these works in suitcases, resulting in a body of work developed in the in-between.

Celine Setiadi (b. 1995) is a visual artist from Hong Kong and Indonesia, and is now based in Singapore. Her practice is a figurative meditation on our individual and collective phenomenology, tracing tensions and connections in an ever-complicating modernity. She studied painting and art history at the Edinburgh College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Scotland, Chicago, and Milan.

Opening reception: 4/3 (Saturday ) 1-7pm

Gallery address: Flat365, 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Born in 1933, Yu Pak Lin started working for Cathay Advertising and McCann-Erickson in the 1960s. Around the same time, he bought his first camera and has never stopped photographing. Photography has since been his favourite medium to record the world around him. He is still constantly snapping away with his mobile phone today. His relentlessness of visually recording his life has resulted in a large collection of photographic materials. Looking through them, his son Yu Ka Ho was struck by the number of images depicting sites of demolition and construction. In this project, Ka Ho dived into this vast archive in an attempt to discover hidden narratives about the ever-changing landscape of Hong Kong, and responded with his own works.

Satellite exhibition of HKIPF

Gallery address: G/F, 23 New Market St, Sheung Wan

In the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, there are two ways to write "home", one is "宀" (the pictograph of a house). That means home or inside of a house. Home is constructed with human and buildings. Human created memories with a place, soul also appear when a place memorized by a human. Maybe this is a place called home.

This exhibition introduces two artists, Seven Tsang, using plant installations as her artwork medium, and Purple Liu, apply buildings in her paintings as her artwork context. Seven Tsang develops intense passion in plant design and aim to promote indoor planting and botanical art in Hong Kong. Tsang’s work takes plants to a level beyond mere decoration or aesthetic plant arrangement. They unfold the harmonious coexistence between nature and humans by presenting mixed media artworks. It aims to revive the relationship between the audience and nature. The artworks are a narrative of the artist’s journey of self-rediscovery.

Purple Liu's art seeks for reason. Often use architectural motifs to demonstrate the relationship between objects and beings.Her color and shape driven paintings explore the boundaries between virtual space and tangible structure.

Flat365, 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

WUREAREA and 1999 art space are delighted to invite you to visit the exhibition “38.4” at . This is an exhibition involving the collaboration of 17 local artists. It started with the "Sagittarius Birthday Party" – serendipity made their paths cross.

The idea of having the show "38.4" was initiated with one wild thought during the chitchat – Let's hold an exhibition together! 38.4 was merely an inside joke; there was never a definition. It could be an association with temperature, a measurement, a price, a size, a password, or a secret signal. This contingency coincidentally symbolised their encounter as they are a group of arts practitioners who barely know each other, being active in different sectors of the field and having their schedules. Hence, they questioned: can they preserve the inconsistency and uncertainty under a specific subject matter?

Nevertheless, they sought consensus and explored their common ground throughout the meetings and discussions. All these created an opportunity for artists to collide and generate dialogues. It leads them to walk out of their comfort zone through the attempt to try unfamiliar mediums, and they even perceive the role of art with a fresh eye.

Artist List:

Benny To
Chino Ng
Dave Ho
Dallas Lee
Hoi Yin
Jeremy Ip
Kevin Ling
Kelly Tang
Kiwi and Rav Rav
Kobe Ko
Lam Wing Sze
Lee Sum Yi
Li Ning
Livy Leung
Macy Tse
Tiffany Law

Opening will take place in two places at the same time | 7th May, 6pm
*Welcome to make an appointment in advanced to visit from Monday to Thursday

Gallery address: WUREAREA, Flat 707, 7/F, Block B, Po Lung Centre, 11 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay

Gallery address: 1999 artspace, 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

“The chair in the room” Chan Kung Chun - solo painting exhibition & book launch.

"I need a good distance from the chair and the subject so that there is a continual self-dialogue going on in my mind. I then could improve my painting.

Chan Kung Chun

"Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait, even if it's a chair."

 Lucian Freud

Co-presented by Chan Kung Chun / Art Space 1999