A conversation around the critically acclaimed book GRASPING GREATNESS, MAKING INDIA A LEADING POWER with two of the editors, Bibek Debroy (joining via Zoom) and C. Raja Mohan. The evening will be moderated by Ajay Kapur. Grasping Greatness is an important contribution to intellectual debate as India enters into a new era on the world stage. The book explores India’s push for eminence in world affairs and the economic, state-building, and international dimensions of this ambition. 

Featured in the book are eminent thinkers like Rakesh Mohan, Ila Patnaik, Surjit Bhalla, Arjun Subramanian, and others who reflect upon the tasks at hand and the desirable routes to achieve them.

Edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Bibek Debroy and C. Raja Mohan, Grasping Greatness is an important contribution to the intellectual debates as India enters into a new era on the world stage.

‘Edited by three of today’s finest India scholars, Grasping Greatness compiles a compelling selection of contributions by distinguished historians, economists, and political scientists, all seeking to define India’s place in a world of great opportunity and immense challenge.’ Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram (Lok Sabha)

Registration: 18:30
Program starts: 19:00
Program ends: 20:00

ASHK Members / Friends of IBB / Students: HKD 250
Non-Member Ticket: HKD 300

Thu 12 Oct 2023, 6:30 - 8 p.m.

Venue address: Miller Theater, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive Admiralty

A unique opportunity to participate in an immersive session with private collector Romi Lamba. Romi will walk us through his journey of more than three decades, building an unrivalled collection of rare, antique Kashmir and European shawls, some woven as early as 1820-1890. The masterpieces from his collection will be on display, and Romi will tell us the story of each exceptional shawl. This session is a true masterclass in ancient textiles - from yarns to looms, colours, patterns, motifs and provenance, there is no facet of this treasured craft that Romi isn’t an expert on.

18:10 - 18:30 Private Reception for ASHK President’s Circle Members
18:30   Registration
19:00   Program starts
20:00   Program ends

ASHK Members / Friends of IBB / Students: HKD 200
Non-Member Ticket: HKD 250

*Moderators and speakers are subject to change

Mon 09 Oct 2023, 6:30 - 8 p.m.

Venue address: Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive Admiralty

Francesca Cartier Brickell, author of The Cartiers: the Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire, discusses her decade-long research into her legendary family’s history; her favorite among Cartier’s most iconic jewels and her travels to India, meeting the nation’s erstwhile royalty. Francesca will be in conversation with the Maharani of Baroda, Her Highness Maharani Radhikaraje Gaekwad, who is researching and archiving the history of India’s royals as well as her family’s famed Gaekwad jewels.

‘The Cartiers’ is the result of years of independent research into Francesca’s family and the business they founded.

10:30   Registration 
11:00   Program Starts
12:00   Program Ends

ASHK Members / Friends of IBB / Students: HKD 300
Non-Member Ticket: HKD 350

*Moderators and speakers are subject to change

Sat 07 Oct 2023 10:30 a.m. — 12 p.m.

Venue address: Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Lalan’s life is fruitful and colorful, as she never stopped cultivating her artistic life. She was not just a painter, a dancer, nor a musician, but an artist who fully embraced her emotions, knowledge and imaginations in her artworks. A Life between Dream and Drama gives a comprehensive introduction of Lalan’s life story and her artistic evolution. The documentary includes unreleased photos of the artist from her family collection and prized video excerpts of her integrated art. Together, they retrace Lalan's deeply transformative moments. After the screening, Lalan’s son, Mr Zhao Jialing, will join three art collectors and Ms Catherine Kwai, Director of Lalan Archive, to have a discussion on Lalan’s art.

Screening 16:00
Narrated in English with Chinese subtitles 

Panel discussion 16:30 – 18:00
Conducted in English

Members free admission. Non-members $20. Registration required.

Venue address: 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Led by our Star Docents, Slow Art Tour allows visitors deeply engaged with four from
Extended Figure: The Art and Inspiration of Lalan. The tour encourages audiences to spend 5 to 10 minutes in front of each artwork to look closely and experience the work with a new approach. Visitors are invited to explore different perspectives through viewing and discussing the artworks in the gallery.

Free Admission. Limited seats. Registration required.

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Showcasing thirty-two masterpieces and archival materials of Lalan’s cross-disciplinary attempts, Extended Figure: The Art and Inspiration of Lalan trace the artist’s transformative moments and experimentation and introspection through the bodily focused art-making practice.

To deepen audiences’ understanding of Lalan’s artistic practice, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center is going to have the second day of the symposium to review Lalan’s artistic achievement.

Free Admission. Registration required.

Rundown
In-person registration (morning session)
10:15 Registration
10:30 Artist Conversation: Shen Wei (live stream from the US) and Dam Van Huynh

In-person registration (afternoon session)
13:45 Registration
14:00 Presentation: Lalan- Body and Hybridity, by Mr. Frank Vigneron                      
14:45 Responding to Lalan-Body and Hybridity, by Mr. Vigneron and Mr. Kurt Yuk Keung Chan

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.

Taking a more refined look at the effects of the global pandemic, the 5th episode in the At Home with ASHK: Museum Webinar Series will explore how Hong Kong’s M+, the UK’s Tate Modern and Singapore’s National Gallery are dealing with a new set of challenges never before faced by art institutions. The panel, including Clara Kim (Tate Modern), Pauline J. Yao (M+), and Russell Storer (NGS), moderated by Christopher Mattison, will deep dive into how each institution is altering their curatorial approaches and acquiring new skills to help remain sustainable and engage with global and local audiences in the face of lockdowns, snowballing Covid-19 cases, and worldwide decentralized movements.

Evening Facebook Webinar with Clara KIM, Russell Storer and Pauline J. Yao Moderated by Christopher Mattison

Facebook and Youtube Webinar Only

Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture by the Department of Art History, The University of Hong Kong

This lecture introduces one of the most unusual iconic works in Chinese art history. It is a painting that by all counts should not be a “masterpiece.” It is a painting of ghosts (rather than a landscape), it is a handscroll of smaller paintings in uneven sizes mounted together (therefore somewhat ad hoc), and it was made by an artist seeking patrons after years of being under his charismatic teacher’s shadow. It also collected over 160 admiring colophons. So why did this painting garner such attention? Why is Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll important? This lecture given by HKU’s Dr. Yeewan Koon in conversation with Orientations Magazine publisher Yifawn Lee looks at how Chinese paintings are mediators of intimate relationships, whether between painters and their audiences or between masters and disciples, and why the strange world of ghosts captured the imagination of an eighteenth-century Chinese art world. 

Facebook Live

In this Artist Talk, artist Isaac Chong Wai will detail some the concepts and his research behind his work featured in ASHK current exhibition Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong. Besides the viewpoint on the future art scene in Hong Kong, Isaac will also share his experience in Berlin as an artist, and the differences between Hong Kong. The conversation will be moderated by independent curator Nick Yu.

Register for online talk here

Want a peek into the creative process of a contemporary artist? Come hear from Andrew Luk!

In this evening program, artist Andrew Luk will detail some of the concepts behind his work featured in our current exhibition Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong. Andrew will explore some of the channels he travels through when planning and preparing for his artworks and how looking closely at history and the art of conversation between different stories and elements informs his practice. The conversation will be moderated by curator Andre Chan.

Watch live on Facebook or Youtube.

What is unique about Roman wall paintings? Hear it from Prof. Susanna McFadden from The University of Hong Kong - HKU - 香港大學!

According to legend, on this date, April 21st, 753 BCE, the semi-divine twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, founded the settlement that was to become the majestic city of Rome. This event spawned a mighty empire and nurtured a visual culture that left a lasting imprint on the subsequent civilizations and (art) histories of the western hemisphere. What better way to acknowledge such a birthday than to investigate and interrogate its continued legacy? Today, some 2,772 years later, remnants of Roman art and architecture are still being discovered meters below the modern cities of Europe, Africa and the Near East, as well as in the deserts and forests of over 40 countries whose modern borders now fall within the territory once controlled from Rome. With a particular focus on wall paintings, this talk details some of these recent discoveries so as to introduce revitalised assessments of “Classical” art for the new millennium.

Venue address: in the comfort of your own home — just don’t forget to watch it live on Facebook

Join us at the one-month Sculpture Exhibition co-presented by Asia Society Hong Kong Center and the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association from the 26th of March to the 26th of April 2020. Enjoy the concoction of nature, heritage and art in the sculpture show, which features works from 21 local and international HKAGA member galleries across the premise of Asia Society, situated at the Former Explosives Magazine of the British old Victoria Barracks in Admiralty. Follow our map below so you don’t miss anything!

Venue address: 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

In this evening program, we say farewell to our current exhibition, The Art And Inspiration Of Irene Chou. The Evening will begin with a documentary screening of the film The Universe of Irene Chou (Zhou Luyun)—In Her Own Words which was commissioned in 2004 to mark the artist's 80th birthday. The short film shows Irene speak about her life and art, allowing viewers to catch a glimpse of the character behind her paintings. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the exhibition’s curator Joyce Wong, and independent curator Johnson Chang.

Join us afterward for one last glance through the exhibition guided by our docents and enjoy a cocktail reception as ASHK says thank you to the sponsor, lenders, supporters, volunteers, docents and you the public who all helped make this exhibition so successful.

Please register

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Are you interested in ink paintings and collage?
Instructor will demonstrate different techniques and material for participants to experiment in creating new ink painting. Final work could be a personal collage art work by putting the experimental painting with personal belongings, just like Irene Chou.

This workshop suitable for ages. Participants are welcome to bring a personal belonging for collage. The object for collage must be light in weight and able to stick onto drawing paper.

Please RSVP:

• 10:30-12:00 (English)

• 12:30-14:00 (English)

Venue address: 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty 

Take a closer look at the thoughtful conservation and adaptive reuse of the former British military structures. Guided tours are led by volunteers of Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
11:15am English
12:00pm Cantonese

Duration: 40 minutes approximately 
Maximum 20 people per tour 

For tour  registration, please send your name and contact number to sitetourhk@asiasociety.org at least two days in advance. For walk-in tours, please arrive our reception at least 15 min before the tour schedule. 

Loosely taking the idealism displayed at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago as a point of departure, multimedia artist Samson Young discusses his upcoming exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. The exhibition, Silver Moon or Golden Star: Which will you buy of me? asks how people adapt to societal changes that they have little control over. For Young, “progress” as it was defined in the 1933 fair’s subtitle “A Century of Progress” represents a specific variant of aspirational and utopian thinking. This discussion focuses on how utopian views continue to be projected on and taken up by society. Young and exhibition curator, Orianna Cacchione will be joined with art writer and curator, Yang Yeung.

Please register.

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Sunday Open Studio Series invites visitors to beinspired by the exhibition and create their own art work in response to the works. Open Studio will run on four Sundays during the exhibition period, with each workshop dedicated to different themes. Basic art materials will be supplied and educators will be present to provide assistance. Participants are welcome to submit their finished art works to the Joy of Art: Irene Chou Response Show Art Open-call.

Sunday, December 1 , 2019:

• 10:30am-12:00pm (English)

• 12:30pm-2:00pm(English)

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

In this evening program which is produced in conjunction with ASHKs current exhibition A World Within: The Art and Inspiration of Irene Chou, we invite Johnson Chang, independent curator and director of Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong); and artist Leung Kui Ting to join us in a discussion moderated by curator Joyce Hei-ting Wong which will explore the art of pioneering ink painter Irene Chou (1924-2011). The program will begin with a screening of The Universe of Irene Chou (Zhou Luyun)—In Her Own Words and then conclude with a discussion to share more on the curatorial vision of the current exhibition, and consider Chou’s art practice in relation to the New Ink Painting Movement.

Registration 登記 6:15pm
Screening 放映會 6:30pm
Discussion 討論 7:00pm
Close 結束 8:00pm

Documentary will be conducted in English with English subtitles.
Panel discussion will be conducted in Cantonese

Please register here

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Sunday Open Studio Series invites visitors to be inspired by the exhibition and create their own artwork in response to the works. Open Studio will run on four Sundays during the exhibition period, with each workshop dedicated to different themes. Basic art materials will be supplied and educators will be present to provide assistance. Participants are welcome to submit their finished artworks to the Joy of Art: Irene Chou Response Show Art Open-call.

Please register here.

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

The second lecture in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Art Education and Female Empowerment Series dedicated to ASHKs current exhibition A World Within: The Art and Inspiration of Irene Chou, focuses on highlighting how the relationship between the arts and mental health can offer diverse and dynamic settings for expressive restorative, educational, and therapeutic benefits. Panelists will speak on their experiences as a practicing artist, art therapist and psychiatrist to comment on the application of the creative arts in mental health services in Hong Kong and uncover the artists' role and the role of creativity in mental health. The conversation will be moderated by Enid Tsui.

Please, register here.

Venue address: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty