‘The Drifters’ is a group exhibition that invites the mind to loiter like an aimless wanderer, traversing open plains of strange landscapes. The show highlights artworks coming from the collections of local Hong Kong collectors and together they present transient memories, blended with fragmented dreamscapes, exploring the fleeting moments that straddle in between euphoria, freedom, and unnerving vulnerability.

Venue address: Duddell’s, Level 3 & 4, 1 Duddell’s Street, Central

Duddell’s is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition of Sayaka Maruyama, her first solo presentation in Hong Kong. Born in 1983 in Niigata, Japan, Maruyama grew up in Tokyo, moved to the Netherlands with her family and has been working in between London, New York and Japan. A fresh talent, Maruyama is a multi-disciplinary artist who realises her notions of beauty into photography, drawings, books, and short films.

Curated by Eunice Tsang, Floral Beings will exhibit 13 works by Maruyama, and will be on view from August 18 to November 14. Maruyama shows us a glimpse into her surreal world, where human, animal and plants are mingled into one. Her dreamlike photography, sometimes integrated with digital drawings, translates human beings as floral creatures, using Tomihiro Kono’s hair creatures as a main motifs. Maruyama works closely with her partner Kono on sculptural wigs made of real human hair, which they hand-dye and fabricate into intricate animal-like structures. An installation exhibition of their iconic wigs will be held as a sequel of the current show at Current Plans, an alternative art space in Sham Shui Po.

Presented by: Duddell’s
Principal Art Patron: Ruinart

Please email info@duddells.co to RSVP for the opening event (one guest per email), includes 1 free drink.

Currently on show at Duddell’s, the M K Lau Collection is delighted to announce an extension of its current thematic group exhibition Inspired by Ink with additional works, bringing together 36 works spanning over the past four decades since the 1960s, created by13 notable Hong Kong ink artists. The extension of Inspired by Ink will be on view on the fourth floor of Duddell’s from 23 June to 27 September 2021, while the original exhibition on the third floor will be on view throughout the year and beyond.

Built over four decades, the M K Lau Collection is one of Asia’s finest private collections of 19th and 20thcentury Chinese brush-and-ink paintings and calligraphy, alongside contemporary ink paintings and others from the 21st century. With its breadth and depth, the Collection reflects the main currents of artistic endeavour in Chinese ink painting. In the second half of the 20th century in Hong Kong, there was a flourishing of innovation with ink as a medium, which has since been referred to as the ‘Hong Kong New Ink Movement’. Co-curated by Catherine Maudsley, the exhibition presents the distinctive art style of Hong Kong ink masters and the students they inspired in three approaches: pioneering ink artist Lui Shou-kwan (1919 – 1975); Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932); and the Lingnan School succession, showcasing the diversity of ink painting approaches, interpretations and methods.

Curator: Catherine Maudsley

Venue address: Level 3, Shanghai Tang Mansion 1 Duddell Street, Central

Hong Kong’s leading cultural and social destination, Duddell’s, is delighted to announce details of Curve of Bouyancy, a group exhibition that brings together notable works collected by four eminent female collectors and goes on show from 6 February. Showcasing 16 artworks, the exhibition will comprise works collected by Mimi Brown, Karen Levy, Li Lin, and a local private collector, offering a rare glimpse into the wide array of personal visions that have shaped these collections.

Curated by local curator and Feng Shui practitioner Zoie Yung, the exhibition title Curve of Buoyancy was inspired by American abstract sculptor Wendell Dayton’s For Calder (1975), a lightweight steel sculpture that appears as agile and light as a ballerina’s instep. A timeless visual motif, the curve has also been prevalent in both historical and contemporary times – from Paleolithic Venus figurines, ribbed vaulting of Gothic churches to athleisure fashion designs – giving rise to various possible rigid and flexible forms whilst retaining its practicality for our survival. Renewed significance of the curve in part alludes to a non-linear discourse and exploration of the shifts in contemporary society, human conditions and identity, which fittingly resonates with the challenging times wrought by the ongoing pandemic.

Venue address: Level 3, Shanghai Tang Mansion, 1 Duddell Street, Central