“The Other Side of the Sea” marks Jiaxi Han’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The artist explores the historical and cultural narratives woven into patterns, bridging Eastern and Western cultures through contemporary expression. Rooted in her heritage as a member of an ethnic minority in Southwest China, she carries forward the traditional craft of batik—an intangible cultural heritage—to reinterpret motifs from Swiss textiles, Hong Kong’s characteristic architectural ornamentation, and global trade histories. Her work uncovers the overlooked connections between craftsmanship, migration, and colonial legacies, revealing how patterns serve as silent witnesses to cultural exchange. From hand-drawn batik textiles reflecting Miao women’s labor to fabrics inspired by Swiss paisley designs once exported to Asia, each piece carries layered stories of tradition, adaptation, and reinvention. By merging the traditional technique of batik and indigo dyeing with contemporary themes, the exhibition invites viewers to see patterns not merely as decoration but as living archives of history, identity, and shared human experience.

Opening Reception: March 11, 2025 17:00 - 20:00

Venue address: Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Fringe Club

Supper /ˈsʌpə/ noun: an evening meal, typically a light or informal one
Club /klʌb/ noun: an association dedicated to a particular interest or activity

“Supper Club” references social gatherings through its late opening hours of 4pm - 1 am. Our goal is to exist outside the parameters of the conventional art fair or exhibition experience, and we aim to create an intimate alternative, social space for like-minded individuals to linger and convene. Breaking down the paradigms of formality and severity typically associated with art events, Supper Club is also an informal gathering space, and this casual undertone will be reflected in our curation and programming.

We are pleased to announce all 22 galleries joining us at Supper Club! Please join us in welcoming:
47 Canal
ANOMALY
Balice Hertling
Canton Gallery
Cylinder
GALLERY COMMON
Gallery2
island
Keyi Gallery
Madein Gallery
Make Room
Misako & Rosen
Mou Projects
Nova Contemporary
P21
PHD Group
Tabula Rasa Gallery
TARQ
THE SHOPHOUSE
Vanguard Gallery
YveYANG Gallery
ZIAN Gallery

Time: 4pm - 1am

Location: Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

The once ubiquitous neon signs of Hong Kong are now few and far between, but they have ingrained in our memory. Curated by 100°C, Lights On! is a pop-up marketplace held at the Fringe Club from May 26 to June 2 that showcases repurposed neon signs from the past, so these bits of our history can shine in a sustainable future.

Lights On! will be hosted by the Fringe Club. Housed in an 1890s colonial heritage landmark, the Fringe Club has nurtured emerging artists for over 40 years. In 2018, it received the HKICON Conservation Award, a recognition for the historic building’s rebirth as a vibrant arts hub.

Lights On! offers a retail experience featuring select fashion and lifestyle merchandise that draw on the past to open up a new, more sustainable consumer market. Many featured brands are inspired by once popular everyday products, or repurposed through thoughtful design. Featured brands include V VISSI, Locoweed, Invisibilis Moveré, Arty: Active, BIG HORN, Maison Blanche、LE FONDRE、Blind by JW. Artists including Saville Chan from“A Light Never Goes Out”, Vincent Au Yeung, KC Wong (RidiculouSneakers), Tony Tam (Delta Blues Audio), Masahito Hiranuma, World Harp Day, etc. Traditional Hong Kong brands reworked from the REMIX program is also on spot paying tribute to our shared heritage. Their timeless, vintage looks are never out of style. Thanks to eco-friendly choice of materials and production process, they shine the brightest amid current environmental challenges like our repurposed neon signs.

In recent years, Hong Kong has faced the poignant reality of many of its residents leaving, while some have chosen to stay. This situation has prompted contemplation on the true concept of 'Home vs. Away' and what it means on an individual level.

To explore this theme, four Hong Kong artists - Chak (翟宗浩), Tam Wai Ping (譚偉平), Tse Ming Chong (謝明莊), and Francis Yu (余偉聯) - have collaborated in a group exhibition to seek the true meaning of 「離合聚散」 (the cycle of separation and reunion). The characters of 「離合聚散」 - 離 (separate), 合 (join), 聚 (get together), and 散 (scatter) - form a paradoxical experience that is reflected in the local society.

Through a series of artworks that range from drawings, photography, video works to paintings, each artist presents their unique renderings and visual explorations of the notions surrounding the theme of 'Home and Away.' These include the sense of belonging, identity, and long-standing cultural values that remain pertinent to this day.

 Viewers of the exhibition will soon realize that these artworks are not just mere artifacts capturing a singular moment in time, but rather grand undertakings of a greater, more structured expression that embodies the essence of universality and eternity.

Opening Reception: 18 May 2023, 6 - 8PM

Gallery address: Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Two Hong Kong based visual artists, Fung Suk Ha, Yvette and Shum Ka Wai, Violet, are exhibiting their artworks that create the place from nowhere. The place is part of their inner journey and perception. Yvette’s paintings are a series of landscape based on her daily life and travelling memories. She likes to use acrylic paint and charcoal to draw the natural scenery from her heart. In the large paintings of Violet, one after another dense forest records the journey of her inner-self exploration. The large-sized works invite the audience to experience her inner world together.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Be 40 is an eclectic collection of mixed-media works by 66 artists who have previously exhibited at the Fringe Club. For some of the artists, the works recall memories of their first Fringe encounters.

The exhibition also includes works commissioned and collected by the Fringe Club from 1982 until now. It also features recent works by Frog King, the artist we presented in a solo show at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Be 40 celebrates the conservation of the old Dairy Farm ice depot and its chimeric transformation over the past 40 years into the Fringe Club of today.

The key image of Be 40 is appropriated from Hokusai’s famous ukiyo-e print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, which shows a way of life, revered and cherished – symbolised by Mount Fiji and the long fishing boats – under imminent threat. It portrays a moment of great beauty before annihilation by forces beyond human control. Despite everything, the human spirit still soars like the sea eagle high up above.

Preview: 13 May (Fri) 4-7pm / 14 May (Sat) 2-5pm

Opening: 14 May (Sat) 5-7pm

*Preview & Opening by invitation only.

Public viewing by appointment: 16 May - 16 June (12nn-7pm. Closed on Sundays & Public Holidays)

Register: https://bit.ly/3ygoxZx

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

The artworks on show in this exhibition have been collected over the past 40 years.

One part of the exhibition features commissioned works, while another part is primarily made up of works that mark some decisive moments in the life of the Fringe. Collectively they reflect, in one way or another, the purpose and reason of our being as an open arts platform during these years, supporting emergent artists, in whatever ways we could, to participate in forging a cultural identity for Hong Kong.

This exhibition can also been seen as a retrospective in two parts. The first part comprises 13 commissioned works made between 1986 and 2011 by the following artists, in chronological order: Yeung Tong-lung, Chris Lo Sze-lim, Wong Shun-kit, Carolyn Fok, Leung Mee-ping, Ng Yuen-wa (Ching-wa), Esther Liu, Kith Tsang, Yuen Nim-chi, Wong Yan-kwai, Lam Tian-xing, Tsang Chui-mei and Chau Shik-hung. The leitmotif here is the Fringe Club building, about which the artists were asked to make their own interpretations.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

The “From Dark to Light” exhibition is about two different figurative experiences for hope.

I’m Franco, and I was fortunate enough to meet the artist Phillip Hui. Despite our different origins, we share the same passion for art, and we both like to use fictional situations to express ideas about people and things in real life. If we were both musicians, we would be storytellers. In Phillip’s creations, “Explorers” are exploring new directions in their worlds and heading into the unknown, while in mine, “Travellers” are looking for a peaceful, happy and carefree place to comfort the mind. In our works, light, shadow and space are the main creative elements, combined with colour and natural elements, and the characters and viewers wander between reality and dreams.

By Appointment Only: https://bit.ly/3LIONQk

Gallery address: Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Placing his artworks within the context of traditional Chinese wisdom and Christian spirituality, Fr. Joseph Tham L.C. has used his tremendous skill and grace with Chinese brush painting, calligraphy and seal carving to describe the essence of his subject matter – the glory and the mystery of God. He hopes this unique exhibition will inspire you to look at Chinese art with a new appreciation.

This exhibition is curated by Sin Sin Man.

Opening Hours

13-01-2022 (Thu) Set-Up & Private Event

14-01-2022 (Fri) 11:00 - 16:00

15-01-2022 (Sat) 11:00 - 15:00

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

From finite space to unlimited creativity. An exhibition of recent works by members of Hong Kong Sculpture. The artists say, “We hope our unlimited creativity will bring all of us – artists and exhibition visitors – closer together.”

Hong Kong Sculpture was established in 2014 with 19 members, focusing mainly on creating sculptures. The group regularly organises exhibitions and workshops to promote the creation of three-dimensional artworks, and has been commissioned to create a number of large-scale public art works. Members have visited Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Taiwan for artistic exchanges.

Participating Artists

Danny Lee / Coral Chan / Ken Chan / Kitty Chan /

Elaine Cheung / Chung Wai-lun / Margaret Chu /

David Fung / Blanche Ho / Ho Yuen-leung /

Kong Yui-man / Ko Bin-lin / Janice Lam /

Lau Hiu-tung / Chris Lau / Joe Li / Mak Yee-man /

Raymond Pang / Tse Lo-shan

Opening: 18-12 (Sat) 16:00 - 18:00

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

MOVEMENT IN STILLNESS presents “Fold and Unfold”, the latest body of work by Hong Kong-born contemporary artist Nancy Tong. It merges a long artistic tradition of Chinese ink art with the science of folding, creating an intimate connection between generational love and timeless creativity. The exhibition showcases 16 artworks, including paintings, works on paper and installations.

In her first solo exhibition in her home town, Tong dialogues with her father through the body of work that ties her emotional personality to her father’s inspirational creativity. She brings together and breaks down various elements of her childhood memories and experiences to create a new synthetic dimension. Tong employs folded canvas, which holds the essence of invisible movement, and also performance, through which the viewer perceives the artist’s physical strength and mental act of making. She creates a spontaneous yet harmonic rhythm by converting folds into form and movement, creating her own geometric, sculptural work. Her work is a visual manifestation of emotion, perception and material merging as one to form an emotion-visuality symbiosis.

Opening Reception 2.12 (Thu) 16:00 - 19:00

In 2018, Chan Sai-lok launched his cultural identity series with red as the main motif, then had two solo exhibitions, “Land of Longing and Exile” (2019) and “Everyday Practice” (2020), and undertook residencies in New York and Denmark. Now, as a kind of postscript to his red series, he has invited three of his friends to join him in interpreting contemporary ink aesthetics.

The curatorial framework appropriates the traditional genres of poetry, calligraphy, painting, seal carving and objects. Chan sees text and literature as materials for creation. Not restricted to readable text, poetry can be purely a sequence of text, alternating rhythms or abstract formations. Fabric and silk are colours with which painting weaves narrative layers like a novel. Chui Pui-chee has had a long calligraphy practice. Man and brush move as one entity, creating the essence of his ink practice.

Participating artist: CHUI Pui-chee, LAU Hok-shing, PAU Mo-ching, CHAN Sai-lok

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Far, near, unrealistic and intimate are adjectives that express the physical and emotional closeness between each other. We can quickly judge the distance between certain things based on our intuition. But what is the basis for judging distance? Do various judgments imply certain values?

The “Distances in Three” exhibition shows the “distances” between the three artists and their respective concerns and issues. Jason Lam explores the unclear line between digital technology and traditional art, John Chan’s photos reveal his feelings about the living environment of the grassroots community, and Dave Ho uses sculpted materials to ponder how he constantly gets through in this small land of Hong Kong, and the question of “Where is home?”.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

“If you were to receive a piece of paper, what story would you tell?”

The “DAYs - CCA Graduation Show” is a project by a group of recent graduates from the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, EDUHK (The Education University of Hong Kong). Sixteen groups of artists explore the concept of “DAYs” by using paper as their creative medium to look at the relationship between paper and daily life. Paper is also regarded as a medium through which we discover the arts, to tell the stories about the relationship between ourselves and art.

The artworks in this exhibition celebrate the uniqueness of different kinds of paper, and invite audiences to see things from the artists’ perspective and to reconstruct the connection between paper and their own daily life.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Memory is a mixture of reality and illusion, and it is difficult to determine the authenticity of the details. From time to time, our memory will reinterpret the experienced fact unconsciously, and scenes that seem to be familiar appear repeatedly.

The artworks represent doubtful memory, which is like the cracks, blemishes and stains in our surroundings, the high humidity of Hong Kong, and the sticky paint. The intention is to confuse viewers’ sensory memory by imitating the texture of doubtful memory.

Doubtful Memory presents a series of paintings by Chung Ka-chun that use mixed painting materials to represent his confused daily cognition – the juxtaposition of the seemingly familiar and the seemingly unfamiliar.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

INKfinity… pushing the boundaries of new ink art

Curated by artist Raymond Fung, the INKfinity exhibition showcases the works of 23 Chinese modern ink artists. Exploring form, texture and colour, and wide-ranging themes that examine the nature of art, abstraction versus figuration, art as a process, and identity and social issues, the artists apply unconventional and experimental strategies to their art.

With ink as their primary medium, they use a variety of substrates and techniques to demonstrate the infinite possibilities for creative expression. Two-dimensional works are juxtaposed with three-dimensional forms to create interesting dialogues between the works.

Period of Exhibition:

27 May: 11:00-17:00pm

28-31 May: 11:00-19:00pm

1 June: 11:00-15:00pm

Gallery address: Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Chan Suet-yi’s solo exhibition showcases the paintings and drawings that she created in Berlin, Germany. “The Smoky House” is an imaginative space for her mindscapes, while “Smoky” could be an indication of her emotions in this chaotic world.

Chan has been living and working nomadically in Europe for several years, and her artistic creation is often related to the landscapes and imagery she encounters. She often takes the role of a silent observer on the road. The stillness and quietness from the landscapes and objects constantly attract her, and she tries to re-create that same aura through her works, adding her own feelings so that the paintings convey an ambiguous mood that cannot be captured easily in words. There is no specific time, place or meaning behind the paintings.

From bird-watching to mechanical-bird-watching

People often ask “What is kinetic artwork?”, and that’s also a concern of the artist.

For many years, Chan has created kinetic things (machines), from crawling robots to special-effect machines and kinetic artworks. “Machines” are sometimes toys, sometimes tools, and sometimes artworks (or the medium of artworks). This paradigm of “machine is being something” often leads many of us to focus unconsciously on “being what”. When we look at a machine, rather than focusing on the machine itself, we tend to search for its “purpose”, “usage” or “subject matter”, without seeing its very existence.

Webinar: 27 Mar 2021, 4pm Zoom meeting ID: 835 720 9437

To reserve your ticket for the Opening Ceremony and Webinar, email jkcc1023@gmail.com

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

In side, three artists aim to express the ways they each view everyday living. These ways are expressed through an object, a position or the limitation of a particular viewpoint — such circumstances often signal the boundaries between different subjectivities.

The exhibition touches on the themes of Nature and the Self, The City and Objects, and Life and Other Banalities. The sense of alienation hidden in life is captured in images of a withered tree branch, a window, a mountain... The artists invite viewers to experience the different modes in which the city interacts with nature. By examining these often-overlooked details, we may gain insight into the unknown beyond our quotidian existence.

Lai Ching Ching | Lam Hau Yi | Ting Sze Lok

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

In expressing the unspeakable, how ready are the artists ready to do it and how far are they prepared to go? We've been conditioned by our society not to cross boundaries without facing the consequences. This situation is as real as it can get. And the stratagem is to avoid, at all costs, making known the unspeakables, except to a bare stone wall.

 Hide or distort our innermost feelings and covert intentions for fear of being judged, ridiculed, or made culpable by others.

 Once given the opportunity to reveal our true intentions, do we coil from it? When challenged by the limitations of our practiced media, do we choose to come to our aid with the written word? The surrender of craftsmanship to the articulation of clever ideas.

Participating artists: Bobby Liu | Frog King | Joe Li | Katharine Tsang | Lau Hok Shing | Martin Cheung | Peggy Chan | Raymond Pang | Roy Lee | Tsang Tak Ping | Wong Sau Ching | Wong Tong | Wong Wo Bik

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

What exactly are we looking for?  Where is the place we can really stop?  Do we live in a real or a simulated world?

These questions often pop up in my mind.  Every day, the pace of life is the same; I’m doing the same things, and it should feel so normal and taken for granted, but it makes me feel emptiness and anxiety.  It’s hard to explain in words – I can only express these feelings through my art.

In my pictures, most of the characters are placed where they don’t normally belong – the works are full of variables, artificial arrangements, or environments that cannot be seen clearly.  They’re just like real life, which seems familiar but strange.  The environment is often full of uncertainties, and we have to try hard to fit in, adapt or find a way to survive.  One of my favourite natural elements is Water, and it always appears in my art.  It’s so unpredictable, which can bring life and soothe our mind, but at the same time it may have hidden dangers.  Life has always been exploring and looking for different opportunities and possibilities.  The encounter cannot be controlled, but it could be the driving force of life.

Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central