Artist duo Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser's exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong focuses on the themes of ‘home’, ‘people and land’, and ‘sense of belonging’, featuring the works they have created with their friends from Taiwan's indigenous Truku people from 2017 to the present. Invited by the Tree Tree Tree Person — Taroko Artist Residency Programme, Dorothy and Benjamin have spent five summers since 2017 living with and learning from the Truku community in Alang Skadang, about a seven-hour walk from the closest city.

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai

The intricate web of human interactions and their impacts is the essence of ‘Ripple Effects’, a group exhibition showcasing 23 artists shortlisted for the Colours of Humanity Arts Prize 2024, co-organised by Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao.

Through a citywide open call, local artists with diverse backgrounds explore themes of inclusion, diversity, and equity, offering a vibrant exploration of what it means to be human in an interconnected world. Through a multitude of perspectives and experiences, each artwork starts with a small gesture that reverberates into something larger. From restful and social gestures like sewing, cooking, dancing, to flat-hunting and house renovation, these artworks set to challenge norms, spark conversations, and raise questions about societal complexities.

Artists: 
Kingson Chan | Holok Chen | Wing Tung Chu | Abhishek Desai | Rhenea Diclas | Dholeeh Ann Hidalgo | Hou Wun Ho | Weera it Ittiteerarak | Siu Fung Hugh Leung | Jinghui Li | Lai Lai Natalie Lo | Paulina Alonso Meza | Doris Ng and Kong Wan Ki | Ho Long Ng | Sai Pradhan | Raúl Hernández Romero | Angelique Santos | Rajat Sharma | Amrita Tandon | Hou Lam Tsui | Chris Wong | Siu Kuen Yau | Kai Chun Yip

Curatorial Team:
Eunice Tsang | Candice Yiu | Amandine Vabre Chau

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present “Strait is the Gate,” a two-person show by Yasmine Anlan Huang and Lean Lui at the Institut's Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio from September 26 to October 26, 2024.

"What is something that is utterly hopeless, yet can forever remain in one's heart?" Inheriting André Gide's inward questioning, the juxtaposition of dreamy yet fragile metaphors and traces of violence often take center stage in the narratives of Lui and Huang. Exemplifying an approach influenced by Daoism, Lui’s signature visual style comprises exaggerated close-up shots and meticulously arranged mundane objects. Meanwhile, Huang employs a similarly delicate method, drawing inspiration from global news and poetic verses to unveil the interplay of geopolitical conflicts and urban anxieties. Through the portrayal of ethereal yet emotionally enigmatic young girls, the two artists examine pre-existing power structures and the stereotypical perception of vulnerability, invoking a pursuit of themes such as truth and courage in everyday life.

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

"He is the Hong Kong legendary figure who treated public spaces as his canvas."

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present, in collaboration with L+/Lucie Chang Fine Arts, the exhibition "Rediscovering the King of Kowloon" in the Goethe-Gallery and the Black Box Studio of the Goethe-Institut from May 17 to June 20, 2024.

The purpose of this exhibition is to allow everyone to embark on a journey of rediscovering the King of Kowloon, a figure who transcended artistic boundaries and became a symbol of Hong Kong. In his life story, we feel the resonance brought by his indomitable spirit. Throughout his life, Tsang Tsou Choi, also known as the King of Kowloon, never considered himself an artist. To him, graffiti in the streets of Hong Kong was merely a pure form of self-expression. With the passage of time and the shift in Hong Kong's identity, his works, which were once controversial, now carry multiple universal values.

In collaboration with L+/Lucie Chang Fine Arts

Exhibition Opening: 17.5.2024 (Fri), 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

What characterises a sculpture? The property of being three-dimensional? An object of art that can be viewed from several perspectives? Or the material from which the artwork is constructed, peeled or moulded? Two ideas play a central role in the sculptures of Kai Schiemenz (born 1966 in Erfurt, Germany): the surface and the process. Every object was once something else: rocks or polystyrene blocks that become coloured glass via a silicone mould, computer scribbles that end up as ceramic tiles or concrete bases that become independent sculptures in a new context. And last but not least, ideas of architecture and urban spaces, from which these abstract objects mentally grow. (Leonie Pfennig)

Gallery address: 13F & 14F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

In the 1950s, the British Hong Kong Government installed public phone booths across Hong Kong.

We selected one of these now disused booths, about one square metre in size, wrapped it in a reflective cover, and drilled a hole into a coin from the colonial era, making a pinhole darkroom. Through inverted images, the viewer shuttles back and forth between landmarks before and after the handover, tracing the shifting political relationship between ‘deconstruction’ and ‘construction’.

A discarded phone booth, waiting to be dismantled, a memento of the Queen still being circulated today.

Gallery address: 14/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong, in collaboration with the Consulate General of France and the Consulate General of Germany, proudly introduces the collective art exhibition Sustain*Ability*Art. This showcase is geared towards enhancing public understanding, especially among young individuals, about the environmental issues challenging our planet.

French architect Charlotte Lafont-Hugo and German artist Cornelia Erdmann have partnered with students pursuing a Higher Diploma in Visual Arts and Culture at the Hong Kong Design Institute to craft this exhibition. The display features diverse mixed media artworks meticulously fashioned from repurposed materials. Through collaboration with the local non-governmental organization Plastic Free Seas, discarded waste gathered from the shoreline was ingeniously transformed by student artists into art installations and multi-dimensional mixed media pieces that stimulate our senses and contemplation. These creations spotlight the environmental consequences of unsustainable human consumption and excessive plastic use.

Exhibition opening hours:
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Mon)
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM (Tue - Fri)
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (Sat)

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Baker's Lung is a new work that combines the professional baking experience of Felix Del Tredici and the instrumental practice of trombonists and improvisers. Together with multifaceted performing artist Kalun Leung, the work explores the similarities between two ancient art forms in a unique performance-based installation that is currently in development. It is a one-of-a-kind experience that promises to be both thought-provoking and entertaining.

As brass performer and professional baker, Felix is fascinated by the fundamental process of energy transformation that converts lip vibration into sound and the grinding of raw wheat into edible foodstuff. Both music and food are communal experiences that allow for community connection, and Baker's Lung aims to amplify this connection between baking and music.

The installation draws on a variety of cource material, including body camera footage from Felix's bakery, different types of grains and seeds, old-time recipes, Hong Kong street market objects, and the sounds and visuals of dough mixing, a steam-injected oven, dividing and shaping breads, and the small mill grinding wheat berries. These audiovisual materials will be transformed in a variety of ways through interactive technologies, the interpretation of performers, and the participation of audience members.

Baker's Lung offers and artistic interpretation of the cacophony and insights from a baker experiences, provides a behind-the-scene view into the complexity and chaos that comes with the making of one of the most important and universal food staples.

Artists:
Felix Del Tredici
Kalun Leung

Time and date of the performance sessions：
29-30.6.2023 | 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm

Performed by：
Kalun Leung (trombone, invented instruments)
William Lane (viola)
Wilson Chau (horn)
Karen Yu (percussion)

Gallergy address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Is there a female gaze in art?

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present, in cooperation with the MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig, the exhibition THE FEMALE GAZE in German Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from March 21 to May 13, 2023 in the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio. The exhibition is one of the programme highlights of the 60th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut in Hong Kong in 2023.

Five female painters and one sculptress from Berlin and Leipzig have been invited to share their gaze with us. In their paintings and sculptures, they explore body images and sensuality, address relationships and memories, and question traditional as well as contemporary gender roles.

The artists are: Laura Eckert, Tobia König, Verena Landau, Eva Schwab, Tanja Selzer and Miriam Vlaming.

Exhibition Opening on 21.3.2023 (Tue) at 6:30 PM in the presence of the artists Laura Eckert, Tobia König, Verena Landau, Eva Schwab and Tanja Selzer

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

"Memories are motionless, and the more securely they are fixed in space, the sounder they are." Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.

ifva partners with Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present solo exhibitions for Media Art Category local awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition "Wend a Way" of Jess Lau, the Gold Awardee of the 27th ifva Media Art Category, which reconstructs the memories of the city and moving bodies through a collection of new and old media artworks. Jess Lau creates moving images through monotonous and repetitive motions to emphasise the relationship between moving images and the motions of bodies. Memories rest in places where stories are unfolded, be it a river, an avenue, a body or even a white wall. Viewers revisit the twisting and chaotic memories through the flowing of images to realise memories are now wending in an unfamiliar gesture, which reshape and reform to connect with the imagined.

Gallery address: 14/F, HKAC, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Ifva partners with Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present solo exhibitions for Media Art Category local awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition “A Messenger – Passerby in Our Battlefields” of Lo Lai-lai Natalie, the Gold Awardee of the 26th ifva Media Art Category, which explores the conflicts and wrestling among humans and nature through a collection of new media artworks.

The lonesome spring is approaching. We yearn to sing freely and migrate like birds, but the price of staying alive remains a mystery. Farmers, like their crops, used to live with the land. Some of them, however, are uprooted and rely on their intuition to flow steadily in the sky, just to prevent themselves from falling back onto the soil.

It is an unsettling field in and out. Could nature articulate the true self by provoking our emotions?

Exhibition Opening in the presence of the artist Lo Lai-lai Natalie on 11.1.2023 (Wed) at 6:30pm.

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

The largest global photography event of its kind, 24 Hour Project is a collective of thousands of photographers from over 900 cities in over 90 countries, who come together with the purpose of documenting humanity and raising awareness of pressing human/social issues, telling stories from their own city through street photography.

One day a year, post one photo per hour on social media (such as Instagram, Facebook...), for 24 consecutive hours. It is amazing to see what happened in 24 hours around the world at the same moment.

The project has been well received by participants from all over the world, and exhibitions of the selected photos have taken place in Australia, Mexico, Ecuador, Finland, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Peru, Poland and the USA.

This year, Hong Kong is hosting the exhibition for the first time, as the highlight of the 10th anniversary celebration, showcasing the best of many captivating street photography works in our city and around the world, from the last 10 years, showcasing the top 99 printed photos and 100+ digital images from over 700 submissions worldwide.

Opening Reception
Fri 2 Dec 6:30 - 9:00 pm
With introduction by Dr. Harald Kraemer, UMAG, HKU
*Space is limited. Please register at: 24hourhk@gmail.com

Exhibition Guided Tours
Fri 2 Dec 8 pm – P H Yang
Sat 10 Dec 10 am – Marissa Reyes
*Space is limited. Please register at: 24hourhk@gmail.com

Photo Walks
Sat 10 Dec 10:30 am - 12:30 pm – Marissa Reyes
Fri 16 Dec 8 - 10 pm – Anne Thiesen
*Space is limited. Please register at: 24hourhk@gmail.com

Gallery address: Art Centre 14/F, 2 Harbour Rd, Wanchai

Gay Games, the world’s largest inclusive sports, arts & culture event, has an amazing and powerful history of celebrating the human body. The Goethe-Institut is proud to present this story, in collaboration with the Gay Games, through the exhibition "Beyond Strength: A Retrospective Exhibition of Gay Games, 1982-2022" from November 10 – 26, 2022 in the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio. The exhibition is co-curated by Jiaming Liao, Jeff Li and Tien Li.

In 2023, 40 years after the inaugural edition of Gay Games, Hong Kong will be the first city in Asia to host the 11th edition of the Gay Games. Curated by Gay Games Hong Kong, the exhibition showcases a series of photographs that look back at treasured moments captured by event photographers which are preserved for history. Video works created by Hong Kong artists, together with historical video materials archived by local LGBTQUA+ organizations will also be presented in the exhibition.

Duo Openings on 16.11.2022 (Wed):
6:00pm Beyond Strength (Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio)
7:00pm LOVE+ (Pao Galleries)

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to have supported Hong Kong artists May Fung and Tang Kwok-hin in their research trips to Kassel, to experience the "Lumbung" concept of documenta 15. What have May Fung and Tang Kwok-hin got upon their return from Kassel's documenta 15? Could there be more frustration and skepticism? In doubting and caring about the restriction and approach of documenta 15, how do we look at the glory and the loss of art?

As a follow-up programme of their research trips, May Fung and Tang Kwok-hin will present an exhibition at the Goethe-Gallery and the Black Box Studio from October 15 to November 5, 2022.

May Fung creates a conceptual object-painting installation to contrast a realistic collage installation of photographic images and texts she collected inside and outside documenta 15. The two installations gaze at each other letting the audience interpret and imagine by themselves. Ultimately we may ask: how do art clusters sustain development of art in different times and spaces?

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Continuing its topic of "art and technology", Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present the exhibition "Light Up" curated by Zoe Chan from September 15 to October 8, 2022 in the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio.
Light Up explores artistic, interactive and colourful representations of light and time in art through a multi-dimensional narrative. As an immersive exhibition with different acts, visitors are encouraged to become a part of the art using their own silhouette. The exhibition helps visitors reflect on a variety of light-related themes with an interdisciplinary collection of works - painting, dance, projection mapping, multimedia installation and more - for an expansive representation of light (and time) as an art form.

Curated by Zoe Chan
Participating Artists
Damian Boylan / Igor Chan / Linda Cheung / Ken Chung Ka-Chun / Fan Yan / Hung Wing Yin / L.C.M. / LC Ray w. Zhiyuan Zhang / Paul Shepherd / Michael Whittle
Music
Yobkiss (Paul Börchers) / Teresa Wong
Performers
Peggy Ho / Charlene Li / Nina Wong Sin I
Other Workshop Collaborators
Carol Cheung

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Social media has brought tremendous changes to intrapersonal, interpersonal, group and mass communication processes. As millennials we witnessed the changes in communication patterns, as we were born in the analogue world, and grew into the digital era of living a virtual life rather than a virtuous life. We vainly, and inevitably, hope to replace the in-person contacts with virtual communications. Though, after being in a pandemic for almost 2 years, we have to admit that the tactile form of communication is indispensable. Humans are by nature social animals after all.

Recreation Room D is part of The Missing Link project, curated by GayBird and Vanissa Law.

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

The “Colours of Humanity” Arts Prize 2022 is pleased to announce its shortlist of 25 artworks. The winners of this year’s Arts Prize will be revealed at the Award Ceremony on Friday, 24 June 2022, while the Auction Night will be on Thursday, 7 July 2022. Shortlisted artworks will be showcased in an exhibition open to the public at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong from 25 June 2022 to 23 July 2022, with a virtual walkthrough of the exhibition to be made accessible on the websites of Justice Centre Hong Kong and Goethe-Institut Hongkong.

Now in its eighth edition, the “Colours of Humanity” Arts Prize 2022 is co-hosted by Justice Centre Hong Kong and the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao, and supported by the Goethe-Institut Hongkong. The exhibition is curated by a leading local team and judged by an international panel of professional artists and art therapists, alongside directors of accomplished arts organisations.

Each shortlisted work has been selected for its unique and insightful exploration of diversity and inclusion, both at home and abroad, from the 83 artworks submitted. Established and emerging Hong Kong artists, community artists, as well as youth artists are represented in the shortlist with a diverse range of media and subject matters including but not limited to the ethnic minorities, migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, people with mental health issues, and the LGBTQI+ community.

Venue address: Goethe-Institut, 13F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai

Ifva partners with Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present solo exhibitions for Media Art Category local awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition “A Messenger – Passerby in Our Battlefields” of Lo Lai-lai Natalie, the Gold Awardee of the 26th ifva Media Art Category, which explores the conflicts and wrestling among humans and nature through a collection of new media artworks.

The lonesome spring is approaching. We yearn to sing freely and migrate like birds, but the price of staying alive remains a mystery. Farmers, like their crops, used to live with the land. Some of them, however, art uprooted and rely on their intuition to flow steadily in the sky, just to pervert themselves from falling back onto the soil.

Exhibition opening in the presence of the artist Lo Lai-lai Natalie on May 18, 2022 (Wed) at 6:30pm

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present a series of programmes under the umbrella topic of "The Body and the City" from August

Curatorial Statement:
One must agree that the relationship between the people's bodies and the cities is indivisible and complex at any moment. Human body starts a conversation with the urban space not only with its physical reaction but also with its memories, individually and collectively.

When the city becomes the main body of the narrativity, rather than being barely the space where people's reactions take place, the discussions are no longer necessarily carried out in a geographical and chronological manner. "The Body and The City" presents selected interdisciplinary art works in considering both the body and the city as a subject rather than an object, aims to investigate the traces and experiences within the containers which are made up of flesh and concrete.

Participating artists:
armechan (Hong Kong)
Clara Cheung (Hong Kong)
Lai Sim Fong (Hong Kong)
Lee Hiu Wa (Hong Kong)
Moe Satt (Myanmar)
Nadya Sayapina (Belarus)
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani (Germany)
Sebastian Stumpf (Germany)
Tran Luong (Vietnam)
Ulyana Nevzorova (Belarus)
Yim Sui Fong (Hong Kong)

Exhibition opens in the presence of the curator and the local artists:
9.9.2021 (Thu), 6:30pm, guided Tour: 9.9.2021 (Thu) 7:00pm

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to present the interdisciplinary visual arts exhibition, Subtle Light, curated by Chan Man Chun in collaboration with local Feng Shui master Fazenman. Under the framework of Feng Shui, works including ceramics, installation, painting, photography and sound by five Hong Kong artists Chan Hiu Tung, Ng Ka Ho, Wong Mei Yin Hazel, Chung Mark and Fly contemplate the relationship between the body and urban space of Hong Kong.

“Subtle Light” is a term derived from Chapter 36 of Tao Te Jing. In this chapter, retreat is taken as a gesture of advancement, and things go beyond limits may occur on a flip side, as the worse things get, the better is foreseen. It is vital for us to cultivate mindfulness and awareness from within. Exhibition opening in the presence of the curator, the Feng Shui Master and the artists on 10.7.2021 (Sat) at 3:00pm.

Curator: Chan Man Chun
Feng Shui Master: Fazenman
Artists: Chan Hiu Tung, Ng Ka Ho, Wong Mei Yin Hazel, Chung Mark, Fly

Guided tour of the exhibition:

10.7. (Sat) 15.00 - 16:00 Registration
24.7. (Sat) 14.00 - 15.00 Registration

Artist Chit Chat:
17.7. (Sat) 16.30 - 17.30 (with Chung Mark and Fly) Registration
31.7. (Sat) 14.00 - 15.00 (with Chan Hiu Tung and Ng Ka Ho) Registration

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to support the annual Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize (HKHRAP) again this year by showcasing awarded and shortlisted artworks in the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio. The theme for this year's HKHRAP is "Shared Future". Following last year's "45 seconds for Human Rights" Goethe-Award, the Goethe-Institut is presenting a special "InkluVision Award" this year for an artwork that advocates an inclusive society without limitations and defines inspiring visions.

The winners of the Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2021 will be announced at the Award Ceremony on 8 June 2021 (Tuesday) at 6:00pm at the Goethe-Gallery. The ceremony taking place at the Goethe-Gallery is by invitation only but audience from around the world could watch the ceremony live on Goethe-Institut Hongkong's Facebook page.

Gallery address: 14/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai

The exhibition "RePlace / RePlay: UpCycling in Hong Kong Art and Jewellery" opens at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio on May 14, 2021 (Fri) at 6:30pm. On the same day, the finissage of "ReSource / ReSearch: Recycling as Creative Practice. A Research Exhibition" will take place at Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, CVA, HKBU at 7:00pm. Two shuttle buses from Goethe-Institut Hongkong to Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery at 7:00pm and 7:30pm will be provided for guests who will attend the exhibition opening at the Goethe-Gallery and would like to attend the finissage at the AVA. The shuttle bus service is complimentary but due to the limited number of seats, registration is required:

https://forms.gle/wbLq1s78JNfd1dy56

Curators: Anna Grasskamp and Ching Sze-Yin Cicy with the assistance of Chong Yan Xuan Kimberly, Hoi Kan Kong Thomas and Kwok Pui Yi Esther

Participating Artists
Alchemist Creations
Chan Pak-kin Brandon
Chan Po-fung
Chan Wing-sze Cissy
Belinda Chang / Evelyn Kwok
Chang Ting Tiffany
Ching Sze-yin Cicy
Chong Yan-xuan Kimberly
Chu Cheuk-wai Margaret
Chung Ka-pang Adrian
Garbage Handmade
Lam Yau-sum
liina klauss
Shirley Lam
MAP Office
Tsang Tak-ping
Victor Wong
W;nk Atelier

An accompanying workshop RePlace/ RePlay: Turning Trash into Treasure will take place on May 15, 2021 (Sat) at 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm respectively at the Goethe-Gallery.

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Siu Wai Hang primarily engages with photography. His work makes use of different methods and photographic principles to express Siu’s solicitude for the society and his contemplation on the medium. Local history threads Siu’s practice and is the vessel through which he uncovers the values of Hong Kong. He is interested in depicting landscape and object for they connect people with collective memories. The subject matters are coupled with his take on the nature and strength of photography, highlighting the encounter between traditional photography and contemporary digital work.

“Since the year before the city has entered a state of absurdity. Major transitions crept into individual experiences and the larger systems as preposterous doings pervaded the city. As suggested by photojournalist Don Mccullin’s eponymous autobiography, the atrocity of war goes beyond the plight and misery of the moment to inflict hearts with eternal disquietness.”

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Goethe-Institut Hongkong has been partnering with ifva in presenting solo exhibitions for the Festival's Media Art Category local awardees. Following Hui Wai-keung, Kenny Wong and Carla Chan, this year the two parties will present Chris Cheung (h0nh1m)’s first solo media arts exhibition at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio.

“Inheriting unfinished ambitions, embarking on an enlightening journey.”

After everything we have been through, we have arrived at the present moment and are now considering our future. We understand that art is a never-ending practice.

Ink, stone and calligraphy descend from Eastern aesthetics. The beauty of the sky, the mountains, the sun, the moon, and the stars was captured by ancient literati in poetry, calligraphy and painting; passed down to this day, unforgotten after more than a thousand years. In the digital age, data has become the carrier of memory which also serves to inject new vigour into artistic creation. But will human memory fall into extinction due to interventions in technology?

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai

50 years of queer life and culture in Germany
Special guest: Jimmy Sham, Member, Rainbow Action.

“Queer as German Folk” tells the stories of LGBTQI* (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-, queer and intersex) people fighting for visibility, recognition and equality over the past 50 years in both parts of Germany. It shows West-German gay movements as well as lesbian church groups in the GDR, the community of people of colour, feminist activists, trans* and intersex people, and the queer history in the GDR. More than 100 exhibits - photographs, posters, leaflets, underground fanzines, artworks and videos - convey the sound of fierce controversies, resistant actions, idiosyncratic performances and exuberant parties of the last 50 years of queer life in Germany.

There will be a series of accompanying programmes to the exhibition, including guided tours, a panel discussion on Gay Marriage and Rainbow Families, a talk on Migrant Pride... etc. Please check the regular updates on our website!

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is presenting a series of programmes on the topic of “Civil Society, Arts and Mental Balance” in this September and October. To kick off the programme series, the exhibition “Tongueless” will open with an artist talk on September 3, 2020 (Thu) at 7:00pm at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio of the Institut.

The artworks by six Hong Kong artists take a multitude of forms, exude a kind of rawness and authenticity which heightened the individuality of each person’s journey. The exhibition serves to be the vehicle for self-expression that allows someone else a tiny glimpse into another world. The artworks demand engagement and draw attention to often otherwise silenced issues, experiences or perspectives. Through the exhibition, the audience is invited to experience elements of mental issues for themselves.

Curator: KY Wong
Artists: Oscar Chan Yik Long, Chloe Cheuk, Ho Sin Tung, Andy Li, Stanley Shum, Sean Won

Venue address: 14/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai