'PUT ON' blurs the lines between art, fashion, and everyday life. Put on your attire, mask, headphones, or attitude! This exhibition features a group of Hong Kong artists, as their works invite you to experience art in a new way—by literally putting it on. It's a celebration of wearable art and an exploration of creative possibilities. Join us at Hart Haus for a dynamic showcase of art, fashion, and performance.

From wearable art, 'PUT ON' transcends traditional art displays. Imagine clothing as sculptures, jewelry as installations, and accessories as interactive experiences. It’s art you can wear, touch, and engage with; to artist collaboration, this unique exhibition features a diverse group of Hart Haus resident artists, each contributing their distinctive perspectives and styles. It’s a collaboration that celebrates individual artistry while fostering a sense of unity and shared vision.

Amy Tong, Benny To Kai On, Chan Ka Kiu, cucurrucucu, DD Yung, Doris Ng, Dony Cheng, David Chan, Go Hung, IV Chan, Lai Lon Hin, Mae Chan, Mak2, Ocean Leung, Ram2, Wong KY, Wu Jiaru

Opening 7.3.2025, 1900-2100

Venue address: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

Tse Chun Sing's solo exhibition ‘Foolproof plants’ will be held from 15 February to 9 March 2025 at HART Haus, Kennedy Town Art Space. The exhibition consists of a series of kinetic works and video installations, in which virtual images and imaginary plants are assembled to form a completely artificial garden. The artist observes the relationship between himself and the plants with his creations, and uses the electronic plants to look back on his own state of being, thus unpacking the tension and disparity between his desire for control, his sense of security, and his sense of powerlessness.

When the artist looks back on his past planting experiences, most of them ended up in vain, the labour, patience and emotions invested in the process failed to yield the desired returns, but instead brought feelings of frustration and exhaustion. In recent years, there have been changes in the external environment and the artist's personal state of life, which are partly active choices and partly passive acceptance. These experiences have helped him to better understand his discomfort with the changes in his surroundings, as well as the tension between ‘attempt to control’ and ‘uncontrollable’.

The exhibition presents the artist's creation of a fully-controlled gardenscape, in which the repetitive play of the blossoming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, time of flowering is no longer a flash in the pan. You are cordially invited to come and see the man-made paradise built by the artist.

Opening: 15/2/2025, 6pm

Venue address: G/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

In contemporary art, texts are often reduced to a state of transition or bardo, hidden behind the artwork. Writing as a Method originated from confusion about this current situation. Ten artists from the region across various creative disciplines came together to form an artist collective, hoping to open up the realm of writing in artistic creation. Members regularly hold writing-based creative activities, following Oulipo's experimental tradition to develop their own Response Game: members exchange private notes, sketches, and thoughts reflecting on individual practices and works-in-progress. After drawing lots, they respond to each with diverse mediums including doodles, sounds, moving images, actions, and more. Artworks diverge from the original concept and grow into something new.

The collective exhibition presents a series of artworks in response to each other, revealing ten artists’ chaotic yet intertwined experimental processes. By juxtaposing archives of notes and drafts with newly developed artworks, the exhibition attempts to evoke the infinite possibilities of writing as a method, loosen the imagination of artworks from scratch, share experimental collaborative practices with the public, and stimulate more moments of communication and resonance.

Writing as Method Artist Collective Members 藝術小組「書寫作為方法」成員
Aaron Lam Kwok Yam 林國鑫, Brian Chu 朱彥龢 (龢wo4) , Hou Lam Tsui 徐皓霖, Jiaming Liao 廖家明, Melody Qingmei Li 李清美, S. Yi Yao Chao 周亦瑤, Sin Wong 汪倩, Tsz Wai Pun 潘子懷, Yan Yi Cheung 張欣怡, Yasmine Anlan Huang 黃安瀾

Venue address: G/F and 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, Kennedy Town

HART artist-in-residence Wu Jiaru’'s latest project “A Brief Digression" is exhibited in an industrial space, exploring the encounters of objects in movement through a series of installations. It reconsiders the potential social significance of the act of "mobility" itself. Beyond the value of a carefully wrapped object as a commodity, can its journey create new social value? "Package" often encapsulates intimate stories that drift from one end of the ocean to an unknown destination, with no promise of arrival. These objects act as primal carriers of information and hope, reaching unattainable places and intertwining political and personal narratives. Through a series of improvisational approaches, the artist creates site-specific works about the mobility and protection of social objects. The audience, viewing from the god's perspective, can engage with the object's narrative and create new stories for it.

Opening: 08.08.2024 (Thur), 17:00 - 20:00

Venue address: G/F & 3/F, HART Haus, Kennedy Town

Organised by the curatorial collective Humble Researchers, Nature: A Perception exhibition will take place from 8th June 2024 until 14th July 2024 at HART Haus.  Showcasing works by 12 artists including Dony Cheng, Dorothy Cheung, Cheung Tsz Hin, Andrew Kan (AK), Jess Lau, Lin Wing Yan, Ling Pui Sze, Ng Hong Kei, Sharu Sikdar, So Wing Po, Ice Wong and Zheng Bo, the exhibition explores the manifold interpretations of nature, moving beyond conventional reading that speaks to our present.

The opening reception will feature a durational performance Follow the flow and flow into the follow-on (2024) by Ice Wong Kei Suet, where the artist will experience time, metabolism and environment through a mundane activity. 

Opening reception: 08.06.2024 (Sat), 2:00 - 8:00

Venue address: G/F & 3/F, HART Haus, Kennedy Town

Truth is never complete. History may rhyme, but it never repeats itself. In this digital age, facts can be destroyed, amplified, or manipulated by viewpoints and perspectives. Reality can be depicted through fragmented facts, while truth can be reduced to individual cases. As we begin to feel numb towards the distortion of reality, can the fragmented present shape an alternative mode of completeness?

Multi-disciplinary Media Artist GayBird’s Music for 9 Exhibition Reintegrating the sound of close-to-completeness

While the number ‘10’ represents completeness in Chinese culture, ‘9’ may sound incomplete because it is ‘1’ short to be considered whole. However, the deficiency of ‘9’ creates possibilities. Avoiding preset ceilings encourages us not to take things for granted. Complex images could be seen on a monitor without a light source; a robotic dog on a leash might still be able to go wherever it could; ‘Ode to Joy’ with no tones might evoke another kind of delight.

The exhibition seeks to arouse interest in sight and hearing, reintegrating the sound of close-to-completeness. A percussion performance gets fragmented, visually and aurally in a video work; Close-ups of body parts are displayed on synchronised screens, while pairing speakers fill the space with gritty sound. The full spectrums of visual and audio are filled with rhythms and melodies built by re-integrated moving images and sound. The aural gradually transits from percussion music to sounds of the city. While the moving images on the screens remain unchanged, the sound gradually dislocates, transporting audiences beyond the walls of the exhibition space to the city soundscape, and discovering the diversity of Art Tech that creates new possibilities for audiences to explore.

Talk #1

“Music for 9 Beyond Music: electronic sound, media installation, and the idea of incompleteness”

Date & Time: 2023.04.30 (Sun) 3pm

Venue: HART Haus, 3/F, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong│Free Admission

GayBird will introduce the concept behind media installation Music for 9 and talk about how he applies the idea and theory of music composition into other art forms. 

Talk #2

“Create for Screens; Compose with Images”

Date & Time: 2023.05.13 (Sat) 4pm

Venue: HART Haus, 3/F, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong│Free Admission

Screens occupy our lives, and we spend nearly every waking moment with them. When screens have become part of our bodies, art and culture would also happen on screens that may no longer be the representation of an era, yet, how does art adapt to this medium?

Venue address: 17/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen's Road Central

HART is delighted to present “Six Beginnings”, the last group showcase in 2022 featuring works by six artists born in 1990s to 2000s, including new HART social studio artists Eunice Lai (b.1993, Hong Kong), Liao Jiaming (b.1992, Guangdong), and fresh graduates of BA programme—HART Award recipients Natalie Chu Lok Ting (b.1999, Hong Kong), duo Tracy Cheng (b.2000, Hong Kong) & Shera Cho(b.2000, Hong Kong), and Wong Kwok Ming (b.1999, Hong Kong) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. The selection of works presents a showcase of multi-disciplinary approaches and in-situ installations, within HART Haus’ arthouse environment to incubate Hong Kong-based artists, and cultivate sustainable creativities, exchanges, and experimentations.

Curator Tours 策展人導賞 RSVP

10/12, Sat 星期六, 3–4pm (English 英文)

Venue address: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town,

HART Curatorship Incubation Programme: Final Project #6

Touching, Splitting, Forming; ⁣
Whispering, Lingering, Transforming. ⁣
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In this experimental showcase, artists use bodies as canvas, walk through the feelings of anxiety as well as powerlessness, to express their feelings about different senses of the body. Perhaps some body parts may heal during the journey, while some remain lingering with us throughout the transformation. ⁣
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Curated by Christy Hui, the key visual is an extension of her photography work from "Body Canvas 1.0" series. This exhibition collaborates with six artists from various disciplines, representing their ideas on“body”in visual, acoustic and tactile experiences, creating a multi-sensory experience, which may reconstruct your recognition of “body”.⁣

Opening reception: 12.08.2022 | 6pm-9pm⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Performance: Opening 12.08.2022 | 7.30pm-9pm⁣, Closing 20.08.2022 | 5.30pm-7pm⁣
Curator-let tour: 13.08.2022 | 12pm-6pm⁣

Gallery address: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town

We all have and only have one body of flesh, powerful yet fragile. Incidents left us with wounds, stagnated and frozen in time; words are rendered invalid and lost. How shall we embrace our shattered pieces, continue to breathe, and live in this world?

Curated by Gigi Tang, “Breathing Flesh” has invited three emerging artists, together with the curator, to share their response to the seemingly unavoidable pain of life through different artistic mediums including ceramics, lacquer painting and performance art.

Returning to the roots of life, may we all someday arrive at a place of peace, where the light gets in.

Opening Reception & Artists’ Talk 26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm - 9pm

General Visit 27.07.2022 - 05.08.2022 | 11am - 7pm
*05.08.2022: Extend to 9pm
Closed on Sunday

Live Performances
Artist: Jovita Siu 蕭芷芊
26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm-8pm
30.07.2022 (Sat 六) | 11am-1pm
05.08.2022 (Fri 五) | 12pm-2pm, 3pm-5pm, 6pm-9pm
*Each session about 15 minutes

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

We all have our own ways of recording an instant – through writing or illustration, snapping or filming. Each instant becomes unique moments due to its geographical settings, structural characteristics, interrelationship with the surroundings, as well as one‘s perception. The captured moments linger in our minds, along with the memories they resemble. We relive the moments as we go through the records in different media, yet our impressions evolve with the passage of time or the change in context.

The showcase features the works of Anthony Lee, with a series of his memory fragments. The collection of mix-media pieces invites visitors to experience his stories through visual, acoustic and tactile sensations.

This event is a part of the Final Project presentation of Curatorship Incubation Programme organized by HART.

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, Kennedy Town

We are thrilled to bring to you our first Social Studio Showcase in 2022. “Trans/versal”, an open-ended idea that speaks about our individual experiences connected through a shared community, suggesting that beyond culture and place there is a common line that allows for shared human experience and our need for community that transcends artificial borders.

Thirteen of our HART Social Studio Programme artists will present their works, oscillating from paintings, sculptures, and installations, all created throughout the artists’ day-to-day art-marking in HART Haus. Stay tuned for further details!

Participating Artists include:

BH, Damian Boylan, The Buoy, Natasha Cheung, Chui Pui Chee, Law Man Lok, Vickie Li, Doris Ng, Stephanie Ng, Gisèle Tchitchiama, Merryn Trevethan, KC Wong, Nicholas Wong

Curated by Lesley Cheung, Rituals of Passage - A Graduation Show of the Plague Year is a mise-en-scène of resilient living. Contemplating on disruption and discomfort during the plague years of 2019-2021 in Hong Kong, 6 artists stage their perspectives on self-discovery, coping strategies and meaning making. The exhibition serves as a narrative of learning and change. Graduation is taken in a broad sense: who are better students in a graduation show about life in turbulence than us, the ordinary people? From what did we evolve, or graduate? In this regard, the exhibition spotlights amateur artists who met their creative selves these two years, each with a deeply personal story to tell.

Artists:
Rachel Au
Chen Yushan
Raymond Lok & Joanne Lee
Clara Park
Vicki Wong
Rituals of Passage - A Graduation Show of the Plague Year is also supported by HKU Common Core and Locus Creative.

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

Come visit Final Project #2 - 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙖𝙨 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 presented by CIP graduate Emilie Choi Sin Yi. Opening on Jan 5th at 7pm at HART Haus.⁣⁣

𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 is a novel written by Hong Kong writer Chan Koon-chung, depicting a dying man who has recalled the social turbulence of Hong Kong from 1984 to 1998, and interweaving the historical events with personal memory. Beyond the grand narrative, how can we perceive the complex historical trajectory through an individual? This exhibition unfolds with moving image works by Chan Tze-woon and performance art by Florence Lam, connecting as a maze of memory. It examines the unspoken present social discourse in the lens of two different mediums — moving image and body. Between the visible and the disgusted, history is like "nothing has happened". ⁣⁣

Performance by Florence Lam 現場表演
08.01.2022 (Sat 六) | 4:30pm - 5:30pm
14.01.2022 (Fri 五) | 2pm - 8pm

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

The Social Studio Showcase is a unique experience that showcases new or rearranged artworks of local and international artists in the HART Social Studio programme, oscillating from paintings, sculptures, and installations. Many of the presented artworks are collaborative and site-specific, and all are created throughout the artists’ day-to-day art-marking in HART Haus. The programme celebrates the diversity and quality of works, showing how HART Social Studio provides a space and platform for Hong Kong talents to create, experiment and evolve their art practices in a social setting.

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

HART Social Studio Showcase “#Ew! Normal?” presents an exciting opportunity to visit the space where 17 artists of diverse backgrounds explore synergetic art practices and create a community of their own. This particular showcase brings up the question of what it means to be ‘social’ in the ‘socially distanced era’.

The opening of the showcase will be at 6 pm, 20 November (Friday) with a collective performance; rethinking the community building ethos of HART Haus. Visitors will not only have the opportunity to view displayed artwork from each of the artists but also have the chance to be welcomed into the private workstations of the participating artists. The showcase also consists of the dialogues and dynamics arising in the art ecosystem.

The showcase will open to the public for six weeks, from 20 November 2020 until 6 January 2021. Register for the event here.