In 2022, Oi! launched the Archaic Curator Series, inviting Chinese art historians and curators to collaborate with us on exhibitions that engage with traditional Chinese art through innovative forms of expression, bridging the old and the new. This third exhibition of the series is guest curated by Dr Wang Guanyu, Associate Curator (Antiquities) of the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK Art Museum), with three accomplished artists from Jingdezhen and Hong Kong—Gu Yue, Fiona Wong and Caroline Cheng—participating.

The challenge of balancing tradition and modernity has always been an important topic to the creation of art. Each of the three artists featured in this exhibition approaches their works from a different angle: ceramic traditions, contemporary ceramics and the sustainable future of ceramic art. Focusing on the rich essence and endless possibilities of using colours in ceramics and taking inspiration from the CUHK Art Museum’s collection, the artists infuse their own technical artistry and aesthetics into their works, showcasing their personal understanding and interpretation of contemporary ceramic art.

Guest Curator: Wang Guanyu
Artists: Gu Yue, Fiona Wong and Caroline Cheng

Venue address: Oi! Glassie, 12 Oil Street, North Point

In recent years, British artist Gary Card, who has been highly sought after in the international art and fashion scenes, is set to have his first large-scale solo exhibition organised in Hong Kong. Gary, a multi-talented artist, works across various creative fields, including painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design and set design, all of which have received high praise. He is frequently invited to collaborate with renowned artists and fashion designers worldwide, and is hailed as one of the most prominent young creators in London.

During his visit to Hong Kong, Gary Card was deeply fascinated by the unique blend of Chinese and Western cultures in our city. He found inspiration in it and used his vibrant and playful artistic style to transform the Grade II historic building of Oi! into a contemporary multimedia art scene. Through animation, sculpture and painting, he immerses the audience in a visually stunning and sensory experience. Gary Card has also created the first giant outdoor artwork in Hong Kong, bringing a whole new artistic landscape to the Oi! Lawn.

Venue address: Oi!, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Nadim Abbas excels in fabricating complex and ambiguous scenarios that challenge the threshold of human cognition, reconfiguring our perception of seemingly familiar surroundings. In this exhibition, he starts off by investigating the aesthetics of miniature dioramas by constructing a surrealistic landscape in the gallery. Employing a witty orchestration of sound, light and performance, Nadim invites us to embark on a journey through the strange recesses of the imagination. This five-month art programme will offer a valuable opportunity for the artist and audience alike to observe, influence and inspire each other.

Oi! Spotlight, the annual signature programme of Oi!, aims to facilitate interaction between different places in the world and respond to innovative ideas. In 2023, we invited Nadim Abbas, Choi Sai-ho and Lu Yang to participate in Oi! Spotlight and present their works at three old and new exhibition spaces.

Venue address: Oi!Warehouse 2, Oi!, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Hong Kong electronic musician and multimedia artist is adept at expanding the audience's imagination in time, geography and space through the interaction of sounds and moving images. Hush‧Rush connotes the tension of opposition, redefines our perceptions of our city and opens up our imagination with a world of sounds and moving images at Oi!

Oi! Spotlight, the annual signature programme of Oi!, aims to facilitate interaction between different places in the world and respond to innovative ideas. In 2023, we invited Nadim Abbas, Choi Sai-ho and Lu Yang to participate in Oi! Spotlight and present their works at three old and new exhibition spaces.

Venue address: Oi!Warehouse 1, Oi!, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Oi! is located in North Point, which is home to many immigrants from Fujian and is therefore known as "Little Fujian". The Hokkien term kóo-tsá (meaning "archaic") is used to describe something that gives a feeling of history and nostalgia, highlighting the archaic flavour that permeates the "Archaic Curator Series". The first exhibition of this series is "Seon1:  Cultural Symbols of Chinese Landscape Painting", co-organised with the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and guest-curated by Dr Phil Chan, Associate Curator of Painting and Calligraphy at the Art Museum. Six artists were invited — Wong Hau-kwei, Ou Da-wei, Raymond Fung Wing-kee, Hung Hoi, Hung Fai and Yau Wing-fung — to reinterpret the collections from the Art Museum by learning from the works of their predecessors. The exhibition aims to show how contemporary artists draw on the legacies of traditional Chinese art and culture to develop their own unique style.

This exhibition is held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Art Museum, CUHK, "Majestic Vistas: Selected Landscape Painting from the Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK", showcasing more than 40 landscape paintings from the Yuan to the Modern period, offering visitors a "travel" experience, in which they can take inspiration from the beauty of both nature and brushwork.

Guest Curator: Phil Chan
Artists: Wong Hau-kwei, Ou Da-wei, Raymond Fung Wing-kee, Hung Hoi, Hung Fai and Yau Wing-fung

Venue: Oi! Glassie, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Oi! Daily｜ON AIR Exhibition｜Dusts -free- Chambers

We breathe in and out for over 20,000 times a day. Do we know what we are breathing?

Co-organised by Oi! and Clean Air Network, this is a public project to re-orient public consciousness to the air we breathe, and also a part of an ongoing journey to explore how creativity and collaboration can bring new perspectives to environmental, urban and well-being issues. Public can learn about how better air quality is closely related to the daily life and explore the influence of air pollution in together with the ways to improve the air quality through the participatory exhibitions and educational activities.

The installation artwork Dusts -free- Chambers which created by Austria-based artist and architect Adam Hudec will be displayed during the exhibition. It enables visitors to engage with an unusual sensual experience in a pollution-free environment without any dusts, mites, microbes, or human-made deposits. A series of workshops, symposiums, and screening will also be organised with the aims to spark further conversations and inspire actions.

Time: 14:00-20:00 Mon | 10:00-20:00 Tue-Sun

Venue address: 12 Oil St, North Point

"Oi! OnSite Artists in Residence and Exhibition Project" invited local artists to conduct regular research and create site-specific works starting in early 2022. They have injected contemporary imagination and meaning into Oi!—where old meets new—through their artistic perspective.

Vvzela Kook took inspiration from the coastline of North Point and recorded the evolution of Hong Kong's coastline over the past century with drawings, videos and installations, and re-examine the evolutionary process of the city as an ever-changing organism.

Venue: Oi! Warehouse 2, 12 Oil Street, North Point

"Oi! OnSite Artists in Residence and Exhibition Project" invited local artists to conduct regular research and create site-specific works starting in early 2022. They have injected contemporary imagination and meaning into Oi!—where old meets new—through their artistic perspective.

Data Collecting (Universe) by Jessica Fu and her collaborators is a research-based art project starting with found objects in Oi!. A series of sci-fi symbols that resemble these objects have been created to respond to the historical context of the site. The fluidity of the exhibition experience, the collective written sci-fi allegory, the re-construction of symbols, and internet-based work pose questions about the reality of the historical site, ensuring its collective memory through the power of art.

Venue: Oi! Warehouse 1, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Created by Tobias Klein, Three Gardens presents virtual and actual rock installations designed under the notions of Chinese landscape architecture and brings in new features to Oi!. The first garden exists within the entire Oi!, where elements of architecture, water, plants and rocks pervade the existing and new spaces. The second garden is an interactive installation collaborated with Alvaro Cassinelli that creates sensory experiences for visitors using sound and vibrations. The third garden is a digital garden, which links the audience's on-the-spot experience with a mobile app to broaden their viewing experience.

Venue: Oi! Study and outdoor areas, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Focusing on the theme "mutation of ideas in the digital city", media artist Ng Tsz-kwan has been invited to be the guest curator of this exhibition. He will join hands with five other local artists – Kachi Chan, Joey Leung, Erkka Nissinen, Adrian Yu and Garson Yu – to create multi-disciplinary media artworks. The gigantic collective digital installation takes the audience on an immersive journey with a new genre, exploring the aesthetics and creativity of new media art.

Guest Curator & Artist: Ng Tsz-kwan
Artists: Kachi Chan, Joey Leung, Erkka Nissinen and Adrian Yu (with Garson Yu)

Time: Monday: 14:00–20:30; Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00–20:30
Screening Time: At :10 and :40

Venue address: Oi! Deck, 12 Oil Street, North Point (MTR Fortress Hill Station Exit A)

Trevor Yeung and Law Yuk-mui interpret from their respective points of view the conflict and coexistence between urban development and the natural environment. Trevor Yeung invites visitors to experience the journey of survival in a changing environment from the perspective of incense trees, while Law Yuk-mui attempts to reimagine people's connections with the countryside through her findings from filed research along the Ng Tung River in the New Territories.

We welcome the completion of Oi!'s extension and look forward to new stories that will be told through artistic creations, and the memories we will share with our community.

Venue address: Oi! Warehouse, 12 Oil Street, North Point (MTR Fortress Hill Station Exit A)