PODIUM is delighted to present 'Polyphonic Feminine', a group exhibition that celebrates the vibrant and diverse artistic practices of Asian women artists, who have closely collaborated with the gallery throughout its inaugural year. Featuring the compelling works of Shuyi Cao, Genie Hui, Phoebe Hui, So Young Park, Lorraine Ren, and Yi To, the presentation highlights their heterogeneous voices and perspectives, which are especially vital in today’s political landscape. By showcasing their unique artistic sensibilities rooted in rich cultural heritage, the exhibition interweaves a tapestry of contemporary experiences that not only celebrates individual artistic expressions but also fosters a transnational dialogue that offers profound insights that transcend the dominant Western, patriarchal operational logic. T

Opening reception: 15 February 2025 (Sat) from 4 - 7 PM

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

PODIUM is delighted to present ‘History will say we were best friends’, a group presentation featuring works by artists with roots in East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America, including Srijon Chowdhury, Weera-it Ittiteerarak, Dae Uk Kim, Young-jun Tak, and Luis Xertu. Drawn from philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's interview for the French magazine Gai Pied in April 1981, the exhibition explores the nuanced and experimental potential of male intimacies, proposing novel forms of friendship that foreground the collaborative and continual creation of new subjectivities and relationships. 

The exhibition opens on 07 December 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7 PM and is on view till 01 February 2025 (Sat). Artist Weera-it Ittiteerarak and Dae Uk Kim will be present at the opening, while at 4 PM there will be an artist talk conducted in English.

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

PODIUM is delighted to present ‘Vitalis Violentia’, a group exhibition that responds to the question of violence from an aesthetic point of view, investigating how one may transform violence into a creative principle. The works by five participating artists, including Dew Kim, Dennis Scholl, Tseng Chien-Ying, Wang Pei, and Hannah Woo, offer the audience valuable yet often ignored insights into crucial aspects of 'real' violence that cannot be revealed via mere observation of the social and political scenes, mobilising ideas and affects that are suppressed, relegated as insignificant, or marginalised by mainstream discourse. 

Artists: Dew Kim, Dennis Scholl, Tseng Chien-Ying, Wang Pei, Hannah Woo

The exhibition opens on 28 September 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7 PM and is on view till 23 November 2024 (Sat). Artist Dew Kim will be present at the opening, while at 4 PM there will be an artist talk conducted in English.

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

PODIUM is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘Karmic Fissures’, the gallery’s first program featuring works solely by diasporic and local Hong Kong contemporary artists, including Chloë Cheuk, Genie Hui, Phoebe Hui, Kin  Ting Li, and Yi To. Interweaving media art, sculptures, installations, and paintings, the exhibition navigates between philosophies drawn from quantum physics and Buddhism to speculate how one may uncover microscopic, nuanced dynamics within hegemonic, overpowering orders. Through acute mindfulness of complex yet traceable loci of causes and effects, the artists open up karmic fissures to evoke radical transmutation and intervene in the logic of impossibility.

Opening: 13 July 2024, Sat, 2-7 PM

Artist Talk: 13 July 2024, 4 PM, in Cantonese, with Genie Hui, Phoebe Hui, Yi To

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

PODIUM is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘The Last Laugh’, featuring works by contemporary artists Sarah Fripon, Adéla Janská, Min-Jia, Alicja Pakosz, and Rachel Youn. By proposing the notion of the ‘carnivalisation of daily life’, the five artists live and contemplate life as a joker to unleash the power of laughter as an effective means for political subversion, offering an alternative trajectory to comprehend contemporary social milieu dominated by extreme violence and polarisation.

The exhibition opens on 18 May 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7pm

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

PODIUM is proud to announce the gallery's inaugural exhibition ‘Weirding Worlds’, a three-person presentation featuring paintings, sculptures, and video works by contemporary female artists Shuyi Cao, Anastasia Komar, and So Young Park. Taking Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene as the line of flight, the artists' distinct yet intertwined aesthetical trajectories and boundary-defying use of media visualise the necessary third history beyond the mastery narratives of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, challenging the linear progression and apocalyptic rhetoric inherent in Western-centric frameworks with imaginative, queer vocabularies and practices.

Seeking potential refuge that transcends the strictures of grand narratives, the exhibition invites the audience to turn to Donna Haraway's idea of the Chthulucene to explore new ways of understanding ourselves as part of and becoming with the evolving planetary community. As the feminist scholar and historian of science and technology explains, one needs to first envision a worldview that calls for ‘ongoing multispecies stories and practices of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen', then may realise that ecological interdependence is to open up multiple possibilities of kinship for future becoming. Put differently, rather than reinforcing bondings that are rooted in ancestry and genealogy, it is to understand that all earthlings are kin on the level of matter and energy—after all, every sentient being shares a common flesh of molecules, atoms, and quantum particles. In a similar vein, Shuyi Cao's multimedia sculptural installations and moving image work, Anastasia Komar's biomorphic sculptural panels, and So Young Park's sci-fi landscape paintings invite the audience to intensely interact, interplay, and collaborate with Earth-dwellers that represent voices of abjection and destabilising orders, where all can embrace and flourish in an ever-weirding climate.

Opening reception: 23 March 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7 PM (artists will be present)

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang