THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Yat Tung, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Bonny Wong Hiu Ching that explores the depths of loss and connection through a series of broken and borrowed memories. A collection of imagery that revolves around the artist’s experience of hiking with her late father – chasing first light – the newly created paintings navigate the paths of absence and presence, reaffirming life through the act of repeated seeking.

A homage to her father’s name ‘Yat Tung’ – which translates as ‘Sun’ and ‘East’ – the exhibition narrative is founded on Bonny Wong Hiu Ching’s memory of hiking Kowloon Peak with her family in the days leading up to her father’s passing. The daily quest was to reach the top in time to watch the sunrise, though only once had they succeeded before their eventual loss. The depicted sceneries are a combination of imaginations by the artist based on short stories told by her father on their trips and various views as seen from her father’s perspective as the artist revisits his paths. The former are of places heard of but never rediscovered, and the latter are of familiar sights, reactivated through the eyes of the living.

Opening reception: 25 January 2025 (Saturday) 3 - 6 PM
Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present WINDOW, a solo exhibition by American artist Andrew Gordon featuring a new body of works on canvas that dance on the line between introspection and extrospection. Central to the artist’s practice is an inverted theory of the “view from nowhere”, wherein he removes the objective world rather than the subjective self. Manifesting in a series of windows that peer out into ambivalent places, his practice imagines the landscapes of one’s mind, feeling, and consciousness.

The classic interpretation of the “view from nowhere” refers to the notion of achieving an objective view of the world via the distancing of oneself from personal starting points, namely the ‘here’. Yet under the brush of Andrew Gordon, the idea is reinterpreted to remove the ‘there’, leaving only an inward view of the self. His paintings each comprise a grid of partially open frosted windows that reveal vaguely familiar landscapes, providing only a setting of domesticity and a visceral portrayal of atmosphere. As if a picture seen from the mind’s eye, all views from an intimate interior space become a representation of the one’s inner state of mind – as the artist puts it, “eventually the details slip away, and what remains is the feeling.”

Opening reception: 3-6pm, 14 December

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present 39 Days in the Sun, the first solo exhibition in Asia by the London-based artist Marc Prats-Quintana. This new body of works on canvas by the Catalan artist, explores the interlacing concepts of memory and place through the production, reproduction and circulation of personal images. He likens his process to an archeological practice, a journey of observing, categorizing, storing, and retrieving.

Prats-Quintana’s practice reconciles romantic gestures with rational structures. His compositions often piece together fragmented visual clues drawn from both childhood and recent memories. These provide glimpses into intimate moments or views over the Mediterranean landscape that raised him. Grids, crosswords and heat maps provide a schema through which to navigate the images, and offer an insight into how we make sense of the world around us. Prats-Quintana’s work combines and compresses varied times and spaces into singular compositions which examine the formation, destruction, and recomposition of the self through one’s place of belonging.

Opening reception: 3-6pm, 14 December

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Prelude of Gaze, a group exhibition featuring Reuben Beren James, Joseph Jones, Bartosz Kowal, Li Chuangli, and Wu Yumo. With a curated body of works on canvas and photographs, the exhibition explores the varied states of uncertainty that occur in the in-between - it asks: What precedes the moment of seeing and exists prior to the enlightenment? What happens in the transition rather than the resolution?

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present From Another Room, the first solo exhibition in Asia by UK-based artist Rachel Lancaster, featuring a new body of works on canvas that posits paintings as windows into other spaces. As if imagery transmitted from a parallel dimension, the artworks elucidate but solitary moments yet each containing cues of continuation. Evocative of suspense and displacement, the exhibition pieces together fragments of an omitted narrative, untold as to whether a memory, a story, or a daydream.

A turned head, an unopened box, an arm that reaches beyond the edge of the canvas – anticipation and the festering feeling of uncertainty are the marks of Lancaster’s works. Realized by the intentional withholding of information, the enticing tension between absence and presence is further enhanced by the artist’s masterful portrayal of imagined textures. Familiar sensations, such as the crisp of tissue paper or the residual heat of a pillow recently slept on, become both means of immersion and clues to the before and after. Activating the depicted scenes via the arousal of tactile associations, even the air within becomes vivid with density – almost palpable, separated merely by the surface of the painting.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Collective Digestion of Dau6 Fu6 Fo2 Naam5 Faan6, the first solo exhibition by Oslo-based Hong Kong artist Yu Shuk Pui Bobby with the gallery. The exhibition features a range of new works including video, soft sculpture, found objects, and photographs, exploring the evolving socio-cultural significance of food within the context of familial labor and the shifting gender roles that accompany it.

Utilizing the visual and cultural framework of Economy rice, the works reflect on the artist’s familial transitions—from the father was the primary economic provider, to a dual-income family structure, and eventually to a post-retirement scenario in which the mother assumes full financial responsibility. This transformation offers a lens through which to explore the reallocation of domestic responsibilities.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Daylight Cadenza, a group exhibition featuring the works of Han-Chiao, Alexander Skats, Astrid Styma, Wang Wenting, Alice Xinyan Wang, Wang Zibo, Suyi Xu, and Zheng Lanxiong.

In music, a ‘cadenza’ is an improvised ornamental passage played by a soloist, typically in a loose and liberated rhythm. During this time, the main melody will rest – creating a temporary void wherein unexpected spontaneity can occur. Daylight Cadenza likens the suspense of summer to that of this unstructured part of the composition. The exhibition explores scattered moments of daylight ennui through the intimate lens of eight artists, and the artworks come together as if the varied notes of a song.

In Daylight Cadenza, the artworks draw inspiration from the artists’ personal wells of memory and introspection. Manifesting in portraits of unknown figures, obscured scenes of domesticity, and objects of distant resonance, the artworks are each a layered chord that tells its own story. Oscillating between partial depictions and abstract imagery, soft palettes and dominant tones, the exhibition experiences points of crescendo and diminuendo that continuously complete one another as if the movement of a visual concerto. In concurrence, the illustrated narratives of familiar and quotidian humdrum form a reverberating bassline on which monotonous sights are embellished.

Opening reception: 10 August 2024 (Saturday) 3 - 6 PM

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Bad Physics, a duo exhibition by artists Sebastian Burger and Julian Junyuan Feng featuring a body of paintings, sculptures, mixed media and video artworks. Founded on ideas of Dadaism and ‘pataphysics’, the exhibition contemplates the rules and rationality of common structures, ranging from everyday mechanisms to larger systemic ideologies. Interpreting the above via techniques of deconstruction as well as decontextualization, Bad Physics imagines alternative paradigms that contradict the preconceptions of logic and function.

*Artist Julian Junyuan Feng will be present at the opening
Opening reception: 29 June (Saturday) 3 - 6 PM

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia by Victor Lim Seaward. Taking its title from a melancholic poem by the Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, the show presents new sculptures and wall-based works, which continue the artist's investigations into authorship, commodity, and the fluid nature of time and permanence. 

Materiality and technological manufacture are key tenets of Lim Seaward's practice, and this is manifest in a set of six new floor based sculptures. They feature heads and hands taken from 3D scans of artworks from some of the world's most famous museums: the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These are in turn 3D printed in quartz sand in a new process called binder jetting, whereby particles of sand are fused to create complex forms. The quartz sand elements are complemented by 3D-printed resin elements which have been electroplated in precious metals: gold, copper, and tarnished silver.

Opening reception: 3 - 6 pm, 11 May 2024 (artist will be present)

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by British painter Louis Appleby. Featuring a new body of work in reflection of perception and transcendence, the nocturnal scenery reminds one of the ephemerality in life.

Gestalt refers to the theory of perception that places emphasis on viewing the entire picture holistically rather than as the sum of individual components. The artist extends an invitation to view this new body of work through this lens. Appleby plunges these new compositions into nightfall; a time when forms can appear to dissolve, merge, or reassemble to suggest new meanings.

Opening reception: 3 - 6 pm, 11 May (artist will be present)

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Gentle Again, a curated exhibition of 8 artists in a dialogue surrounding intimacy, distance, ease, and effort. Featuring Huang Ko Wei, Rachel Lancaster, Robin Megannity, Ciarán Murphy, Paul Robas, Tung Wing Hong, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, and Zhang Lian, the exhibition examines our innate yearning for tenderness. In a world of trials and trouble – all we can do is ask that our discomfort be gentle now, and gentle again.
 
Featuring a body of works on canvas, video artworks, and kinetic installations, the exhibition plays with a precarious balance of soft tensions. The works highlight moments of suspense, either captured through an isolated image or prolonged via time-based media with postponed or indefinite endings. The artworks collectively allude to the notion of ‘the moment before’ – namely the moment before a conclusion is revealed and before relief or devastation is confirmed. Bound together by broken stories, the exhibition underscores a sense of incompletion that is paradoxically evocative of placidity and disquietude.

Opening Reception: 3 - 6 pm, 22 March

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present duo solo exhibitions, Petrichor by Chinese artist Dong Xiaochi (b.1993) and Anatomy of a Ghost Horse by British artist Naomi Workman (b.1990).

Drawing inspiration from artificial landscapes of different scales, including traditional Chinese gardens, botanical gardens, and miniature ecosystems. Dong Xiaochi explores diverse concepts related to simulating, imitating, and compressing nature. His creative endeavours primarily encompass painting and mixed-media pieces. By creating images saturated with hints of light, humidity and atmosphere, Dong aims to give forms to contemporary images of nature.

Naomi Workman's work consists of figurative and narrative paintings and drawings in oil, featuring intertwined figures in various scenes. The protagonists are depicted in a state of suspended captivity, with their gaze close and quiet in observation. The canvas becomes crowded with multi-figure compositions, incorporating dramatic and rhythmic distortions.

Opening Reception: 24 February 2024, 3 - 6 PM

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present The Right Honourable, the first solo exhibition in Asia by London-based artist Sam Creasey. The exhibition features urban space in a metropolis city, scenery in folklore, communicated through texture on rough fabrics and surfaces like jute, linen and plaster.

Sam Creasey’s artworks are imbued with temporal narratives that seek out surviving idiosyncratic relics amidst the relentless tide of homogenization that engulfs contemporary London where he is based. Each piece encapsulates a moment in time, frozen in vibrant colour and striking texture, inviting the viewer to contemplate the layers of history, culture, and emotion that reside within the UK.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Roundabout, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Shanghai-based artist Shi Zheng. The exhibition features isolated inspections of man-made infrastructures, recreated via varied virtual mediums, and channeled through a body of video installations and photographic works.

Using tools of video games, artificial intelligence, and digital rendering, Shi Zheng reduces reality into pure logical learnings. The artist removes the traces of human subjectivity from inherently social objects such as newspapers, living spaces, and transportation networks, crafting familiar imagery through the lens of a detached observer. Underlined with heightened senses of absence and presence, the artworks also simulate a tranquil passage of time, yet in a vacuum that is severed from time and space. As if moving around and around a roundabout, the presented realities develop continuously - without fail, change, nor an end.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

American psychologist George Mandler (2004) explained "Mind-pops" as fragments of knowledge that suddenly enter consciousness, such as words, images, or melodies. These highly random mind-pops often exist in everyday life in an "unnoticed" manner. When examining the neural mechanisms of memory processing, memory involves the processes of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. Therefore, mind-pops are not just appearing out of thin air; they are related to accumulating an individual's past experiences. This also seems to imply that the information we actually record may be more than we realize—forgotten memories may not have disappeared from the brain; they are simply hidden, making it impossible for you to discover their traces consciously. As a manifestation of many hidden memories, mind-pops correspond to the subject's genuine feedback about the world, pointing directly to the fact that the subconscious often knows the significance of a particular experience, even if our consciousness is unaware of it.

Artist Xinyu Zhou's creations draw from the endless stream of images in contemporary society's information flow, as well as the image and symbol memories built upon it. Zhou Xinyu's artistic practice integrates animation theory with experiments based on printmaking media. In recent years, her works have mainly used mixed media painting as the primary medium. The fusion of multiple media and the fragility brought about by material blending correspond to the emotions derived from personal experiences and publicness in the unfolding of time. In summary, Zhou Xinyu reveals attention to vulnerability and fragmented emotions in real life with a calm yet warm expressiveness. Her works unfold through the overlay of different layers, and the distorted lines project clear and significant moments extracted from chaotic memories. In her works, full of a mottled and seemingly aged visual, she deliberately imparts an archival quality to contemporary images, allowing her to delicately unravel the multi-threaded emotional memories, presenting scenes of memory like individual acts in a play, recording many fleeting things and flashing them back into the artist’s meticulous observation and material expression, intertwining the past and the present, describing subtle feelings that cannot be clarified by language or text.

Opening reception: 25 November, 3-6pm

Galery address: 4 Second Lane Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present The Hoarders, a group exhibition featuring Song Lee, Yujie Li, Ran Yuxiao and Miyeon Yi. Hoarding is a behaviour to express identity through the collection of experiences or objects. Yet the bridge in-between may endow opposite meanings to the creators and collectors.

Young artists often hoard mementoes and integrate them into their practice as a representation of their identities. By passing through the realm of memories and reality, childhood is claimed as an intangible base to unveil the depth of one’s spirit. Within the developing psyche from childhood, the artists hoard mementoes, which are being generated as a threshold of reminiscence throughout a life journey. Therefore, the infant career of an artist is unique due to its rawness and pureness.

On the contrary, the artwork may relay a different understanding by the collectors. The act of collection is performed through careful investigation and understanding of the object. In other words, the collectables do not equate to popularity or monetary value, but the value held by the collectors. Yet the value to both artists and collectors may diverge depending on one’s background or upbringing. Nonetheless, both serve as tangible reminders of the people and experiences that have shaped their lives.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang, Wan Chai

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present a new group exhibition, Trioque, with three Korean female artists, Claire Chey, Yoonjoong Cho and Debbie Kim, curated by Matt Chung. Through their diverse mediums and perspectives, these three artists delve into the intricate interplay of urban existence, spiritual enlightenment, and the societal metaphors that shape our perceptions.

Trioque stimulates ideas on identity, transcendence, and the core elements of the human tales that form our lives by juxtaposing these artists' distinct viewpoints.

Opening reception: 19th August, 2023, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Gallery address: THE SHOPHOUSE, 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

Co-presented by THE SHOPHOUSE and Schoeni Projects, “DOOR TO DOOR” Artist Residency will be hosted in Hong Kong and London in the summer of 2023, with participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova.

A door and a work of art, are two things that may seem unrelated, but both function as an entrance - to a building or the mind of an artist.

“DOOR TO DOOR”, is a tripartite conversation between artists, audience, and space. The residency programme is developed as a cultural exchange programme between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK and aims to encourage artistic exchange and knowledge production. Each artist occupies a studio space for four weeks across Hong Kong and London, where they will research their project visions and create unique works in response to their surroundings. The exhibition aims to facilitate active observations and meaningful dialogue within the community.

The open studio of “DOOR TO DOOR” aims to delve into each of the four artist’s creative processes whilst simultaneously displacing them from their accustomed creative environments. An interactive experience blurs the intimate relationship between artists, audience and gallery.

The exhibition takes place after the OPEN STUDIO, acting as a celebration and showcase of the on-site works created by the artists.

Opening reception: 15th July, 4-7pm

Venue address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Along the Way, a group exhibition featuring 7 Hong Kong artists, unveil the process behind each artist's practice and invite the audience to step into artists’ intellectual.

City landscapes are made of man-made objects and nature. Landscape paintings today are often regarded as picturesque and sublime. Yet prior to the birth of classical landscape in the 17th century, landscape paintings were still known as a genre of lesser importance, rendering as the peripheral background in biblical and religious stories. With the invention of tin tube paint and portable collapsible easel, it gave rise to “En plein air” (outdoor painting) and diverged from the old practice of studio settings. This also opens up its way to romanticism and impressionism development afterwards.

Some may see art as an object, nevertheless it is not a constant. Art endows different meanings depending on where it is being shown and who is viewing. By showcasing the tools of the artists in the exhibition, the everyday objects are imbued with familiar yet alien meanings differentiating from one’s understanding. The duality of the tool and the artwork provides a fresh perspective, both visually and semantically, inspiring the viewer to recognise the understatement of each artwork.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present a new exhibition with New York-based artist Natalie Wadlington, titled Close to the Ground and opening March 18th, 2023. In her paintings, Wadlington seeks to imbue each work with a strong and distinct mood—one of pensiveness, wonderment and uncertainty. This essence reflects the possibilities for both connection and misunderstanding that occur at the boundary between oneself and others, specifically in relation to domesticated animals and outdoor spaces. Presented in the exhibition is a series of eight paintings alongside a selection of works on paper that explore archetypal narratives of love, conflict and misjudgement in relationship to our natural environments and their inhabitants.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane , Tai Hang

Hypeart, a contemporary art platform, and THE SHOPHOUSE, a lifestyle and exhibition space in a restored 1930s shophouse, will come together to unveil a group exhibition to spotlight and celebrate the works of Asian emerging artists across the globe. Entitled Global Citizens — Asia, the exhibition will feature pieces from 14 artists to showcase a collective forecast into the futurist implications of portraiture. Situated in a Grade III listed pre-war tong lau (low-rise tenement buildings combining commercial and residential spaces), the exhibition will open to the public from February 24th to March 15th in Tai Hang, Hong Kong for those looking to elevate their personal journey in the ever-evolving world of art.

Global Citizens - Asia will be featuring the new, myriad forms of portraiture that reflect today’s societal attitudes. Prior to the invention of photography, portraiture is a unique record of one’s life and emotions through painted, sculpted or drawn portraits. Hypeart and THE SHOPHOUSE has co-curated a lineup of portraiture artworks from emerging Asian artists from Amsterdam, Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York City, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo and Xuzhou.

Participating artist, Xue Ruozhe, introduces biopic cues in his paintings that spotlight isolated hands, minimalist female figures and scenes of daily life that offer a kaleidoscopic viewpoint of contemporary notions. Zhang Haoyan’s work probes the subconscious as dreamlike figures and fantastical elements hijack our conceptions of traditional portraiture, as though entering surrealism. Natisa Jones links her personal experiences with her artistic work by using various mediums such as writing, drawing, painting, and video. She prioritises honesty and immediacy in her art, and often explores the theme of duality by switching between abstract and figurative styles, and incorporating text in her paintings. Based in Hangzhou, Zhou Xinyu’s visceral portraiture of real-life figures stem from ephemeral moments she has experienced. Working through a muted palette, the artist draws inspiration from subjects in fleeting surroundings — evoking feelings of alienation while touching on the impermanence of human life through rough brushstrokes and gestural distortions. ¥ouada’s works, which include paintings and installations, frequently feature familiar images from everyday life, such as nostalgic cartoon characters, fashion brands, video games, and TV programs. He explores the concept of forced co-branding in his art, examining the intersection of his own identity with that of youth, street, and other cultural scenes.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to collaborate with NUOVO, a high-end furniture and lifestyle showroom, to present CHAIR, co-curating a selection of rare vintage chairs and contemporary artworks.
 
Chairs make up part of our everyday life, and often assimilate into one’s life receiving little attention. It sits quietly in the corner of the living room or in a group around the dining table listening to conversations. However, it is the indistinctive and universal characteristic of chairs that proves their importance. From ancient to modern times, the nature of chairs remains unchanged: to sit a person. It is the ordinary nature of chairs that witnesses the change in society and technology.

The exhibited pieces were selected from the ‘Archive Collection’, dating back to 1987 by NUOVO when they first opened. According to Pak Man Lee, the successor of NUOVO collection, furniture was often judged solely on its functionality in the early days. With the rise of online marketplaces such as Rarify and 1stDibs, the history and stories behind them are now accessible to the public. Unlike in the past, chairs are free from class and status, and become the embodiment of one’s life and philosophy.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

Kurobikari 黒光り , Literally translated as “black shine/luster,” this Japanese word can evoke emotions of revulsion and reverence. With the absence of light, black symbolized death, fear, and filth in diverse communities over time and space, and in contemporary Japan, kurobikari often conjures up images of ominously glistening cockroaches, crows, and filth. Yet it also points to the aesthetic category describing the luster of wood, charcoal, lacquer, metals, and calligraphy ink. A historically and culturally rich concept, kurobikari can be used to describe prehistoric Jomon-era pottery polished with soot produced from burnt organic materials, rendering shining black vessels for ritual practices. In literary texts, the term expressed the beauty of blackened teeth – a bodily practice which marked social maturity and later, female marital status—as well as the sinister description of the foreign “black ships” arriving in Japanese ports in the 19th century. Kurobikari disrupts and melds seemingly unrelated and antithetical categories and values, encompassing widely divergent sentiments with the colour black.

Works in black unite the artists in this show, as do their male Japanese names. What does it mean to be identified in this way? It would be easy for an audience to interpellate them and their artworks as “Japan/ese,” searching for and assessing elements of “authentic” and “traditional” artistry and its deviations, as if art, culture, and identities are static and exist outside time and space. Like the term kurobikari, their works take multiple forms and images, and resist simple interpretations that are rendered deceptively and simply as “Japanese.” Using the colour black to enhance such complexities, these five artists highlight the contemporary diversity of historical traces, knowledge systems, and artistic lineages embedded in themselves and their crafts, demonstrating the evolving and shifting practices, politics, and identities that are relevant to many in flux.

Participating Artists: Osamu Kobayashi, Lintalow Hashiguchi, Hiroto Nakanishi, Kazuma Koike

Gallery Address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

A door and an art, the two may seem unassociated, but both function as an entrance - to a building or the mind of an artist.

After the success of our first artist in residence exhibition “DOOR" in July 2021, THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present “DOOOR”, a 50-day tripartite conversation between artists, audience, and space, featuring Hong Kong artist Amy Tong, Elaine Chiu and Tang Kwong San. 

Each artist takes over a floor of the gallery, where they will create unique works in response to their surroundings. The exhibition aims to facilitate active observations and meaningful dialogue within the community.

The OPEN STUDIO of “DOOOR” aims to delve into each of the three artist’s creative processes whilst simultaneously displacing them from their accustomed creative environments. An interactive experience blurring the intimate relationship between artists, audience and gallery.

The EXHIBITION takes place after our OPEN STUDIO, act as a celebration and showcase of the on-site works created by the artists.

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Chinese artist Zhang Ji’s first solo exhibition Dakini 口with the gallery, in conjunction with the launch of the first publication of Zhang - “Selected drawings and typings 17:07 - 18:47 4.17.2022”.

When a mnemonic is recited, one’s emotion and spirit are moved, a moment that will not perish. Holes on a human skin breaths thereafter, the movements continue as the warmth tides rise. The innate spirit chants the melody of life. Most of Zhang’s spiritual experiences are related to windows. Human beings communicate through holes on their bodies, intersecting like a river. Doors and windows of a house are like its holes. Whilst the doors are often closed, one knows that they can always be opened. When the windows are tightly shut, one may still connects through the glass, the eye of the house.

Zhang’s haunted experiences in his childhood are inseparable from windows. Despite the flock of information, Zhang could only feel a feverish headache in his head due to the depleting pineal gland. When one looks through the window, the feeling of orgasm subsides. Immediately, the information flows in. Passersby are wandering around the windows. As a child, Zhang would close his eyes frantically. Slowly he realised the windows remain, the spirit kept loitering around them. The semen, like blood vessels, spread all over the brain. The smell and traces linger as long as they last.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present “GRUE”, a trio exhibition featuring Ben Edmunds, Minku Kim and Yves Scherer. The exhibition consists of three artists’ new works, challenging viewers’ concept of colour and the world around us.

Colour is not only defined by the visual aspects of perception but is also intertwined with language, culture and meaning.

In ancient Japanese culture, colours were defined by four adjectives akai (red), kuroi (black), shiroi (white), and aoi (blue), referring to energy (red), darkness (black), brilliance (white), and obscurity (blue). These broad terms encapsulate colours not only as a visual phenomenon, but a perceptual phenomenon with context and meaning. For example, the colours blue and green were perceived together emotionally as aoi which is used to describe the colour blue and the sense of obscurity. Similarly, in Classical Chinese, the word qīng (青), straddles between both blue and green, is associated with freshness, clarity, and excellence. Grue, a term coined by Nelson Goodman in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1955), where it was presented as a paradox and a means of justification through the elimination of induction. While most people perceive “green” as reasonable and “grue” as utterly absurd, it is based on one’s memory, and the world as we know has no absolute validity.

by appointment.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present “ANOTHER ASIAN ARTIST", curated by three Asian curators – Taku Santiago Sato (Japan), Sungah Serena Choo (Korea), and Yang Jian (China). The exhibition features 9 cutting-edge artists of the Asian diaspora rediscovering their identity in the post-pandemic era.

Asians are often overlooked as part of a singular ethnicity, yet cultural identity has become more fluid and transcends beyond geographies. As the art world becomes increasingly globalised, the universality has also eroded individuality and cultural distinctiveness.

Prior to the pandemic, globalisation has reached its peak in the twenty-first century. As the dissemination and access of information becomes prevalent through the mediation of digital technology, the way we perceive the world also became increasingly skewed with the interplay of social media algorithms and big data.

THE SHOPHOUSE is now open by appointment only

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

Tai Hang's stylish cultural hub The Shophouse has landed in Central. Opening its first-ever pop-up experience at Belowground, the time-limited shop features the second iteration of 'Cityscape Resolution' by Japanese artist Yoshirotten, where he uses images taken by Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya to reconstruct 10 visually striking prints that offer a fresh perspective on both artists' works. There will also be six limited-run photo print t-shirts available exclusively at the pop-up so don't miss your chance to take one home.

Venue address: Landmark Atrium, Basement, 15 Queens Road Central

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present “Cityscape Resolution – Hong Kong” by Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN, his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

The immersive exhibition consists of three parts: Yoshirotten’s solo works, collaborative works with Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya, and reworks on Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama “NEW SHINJUKU” series.

By appointment: https://forms.gle/VFg9xWzBS9v9pAFx7

Gallery address: 4 Second Ln, Tai Hang Wan Chai Hong Kong

THE SHOPHOUSE, in collaboration with MINE PROJECT and Qiong Jiu Tang, is pleased to present the duo exhibition “perspective parallel” by Chinese contemporary artists Yang Bodu and Zhao Zhao, the couple’s first joint exhibition.

The exhibition title reflects the couple’s daily state – “parallel perspective)” of their routine exchanges as they work in the same space and time.

Address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang