East Contemporary

Category: China

Edouard Malingue: João Vasco Paiva “Green Island”

Hong Kong, September 23 – October 22, 2016, http://edouardmalingue.com/ At first sight, the exhibition consisted of a couple of cubic meters of beach sand dumped into the gallery and decorated with concrete casts of concrete sacks and water dispenser water bottles. A stereotypical relaxed sliding guitar “beach” music further supported the feel of an abandoned…

Pearl Lam HK Soho: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong “Interstitial”

Hong Kong, July 22 – September 15, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com/ If the exhibitions at Karin Weber and K11 Chi Art Space represented the joyful side of Hong Kong’s young artists, then “Interstitial” represented the existential angst-laden side. Instead of everyday leisure and fun, existential questions and personal fears came to the fore. The use of technology…

Spring Workshop: Tyler Coburn “Postscript on I’m that angel” talk

Hong Kong, August 4, 2016 18:30 – 20:00, http://www.springworkshop.org An artist talk by Tyler Coburn. Coburn wrote a book in which a schizophrenic writer-for-hire is fantasizing about the internet cloud, what it is, where it is and what it means (based on Coburns personal experience as a writer-for-hire). Coburn then organized readings from his book…

1a Art Space “Pseudo Collection: What Do Artist Collect”

Hong Kong, May 28 – July 22, 2016, http://www.oneaspace.org.hk/ The definition of collecting has been left very open by the curators (Enoch Cheung 長康生 / Jeff Leung 梁展峰) of this exhibition. It could be anything from a “real” collection of artworks to a random grouping of material leftovers, implying the meaning as it is used…