Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – May 12, 2018, https://www.pacegallery.com Yoshitomo Nara is well known for his comics-like drawings and paintings of a lonely sad girl/boy, but popular demand seems to have pushed him into sculpture now. The exhibition features some paintings and sketches, in order to provide some context, but most of the…
Hong Kong, Pedder Building 6/F, 27 March – 11 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The fixed layout of the gallery walls gave me a familiar feeing: The reception with the glass wall, the longer corridor behind the reception corner, and then the two less busy “contemplative” side rooms left and right, one of them ending at the…
Hong Kong, September 29 – October 9, 2016, http://www.100ftpark.hk/ 100ft. Park is a miniature art space located on the second floor of an old 6 floor walk-up building, right above the extreme noise and light assault of the electric appliance and lighting market in Sham Shui Po’s Ap Liu Street.
Hong Kong, 5pm September 29, 2016, Creative Media Colloquium Drever is a sound artist and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. The major part of the lecture took place at a rapid speed with references raining in the intervals of seconds. At moments it seemed – in the words taken from one of Alan Kwan’s…
Hong Kong, September 10 – September 25, 2016, http://floatingprojectscollective.net The exhibition consisted of two different bodies of work. Kinchoi Lam presented a series of three video installations, all of different configurations of fixed camera videos of and from within telephone booths located in very calm and remote places of Hong Kong. Jess Lau’s work was…
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…
Hong Kong, September 14 – October 19, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ The corner window display was emptied of all contents for this exhibition and a large flat screen TV on a movable stand was placed inside. The monitor was flickering and some kind of violet-red-blue image was being played back. I imagined I saw some machinima movie…
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…
Hong Kong, August 12 – September 8, 2016, 8F New World Tower II, Central (Curator: Vivian Poon) Dirty Paper is a Hong Kong art collective consisting of Chan Wai Lap and Yau Kwok Keung. The artworks has a youthful and relaxed feel: A human anatomy class drawings reminding of the biology class where the teacher…
Hong Kong, SAAL, Unit D 3/F King Wan Industrial Building, 21:00 August 19, 2016, FB Noise to Signal is an irregular noise and improvised music event. This time it took place in what appeared to be a recording studio and record shop in an old industrial building in Kwun Tong. Walking there on a rainy…