Hong Kong, 25 March – 6 May 2018, http://osagegallery.com/ A rather large exhibition, taking on an even larger task of mapping the dialogue between “Southeast Asia, South America, Central America and Mexico”, curated by Raphael Fonseca and featuring the works of 26 artists. The exhibition was a little bit in the style of Para Site’s…
Hong Kong, March 22 – 26, 2016, HKCEC Another year and another Art Basel fair in Hong Kong. It’s close to impossible to encompass everything that has been going on, but here a few random moments from the fair itself, which I found worthy enough to pull my phone out of the pocket and press…
4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 03.08.2015 – 05.03.2015. Curated by Patrick Flores and Anca Verona Mihulet This exhibition came as a pleasant surprise: Osage invited two guest curators to put together a complex show comparing, contrasting and connecting the “Southeast” of Asia and the “Southeast”…
05.16.2014 – 06.30.2014, Au Hoi Lam, Tang Kwok Hin, Yu Ji, Zhao Zhao, Ian Woo, Milenko Prvacki, Ng Joon Kiat, Jeremy Sharma, Grace Tan, Nilo Ilarde, Ringo Bunoan, Bernardo Pacquing, Maria Taniguchi, Masanori Handa, Kishio Suga, Young Rim Lee, Shin Il Kim, Mee Ai Om, Tintin Wulia, FX Harsono, Nipan Oranniwesna, It is worth visiting…
(1/4 – 2/4/2014) 4/F Union Hing Yip Factory Bldg, 20 Hing Yip St, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, http://www.osagegallery.com Four artists in whose work – according to the curator (Charles Merewether) – materiality (the quality of the material) plays an important role. All of the artists (or at least those I knew) seem to have been…
(8/31 – 9/30/2013) http://www.osagegallery.com/ Featuring AMA, Au Hoi Lam, Vivian Poon and Tsang Chui Mei from the “Qiang” studio space, along with artists Carmen Ho and Wong Wai Yin. This was a group show of ‘cirle’ themed artworks. Most of the artworks had a feminine feel to them. Did it mean that the artists were…
Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, 22 May – 26 May 2013 My first impression was definitely linked to the new name: Is this event taking place in Basel or in Hong Kong? Will the Art Basel fair now be called “Art Basel Basel” to conform to the new naming convention? Below, three deja-vues and…
Adrian Wong 王浩然: Troglodyte See the Light February 2012, at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Wong created a number of speaking mechatronic puppets for this show. The voice was his, exploring untypical and absurd uses of language. The works were ‘packaged’ as funny shaped creatures, which was a good way to engage the visitors. If…