Hope Never Sleeps - 33 hours non-stop art project by La Galerie Paris 1839 French Artist Cyril Delettre will take part in a 33 hours non-stop project welcoming the visitors from Thursday March 28 at 11:00am until Friday March 29, 8:00pm.

During these 33 hours visitors are welcome to interact with Cyril Delettre, let him take portraits of you, he will print them, then display the photos on the window of the gallery to create the word 希望. The shooting will take place in front of La Galerie. The audience will be able to watch the shooting from the street. An original art installation Inspired by his series HOPE ( an ongoing project since 2022), art photographer Cyril Delettre creates an original installation for visitors to physically experiment entering into an art piece. Cyril Delettre's installation symbolizes the human ability to transform darkness into colours: you enter into the Black and White portraits of the artist and come out with colourful characters to brighten the hidden hope. On the path, by entering the artist’s spirit, you are invited you to go through his HOPE and rediscover yours. The audience is invited to touch, explore and take pictures.

Join us at AWT Bar Hong Kong, a special pop-up edition at RONIN for Art Basel. From March 26 to 29, Art Week Tokyo will host AWT Bar Hong Kong, featuring artist-conceived cocktails alongside a bespoke food menu, select artworks on view, accompanied by an artist-curated playlist. The AWT Bar is open to all for a multi-sensory experience of Tokyo in Hong Kong.

Specialty cocktails are inspired by the works and practices of Rinko Kawauchi, Masato Kobayashi, Shinji Ohmaki, and Yuichiro Tamura. On display, are artworks by Simon Fujiwara, Saori Miyake, Daido Moriyama, and Kohei Nawa, available for purchase through their respective galleries. While having bites from a Tokyo feature bespoke menu designed by RONIN, listen to select tracks that artists Ken Kagami, Yuko Mohri, Aki Sasamoto, and Hajime Sorayama, have associated with their vibrant metropolis over the years. 

Public access. Expenses at the bar are at visitors' discretion. 

March 26 to 29, 2024, 6:00pm to 1:00am
Venue: RONIN, 8 On Wo Lane, Central

Experience the museum in a whole new way! Join us for a Friday night where dynamic lighting, energetic music, exciting creative activities, and food and drinks take over. Unwind from the stresses of everyday life and connect with friends and like-minded people.

When you picture Hong Kong after-hours, what gives the city its distinct flair? For the first edition in March, M+ at Night celebrates the ‘Hong Kong Street Culture’. On 1 March 2024, M+ invites the creative collective Yeti Out and its co-founder Arthur Bray to programme a wide range of activities for you to explore the streets and alleys of the city through mediums including sound, graphics, and typography. Imagine the interactions between people and their surroundings and discover how their everyday lives shapes the diverse street culture.

Price: HKD 180

M+ Members and Patrons can attend for free.

The Dancing plant,  also known as the telegraph plant, dances when it hears a sound. 

Sending stones, when held in hands, can communicate across long distances. 

The exhibition is divided into three chapters: 1) Picking up a stone. 2) When plants are everywhere. 3) They have ears. It is a collage of lithographs, image letters, and prose poems. Plot: one day, she got into the habits of reading newspapers , writing letters, and listening to the radio. In her eyes, nothing is of the past anymore. There exists another her, who goes to the coast to look at stones whenever the wind blows. There exists yet another her, who tries to pick up the most ancient printing techniques and hammer the silent communication underneath the earth into audible telegraph codes, in order to connect to the barriered present; to whisper through the walls using natural objects; to reach and connect with each other.

If one’s feet, covered with sand, touch the seawater. 

Wiping the stones repeatedly. 

You have to keep moist even if the oil and water are separated.

Sharing: 17/12 (sun)  3pm-4:30pm  - Ernest Ip x Au Wah Yan 

Performance: 30/12 (sat)  6pm-7pm  - Wong SIn

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

Tai Kwun Contemporary is delighted to announce a new live art exhibition by the trailblazing artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus; lives in New York and Athens). Her first solo exhibition in Asia, Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror will be presenting live installations that explore the sculptural body, image-making, and the deceleration of time. Comprising elements of performance, sound, photography and painting, the exhibition includes works newly commissioned for Tai Kwun’s architectural environment.

Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror gravitates around the production and transmission of image through the usage of mirrors dressed in gold. Playing with the myriad meanings and representations of gold in ancient and contemporary myths—as a colour in divination, as a symbolic representation of capitalism, or even a kitsch sample from pop culture—the permanence of gold historically connected the substance to eternity and the divine, yet this desire to possess gold has also turned into a symbol of capital and accelerated consumerism. The paradox between the immutability of gold and the shifting perceptions of its representation echoes the tensions in Hassabi’s practice—between subjects and objects, dance and sculpture, the live body and still images, the spectacular and the everyday.

The exhibition is constructed by durational performances which run daily from 11am to 7pm Tuesdays to Sundays, performed by dancers from Hong Kong and around the world. The artist will also be present in the exhibition for the first half of the exhibition period. A conversation with the artist will take place in October, while Tai Kwun Contemporary will also be hosting a series of public programmes during the course of the exhibition, so please stay tuned for further details.

India by the Bay is a week-long celebration of Indian art and culture co-presented by Teamwork Arts and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, with the support of the Consulate General of India in Hong Kong. The festival features literature, music, food, dance and theatre, encompassing both the contemporary and classic.

The Festival is dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships between India and Hong Kong. It is a unique opportunity for the people of Hong Kong to experience and engage with India’s rich cultural heritage.

•SAT OCT 7 AT ASIA SOCIETY: Author Francesca Cartier, direct descendant of Cartier’s founding family, and Radhikaraje Gaekwad, the Maharani of Baroda, discuss Cartier’s creations for Indian royalty. 

•SUN OCT 8 AT ASIA SOCIETY: Wellness Sunday, a full day of events that nourish the mind, body & soul. Wellness Sunday will feature chanting, pranayama, Iyengar yoga, storytelling, music and poetry for individual guests as well as families.  

•MON OCT 9 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A presentation by private collector Romi Lamba with rare access to his astounding collection of antique Kashmir and European shawls woven in the 1800s. 

•WED OCT 11 AT ASIA SOCIETY: An evening of music and cross-cultural collaboration featuring sitar player Pandit Shubhendra Rao, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas, pipa player Belle Shiu (with permission of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra) and guitarist Tjoe Man Cheung.

•THU OCT 12 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A literary evening exploring India’s push for eminence in world affairs. Editors Bibek Debroy and C. Raja Mohan discuss the acclaimed book, Grasping Greatness. The evening will be moderated by Ajay Kapur,  Head of Asia Pacific & GEMs Strategy Research at Bank of America Securities.

•FRI OCT 13 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A candid conversation with award-winning actor, television director and author Neena Gupta and her daughter, fashion designer and actor Masaba - both stars of the Netflix series, 'Masaba Masaba'. They'll discuss fashion, film and family with Sanjoy K. Roy. A bit more about their Netflix show here. 

•SAT OCT 14 AT XIQU CENTRE: An original, Broadway-style musical drama titled ‘Bollywood Love Story’, performed in English, for one night only at Xiqu Centre. 

•SUN OCT 15 AT ASIA SOCIETY: And finally, a gala dinner that takes guests on a culinary journey across India, with Chef Piku of New Delhi’s beloved restaurant, Jamun. 

Details and full programme

Venue address: 9 Justice Dr, Admiralty

Baker's Lung is a new work that combines the professional baking experience of Felix Del Tredici and the instrumental practice of trombonists and improvisers. Together with multifaceted performing artist Kalun Leung, the work explores the similarities between two ancient art forms in a unique performance-based installation that is currently in development. It is a one-of-a-kind experience that promises to be both thought-provoking and entertaining.

As brass performer and professional baker, Felix is fascinated by the fundamental process of energy transformation that converts lip vibration into sound and the grinding of raw wheat into edible foodstuff. Both music and food are communal experiences that allow for community connection, and Baker's Lung aims to amplify this connection between baking and music.

The installation draws on a variety of cource material, including body camera footage from Felix's bakery, different types of grains and seeds, old-time recipes, Hong Kong street market objects, and the sounds and visuals of dough mixing, a steam-injected oven, dividing and shaping breads, and the small mill grinding wheat berries. These audiovisual materials will be transformed in a variety of ways through interactive technologies, the interpretation of performers, and the participation of audience members.

Baker's Lung offers and artistic interpretation of the cacophony and insights from a baker experiences, provides a behind-the-scene view into the complexity and chaos that comes with the making of one of the most important and universal food staples.

Artists:
Felix Del Tredici
Kalun Leung

Time and date of the performance sessions：
29-30.6.2023 | 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm

Performed by：
Kalun Leung (trombone, invented instruments)
William Lane (viola)
Wilson Chau (horn)
Karen Yu (percussion)

Gallergy address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

We are pleased to present METAMANIAKS, by Japanese artist Snipe1. The first of our international artists to visit Hong Kong after the covid. The artist will be presenting his fascinating graffiti paintings and sculptures.

A pioneer among Japanese graffiti writers, Snipe1 has been active since the dawn of Japan’s graffiti scene and later threw himself into the graffiti world of early 1990s New York during his teenage years. Snipe1’s graffiti draws upon the sensibility of street culture but incorporates an edge of “dirtiness” that lends to an unmistakable individual style. By pushing the boundaries, he continuously dares to toe the danger of breaking stereotypes.

In here, the artist aims to spark a conversation, to challenge people's thoughts, and to ultimately encourage them to question the reality we live in.

Opening Reception: March 9, 6-8pm

Live performance and guided tour: March 18, 3-5 PM

Gallery address: Unit C, 12/F, Gee Chang Hong Centre, 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

Long-time collaborators Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis will premiere a new performance at the gallery on February 18 and 19, closing Raissnia’s current exhibition, نور (Nour).

Raha Raissnia will debut an expanded cinema piece incorporating both 16mm film and 35mm slides, in collaboration with Charles Curtis, whom Artforum has described as “one of the great cellists”, celebrated in the realms of both experimental music and classical performance.

The duo has previously performed at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2006), Xippas Gallery (2006), Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion Festival (2008), and The Drawing Center (2018).

Gallery address: 19/F, Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung St, Aberdeen

This exhibition explores how machine learning tools are being integrated into artistic practice. The works on show are the result of a two-year exploration of how machine learning can be used to synthesise music and synthesise 3D objects.

In the time elapsed since the commencement of this project, online visual culture has reacted to and absorbed a host of new techniques, from image recognition to style transfer, to natural language synthesis and more recently the text-to-image synthesis pipelines offered by tools such as MidJourney and Dall-e. Underneath these rapidly evolving creative toolkits lie a common computational approach of a dataset, a neural network, and a newly synthesised output based on what features the network can understand in the original dataset.

As the utility of these tools and the quality of their results improve, various cultural debates have been spawned, such as who ‘owns’ the collective cultural databases on which these systems are trained, and who therefore owns the works that these systems generate? Is there a tipping point where the human creative input relative to automated machine output shifts balance to the degree that we no longer consider the human to be the author of the work?

In her overview of modern visual communication, Joanna Drucker notes that representational strategies evolve historically with changes in technological production, from the relationship between 16th-century developments in optics and Renaissance painting to mechanised assembly lines and the industrial geometric abstractions of modernist artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Considered in this broader trajectory, what we are witnessing is human creativity once again adapting to a paradigm shift, namely that of automation and artificial intelligence.

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: (RSVP: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLScUS3c6X3b.../viewform...)

1. Exhibition Opening & Performance #1: 19 November 4 – 6pm [Debris]

2. Performance #2: 24 November, 7 pm [Archon]

3. Performance #3: 25 November, 7 pm[Archon] [AusCo LiveStream]

4. Performance #4: 10 December, [Perform Augment Remix] 3 pm

5. Performance #5: 14th January, [Debris] 3 pm

Gallery address: 4/F, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong

Contemporary artist Andrew Luk and recorder player/composer Erikson Ting from Zeit Recorder Quartet, come together for their first-ever collaboration—Haunted, Salvaged, a zen garden constructed by the remnants of artificial materials.

Ting’s composition, 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘢, inspired by Luk’s work, will be performed by his recorder quartet Zeit at Gold Ball located on the 2nd floor of K11 Musea every Saturday and Sunday from 3 pm to 3:30 pm during the exhibition. The ensemble will also perform selected works by renowned Japanese composer Ryohei Hirose. Let’s travel along the past and present with this unique installation, and immerse in the extraordinary audio-visual art experience!

Every Saturday and Sunday, 3 pm – 3:30 pm

Venue address: Gold Ball, 2/F, K11 MUSEA, TST

Mid-autumn heralds the brightest moon of the year as well as the gradual shortening of days as we begin the slow descent into winter. This year, a new signature event designed for the whole family will light up Tai Kwun’s Parade Ground every night during a three-week season. InnerGlow features the dazzling creativity and technological ingenuity of The Electric Canvas, who, along with four groups of local artists, have reimagined Tai Kwun’s 160-year-old Barracks Block.

This action-packed 12-minute fantasy is shown five times each evening at Parade Ground, on the half hour starting at 7pm.

The programme is supported by Hong Kong Jockey Club and Principal Sponsor CLP Holdings Limited.

We all have and only have one body of flesh, powerful yet fragile. Incidents left us with wounds, stagnated and frozen in time; words are rendered invalid and lost. How shall we embrace our shattered pieces, continue to breathe, and live in this world?

Curated by Gigi Tang, “Breathing Flesh” has invited three emerging artists, together with the curator, to share their response to the seemingly unavoidable pain of life through different artistic mediums including ceramics, lacquer painting and performance art.

Returning to the roots of life, may we all someday arrive at a place of peace, where the light gets in.

Opening Reception & Artists’ Talk 26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm - 9pm

General Visit 27.07.2022 - 05.08.2022 | 11am - 7pm
*05.08.2022: Extend to 9pm
Closed on Sunday

Live Performances
Artist: Jovita Siu 蕭芷芊
26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm-8pm
30.07.2022 (Sat 六) | 11am-1pm
05.08.2022 (Fri 五) | 12pm-2pm, 3pm-5pm, 6pm-9pm
*Each session about 15 minutes

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, is delighted to announce a brand-new moving image work by pioneering Hong Kong artist Ellen Pau, co-commissioned with Art Basel. The work, titled The Shape of Light, will be shown on the M+ Facade from Friday, 20 May 2022 until Sunday, 19 June 2022 at 7 to 9pm daily. The project marks the first major collaborative commission for the M+ Facade since M+’s opening in November 2021.

Supported by UBS, Lead Partner of Art Basel, The Shape of Light is a site-specific moving image work made specially for the M+ Facade. Using digitally animated special effects, the video explores the possibilities of the immaterial and the material, transforming light into digital objects. Featuring a popular sutra in Mahayana Buddhism, The Heart Sutra, here expressed through sign language, the ritualistic video meditates on the concept ‘form is emptiness, emptiness is form’. Natural phenomena like fire, water, and light are all rendered in awe-inspiring computer-generated animation.

M+ and Art Basel will present a series of public programmes, including a live durational performance, an artist talk, and an online screening following the debut of The Shape of Light.

Complementing the display of The Shape of Light on M+ Facade, M+ and Art Basel will also present a series of free online and offline events, making the artwork more accessible to the public.

The Shape of Light live performance by Ellen Pau, in collaboration with Amy Chan (lighting designer), Quinn Wong (producer/livecoder), and Paul Yip (sound artist), will offer a space of healing, using sound, light, and digital objects. The drop-in performance will run from 5 to 8pm on Friday, 27 May 2022 at The Forum, M+.

Ellen Pau will be in dialogue with Ulanda Blair about her new work, The Shape of Light at a talk and screening. Attendees will here have the rare opportunity to experience some of Pau’s past works made between 1988 and 2015. The talk will take place from 2 to 3:30pm on Saturday, 28 May 2022 at the M+ Grand Stair, M+.

A four-day online screening from Sunday, 29 May to Wednesday, 1 June 2022 will enable local and international audiences to view a collection of Ellen Pau’s pioneering videos and installations made between 1988 and 2015. Each video will include an audio commentary by Pau, describing the ideas and inspiration behind her work.

Brainchild of sound artist and composer Alain Chiu and researcher and writer Ho Ying Yi and funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the cross-media exhibition, antiplayground, will be presented from 16 – 26 December 2021, along with 10 performances and lecture performances.

The project seeks to assemble a roomful of playthings assimilated with entertainment faciliAes in an amusement park and playground. The project is built upon continuous contemplation: What constitutes a playground? The word “anti” challenges the norms or conventions of spaces designated for creating joy, questioning presumed boundaries of reality and artificiality. The work, consists of a two-week exhibition and a series of music performances and lecture performances, will form a cross- disciplinary narrative to delve into the subject matter. Highlight performances include lecture performance on philosophy presented by Chun-Yin Yeung, Uncle Salt (鹽叔) from Corrupt the Youth (好⻘年荼毒室), performances from Cong Quartet and more.

Venue address: G/F, 19 Old Bailey Street, Central

It’s winter, the season of “Tai Kwun Circus Plays”! During the Christmas and New Year holidays, our city’s circus artists will join acrobatic veterans from around the world to present an array of dreamy, exciting, and innovative circus performances and workshops.

Flotados (Spain) │ 15–19.12.2021 7:30pm

Created by the prize-winning Spanish troupe David Moreno Cia. & Cristina Calleja, Flotados is an otherworldly outdoor circus performance that will  take over the Parade Ground during Tai Kwun’s Circus Plays. Performing from a grand piano suspended a gravity-defying 8 metres overhead, two performers tell an enchanting love story through music, dance, acrobatics and video projections. Take a step back and look into the night sky, follow the elegant moves of the performers and immerse yourself in a universe of dreams. A romantic and holistic aerial dance is set to kick start an amazing Christmas for Tai Kwun guests.

The ChristMice Cracker (Hong Kong) │ 24–27.12.2021

Inspired by the classical ballet The Nutcracker,  Hong Kong’s own, home-grown physical theatre troupe TS Crew  expands its most dramatic “battle” scene  to create The ChristMice Cracker. With local flavours sprinkled to this classic, the exhilarating outdoor performance features lion dance, Chinese Opera, circus, acrobats, and beatboxing, as well as street performance spirits including unicycles, stilts and fire-breathing. Performed by a dozen of highly skilled local artists, this hybrid work of theatre, gala and contemporary circus is set to turn the Parade Ground into the dreamland of Clara and the Prince with a unique “Hong Kong” twist over the Christmas long weekend.

Ting-koo-ki Mad Skills Battle (Hong Kong x Taiwan) │31.12.2021–02.01.2022

Returning to Tai Kwun for the third year, Ting-Koo-Ki Mad Skills Battle and Gala are the most exciting circus party to showcase local and Taiwanese circus talents on the  outdoor stage in the Parade Ground. Taking place over the New Year, the Gala celebrates each individual performer’s  edgiest acts, before they participate in the Battle to win the audience’s vote in one-on-one challenges.

A co-produced circus movie, Isabella by Tai Kwun and Hsingho Co., will also be presented online in the New Year. Directed by Portuguese circus artist Ricardo S. Mendes, the film features circus talents from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Portugal, Italy and France along with their unique props. The film presents a touching story of circus performers’ lives as they exist as both human beings and artists

CircusCracker Workshops │24.12.2021–02.01.2022

From Christmas Eve to the New Year, a series of workshops echoing the theme of “Nutcracker” will be available to the public, free-of-charge. Participants will first enjoy the demonstration by the professional artists, before they learn and experience the crafts and tricks first-hand. Designed for families, the CircusCracker Workshops encompass crystal ball, Kendama, puppet-making and more. Join and challenge yourself this season to unleash the untapped potential within you!

Circus Camp for Professionals│01–02.01.2022

Returning with critical acclaim, the world’s leading juggling company Gandini Juggling will host another year of advanced training workshop for local jugglers and choreographers. SeanGandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala, the Artistic Directors of the company, will take their recent workLIFE, inspired by Merce Cunningham, as the lead to explore the concept of “layering” as well as the relationship between choreography and contemporary circus.

Hidden Space is delighted to present “Domestic Landscape” and “Death is the calling of a seashell witch”, a duo solo exhibition by Katie Ho and Isabella Isabella. Katie’s drawings began in the tensions of intimate home confinement. Whilst in progress, this series sparked an ongoing connection and dialogue with Isabella Isabella, whose performances are evolving responses to Katie’s installation, and will happen across three days during the exhibition.
Opening: Saturday 9 October, 4-8pm
Hours: Friday to Sunday, 1-6pm

Live performances on 10/10, 24/10, 7/11
Limited seats. Registration required for performance: https://tinyurl.com/seashellwitch

Venue address: Unit 6, 16/F, Block A, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing

A live performance FRIENDSNIP (Hair I Am series): 28th August 2021 at 3pm.
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Installation and drawings: 28th-29th August 2021.
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We are pleased to present our upcoming special event "Drawings from J6" .

With an attempt to merge and explore the betwixt and between, the artist reconstructs her psychiatric ward through intimate diary drawings. A live performance entitled FRIENDSNIP will take place: a continuation of artist’s Hair I am series, performances using hair cutting as a means to redefine her familial relationship.

Opening Hours: 12:30-18:30
Venue address: No.2 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan