CURRENT EXHIBITS [78]

This spring Faurschou Foundation will present a solo exhibition by Chen Zhen, one of the best known exponents of Chinese avant-garde art. The space is divided into two parts, one reveals the contradiction and conflicts of the society, and the other, by the form of a room, creats a place for spirit purification and culture lavation. He was born in Shanghai in 1955 and died in Paris in 2000. Chen...   [more]

Opening: March 24th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

“Sometimes I feel as if I am holding a large loop to make things clear and seen for those who can't or maybe can but avoiding and sometimes in some work I act like a channel, a channel to bring to life people’s screams.” Moataz Nasr Galleria Continua is pleased to announce The Tunnel the first solo exhibition by the Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr in China regarded as one of the...   [more]

Gallery EXIT announces the inaugural exhibition of SOUTHSITE, a space dedicated to inter-media art practices located in Tin Wan, Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island South. The understated opening on 2 March will feature works by Roy Ng, Vivian Poon, Wun Ting Wendy Tai and a performance by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME). Over the course of two months, the exhibition will grow to include over twenty...   [more]

Opening: March 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Ivy MA's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Numbers Standing Still inquires into our willingness to forget.  On view are 8 sets of palimpsest drawings on re-photographed inkjet prints. Elaborating on her previous practise of exploiting the in-betweeness in cinematic stills, this new series explores the possible readings of the Barthesian punctum in testimonial images of lived li...   [more]

Opening: April 13th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Grotto Fine Art takes great pleasure in presenting Wong Xiangyi’s new exhibition P.S. at our gallery. The exhibition contains a body of work that spans 2 years and stylistically transcends Chinese ink painting tradition and Western romantic figural painting.  A leading ink painter, Wong possesses unparallel skills and knowledge in both traditions.  Using fine brush painting technique on silk, Wa...   [more]

Opening: April 11th, 2012   5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Qiu Jie, pen name "Ta-xiang Shan-ren" (Recluse from a Distant Land), was born in Shanghai in 1961. As a child, Qiu Jie was left to the care of his grandparents in Shanghai when his parents relocated to Anhui province. Raised by his grandparents, Qiu Jie began drawing at the age of ten. Qiu followed and scrutinized newspaper images of workers, farmers, and soldiers and practiced his drawing...   [more]

Opening: April 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

何香凝（1878－1972），原名谏，又名瑞谏。原籍广东省南海县棉村，号棉村居士，又号双清楼主。何香凝是中国民主革命先行者孙中山先生的亲密战友、民主革命先驱廖仲恺先生的夫人，中国民主革命的积极参与者和重要推动者，杰出的政治家和社会活动家，著名艺术家。  何香凝早年留学日本。1909年春，何香凝入日本东京本乡女子美术学校学习绘画，专攻山水、花卉及动物画。她常以狮、虎猛厉之气振奋国人，并以梅、兰、竹、菊等耐寒花木勉励国人不屈的精神与坚贞的气节。何香凝长达60余年的创作历程记录着中国20世纪初叶以来的风云变幻，她的绘画气度恢弘、立意深邃，是研究中国现代史的重要图像，同时也是她七十年革命生涯和高尚品德、人格的生动写照，堪称中华民族艺术的瑰宝。   作为以何...   [more]

值此何香凝美术馆建馆十五周年，我们推出馆藏何香凝艺术精品展“何香凝：丹青写烟霞——何香凝美术馆建馆十五周年”。展览由何香凝美术馆主办，国务院侨务办公室支持，房桦、杨克宁策划。将于2012年4月18日至5月20日在何香凝美术馆，展出85件何香凝艺术精品，全面向公众展示近现代女性艺术家何香凝的绘画成就。“丹...   [more]

Opening: April 18th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

此次展览是中央美院教授陈文骥从2008年“以来”创作的21件具有代表性的作品。陈文骥的作品造型奇特，菱形、椭圆形、圆锥形等大量的不规则形制获得了有意味的呈现。这是陈文骥创造的模式，一种观念意味的写实形式，打破了抽象与具象的形而上界限。他以一种特殊的绘画过程，揭示了非常规的造型、结构等物质形态的属性。并通过冷静内省的独特视角赋予了绘画一种形式构成与色彩渐变的相互触碰，一种相对应的吸附。同时，他的作...   [more]

Opening: April 21st, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Comix Home Base (CHB), an Art Community to cultivate comics and animation inspiration and creativity, will be established for the Hong Kong public in Wanchai in 2013.  The CHB embodies the colorful energies of Hong Kong’s comics and animation culture and serves to enrich the local community’s arts and cultural life.  As a prelude to the CHB’s opening, there will be an exhibition and a talk pr...   [more]

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is an arts education programme created by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation since 2005, with a view to help young people discover their potentials and their connection with the outside world.  This year, the students’ work exhibition centres on the theme of “Relationship”, with an aim to explore the unseen dimensions of our inner selves, families, others, and society in...   [more]

The whole of Hong Kong mourned when Cantopop legend Roman Tam passed away in 2002. His spirit, however, lives on thanks in particular to the generous donation of over 3,000 items of memorabilia from Tam's career as a performing artist that his sister presented to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2006 and that now forms the museum’s first complete collection of a local pop singer. Roman Tam bega...   [more]

The cartoonist Louie Yu Tin (1926–2008) was famous for his creation of the character Wong Lung Woo, which in reverse – woo lung wong – means an ‘addlebrained person’ in Cantonese. Describing what happened to the protagonist in post-war Guangzhou, Louie’s cartoon series featuring ‘addlebrained Wong’ highlighted social injustice, government corruption and the hardships of the ‘little...   [more]

One of the founders of the Lingnan School of painting, Gao Qifeng attracted a number of followers despite his short life. He established the Tianfeng (“heavenly breeze”) Studio to teach painting on a secluded island in Guangzhou, where his most outstanding disciples included Chao Shao-an and six other emerging artists. They became known as the “Tianfeng Seven”, and their close relationship...   [more]

Face Contact -- Beijing, theme exhibition of the PhotoEspana 2011, frames the concept of "Interfaces: Portraiture and Communication" to which this event in Spain is dedicated. This leading project, to be unveiled at Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, can be seen as continued exploration of the universal significance of portraiture and communication in our everyday life. In such an active co...   [more]

Opening: April 28th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Different landscapes are a visualization of a certain utopia, ideal societies pursued for happiness. They may be an architect's Shangri-La of a holiday resort, or a physicist's perfection of a nuclear plant. They may be paradise to some, for others they pave the way to dystopia. In a mix of new and old mixed-media canvases, Japanese artist Kounosuke Kawakami exorcises his thoughts and experiences on...   [more]

Opening: April 20th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM