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Hong Kong Art Week 2019 Highlights

Across Hong Kong last week, 307 galleries from across the world showcased at blockbuster art fairs Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central. However, that wasn't to say that the Hong Kong art world wasn't just as exciting outside of those fairs. Openings were plenty, with galleries across the country exhibiting showstopping exhibitions.  Here are some of our highlights from Hong Kong Art Week 2019: 

April 04, 2019

What Caught Our Eye At Art Central Hong Kong 2019

The Artling is in Hong Kong for Hong Kong Art Week, and if you missed out on the action, these were some of the pieces that caught our eye at this year's edition of Art Central Hong Kong!

April 02, 2019

Flying in the Fragmentary

Yavuz Gallery is proud to present Flying in the Fragmentary, the first solo exhibition of Myanmar artist Nge Lay with the gallery. The exhibition opens on 23 June in conjunction with Gillman Barracks’ Art Day Out – The School Holidays Edition. The exhibition features one large-scale installation, the titular artwork transforming the gallery into an immersive, life-sized Myanmar classroom from Thuye’dan village, a remote area ten hours north of Yangon. The work consists of thirty hanging rattan m

June 29, 2018

City Art Guide: Yangon

Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) is the largest city in Myanmar. Framing the skyline are British colonial architecture and sacred Buddhist pagodas. The Shwedagon Paya is one of the wonders of the religious world. Also known as the golden pagoda, it is a glistening stupa that attracts thousands of tourists and pilgrims alike every year.

June 14, 2018

Released Existence on Edges by Kishio Suga at THE CLUB

THE CLUB is pleased to announce “Released Existence on Edges” a solo exhibition by Kishio Suga, one of the leading members of the Mono-ha art movement. This exhibition is held as a retrospective, with the artist's works ranging from the 1980s to 2016. Suga's work freely employs various materials (“mono”) by which he creates a space (“ku-kan”) that interacts with the presence of those materials.   

May 21, 2018

Inside and Outside | Claude Viallat & Wang Yi

HdM Gallery is pleased to present “Inside and Outside”, a dual show of Wang Yi and French artist Claude Viallat. Opening on the 16th of May, the show will include the latest works of Wang Yi and 6 works of Viallat including a work dating back to 1974.  

May 21, 2018

PROCESS at Element Art Space

Element Art Space is pleased to present Process — a group exhibition of young Singaporean artists. This show consists of four promising young artists: Liu Ling, Justin Lim, Tracy Tan, and Alessia Levonique Candra. In this body of works, the artists explore the process of painting and art-making whereby they set out from different distinct paths but converge to the same destination and yet retain their unique visual style.   

May 21, 2018

PLAY at MadeIn Gallery

MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present “Play” an exhibition showcasing new paintings and sculptures by Lu Pingyuan, Shang Liang and Zhao Yao. In this exhibition, three artists’ works commonly share a spirit of lightness and playfulness, bringing aesthetics, concepts and art into the field of game. As a method for the observation of art, game arises in the gallery space.   

May 21, 2018

Solo Exhibition by Chinese Artist Xu Zhen at Perrotin Seoul

Perrotin Seoul is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Xu Zhen, featuring major works spanning the development of his flagship art brand, XU ZHEN®, since 2013. Using both conceptual and pop strategies, Xu Zhen’s practice mounts incongruous clashes between iconographies pertaining to distant cultures, civilizations and ages to question the loss of context induced by globalization. Ironically mirroring post-Mao China’s journey into consumerism, Xu transforms himself into a brand with the creation of his art corporation “MadeIn Company” in 2009 as a behavioral – and almost performative – study of the symmetries between ideas, art and business.   

May 18, 2018

SHIMURAbros Solo Exhibition

SHIMURAbros is a sister-brother duo comprising Yuka Shimura, who was born in 1976 and holds a bachelor’s degree from Tama Art University and a master’s degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins, and her brother Kentaro, who was born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University. After receiving an Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, the pair went onto have thei

May 18, 2018

Duddell’s London Announces Its Inaugural Group Art Exhibition

An exhibition of newly commissioned and existing work by internationally renowned artists will go on show this April at the acclaimed and recently opened Duddell’s in London as part of a new art programme of curated exhibitions and special art events.  Having achieved critical acclaim from respected food critics in its opening months, Duddell’s London has now announced the launch of its art programme which is supported by Perrier-Jouët as Principal Art Patron. Much like its Hong Kong counterpart, the Co-founders of Duddell’s would like the first UK outpost to become a cultural and social destination as well as a meeting point for those passionate about food and the arts.   

May 10, 2018

Yoon Hyangro: Surflatpictor

P21 is pleased to present Yoon Hyangro’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Under the title Surflatpictor, the exhibition features Yoon’s new paintings and a site-specific installation from her ongoing series, Screenshot.   

May 09, 2018