Schoeni Projects is pleased to co-present with THE SHOPHOUSE, ‘Door to Door’, a residency programme developed as a cultural exchange programme between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK. Over the summer of 2023, this dual residency involves an exchange of artistic ideas, creating dialogue between participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova, and their audience.

Spirituality is a broad, etymologically ever-evolving concept. Humans turn to it for a multitude of reasons: to seek divinity, to reach transcendence from within, to foster kinship. 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, opening at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong on 23 September, outlines interpretations and expressions of the intangible and elusive matter of spirituality. The works on view, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, are idiosyncratic visual expressions stemming from personal queries on spirituality and the introspection that follows.

Co-presented by THE SHOPHOUSE and Schoeni Projects, DOOR TO DOOR, the artist residency will be hosted in Hong Kong and London in the summer of 2023, with participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova. The residency programme is developed as a cultural exchange between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK, and aims to encourage artistic exchange and knowledge production.

We are honored to announce its first large-scale group exhibition “Night is the Shadow of the Earth” running simultaneously in both Wind H Art Center and Click Ten Art Space. The exhibition is curated by Xn Office (Penny Dan Xu and Ni Youyu). With 27 artists and artist groups from around the world, this exhibition will present around 50 works featuring a diverse array of media such as sculpture, installation, painting, photography, video, animation, prints, antiques, and archives. Under the theme of “shadow”, the artists explore the “unknown” and “invisible” in the fields of art, environment, society, psychology, and memory in divergent styles of creation.

Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Hong Kong Art School, and curated by Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network, “The Collectors' Choice Art Exhibition” is open to visitors from 23 March 2023 to 10 April 2023, at 5/F Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre. This exhibition is curated by Miss Shirky Chan, showcasing more than 30 art pieces created by our alumni artists over the years and collected by 9 renowned collectors in Hong Kong. The exhibition will feature displays of paintings, ceramics, photography, video, and installation.

A Collection in Two Acts
From the collection of Yuri van der Leest, curated by Chris Wan
Rossi & Rossi Wong Chuk Hang

A Collection in Two Acts opens on July 16 through September 16 at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong. Curated by Chris Wan, the exhibition utilises the private collection of Yuri van der Leest to present two frameworks of collectorship: one is institutional, such as museums and archives — treating artworks as files to be dealt with under a given context of art history; the other is personal, like a private collection built with artworks as repositories of memories and personal encounters. Through the use of critical fabulation, the two modes of art collecting are juxtaposed to raise question about the structure and agency in the art system.

Whitestone Gallery H Queen’s is delighted to present “Space and Memory,” a group exhibition showcasing works by three local emerging artists — Kwong San Tang, Szelit Cheung, and Tap Chan — as part of the HKAGA Summer Programme.

The concept of space has been fundamental to shaping our lived experiences and widely explored by artists and writers across time; from Gaston Bachelard’s monumental work that changed our thoughts and memories of domestic spheres; to Michel Foucault’s heterotopias which refer to ‘places outside of all places’; to the Light and Space movement’s rigorous investigation of perceptual phenomena in the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, these three Hong Kong artists investigate the ways in which spaces are represented, perceived, and imagined in relation to identities, dreams, and memories, opening up gateways for reflection and contemplation.

ARTISTRY MOMENTS with Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong presented by Tang Contemporary Art.

“Sushi – A World in a Grain of Sand” featuring works of eleven artists from Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Iran. The exhibition is curated by Xn Office, a young Chinese curator team founded by art historian Penny Dan Xu and artist Ni Youyu. Displaying artworks of exceptionally small size, this exhibition celebrates the exquisite, and calls our attention to the power of the minute.

The title of the exhibition references the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012). Jiro Ono, the main character of the film, is more than a master chef, he is an artist chasing perfection in something very small. In the same fashion, the exhibition centers on a set of keywords, such as ‘minuteness’, ‘delicacy’, ‘ordinariness’, and ‘craftsmanship’, displaying works in different media, all of which invite the viewer to “see the large in the small”.

Light, as the origin of vision, brings along shadows and space. The various wavelengths of light constitute the spectrum and thus colour and reflection. If an artist can express light freely, there will be great sense of colour, light and shadow and spatial arrangement. In this exhibition, numerous Hong Kong artists apply their own twist on the theme “shining moment”.

XX sparks off an array of thoughts and interpretations, from Roman numerals signifying 20, to the idea of crossover, which brings together different disciplines, and the concept of variables, which germinates and gives rise to new hybrids and surprising outcomes.

Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and curated by Hong Kong Art School, the exhibition is featuring works by 33 artists / units. All participating artists are dear friends of the School, they include alumni of the School, former and current academic staff members, as well as founding staff members of the School.

The works are deriving from and at the same time bridging four major artistic disciplines, namely Ceramics, Painting, Photography and Sculpture. The exhibition guides visitors through a visual journey which vividly depicts the artistic accomplishments of the School over the past two decades.

Contemporary art and architecture have become increasingly interconnected, terms such as "deconstructivism" and "abstractionism" link the two fields. In numerous recent projects throughout China such as MOCA Yinchuan, the Harbin Opera House, and the Ningbo Museum, we observe a mixture of the present and the past, the east and the west within the design of these new buildings, further redefining and blurring the line between fine art and design.

The show is curated by Eli Klein Gallery

The exhibition explores our food culture through examining the theory of Four States (cold, hot, warm and cool) and Five Flavours (spicy, sweet, bitter, sour and salty), inspired by the kaleidoscopic nature of Chinese herbal combinations. Based on these teachings, we have broken down our topic into three conditions: our dining experience (people), the touch and taste of food (emotions and senses), and the look of food (shape). Each artist or writer/author will engage in a multi-disciplinary dialogue to express their ideation of the Four States and Five Flavours. The nine sets of outcomes, whether in text or visuals, aspire to open up our daily experience with food.

Programme of Jockey Club "Passing the Past" Local Literature Education-for-All Programme - Hong Kong Literature Season: Mixed Flavors

The exhibition explores our food culture through examining the theory of Four States (cold, hot, warm and cool) and Five Flavours (spicy, sweet, bitter, sour and salty), inspired by the kaleidoscopic nature of Chinese herbal combinations. Based on these teachings, we have broken down our topic into three conditions: our dining experience (people), the touch and taste of food (emotions and senses), and the look of food (shape). Each artist or writer/author will engage in a multi-disciplinary dialogue to express their ideation of the Four States and Five Flavours. The nine sets of outcomes, whether in text or visuals, aspire to open up our daily experience with food.

Programme of Jockey Club "Passing the Past" Local Literature Education-for-All Programme - Hong Kong Literature Season: Mixed Flavors

Art in the contemporary world is no longer divided by geographical boundaries, yet, the significance of the ocean remains unaltered. More often, the ocean is not depicted as literal and specific but as an abstract symbol. The exhibition 16.52 Sqm Open Sea brings together the works of nineteen contemporary Asian artists, each bringing forth a fragment of the ocean, in order to complete a unified 'horizon line' within the gallery space. 

The show is curated by Xn Office, a curator group initated by art history researcher Xu Dan and artist Ni Youyu.

Co-presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network, the exhibition features the works of 29 practicing artists who are also the alumni of the Hong Kong Art School. Let's look at the artists' exquisite ways of seeing things and listen to the words deeply embedded in their works in the world dominated by noises and anxieties at this Christmas!

Has-been-there is derived from French philosopher Roland Barthes’ concept “That-has-been”, which posits that the essence of the unique medium of photography is its ability to capture a moment of existence and truth instantly. The exhibition extends the idea by looking at the artist as a lens that traces incidences, happenings, or emotions at a certain time and place. With an emphasis on “there”, the exhibition explores authorship, personal emotion, diaspora, as well as urban and contemporary affairs experienced by local artists in the tumultuous city.

As spectators, audiences are invited to look at a work’s “studium”—its objective symbolic meaning—and to further delve into the piece through its “punctum”—the individually-dependent element that “pierces the viewer” personally (introduced by Roland Barthes in his book Camera Lucida).

Gallery EXIT is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by Szelit CHEUNG, Hilarie HON, Ashlee IP Wai Ting and Him LO. The exhibition will open on 23 July 2016 and remain on view through 20 August. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, 23 July 2016 from 3 pm until 6 pm.

“Hong Kong Perspectives” will present different perspectives and aspects of art creation in Hong Kong, by three artists: Chen Tong, Szelit Cheung and Fiona Wong. While we are viewing an object, its possible forms have been already framed by the borders of our consciousness. A present “view” is sincerely objective yet reflects oneself as well, thus different ways of viewing in the same space indeed constitute their respective concerns. Chen Tong and Szelit Cheung were both born in Mainland China, respectively depict “view” and “person” yet both pointing at anxiety and tremble beyond their identities. Fiona Wong’s ceramics on the other hand depict the alternative side of “view”, which delicately presents her native Hong Kong landscapes as well as her memory. From identity, political situation to humanity, those stories echo through the history of Hong Kong.

There were three hyenas glowering the body of a dead deer which was eaten by several kinds of animal predators. After a few days, when the predators left the body, the hyenas came immediately and tasted the remains of the body.

​Autonomy is the pride of an individual, and yet with the drastic changes of our time such “core value” of autonomy is often obscured by deviations of human nature, and so, people know not what course to take amidst indecipherable social unrest as they are tangled with ever-changing “stances and positions”. Dichotomy seems to be convenient tool for criticism, but with “opposition” being the basis of all judgment, we end up being driven to the cage-coffin of analytic philosophy and are further polarized on contradictory grounds.

Crane Galley presents the work of Liao Chao-Hao (廖昭豪)、Cheung Szelit(張施烈) and Wu Po-Han(吳柏翰), whose creative ideas converged at the theme “Critical Point”. The exhibition not only captures interpersonal phenomena but offer itself as a reflection of our own core values through diverse interpretative pathways of interpersonal, regional and epochal events. The 3 artists utilized different media and forms and yet all of them have coincidentally evoked “Wall” as their main symbol.

Special thanks to:
ACO
Justice Centre Hong Kong and Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize
Wendy and Graham (Donors of the artist-in-residency stay)

An exhibition of a journey in Cogtinac, a small village in Provence, France.

The Justice Centre Hong Kong offers the prize winner of Hong Kong Human Rights Art Price an an artist-in-residency stay in Provence for two weeks in July 2014.

Cotignac is a small commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region in southeastern France. For us, Cotignac is a strange land with wild landscapes. We spent our time wandering through forest, churches and castles and listening to whistle from the valley. We were surrounded by the renowned Provencal vivid colour of trees, flowers and cloudless sky. It was too beautiful and overwhelming that we could not forget or believe. The air, time and land of Cotignac were haunting but fragile.

In this show, "holiday mood”will be a starting point of Szelit’s work when Elva will focus on the colour-tone of Cotignac.

Gallery EXIT is pleased to present "Disturbances", a group exhibition with works by Casper Hiu Kwan CHAN, Szelit CHEUNG, Elva LAI, Firenze LAI, LING Pui Sze, Lulu NGIE and TANG Kwok Hin.

The exhibition exposes the viewer to a surreal world where control paradigms, plans and structures are put into jeopardy. What is left is an acceptance to chaos, an acknowledgment of our incapability of becoming a "Body Without Organs" (Deleuze and Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus").

Society, with its values and all the arbitrary and unnatural binary structures of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age etc., inhibit us from an uncontrolled, ungoverned, spontaneous existence. From the moment we come into being, we introject these ethics into the construct of an artificial fabricated personality. As Deleuze puts it, society is a hierarchical organism, where everybody is one part of an economic infrastructure without any space for free will, variety or identity.

The works on view proclaim the possibility of a failure; the paradox of fighting against a status quo that could never be defeated. They delve into the friction that is created when the innate idea of the self tries to challenge the artifice of a socially acquired personality. In a convergence of multimedia works, "disturbances" will reveal the emergence of social and personal disturbances in a display of corruption of the mind, alienation, perversion and madness.

Everything has its own beauty, If, we are willing to discover. Sometimes, an old object values beyond the others, that its presence indicates how people lived and created in the past. As the past passed, it is nice to know that, handcraft remains.

Handmakers of nowadays create with contemporary aesthetics, In a blend of old and new manners.
While we are looking closely at the handmade things, We may sense something – the makers’ attitudes.
Their products are an extension of their minds, And they are most alive.

The show is curated by Furze Chan

"Fresh Trend 2012" is a joined art student exhibition organized by Hong Kong Art Network and 1a space to showcase latest artistic trends of local young artists. Participants include 30 fresh art graduates from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Art School.

The exhibition will take place in Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Kennedy Road, Central from 15 to 27 Aug and in 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village from 15 Aug to 2 Sept. Creative works of students will be exhibited. They include paintings, photography, sculptures, videos, installations, etc. A penal of judges will select 3 graduates to be awarded and galleries will organize solos for those winners.

From Studium to Punctum - Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Exhibition 2012 is co-presented by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and the Hong Kong Art School. The exhibition will be held from 7 – 28 July at the Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre. Thirty-nine emerging artists will showcase their works, in diverse mediums that include Ceramics, Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Multimedia Installation. This year’s graduation exhibition is titled “From Studium to Punctum”. In his book “Camera Lucida”, Roland Barthes applied the twin concepts of “studium” and “punctum” on photography. Studium denotes the cultural, linguistic, and political interpretation, while punctum depicts the wounding, personally touching detail. The duality of these cohesive forces offers dynamic possibilities while the graduates have focused on the exploration between general interpretations and distinctive visions.