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Earlier this year in July, a group of young Hong Kong artists travelled to the village of Scuol in Switzerland to take part in a residency program, and to exhibit their work alongside that of a group of Swiss and Austrian artists. The exhibition comprised the work of Hong Kong artists Au Hoi Lam, Nadim […] >> Read more

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present for the first time in Asia, an exhibition of new video works by Paris-based artist Isabelle Cornaro. The multi-disciplinary practice of Cornaro considers the various material and conceptual shifts that occur when an object is transformed into an image. Exploring how our perspectives are historically and culturally determined, […] >> Read more

Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present for the first time in Asia >> Read more

There’s something about being held within the form, like the actual person, the life cast, is held within the fantasy of the form. It’s a piece that draws you in. You go around the back, you come to the front. —Paul McCarthy >> Read more

Kukje Gallery is pleased to announce Gridded Currents, a group exhibition featuring four artists actively engaged in the global contemporary arts scene, from July 20 to August 20, 2017. >> Read more

Talkover/Handover 2.0 at 1a Space / “Canton Express: Art of the Pearl River Delta” at M+ Pavilion / Fereydoun Ave's “Shah Abbas and His Page Boy” at Rossi & Rossi / Wong Chung-Yu's “Centrifugal Force” at Hanart TZ gallery / Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon's “Catchy” at Empty Gallery / R. Streitmatter-Tran's “Departures: Intersecting Vietnamese Modern Art with R. Streitmatter-Tran” at de Sarthe gallery >> Read more

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still). >> Read more

Art Central is a big tent in many ways besides the obvious. The art and the galleries are an eclectic mix, frequently more focussed on design, kitsch and decoration than engaging the competitive collecting of Art Basel acolytes and the art intelligentsia (real or pretentious). >> Read more

For a long time ShanghART’s home was the M50 art district, on the banks of Suzhou Creek, a much smaller version of Beijing’s Dashanzi 798. Galleries at M50 would come and go but ShanghART’s presence, along with the mostly local artists it represented—including Ding Yi, Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen—remained constant. >> Read more