Grotto SKW is pleased to kick off the Fall season with Wenda Yiu’s first one-woman exhibition. Wenda’s creative stimulus comes from ancient map, the way it was conceived in horizontal perspective at a time before satellites and GPS! Using landmarks and icons from Hong Kong, she creates contemporary old maps with figural or formal signages, […]
Grotto Fine Art is thrilled to announce a special presentation of the ink installation "The Inhabitant Islets" by leading Hong Kong artist Shum Kwan Yi. This installation features 19 original ink on silk landscape paintings enclosed in custom made lightboxes. In a room resembling a security chamber, the line of boxes lure the viewer for […]
We are thrilled to present Connecta, Wong Yee-ki’s first one-woman exhibition since 2016. Featuring the complete series of Admonition to Lollipopland Fight (in 12 panels) as well as Wong’s newest Ocean Waves series, this exhibition combines the artist’s interpretation of “homage to tradition” and “loyalty to subjective innocence”.
This thematic exhibition on the interpretations of iconography through narrative approach features artworks by two leading HK artists Wai Pong-yu and Chan Kwan-lok alongside photography by Josiah Leung, a prominent fine art photojournalist. Inspired by a set of contemporary Indian thangka paintings, this exhibition explores how traditional religious icons and symbols are presented in contemporary […]
William Lim & Lavina Lim – Journey with Me features William’s paintings and installation and debuting Lavina’s photography and chronicles their journey in life and journey of life. “The journey through life is filled with wonder, challenges, broken hearts, extreme highs and lows, celebrations, special moments, and memories that define our experience as a human. […]
This exhibition draws inspiration from the first cave of the Mogao Grottoes and aims to 'construct' a landscape of interconnected caves. Through a contemporary interpretation of traditional landscape painting, it responds to the absurdity of the world and the inner struggles. The first part visually presents the landscapes inside and outside the caves from a […]
We are pleased to launch acclaimed Hong Kong sculptor Lam Yau-sum’s first one-man exhibition Tin Garden at Grotto SKW. Famous for his meticulous use of industrial materials, Lam constructs a forest playground accentuated by individual sculptures featuring circuit boards, tin, sodor, copper and silver wires. In a city known for her juxtaposition of nature and […]
The storytelling technique of "The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige" was regarded as fundamental of illusionist training. While the concept was introduced in the context of stage magic, the structure had been used by artists in their pursuit of narrative and expressive deliveries for many years. Artists in the present exhibition all involve their […]
Urban solitude is often linked to population mobility, cost of living, and a high percentage of people living alone. Young adults who move to a new city for university or for work may find themselves experiencing loneliness for the first time as they leave existing social ties behind and struggle to establish new friendships. In […]
One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin, and Stéphane Mallarmé, and she embodied many of […]
Grotto is pleased to launch our exhibition of the year, HUNG HOI: The Luminous and Hidden, the acclaimed Hong Kong artist’s first one-man exhibition since 2015. Featuring a collection spanning two decades, it focuses on the artist’s development in methods from textual narrative to conceptual abstraction. New works contain exciting colour / textural strokes (tsun) […]
To kick off 2025, Grotto is thrilled to present Brian Chan Kwan-lok's solo exhibition Echoes of Nature, the acclaimed Hong Kong ink painter's first solo show since 2019. A master in Chinese baimiao (pure line painting) style, Chan combines contemporary narratives and meticulous renderings, capturing philosophical metaphors and personal sentiments through every brushwork and physical expressions. A major […]