The new permanent exhibition at Central Magistracy takes a fresh look at the building. Focusing on the experiences of people who passed through the Magistracy, the exhibition explores its role in Hong Kong’s criminal justice system, starting in 1841 and ending with the building’s decommissioning in 1979. Newly commissioned research shines light on the experiences […]
From 23 Jun to 4 Oct, Tai Kwun’s Duplex Studio will highlight decades of high-stakes filmmaking camaraderie both in front of and behind the camera. Curated by film director Sunny Chan Wing San (Co-Curator and Creative Director of last summer’s Undercover Underworld), presented in association with the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Better Together features […]
Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth, the world’s first post-cinematic choreographic installation, refracts, evolves and reimagines dance performance in a startlingly original new form of experience. Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet, and Studio Wayne McGregor, London, the 57-minute programme is set within Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine’s radically immersive, panoramic, 360-degree […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary presents Isaac Chong Wai: An Intimate Surrender, the Berlin–based Hong Kong artist’s first solo live art exhibition in Hong Kong. This newly commissioned project takes the celebrated Chinese novel and film Farewell My Concubine as a point of departure, and through spatial arrangements and corporeal language that balance rigidity and fluidity, together […]