Tai Kwun and The Hong Kong Jockey Club celebrate Simple Gifts of Joy this festive season. What’s the perfect gift for the holiday season? Often, it’s the intangible things that have the most lasting impression — those spontaneous smiles, those warm embraces, those moments shared together. Christmas is that special time of year when these […]
Immortal souls, past lives, and cyberpunk futures fuse in a psychedelic solo exhibition by the Hong Kong artist Kongkee, which follows legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuan (c. 339-278 BCE), a singular commemorated hero of the annual Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Kongkee’s animated film Dragon’s Delusion begins after Qu Yuan’s untimely ending, in which he drowned […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present Green Snake: women-centred ecologies, a group exhibition pointing to the extractive economies at the root of our ecological crises, which treat nature as reserves of resources for exploitation. The exhibition asks what alternative narratives are activated through artists’ visions that celebrate nature as an all-encompassing and generative force […]
In a very short space of time, InnerGlow has captured the imagination of the Hong Kong public. Hong Kong’s unique visual identity as expressed through its intangible cultural heritage, like the Tai Hang Fire Dragon — will find its way into the aesthetic looks of InnerGlow 2024’s Parade Ground performance Dragon Tales. Meanwhile, our search […]
M+ and Tai Kwun Contemporary are pleased to present ETC (2023), a feature-length film by American artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967). Commissioned by M+ and Tai Kwun, ETC will be exhibited on the M+ Facade every night from Friday, 26 January to Sunday, 17 March 2024. ETC is a cinematic portrait of Hong Kong made in […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is pleased to announce Sarah Morris: Who is Who, the upcoming solo exhibition of renowned American artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967). The exhibition presents the feature- length film ETC (2023) and a newly commissioned wall painting, Lippo . Who is Who is on view from 16 March to 14 April 2024 in […]
Debuting in Hong Kong for the first time and interpreted site specifically for Tai Kwun, internationally celebrated director Tsai Ming-Liang continues his career-spanning collaboration with Golden Horse Award-winning actor Lee Kang-Sheng in The Monk from Tang Dynasty. Previously featuring at international arts festivals around the world, including Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Vienna Art Fair, Taipei Art Fair, and […]
Now a springtime staple, Tai Kwun's outdoor flower extravaganza "Tai Kwun In Bloom" is set to sprout for its fourth showing inside the Parade Ground from 4 April. More than a mere gathering for floral enthusiasts, the flower market transcends the botanical realm and expands on Tai Kwun's mission to foster public appreciation for the […]
In this quirky interactive performance, fictitious Danish start-up Labyss conjures the sensory experience of being turned into data through AI conversations and questionnaires designed to revive and store one’s memories. Performed by artists from Hong Kong, audiences are invited to share and witness as their collective thoughts are absorbed and regenerated into a strange emerging […]
Artificial Intelligence and chatbots – once considered tools or playthings – are evolving, poised to become our everyday companions and confidants. As AI becomes increasingly enmeshed within personal expression and social interaction, humanity must grapple with shifting notions of identity and self-awareness. Created by transdisciplinary artist Lo Wan Ki, Retry Login is a virtual life […]
Continuing Tai Kwun’s tradition of incubating female dance arts, from Mui Cheuk-yin to Wong Pik Kei Rebecca and Gigi Yang, this year SPOTLIGHT has commissioned a solo dance theatre programme co-created and performed by Elsie Chau – co-founder of Unlock Dancing Plaza and the former principal dancer of the Hong Kong Dance Company – and […]
Dormitory Town invites audiences to set out on an odyssey through the complexities of mortality. Travelling from Tai Kwun to the Tung Wah Coffin Home, the roaming theatre performance guides its followers through soliloquy and song - into the web of work, rest, and the afterlife – made tangible in the context of a local […]