Tai Kwun Contemporary's BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair 2024 is returning for its sixth edition, for three days from 30 August to 1 September 2024, on all floors of JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun. The art book fair will once again be welcoming local, regional, and international exhibitors—including publishers, artists, booksellers, and organisations—from Hong Kong, […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is excited to welcome audiences of all ages across Hong Kong to create a new kind of community with their little ones through the interactive installation project Open the Box: Home Sweet Home. Having appeared worldwide from London to Kyoto, Scotland to Berlin, this touring art project will be hosted at Tai Kwun from […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present Tao Hui’s first institutional solo exhibition in Hong Kong, In the Land Beyond Living. Through mediums including painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation, and set design, the artist Tao Hui (b. 1987, Chongqing) constructs an absurdist, surreal landscape. Viewers are invited to reconsider the lives and spiritual states of ordinary folk […]
Tai Kwun is proud to present "DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL", an immersive digital exhibition on view from 2 to 30 November 2024 in F Hall Studio. Featuring a newly commissioned multi-channel video installation produced by the acclaimed Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, this exhibition, curated by Tobias Berger, brings together the far-flung islands of Aotearoa/New Zealand and […]
The exhibition traces the landscape transformations and the dynamic interactions between people and the environment that have shaped the character of Happy Valley, portraying the layered life of this evolving valley as one of Hong Kong’s iconic cultural landscapes. Multimedia presentations—including an interactive topographic model, documentary films of the 1930s, the 1970s, and the present […]
In the heart of Hong Kong, where the season's spirit comes alive, The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) and Tai Kwun invite you to step into a magical Christmas tale, where HKJC X Tai Kwun - Simple Gifts of Joy 2024 will beckon from 1 December 2024 to 1 January 2025. This annual tradition brings to life three […]
Following the success of last year’s appearance by the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble, Tai Kwun announces the third incarnation of its Prison Yard Festivalwith a residency by the Sydney-based Australian Chamber Orchestra, once again transforming Tai Kwun’s iconic Prison Yard into an outdoor performance space where music wafts from the souls of performers to the walls of […]
Alicja Kwade: Pretopia is the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in Hong Kong. Showcasing works that span different periods of the Polish-born artist’s career, the exhibition reflects on our perception of time. It also proposes new perspectives for viewing and understanding reality. Pretopia shows nine works from her career, together with newly commissioned installations tailored […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition Hu Xiaoyuan: Veering, the acclaimed artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Opening 24 January, 2025, the show features twelve new works across seven thematic collections, all commissioned by Tai Kwun. Hu Xiaoyuan (b. 1977 in Harbin, China) was catapulted onto the international stage in 2007 […]
Since 2022, Tai Kwun’s annual signature programme InnerGlowhas transformed the façades and exteriors of the Barrack Block of the former Central Police Station into ambitious large-scale displays of digital animation. In partnership with The Electric Canvas, Australia’s foremost large-scale architectural projection mapping specialist, Tai Kwun once again converts the surface of its visual heritage into a […]
Tai Kwunis proud to present its first-ever Art Week (22 to 30 March 2025) - a dynamic nine-day celebration brimming with cutting-edge performances from emerging artists, absorbing cultural events, extended exhibition hours, and eclectic commercial gallery offerings. As the highlight of the week, Artists’ Night, presented by Tai Kwun and supported by Art Basel Hong Kong, […]
Tai Kwun presents its annual event Artists’ Night on Friday 28 March 2025, a captivating fusion of visual art, installation, live performance, experimental events and music that revolves around the themes of AI, body and ritualistic encounters. From 6pm till midnight, this evening programme activates multiple venues across Prison Yard, celebrating emerging and experimental musicians and visual artists […]