During the long weekend of 26 – 28 May, Tai Kwun also encourages everyone to explore the hidden heritage spots strewn around the Central Police Station Compound, where secluded architectural traces may well be located inside the Hidden Spaces Tour, including underground passages to the courthouse, Tai Kwun’s prison cell revitalisation, and air-raid shelter. Time […]
This summer season, Feel Your Heart Beat in celebrating the fifth anniversary of Tai Kwun with a constellation of stirring exhibitions and affecting experiences, sure to surface deep emotions and inspire conversations that bring together communities. Invigorate yourself with the power of creativity and immerse in an array of artistic and cultural delights, all taking […]
Taking a holistic view of heritage, development, and sustainability, the spring series of Tai Kwun Conversations presents three respective programmes about caring for people, cultural and natural heritage in times of global crises. It covers the care of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in conflict-affected areas as well as the care of human wellbeing and biodiversity in […]
This summer, Tai Kwun’s Laundry Steps will be transformed into a riotous electrified streetscape crowned by a gawdy tiara of authentic and original Hong Kong neon signs, rescued, restored and conserved and now returned to full public view. Meanwhile, in the Block 01 Duplex Studio, the ingenious imagination and creative problem-solving of Hong Kong’s legendary […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is thrilled to present Killing TV, a new exhibition about how contemporary artists deploy, disrupt, and deconstruct television as a medium. The artworks in the exhibition—dating from the 1970s up to the present day, by 15 artists from around the world—shed light on how television has influenced art, in particular how artists […]
Tai Kwun Contemporary is delighted to announce a new exhibition by the visual artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus), I’ll Be Your Mirror, the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia. As the latest exhibition in Tai Kwun Contemporary’s live art programme, I’ll Be Your Mirror will premiere two new works by Maria Hassabi, who […]
The sounds of music cannot be imprisoned by lofty walls, barred windows and barbed wire. As music freely escapes from Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard, wafting gently upward into the night sky, music just as effortlessly drifts across land borders and vast oceans, using humanity’s common primal response to music as its passport, and the act […]
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 […]