Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “Sex Be With You,” a group show curated by Charmaine Tam featuring artists Batten and Kamp, IV Chan, Florence Lam, and Lau Hong Lam. Sex is everywhere. We are surrounded by sex, especially in this modern consumerist age, where sex or the promise of it has been used […]
Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “DIS-PLAY,” the first solo exhibition of Italian artist Riccardo TEN Colombo in Asia, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase TEN’s new project “Cromoblock”. Playing allows us to create a spontaneous relationship with objects, to transform their use, meaning and form, to […]
Novalis Art Design is delighted to present the exhibition ‘The Other Side of La Dolce Vita: Pier Paolo Pasolini with Tazio Secchiaroli in the locations of Accattone. This exhibition is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong under a series of programmes celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini and is part […]
Novalis Art Design is delighted to present Sylvan Reliquary, a solo photography exhibition by Italian artist Costanza Gastaldi (b. 1993). This will be her second solo exhibition in Asia. According to visual artist Costanza Gastaldi, optics is not restricted to just photography as its only proof of knowledge. In her new series “Sylvan Reliquary” she […]
An exhibition of works by the Memphis Group. The Memphis Group was an Italian design movement founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 alongside Michele de Lucchi, Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini, Martine Bedin, Nathalie Du Pasquier, and George Sowden. Active between 1981 and 1988, the Memphis Group defined ‘80s aesthetics and greatly revolutionised the […]
Novalis Art Design is delighted to present a group show curated by Charmaine Tam. The waste we discard and shut out from our minds lingers and haunts us. Walter Benjamin urges us to look seriously at what we have disposed of and the art of disposal itself. A ragpicker is a materialist historian who examines […]
In 2020, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and China, the Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism was announced and finally takes place in 2022, postponed by the pandemic. 2022 also marks the 200th anniversary of Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova’s (1757 – 1822) death. For this […]
Natura Morta, Oggetti Vivi translates from Italian to ‘Still Life, Living Objects.Though ‘Natura Morta’ is the Italian term for ‘Still Life’, it literally translates to ‘dead nature,’ referring to the tranquil and silent sense of the word ‘morte'. The title was chosen for this exhibition which features historic still life works on paper by Giorgio […]
Novalis Art Design is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Francesco Carozza in Asia with support from the Italian Cultural Institute - Hong Kong. “Colour provokes a psychic vibration”, wrote Wassily Kandinsky in the chapter on The language of form and colour in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1910). This “vibration” can […]
Novalis Art Design is pleased to present Elsewhere, a new collection by design duo Batten and Kamp. When designing the pieces in this collection, Batten and Kamp tried to imagine them from an alternative universe, a world much like our own but just slightly different. Perhaps created by an alien race in a place where […]
Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery is pleased to present ‘Venetian Murano Glass,’ an exhibition that showcases the modern artistry of Murano glass with pieces from renowned and historic Murano glassworks: Venini and Berengo Studio. There, the centuries-old tradition of Venetian Murano glass craftsmanship is combined with innovative techniques and creative sensibilities through collaboration with notable […]