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 […]
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 […]
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 […]