Past Events

The Sound of Art – Sunday Concert: Jazzing up the New Year

Sunday, 8 January 2012 (3:30-4:30pm)

Museum Lobby, Hong Kong Museum of Art

Cost: Admission free

Gallery Tour: Wu Guanzhong: Painting. Dance. Music

Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 6:00pm

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Cost: Members Free, Guests $100

Day Trip: 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen

Friday, 27 January 2012 (9:00am – 6:00pm)

Shenzhen, China

Cost: Members $1,200, Guests $1,400, including lunch

Private Tour of Exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes

Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 3:00pm

Gagosian Gallery, 7/F Pedder Building, Pedder Street, Central

Cost: Members $100, Guests $150

Gallery Tour – Meet with artist-anothermountainman (Stanley Wong)

Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 2:00pm

Future Industries, 21/F Ho Lee Commercial Building, 38-44 D’Aguilar Street

Cost: Members $100, Guests $150

 

Gallery Tour – Revitalising the Glorious Tradition: The Retrospective Exhibition of Pan Tianshou’s Art

Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 6:00pm

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Cost: Members Free, Guests $100

Christmas Friends’ Tea

Saturday, 17 December 2011 at 3:00pm

The Peak, Hong Kong

Cost: Members $100, Guests $150

Gallery Tour: Johnson Chow Su-sing: A Tranquil Heart in Art

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 6:00pm

2/F Special, Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art

Cost: Members Free, Guests $100

 

 

Luncheon with Dr. Lars Nittve

Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:15pm

Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central

M+: Towards A New Model For The Future Luncheon presentation by Dr. Lars Nittve, Executive Director, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District

Co-hosted with Asia Society Hong Kong Centre

$450 Asia Society members/ Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
members / Full-time students $550 Non-members

 

 

 

Ode to Wu Guangzhong: Gala Evening

Friday, November 11 2011

Tickets sold out

 

 

South Korea Trip

Thursday, October 27 – Wednesday, November 2
Gallery Tour at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Tai Po

Saturday, October 15

 

 

Gallery Tour at Karin Weber Gallery

Exhibition tour and discussion with artist Michal Macku, Karin Weber Gallery, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central

Thursday, October 13

 

 

Exhibition Tour at The Hong Kong Museum of Art

Apprentice to Master: How Western Techniques were used in China Trade Painting

Tuesday, October 11

 

 

Gallery Tour of “Legacy and Creations – Ink Art vs. Ink Art” and “Legacy and Creations – Art vs. Art” 

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

 

 

Private Tour of the Hong Kong International Art Fair
Friday, May 27, 2011 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, WanchaiA private, guided tour of the Hong Kong International Art Fair — Asia’s leading showcase for international Modern and Contemporary Art with over 250 galleries participating from 38 countries.
2011 exhibitors include Hong Kong as well world-leading galleries, such as Gagosian Gallery, Blum & Poe, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hanart TZ Gallery, Lisson Gallery and White Cube.  The tour will also include two new sections: ART FUTURES, featuring new galleries showcasing emerging talent, and ASIA ONE, featuring local galleries with solo exhibitions of Asian artists. ART HK is staged annually in Hong Kong in May, and will take place this year at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 26-29 May 2011.

 

 

 

8 Things You Should Know About Collecting Asian Contemporary Art Luncheon presentation by Dr. Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Vice President of Global Art Programs, Asia Society Co-presented with the Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Thursday, May 26, 2011 China Club, 14/F, The Old Bank of China Building, Bank Street, CentralDr. Melissa Chiu is Asia Society’s Museum Director and Vice President of Global Art Programs. A leading expert on Asian contemporary art, a prolific writer, curator and TV presenter, Dr. Chiu presides over one of the world’s best collections of Asian traditional art, assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, and has since 2007 led the Asia Society in the initiation of a collection of Asian contemporary art.  With the aim to represent the rapidly evolving field of contemporary art across Asia, initial acquisitions of the collection include video, photography, animation, and new media artworks by 18 Asian artists including Nam June Paik, Patty Chang, Yoko Ono, Xu Bing, Shilpa Gupta, and Zhang Dali.
Dr. Chiu will share her insights into what makes a successful collection, how to go about forming a collection and what not to do. Dr. Chiu has curated nearly thirty exhibitions of Asian artists and published numerous books on the subject, such as Asian Art Now (2010 Monacelli Press). She completed her PhD in Art History at the University of Western Sydney focusing on Chinese art and artists. She founded the Asia-Australia Arts Centre before joining the Asia Society as its Museum Director in 2004.

 

 

 

Simon Birch’s Exhibition: Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, 2 Caine Lane, Mid-Levels In Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood, Simon Birch extends his exploration of the human body in large-scale figurative paintings that tilt into abstraction, conveying fragility and resilience, movement and mindfulness.
 These new works, characterized by Birch’s distinctive paintwork, map the complex intertwining of pain and pleasure, aversion and desire, decay and growth.  Sited in the landmark Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, the subjects of Birch’s deconstructed portraiture, poised between action and reflection, intimate vulnerability and the threat of human dissolution, even as they hint at the body’s capacity to resist the abstracting gaze of modern science.Simon Birch has lived in Hong Kong since 1997 and is widely recognized for his large, figurative oil paintings, many of which are held in collections around the world. In recent years Birch has ventured into film and installation work culminating in monumental projects such as Azhanti High Lightning (Hong Kong, 2007), This Brutal House (Hong Kong, 2008) and HOPE & GLORY: A Conceptual Circus (Hong Kong, 2010), which represents a new level of integration of Birch’s conceptual, material and aesthetic concerns. Aside from Hong Kong, Birch’s most recent international exhibitions include Daydreaming with James Lavelle at The Haunch ofVenison, London (2010) and Transformation, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2010).