Art Central Hong Kong, the 2022 edition, took place at the Hong Kong Convention Centre this May.
We are very proud to have shown Fragment(s) | Series 02 | Vase A | 03 as well as Without leaving your room | Pair 04 at the Made in Hong Kongexhibit. Here are a few images of the exhibition.
We are delighted to share that two of our pieces have been selected to show at Art Central this coming May 26 to 29 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
“Made In Hong Kong”, is a special exhibition at Art Central 2022, that features the artistic creation of Hong Kong-based independent artists and visual practitioners.
Of the over 650 individual artwork applications received, 65 works by 40 artists were selected to be exhibited.
The participants represent diverse backgrounds, including both professionally trained and self-taught artists, as well as designers and writers.
Their works cover a wide range of media, from painting, photography and sculpture to print and installation, and explore the fabric of their surroundings through multiple senses – visual, audio and tactile.
Some of the artworks on view delineate urban spaces using realistic, abstract, or speculative approaches; some touch upon personal perceptions via analytical or affective expressions.
Prevailingly, the urban and quotidian spaces within the artworks are interwoven with the artists’ memories, dreams, words, research and experiments – presenting visual creations made in Hong Kong with multifaceted perspectives and abundant energies.
We’re very excited to announce our participation in Design Trust Futures studio 2022 programme. This year the theme of the project is Heritage is creative generation.
This year DTFS partners with Hong Kong Palace Museum, inspired by Project Twelve, a cultural and design exploratory project using a theme of the twelve animal signs of the Chinese zodiac. During a 12-year period starting from 2008, an outstanding Asian artist or designer, was invited each year to create a masterpiece sculpture, using the zodiac sign of the respective year as a theme.
The six-month long programme is an accelerated, compressed version of DTFS created out of creative urgency to collaborate during the pandemic. With the team and partners, 12 designers/ collectives are invited to propose and craft a new interpretation of one Chinese zodiac work relating to Project Twelves past works, with their creative spark; whilst adding their independent and creative skills informed by a series of dialogues and workshops, and showcased at Scholars Commons, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, that opens to the public July 2022.
Designers: Adonian Chan (Co-founder, Trilingua Design), Elaine Yan Ling Ng (Founder, The Fabrick Lab), Florian Wegenast and Christine Lew (Co-founder, Studio Florian + Christine), Alexandra Batten & Daniel Kamp (Co-founders, Batten and Kamp), Julie Progin and Jesse Mclin (Co-founders, Julie & Jesse), Bob Pang, Ken Chow (Founder, Yat Muk Studio), Su Chang (Principal of Su Chang Design Research Office), Jacqueline Chak (Partner of EDIT and EDITECTURE), Mic Leong & Soilworm Lai (Stickyline), Tin Lau, and Niko Leung (Founder, Future is Transparency)
Mentors: Raman Hui, Cynthia Sah, Chelsia Lau, Dennis Chan, Kan Tai-keung, Chi Wing Lo, Anthony Lo, Man Fung-yi & Mok Yat-san, Edwin Chan and Freeman Lau.
Advisors: Daisy Yiyou Wang (Deputy Director at the Hong Kong Palace Museum), Tianlong Jiao (Head Curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum)
Lead curator: Marisa Yiu
Collaborators: Louis Ng, Freeman Lau
Design Trust Futures Studio 2022 Curatorial and Project Team: Marisa Yiu (Lead Curator), Zheng Zhou (Associate Curator & Designer), Mavis Wong (Project & Communications Manager)
Mixed colours: rebirth is a cross-cultural art exhibition featuring 22 international artists and curated by Marie-Florence Gros (La Galerie Paris 1839) and Christel Villepelet in benefit of Children of the Mekong.
We are very proud to have participated with our Fragment(s). Here are a few photos.
MIX COLOURS: REBIRTH is a cross-cultural art exhibition featuring 22 international artists and curated by Marie-Florence Gros (La Galerie Paris 1839) and Christel Villepelet.
MIX COLOURS: REBIRTH is a burst of colours to celebrate the energy of life, the power of diversity and natural beauty, and to highlight the links between cultures.
Wrecked on our island, or stuck elsewhere, forbidden to travel, we have cherished even more the vivid beauty around us. While pollution, globalization, threaten to fade the world’s colours and contrasts, while unexpected new threats have changed our perspectives, this exhibition enhances colours as symbols of the natural and cultural diversity to save, the original beauty to admire, the source of rebirth: a positive and energetic sight to create tomorrow’s world.
Julie & Jesse will be showing three pairs of Fragment(s) to benefit the charity work of Children of the Mekong.
Where
The Pulse, L3, East Wing, Repulse Bay
When
30th of April 2021 to May 3rd 2021
Free Admission
Play Lives is an exhibition curated by Rémi Leclerc and Chi-wing Lee for Design Spectrum about the concept of play as a positive agent in people’s lives.
We are very proud to be showing our latest project, Pocket Garden, made for Design Trust: Critically Homemade x Kapok.
Play is useless. Play is good. Everybody plays. Not all the time. So what is play? How does it work? Why is it good? How do we design for play? So many questions – is there enough time? Enter the rabbit hole: toying with the concept of play as a positive agent in people’s lives, the PLAY LIVES exhibition takes visitors through design for play’s wonderland.
Play Lives is an exhibition curated by Rémi Leclerc and Chi-wing Lee for Design Spectrum.
Julie & Jesse will be showing Pocket Garden made for Design Trust: Critically Homemade and Kapok.
Where
Design Spectrum
When
23rd of February 2021 to 30th of April 2021
Free Admission
Déshabillé, series 02, vase 01 awarded Special Prize
We are extremely proud to have been selected to show at the 2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale and to announce that the jury members awarded our piece Déshabillé, series 02, vase 01 a Special Prize. The exhibition is taking place at the Yingge Ceramics Museum from November 20, 2020 to May 09, 2021.
This year’s Biennale invited senior ceramicists, professors of ceramic art, curators, and directors of arts and cultural organization from the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Indonesia and Taiwan to form an international panel. The jury members are Yulin Lee, Director of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; Sandra Benadretti Pellard, Chief curator emeritus of the Magnelli Museum and Ceramics Museum of Vallauris.; Hsin-Tian Liao, General-Director of National Museum of History; Ching-Yuan Chang, Professor at the Tainan National University of the Arts; Martin Smith, Professor Emeritus of Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art; Toshio Matsui, Director of the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park; and Arief Yudi, Curator of the 5th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale. They selected the winners after preliminary and final selections.
Very thankful to have shown Terra Mobiles at PMQ, a project that engages the public, encourages participation and embraces the spirit of collaboration in a time of social distancing.
Featuring over 70 unique prototypes by artists, designers and architects from around the world.
“DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade” has been a micro-initiative rooted in the idea of community, recognizing its essential role in paving a positive and productive road forward. This micro-initiative conceptualised by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder / Executive Director of Design Trust) expresses innovation, reflection, lightness and hope, where small acts of making, and gestures of generosity expand to more support within and around communities.
