Stay tuned to our upcoming events!
The Journey of a Hong Kong Landscape Photographer: Kelvin Yuen
Date: 13 March 2023 (Monday)
Time: 7pm-8pm (reception starting at 6:30pm)
Venue: Blue Room, 26F, Soho House, 33 Des Voeux Rd W, Sheung Wan
Medium: Cantonese
Registration: first come, first served, free seating
Speaker: Kelvin Yuen is a Hong Kong-based full-time landscape photographer. At the age of 26, he has already cooperated with international brands such as Cathay Pacific, National Geographic, DJI, Hong Kong Tourism Board, and German National Tourist Board. Kelvin started his photography journey when he was a secondary school student. After completing his university education, he turned his interest into a career, focusing mainly on landscape photography. His unique sense of aesthetics and style, fully revealed in his works, won him the title – The International Landscape Photographer of the Year (2020).
Public Talk: Archaeology HK
Date: 12 January 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Venue: CPD2.42, Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker: Mr. Chau Hing Wah, Curator (Special Duty) Archaeology, Hong Kong Museum of History
Medium: Cantonese
Registration: free
Guided-tour: The Art of Luis Chan
Date: 18 December 2022 (Sunday)
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Venue: Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Speaker: Joyce Wong Hei-ting (Guest curator)
Medium: English
Museum Visit: The Road to the Baroque
Date: 25 August 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4pm – 5:30pm
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Art
Registration: required, free
Speaker: Dr. Sim Hinman Wan (Lecturer, Department of Art History, HKU)
Medium: English
When we hear the word Baroque, what comes to our mind? Is it the taste for drama? Tenebrism? Caravaggio? Or the Counter-Reformation? “The Road to the Baroque: Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum” showcased works by famous artists such as Titian, El Greco, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Jusepe de Ribera. Rarely do we see such an array of 17th century oil paintings on display in Hong Kong. We were delighted to have Dr. Wan from HKU Art History to guide our visit, on a day when the museum was closed to the public. The exhibition’s curatorial team was there with us as well!
Pottery Workshop: Wheel Throwing and Glaze
[Wheel throwing session] Date & time: 29 July 2022 (Friday), 7pm-9pm
[Glaze session] Date & time: 19 August 2022 (Friday), 7pm-8pm
Venue: The Pottery Workshop, Room 305, 3/F Lyndhurst Building, 29 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central
Registration: required
Fee: $750 (members), $850 (non-members)
The fee covers both sessions (3 hours in total), including also clay, tools, bisque and glaze firing of the works.
Instructor: Aidan Wong
Medium: Cantonese/English
Myriad Shades of Jade: the Problem and Beauty of Celadon
Date: 16 August 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Registration: required, free
Speaker: Dr. Ruby Pui Yi Leung (Lecturer, Department of Art History, HKU)
Medium: Cantonese, with some specific terms in English
In conversation with Dr Kathleen Wyma on Nalani Malani’s Vision in Motion at M+
Date: 4 August, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: The Studio, M+
Nalini Malani is a prolific cross-disciplinary artist best known for her iconic Video/Shadow Play. On display are three major artworks – Utopia (1969–1976), Remembering Mad Meg (2007–2019), and Can You Hear Me? (2018–2020)— that spans five decades of Malani’s artistic career.
When Dr Wyma saw Malani’s video installations at The Studio in M+, she had the idea of getting a few interested alumni to the exhibition. Dr Wyma wanted to find out the kind of experience a viewer (an outsider) is seeing and feeling when bombarded with images and sounds in her videos and animations . This way we all learn from each other as people take away different things in her moving images !
The event turned out to be really enjoyable for all attending MAAH alumni from different cohorts as they saw for themselves the versatility of the artist working across many mediums. With Dr Wyma’s deep knowledge in Indian art history, the alumni could better understand the embedded meanings in Malani’s narratives and images that often deal with culturally specific events and topics.
Museum Visit: Popcolours and Shopping in Canton
Date: 28 July 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4pm – 6pm
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Art
Registration: required, free
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“I gained a great experience today.”
“I really enjoy the exhibition tours organized by HKUFAAA. You can learn about the curatorial ideas and interesting stories about the making of the exhibitions from curators!”
“My visits to the two exhibitions were thoroughly enjoyable! They have greatly enriched my knowledge of the wide variety of export products ascribed under the rubric China Trade and the broad spectrum of visual expressions of the five colours commonly found in Chinese culture.”
“I did enjoy the visit a lot! Thank you so much for organizing this event!”
Guided Tour: emo gym at Tai Kwun
Date: 3 June 2022 (Friday)
Time: 11:00am – 12:00noon
Venue: JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun
Registration: required, free
Curated by our alumni-cum-Tai Kwun’s associate curator Erin Li, emo gym acted as the artistic platform for seven Hong Kong artists to showcase their recent if not the latest works that inquire into their existential feelings during a time of uncertainty and loss. Participants followed Erin through the exhibition and listened to her sharing (with the wireless receivers) about the concept behind each individual work. The rich variety of sensory experience, manifested and encouraged brilliantly by many works on display, addressed both the mental (emo) and physical (gym) aspect, as well as the vulnerability and resilience of humans and human relationships. Erin also shared with us some of her curatorial anecdotes about the planning process, the installation, and the pandemic impact. The one hour went by so quickly and before we left, we found ourselves in JC Cube, at the bottom of a spiral staircase, all gazing up and our mind lifted by the singing. Mesmerized by this last work of the tour, and touched by the overall care that artists and curator put into the exhibition, we could not be more grateful to have spent our Dragon Boat Festival morning there.
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“It is a joy to resume our art activities with a curator-led tour to an exhibition that attempts to soothe our troubling emotions accumulated from the past few years. The show was well thought out, beautifully executed and shine light on our many local talents.”
“An insightful exhibition tour allowing viewers to perceive the messages of artworks that have resonance for us.”
Online Talk: Dr Baecker on M+ Sigg Collection
Date: 30 April 2022 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am (HK time)
Venue: Online (zoom)
Registration: required, free
Museums in town had been closed for months and the cancelling of our museum visit back in January was then turned into this online talk. To help individuals form their own views when they encounter contemporary Chinese art, our guest speaker, Dr Angie Chang Baecker (Lecturer, Department of Art History, The University of Hong Kong) offers us her knowledge about the field, looking closely at the exhibition “From Revolution to Globalization” and the significance of the Sigg collection at M+ museum. She situated the show in the converging spatial complexes for contemporary art represented by the museum, and discussed how the exhibition’s reception has highlighted some of the contradictions inherent to the display of the Sigg collection.