The Shiga Museum of Art announces a major solo retrospective for Sasaoka Yuriko, to open on January 17, 2026. “Sasaoka Yuriko’s Paradise Dungeon” will feature early video installations, including those from the museum’s collection, alongside new commissions.
Sasaoka Yuriko's video work Icarus's Bride is featured in the group exhibition "The Decameron" at ZHI Foundation, Beijing. The exhibition runs from May 20, 2025 to March 30, 2026.
Zheng Mahler recently presented Nostalgia Machines (2019) in Hamburg as part of the Chinese Film Festival, “In Between and Never There.” The festival ran from May 9 to June 22, 2025.
Various works from Sasaoka Yuriko’s recent solo exhibition “Animale” have been acquired by private and institutional collections. Working Koala - Blue (2025) has been adopted into the Akeroyd Collection and Working Horse - Brown (2025) will travel to Zhi Foundation. Other recent acquisitions include LOVERS, which will enter the collection of the Shiga Museum of Art.
A sculpture by Christopher K. Ho has been acquired by EAST Hotel in Hong Kong. The work will be permanently installed at the main entrance of the building in Tai Koo Shing. It was first displayed at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 in the Encounters sector, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor.
A solo show by Luo Jr-Shin, “Tomato seeds germinate through the body,” is currently on view at Michael Ku gallery in Taipei. Featuring recent sculptural works within large-scale spatial installations, the exhibition touches on processes of sewage, fertilizations, and growth. The project was commissioned by the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, and the show runs through July 19, 2025.
Samuel Swope’s work Flying Wheel (Nervous Thrasher) (2024) has been acquired by Cc Foundation in Shanghai. The work was previously shown at PHD Group and current plans, Hong Kong.
Zheng Mahler will participate in the group show “The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), opening June 13, 2025. As part of the exhibition programming, they will also take part in a research summit, taking place from June 14-21 at M HKA.
Zheng Mahler's multi-part project "What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?" (2022–23) has been acquired by M+ museum in Hong Kong. Various portions of the projects have been shown at Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany; PHD Group and M+ museum, Hong Kong; West Bund Art Museum, Shanghai; and Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul. The prolect was commissioned by the institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany.
Chan Ting is showcasing Daydreaming Birdwatching House, a new audio-visual installation at Tai Po Arts Centre for “Arts in the City,” a public initiative presented by HKADC. The installation features a wooden house and a new experimental film inspired by Lam Tsuen, where the artist currently lives and works. In conjunction with the artwork, a special performance featuring Chan Ting and Cantonese Opera practitioner Rose Li Zi-rui is scheduled for April 19 and 26, 2025.
Michele Chu and Chan Ting are participating in “It Always Sounds Somewhere,” a group exhibition at Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing. Curated by Dr. Edward Sanderson, the exhibition explores the history and evolution of sound practice in Mainland China and Hong Kong from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition is on view from February 22 to June 1, 2025.
Sasaoka Yuriko will participate in the 2025 edition of the Tokyo Odaiba Triennale. Set in various locations across Odaiba, the Triennale features 40 artists including Yayoi Kusama, Abraham Poincheval, and Lu Yang. The Triennale is on view from October 18 to December 25.
Lee Eunsae has been selected as a 2025 resident of the Cité Residence in Paris. Supported by the Samsung Cultural Foundation, the six-month residency program starts in October 2025. Lee will use this opportunity to further her research in Korean folktales.
In conjunction with the exhibition "The Embrace and the Passage" at Para Site’s 10/F space, Michele Chu presented Ghost of Raspberry, a series of participatory performances created in collaboration with sound artist Lam Yip and food designer Alison Tan. Drawing from her immersive installation rocking cradles, wet blankets, the performance blended ritual, food, sound, scent, and environment to explore communal and gastronomic grief. The performances took place from December 6–8.
PHD Group is pleased to announce our collaboration with Abraham & Wolff, Paris for the group exhibition “Cabinet Cabinet Curiosity Curiosity” at Abraham & Wolff, Paris. Curated by PHD Group, the exhibition features works by Michele Chu, Chan Ting, Sasaoka Yuriko, Magdalen Wong, Xi Jiu and Zheng Mahler. The exhibition runs from December 6, 2024 to January 11, 2025.
Michele Chu debuted a new immersive installation at Para Site’s 10/F space for the exhibition “The Embrace and the Passage,” curated by Jessie Kwok. Chu assumes the role of host by designing an immersive installation that envelops and disorients the senses to lead the audience into an interactive stage for happenings. Performance artists Florence Lam, Monique Yim and Bunny Cadag, reimagines the role of guest by presenting live works within and beyond Chu’s installation. The exhibition opened on November 2, and runs through February 23, 2025
Chan Ting’s work Moss Wonders (🛶), generated from the artist’s residency at Para Site earlier this year, was on view at the Asia Art Archive auction preview at H Queens. The preview was on view from October 23 to November 1.
Zheng Mahler will participate in the Hong Kong iteration of the traveling group exhibition “In Stranger Lands - Cocoa’s Journey to Asia,” curated by Caroline Ha Thuc. Staged earlier this year in Vietnam, the exhibition delves into the multiple narratives of Asian cocoa and chocolate. The exhibition will be on view at Tang Contemporary from October 17 to November 14.
Asia Society Texas opens the group show “Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis” on October 17 with a work by Christopher K. Ho. Curated by Owen Duffy, the exhibition centers the institution’s context in Houston, Texas as a site of outer space exploration and curiosity. The exhibition is on view through March 16, and also features work by James Clar, Alicja Kwade, and Trevor Paglen.
Wong Kit Yi is participating in this year’s edition of the Lahore Biennale, “Of Mountains and Seas.” Curated by John Tain, the biennale features 60 artists across 30 countries, including Haegue Yang, Hamra Abbas, Sopheap Pich, and Heman Chong.
Sasaoka Yuriko will open a solo exhibition “Planaria” on October 3 at Muzeum Manggha, Kraków. The exhibition grapples with mortality through an absurdist, carnivalesque lens and will be on view until November 3.
Wong Kit Yi recently debuted a new video work, Made for Telefishion, at the Lofoten International Art Festival - LIAF 2024. The work is curated and organized by Alison Burstein from New York’s The Kitchen, and is installed at the North Norwegian Art Centre until October 20.
Zheng Mahler will be showing their work Bubalus Bubalis 14-40,000hz in the group exhibition “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice.” (Sep 14 - Jan 5) The exhibition is organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles as a part of Getty’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative, and is curated by Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake with Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, PST Fellow.
Lee Eunsae is currently participating in the group exhibition “2024 Art Spectrum ‘Dream Screen’ ” at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. The exhibition is curated by Hyo Gyoung Jeon and Jiwon Yu, and will be on view through December 29.
Zheng Mahler unveiled their solo presentation “Three Works about Shells, Porcelain and Rare Earths” at the Fringe Club as part of ART021’s Expansion section. The presentation included 3 works from the duo’s long-term research based projects and was on view from August 29 to September 1.
Sasaoka Yuriko recently unveiled a large-scale outdoor installation LOVERS at Omotesando Crossing Park in Shibuya, Tokyo. The work features the artist’s eyes, nose and mouth in a collaged video paying homage to the artist’s pet cat and a special trip to the vet that resulted in the removal of his testicles. The work was on view from August 15 to 26.
Michele Chu is currently participating in a research residency at Para Site alongside artists Florence Lam and Monique Yim. The artists are conducting field research in and around Para Site’s 10/F space in preparation for an upcoming exhibition curated by Jessie Kwok. A public program featuring a range of participatory happenings was hosted on Aug 7. In which all creative exchanges between visitors and artists were documented anonymously to inspire the artists’ upcoming project.
Zheng Mahler will be screening their work What is it like to be a (virtual) bat? Phase III at Seoul Museum of Art as a part of the Seoul Mediacity pre-biennale program. Titled “STATION - IMAGE COMMUNITY,” the pre-biennale is in collaboration with “ARE YOU FOR REAL,” a project by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and will be on view from July 16 to July 28.
Yuko Mohri’s solo exhibition “Moré and Moré” is now on view at Aranya Art Center. The exhibition marks the artist’s first major solo exhibition in China and features photographs, a newly commissioned installation, and a group of outdoor sound sculptures. The exhibition is on view from July 14 to October 13.
Sasaoka Yuriko was recently interviewed at her studio in Chiba by the National Center for Art Research Japan, in light of her presentation at the 14th Shanghai Biennale. In the interview, Sasaoka discussed her past projects and her video work Gyro, which was shown in Shanghai. The video documentation of the interview can be watched here.
Zheng Mahler is currently participating in the group exhibition “Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis” at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, showing their long-term research-based project Bubalus Bubalis 14-40,000hz. The exhibition is curated by Mi You and David Garcia and will be on view through September 29.
PHD Group will present works by Michele Chu and Sasaoka Yuriko at June Art Fair 2024 in Basel, Switzerland. The fair will take place in a concrete bunker-turned-exhibition space and will open from June 10 to June 16.
Zheng Mahler is currently presenting “Nostalgia Machines” in the group exhibition “Foreverism:Endless Horizons” at Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul. Supported by Kukje Gallery, Arts Council Korea, and Hyundai Sungwoo Holdings, the exhibition examines the concept of Foreverism, and how contemporary visual culture responds to this consumerist exploitation of nostalgia. The exhibition will be on view from April 12 to June 23.
Zheng Mahler's VR work “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat? Phase IV” (2022) can now be experienced at M+'s interactive media room at the Mediatheque. The work is the culmination of the artist duo’s long term, research-based project “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?,” originally commissioned by and shown at the IFA in Germany, and can be experienced until June 30, 2024 at M+.
Sasaoka Yuriko recently unveiled 3 new installation works in Hyakunengo Art Festival, a commemorative project celebrating the 150th year anniversary of the Chiba Prefecture. The festival features 100 Japanese and international artists including Yayoi Kusama and Yuko Mohri, showing artworks across various locations in the Chiba Prefecture. Sasaoka’s work is on view in Ichihara City from March 23 to May 26.
Chan Ting is currently participating in “Hung Up on You”, a group exhibition at Ping Pong Gintonería in Hong Kong. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, video installations, sculptures and marks the 10th anniversary of the bar. The exhibition includes works by Kwan Sheung Chi, Wong Ping, Angela Su, and other Hong Kong artists, and is on view from March 19 to June 15.
PHD Group will show works by Sasaoka Yuriko and Michele Chu at Palai Penang, a contemporary art exhibition at Homestead, Penang. The exhibition runs from March 22 to April 14 and is organised by Balice Hertling and Blank Canvas.
Sasaoka Yuriko presented her new work “Animale” in the 31st edition of “VOCA The Vision of Contemporary Art Exhibition” at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo. The exhibition featured 31 artists nominated by curators and researchers and was on view from March 14 to March 30. Sasaoka Yuriko is also named the winner of “VOCA Honorable Mention Award” in this year’s edition.
Virtue Village will be participating in “Beyond the Singularity,” a group exhibition curated by Issac Leung and presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The exhibition aims at pushing the boundaries of artists’ practices by introducing them to artificial intelligence through workshops, months-long tutorials, and collaboration with artificial intelligence experts. The exhibition will be on view at SHOWCASE from March 16 to April 7.
Supper Club is a week-long event in Hong Kong’s annual art month that aims to disrupt the conventional art fair paradigm and reinvent the art selling and socialising experience. Initiated by Hong Kong gallerists Willem Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung from PHD Group, and Alex Chan from THE SHOPHOUSE, the event focuses on emerging and experimental presentations curated by Anqi Li and will also include live performances and panel talks. The event will take place in Fringe Club, a Grade I heritage building and also the co-organiser of the event. The event runs from March 25 to 30, and features 20 international and regional galleries. For more information, check here.
PHD Group is happy to announce the exclusive representation of Chan Ting, a Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist working in installation, video, and performance. Chan’s works have been exhibited in Tai Kwun Contemporary and HART Haus, among other venues. She is currently the resident artist at Para Site’s 10/F space and will open a solo show there on January 27.
Wong Kit Yi is currently screening her karaoke-lecture-performance “Dial 432 to See the Light" (2022) in “On Screen,” an online program organized by The Kitchen and curated by Alison Burstein. The work was made during the artist’s residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and is now revisited as a research project in partnership with The Kitchen and Lofoten International Art Festival - LIAF 2024. A selection of materials from The Kitchen’s archive, annotated by the artist, accompanies the video.
Zheng Mahler recently premiered a new digital commission, "Beyond the Noosphere," (2023) at Oil Street Art Space in Hong Kong. Organized by artist Ng Tsz Kwan, the work engages in artificial intelligence to narrate the geological and historical layers present in our landscape, and is included in the exhibition “The Digital Cuboid: Virtual Realm." The exhibition runs through early 2024.
Sasaoka Yuriko will be participating in the 14th Shanghai Biennale, titled "Cosmos Cinema." The 14th edition of the biennale is curated by Anton Vidokle, Zairong Xiang, Halie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis and Ben Eastham. The biennale opens November 9, 2023 at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
Wong Kit Yi recently premiered her new karaoke-lecture-performance “Robot, Take Me Home” at the SuperBridge Summit hosted at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. The work was commissioned by the SuperBridge Council as part of a special program curated by Pi Li.
Zheng Mahler recently unveiled "The Master Algorithm: Redux," a new website project, commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The project reimagines a 2019 work by the artists, "The Master Algorithm," which employed an avatar of the AI newsreader Qiu Hao, released in 2018 by China’s state news agency, to voice speculations concerning the cultural, economic, and political implications of AI development in the country. The new commissions contains texts by scholars on technology and AI, including Shuang Frost, Vincent Garton, Bogna Konior, Dino Zhang, and Xin Wang.
Zheng Mahler will screen two recent video works at “Pixel Row,” a video program curated by Anqi Li at West Bund Museum, Shanghai. The works are taken from the artist duo's long term, research-based project “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?” originally commissioned by IFA Germany and recently shown at Kunsthalle Mainz. The West Bund Museum program runs through November 8 and also includes video work by Yu Araki and Pan Lu.
Wong Kit Yi recently screened “A River in a Freezer” (2017) and performed “Inner Voice Transplant” (2022), at M+ museum to celebrate the institution’s years-long partnership with CHANEL. The two karaoke-lecture-performances were followed by a Q&A session with the artist and Kate Gu, producer of Digital Special Projects at M+.
Cas Wong, one half of the artist duo Virtue Village, recently unveiled a new site-specific installation “Who’s That Girl?” at the group exhibition “Welcome >_< Take a Seat Wherever (cringe vibing on a downward spiral)” at Tomorrow Maybe, Eaton. The work explores how Gen-Z uses “virtue signalling” as a response to social and political changes and is curated by Angela Liu as part of HART Haus' curatorial incubation program.
Virtue Village recently unveiled a new lecture performance, "Pyromoan," commissioned for "More than Human," a festival-exhibition hybrid organized by Dossier and taking place across Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. The work explores, among other themes, the history of fire and post-humanism, inspired by Ihab Hassan's essay “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?"
Lee Eunse will be in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2023 to 2024, joining 20 residents selected by a jury of arts professionals, including artists Ho Tzu Nyen and Banu Cennetoğlu. During her residency, she aims to explore the materiality of painting, focusing on gestural markings and sculptural forms.
Michele Chu will be in residence at London's Delfina Foundation from October to December, as part of their "Performance as Process" program. Continuing her research, she will in her residency explore intimacy, loss, and grief through mediums of food and multisensory performance.
Christopher K. Ho will unveil new works at two group exhibitions this summer: at Art Intelligence Global in Hong Kong (opening July 7) and CHART in New York (opening July 12). The CHART exhibition takes as its starting point the concept of a belly ache, or a somatic discomfort that reveals political or social anxieties, while the AIG exhibition explores the liminal spaces of hotels.
Japan has appointed Yuko Mohri to create a new large-scale commission for the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, slated to run from 20 April to 24 November, 2024. Mohri's presentation will reference pressing matters of contemporary society, including the pandemic and recent climate protests. The pavilion will be overseen by Sook-Kyung Lee, senior curator of international art at the Tate Modern.
Sasaoka Yuriko is named the winner of the 2023 Mercedes-Benz Japan Art Scope Prize. The prize is awarded annually to a Japanese or European artist in an effort to facilitate cross-cultural exchange between the two places. Sasaoka Yuriko will embark on a three-month residency in Berlin with the support of the prize, during which she will create a new work related to animal fables and the Enlightenment.
PHD Group is delighted to announce participation in Liste Art Fair 2023, which will take place at Messe Basel, Basel, from June 12 to 18. For its first presentation at this art fair, the gallery will be showcasing the works of Japanese artist Sasaoka Yuriko.
Zheng Mahler was recently announced as one of the 29 participants in the forthcoming Helsinki Biennial. Titled "New Directions May Emerge," the biennial is curated by Joasia Krysa and explores alternative modes of living, while investigating themes of technology, environment, and political conflict.
The biennial opens on 12 June and runs through 17 September, 2023.
A longform interview with Michele Chu is the cover feature of ArtReview Asia's Spring 2023 issue, distributed at Art Basel Hong Kong. The interview, conducted by editor Fi Churchman, explores Chu's relationship with her mother, and works in the exhibition "you, trickling," which opened at PHD Group on March 20.
We are delighted to announce Zheng Mahler’s participation in “What is it like to be a Bat?,” a group exhibition hosted at Kunsthalle Mainz and curated by Yasmin Afschar, opening March 17.
The artist duo will present findings from their project “What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?, in which longterm research into philosophical and anthropological questions around non-human entities—in this case, the bat— is explored with new technologies. In the exhibition, research videos and printed matter will accompany a guided meditation in virtual reality and immersive video installation.
The meditation can also be experienced online at www.ru4real.de.
Christopher K. Ho will feature a new sculpture at the Duddell's group show "The Drifters," curated by Eunice Tsang, opening March 19 in Hong Kong. The exhibition is drawn from the collections of six collectors, and includes Tala Madani and Samson Young.
"Post-Modern Tales," a group exhibition organized by HART Haus, will feature a cyanotype work by Michele Chu. Opening March 20 and situated in H Queen's, Hong Kong, the exhibition aims to "showcase histories, personal memories and locality through experimental captures, bringing contexts of culture and identity formation to light."
On April 6, Tate Modern and Wong Kit Yi will present "Inner Voice Transplant," a karaoke lecture performance first commissioned and shown at the FRONT Triennial. The performance takes place as part of a two-day film program that also includes Diane Nguyen Severin and Tao Hui. The performance is followed by a discussion between the artist and curators.
On Monday, February 13, the Singapore Art Museum, Zheng Mahler, and architectural historian Ian Tan will present a live twitch stream exploring Singapore as depicted in the video game “The Green Crab: A Virtual Diagram of Auspicious Spatial Organization."
“The Green Crab” video game is a continuation of a project by Zheng Mahler in which they explore “a speculative feng shui map of Singapore which provides an alternative guide for navigating the city.” The stream will include a discussion between the artists and SAM curator Duncan Bass.
Zheng Mahler will present pieces from their 2013-16 series “A Season in Shell” in the upcoming group exhibition “Multispecies Clouds” at the Macalline Art Center in Beijing. The exhibition, which opens on December 27, presents alternate perspectives on decolonization and the Anthropocene and is curated by Yang Beichen.
Sasaoka Yuriko participates in the upcoming group show "Dream/Lands" at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, alongside six other Japanese artists. The exhibition investigates collective dreaming and the landscape as related to the psychological or geographical, and runs from December 18, 2022 to January 28, 2023.
Virtue Village will participate in "Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III," a monumental exhibition of queer art featuring over 50 artists from Asia and its diasporas held at Tai Kwun's JC Contemporary. Curated by Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong, and co-presented by Sunpride Foundation, the exhibition aims to address "“queer mythologies”, who highlight either same-sex love and desire or gender fluidity as found in ancient belief systems and traditions in Asia." The show opens on December 24, 2022.
Yuko Mohri will show work alongside 80 other artists in the 14th edition of the Gwangju Biennale (opening April 7, 2023), titled “soft and weak like water.” The Biennale is curated by Artistic Director Sook-Kyung Lee, alongside Associate Curator Kerryn Greenberg, and Assistant Curators Sooyoung Leam and Harry C. H. Choi.
PHD Group and the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong are pleased to announce "Flèche," a duo exhibition featuring new works by Michele Chu and Lee Eunsae. Running from August 25 to September 24 at the KCC, the show investigates somatic experience and porousness, creating space for what our flesh remembers, reveals, and holds on the surface.
“Please Touch” (2022), a new site specific installation by Michele Chu, is on view through August 7 as part of a group exhibition organized by 135YCS, “Yu Chau Street Temporary Playground.” Installed between a bus stop and a Sham Shui Po storefront, the piece investigates the interstitial spaces of private and public spheres, and invites passers-by and strangers to engage with one another.
Photo credit: Jeff Cheng and 135YCS.
A new karaoke lecture performance by Wong Kit Yi, “Inner Voice Transplant” (2022), is now on view at the Samson Pavilion at Case Western Reserve University, as part of the FRONT Triennial in Cleveland. Inspired by the artist’s research in Akron and Cleveland, the work takes as its starting point the world’s first voice-box transplant, which took place in 1998 at Cleveland Clinic.
Photo credit: Wong Kit Yi and FRONT Triennial
The monumental, outdoor installation "CX 889" by Christopher K Ho is now on view at Vancouver Art Gallery's Offsite location. Guest curated by Godfre Leung, the installation freezes in time the period just before Hong Kong's handover from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China by restaging fragments of Kai Tai Airport, which closed in 1998.
Photo by Joe Kramm, courtesy the artist and Vancouver Art Gallery.
"Extended Present - Transient Realities" opened April 8 at Ludwig Museum featuring the work of Yuko Mohri alongside Hiwa K, Mika Rottenberg, Jill Magid and Dane Mitchell, among others. On view through September 4, the show explores the "permanent transience that we experience today, both on a global and personal level."
Photo credit: Yuko Mohri and Ludwig Museum.
A new installation work referencing the old Kai Tak Airport can be viewed at "i set my face to the hillside," a group exhibition featuring eight current and recent resident artists from the Painting Space 122 Project Studio Residency, at PS122. The exhibition is on view through April 24, 2022.
Photo credit: Christopher K Ho
The Green Crab: A Diagram of Auspicious Spatial Organization can now be viewed at the Singapore Art Museum's Bras Basah Road and Queen Street sites. Created in collaboration with Singaporean architectural historian Ian Tan and One Bite Design Studio, the work looks past the "functional modernity of the city-state," and "reveals the hidden qi flows of the “spiritual state” woven into the fabric of Singapore’s master plan for urban development."
Yuko Mohri participates in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney with a series of Moré Moré (Leaky) installations. Inspired by the ad hoc assemblages in train stations and other public areas, designed to stop temporary leaks, Mohri created a set of systems that similarly control the flow of water. "To me," she says. "they looked like different approaches to sculpting – they were treasure houses of inspiration."
A new seven-meter-long site-specific installation by Michele Chu is on view at "Emo Gym" at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. Curated by Erin Li, "Emo Gym" aims to "confront, dissect, and possibly embrace the vulnerability of our times." Chu presents inti-gym (2021) as an extension of her ongoing research into intimacy and ritual practices.
Yuko Mohri’s work “I Can’t Hear You” comprises two speakerphones in a long tunnel that respond and overlap in sound. A reference to the miscommunications of politicians and ideologies, the work plays on the idea of sound loss, echo, and repetition. The work is currently on view at the recently opened Sense Island festival on Sarushima, a small deserted island featuring the remains of Batteries from the Meiji period.
Photo credit: Yuko Mohri and Sense Island festival.
Wong Kit Yi recently completed a two-month residency in Marfa with Chinati Foundation, home to a contemporary art museum and collection of works by founder Donald Judd. Her work at Chinati builds on a recent project, Hong Kong Weather Modification Office (Square cloud) (2019).
Photo credit: John Merk Robertson.
Christopher K. Ho features on ArtReview's Power 100 list, alongside Claire Hsu and John Tain, for their collective work at Asia Art Archive. ArtReview noted that in 2021, Asia Art Archive launched three new archival collections: the Oscar Ho Kong Kay Archive, the archive of Green Papaya Art Projects and Manila Artist-Run Spaces Archive.
Photo credit: Alfredo Esteban (Ho), William Furniss (Hsu), Wendy Ng (Tain)
Lee Eunsae is one of the three artists selected for the annual IMA Picks showcase at the Ilmin Museum of Art. Titled "Dear my Hate-Angel God," the solo presentation features paintings that engage in different materials such as PET plastic films or sheets of steel.
Xin Liu was commissioned by M+ Museum in 2021 to create the digital artwork "The Earth is an Image," which picks up signals from long abandoned, artificial satellites floating in space.
Photo credit: Xin Liu
"Disappear from the Earth: Video Games, No-Sex & Piłsudski" is the artist's first solo show in Europe and features new large-scale video-installations that explore themes of occultism, video games, sexuality, Western art history and Japanese imperial history. The show was curated by Paweł Pachciarek.
Photo credit: Sasaoka Yuriko
Luo Jr-Shin's solo exhibition “Like a Urinal in a Nightclub” is the artist's largest solo project to date. Transforming the Museum into a nightclub, the exhibition is the culmination of a decade's worth of artistic exploration and makes use of scent, sound, light, texture, poetry and large-scale installations.
Photo credit: Chu Chi Hung
