1) Saturday 10: (Inter)viewing Possession (Asia Art Archive)

Warren Leung is one of the best artists from Hong Kong who has great sensitivity and subtlety. I always learn something new from looking at his works no matter if it is photographic or video.

2) Sunday 4: Primitive Contemporary II: No Money for Art vs. No Time for Art (C&G Artpartment)

It is already cool enough to tell people that you are going to see contemporary art not in Central, but in Mong Kok! The secretive spatial experience going up to the gallery from the street is awesome, almost gangster-like. C&G curator Ah Gum always comes up with very interesting show topics. 

3) Wednesday : Something Behind (White Tube)

Both [Damon Tong and Shek Chun-yin] are very promising up and coming artists who produce interesting works. The good thing about White Tube is you can also visit all the different shows going on at the Art Centre. I usually start from the Goethe Institute (14/F), then to White Tube (10/F), 5/F Exhibition Space, 3/F Exhibition Space, 2/F, & Atrium space. There’s lots of art to see in one place.

4) & 5) Friday 9: A Blow to the Everyday & (last) intervention (Osage Kwun Tong)

Osage gallery is one of the best galleries in Hong Kong offering the best space (it is huge!), artworks and people. Their shows are carefully selected by a professional curator and are often better quality than the Museum. At the opening, you can easily meet many visual artists and culture people (standing, chatting, & drinking all night). It’s a must for anyone who wants to get into the secret world of art and see the best gallery space of Hong Kong.

6) Saturday 10: Insert Coin; Spanish Contemporary Art (Para/Site Art Space)

After more than a decade, Para/Site Art Space still remains one of the most interesting art space in Hong Kong. Under its new Spanish director Alvaro we can see more top artists coming from aboard. One of the best things about this location is you really have a community feeling when hanging out at opening night outside the gallery’s door, with beer in the hand of course.

7) Saturday 10: Green – through the Kai Tak River (1aSpace)

Green art – what a title and I think our city needs more of it. Kai Tak river as a place for art? This makes me think of the Italian conceptual artist that turned shit into gold – that is why art is magical I suppose. The nice thing about 1a space is it is at the Cattle Depot and Videotage and Artist Commune are also there so usually you will see more than you expected.

8) Saturday 10: Ink Contemporary: ReXPERIMENT (Artist Commune)

Artist Commune offers a very large space that is full historical architectural character. There are more people practising different forms of ink painting in Hong Kong than contemporary art I think, so I am hoping to learn how to combine the two and create something new from this exhibition.

9) Sunday 11: Cardboard Project (Scratch, JCCAC)

My art partner Jaffa and I came up with this experimental exhibition and it is inspired by the poor people who survive the city by picking cardboards from the streets. We are building a few mini cardboard skyscrapers on wheels and creating a mini-rainstorm inside our gallery space so it is going to be wet, wet, wet at the opening (we are hoping to create a controlled flooding, finger crossed). It is at the Jockey Club Creative Art Centre so you get to visit many other interesting art venues in one spot.

10) Saturday 31: Cultural Infrastructure and city development (Cattle Depot)

What is the use of having good art and good artists without having have a good art plan for the future of our city? And what is a good plan, really? The speakers at this forum are very experience in art and will definitely provoke some thought, as well as offer answers, to the future.

See the schedules:

Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Executive Director and Curator of Para/Site Art Space