Not sure where to go over the long weekend? Check out these Hong Kong museums and galleries with new art shows.
No matter whether you’re an art fanatic, wanderlust or nature geek, there’s something for everyone in these summer art shows. Local and international artists have created artworks inspired by everything from climate change and cultural heritage to the zodiac, horses and gold. Other artists have chosen to respond to the recently popular topic of the digital world by creating works that question the consumption culture on shopping platform Taobao and the boundary between the virtual and the real world.
1. RNH Space: Liquid Homes: Building, Living and Other Stories of Hong Kong Fishing Villages
The exhibition is a research, curatorial and design project that explores the culture of Tanka people in three local fishing villages—Tai O, Kat O and Po Toi O—and their fluid state of living and building. Headed by Su Chang, who teaches architecture design at the University of Hong Kong, and curated by Yang Jiang, the founder of RNH Space, the research and art team looks into government land documents, and the design and “amphibious” function of the fishing village houses, which accommodate their inhabitants’ lives on land and at sea. The show highlights the dynamic between the urban and the rural, and reflects on the role of contemporary architects in preserving these temporary structures, which the government or developers often dismantle for development, safety or environmental reasons.
From July 1 to August 6. RNH Space, Godfrey Centre Shop 121, 175-185 Lai Chi Kok Road, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon. Find out more at rnhspace.com