2 nd Annual Hong Kong Art Gallery Association ART SYMPOSIUM at Asia Society Asia: New Frontiers in the Art World Fri 17 Nov 2017 2:30 pm 6:30 pm (Half Day) Sat 18 Nov 2017 9:30 am 5:40 pm (Full Day)
Intro d uc ti o n Hong Kong Art Week 2017 Symposium CO - P R E SE N TE D B Y Hong Kong Art Gallery Association & Asia Society Hong Kong Center Asia: New Frontiers In The Art World Friday, 17 November 2017 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm & Saturday, 18 November 2017 9:30 am - 5:40 pm JC Hall, Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty Hong Kong This year s 2nd annual Art Week Symposium includes a robust programme of inspiring talks by speakers many new to Hong Kong audiences with diverse viewpoints. Recognising that Hong Kong is a pluralistic society, where arts professionals with different approaches can engage in lively conversation, we aim at connecting the Hong Kong arts community by circulating fresh ideas through public conversations. 5 p m - 10 pm 21 November 2017 Tickets avilable on Ticketflap now! www.ticketflap.com/the-gallery-walk-for-charity-2017 The focus this year is on the particular challenges of the Asian context in 2017, and how this idiosyncratic framework of perpetual tension between the local and the international, the traditional and the modern, inevitably impacts its art workers (whether artists, art researchers, curators, collectors, writers, art galleries or other arts professionals). We explore these topics particularly as they relate to Hong Kong, and its ambition to be the new centre of the contemporary art world in Asia. Please join us in what we expect to be a revelatory introduction to new approaches, new projects, new strategies, and new perspectives; all aimed at inspiring Hong Kong s art community.
Friday 17 Nov 01 2:30 pm Welcoming Remarks Introducing Seminar Focus by Ms. Angela Li and Ms. Katie de Tilly, HKAGA Co-Presidents SESSION ONE / Collectors Visions Shaping the Art World 2:45-3:25 pm Dr. Wiyu Wahono Jakarta-based Collector 3:30-4:30 pm Talk by Dr. Wiyu Wahono Wiyu Wahono, an Indonesian collector, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. Wiyu Wahono holds a PhD in Plastic Technology and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, Germany and established his own company in Indonesia. Apart from his achievements in engineering, he is also actively involved in the contemporary art field. He serves as a jury member of Bandung Contemporary Art Awards, an honorary board member of patrons in Singapore Art Fair and a board member of young collectors in Art Stage Jakarta. He is also a freelance writer in Indonesian Art Magazines. Since 2009, he has been guest speaker at over 40 art talks, including Art Taipei 2017, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2017), Korea and Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2017). His art collections have been exhibited in Jakarta, New York and Hong Kong, and he was nominated Best Collector 2017 by Art Stage Jakarta. Panel Discussion and Q&A moderated by Ms. Meg Maggio, HKAGA Public Relations & Marketing Chair Panel Mr. Liu Gang Mr. Douglas So Dr. Wiyu Wahono
02 03 Mr. Liu Gang Lawyer, Beijing-based Collector, Art columnist Mr. Douglas So Founder and Director, F11 Foto Museum & f22 foto space, Hong Kong-based Collector Mr. Liu Gang is one of the leading lawyers in China and received the Legal Profession Lifetime Achievement Award by Chambers and Partners in 2010. He has been collecting artworks for more than 23 years. With his unique taste, he assembled a series of Chinese oil paintings covering the period from 18th century to the contemporary era, and featured artists include Giuseppe Castiglione, Xu Beihong, Wu Guanzhong, Liu Xiaodong. Besides the collection, Mr. Liu is very active in art circles. He is an art columnist, a patron of Ullens Centre for Cotemporary Art (UCCA), and also serves on the board of directors of Yuan Art Museum. This year he published an art book titled COLLECTING TIME THREE CENTURIES OF CHINESE ART, which reveales more than 100 paintings in his collection, together with his art review articles. Douglas So is a lawyer residing in Hong Kong. A keen collector of cameras and photographs, he founded the F11 Foto Museum (www.f11.com) inside a heritage building in Happy Valley in 2014 with a focus on classic photography and heritage conservation. In September 2017, Douglas opened f22 foto space (www.f22.com) in Wanchai to promote photo-art and contemporary design. f22 offers a gallery, a photo book shop, a camera boutique and a café. Douglas is a frequent speaker and recently featured at Fine Art Asia, HKU Museum Society and K11 Salon. He has also curated a number of photo exhibitions at F11 including works of Robert Capa, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Elliott Erwitt, Alexander Rodchenko and Paolo Pellegrin. Douglas is a member of the Judging Panel of the 2017 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Douglas also serves on the boards of West Kowloon M Plus Collections Limited, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Museum Advisory Committee, amongst others. SESSION TWO / Key Note Speech Mr. Philip Tinari Director of Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Co-curator of Art and China after 1989: Theater of the 5:00 pm Brief Introduction by Ms. Katie de Tilly, HKAGA Co-President 5:05-6:00 pm World (2017), Guggenheim Museum Theater of the World: Art, China, and Institutions in a New Era by Mr. Philip Tinari Phillip Tinari has served as director of Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), the institution at the heart of Beijing s 798 Art District, since late 2011. During his tenure, he has mounted more than sixty exhibitions and organised a wide range of public programmes and development initiatives. His programme has brought to China international figures including Robert Rauschenberg, Elmgreen & Dragset, Haegue Yang, William Kentridge, Taryn Simon, and Tino Sehgal, and has tracked China s evolving art scene through retrospectives and surveys of artists including Zhao Bandi, Zeng Fanzhi, Liu Wei, Xu Zhen, Wang Keping, Wang Xingwei, Kan Xuan, and Gu Dexin, as well as exhibitions focused on emerging artists such as The New Normal: Art, China, and 2017, ON OFF: China s Young Artists in Concept and Practice (2013), and the ongoing exhibition series New Directions. In 2009, he launched LEAP, an internationally distributed, bilingual art magazine published by the Modern Media Group. He is a contributing editor of Artforum, and was founding editor of that magazine s online Chinese edition. He holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and is currently a D.Phil. candidate in art history at Oxford. Tinari is co-curator, with Alexandra Munroe and Hou Hanru, of the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, on view at the Guggenheim through January 7, 2018 and subsequently touring to Bilbao and San Francisco. 4:30-5:00 pm Short Break: Refreshments served at Asia Society s JC Hall Followed by Q&A 6:30 pm Brief Closing Remarks & Invitation to Cocktail and Artists Video Screening by Mr. Fabio Rossi, HKAGA Programmes Chair
04 Saturday 18 Nov 05 9:35-10:00 am Typhoon Simchowitz by Mr. Stefan Simchowitz via Skype Transmission Mr. Stefan Simchowitz Art Collector 9:30 am Brief Opening Remarks and Introduction by Ms. Meg Maggio, HKAGA Public Relations & Marketing Chair Stefan Simchowitz (born in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Los Angeles-based photographer, art collector, art curator, art advisor, polemicist and film producer. He is a vocal proponent of social media as a legitimate vector for discovering, distributing, and popularising the fine arts outside and alongside the traditional institutional, educational, critical and gallery infrastructures. SESSION THREE / Outside the Art Institutions - Curating New Projects / New Frontiers 10:00 am 10:05-10:35 am Talk by Ms. Ingrid Chu Ms. Ingrid Chu Curator and Writer, Co-Director & Curator, Forever & Today, Inc. Brief Opening Remarks and Introduction by Ms. Yas Mostashari Chang, HKAGA Community Service Chair Ingrid Chu (MA, Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) is a Hong Kong born curator and writer with experience at leading museums and non-profit art organisations including Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Creative Time, New York; The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City; The Power Plant, Toronto; and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Chu founded RED-I Projects, an independent curatorial platform in 2004, and she co-founded Forever & Today, Inc., a non-profit commissioning organisation alongside fellow Co-Director & Curator Savannah Gorton (Curator, Friends with Books, Art Book Fair Berlin) in New York in 2008. A frequent visiting curator and guest critic, Chu was a 2012 Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Art Writing Workshop participant, and her writing has been featured in Afterall, Frieze, Frieze Masters, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Asia, LEAP, Ocula, Performa Magazine, Walker Art Center Magazine, and Yishu, among other international contemporary art and culture publications. 10:40-11:40 am Panel Discussion and Q&A moderated by Ms. Ingrid Chu Panel Ms. Sook-Kyung Lee Mr. Aaron Seeto
06 07 Ms. Sook-Kyung Lee Senior Research Curator, Tate Research Centre: Asia Mr. Aaron Seeto Director, Museum of Modern Mr. Dustin Shum Ms. Selina Ting Mr. Septime Webre Sook-Kyung Lee is the Senior Research Curator at Tate Research Centre: Asia and Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee, where she leads Tate s research in modern and contemporary Asian art. Lee was previously Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool and curated a number of exhibitions and displays including Doug Aitken The Source, Thresholds and Nam June Paik. She also served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Lee has organised and participated in several symposia and conferences internationally, and has also written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary Asian art. Aaron Seeto is the Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN). He was formerly Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, where he led the curatorial team responsible for the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in Brisbane. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. While at 4A, Seeto commissioned major projects and solo exhibitions by artists such as Shen Shaomin, Yang Fudong, Qiu Anxiong, Ming Wong, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Song Dong and Dadang Christanto. Mr. Dustin Shum Co-Founder and Curator, The Salt Yard Ms. Selina Ting Editor in Chief, CoBo Social Dustin Shum is a Hong Kong based documentary photographer. He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Photographic Design. In his work, Shum focuses on the relationship between individuals and urban spaces, the living conditions of local disadvantaged groups, and the transformation of Chinese cities and towns in rapidly developing economy. His works have been collected by the SFMOMA, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and private collectors. Shum has also published several photobooks including Themeless Parks (2008) and BLOCKS (2014). In January 2013 he co-founded The Salt Yard, an independent, artist-run exhibition space dedicated to photography, where he curated a number of exhibitions by overseas and local photographers. The Salt Yard is also an online photobook store promoting the art of photobook publishing. Selina Ting is a curator and a specialist in contemporary art with over 10 years of professional experience both in Asia and Europe. Stationed in Paris and Brussels between 2004 2014, she has a network traversing the Chinese, Asian and Western art world. In the last 5 years, she was Editor-in- Chief of initiart Magazine and Whitewall Magazine (China Version). Selina has published extensively on her research projects as well as on general issues regarding art and culture. Selina is currently Editor-in-Chief of CoBo Social, the first Asia community platform for collectors. and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta
08 09 Mr. Septime Webre Artistic Director, Hong Kong Ballet 11:55 am - 12:15 pm 12:15-2:00 pm Lunch Break Septime Webre is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. This season he joins Hong Kong Ballet as its Artistic Director after 17 years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in Washington DC, US from 1999-2016. Previously he served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet, based in Princeton, New Jersey, US from 1993-1999. In addition, Webre serves as the Artistic Director of Halcyon, a Washington DC-based foundation, launching an annual international Festival for Creativity in Washington DC in June 2018. During Webre s tenure at The Washington Ballet, the institution s budget grew by 500%, and it enjoyed unprecedented advances in the scope and quality of its work on stage, in the size and reach of its professional school, and in the development of several far-reaching community engagement programmes, which he founded. As a choreographer, Webre s works appear in the repertoires of ballet companies throughout North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Colorado Ballet, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, Milwaukee Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, and many others, and he has worked frequently in theatre as well as opera. He has served on the juries of a number of international ballet competitions, including those in Varna, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Cape Town, New York, Seoul, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of Dance/USA and his work has received numerous honors, grants and awards. Hong Kong Ballet Dance Performance on rooftop SESSION FOUR / Embracing New Technology In The Art World 2:05-2:35 pm Prof. Zhang Ga Media Art Curator; Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Art and Technology, 2:00 pm Brief Introduction by Ms. Adriana Alvarez- Nichol, HKAGA Vice-President China Central Academy of Fine Arts Talk by Prof. Zhang Ga Zhang Ga is an internationally recognised media art curator. He is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Art and Technology at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and Senior Fellow at the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Programme of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Since 2015, he directs Chronus Art Centre in Shanghai, China s first non-profit art organisation dedicated to media art. Previously, he was a Professor at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, and Associate Professor of Media Art at Parsons School of Design; and has held visiting positions at the MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and The Graduate Centre, CUNY. In his capacity as Consulting Curator of Media Art at the National Art Museum of China from 2007 2014, he curated the widely acclaimed International Media Art Triennial series including Synthetic Times (2008, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project); Translife (2011), and thingworld (2014), among others. His recent curatorial projects include unreal: The Algorithmic Present at House of Electronic Arts Basel (June 2017, Switzerland) and Datumsoria: The Return of the Real at ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (September 2017, Germany). He has edited several books and contributed essays that were published by the MIT Press, October, Flash Art International, Liverpool University Press and Tsinghua University Press. He also serves on the editorial board of Leonardo Books by the MIT Press. Most recently, he is co-curator of HONG Media Art Collection, a ZKM based international new media art collection. 2:35-3:35 pm Panel Discussion moderated by Prof. Zhang Ga
10 11 Ms. Victoria Chang Director, VIVE Arts & Culture at HTC Mr. Kyle Chung Senior Research Associate, Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media, City University ofhong Kong; House Curator, Videotage Panel Ms. Victoria Chang Mr. Kyle Chung Mr. John Tain Victoria Chang is Director, VIVE Arts & Culture and is responsible for developing partnerships across the cultural sector for HTC VIVE. In 2017, she launched major Virtual Reality projects with institutions worldwide, including Tate Modern s Modigliani and the Royal Academy s From Life. Miss Chang is Taiwanese and holds a master s degree in History of Art from the University of London. Kyle Chung is a Hong Kong based curator whose recent exhibitions explore the dynamics between technologies, materiality and human agency. Selected exhibitions include One World Exposition 2.1: #like4like at chi K11 art space, Hong Kong; To Outland at SMAC, Berlin, Germany; Conjunctions and Disjunctions: Juried Exhibition of International Symposium on Electronic Art 2016, Hong Kong; Rocking Prejudice at CHELSEA space, London, UK; Bright Shadow at The Morgue, London, UK. Chung was appointed as Co-Chair of Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 in Tokyo, Japan; Jury of CynetArt International Festival in Dresden, Germany in 2016. Chung was trained as a curator with David Dibosa and Donald Smith in Chelsea College of Arts in London, where he acquired his MA in Curating. Chung is awarded Hong Kong PhD Fellowship for doctoral research in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Chung is currently Senior Research Associate in Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media, City University of Hong Kong; and House Curator at Videotage, Hong Kong. Mr. John Tain Head of Research, Asia Art Archives, Hong Kong, How New Technology Is Adapted at AAA (Asia Art Archives Hong Kong) Prior to joining Asia Art Archive as Head of Research this October, John Tain was a curator for modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, where his many acquisitions include the archives of artists Harmony Hammond, Allan Sekula, Faith Wilding, and Ed Ruscha s Streets of Los Angeles project. He has organised exhibitions and programmes, among them Greetings from L.A., which was part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative, and Video Art from the New China. Current projects include research on Xerox and an exhibition on the artist Yasuhiro Ishimoto for the Terra Foundation s Art Design Chicago initiative. His writings have appeared in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art International, ArtReview Asia, Art Papers, and in exhibition catalogues such as Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s (Montclair Art Museum, 2015, and others), and E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology (Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2015). He is President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, and regional representative for the 2018 College Art Association Annual Conference. 3:35-4:00 pm HTC VR Demonstration & Short Break with Refreshments
12 13 SESSION FIVE / How to Build A (Better) Museum in Asia 4:00 pm Brief Introduction by Ms. Faina Derman, HKAGA 4:05-4:30 pm Mr. Doryun Chong Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+ Events & Special Projects Chair Talk by Mr. Doryun Chong Doryun Chong was appointed in September 2013 as the inaugural Chief Curator at M+, a new museum of visual culture, which will open its Herzog and de Meuron-designed building in 2019 in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. In January 2016, he was promoted to Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+. He oversees all curatorial activities and programmes including acquisitions, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, and digital initiatives encompassing the three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. The most recent exhibitions he co-curated include Mobile M+: Live Art ; Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, and Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief (Consulting Curator), Hong Kong s participations in the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Prior to joining M+, Chong was Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, where he organised projects including the critically acclaimed exhibition, Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde (2012) and acquired a diverse range of works, many of them nonwestern, for the museum s collection. From 2003 to 2009, Chong held various positions as curator in the Visual Arts department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis 4:35-5:35 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A moderated by Mr. Doryun Chong Panel Mr. Ole Bouman Ms. Hsieh Suchen Ms. Eve Tam Mr. Ole Bouman Director, Design Society, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China Ms. Hsieh Suchen Artistic Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Yinchuan, Ningxia Province Ole Bouman, former Creative Director of the Urbanism/ Architecture Bi-City Biennale Shenzhen (2013-14), is now the director of Design Society, Shenzhen. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of architecture magazine Volume. His publications include The Invisible in Architecture (1994) and Architecture of Consequence (2009). Between 2006-2013, Ole Bouman was the director of Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). He was co-curator of Manifesta 3 (2000), and was responsible for many entries to the architecture Biennales of Shenzhen, São Paulo and Venice. Ole Bouman taught architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in 1964, Kaohsiung, Taipei, has a MA of Curatorship and Art Administration with honors from Goldsmiths, University of London, and PhD of Art History in CAFA (Central Academy Of Fine Arts). She has taught at Institute of Fashion and Communications Design of Shih Chien University and Taipei National University of the Arts, having worked as the Deputy Director of Kaohsiung Mountain Museum, Executive Director of Mountain Art Foundation, Director of CAFAM and Today Art Museum, etc. With her rich experience and profound professional knowledge, Suchen Hsieh has curated many exhibitions, including A hundred years of Dutch architecture, the Chinese Art Research Exhibition of People. History, and countless solo exhibitions.
14 Ms. Eve Tam Museum Director, Hong Kong Museum of Art Eve Tam holds a B.A. in Fine Arts (1991) and M.A. in Cultural Studies (2003) from the University of Hong Kong, and a M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Sydney (2013). She received a scholarship from the Belgian Consulate in Hong Kong in 1994 to intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium, and a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council in 2004 for visits to museums in the U.S. Eve Tam has extensive experience working in Hong Kong s public museums, including the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and the Art Promotion Office. She took up the position of Museum Director at the Hong Kong Museum of Art since 2012. She is fellow of Advanced Clore Leadership Programme 2012 and fellow of the Getty Leadership Institute programme 2015. 5:40 pm Closing Remarks by Ms. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong & Ms. Henrietta Tsui-Leung, HKAGA Honorary Chair, President Emeritus Board of Directors & Organising Committee Hong Kong Art Gallery Association (HKAGA) Mailing Address: G/F, 248 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Co-Presidents Angela Li, Contemporary by Angela Li Katie de Tilly, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Vice-Presidents Adriana Alvarez-Nichol, Puerta Roja Shirley Yablonsky, Opera Gallery Community Service Chair Yas Mostashari Chang, Galerie Huit Education Chair Catherine Kwai, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery Events & Special Projects Chair Faina Derman, Sundaram Tagore Gallery Legal Counsel & Executive Corporate Secretary William Fong, Yan Gallery Membership Secretary Vincent Chan, Leo Gallery Programmes Chair Fabio Rossi, Rossi & Rossi Public Relations & Marketing Chair Meg Maggio, Pékin Fine Arts Honorary Chair, President Emeritus Henrietta Tsui-Leung, Galerie Ora-Ora Karin Weber, Karin Weber Gallery Arts Development Manager Marcelle Rosfelder-Leu Arts Development Officer Tammy Ma Project Officers Yanying Cheung Cheryl Leung
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