Collaboration In Collision
Venue: Pao Galleries and Jockey Club Atrium, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2026.08.26 - 2026.09.20
Time: 1000-1900
Price: Free Admission
About the Hong Kong Arts Centre Flagship Exhibition
The Flagship Exhibition has been designed as a platform for understanding, presenting and sharing the curatorial perspective and practice in Asia. Guest curators with strong Asian connection are invited to share their unique visions and to explore art concepts that reflect the region. The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) launched its first Flagship Exhibition in 2009 with the purpose of enriching the Asian experience in the context of curatorship and bringing a new and unique perspective to the international contemporary art scene. Asian curators from the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore were featured in the past editions of the Flagship in which these curators offered their unique lens to look at Asian contemporary art.
About the Exhibition "Collaboration in Collision"
"Collaboration in Collision" is a site-responsive exhibition which re-articulates as an open invitation to two experienced artists/ collectives. Two entities, experienced art practitioners or artist initiatives, are invited to create a site-responsive exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, turning the exhibition space into a dialogic organism as one of the HKAC’s flagship exhibition.
This exhibition will begin with each participating entity carrying their own vocabulary from technological forms to conventional art forms such as art and tech, painting, installation, digital art, ceramics, or different kinds of artistic practices. After a period of mutual dialogue and collaboration, the two vocabularies will be coexisted, overlapped or reconciled. The resulting exhibition will be a juxtaposition, a fusion, or even a third voice that could have emerged or immersed between each other. It is not a group exhibition of different artists’ works; it is an experiment in how two cosmologies can share gravity in connection. At the same time, this will be a site responsive exhibition where the art spaces or architecture of the HKAC is treated as a silent third collaborator.
Participating Artists:
Fang Lijun x Public
Kurt Chan Yuk-keung x Shiro Matsui
Raymond Fung Wing-kee x PRS (Picture Rhythm Studios)
Juri Hwang x Andreas Kratky
Curated by: Janet Fong Man-yee
Exhibition's public programme 1 - Reshaping Marine Litter: Beach Cleanup & Ocean Waste Upcycling Art Workshop
Date & Time: 23.08.2026 (Sun) 1330-1700
Venue: Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong Island
Hosts: Gaau1 Up Design Studio & Cradle Academy
Inspired by the ocean waste artwork of renowned artist Fang Lijun, we cordially invite you to join Gaau1 Up for a coastal cleanup walk along Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong Island. Plastic waste collected during the event will be upcycled on the spot into a unique, exquisite piece of art for you to take home!
Note: This activity will be conducted in Cantonese.
Exhibition's public programme 2 - Reshaping Marine Litter: Ocean Waste Art Installation Co-Creation Workshop
Date & Time: 05.09 & 12.09.2026 (Sat) 1400-1530 / 1600-1730
Venue: 3/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hosts: Gaau1 Up Design Studio & Cradle Academy
"Turn Plastic into Power": Join Gaau1 Up to learn how to upcycle pieces of plastic waste collected from the ocean, co-creating a large-scale art installation. This installation will even be exhibited in the atrium of the Hong Kong Arts Centre alongside ocean waste artwork by renowned artist Fang Lijun!
Note: This activity will be conducted in Cantonese.
Exhibition's public programme 3 - Curator Tour
Date & Time: 12.09.2026 (Sat) 1500-1600
Venue: 5/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Host: Janet Fong Man-yee
Entitled "Collaboration in Collision," what sparks were ignited in this exhibition? What kind of collaboration emerged, and what chemical reactions did it weave with the spatial site? Join the curator tour, and let the curator tell you the story piece by piece!
Note: The event will be conducted in Cantonese.
What's On
Learning
15/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2026.12.21 - 2026.12.23
