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11 July 2024

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Key Art Event Highlights at ‘Collect Hong Kong 2025’: Opportunity to meet our Artists!

Venue: Hong Kong Arts Centre 
Date: 2025.03.22 - 2025.03.30

In addition to the art fair, ‘Collect Hong Kong 2025’ will also host various free-of-charge talks and workshops to enhance the public’s awareness of local art development through diverse channels. 

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Panel Discussion: Artist’s Path To Flourish

Five well-known artists, curators and gallery owners, will share their insights to thrive in an artistic career and discuss how to develop a strategic plan to become a successful artist. Online registration please click here.

Date:

24 March 2025 (Monday)

Time:

19:30-21:00

Venue:

Louis Koo Cinema, HKAC

Speaker(s):

Kan Tai Keung (Ink artist)

Hung Keung (Multimedia artist)

Lee Boon Ying (Boon Lee Award, former Director of the Hong Kong Observatory)

Chloe Chow (Curator, WMA)

Yim Sui Fong (Co-founder, Rooftop Institute)

Moderator:

Chan Sai Lok (Hong Kong Artist, art critic and writer)

*The programme will be conducted in Cantonese.

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Artist Blind Dating

Inspired by the ‘blind box’ culture, the HKAC will reveal the identities of the artists after the activity begins. The lineup includes emerging and renowned artists like Kan Tai Keung, Kurt Chan, Tin Lau, Prudence Mak (Chocolate Rain), where participants could meet and interact with them and engage in an artistic exchange filled with ‘unknown’ and ‘discovery’. Online registration please click here.

Date:

22 March 2025 (Saturday)

23, 29, 30 March 2025 (Saturdays, Sundays)

Time:

17:30-18:45 (22 March 2025)

18:30-19:45 (23, 29, 30 March 2025)

Venue:

Pao Galleries, HKAC

*The programme will be conducted in Cantonese.

 

 

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Create Corner

The event features a creative corner where several emerging artists from ‘Collect Hong Kong 2025’ including Tansy Kan, Kayla Ang, Carmen Poon, and Silver Qian will lead participants in crafting handmade art pieces.

Date:

23, 29, 30 March 2025 (Saturdays, Sundays)

Time:

12:00-16:00

Venue:

Remarks:

5/F Pao Galleries, HKAC

*No registration is required

 

Create Corner Daily Schedule

Weaving Art and Photography — Tansy Kan

Fusing photography and weaving art, and to discover the beauty of everyday life together with artist Tansy Kan! Whether it is the wonderful moments in life or encountering strangers, everything could be an inspiration for your creation.

Let’s learn the techniques of overlapping weaving with your photos and create your unique story here.

Date:

23 March 2025 (Sunday)

Time:

12:00-16:00

 

 

Me in the Mirror — Kayla Ang

Inspired by self-portrait artist, Kayla’s artwork, participants will use various materials to create portraits by observation: observing themselves or others. Participants will know more about themselves through the process and meet some new friends!

Date:

29 March 2025 (Saturday)

Time:

12:00-16:00

 

Geometric Landscape — Carmen Poon

Landscape artist Carmen Poon is good at simplifying complex compositions into geometric shapes in her paintings. In this process, she attaches importance to the beauty of the composition. Participants will have the opportunity to explore simple yet varied geometric shapes with the artists and their own paintings.

Date:

29 March 2025 (Saturday)

Time:

12:00-16:00

 

Rhythm with Flowing Ink —Silver Qian

Creativity stems from observation. This activity hopes to let participants let go of the preconceived notions of traditional Chinese paintings, and to re-examine the unique forms of ink wash painting. Join artist Silver Qian and transform the observations into short lines, then using these lines to construct a scene dynamic with a flowing image.

Date:

30 March 2025 (Sunday)

Time:

14:00-16:00

 

Docent Tours

Public docent tours will be led by a senior docent, offering an in-depth introduction of the features and highlights of ‘Collect Hong Kong 2025’. Online registration please click here.

Date and Time:

22 March 2025 (Saturday)
15:30-16:30


23, 29, 30 March 2025 (Saturdays, Sundays)
14:00-15:00
15:30-16:30

Venue:

Pao Galleries and Jockey Club Atrium, HKAC