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監製：Diana Wan
04/06/2025
Pina Bausch’s dance theatre group, Tanztheater Wuppertal has appeared in Hong Kong many times, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, to perform such iconic works such as “The Window Washer”, “Café Müller”, “The Rite of Spring”, “Carnations”, and “Vollmond”. One of the dancers frequently seen in Bausch’s works is Christiana Morganti who presented her solo dance performance, “Jessica and Me” at this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival. We spoke to her while she was here.
The Stallery gallery in Wan Chai is currently celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its opening, and is doing so by presenting a solo exhibition of works by its founder, Ernest Chang, now creating under the artistic alias of CHANG. The works in the exhibition, “Artifice”, explore duality and contradiction in life, centring on the fascination of many traditional Chinese literati with unique rocks and their shapes.
The Croatian pianist, Maksim Mrvica is one of the world’s best-known classical crossover musicians. Classically trained, he started playing the piano when he was nine. His rock star image, performance style and repertoire soon made him an international success. To date, his albums have sold over four million copies in 57 countries. He last visited The Works studio in 2011, and last week he joined us again the morning after his performances last month at the Hong Kong City Hall.
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Sound artist Chaklam Ng, Dreamchasers@HKMOA & in the studio: Romer String Quartet
The title of this year’s Design Trust Futures Festival is “The Art of Transformation”. The three-month programme at Murray House features works by more than 60 designers, artists, architects, and focuses on sustainability, culture, and heritage in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Among those participating artists is sound artist Chaklam Ng.
On show at The Attic of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, “Dreamchasers: Stories of Hong Kong Art” presents works by four Hong Kong artists who embody both local tradition and innovation, and whose art is now an integral part of the museum’s collection. The four artists include Tong King-sum), Ha Bik-chuen, Rosanna Li and Gaylord Chan.
The French composer, Claude Debussy is known for his orchestral colouring, innovative harmonies, unusual tonal structures and expressive melodies. This Thursday at “Quarryside”, a harbourfront community space in Quarry Bay run by St. James’ Settlement, the Romer String Quartet is performing a concert that includes Debussy’s only string quartet, as well as new interpretations of one of his most loved works: “Clair de Lune”.11/06/2025收看 -
HKAF & Cristiana Morganti, CHANG@The Stallery & in the studio: Pianist Maksim
Pina Bausch’s dance theatre group, Tanztheater Wuppertal has appeared in Hong Kong many times, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, to perform such iconic works such as “The Window Washer”, “Café Müller”, “The Rite of Spring”, “Carnations”, and “Vollmond”. One of the dancers frequently seen in Bausch’s works is Christiana Morganti who presented her solo dance performance, “Jessica and Me” at this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival. We spoke to her while she was here.
The Stallery gallery in Wan Chai is currently celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its opening, and is doing so by presenting a solo exhibition of works by its founder, Ernest Chang, now creating under the artistic alias of CHANG. The works in the exhibition, “Artifice”, explore duality and contradiction in life, centring on the fascination of many traditional Chinese literati with unique rocks and their shapes.
The Croatian pianist, Maksim Mrvica is one of the world’s best-known classical crossover musicians. Classically trained, he started playing the piano when he was nine. His rock star image, performance style and repertoire soon made him an international success. To date, his albums have sold over four million copies in 57 countries. He last visited The Works studio in 2011, and last week he joined us again the morning after his performances last month at the Hong Kong City Hall.04/06/2025收看 -
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza, Yoon Hyup@Tang Contemporary & in the studio: vocalist Tijn Trommelen
Cirque du Soleil’s theatrical, character and story-driven approach, involving no animals and relying solely on the skills of human performers, makes the Canadian company’s circus shows unique. In 2005, The Works went to in Cyberport to film, under the big top, “Quidam”, a story about a bored girl named Zoe. In 2012, characters from “Saltimbanco”, a show in celebration of life, came to our studio. This month, the troupe is returning to Hong Kong after seven years, with “Kooza”. We were at the final full rehearsal before the opening.
On show at Tang Contemporary Art, “Montage” is an exhibition of 15 of Yoon Hyup's recent works. Yoon adopts a pointillist technique: simple lines and dots suggest lives and scenes in bustling cities and in modern society. Yoon’s highly coloured points and lines are fluid, abstract and move in all directions to evoke the order and chaos of the cities and the movements of the people who live in them.
Tijn Trommelen is a jazz singer and guitarist from the Netherlands. He says music runs in his family and that he knew early on that music was to be part of his life journey.
Now in his twenties, Trommelen performs regularly in Europe and has also played in the United States and South Africa. He and his band recently completed a tour of Asia. At the end of April, while they were touring, Trommelen and pianist Robert Koemans made a quick stop in our studio.28/05/2025收看 -
HKAF “La Sylphide”, "8 times 8 stories"@UMAG & in the studio: French Music Project at CUHK
Last week, we introduced a concert by the jazz string Korvi Quartet, presented as part of Le French May, that featured music inspired by cocktail pairings. Today we’re featuring French music, specifically French chamber music by 19th to 21st century composers. First though we turn to dance, with music by another French composer, Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer. “La Sylphide”, one of the world’s oldest surviving romantic ballets, was initially choreographed by Italian Filippo Taglioni to showcase his own daughter Marie. That choreography is long since lost, but another version of the dance was performed in Hong Kong in early March as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
The number eight takes centre stage at this exhibition at The University of Hong Kong’s University Museum and Art Gallery. To illustrate the ubiquity of eight, several objects, each consisting of eight sections, have been selected from the museum and art gallery’s collection. Titled, “8 times 8 stories. series. systems in mythology & art”, the exhibits show how eight interrelated elements are often brought together in the form of serial narratives, supplemented by motifs of pairs, figures or scenes from stories, landscapes, plants.
The “French Music Project”, a programme initiated by the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Music, brings faculty performance members and students together to explore French music. Project members are giving an upcoming concert as part of Le French May Arts Festival. A few of them are with us now to tell us more.21/05/2025收看 -
Artist Sin Wai Kin, Ha Bik-chuen@Para Site & in the studio: Korvi Quartet
If it’s May, as any Francophile will know, it must be time for the annual Le French May Arts Festival. We’ll be bringing you highlights of the festival in coming weeks but today we’re starting with something that many consider a quintessential part of any French meal: wine and spirits. Later, violinist Kenneth Li will be with us to tell us about an upcoming concert taking place at a distillery in Quarry Bay. In April, The Works featured the Picasso exhibition at M+ which is curated as a conversation between works by Picasso and the museum’s collection of works by Asian artists. One of the artists whose works are shown alongside those of the Spanish master is Sin Wai Kin.
To mark the 100th anniversary of artist Ha Bik-chuen’s birth, Parasite is currently presenting an exhibition focused on his printmaking practice. Ha used to describe his collagraph plates, plates to which materials had been glued or sealed to make prints, “motherboards”. In the 1970s and 1980s, Ha created over 100 of these “motherboards” and produced over 3,000 collagraphs.14/05/2025收看 -
Lam Chun-wing & “Nureyev & Friends"@HKAF & in the studio: Bowen Li Trio
Dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev had an extraordinary life. The Tatar-Russian dancer, born in the Soviet Union on a Trans-Siberian train, defected to the West in Paris in 1961. He was a cultural icon, widely regarded as one of the greatest dancers of all time. In late March, the Hong Kong Arts Festival featured a gala tribute to Nureyev. Eleven stars from six international ballet companies joined forces to perform some of his iconic pieces. One of the co-producers was Lam Chun-wing from Hong Kong.
Pianist Bowen Li is an active member of the Hong Kong music scene. Apart from performing, he’s a founding member of the jazz collective Fountain de Chopin, dedicated to promoting jazz. He’s also one of three people behind the running of the jazz café, Coda. At the beginning of this month, he and the two other members of his trio launched their debut album, “Unemployed” which consists mostly of original compositions.07/05/2025收看 -
"Beef and Noodles", ASMR@Gate 33 & in the studio: Colleen Lee, Rhythmie Wong & Fu Man-yat
Cooking has been transformed into an artistic practice to explore the social dimension of art for over half a century. One of the most recognised artists in the field is New York-based Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija who, in 1990, cooked Pad Thai in a gallery in New York. He later moved on to other Thai meals in a series that continues today.
Closer to Hong Kong, The Works has previously featured the collective Boloho from Guangzhou. Even more recently, in a small café in Kowloon City, something else has been cooking.
Have you ever experienced a sense of deep relaxation or even a tingling sensation while listening to the sound of rain, gentle whispers, hair being brushed, or other slow movements? That “tingling” sensation that some feel, running from the back of the scalp, down the spine, and across the shoulders, is known as the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR. If you’re still not quite sure what that is, visit “Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR” at GATE33 Gallery in Airside at Kai Tak.
This year’s edition of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s annual local music programme, “Hong Kong Artists”, features one chamber music concert and five recitals by soloists. The series opens with “Soundscape Impressions” which features chamber works by Debussy and Saint-Saëns as well as two pieces by Maurice Ravel to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. The programme also draws parallels between music and painting. Pianists Colleen Lee and Rhythmie Wong are here with painter Fu Man-yat to tell us more.30/04/2025收看 -
Xu Bing's Square Word Calligraphy, Sarah Sze@Gagosian & in the studio: Horn player Felix Klieser
A visual artist who likes to break down barriers in communication: Xu Bing is known for incorporating words and characters into his art to explore the role of language and text in human life. The Hong Kong Museum of Art is currently featuring a hybrid calligraphic project that he’s been working on for over three decades.
Sarah Sze likes to use create her large-scale installations using ordinary and found objects. Even her paintings are layered with collages made up of different elements.
A professor of visual arts at Columbia University, she recently received a Meraki Artist Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Sze’s first solo exhibition in Asia, at the Gagosian gallery, features recent works, including seven mixed-media paintings and eight hanging sculptures.
Growing up in Göttingen, a small city in the middle of Germany, Felix Kieser chose to play the horn at the age of five. Born without arms, he’s kept up his determination to master the instrument despite the challenges along the way. Today, he's received several music awards, a two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, debuted at the BBC Proms two years ago, published a book, and released albums. His stories of life behind the scenes as an artist with his horn “Alex” have also developed a considerable following on social media. He was in Hong Kong on 7th April to perform a one-night concert of Mozart and Strauss horn concertos with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. We spoke to him.23/04/2025收看 -
So Wing-po, Hoo Mojong@ASHK & in the studio: qanun player Ahmet Baran
Long before the compounds that make up modern pharmaceuticals were discovered and isolated, cultures around the world relied on the healing powers of herbs. They have long played a vital role in traditional Chinese medicine, and their curative properties are still under study. Herbs and herbal medicine also provide a creative foundation for local artist So Wing-po.
The fifth edition of Asia Society Hong Kong’s “Contemporary Chinese Female Artist” series features the works by Hoo Mojong. The retrospective: “Objects of Play” includes more than a hundred items, among them paintings, prints, drawings and archival materials.
The origins of the Middle Eastern zither known as the qanun lie far back in the past, in ancient Mesopotamia and Persia. The instrument, which has 78 strings, can be played either solo or as part of an ensemble. Turkish musician, Ahmet Baran is a qanun virtuoso. He started learning music at eight and soon developed a passion for the qanun. He began playing with orchestras in his teens and was designated Turkey’s “Youngest Soloist Qanun Player of Symphony Orchestras”. Still, he continued to develop his technique and take on an even wider range of music. He gave his first concert in Hong Kong at the end of last month. While he was here, he came to the studio with Kerim Sercan Evcin, the Consul General of the Republic of Türkiye in Hong Kong, to talk to us.16/04/2025收看 -
M+ “Picasso for Asia”, TranscendingTransience@CUHK & in the studio: NOĒMA
Few artists have gone through as many changes in style as Pablo Picasso. Despite the frequent transformations in his work, he once said, “Variation does not mean evolution”. At M+ in West Kowloon, you can currently see, on loan from Musée National Picasso-Paris more than 60 of the master’s works that trace those changes.
On March 21st, the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held the grand opening ceremony of the Lo Kwee Seong Pavilion and the Harold and Christina Lee Gallery. The ceremony also marked the opening of the inaugural exhibition, “Transcending Transience: Art and Culture of Late-Ming Jiangnan”.
The upcoming concert by the chamber choral ensemble NOEMA is inspired by the Japanese word “komorebi” which means “sunlight leaking through trees”. This poetic idea that describes the beauty of nature and the simple things is the theme of the concert which includes the world premiere of new work by a local composer, the Hong Kong premiere of a new work by a British composer, and a selection of French chansons. The artistic director and conductor of the ensemble, Sanders Lau is here to tell us more.09/04/2025收看
