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HART Curatorship Incubation Programme (CIP)
is coming back in October this year!

First launched in 2021, this programme is designed for art enthusiasts and aspiring curators seeking to deepen their expertise in contemporary curatorial practice. The course offers lectures and workshops focused on curating contemporary art exhibitions and programmes, designing spatial narratives, and collaborating with artists and other professionals. This year, we will also include topics on managing alternative art spaces and curating outside conventional settings. Participants will gain insights into both theoretical and practical aspects of curatorial work, preparing them to engage with diverse art environments and practices.

 

SHARING BY CURATOR CHANG QU

 

The course offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary art curating, combining theoretical knowledge with practical experiences from established curators. The program includes 7 core units and 2 guest sessions providing insights into Curatorial Foundations, Practical Skills, and Case Studies.

     Programme Highlights:

  • Integration of theoretical knowledge and practical skills

  • Expert perspectives from experienced curators, artists, and art professionals

  • Mentorship and professional development opportunities for Advanced Learners

 

SITE VISIT WITH ARTIST STEPHAN WONG CHUN HEI AND CURATOR HILDA CHAN

 

Curation involves more than just organising exhibitions; it is a practice of crafting narratives and facilitating connections between art and its audience. As curatorial roles continue to evolve, HART has invited curators from both institutional and independent backgrounds to share their expertise and insights on curating. What challenges and opportunities arise when curating exhibitions and programmes, and how can curators navigate these to achieve successful outcomes?

Key Facilitators

 

Eunice Tsang

Founder and Curator, Current Plans
Associate Curator, M+ Museum

 

Eunice  Tsang  is  a  curator/  artist  based  in  Hong  Kong.  In  2020  she  founded  Current  Plans,  an experimental  art  space  that  encourages  cross-disciplinary  dialogues  through exhibition-making. Prior  to  that,  she  was  part  of  the  core  team  of  Tai  Kwun  Contemporary  in  2015, where  she  set  up  the  Asian  Artist  Book  Library,  researching  and  building  a  collection  of  over 1000  titles  of  modern  and  contemporary  publications  with  a  focus  on  Asian  practitioners.  She is  still  part  of  the  curatorial  team  that  organises  the  annual  Booked:  Art  Book  Fair,  in  which  for the  past  five  editions  she  presented  special  displays and talks in  close  collaboration  with  artists.  She  has  recently  joined  the  M+  Museum  as  a  part-time  Associate  Curator  in  the Moving  Image department, with a focus on the  Asian  Avant  Garde  Film  Festival.  She  splits  her  time  operating  Current  Plans,  and  curating  programmes  at  M+.

 

Chang Qu

Curator and Writer

 

Chang Qu is a curator and writer currently based in Berlin, serving as the curator of discourse at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2024, Qu received her PhD from the Cultural Studies Department at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her doctoral research focuses on the discourse of "love" in China's reform era. Previously, she served as a curator at Para Site, Hong Kong. Her curatorial projects include Follow the Feeling (2024, Guangdong Times Museum), Sur le feu (2023, Palais des beaux-arts, Paris), Thinking Magic (2022, Art Central Hong Kong), Café do Brasil (2019, Para Site), Crush (2018, Para Site), Doreen Chan: Hard Cream (2019, HB Station), Law Yuk Mui: From whence the waves came (2018, Art Basel Hong Kong),  Adrift (2016, OCAT Shenzhen), among others. In 2022, Qu and Ye Hui initiated the long-term project Linger in Sounds, an artistic research that probes into the emotional politics in contemporary China via sound production and autobiographical utterance in popular music. Since 2021, she is a member of 楔 xiē. Together with Hao Jingban, Shen Xin, Yunyu "Ayo" Shih, they presented the exhibition "To Bind, Embed, Shimmer, and Brace" at DAAD Galerie, Berlin (2022).

*Qu is currently based in Berlin. She will be hosting her classes online via Zoom.

Programme Structure

 

*For details, Please refer to the “Advanced Programme” section below.

3 Key Modules

With a focus on space making, this module introduces learners to a brief history of art exhibitions and together we will study a selection of art projects in relation to spatial interventions. Through lectures and exercises, the class will imagine collectively the potential of exhibition making.

This module delves into the essentials of collaboration with artists, curators, and other professionals in the field. It includes guidance on managing communications, documentation, and promotional activities for exhibitions and events, as well as strategies for effective public engagement and outreach.

This module focuses on curating within independent and artist-run spaces that foster experimentation, promote emerging artists, facilitate dialogue, and maintain close connections with local art communities. You will learn how to effectively create and manage exhibitions in these alternative environments, with a focus on the structural, financial, and conceptual aspects crucial for success.

 

*The 3 key modules will be extensively covered in 6 core units by the key facilitators and 1 unit by the HART team and guest speaker. For selected sessions of the core units, facilitators may bring in artists and art practitioners to participate in the discussions. Further course details will be provided at the start of the programme.

Advanced Programme


Designed for committed learners who are ready to excel and stand out, our Advanced Programme provides the additional mentorship support and exclusive opportunities to advance your curatorial career.

In addition to ALL core units and guest lectures covered in the Basic Programme, our Advanced Programme provides:

  • Two additional sessions of 1-on-1 coaching with one of our key facilitators, which are customised according to your career development, research and/or exhibition proposal for the course. These are great opportunities for learners to seek further advice in areas such as CV/portfolio building, career planning, curatorial skillsets development, etc.

  • Under facilitators’ guidance, each learner in the Advanced Programme will submit one exhibition proposal by the end of the programme for facilitators to review and provide feedback.

  • ONE outstanding proposal would be selected with an opportunity to realise the exhibition at HART Haus in 2025*.

Please note that:

  • Each Advanced Learner will be assigned to one of the two curators for each respective coaching sessions. Subject to the mentors’ availabilities, learners can reserve at least one time-slot in each consultation period to engage in an 1-on-1 session with their mentors. The 1-on-1 consultation will be an hour long, held either via Zoom/phone call depending on the mentors’ preferences.

  • *HART is pleased to offer support for venue sponsorship, marketing, and installation for the selected outstanding exhibition proposal. The specifics of exhibition period will be subject to discussion, and any additional support will be determined at HART’s discretion following the proposal review.

Guest Speakers

14 November 2024: PHD Group

 
 

Property Holdings Development Group (PHD Group) is a contemporary art gallery with a focus on critical engagement, research, and collaborative practice. Founded in 2021 in Hong Kong, the gallery is situated in a 1970s rooftop clubhouse adapted by BEAU Architects, and shows emerging and mid-career artists from the region.

 

Ysabelle Cheung & Willem Molesworth

Co-founders, PHD Group

 

Ysabelle Cheung is a co-founder of Property Holdings Development Group (PHD Group), a private, contemporary art gallery based in Hong Kong that showcases and represents emerging and mid-career artists from across Asia. In her decade-long career as an art critic and essayist, she has written for Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview Asia, and the Atlantic, among other publications. Her fiction has been published in Slate, Granta, and The Rumpus.

In addition to the gallery, Cheung co-founded Supper Club, an alternative art platform initiated in 2024 in Hong Kong, featuring presentations by 22 international and regional galleries alongside performances and talks.

Willem Molesworth is a co-founder of Property Holdings Development Group (PHD Group), a private, contemporary art gallery based in Hong Kong that showcases and represents emerging and mid-career artists from across Asia.

In addition to the gallery, Molesworth co-founded Supper Club, an alternative art platform initiated in 2024 in Hong Kong, featuring presentations by 22 international and regional galleries alongside performances and talks. From 2018 to 2021, he was a board member and vice president of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, where he co-organized the first two editions of UNSCHEDULED, an art fair created in response to the pandemic.

A public advocate for the arts, Molesworth frequently speaks at institutions and universities, and has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, ARTnews, and Le Monde.

21 November 2024: BEAU Architects

 
 

BEAU is an Hong Kong based architecture studio exploring the notions of context, program, materiality and construction. The resulting body of work displays an expressive austerity questioning the relation between objectives and the means to achieve them, recently culminating in experiments in construction methods and adaptive re-use. In addition, both founders are involved in the academic field as tutors and invited critics. Gilles Vanderstocken is teaching at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (School of Design) since 2015, leading two design studios per year while together with Charlotte Lafont-Hugo they led a M.Arch studio on adaptive reuse at Hong Kong University (faculty of Architecture) since 2022. 

 

Charlotte Lafont-Hugo

Co-founder, BEAU Architects

 


Charlotte Lafont-Hugo (1985) is a Hong Kong based French architect graduated with honours from ULB, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta in Brussels in 2011. 

She co-founded her office, BEAU Architects with her husband, Gilles Vanderstocken, in 2014. Her most recent work includes the Kiang Malingue Galleries in Hong Kong (2022) and Shanghai (2016), the scenography for Cao Fei: Staging the Era in UCCA Beijing (2020) and the “Oasis Project”, the revitalisation of Tai Kwun Contemporary outdoor spaces (2021).

For the last years, she has been regularly invited as critic and speaker at numerous universities along her role as tutor at HKU SPACE and City University of Hong Kong where she conducted design studio and Master in Urban Design studio. Since 2022, she led, together with Gilles Vanderstocken, a M.Arch studio on adaptive reuse at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture.


*This guest session will take place at Current Plans at 7 PM on 21 November 2024.

5 December 2024: Curator Kobe Ko

 

Kobe Ko

Independent Curator and Artist

 

Kobe Ko (b. 1992 in Hong Kong) is an independent curator and artist, formerly worked as Assistant Curator at Para Site(2021–2023) and Art Education and Gallery Coordinator at Tai Kwun Contemporary(2019–2021). She is also the co-founders of nomad nomad(2014–present). She has curated 'Cantando Bajito: Incantations' (Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, 2024), ‘Everyday life in Hong Kong and Fukuoka: The study of Contemporary Arts and Kougengaku’ (art space tetra, Fukuoka, 2023), ‘Post-Human Narratives’ series (Cattle Depot Artist Village and Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong, 2020–2022), Kong Chun Hei’s solo exhibition ‘PS’ (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2023), Florence Yuk-ki Lee’s solo exhibition ‘Broken heart pieces disco ball’ (MOU PROJECTS, Hong Kong, 2023), and ‘CHOW KAI CHIN’ Community Art Experimental Project (Kowloon City, Hong Kong, 2013 & 2014), among others. 

Ko’s artworks depart from her intimate relationship and personal sensation and mainly focus on the re-imagination of distance and boundaries, she has participated in joint exhibition ‘roundabout’ (Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, 2024), ‘The Tailed Scar’ (Tiger Arm Strong Biennale, Hong Kong, 2023), duo exhibition ‘Over the ocean, over the sea’ (Current Plans, Hong Kong, 2022) and more. She graduated from the Department of Creative Arts and Culture of The Hong Kong University of Education, and received an MA in Gender Studies from Shih Hsin University in Taiwan. She lives and works in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

19 December 2024: Curator Weiwei Wang

 

Weiwei Wang

Curator of Exhibitions and Collections,
CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong)

 

Wang Weiwei is currently the curator of Exhibitions and Collections at CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong). From 2010 to 2017, Wang was the curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai). In 2017, Wang participated at the Curator-in-Residence Programme at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, and the International Researcher Programme at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Wang was then appointed as the co-curator at the 12th Shanghai Biennale and awarded an Individual Fellowship by Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong in 2018. She has conducted on a series of researches on East Asian Contemporary Arts since 2017.

Wang Weiwei’s current exhibitions include Clouds, Power and Ornament - Roving Central Asia, 2023; Spinning East Asia Series 1: A Compass in Hand 2022; Spinning East Asia Series 2: A Net (Dis)entangled, 2022; Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch, 2021.


*This guest session will take place at CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong) at 7 PM on 19 December 2024.

Showcases/Events by CIP Alumni

Course Schedule

Dates: 17 Oct, 24 Oct, 31 Oct, 7 Nov, 14 Nov, 21 Nov, 28 Nov, 5 Dec, 12 Dec, 19 Dec (Thursdays evenings)
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm HKT
Venue：HART Haus / Zoom, with occasional site visits at other art spaces*


Introduction and Welcoming Session
Date: 17 October 2024, Thursday (7pm to 8:30pm)
Venue: HART Haus (4/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Hong Kong)


*Further information will be shared with learners when the programme begins. The course requires on-site attendance for the majority of the sessions. While sessions conducted by Curator Qu Chang will be hosted via Zoom at HART Haus, the remainder of the course will be held in person.
*A Certificate of Completion will be issued to learners who have full attendance of the programme (with submission of exhibition proposal for Advanced Learners).

Entry Requirements

To ensure productive exchanges between facilitators and learners, this year’s programme is limited to a total of 30 participants. Among this total capacity, up to 10 participants could be enrolled in the Advanced Programme.

Participants meeting the following criteria are recommended to apply for this programme:

  • A strong interest in curatorial practice.

  • Relevant experience in art, culture, or museum work

  • A clear commitment to advancing their career in this field

  • Individuals who are curious, creative, and open-minded

  • Proactive attitude towards driving discussions and learning

  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively demonstrate 

  • Strong organisational and communication skills 

Course Languages

Courses will primarily be conducted in English.
Facilitators may occasionally use Mandarin and Cantonese as needed.

Course Fee

HKD 5,500 (Basic Programme) / HKD 6,500 (Advanced Programme)

⋇ Early bird promotion: apply by 25 September 2024 and enjoy HKD300 off
⋇ Special discount for full-time students*: 5% off

*Eligible for full-time students studying at secondary schools, higher institutions, and university undergraduate programmes in Hong Kong

Application Deadline
6 October 2024

Successful applicants will be contacted by the HART team
between 10-13 October 2024.

For any further enquiries, please contact us at atelier@thehart.com.hk

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