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Curated by Kelly Chan, EXERCISING FREEDOM brings together a selection of works from four featured female Hong Kong artists who have reimagined a spectrum of physical activities from Olympics sports to amateur workouts. The exhibited works challenge the scope of existing physical exercises and present alternative and absurd solutions in the lens of a fitness fanatic.
This event is a part of the final project presentation of Curatorship Incubation Programme organized by HART.
Participating Artists
Chan Ting
Kwong Wing Kwan
Mak Ying Tung 2
Kimmy Tam
Curator
Kelly Chan
Date & Time
Opening Reception
08.02.2023 | Wednesday | 6-8pm
Artists will be present at the opening reception
General Visit
08.02.2023 – 18.02.2023 | 11am-7pm
Closed on Sunday
Location
HART Haus
3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
This exhibition will be presented in English.
About the Artists
Chan Ting (b.1993, Hong Kong)
Chan Ting works in the fields of image, installation, performance and sound (stage name: ct1993).
Chan’s research explores luminous mind and contemporary imaging. With a focus on visual dialogue connecting mental image and sound-image, her practice often emerges as a stream of consciousness.
She is the co-founder and curator of an independent artist-run space - Negative Space, dedicated to developing contemporary art, imaging and lens-based media.
Chan works and lives at Hong Kong. Her works had previously been shown in France, Sweden, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Chan is currently studying for a Master of Fine Arts degree with full studentship from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the 2019 recipient of the Cheung's Fine Arts Award and one of twenty-five selected grantees of Para Site’s “NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour” in 2020.
Kwong Wing Kwan (b.1988, Hong Kong)
Kwong Wing Kwan received her BA in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012.
Inspired by changes that impacted her childhood environment, Kwong is drawn to subtle changes in her surroundings. Her paintings reflect and cope with situations when turmoil and transiency become an everyday occurrence.
Participated exhibitions include solo exhibition “Good morning, sweet dream.” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2021), “Suspending World” (Artify Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014), “Clear-air Turbulence” (Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2013). Group exhibitions include ''Taxonomies of Imagination'' (Make Room, Los Angeles, 2022), “Art Basel Hong Kong”2022, “Grotto 20th Anniversary” (Grotto, Hong Kong, 2021), “In/outward” (Link Gallery, Beijing, 2017), “ART MO International Art Fair” (The Venetian Macao Cotai Expo, Macau, 2014), “Art Nova 100” (Touring exhibition sites, China, 2014).
The artist currently lives and works in Hong Kong.
Mak Ying Tung 2 (b.1989, Hong Kong)
Mak2 (aka Mak Ying Tung 2) is a conceptual artist. Her work contemplates 21st century issues through the study of philosophy, art history, culture, shifting socio-political environments, the internet, and new technology. The aesthetic experience she crafts is bound by the dualism of humour and intense inquisitiveness. She creates, installations, paintings, drawings, video work, YouTube videos, stand-up comedy routines, and Instagram filters.
Originally named Mak Ying Tung, the artist added the ‘2’ to her name in 2018 after visiting a Fengshui master in the hopes of gaining fame and fortune by perfecting the number of strokes in her Chinese name. To streamline the Fengshui master’s prediction from three years ago, Mak Ying Tung 2 shortens her name to Mak2 in 2021.
Mak 2's artwork has been exhibited internationally in: Urban Whispers, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2021); Mirage or Reality, Shanghai K11 Art Mall, Shanghai, China (2021); The Principle of Hope, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China (2021); House of Fortune, de Sarthe, Hong Kong, China (2021)；How Do We Begin?, X Museum, Beijing, China (2020); Home Sweet Home, de Sarthe, Hong Kong, China (2019); We Didn't Mean To Break It (But It's Ok, We Can Fix It), Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); Whatever Works, Whatever It Takes, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing (2019); The Anything Machine, de Sarthe, Beijing, China (2018); Invisible Cities, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, USA (2017-18); com/.cn - Co-presented by KAF and MoMA PS1, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China (2017-18); Reversal Ritual, de Sarthe, Hong Kong, China (2017); COMEINSIDE: EAT ME, PingPong 129, Hong Kong, China (2017); COMEINSIDE: BABY SHOWER, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, China (2017); Artists' Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2016); The Second "CAFAM-Future" Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); Artistic or Autistic - The Seventh Annual Exhibition, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China (2014); Almost Empty, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, China (2014); and SOFT OFF: But I love it when your mouth is a little shut, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA (2013).
Mak 2 lives and works in Hong Kong.
Kimmy Tam (b.1995, Hong Kong)
Recently graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong in Fine Arts, Tam’s practice focuses on participatory installations using raw or existing everyday materials.
Tam’s practice questions and responds to her surroundings through light-hearted interactions and often humorous subject matters.
Tam currently lives and works in Hong Kong.
About the Curator
Kelly Chan
Kelly Chan is an independent curator, critic, art collector and a patron of the arts based between Hong Kong and London.
Dedicated to supporting the art community, Chan is particularly passionate about non-profit initiatives, alternative spaces, patronage and collaborative practice.
Chan graduated from University College London with an MSci in Engineering Sciences and Management.
To minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the community, the number of participants of all programmes will be limited and regulated according to the latest social distancing policy from the Hong Kong Government. Participants will be required to register prior to all visits, complete health declarations before all events, and keep proper social distance during all events.
The exhibitions and their contents are independently curated and created. They do not reflect the view or opinions of HART Collective Limited.