The free event features three South Korean artists showing their work in Hong Kong for the first time.

In the “The Wave of Coexistence” exhibition, Jang Se-il explores how animals respond to the rapidly changing man-made environment. Jang uses angled geometry and straight lines to depict familiar animals such as polar bears and wolves.

“Sound of Nature” is an installation by Lee Sung-ok, whose series of hanging stainless steel insects expresses the defence of nature defence against the extensive damage wrought by mankind.

Illustrator Henn Kim depicts a dreamy world of emotions with her show of signature monochrome illustrations titled “My Black Rainbows”, in which she portrays the modern world of loneliness, confusion and constraints with a touch of fantasy.

Across the harbour in Central, H Queen’s is hosting “Exit Strategies”, a public art experience in the public area of the building from the 17th floor down to the lobby. Conceived by David Chan, the exhibition features artworks and installations by a number of Hong Kong artists, including Chloe Cheuk, Silas Fong, Lee Kit, Linda Lai and the Floating Projects Collective, MAP Office, Tsang Kin-wah and visiting Hungarian artist Tamás Waliczky.

With the themes surrounding psychological withdrawal, negation and delusion as forms of escapism from people’s hectic lives in the city, the exhibits aim to immerse audiences in a transitory environment as they walk down the building.

The installations include a new commissioned work titled Lost Textures by Linda Lai and the Floating Projects Collective based on collaborative research on the histories of the neighbourhood of Queen’s Road Central. A video installation by Silas Fong also highlights the neighbourhood with seemingly trivial private moments of people in the fast-paced urban lives in Central, such as taking a cigarette break or a chatting on the phone in a quiet alley.

“The Concrete Jungle” is a series of photographs by the MAP Office that depicts the lush, tropical greenery growing among concrete structures around the Peak, in a comment on the veneer of modernist control over a tropical paradise is constrained.

Meanwhile, Taikoo Place in Quarry Bay, is hosting an exhibition called “ArtisTree Arts Month I: Urban Playgrounds”from March 27 to April 12. Located on the first floor of Cambridge House, the exhibition combines a multi-purpose arts and cultural event space accessible to the public. This new exhibition combines visual arts, photography and performing arts to engage audiences in an interactive experience. Visitors can explore urban landscape photographs taken by French street artist L’Atlas and Austrian artist Willi Dorner inside a maze-like installation, with colourfully-dressed performers running through the space.

Fine arts have become an integrated part of many luxury hotels in the city. For instance, the Cordis Hong Kong in Mong Kok boasts a collection of more than 1,500 contemporary Chinese art pieces. This spring, the hotel has invited New Zealand artist Gabby Malpas to host the latest Art in Residence programme until May 3 at the hotel lobby. Her “Springtime Happiness” exhibition is open to the public, with free admission.

Malpas is a New Zealand, Australian and British citizen of Chinese descent. In this collection, she has melded Chinese representational traditions with batik patterns, together with birds and fruit from New Zealand, England and Australia. Although the imagery draws heavily from Asian culture, there is also a European influence from her western upbringing and art school training.

The Peninsula Hotel’s “Art in Resonance” multi-year global art programme will launch in Hong Kong with an experiential exhibition series from March 26 until June 21. Curated by Isolde Brielmaier and Bettina Prentice, the contemporary art exhibition features newly commissioned installations by Janet Echelman, Iván Navarro, Timothy Paul Myers, and China’s MINAX Architects.

Pay to see

The Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel at Harbour City will present the Harbour Art Fair 2019 in more than 50 of its hotel rooms. The fair is open to the public from March 30 to April 1; admission is HK$100.

For the third year, the fair will showcase a range of contemporary arts, from photography and painting to sculpture and pottery curated by renowned galleries from Asia and overseas. These include Hatch Art Project from Singapore which focuses on contemporary issues of food, fashion and artificial intelligence; and the AHC Projects from Germany which brings architecture-influenced artists to challenge the audiences’ perception of the world.

The fair will also feature a selection of galleries such as Bon Gallery, Keumsan Gallery and Chung Jark Gallery from South Korea; Karen Wong Ceramics and Art from Hong Kong; and works by Malaysian artist Chao Harn Kae.

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