Hung Keung: Digital Media Art Installation

VIP Preview (by invitation only)
28 October – 3 November 2023
Appointment time: Monday to Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm
Booking online/tel: [email protected]/2526 1091

Opening Reception
4 November 2023, Saturday, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Meet and Greet the artist 3:00pm-6:00pm
As part of Southside Saturday by Hong Kong Art Gallery Association
RSVP [email protected]

Open to Public
4 November – 30 December 2023, Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm, close on Sundays and public holidays

Alisan Aberdeen
2305 Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to announce a one-week VIP preview (by invitation only) for the new exhibition Hung Keung: Digital Media Art Installation at our Aberdeen Gallery. The exhibition will officially open to the public starting from November 4th, marking Alisan’s first solo exhibition for the artist. Hung Keung, a renowned digital media installation artist from Hong Kong and grantee of Asian Cultural Council Award (2005), is known for his interactive installations that combine film, video, and digital new media with themes from Chinese classical philosophy, art, and literature. This exhibition showcases Hung’s latest works from three of his iconic creation, including two groups with flowers and Chinese characters as the main themes – the multi-channel video “Four Seasons: Extended Time Series” and the vibrant digital moving images “Grain Rain Series”. The imagery depicts mist, flowers, charcoal, and rice paper transitioning from vibrancy to decay through ink variations. The dancing Chinese characters respond to these subtle changes, suggesting the relationship between the nature and the passage of time. V.1 of “Four Seasons” has been collected by Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Another significant artwork on display is the meditative digital video installation “Purifying and Integrating”. Hung Keung captures the image of a seated Buddha ink painting using a high-speed digital camera, intertwining it with shadows, light, and technology to create a unique sense of space and ambiguity. Still images gained the finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2018.

Limited edition prints of flowers and ink paintings of Buddha are also exhibited.

Featured in multiple important exhibitions
Part of the artworks (v.1 & 2) have been showcased in various significant exhibitions in Hong Kong and mainland, including:
“Four Seasons (V.2)” at New Rhythm of Line: Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Art, curated by Prof Tang Hoi-Chiu, Hong Kong City Hall, 2022; Wild Imagination: Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau from 2000 to 2022, travelling exhibition curated by Prof Pi Daojian, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, 2022; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2020-2021; (V.1) at Fluid Boundaries, curated by Wang Boqiao, Tencent Beijing headquarter, Beijing, 2020.
“Purifying/Bodhisattva (V.2)” has been showcased at Drawing as the Core, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 2020; (V.1) at Luminous Shadows, Ink Studio, Beijing, 2017-2018.
The print works “Grain Rain“ were exhibited at Digital Art Fair, Asia Standard Tower, Hong Kong, 2022.

Artist Bio.

Hung Keung, born in 1970 Kunming, Yunnan, China, received BA from the Fine Arts department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, MA in film and video from Central Saint Martins, London in 1997, and PhD from Zurich University of the Arts and University of Plymouth, UK, in digital media and Chinese philosophy in 2014. He was the visiting scholar at ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany in 2001-02, and the grantee of Asian Cultural Council Award in 2005. Currently an Associate Professor and MA (VAECP) Programme Leader in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong.

Selected Collections

Hong Kong Museum of Art; Hong Kong Palace Museum; Hong Kong Cultural Centre; Asia Society Hong Kong;Regent Hotel; Hotel Icon; Sino Group; Best Galaxy Limited, Hong Kong; Chanel, France & Hong Kong; Peninsula Beijing, Beijing; Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, Nanjing, China.

Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

Hung Keung’s installation was on display at Hong Kong Palace Museum’s inaugural exhibition No Boundaries: Reinterpreting Palace Museum Culture in 2022-2023. Currently, his works are on show at Hong Kong Museum of Art as part of the exhibition By the People: Creative Chinese Characters. In December Hung’s Four Seasons video installation will be included in the exhibition curated by Prof Pi Daojian as part of the inaugural project of Shenzhen Art Museum, which will run from 20 December, 2023 until March 16, 2024.