Cultural Journalism Campus 2016

I've been super busy recently because I joined the student journalism program Cultural Journalism Campus and was selected as one of the nine fellows in 2016. Basically, the program gave me access to the art scene during Hong Kong’s art week in March 2016, where I had the privilege to attend Art Basel, Art Central, Asia Contemporary Art Show and many other gallery openings, cocktail parties and auctions. It was a dream come true for me and it reconnected me with fine art - which has always been my passion, before I started specialising in architecture. My job throughout the week was to interview and report on the top dogs, gallerists, artists and anyone involved, which I was more than willing to do so. Art and writing - my favourites (stick food in and it'll be even better).

We even got to meet and interview Mark Spiegler, the global director of Art Basel! You can see a picture below (and I got to stand beside him haha).

If there's one thing I regret, it's not being able to spend more time on the program. You guys know I study full time (and it's the beginning of deadlines galore) and work part time, so I had to miss some lessons, take time off work and skip some events in order to do everything... mediocrely. I could've done better if I wasn't so swamped, but what can you do? It was an opportunity I just could not miss!

The works and exhibitions in the photos below:

• A Path To Life solo exhibition of artist Li Yonggeng at Galerie du Monde
• Mill6 Foundation's Social Fabric pop-up exhibition of artists Mariana Hahn and Kwan Sheung-chi at The Annex
• Statement 3: New Sculpture from Germany exhibition at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong

Check out my Cultural Journalism Campus works on my online portfolio!

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Darren Almond: Time and Being at White Cube

A huge number of people were uploading Instagram pictures with the location tag at White Cube lately, and all of these pictures were of themselves in a plain, minimalist space. Obviously, judging by these photos and the type of people posting them, they were not there to admire Darren Almond's first exhibition in Hong Kong, Time and Being, but rather because they just want to take pretty pictures of themselves. I say that with no sarcasm, by the way. And I will be the first to admit that although I love art and architecture, having studied both, sometimes I just feel narcissistic. So I dressed to match the white gallery space (I love it!) and basically forced Jason to be my photographer.

We also stopped by PMQ and then Pressed Juices, where I got a green juice. It was also the weekend before International Women's Day and when we got to Causeway Bay, Lancôme was doing a promotion where if you sampled their lipstick, then they'll donate to charity. And... they'll also give you pink balloons and roses. It was a nice gesture, and although I wiped the shocking pink lipstick off almost right after (I really don't like make-up!), I was totally sold by the balloons and rose LOL. We ended the night with dinner at Elephant Grounds - the last time I was there was back when the Causeway Bay branch was still in its soft opening phase!

Oh, and by the way: you can totally look younger with a cap. I went to buy the Mark 6 in this outfit and the woman behind the counter asked if I was 18 yet. Yeah, I wish. Sadly I'm turning 23 in April - sad times.

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M+ Sigg Collection at Artistree

The only reason I decided to check out the M+ Sigg Collection in Artistree was because I saw that it was featuring one of my favourite art pieces by one of my favourite artists: Family Tree by Zhang Huan. Well okay, that wasn't the only reason of course, I am an art lover after all. But why did I just have to see Zhang Huan's work? Apart from the convenience of Artistree being close to where I live and all, it was because in Year 13 when I was doing the IB, I actually wrote my 4000-word extended essay on him - and one of the pieces I analysed in my essay was Family Tree. The fact that I got an A just made me love Zhang Huan so much more than I already did while writing the 4000 words (I mean, you wouldn't choose to write about an artist whose work you didn't like!).

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Hong Kong Design Institute

Another day without planning! Every weekend, I'd usually mention a café I wanted to try, but for some reason I wasn't feeling it much in particular yesterday. It was already the afternoon when Jason and I met up, so we randomly decided to visit the Hong Kong Design Institute which had some exhibitions I'd been meaning to see for a while. We not only checked out two exhibitions: Weingart Typography and Urban Regeneration - Past, Present and Future, but we also looked at the architecture of the school. Afterwards, we went for a drink (non-alcoholic of course) at The Brewed Vena, a nearby café on my to-do-list!

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