Empty Gallery


2024-05-08	James T. Hong at Bonner Kunstverein
	It is light is a group exhibition featuring Ada Frände, Blalla W. Hallmann, Julia Heyward, James T. Hong, Udo Lefin, Rachel Reupke, Bernard Szajner, Camilla Wills, curated by Fatima Hellberg. It is light is a two-part exhibition realised between Bonner Kunstverein and Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, from May 11 – July 28, 2024. Opening: Friday 10 May, from 7pm Read more …
2024-05-08	Raha Raissnia at Taipei Dangdai
	Raha Raissnia is participating in Before Thunders, May 10-12 at Taipei Dangdai: For the first time, Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas will present a curated exhibition within the fair co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture. Titled “Before Thunders: An Exhibition of Taiwanese Artists” the exhibition focuses on the work of a dozen largely mid-career artists selected by four curators who will participate in the Ideas Forum 2024: Zian Chen, Martin Germann, Esther Lu, and Wong Binghao. This project supports the fair’s core goal of bringing art from Taiwan from across the spectrum—from those represented by the leading galleries participating in the fair to those working largely outside the market—to greater international attention and demonstrates the fair’s ongoing interest in building partnerships with public and private organizations throughout Taiwan’s vibrant art scene.
2024-05-03	Raha Raissnia at Galerie Khoshbakht
	Raha Raissnia’s Untitled (2018) is on view at Nevers, Galerie Khoskbakht, Cologne, May 4 through 30. Galerie Khoshbakht is delighted to announce Nevers, an exhibition with works by Beth Collar, Keta Gavasheli, Nicole Gravier, Raha Raissnia and Ulrike Schulze. Nevers brings together artists who deal with the question of the representable and the unrepresentable, who negotiate the interior and exterior of reality in relation to their media. Sometimes it seems that reality is too big to be experienced as a whole, that it is perhaps also too cruel to want to experience it directly. Thus, each artist explores the question of representation and the representable, the articulable, in their own unique way by using means of alienation and translation. Read more …
2024-04-27	Doris Guo at Artists Space, New York
	Opening May 23 through August 10: Artists Space is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent work by Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Read more …
2024-04-06	Jes Fan in Weight of Mind, Hessel Museum of Art
	Artists: Kaari Upson, Jes Fan, and Lucas Blalock Dates: April 6 – May 26, 2024 Weight of Mind at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College questions how memory is embodied and given new form in the works of three artists: Kaari Upson, Jes Fan, and Lucas Blalock. In divergent ways, their works—across sculpture and photography—examine how past experiences are transformed through different methods of translation, from molding and casting to pigmentation to digital manipulation. By thickening fragmented memories or past sensations, the artists invite the audience to examine moments of change that otherwise would be fleeting. The exhibition is curated by Thalia Stefaniuk. Read more …
2024-03-29	Artsy: The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
	Payal Uttam in Artsy: “Amid the glistening neon of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline this week, the M+ Museum façade was alight with an evocative black-and-white film by Yang Fudong—just one of many signs that Art Basel Hong Kong, and a flurry of other art events, had taken over the city… The first thing that catches your eye at Hong Kong–based Empty Gallery’s booth are Jes Fan’s sensuous organic sculptures made of hand-blown glass and carved gypsum. A rising star in the international art scene, Fan is known for taking CT scans of his body and creating printed casts of body parts to create his work. Another highlight of the booth is Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s slick kimono-shaped wall sculpture made of stitched poured silicone, a sound-buffering material. The work functions as a “noise blanket” with the thick textured surface deflecting sound. Taiwan-based Iranian American artist Raha Raissnia’s monumental oil painting inspired by experimental cinema is also a standout. Painted using the traditional method of grisaille, her ethereal painting appears to almost quiver and vibrate.” Read more …
2024-03-24	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork interviewed for BOMB
	Sound art as performance, choreography, and object. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Byron Westbrook in BOMB: “Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s work occupies a singular space at a nexus of visual arts and sound composition. With a multifaceted sphere of influences that includes textiles, club music, archaeoacoustics, and choreography, she has one of the most rigorous and unique practices in what is often termed sound art. Her work manifests as a generous space for audience exploration, where sculpture, sound, and interactive installation environments live and breathe in a symbiotic collaboration with viewer and architecture. Kiyomi Gork’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition, Poems of Electronic Air, at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center presents an expansive survey of her ideas and work. In the conversation below, I speak with her about concepts explored in the show, including participation, feedback systems, surveillance, choreography, and sonic forms as expressive metaphor.” —Byron Westbrook Read more …
2024-03-22	Jes Fan in 2024 Greater Toronto Art
	New works by Jes Fan are now on view at Greater Toronto Art, the triennial at MOCA Toronto, from March 22, 2024— July 28, 2024. The curatorial team includes MOCA Curator Kate Wong and two invited guest curators, Ebony L. Haynes and Toleen Touq. Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) is the second edition of MOCA Toronto’s recurring triennial exhibition, which was conceived in 2021 to look more closely and consistently at artistic practices with a connection to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Featuring a constellation of twenty-five intergenerational artists, duos, and collectives, GTA24 looks back as much as it looks forward. The exhibition presents work made between the 1960s and the present, allowing the comingling of art created in different decades to provide new ways of understanding the current moment and imagining the future. Read more …
2024-03-22	Artnews: 9 Local Galleries to Know Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong
	Harrison Jacobs, in Artnews: “With Hong Kong Art Week set to take off Monday, art world jet-setters are officially en-route and eyes are squarely on the coastal metropolis… The Covid years, as Empty Gallery director Alexander Lau told ARTnews in an email, were initially “shattering,” but isolation infused energy into the city, as it “gave every Hong Konger a reality check on how to move forward with life, both philosophically and emotionally.” The result, numerous art dealers told ARTnews, is a renewed focus on strengthening the city’s cultural ecosystem through new institutions, galleries, and nonprofit art spaces, as well the confidence to invest in and elevate local artists. “We’ve noticed more of a willingness to take meaningful risks with programming, beyond the typical more commercial route of transplanting blue-chip art trends to Hong Kong,” Lau said of the city’s galleries.” Read more …
2024-03-18	Jes Fan in 2024 Whitney Biennial
	Empty Gallery congratulates Jes Fan on his participation in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than The Real Thing. The Seventy-one visionary artists and collectives in the latest chapter of the exhibition—Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing—will follow in the footsteps of hundreds of Biennial artists before them to interpret our current landscape and tell stories, spark discussion, and comment on issues across a variety of media and disciplines. The curators of the 2024 Whitney Biennial are Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. Even Better Than The Real Thing will be on public view starting 20 March 2024, with previews from 12 through 17 March 2024. In The New York Times, read Siddhartha Mitter’s coverage: Whitney Biennial Picks a ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of Artists to Probe Turbulent Times. Read more …

Archive


past
	2024
•	2024-03-24 . . . 2024-05-25	Le Contre-Ciel	Yuji Agematsu, Francis Alÿs, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Magalie Comeau, Bruce Conner, Liz Deschenes, Trisha Donnelly, Agustín Fernández, Guo Fengyi, Richard Hawkins, Kong Chun Hei, Leung Kui Ting, Mathieu Malouf, Kazuo Ohno, R.H. Quaytman, Julia Scher, Michael E. Smith, Vunkwan Tam, Tang Kwok-hin, Tom Thayer, Stewart Uoo, Antek Walczak, Wucius Wong, Yu Ji past
•	2023-12-08 . . . 2024-02-17	Back	Doris Guo past
	2023
•	2023-09-03 . . . 2023-11-18	Belonging and Difference	Cici Wu past
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	screen-skins	Tishan Hsu past
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	Sites of Wounding: Chapter 1	Jes Fan past
•	2022-12-10 . . . 2023-02-18	نور	Raha Raissnia past
	2022
•	2022-08-27 . . . 2022-11-19	F	Vunkwan Tam past
•	2022-04-02 . . . 2022-06-18	Bad Timing	Xper. Xr past
•	2021-12-11 . . . 2022-02-19	Vanishing in the Wilderness	Yutaka Matsuzawa past
	2021
•	2021-09-11 . . . 2021-11-20	Olistostrome	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2021-04-17 . . . 2021-07-24	Tailwhip	Xper. Xr. past
•	2020-12-23 . . . 2021-03-20	Rumor Has It	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-09-26 . . . 2020-11-21	Vortices	Henry Shum past
•	2020-06-20 . . . 2020-09-05	Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K	ektor garcia past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	Reoccurring Afterlife	Diane Severin Nguyen past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	The Thing	James T. Hong past
	2019
•	2019-09-28 . . . 2019-11-23	The Bare Life	Philippe Grandrieux past
•	2019-06-22 . . . 2019-09-07	New Molecules & Stem Cell Retinoid Screen	Sean Raspet past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	delete	Tishan Hsu past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	Unfinished Return	Cici Wu past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	Memento Stella	Takashi Makino past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	The Pearl Of Tailorbird	Rei Hayama past
	2018
•	2018-09-22 . . . 2018-11-24	Gravitational Currents & The Life Magic	Susanne Winterling past
•	2018-06-30 . . . 2018-09-08	Thresholds of Perception	Catherine Christer Hennix past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Mother Is A Woman	Jes Fan past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Ruthless Logic	Xavier Cha past
•	2017-12-09 . . . 2018-02-03	Shocking Asia	C. Spencer Yeh past
	2017
•	2017-09-09 . . . 2017-11-18	Everything Visible Is Empty	Toshio Matsumoto past
•	2017-06-17 . . . 2017-08-26	Catchy	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2017-03-22 . . . 2017-05-27	Infinite Doors	Takeshi Murata past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	CINÉMA CONCRET	Takashi Makino past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	Kaya Cynara	Hans-Henning Korb past
	2016
•	2016-03-24 . . . 2016-05-20	Ancestor Bone Hug	Amit Desai past
•	2015-11-07 . . . 2016-02-06	The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath	Edward S. Curtis, Valerio Tricoli past
	2015
•	2015-09-11 . . . 2015-10-21	Sonorous Objects	Rolf Julius, Tomoko Sauvage, Rubén D’Hers and Marc Hurtado past
•	2015-03-05 . . . 2015-08-15	Transcendance	Amit Desai past


past
	2024
•	2024-05-26	Le Contre-Ciel: A Conversation	Brian Kuan Wood, Yang Yeung, Alexander Lau past
•	2024-02-03	Uncanny Returns: The Discarnates	Doris Guo past
	2023
•	2023-11-12	Migratory Positions: a discussion on Cici Wu's Belonging and Difference	Cici Wu past
•	2023-06-15	Art Basel Rave past
•	2023-03-24 . . . 2023-03-25	Empty Gallery Annual Rave past
•	2023-02-18 . . . 2023-02-19	Nour Closing Program: Film-Performance	Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis past
	2022
•	2022-11-12	F CLOSING PARTY	VUNKWAN TAM past
•	2022-04-22	Tishan Hsu and Jes Fan \| La Biennale di Venezia	Traxx, Ron Morelli, Scott Zacharias, Adrian Rew past
	2021
•	2021-07-24	Easy Listening for The Hard of Seeing	Xper.Xr past
•	2021-03-06	Webinar \| Taro Masushio and Taro Nettleton	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-10-03	Tours of Henry Shum 'Vortices'	Henry Shum past
•	2020-09-05	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa and a brief history of crochet	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa past
	2019
•	2019-12-15	Screening \| John Carpenter's The Thing	James T. Hong past
•	2019-11-30 . . . 2019-12-01	The Body Electric	Xper.Xr., Die Angel, Fiesta Brass past
•	2019-10-05		Still House Plants past
•	2019-06-23	Human Formats: Recent Developments in Stem Cell Science and the Plastic Arts	Dr. Robert Johnston past
•	2019-03-20	Opening Rave \| delete & Unfinished Return	O YAMA O, DJ PYTHON, CARLOS SOUFFRONT, BILL CONVERSE past
•	2019-01-26	Screening \| Experimental Films by Rei Hayama	Rei Hayama past
	2018
•	2018-12-16		Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki past
•	2018-10-27		Taibach, Billy Bao & NYPD past
•	2018-08-31 . . . 2018-09-02		Chora(s)san Time Court Mirage past
•	2018-06-30	Opening Reception \| Thresholds of Perception	Amir ElSaffar past
•	2018-03-31	Failed Celestial Creatures	David Grubbs & Taku Unami past
•	2018-03-30	Opening Rave \| Ruthless Logic & Mother Is A Woman	Ahmed, Cera Khin, Mumdance, Logos & Rob Hall past
	2017
•	2017-12-09	Opening Reception \| Shocking Asia	Violet past
•	2017-11-18	Screening + Closing Reception \| Funeral Parade Of Roses past
•	2017-10-21		Reizen / Morishige past
•	2017-09-09	Opening Reception \| EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY	Aki Onda past
•	2017-08-26	Closing Reception \| CATCHY	Errorsmith past
•	2017-06-17	Opening Reception \| CATCHY	Thomas Brinkmann × Seijiro Murayama past
•	2017-05-27	Closing Reception \| Infinite Doors	C. SPENCER YEH past
•	2017-03-25	Green Hour, Grey Future	Reinier Van Houdt past
•	2017-03-23	Une Nuit Sans Sommeil	Lionel Estève, Jean-Michel Distexhe & Zoë-Louise Estève past
•	2017-03-22	Opening Party \| Infinite Doors	Sissy Spacek, Gabber Eleganza, Lorenzo Senni & Rian Treanor past
•	2017-02-18	Endless Cinema	Takashi Makino past
•	2017-01-21	Green Music	Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere past
	2016
•	2016-12-17		Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker & James Hoff past
•	2016-12-09	EG Reopening Party	Terre Thaemlitz, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor & Robert Lippok past
•	2016-05-21		Magda Mayas × Tony Buck, dj sniff & Shane Aspegren past
•	2016-04-23	Dialogues	Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan & Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa past
•	2016-01-09		Keiji Haino × John Butcher past
	2015
•	2015-11-21		Masayoshi Urabe past
•	2015-10-24		Peter Brötzmann past
•	2015-09-25 . . . 2015-09-26	Editions Mego 20th Anniversary	Fennesz, Klara Lewis, Ilpo Vaisanen & KTL past
•	2015-08-15	LIVE@TEG	III人 past
•	2015-06-07	LIVE@TEG	Mark Fell × NHK’KOYXEN past
•	2015-05-09	LIVE@TEG	Suishou No Fune past
•	2015-03-14 . . . 2015-03-15	LIVE@TEG	Ninos Du Brasil, Eli Kezler, Rashad Becker, NHK’KOYXEN, Lorenzo Senni, Gábor Lázár & Mark Fell past


	upcoming
•	2024-06-11 . . . 2024-06-17	Art Basel	Jes Fan, Doris Guo, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Tishan Hsu, Raha Raissnia, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu upcoming
past
	2024
•	2024-04-07 . . . 2024-04-21	ONSEN CONFIDENTIAL	James T. Hong past
•	2024-03-26 . . . 2024-03-30	Art Basel Hong Kong	Jes Fan, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Doris Guo, Tishan Hsu, and Raha Raissnia past
	2023
•	2023-10-18 . . . 2023-10-22	Paris Internationale	Vunkwan Tam, Taro Masushio past
•	2023-09-06 . . . 2023-09-09	Frieze Seoul	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong, Raha Raissnia, Vunkwan Tam, Henry Shum, Xper.Xr past
•	2023-06-12 . . . 2023-06-18	Art Basel	Tishan Hsu, James T. Hong, Taro Masushio, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Henry Shum and Cici Wu past
•	2023-03-21 . . . 2023-03-25	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Jes Fan, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam and Raha Raissnia past
	2022
•	2022-09-02 . . . 2022-09-05	Frieze Seoul	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu past
•	2022-06-13 . . . 2022-06-19	Liste Art Fair	Xper. Xr past
•	2022-05-25 . . . 2022-05-29	Art Basel Hong Kong	James T. Hong past
	2021
•	2021-10-13 . . . 2021-10-17	Frieze London	Jes Fan, Henry Shum past
•	2021-09-20 . . . 2021-09-26	Liste Art Fair Basel	Taro Masushio past
•	2021-05-19 . . . 2021-05-23	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Xper.Xr., Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong past
•	2021-02-24 . . . 2021-03-07	South South Veza	Rei Hayama past
	2020
•	2020-11-26 . . . 2020-11-30	Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel	Cici Wu & Xiaofei Mo, Henry Shum past
•	2020-11-11 . . . 2020-11-15	Art021 Shanghai	Tishan Hsu, Diane Severin Nguyen, John Wu past
•	2020-08-20 . . . 2020-08-31	June Art Fair	John Ziqiang Wu past
•	2020-02-13 . . . 2020-02-16	Felix Los Angeles	James T. Hong past
	2019
•	2019-11-07 . . . 2019-11-10	ART021 Shanghai	Elliott Jun Wright past
•	2019-03-29 . . . 2019-03-31	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu past
	2018
•	2018-05-03 . . . 2018-05-06	Frieze New York	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon past
•	2018-03-07 . . . 2018-03-10	The Armory Show	Tishan Hsu and Takeshi Murata past

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Art Basel, Booth L10, June 11—17:

Jes Fan, Doris Guo, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Tishan Hsu, Raha Raissnia, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu

Closed for Installation
Apologies and Other Regrets
James T. Hong
Opening June 8th
6 – 8 PM

Jes Fan
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing
March 20– August 11, 2024

Tishan Hsu
MAMCO Genève
March 5 – June 9, 2024

Credits

Sound art as performance, choreography, and object. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Byron Westbrook in BOMB: