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        2024-11-16
        Taro Masushio, Pass, by Wong Binghao in Mousse Magazine

        “Just as he is uninterested in entrenching binaries of fact and fiction, resistance and capitulation, or authorship and appropriation, Taro Masushio is likewise wary of identitarian overdeterminations and the corollary imperative to verify and reveal any singular “truths” behind his photography. He sets himself the task of resisting the medium’s claims to the indisputable legibility of subjects in front of or behind its lens. His latest show at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (all works 2024), juxtaposes two types of photography—UV prints on found cardboard and more traditional still lifes—to complicate the medium’s supposed technological purchase on truth and transparency. It highlights his proclivity for playful formal experimentation when faced with the camera’s potential for capture, which has often proven symptomatic of the colonial hunger for knowledge, order, and coherence. Through his shrewd sequencing of images, the artist seems to suggest that the medium of photography holds the capacity to conceal and equivocate, despite its presumed indexical fidelity to the “real.””

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        2024-11-14
        Para Site 2024 Benefit Auction

        Empty Gallery is pleased to support Para Site’s 2024 Benefit Auction. The works by Doris Guo & Weili Wang and James T. Hong are available to view on 9/F of H Queen’s in Hong Kong through 17 November, the silent auction will continue through November 20, 10.30pm HKT.

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        2024-11-06
        H.G. Masters on James T. Hong at Empty Gallery

        In issue 141 of ArtAsiaPacific, deputy editor H.G. Masters covered James T. Hong’s Apologies, which was on view at Empty Gallery from June through August 2024.

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        2024-11-05
        Intermissions: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami at Renaissance Society, Chicago

        At the Renaissance Society, Gork develops a new project for the Intermissions series in collaboration with performer, sound artist, and electronic musician Laetitia Sonami. Directly engaging with this unique setting, Gork introduces new physical elements into the empty gallery space, positions multiple sound sources, and experiments with the room’s unusual acoustics. For two days, Sonami and Gork mobilize and shape the sound within this environment across various listening zones. Visitors are free to come and go during the durational performance.

        Curated by Karsten Lund with Michael Harrison

        Special thanks to Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA.

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        2024-11-05
        Vunkwan Tam collaborating with Winsome Wong and Annisa Cheung, HICCUP, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

        On the weekend of November 8-9, Winsome Wong will present ‘Love Song: the bittersweet crumbs of having them at home’ in collaboration with Vunkwan Tam and Annisa Cheung, at Tai Kwun’s HICCUP, a festival of body and sound co-presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (Sound Forms), and Per.Platform.

        For the full schedule, see the link below.

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        2024-11-01
        Doris Guo, The Jar at K4, Oslo

        Doris Guo’s solo presentation, The Jar, is on view November 1st through 24th at K4 in Oslo, a non-profit gallery space for video art and moving image. The exhibition is open on Saturdays and Sundays, please see the link below for further details.

        “The starting point of this exhibition was based on my desire for having always wanted to make a horror movie. At many periods of my life, especially busy and  stressful ones, I take comfort in throwing on any horror movie, cheesy and predictable with familiar sounds and jump scares. Amongst the many horror tropes one might  experience, I particularly get a lot of enjoyment out of police and military being utterly  useless. It’s an assumed, natural fact of the characters and by the general audience. I  wanted to set my horror movie in a particular style of housing in the Pacific Northwest.”

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        2024-10-26
        Cici Wu, Travel Star Between Ceasing and Arising, Scheusal Berlin

        Cici Wu’s solo exhibition Travel Star Between Ceasing and Arising is now on view at Scheusal Berlin from October 26th onwards.

        2024-10-25
        Jes Fan, Sites of Wounding: Interchapter, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

        Jes Fan’s debut New York solo exhibition is now on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery’s 55 Walker space through December 20, 2024.

        In his practice, Fan employs the often invisible substances that shape our experiences with the world to explore the often malleable ways in which biology, ecology and identity intersect. Working in close collaboration with biologists, farmers, and medical universities, Fan’s transdisciplinary projects examine how sculpture can be used as a tool to unravel material from its accumulated history.

        The exhibition continues Fan’s episodic project Sites of Wounding, first initiated in 2020. A pool of boiling soy milk is positioned at the gallery’s entrance, and utilized as a projection surface for a visceral video documenting a homemade endoscopy. Upon looking at the congealed skin-like surface of the white liquid, the viewer is not offered a reflection, but instead offered an interior view of the artist’s body. This underscores a larger interest in Fan’s work, of collapsing the membrane that demarcates the external body from an internal space. New sculptures belonging to the project’s second chapter are informed by Fan’s research into Agarwood trees, as well as an interest in how injuries are capable of generating new meaning. Native to Hong Kong, the trees produce a fragrant resin in response to stress, and trauma. In the healing process, the tree’s fibers harden, building density and structure around the wound. To create sculptures in this chapter, Fan 3D prints CT scans of his own musculature and combines traditional techniques such as glass-blowing. Mimicking the formal qualities of the infected Agarwood tree, these abstracted forms point to the transformative potential of trauma carried by the human body. A punctured freestanding wall furthers this inquiry, inviting viewers to peer at the sculpture embedded within it.

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        2024-10-09
        Jes Fan in Scientia Sexualis at ICA Los Angeles

        Scientia Sexualis is an ambitious group survey of contemporary artists whose works take up the fraught relationship between sex, gender, and science. Organized by Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, University of California, Riverside) and Jeanne Vaccaro (Assistant Professor of Transgender Studies and Museum Studies, University of Kansas), the exhibition is realized as part of the ambitious collaboration across arts institutions throughout Southern California known as PST ART: Art & Science Collide led by the Getty. It runs from October 5, 2024 through March 2, 2025.

        Featured artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Dotty Attie, Louise Bourgeois, Nao Bustamante, Andrea Carlson, Demian DinéYazhi’, Nicole Eisenman, El Palomar, dean erdmann, Jes Fan, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, Xandra Ibarra, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Carlos Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Young Joon Kwak & Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, Joey Terrill, Chris E. Vargas, Millie Wilson, and Geo Wyex.

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        2024-09-27
        James T. Hong at Argo Factory, Tehran

        I Am Standing in the Middle of the Information Highway and Laughing is a new exhibition curated by Raha Raissnia and Martin Germann, opening August 16 through October 18 at the Argo Factory in Tehran. Taking its title from late artist Jonas Mekas’ Manifesto Anti-100 years of Cinema, a performative exhibition in Tehran will unfold over two different episodes. Its main aim is to celebrate the unbound energy of collaborative work and friendship on the one hand and moments of reflection and stillness on the other. Its point of departure is the Manichean binary between darkness and light, as sine qua non condition for the existence of technologically mediated images.

        The second chapter of the exhibition, curated by Martin Germann, opens on Friday, September 27, with Marco Fusinato, James T. Hong, Tiffany Sia and Sam Lewitt.

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    • Exhibitions
        current
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        2024-09-21 . . . 2024-11-30
        Pass
        Taro Masushio
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        past
        2024
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        2024-06-08 . . . 2024-08-17
        Apologies and Other Regrets
        James T. Hong
        past
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        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
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        2023-12-08 . . . 2024-02-17
        Back
        Doris Guo
        past
        2023
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        2023-09-03 . . . 2023-11-18
        Belonging and Difference
        Cici Wu
        past
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        2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24
        screen-skins
        Tishan Hsu
        past
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        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
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        2022-08-27 . . . 2022-11-19
        F
        Vunkwan Tam
        past
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        2022-04-02 . . . 2022-06-18
        Bad Timing
        Xper. Xr
        past
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        2021-12-11 . . . 2022-02-19
        Vanishing in the Wilderness
        Yutaka Matsuzawa
        past
        2021
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        2021-09-11 . . . 2021-11-20
        Olistostrome
        Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
        past
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        2021-04-17 . . . 2021-07-24
        Tailwhip
        Xper. Xr.
        past
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        2020-12-23 . . . 2021-03-20
        Rumor Has It
        Taro Masushio
        past
        2020
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        2020-09-26 . . . 2020-11-21
        Vortices
        Henry Shum
        past
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        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
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        2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01
        The Thing
        James T. Hong
        past
        2019
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        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
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        2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06
        delete
        Tishan Hsu
        past
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        2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06
        Unfinished Return
        Cici Wu
        past
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        2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26
        Memento Stella
        Takashi Makino
        past
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        2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26
        The Pearl Of Tailorbird
        Rei Hayama
        past
        2018
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        2018-09-22 . . . 2018-11-24
        Gravitational Currents & The Life Magic
        Susanne Winterling
        past
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        2018-06-30 . . . 2018-09-08
        Thresholds of Perception
        Catherine Christer Hennix
        past
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        2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02
        Mother Is A Woman
        Jes Fan
        past
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        2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02
        Ruthless Logic
        Xavier Cha
        past
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        2017-12-09 . . . 2018-02-03
        Shocking Asia
        C. Spencer Yeh
        past
        2017
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        2017-09-09 . . . 2017-11-18
        Everything Visible Is Empty
        Toshio Matsumoto
        past
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        2017-06-17 . . . 2017-08-26
        Catchy
        Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
        past
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        2017-03-22 . . . 2017-05-27
        Infinite Doors
        Takeshi Murata
        past
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        2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17
        CINÉMA CONCRET
        Takashi Makino
        past
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        2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17
        Kaya Cynara
        Hans-Henning Korb
        past
        2016
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        2016-03-24 . . . 2016-05-20
        Ancestor Bone Hug
        Amit Desai
        past
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        2015-11-07 . . . 2016-02-06
        The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath
        Edward S. Curtis, Valerio Tricoli
        past
        2015
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        2015-09-11 . . . 2015-10-21
        Sonorous Objects
        Rolf Julius, Tomoko Sauvage, Rubén D’Hers and Marc Hurtado
        past
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        2015-03-05 . . . 2015-08-15
        Transcendance
        Amit Desai
        past
    • Events
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        2024-11-24
        Pass: Closing Conversation
        Taro Masushio
        upcoming
        past
        2024
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        2024-05-26
        Le Contre-Ciel: A Conversation
        Brian Kuan Wood, Yang Yeung, Alexander Lau
        past
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        2024-03-29 . . . 2024-03-30
        Empty Gallery Annual Rave
        John T. Gast, Nick Klein, DJ Gonz, FIT Siegel and Conrad Pack 
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        2024-02-03
        Uncanny Returns: The Discarnates
        Özge Ersoy and Jean Ma
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        2023
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        2023-11-12
        Migratory Positions: a discussion on Cici Wu's Belonging and Difference
        Elaine W. Ho, Dr. Yeewan Koon, Dr. Linda Chiu-han Lai, Jaime Chu
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        2023-06-15
        Art Basel Rave
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        2023-03-24 . . . 2023-03-25
        Empty Gallery Annual Rave
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        2023-02-18 . . . 2023-02-19
        Nour Closing Program: Film-Performance
        Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis
        past
        2022
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        2022-11-12
        F CLOSING PARTY
        VUNKWAN TAM
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        2022-04-22
        Tishan Hsu and Jes Fan | La Biennale di Venezia
        Traxx, Ron Morelli, Scott Zacharias, Adrian Rew
        past
        2021
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        2021-07-24
        Easy Listening for The Hard of Seeing
        Xper.Xr
        past
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        2021-03-06
        Webinar | Taro Masushio and Taro Nettleton
        Taro Masushio
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        2020
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        2020-10-03
        Tours of Henry Shum 'Vortices'
        Henry Shum
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        2020-09-05
        ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa and a brief history of crochet
        ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa
        past
        2019
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        2019-12-15
        Screening | John Carpenter's The Thing
        James T. Hong
        past
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        2019-11-30 . . . 2019-12-01
        The Body Electric
        Xper.Xr., Die Angel, Fiesta Brass
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        2019-10-05
        Still House Plants
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        2019-06-23
        Human Formats: Recent Developments in Stem Cell Science and the Plastic Arts
        Dr. Robert Johnston
        past
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        2019-03-20
        Opening Rave | delete & Unfinished Return
        O YAMA O, DJ PYTHON, CARLOS SOUFFRONT, BILL CONVERSE
        past
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        2019-01-26
        Screening | Experimental Films by Rei Hayama
        Rei Hayama
        past
        2018
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        2018-12-16
        Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki
        past
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        2018-10-27
        Taibach, Billy Bao & NYPD
        past
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        2018-08-31 . . . 2018-09-02
        Chora(s)san Time Court Mirage
        past
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        2018-06-30
        Opening Reception | Thresholds of Perception
        Amir ElSaffar
        past
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        2018-03-31
        Failed Celestial Creatures
        David Grubbs & Taku Unami
        past
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        2018-03-30
        Opening Rave | Ruthless Logic & Mother Is A Woman
        Ahmed, Cera Khin, Mumdance, Logos & Rob Hall
        past
        2017
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        2017-12-09
        Opening Reception | Shocking Asia
        Violet
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        2017-11-18
        Screening + Closing Reception | Funeral Parade Of Roses
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        2017-10-21
        Reizen / Morishige
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        2017-09-09
        Opening Reception | EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY
        Aki Onda
        past
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        2017-08-26
        Closing Reception | CATCHY
        Errorsmith
        past
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        2017-06-17
        Opening Reception | CATCHY
        Thomas Brinkmann × Seijiro Murayama
        past
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        2017-05-27
        Closing Reception | Infinite Doors
        C. SPENCER YEH
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        2017-03-25
        Green Hour, Grey Future
        Reinier Van Houdt
        past
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        2017-03-23
        Une Nuit Sans Sommeil
        Lionel Estève, Jean-Michel Distexhe & Zoë-Louise Estève
        past
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        2017-03-22
        Opening Party | Infinite Doors
        Sissy Spacek, Gabber Eleganza, Lorenzo Senni & Rian Treanor
        past
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        2017-02-18
        Endless Cinema
        Takashi Makino
        past
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        2017-01-21
        Green Music
        Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere
        past
        2016
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        2016-12-17
        Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker & James Hoff
        past
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        2016-12-09
        EG Reopening Party
        Terre Thaemlitz, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor & Robert Lippok
        past
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        2016-05-21
        Magda Mayas × Tony Buck, dj sniff & Shane Aspegren
        past
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        2016-04-23
        Dialogues
        Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan & Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa
        past
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        2016-01-09
        Keiji Haino × John Butcher
        past
        2015
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        2015-11-21
        Masayoshi Urabe
        past
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        2015-10-24
        Peter Brötzmann
        past
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        2015-09-25 . . . 2015-09-26
        Editions Mego 20th Anniversary
        Fennesz, Klara Lewis, Ilpo Vaisanen & KTL
        past
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        2015-08-15
        LIVE@TEG
        III人
        past
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        2015-06-07
        LIVE@TEG
        Mark Fell × NHK’KOYXEN
        past
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        2015-05-09
        LIVE@TEG
        Suishou No Fune
        past
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        2015-03-14 . . . 2015-03-15
        LIVE@TEG
        Ninos Du Brasil, Eli Kezler, Rashad Becker, NHK’KOYXEN, Lorenzo Senni, Gábor Lázár & Mark Fell
        past
    • Fairs
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        2024
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        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
        past
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        2024-04-07 . . . 2024-04-21
        ONSEN CONFIDENTIAL
        James T. Hong
        past
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        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
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        2023-10-18 . . . 2023-10-22
        Paris Internationale
        Vunkwan Tam, Taro Masushio
        past
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        2023-09-06 . . . 2023-09-09
        Frieze Seoul
        Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong, Raha Raissnia, Vunkwan Tam, Henry Shum, Xper.Xr
        past
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        2023-06-12 . . . 2023-06-18
        Art Basel
        Tishan Hsu, James T. Hong, Taro Masushio, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Henry Shum and Cici Wu
        past
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        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
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        2022-09-02 . . . 2022-09-05
        Frieze Seoul
        Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu
        past
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        2022-06-13 . . . 2022-06-19
        Liste Art Fair
        Xper. Xr
        past
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        2022-05-25 . . . 2022-05-29
        Art Basel Hong Kong
        James T. Hong
        past
        2021
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        2021-10-13 . . . 2021-10-17
        Frieze London
        Jes Fan, Henry Shum
        past
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        2021-09-20 . . . 2021-09-26
        Liste Art Fair Basel
        Taro Masushio
        past
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        2021-05-19 . . . 2021-05-23
        Art Basel Hong Kong
        Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Xper.Xr., Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong
        past
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        2021-02-24 . . . 2021-03-07
        South South Veza
        Rei Hayama
        past
        2020
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        2020-11-26 . . . 2020-11-30
        Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel
        Cici Wu & Xiaofei Mo, Henry Shum
        past
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        2020-11-11 . . . 2020-11-15
        Art021 Shanghai
        Tishan Hsu, Diane Severin Nguyen, John Wu
        past
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        2020-08-20 . . . 2020-08-31
        June Art Fair
        John Ziqiang Wu
        past
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        2020-02-13 . . . 2020-02-16
        Felix Los Angeles
        James T. Hong
        past
        2019
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        2019-11-07 . . . 2019-11-10
        ART021 Shanghai
        Elliott Jun Wright
        past
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        2019-03-29 . . . 2019-03-31
        Art Basel Hong Kong
        Tishan Hsu
        past
        2018
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        2018-05-03 . . . 2018-05-06
        Frieze New York
        Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon
        past
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        2018-03-07 . . . 2018-03-10
        The Armory Show
        Tishan Hsu and Takeshi Murata
        past
    • Editions
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        EE008 . . . . .Taibach
        Taibach
        2020
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        EE009 . . . . .Mein Corona
        Xper.Xr.
        2020
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        EE007 . . . . .Unbegrenzt
        Catherine Christer Hennix
        2020
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        EE006 . . . . .Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku
        The Deontic Miracle
        2019
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        EE004 . . . . .Palina'tufa
        XT (Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott)
        2019
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        EE005 . . . . .Selected Early Keyboard Works
        Catherine Christer Hennix
        2018
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        EE003 . . . . .Failed Celestial Creatures
        David Grubbs & Taku Unami
        2018
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        EE002 . . . . .Intervivos
        Jean–Luc Guionnet & Daichi Yoshikawa
        2018
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        EE001 . . . . .Last Signs of Speed
        Eli Keszler
        2016
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