Empty Gallery


2024-08-15	Raha Raissnia at Argo Factory, Pejman Foundation
	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. For the first chapter of the exhibition, a number of artists have been carefully selected by Raha Raissnia to accompany two of her own works. In the spirit of Mekas’s Manifesto, they are all friends whom she has known personally from many years of living and working in New York City. Artists: Jonas Mekas, Raha Raissnia, Andrew Chalk, Pip Chodorov, Martha Colburn, Milton Cruz, Albert Herter, Andrew Lampert, Jeanne Liotta, Timo Van Luijk, Panagiotis Mavridis, Jordan Mintzer, Jason Babak Mohaghegh, Stom Sogo and Justina Zukauskaite Read more …
2024-08-13	Tishan Hsu in Between Pixel and Pigment
	The exhibition, running from July 7 through November 10, 2024, is developed jointly by the Museum Marta Herford and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and takes place simultaneously at both venues. Between Pixel and Pigment is dedicated to post-digital hybrid painting and thus reflects our hybrid post-digital present, anchored between the digital and the analog. In this large-scale collaboration, the focus is on a painterly way of thinking that has expanded considerably, especially in the last ten years, through the equal interweaving of content and technology of the hybrid. The international artists fundamentally question the traditional medium of painting. To what extent do the changes influence materialities, image-media structures and aesthetics? How do hybrid spaces, bodies that have become fluid and a feeling of being in-between find pictorial correspondences? Read more …
2024-06-28	Tishan Hsu on the High Line, New York
	Two new sculptures by Tishan Hsu, car-grass-screen-2 and car-body-screen-2 are now on view at the High Line New York, at at Little W 12th St. and Washington St. Hsu first began making these resin-wrapped foam sculptures at the 58th Carnegie International in 2022. The works will be on view through April 2025, and the commissioning curator is Cecilia Alemani. Read more …
2024-06-14	Doris Guo in All Good Things, Hulias, Norway
	“All Good Things” at Hulias Norway will be on view through July 7 and is open from 13:00 to 16:00 every Saturday and Sunday during the exhibition. Participating artists include Spencer Lai (AU), Maria Gorodeckaya (RU,GB), Giles Thackway (AU), Doris Guo (US) and Ewa Poniatowska (PL). Curated by Marie-Alix Isdahl, the exhibition features a projector artwork work by Doris Guo titled Kitchen Bathroom Confusion (2023). Read more …
2024-05-22	Le Contre-Ciel in Frieze Magazine
	Stephanie Bailey on Le Contre-Ciel in Frieze Magazine: “Named after 20th-century French surrealist René Daumal’s writings on death as regenerative negation, ‘Le Contre-Ciel’ (The Counter Heaven) at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, is more revelation than exhibition. Organized by Olivia Shao, the group show opens with the meditative sounds of a gong chiming over softly clanging cymbals. These emanate from a work that is not yet visible: Francis Alÿs’s Cuentos Patrióticos (Patriotic Tales, 1997), a black and white video that shows the artist leading sheep in single file around a giant flagpole in the centre of Zócalo, Mexico City’s main square, to form a looping circle. The performance references an event that took place in 1968, amid a student-led Mexican movement for political change, when civil servants ordered to show support for the government bleated in the square in protest. The work’s presence plays with the meaning of ‘The Counter Heaven’ in the context of Hong Kong, given that Chinese emperors believed they had the divine right to rule due to the Mandate of Heaven.” Read more …
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 …

Archive


past
	2024
•	2024-06-08 . . . 2024-08-17	Apologies and Other Regrets	James T. Hong past
•	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
•	2024-03-29 . . . 2024-03-30	Empty Gallery Annual Rave	John T. Gast, Nick Klein, DJ Gonz, FIT Siegel and Conrad Pack past
•	2024-02-03	Uncanny Returns: The Discarnates	Özge Ersoy and Jean Ma past
	2023
•	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 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


past
	2024
•	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
•	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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The Room of Spirit and Time

Matthias Groebel

September 14 – November 30, 2024

Taro Masushio
Opening 21 September, 2024

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