
2025-05-06	Richard Hawkins and Emma McIntyre in Interview
	Getting Up Close and Personal with Painters Emma McIntyre and Richard Hawkins, published May 6, 2025: Born in New Zealand and now based in Los Angeles, the artist Emma McIntyre is no stranger to frequent travel. But the vibrant art scene of Hong Kong, the site of her second exhibition with David Zwirner, is a bit farther afield than even McIntyre ever imagined herself. Titled Among my swan, a name she’s borrowed from Mazzy Star, the show demonstrates the artist’s taste for chromatic abstractions that transcend the limits of language. “By introducing the swan motif,” McIntyre told Richard Hawkins last month, “I can connect to all the painted swans in art history.” She does so using oil paint alongside unconventional materials like oxidized iron, a gambit, Hawkins says, that suggests McIntyre’s granular attention to her artistic forbearers. “I think the difference is your investment in the history of painting,” he says, “but also how closely you look at other paintings.” Fresh off his own show at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery, The Garden of Loved Ones, he and McIntyre got on a Zoom to discuss their shared obsessions: Baudelaire, art historian Michael Levey, and painting with your body, literally. 更多…
2025-04-22	Doris Guo: Oslo Open Studios
	As part of Oslo Open ’25, Doris Guo and other artists will be opening their studios from April 26-27 this weekend. 更多…
2025-04-20	7pm in Hong Kong by Geoffrey Mak, Spike Art Magazine
	As the roof caved in on the empire of the US dollar, a son of the diaspora returned to an art market buzzing despite censorship and mass exodus. Enter the Chinese century? 1. Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, lives in an area of my mind with high green hills and banquet halls and concrete residential towers whose balconies jut like vertebrae along spines made of stone. Wild boar roam the hills in the dark. Political prisoners in the Stanley jail bake in humidity and sweat without any air-conditioning. Jet-lagged from New York, I was taking a nap one afternoon in our hotel on the southern coast of Hong Kong Island, and was dreaming that someone I loved was handing me a piece of paper. I began pulling at it with both hands – it was blank, no message – until I felt someone kissing my face. 更多…
2025-04-11	Jaime Chu interviews Stephen Cheng in Spike Art Magazine
	Stephen Cheng on Ten Years of Empty Gallery, Jaime Chu, Spike Art Magazine The founder of Hong Kong art’s black cube on sheltering artists from the system, programming as film-making, and the experimental drug called jet lag. When I first moved back to Hong Kong as an adult in 2023, a new friend tried to recommend me cool things to do: “During a performance at the closing party for Vunkwan Tam’s show at Empty last year, [owner of noise label Mouhoi] Cedric Ng punched a sink until his hands bled.” They knew what to say, but they didn’t have to try so hard. In Hong Kong, historically an entrepot dominated by blue-chip galleries, unwieldy semi-private institutions, and a constellation of independent art spaces surviving precariously under colossal real estate conditions, Stephen Cheng’s Empty Gallery occupies an eclectic yet somehow exacting niche. It’s where minimalist experimental music, Japanese conceptual art and its heirs, and sculptural and filmic practices at the forefront of the Asian diaspora converge in a renovated industrial space notorious for its dark, cavernous interior. Friends who don’t otherwise care for contemporary art bring themselves to the hour-long queue for the gallery’s annual rave, and its artists have found genuine interlocutors within an industry that does not always afford them time. 更多…
2025-04-01	Richard Hawkins' The Garden of Loved Ones opens at Empty Gallery
	Our current solo exhibition of Richard Hawkins, The Garden of Loved Ones, opened on March 23, 2025, and was written up in the following publications: The best shows to see in Hong Kong ahead of Art Basel, Payal Uttam, Art Basel Nine Solo Shows to See in Hong Kong, Spring 2025, Anna Dickie, Ocula 7 Shows to See During Hong Kong Art Week 2025, Claire Shiying Li, Frieze Headed to Art Basel Hong Kong? You Need to Make Time for the City’s 13 Can’t-Miss Exhibitions, Giuliana Brida and Katie Kern, Cultured Shows to See in Hong Kong, March 2025, ArtAsiaPacific The exhibition, along with TRST03 Covey Gong, will be on view through May 24, 2025.
2025-03-19	Ophelia Lai interviews Stephen Cheng in Financial Times
	Ophela Lai, on the occasion of Empty Gallery’s 10th anniversary, interviewed Stephen Cheng, our gallery founder, in the Financial Times: “A pitch-black art gallery — now that’s a bright idea: Empty Gallery, a ‘black-cube’ arts space situated in a Hong Kong high-rise, has a reputation for immersive, experimental experiences: Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery envelops you in darkness. The lift doors open and, for the few seconds before your eyes adjust, there is nothing but a void — no walls, no doors, no floor. Stephen Cheng opened the gallery in 2015 in an industrial high-rise block in Aberdeen harbour. It is a “black cube”: an inversion of the white-walled space that has been the default for showing art since the 20th century. Born in New York, Cheng — the grandson of Hong Kong shipping magnate Yue Kong-Pao — was educated at Eton, and later Harvard where he studied photography and film history (and took classes with Nan Goldin). Darkrooms and cinemas became his favourite haunts. It was in dark spaces where art entered his life “in an irrevocable way”. 更多…
2025-03-07	Tishan Hsu at the San Jose Museum of Modern Art
	March 7, 2025 – ongoing Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, the Museum invites a deeper sense of community pride in the collection. The exhibition includes Tishan Hsu’s phone-breath-bed 3, 2023, which the museum acquired in 2024 for their permanent collection. Initiated in 1973 under the guidance of San José artists, SJMA’s collection has grown to reflect our international point of convergence, where dynamic cultural diversity and high-tech industries mix in California soil. SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. Organized into thematic groupings, Tending and Dreaming offers poetic starting points for engaging with ideas woven through the works of almost fifty artists from the Bay Area and beyond, including Ruth Asawa, Martha Atienza, Shilpa Gupta, Yolanda López, and Elias Sime, among many others. 更多…
2025-03-05	Raha Raissnia in There Is No Center, ROH Projects, Jakarta
	There Is No Center at ROH Projects arrives not as a conventional presentation of artworks, but as an event in the truest sense—a disturbance in the usual flow of time. Extending beyond the gallery’s familiar five-week format, the twelve-week-long exhibition challenges the static nature of traditional exhibition-making, embracing a fluid proposition in which artworks enter and exit the exhibition at irregular intervals and for undisclosed periods, and performative actions instigate reconfigurations of how and where works are positioned. These movements establish ever-changing contexts and reconsideration of the works vis a vis in relation to each other, as well as in relation to themselves. Raha Raissnia will be installing new paintings in the second week of March, and hosting a film-performance on March 9. Read more details at the link below. 更多…
2025-03-01	Reina Sugihara, Empty Gallery by Aaina Bhargava in Artforum
	Reina Sugihara fantasizes about breathing like a bird—having constant access to fresh air, as she told me, and being able to inhale and exhale deeply as if it were second nature. Inherited from their dinosaur ancestors, the nine to eleven air sacs attached to birds’ lungs allow for oxygen storage enabling effortless and effective breathing. In today’s stress-filled world where we need meditation and breathing classes for their constant reminders to respire deeply and correctly, these small, round, inconspicuous air sacs seem like something that might be as beneficial for humans as they are necessary for birds. 更多…
2025-02-19	Reina Sugihara, Respirare, by Michele Chan in ArtAsiaPacific
	Emerging from the shadows of Empty Gallery’s customarily dark sanctum, Reina Sugihara’s paintings—softly illuminated by spotlights—exuded a quiet primordial force. Her abstract biomorphic forms, rendered in tones ranging from earthy to carnal, resemble blistering encrustations. The thickly painted canvases, some large enough to loom over the viewer, support viscous deposits of pigment and gesso that fissure as they dry. One thinks of scorched terrain, cooling lava, or half-healed wounds and scabs, but the associations are brief—the paintings resist legibility. 更多…

Archive


	展覽中
•	2025-03-23 . . . 2025-05-24	The Garden of Loved Ones	Richard Hawkins 展覽中
回顧
	2025
•	2024-12-08 . . . 2025-03-01	Respirare	Reina Sugihara 已結束
	2024
•	2024-09-21 . . . 2024-11-30	Pass	增鹽太朗已結束
•	2024-06-08 . . . 2024-08-17	Apologies and Other Regrets	James T. Hong 已結束
•	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 已結束
•	2023-12-08 . . . 2024-02-17	Back	Doris Guo 已結束
	2023
•	2023-09-03 . . . 2023-11-18	另刂	武雨濛已結束
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	屏膚	徐梯善已結束
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	第一章：東方之珠	范加已結束
•	2022-12-10 . . . 2023-02-18	نور	Raha Raissnia 已結束
	2022
•	2022-08-27 . . . 2022-11-19	F	Vunkwan Tam 已結束
•	2022-04-02 . . . 2022-06-18	壞時機	Xper. Xr 已結束
•	2021-12-11 . . . 2022-02-19	絕跡曠野	松澤宥已結束
	2021
•	2021-09-11 . . . 2021-11-20	Olistostrome	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork 已結束
•	2021-04-17 . . . 2021-07-24	Tailwhip	Xper. Xr. 已結束
•	2020-12-23 . . . 2021-03-20	聽聞說	增鹽太朗已結束
	2020
•	2020-09-26 . . . 2020-11-21	漩洑	沈璟已結束
•	2020-06-20 . . . 2020-09-05	Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K	ektor garcia 已結束
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	Reoccurring Afterlife	Diane Severin Nguyen 已結束
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	物	洪子健已結束
	2019
•	2019-09-28 . . . 2019-11-23	裸命	Philippe Grandrieux 已結束
•	2019-06-22 . . . 2019-09-07	New Molecules & Stem Cell Retinoid Screen	Sean Raspet 已結束
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	刪	徐梯善已結束
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	未完成的歸途	武雨濛已結束
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	Memento Stella	牧野貴已結束
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	The Pearl Of Tailorbird	葉山嶺已結束
	2018
•	2018-09-22 . . . 2018-11-24	Gravitational Currents & The Life Magic	Susanne Winterling 已結束
•	2018-06-30 . . . 2018-09-08	Thresholds of Perception	Catherine Christer Hennix 已結束
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	母親是女的	范加已結束
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	無情極理	Xavier Cha 已結束
•	2017-12-09 . . . 2018-02-03	Shocking Asia	C. Spencer Yeh 已結束
	2017
•	2017-09-09 . . . 2017-11-18	Everything Visible Is Empty	松本俊夫已結束
•	2017-06-17 . . . 2017-08-26	Catchy	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork 已結束
•	2017-03-22 . . . 2017-05-27	Infinite Doors	Takeshi Murata 已結束
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	CINÉMA CONCRET	Takashi Makino 已結束
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	Kaya Cynara	Hans-Henning Korb 已結束
	2016
•	2016-03-24 . . . 2016-05-20	先風遺骨連墨	Amit Desai 已結束
•	2015-11-07 . . . 2016-02-06	睡在呼吸上的人	Edward S. Curtis, Valerio Tricoli 已結束
	2015
•	2015-09-11 . . . 2015-10-21	靜物之聲	Rolf Julius, Tomoko Sauvage, Rubén D’Hers 及 Marc Hurtado 已結束
•	2015-03-05 . . . 2015-08-15	Transcendance	Amit Desai 已結束


回顧
	2025
•	2025-03-29 . . . 2025-03-30	Annual Rave: 10th Anniversary Edition	Sunik Kim, Shawescape Renegade, Miguel Cisne, Mutagenix, Tom Boogizm 已結束
•	2025-03-27	Artist Space and Empty Gallery presents: Charlemagne Palestine	Charlemagne Palestine 已結束
	2024
•	2024-12-08	Reina Sugihara: Opening Performance Night	Shizuo Uchida, Ritsuko Sakata, RQRQ 已結束
•	2024-11-24	Pass: Closing Conversation	Taro Masushio 已結束
•	2024-05-26	Le Contre-Ciel: A Conversation	Brian Kuan Wood, Yang Yeung, Alexander Lau 已結束
•	2024-03-29 . . . 2024-03-30	Empty Gallery Annual Rave	John T. Gast, Nick Klein, DJ Gonz, FIT Siegel and Conrad Pack 已結束
•	2024-02-03	Uncanny Returns: The Discarnates	Özge Ersoy and Jean Ma 已結束
	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 已結束
•	2023-06-15	Art Basel Rave 已結束
•	2023-03-24 . . . 2023-03-25	Empty Gallery Annual Rave 已結束
•	2023-02-18 . . . 2023-02-19	Nour Closing Program: Film-Performance	Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis 已結束
	2022
•	2022-11-12	F CLOSING PARTY	VUNKWAN TAM 已結束
•	2022-04-22	Tishan Hsu and Jes Fan \| La Biennale di Venezia	Traxx, Ron Morelli, Scott Zacharias, Adrian Rew 已結束
	2021
•	2021-07-24	Easy Listening for The Hard of Seeing	Xper.Xr 已結束
•	2021-03-06	Webinar \| Taro Masushio and Taro Nettleton	Taro Masushio 已結束
	2020
•	2020-10-03	Tours of Henry Shum 'Vortices'	Henry Shum 已結束
•	2020-09-05	ektor garcia、魯斯·阿薩瓦和鉤織簡史	ektor garcia、魯斯·阿薩瓦已結束
	2019
•	2019-12-15	放映會 \| 約翰·卡本特之突變第三型	洪子健已結束
•	2019-11-30 . . . 2019-12-01	The Body Electric	Xper.Xr., Die Angel, Fiesta Brass 已結束
•	2019-10-05		Still House Plants 已結束
•	2019-06-23	Human Formats: Recent Developments in Stem Cell Science and the Plastic Arts	Dr. Robert Johnston 已結束
•	2019-03-20	Opening Rave \| delete & Unfinished Return	O YAMA O, DJ PYTHON, CARLOS SOUFFRONT, BILL CONVERSE 已結束
•	2019-01-26	Screening \| Experimental Films by Rei Hayama	Rei Hayama 已結束
	2018
•	2018-12-16		Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki 已結束
•	2018-10-27		Taibach, Billy Bao & 南洋派對已結束
•	2018-08-31 . . . 2018-09-02		Chora(s)san Time Court Mirage 已結束
•	2018-06-30	Opening Reception \| Thresholds of Perception	Amir ElSaffar 已結束
•	2018-03-31	Failed Celestial Creatures	David Grubbs & Taku Unami 已結束
•	2018-03-30	Opening Rave \| Ruthless Logic & Mother Is A Woman	Ahmed, Cera Khin, Mumdance, Logos & Rob Hall 已結束
	2017
•	2017-12-09	Opening Reception \| Shocking Asia	Violet 已結束
•	2017-11-18	Screening + Closing Reception \| Funeral Parade Of Roses 已結束
•	2017-10-21		Reizen / Morishige 已結束
•	2017-09-09	Opening Reception \| EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY	Aki Onda 已結束
•	2017-08-26	Closing Reception \| CATCHY	Errorsmith 已結束
•	2017-06-17	Opening Reception \| CATCHY	Thomas Brinkmann × Seijiro Murayama 已結束
•	2017-05-27	Closing Reception \| Infinite Doors	C. SPENCER YEH 已結束
•	2017-03-25	Green Hour, Grey Future	Reinier Van Houdt 已結束
•	2017-03-23	Une Nuit Sans Sommeil	Lionel Estève, Jean-Michel Distexhe & Zoë-Louise Estève 已結束
•	2017-03-22	Opening Party \| Infinite Doors	Sissy Spacek, Gabber Eleganza, Lorenzo Senni & Rian Treanor 已結束
•	2017-02-18	Endless Cinema	Takashi Makino 已結束
•	2017-01-21	Green Music	Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere 已結束
	2016
•	2016-12-17		Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker & James Hoff 已結束
•	2016-12-09	EG Reopening Party	Terre Thaemlitz, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor & Robert Lippok 已結束
•	2016-05-21		Magda Mayas × Tony Buck, dj sniff & Shane Aspegren 已結束
•	2016-04-23	Dialogues	Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan & Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa 已結束
•	2016-01-09		Keiji Haino × John Butcher 已結束
	2015
•	2015-11-21		Masayoshi Urabe 已結束
•	2015-10-24		Peter Brötzmann 已結束
•	2015-09-25 . . . 2015-09-26	Editions Mego 20th Anniversary	Fennesz, Klara Lewis, Ilpo Vaisanen & KTL 已結束
•	2015-08-15	LIVE@TEG	III人已結束
•	2015-06-07	LIVE@TEG	Mark Fell × NHK’KOYXEN 已結束
•	2015-05-09	LIVE@TEG	水晶の舟已結束
•	2015-03-14 . . . 2015-03-15	LIVE@TEG	Ninos Du Brasil, Eli Kezler, Rashad Becker, NHK’KOYXEN, Lorenzo Senni, Gábor Lázár & Mark Fell 已結束


回顧
	2025
•	2025-04-10 . . . 2025-04-12	Dallas Invitational	Taro Masushio, Vunkwan Tam 已結束
•	2025-03-26 . . . 2025-03-30	Art Basel Hong Kong	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Doris Guo, Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu 已結束
	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 已結束
•	2024-04-07 . . . 2024-04-21	ONSEN CONFIDENTIAL	James T. Hong 已結束
•	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 已結束
	2023
•	2023-10-18 . . . 2023-10-22	Paris Internationale	Vunkwan Tam, Taro Masushio 已結束
•	2023-09-06 . . . 2023-09-09	Frieze Seoul	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong, Raha Raissnia, Vunkwan Tam, Henry Shum, Xper.Xr 已結束
•	2023-06-12 . . . 2023-06-18	Art Basel	Tishan Hsu, James T. Hong, Taro Masushio, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Henry Shum and Cici Wu 已結束
•	2023-03-21 . . . 2023-03-25	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Jes Fan, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam and Raha Raissnia 已結束
	2022
•	2022-09-02 . . . 2022-09-05	Frieze Seoul	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu 已結束
•	2022-06-13 . . . 2022-06-19	Liste Art Fair	Xper. Xr 已結束
•	2022-05-25 . . . 2022-05-29	Art Basel Hong Kong	洪子健已結束
	2021
•	2021-10-13 . . . 2021-10-17	Frieze London	Jes Fan, Henry Shum 已結束
•	2021-09-20 . . . 2021-09-26	Liste Art Fair Basel	Taro Masushio 已結束
•	2021-05-19 . . . 2021-05-23	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Xper.Xr., Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong 已結束
•	2021-02-24 . . . 2021-03-07	South South Veza	Rei Hayama 已結束
	2020
•	2020-11-26 . . . 2020-11-30	Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel	Cici Wu & Xiaofei Mo, Henry Shum 已結束
•	2020-11-11 . . . 2020-11-15	Art021 Shanghai	Tishan Hsu, Diane Severin Nguyen, John Wu 已結束
•	2020-08-20 . . . 2020-08-31	June Art Fair	John Ziqiang Wu 已結束
•	2020-02-13 . . . 2020-02-16	Felix Los Angeles	James T. Hong 已結束
	2019
•	2019-11-07 . . . 2019-11-10	ART021 Shanghai	Elliott Jun Wright 已結束
•	2019-03-29 . . . 2019-03-31	Art Basel Hong Kong	徐梯善已結束
	2018
•	2018-05-03 . . . 2018-05-06	Frieze New York	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon 已結束
•	2018-03-07 . . . 2018-03-10	The Armory Show	Tishan Hsu and Takeshi Murata 已結束

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Installation view, ‘Tailwhip’ at Empty Gallery, 2021

Installation view, ‘Cacophon’ at Loong Mah, New York, 2022

Installation view, ‘Tailwhip’ at TheCube Project Space, Taipei, 2023

Installation view, ‘Bad Timing’ at Empty Gallery, 2022

*Xper.Xr, Untitled (Dedicated to M+),* 1991/2021, installation view, ‘Tailwhip’ at Empty Gallery

*Xper.Xr, Used Racing Suit,* 2013 -2021, installation view, ‘Tailwhip’ at Empty Gallery

Xper. Xr (1970年生)香港藝術家表演者和挑釁者屬於香港首代實驗音樂人。在他發佈有說是本地工業噪音首個作品。《Murmur》（1989）後，繼續錄發佈，並與大友良英、秋田昌美的一起演出。以對制度的蔑視、故意的失敗和自謙的美學為特色，Xper. Xr.的創作代表了這城市藝術反歷史上的關鍵時刻。由2012年至2015年，他在九龍營運一個地下展覽及表演空間CIA策劃志同道合的藝術家如駕籠真太郎，Vagina Dentata Organ、New Noveta、赫爾曼﹒尼特西、Laibach和Olivier de Sagazan的展覽及演出。

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Getting Up Close and Personal with Painters Emma McIntyre and Richard Hawkins, published May 6, 2025: