The coming exhibition, titled 'Lala-land', showing Lee Kit, Tsang Chui Mei and Cornelia Erdmann is a reaction to the hussle and bussle of town. Here, three artists create each in their own way an oasis, a place to hide away from the tensions of life. Cornelia produced an imaginative garden on the wall by the use of stainless steel in shapes of butterflies and garden leaves. Lee Kit will prepare an installation piece with self-dyed fabric and pillows quoting phrases that encourages escape. Lee Kit will reside in the gallery during the exhibition and create his artworks on the spot. Tsang Chui Mei will be showing a series of abstract paintings referring to a different world with a touch of reality.
About the participating artists:
Lee Kit
Lee Kit, born in Hong Kong at 1978. He is studying Master of Fine Art in the Fine Arts Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and graduated from the same department at 2003. He is shortlisted in “Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition” 2001, 2003and 2005. He was invited to the Bolton Street Cottage Artist in Residence Programme, 2008. Exhibitions including solo exhibition “my pillow seems like a bed, a pillow seems like a bed.”(The Chinese University of HK / 2008), “Ready-made, Everyday” (Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand), “3 / 4 suggestions for a better living” (Para/Site Art Space / 2007), “Painting Furniture” (Yiliu Painting Factory, Fo Tan/ 2001) and Frieze Art Fair (London/2008), The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial (Guangdong Museum of Art / 2008),“Sprout from White Nights” (Bonnier Konsthall / 2008), “Reversing Horizon”, (Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai/2007), “Inside-Looking Out” (Osage Gallery / Osage Beijing /2007), “The Pearl River Delta” (Nassauischer Kunstverein/ Germany/2006), “aWay” (1a Space/2006), “Metropolis Strip(p)ed”, (The Substation/ Singapore/2005), etc.
Tsang Chui Mei
Tsang Chui Mei obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees in Fine Arts from the department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996 and 2004 respectively. She has received the “Hong Kong Urban Council Fine Arts Award” (painting) (1998) and the “Winner of Philippe Charriol Foundation 20th Anniversary Art Competition”(2005). Website: www.tsangchuimei.com
Cornelia Erdman
was born and brought up in Frankfurt, Germany. She studied and worked in England, Germany and Japan, and received a master’s degree in architecture in 2002 and an mfa in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies in 2005 from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. In August 2006, she moved to Hong Kong where she continues her art and design practice. Her works have been shown in international galleries, film festivals and exhibitions. She is mainly interested in the interaction of space and society, scrutinising aspects of urbanity and lifestyle – but always bearing a small smile along the way. www.corneliaerdmann.de
Opening Reception:
Dec 21st 2008
