H.H Lim is amongst the most high-profiled artists today within the international contemporary art scene, and we are very pleased to announce his first solo exhibition with Wei-Ling Contemporary this February entitled The Beginning of Something.

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Lim has practiced art in Rome since the year 1976 and has remained since, finding himself continuously inspired by the city’s energy. A Neo-conceptual artist with a disposition for colossal works, Lim is known to incorporate elements of everyday life into his works, which at times are recycled, repackaged and framed, taking on a different meaning and new life. In the past, Lim’s conceptual works have consisted of paintings, installations, performance art as well as recorded video and sound.

H.H Lim believes “artists are missionaries, and we are the testimony of what is happening in our time. The showing of ideas is like a calling, a mission” and that he is in “need of a public, an audience, to enliven the artwork”, as “visitors animate the artwork or dead spaces”.

-Wei-Ling Contemporary

Image: © H.H Lim
Untitled ll
2013
Ink on paper
100 x 150cm