THE WALL – Reunion or Divide –A dialog between Hong Kong and Germany Group show curated by Carol Pui Ha CHOW (HK)

WHEN: July 30th until August 6th, 2022, 2 – 7 pm (Closed on Sunday and Monday)

Opening Reception: Friday, July 29th, 2022, 4- 8 pm

WHERE: SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.0G, 10967 Berlin

Between July 30th and August 6th, 2022, SomoS Arts, Berlin, presents The Wall: Reunion or Divide, a group exhibition of photography, video, and installation art by artists from Hong Kong and Germany, produced by Hong Kong-based curator and researcher Carol Chow during her Curatorial Residency at SomoS.

Her project traces the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, as well as West and East Germany.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Hong Kong: Anthony McHugh, CHOI Bin Chuen, LEE Chun Fung, LAM Chun Tung, Dorothy WONG Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser (o!sland), Jimmi HO Wing Ka, South HO Siu Nam, YIM Sui Fong, LAM Wai Kit, LO Yin Shan, Vincent YU Wai Kin

Germany: Herbert W.H. Hundrich, Hartmut Jahn, Tobias Kruse, Eric Meier, Peter Wensierski

PROGRAM:

August 5th, 7-8 pm, Guided Audio Tour by Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser.

August 6th, 7-8 pm, Filmscreening 1. “Hong Kong Song Counterpart” (20 min, 1990) by Hartmut Jahn 2. “Every time I am back in Hong Kong, I gain 9 kilos” (30 min, 2001), CHOI Bin Chuen

The artists will be present.

Borders and the societal processes they generate are an ongoing concern of Carol Chow’s curatorial practice. Addressing topics such as division, reunification, migration, identity and power, her ambitious exhibition projects reveal political and societal dynamics in thoughtful, sensitive, and insightful ways. In 2019, Chow curated an exhibition titled “The Wall 2019” in Hong Kong, inviting 12 local artists to create works that reflect various kinds of walls that facilitate or block human progress and societal development at the junction of the 100th anniversary of May 4th Movement, 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the 30th anniversary of the democracy movement in different countries, amongst them China and East Germany. The title is inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Wall and Alan Parker’s movie of the same name, in which the wall acts as a metaphor of defense against various institutional violence, be it familial, educational, or military. In fact, a wall can at once defend and divide, protect and exclude. Building upon this 2019 exhibition, Caroll Chow’s latest exhibition, presented at SomoS, is titled The Wall – Union or Divide. It extends the wall theme to an examination of the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, and that of West and East Germany. Despite the difference in sovereignty, both reunifications share similar nature of the merging of capitalism and communism as well as that of democracy and authoritarianism. The ethnic, cultural, and historical connection and the contesting ideological forces work in tandem in the post-unification era, resulting in the erection of new visible and invisible walls and frictions. In its juxtaposition of Hong Kong and German artists’ work tackling the wall metaphor, The Wall: Reunion or Divide, is expected to further fruitful dialogs. About Carol Chow: Carol Chow is an independent curator and researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Master of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. With training is philosophy, communication and visual arts (specialized in photography), she is dedicated to producing curatorial work and knowledge with criticality by interrogating identity issues and the circulation and reproduction of power underpinning various forms of social relations and practices. Her curations Voice of Tacitness: Asian Women Photography Exhibition (2013 Liangzhou International Photography Festival 2013), A Room with a View: Her-HongKong-stories through the Lens of Six Female Photographers (Singapore International Photography Festival 2016), Who Cares: Photovoice of Female Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong (2021) address gender inequality and the othering of female voice in historical narration. The Wall 2019 (2019), Pharmakon (2021) and Beijing_Kilometers (2021) scrutinize the interplay of Hong Kong’s political subjectivity with the complex geopolitical and cultural-historical forces. Carol is a board member of the Hong Kong International Photography Festival.

Continue reading at https://www.somos-arts.org/walls-as-metaphor/ | SomoS

THE WALL – Reunion or Divide –A dialog between Hong Kong and Germany Group show curated by Carol Pui Ha CHOW (HK)

WHEN: July 30th until August 6th, 2022, 2 – 7 pm (Closed on Sunday and Monday)

Opening Reception: Friday, July 29th, 2022, 4- 8 pm

WHERE: SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.0G, 10967 Berlin

Between July 30th and August 6th, 2022, SomoS Arts, Berlin, presents The Wall: Reunion or Divide, a group exhibition of photography, video, and installation art by artists from Hong Kong and Germany, produced by Hong Kong-based curator and researcher Carol Chow during her Curatorial Residency at SomoS.

Her project traces the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, as well as West and East Germany.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Hong Kong: Anthony McHugh, CHOI Bin Chuen, LEE Chun Fung, LAM Chun Tung, Dorothy WONG Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser (o!sland), Jimmi HO Wing Ka, South HO Siu Nam, YIM Sui Fong, LAM Wai Kit, LO Yin Shan, Vincent YU Wai Kin

Germany: Herbert W.H. Hundrich, Hartmut Jahn, Tobias Kruse, Eric Meier, Peter Wensierski

PROGRAM:

August 5th, 7-8 pm, Guided Audio Tour by Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser.

August 6th, 7-8 pm, Filmscreening 1. “Hong Kong Song Counterpart” (20 min, 1990) by Hartmut Jahn 2. “Every time I am back in Hong Kong, I gain 9 kilos” (30 min, 2001), CHOI Bin Chuen

The artists will be present.

Borders and the societal processes they generate are an ongoing concern of Carol Chow’s curatorial practice. Addressing topics such as division, reunification, migration, identity and power, her ambitious exhibition projects reveal political and societal dynamics in thoughtful, sensitive, and insightful ways. In 2019, Chow curated an exhibition titled “The Wall 2019” in Hong Kong, inviting 12 local artists to create works that reflect various kinds of walls that facilitate or block human progress and societal development at the junction of the 100th anniversary of May 4th Movement, 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the 30th anniversary of the democracy movement in different countries, amongst them China and East Germany. The title is inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Wall and Alan Parker’s movie of the same name, in which the wall acts as a metaphor of defense against various institutional violence, be it familial, educational, or military. In fact, a wall can at once defend and divide, protect and exclude. Building upon this 2019 exhibition, Caroll Chow’s latest exhibition, presented at SomoS, is titled The Wall – Union or Divide. It extends the wall theme to an examination of the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, and that of West and East Germany. Despite the difference in sovereignty, both reunifications share similar nature of the merging of capitalism and communism as well as that of democracy and authoritarianism. The ethnic, cultural, and historical connection and the contesting ideological forces work in tandem in the post-unification era, resulting in the erection of new visible and invisible walls and frictions. In its juxtaposition of Hong Kong and German artists’ work tackling the wall metaphor, The Wall: Reunion or Divide, is expected to further fruitful dialogs. About Carol Chow: Carol Chow is an independent curator and researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Master of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. With training is philosophy, communication and visual arts (specialized in photography), she is dedicated to producing curatorial work and knowledge with criticality by interrogating identity issues and the circulation and reproduction of power underpinning various forms of social relations and practices. Her curations Voice of Tacitness: Asian Women Photography Exhibition (2013 Liangzhou International Photography Festival 2013), A Room with a View: Her-HongKong-stories through the Lens of Six Female Photographers (Singapore International Photography Festival 2016), Who Cares: Photovoice of Female Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong (2021) address gender inequality and the othering of female voice in historical narration. The Wall 2019 (2019), Pharmakon (2021) and Beijing_Kilometers (2021) scrutinize the interplay of Hong Kong’s political subjectivity with the complex geopolitical and cultural-historical forces. Carol is a board member of the Hong Kong International Photography Festival.

Continue reading at https://www.somos-arts.org/walls-as-metaphor/ | SomoS

THE WALL – Reunion or Divide –A dialog between Hong Kong and Germany Group show curated by Carol Pui Ha CHOW (HK)

WHEN: July 30th until August 6th, 2022, 2 – 7 pm (Closed on Sunday and Monday)

Opening Reception: Friday, July 29th, 2022, 4- 8 pm

WHERE: SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.0G, 10967 Berlin

Between July 30th and August 6th, 2022, SomoS Arts, Berlin, presents The Wall: Reunion or Divide, a group exhibition of photography, video, and installation art by artists from Hong Kong and Germany, produced by Hong Kong-based curator and researcher Carol Chow during her Curatorial Residency at SomoS.

Her project traces the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, as well as West and East Germany.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Hong Kong: Anthony McHugh, CHOI Bin Chuen, LEE Chun Fung, LAM Chun Tung, Dorothy WONG Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser (o!sland), Jimmi HO Wing Ka, South HO Siu Nam, YIM Sui Fong, LAM Wai Kit, LO Yin Shan, Vincent YU Wai Kin

Germany: Herbert W.H. Hundrich, Hartmut Jahn, Tobias Kruse, Eric Meier, Peter Wensierski

PROGRAM:

August 5th, 7-8 pm, Guided Audio Tour by Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser.

August 6th, 7-8 pm, Filmscreening 1. “Hong Kong Song Counterpart” (20 min, 1990) by Hartmut Jahn 2. “Every time I am back in Hong Kong, I gain 9 kilos” (30 min, 2001), CHOI Bin Chuen

The artists will be present.

Borders and the societal processes they generate are an ongoing concern of Carol Chow’s curatorial practice. Addressing topics such as division, reunification, migration, identity and power, her ambitious exhibition projects reveal political and societal dynamics in thoughtful, sensitive, and insightful ways. In 2019, Chow curated an exhibition titled “The Wall 2019” in Hong Kong, inviting 12 local artists to create works that reflect various kinds of walls that facilitate or block human progress and societal development at the junction of the 100th anniversary of May 4th Movement, 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the 30th anniversary of the democracy movement in different countries, amongst them China and East Germany. The title is inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Wall and Alan Parker’s movie of the same name, in which the wall acts as a metaphor of defense against various institutional violence, be it familial, educational, or military. In fact, a wall can at once defend and divide, protect and exclude. Building upon this 2019 exhibition, Caroll Chow’s latest exhibition, presented at SomoS, is titled The Wall – Union or Divide. It extends the wall theme to an examination of the complexities of emotions and realities underneath the political reunion of Hong Kong and China, and that of West and East Germany. Despite the difference in sovereignty, both reunifications share similar nature of the merging of capitalism and communism as well as that of democracy and authoritarianism. The ethnic, cultural, and historical connection and the contesting ideological forces work in tandem in the post-unification era, resulting in the erection of new visible and invisible walls and frictions. In its juxtaposition of Hong Kong and German artists’ work tackling the wall metaphor, The Wall: Reunion or Divide, is expected to further fruitful dialogs. About Carol Chow: Carol Chow is an independent curator and researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Master of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. With training is philosophy, communication and visual arts (specialized in photography), she is dedicated to producing curatorial work and knowledge with criticality by interrogating identity issues and the circulation and reproduction of power underpinning various forms of social relations and practices. Her curations Voice of Tacitness: Asian Women Photography Exhibition (2013 Liangzhou International Photography Festival 2013), A Room with a View: Her-HongKong-stories through the Lens of Six Female Photographers (Singapore International Photography Festival 2016), Who Cares: Photovoice of Female Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong (2021) address gender inequality and the othering of female voice in historical narration. The Wall 2019 (2019), Pharmakon (2021) and Beijing_Kilometers (2021) scrutinize the interplay of Hong Kong’s political subjectivity with the complex geopolitical and cultural-historical forces. Carol is a board member of the Hong Kong International Photography Festival.

Continue reading at https://www.somos-arts.org/walls-as-metaphor/ | SomoS