2024 - KT Wong

Westbund Museum: Yao Qingmei: Mole

For her first museum exhibition in China, the multidisciplinary artist Yao Qingmei (born in 1982) explores her questioning of the body, its presence and its resources, from the experience of three years of pandemic. Confronted with the closure of the country’s borders, but also with the multiplication of barriers and restrictions that invaded daily life [...]

‘Foreigners Everywhere’ announced as Venice Biennale 2024 theme

The new theme was announced by the president of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and Adriano Pedrosa, the curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition. The exhibition will take place from 20 April to 24 November 2024, and will spotlight artist from diverse backgrounds, especially those who belong to groups that have historically been [...]

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra: Glory City Theme Concert “Our World”

Glory City Theme Concert "Our World" Time: 2024.05.24 14:00 Friday Location: No. 1380, Fuxing Middle Road Venue: Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall·Main Hall

East End filmmaker Isaac Julien named Art Icon 2024 by Whitechapel Gallery

Born and raised in Bow, the acclaimed filmmaker Isaac Julien known for Looking for Langston (1989) was recently named Whitechapel Gallery’s 2024 Art Icon. Countless artists have their roots in the East End, from fashion visionary Alexander McQueen to the original grime rappers of the early 2000s, but up there with them is Bow-born filmmaker [...]

Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir-Faire and Contemporary Art opens to the public from 26 March to 19 May 2024.

Supported by SUPREME, a premium brand of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong, and LG Electronics Hong Kong (LG), this exhibition highlights the intersection of cultures as fertile ground for artistic inspiration. Rare Chinese antiques are exhibited alongside contemporary artworks that look to our shared global heritage, in addition to the fluidity of cultural expression in today’s context. Boundless Reverie begins [...]

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

The world's greatest flower show reveals cutting-edge garden design, fabulous floral displays and simply the best shopping, 21-25 May 2024. All the main garden categories are returning in 2024. As well as the Show Gardens along Main Avenue, Sanctuary and Feature Gardens explore themes through horticulture, while the All About Plants area in the Floral Marquee focuses on planting. For smaller [...]

NORVAL FOUNDATION – Walter Oltmann: Metamorphosis

Oltmann’s sculptures seem to transcend the terrestrial and evoke a cosmic and eternal quality that defies the ephemeral nature of both insect and human existence. Within this intersection, Oltmann’s work contemplates the passage of time, weaving the impermanent into immortality. These sculptural works jet black, steel grey and gold shimmer with intricate detail, myriads of [...]

Fourth Plinth – Lady in Blue by Tschabalala Self

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is one of the most important art commissions worldwide, putting new work by internationally renowned artists into the heart of London. Self’s sculpture, Lady in Blue, is inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary ‘everywoman’ to Trafalgar Square – a walking icon of the everyday, rather than an [...]

Fondation Louis Vuitton – Zanele Muholi

Following their first exhibition in 2004 at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the artist worked for the magazine Behind the Mask and cofounded the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, based in Gauteng. Muholi defines themself as a “visual activist”. Their work seeks to shine a light on a marginalised lesbian community, which is often a victim of [...]

Southern Guild: Zizipho Poswa

Zizipho Poswa upscales objects of African beautification and ritual in this series of monumental sculptures. Precious metal jewellery, beadwork, hair combs and pins made by master artisans across the continent are emulated as bronze-cast elements resting atop vast ceramic silos, revering and immortalising the valued positions these amulets hold. Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty) is Zizipho Poswa’s [...]

WANTED Magazine – Lady Wong Davies

Wonderful article in WANTED magazine - The South African Business Times!

Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024

Investec Cape Town Art Fair is Africa's largest art fair. With over 100 exhibitors, 25 000 visitors, and 6 500 VIPs, it offers a platform for galleries, collectors, curators and artists from around the globe to create connections at the forefront of contemporary art. With an intimate experience of one of the world's most unique [...]

KT Wong Foundation has partnered with Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town

In support of the impending Chinese New Year, heralding the year of the Dragon, the K.T. Wong Foundation has partnered with Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town for a special screening of Chinese contemporary multimedia artist Yang Yongliang’s (YYL) masterpiece ‘Five Dragons’ on Saturday, February 10, 2024. It will be free to the public. [...]

Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon

This Saturday, we welcome in the Year of the Dragon - a particularly special year in our Chinese New Year calendar. Now begins a time of strength, luck, health and success. The Chinese zodiac is a 12-year cycle that links each year to an animal sign. The 12 animal signs are Rat (shu 鼠), Ox (niu 牛), [...]

Émigré – New York Philharmonic Feb 29 – Mar 01 2024

Germany, 1938. Kristallnacht. To survive the pending threat, two brothers are sent halfway around the world, to Shanghai. Otto cherishes his heritage, while Josef seeks a new path, and falls in love with Lina, a Chinese woman recovering from the loss of her mother in the Nanjing Massacre. From there flows Émigré, a semi-staged oratorio [...]

Art Basel Hong Kong set to Return to Full Scale with a 2024 Edition

Art Basel Hong Kong returns to full scale with a 2024 edition featuring 243 premier international galleries and a vibrant program both within and beyond the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) Art Basel’s 2024 Hong Kong edition will feature 243 galleries from 40 countries and territories, a 37% increase in exhibitor numbers compared [...]

TATE MODERN 2024: A major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of [...]

Lang Lang performs with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at Shanghai New Year’s Concert 2024

The Shanghai New Year's Concert 2024 was held at Shanghai Symphony Hall on December 31st, 2023. Renowned pianist Lang Lang performed "Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Edvard Grieg with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Briton Daniel Harding conducted the concert. He is a long time friend of both Lang Lang and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Yearly Archive 2024