/ SomoS Arts, Berlin, 2025
In his first solo exhibition in Europe, Hong Kong artist Kurt Yau Kwok Keung explores themes of migration, memory, and displacement through video, drawing, sculpture and found objects. Referencing his family’s migration history and Hong Kong’s complex political past, Yau weaves personal and collective narratives into poetic gestures of survival.
From plastic birds and edible bricks to fireworks layered over historical trauma, his works evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, nostalgia and rupture. Light appears again and again - through slits in concrete, glowing from the other side - as both a promise and illusion.
By reconfiguring pop culture, state history, and inherited memory, A Kindred Spirit invites viewers to consider: how do we carry the impact of borders - visible or invisible - and still move forward?
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From plastic birds and edible bricks to fireworks layered over historical trauma, his works evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, nostalgia and rupture. Light appears again and again - through slits in concrete, glowing from the other side - as both a promise and illusion.
By reconfiguring pop culture, state history, and inherited memory, A Kindred Spirit invites viewers to consider: how do we carry the impact of borders - visible or invisible - and still move forward?
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/ Culterim, Berlin, 2025
Seeing Ghosts is a group exhibition in Berlin featuring international contemporary artists who explore how memory, absence, and the paranormal shape our experience of the present. Through sound, image, and installation, the exhibition reflects on how we are quietly haunted—by histories, emotions, and presences that blur the line between visible and invisible, past and present.
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/ Current Plans, Hong Kong, 2024
Yau Kwok Keung's debut exhibition "Blackout Momentum” in Hong Kong presents his extensive research on reframing mythological motifs and his unique aesthetic of chaos and balance. Drawing from his experience as a tattoo artist who sewed within human flesh, Yau presents a new series of meticulous paintings, videos, and mechanical sculptures that explore the theme of collective memory loss and societal trauma. Yau perceives amnesia as a state where one remains trapped for an extended period, with its relentless momentum frozen in darkness. Recurring motifs, including an illuminated sphere, a diving swallow and an expanding sea surface are juxtaposed to convey a sense of fragmented identities in an era of collective silence, where shared experiences are left unspoken. Whether a glimmer of hope or the last glow before destruction, Yau’s brush strokes unfold an elusive point of chaos—a paradoxical expression where the chaos depicted on the canvas becomes a two-way clue. Much like the iconic movie "The Truman Show," where Truman's routine quote carries emotional weight, serving as both a friendly greeting and an act of rebellion. It conforms to a controlled existence and yearns for authenticity at the same time —
"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
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"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
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Photo Credit: Wong Pak Hang
/ Made in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 2022
/ SC Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022
