The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM or the Museum) has unveiled its first outdoor public art exhibition.
Under the theme of traditional Chinese garden aesthetics, the exhibition features six sculptures and multimedia installations by six cross-disciplinary Hong Kong artists/architects, presenting poetic, zen-style landscapes through a contemporary lens.
Curated by Guest Curator Grace Cheng, the exhibition brings together six established and emerging Hong Kong artists/architects.
Drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese gardens and the Palace Museum’s collections, they leverage their unique cultural perspectives and imagination to offer a fresh interpretation of traditional garden culture in a modern city.
Several works feature interactive elements that invite visitors to wander, pause, and engage, fostering the harmonious coexistence of art and environment.
The six public art installations are:
- Dancing Bamboo by Rocco Yim – Using locally sourced bamboo, the artwork weaves an abstract yet immersive evocation of a forest, celebrating and utilising the material’s remarkable strength and flexibility.
- Range of Mountains by Ho Siu-kee – Formed by bending, twisting, and welding iron rods, the sculpture transforms rigid metal into fluid and powerful lines, echoing the expressive brushwork of traditional Chinese landscape painting.
- Arrow by Inkgo Lam – Inspired by the bamboo arrow, the artwork reflects the tension and struggle between beauty and violence, tradition and modernity.
- When the Earth Remembers by Chloë Cheuk – Drawing on the textures of jade artefacts from the Palace Museum, the artwork reinterprets a jade pendant passed down through generations as a portal through time, inviting viewers to journey from the past into the future.
- Whispering Wall by Tung Wing Hong – Merging industrial fabrication with display aesthetics, the installation engages in a dialogue with floral motifs found among the Palace Museum’s imperial treasures.
- Garden of Ink by Eastman Cheng – Inspired by eight literati paintings of trees from the Palace Museum’s collection, the artwork uses fabric as its primary medium, emulating the tones and textures of ink painting to reinterpret ancient trees not as flat images but as living forms.
The exhibition is part of “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series” and will be open to the public free of charge at the Museum Plaza until the 2nd of November 2026.
