Get off the beaten track and come to Wong Chuk Hang on Thursday, May 23, 5-11pm.  Start at Spring’s Qiu Zhijie installation and then go on to see the many dynamic galleries in the area.  At Spring, we will hand you a neighbourhood map that shows all the other key locations you can continue on to in the surrounding areas.  There will be a shuttle bus leaving from Art Basel at the HKCEC Expo Drive Entrance and coming to WCH. Come enjoy the neighbourhood!

Join us on Thursday, May 23 during Wong Chuk Hang Art Night to see the highly-detailed maps of leading Chinese artist and thinker Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 . These maps redefine our world in a close examination of its concrete and conceptual territories. During his residency at Spring Workshop in May 2013, Qiu re-imagines the terrain again with spheres of steel, wood and glass set against the expansive backdrop of his large-scale maps, some made in conjunction with artists from his two-day workshop with HK university art students. Click here for more details.

Spread out over two days and four different locations, A Thing at a Time is the first project to take place in Rotterdam as part of the year-long Moderation(s) project unfolding between Spring and Witte de With. Five artists whose work relates to both the depths and the limits of speech as a means to share or convey an experience (Koki Tanaka, Anthony Marcellini), a story (Benjamin Seror, Mette Evardsen) or to speak of nothing at all (Eszter Salamon), come together to stage scenarios of speech and encounter within a constellation of five performances and invite you to listen in.

Writer and curator Christina Li (HK/NL) takes up the role of a designated Witness to Moderation(s) as it unfolds between Witte de With in Rotterdam and Spring in Hong Kong. As such, Li is invited to post regular blog entries responding to the multi-faceted projects part of Moderation(s).

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Dutch novelist Oscar van den Boogaard has been invited as a writer-in-residence at Spring in June, to work with Hong Kong-based artists, journalists, and writers. These encounters will inspire a series of short stories, scripted together with the invited guests.

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Dutch novelist Oscar van den Boogaard has been invited as a writer-in-residence at Spring in June, to work with Hong Kong-based artists, journalists, and writers. These encounters will inspire a series of short stories, scripted together with the invited guests.

Spring welcomes MIACA (Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art Japan) and invites you to a talk by Inti Guerrero entitled
“TEOR/éTica: Re-imagining an institution through curating: Two case studies on architecture and fascism in the tropics.” Guerrero will talk about the curatorial work behind a series of acclaimed exhibitions he developed as the Associate Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, a not-for-profit space in Costa Rica.

Comprised of hundreds of incredibly thin metallic bamboo poles, the Industrial Forest acknowledges the origin of Wong Chuk Hang’s heritage by translating the yellow bamboo that used to grow there into a new landscape. Read more about it in Zoe Li’s article Very Real Fake Nature in the Industrial Forest Installation.

The forest is open to the public and awaits your visit.

Spring is located in the colorful, vibrant industrial neighbourhood of Wong Chuk Hang.  To guide you in your journey through our neighbourhood, Spring held a map drawing competition to find an artist who could capture it on paper.  The work of the winner of the competition will be available for download soon.

Spring is located in the colorful, vibrant industrial neighbourhood of Wong Chuk Hang. Please click here to find out what all the construction is about…and where you can get a bite to eat when you come visit us.

Photo: Claudia Whitney

Throughout 2013, Witte de With and Spring will have twin libraries called Bibliotheek, one in Rotterdam and one in Hong Kong, containing tomes selected by Moderation(s) participants. Future participants will be invited to suggest books, creating an ever-expanding common library that can easily be replicated by any individual, community or institution. Download the second version of Bibliotheek titles here…and then come to Spring to spend an afternoon amongst the books themselves.

Do you believe in productive misunderstandings? How often, if ever, do you feel manipulated? Would you say yes if I asked you to moderate me?

A key program for Spring Workshop in 2013, Moderation(s) brings together an international group of more than 50 artists, curators and writers in a year-long program of contemporary discourse and production between Witte de With in the Netherlands and Spring in Hong Kong. Moderation(s) will engender a conference, three exhibitions, three residencies and a book of short stories.

As the third and final part of Moderation(s) events in Hong Kong, A Constructed World, the collaborative project of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, will be artists-in-residence at Spring in November/December 2013.

Singaporean artist, curator and writer, Heman has been invited by Defne Ayas, Director and Curator of the Witte de With (Rotterdam), and Mimi Brown, Founder of Spring Workshop (Hong Kong), to develop and lead the 2013 collaborative project  Moderation(s) as The Moderator.

Spring is pleased to host a Para Site lecture by renowned philosopher and sociologist Renata Salecl. The lecture will focus on her ongoing research on the tyranny of choice and the sources of anxiety in contemporary society.

Moderation(s), the joint program of the Witte de With and Spring, begins by welcoming Latitudes, an independent curatorial office formed by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, to a residency in Hong Kong at Spring. Latitudes will investigate the territory from a curatorial perspective, inviting four Hong Kong artists to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and each participant’s artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints. On Saturday, February 2, 2013, please join us for dinner and a discussion about their research.

Photo: Heman Chong

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Ho Sin Tung and 3 other HK artists have been invited by Latitudes, curators-in-residence at Spring in January, to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and their artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints.

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Nadim Abbas and 3 other HK artists have been invited by Latitudes, curators-in-residence at Spring in January, to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and their artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints. This particular tour will take place on 19 January 2013 and is open to the public. Please contact us for more information.

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Yuk King Tan and 3 other HK artists have been invited by Latitudes, curators-in-residence at Spring in January, to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and their artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints.

As part of Moderation(s), the year-long collaboration in 2013 between Witte de With and Spring, Samson Young and 3 other HK artists have been invited by Latitudes, curators-in-residence at Spring in January, to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and their artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints.

Moderation(s), the joint program of the Witte de With and Spring, begins by welcoming Latitudes, an independent curatorial office formed by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, to a residency in Hong Kong at Spring. Latitudes will investigate the territory from a curatorial perspective, inviting four Hong Kong artists to develop day-long tours, thus retelling the city and each participant’s artistic concerns through personal itineraries and waypoints. On Saturday, February 2, 2013, please join us for dinner and a discussion about their research.

Photo: Eunice Adorno

Para/site and Spring are delighted to invite you on Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8pm to a talk by art historian and critic Claire Bishop, entitled “OS XXI: Contemporary Art and the Digital”. Claire is in residence at Spring as part of the Para/Site International Art Residency Programme. The talk will be held in Wong Chuk Hang at Spring.

Tables for Friends, 2012

Quantity Has A Quality In Itself, 2012

Spring Bird (Bill Eater), 2012

“Spring Bird is a mail box made of recycled wood material featuring a copper ‘stomach’. Please click here for more information.

No Place Home Like, 2012

150cm x 55cm x 140cm
Clear lacquered mild steel, leather box cushion, vintage leather suitcase, plywood and birch veneer

Please click here for more information.

Artist-in-Residence
October 2012

Obie-award winning composer and writer Michael Friedman is interested in the politics of popular music and the ways in which music reflects the intersections of different cultures. Friedman writes: “Hong Kong, with its polyglot culture, is a perfect place for me to continue this exploration, tracing song (sea shanties, Cantonese opera, cantopop, children’s songs, etc. at the crossroads of East and West, and at the edge of empire.”

Please join us on the evening of Saturday, October 27 for a musical soirée with Michael.

MAP Office continues to build on their AAA Residency project “Atlas of Asia Art Archive” with a weekend event entitled “Performing the Archive” (October 12/13 at Spring), in which they invite a group of artists to activate the territories through readings, conversation, and performance.  Please click here for more information.

Butter Dance

It’s Just Me, Coughing

Product of Circumstances

Stop by between 5-10pm on Thursday, April 18 for a peek inside Spring Workshop.