11. September 2018
Connecting Spaces Hong Kong - Zurich is an archive now.
12. June 2018
Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich (2014-2017) Book Launch & Talk Date: 12 June 2018 Time: 18:00 Venue: Toni-Areal, Curateria, 5.K04, Zurich After four years of Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, wi...
27. March 2018
Last Event at Connecting Space Hong Kong Date: 27 March Time: 8pm We are honoured to have Alvin Lucier, one of the most important representatives of American music of the second half of the twentieth century...
24. March 2018
WITH Book Launch, Conversation & Closing Party Date: 24 March 2018 Time: 7:30 pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/F, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong When Connecting Space Hong Kong o...
12. March 2018
The art space Connecting Space Hong Kong is about to close its doors to make way for Zurich University of the Arts’ expansion and further development of its unwavering commitment in Hong Kong. After four yea...
24. November 2017
Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations 24 – 25 November 2017, Hong Kong 29 young artists and designers from Europa and (South-)East Asia will present their explorations and e...
27. October 2017
One Table Two Chairs – Euro-Asia Young Performing Artists Cross-Cultural Exchange and Education Program, presented by Zurich University of the Arts, curated by Artistic Director Danny Yung, is a creative-edu...
ZHdK at the Zürich meets Hong Kong Festival ZHdK at the Zürich meets Hong Kong Festival
Date: 27.10.2017 Time: 7:00pm Venue: Wontonmeen, 135 Lai Chi Kok Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong Siu King Chung and Jürgen Krusche talk together with guests from Hong Kong about their artistic research and their bo...
26. October 2017
Cross-disciplinary artistic experiments from performances to installations in a party format called HOU GAO YEAH!, Including 30 artists from Asia and Europe and international guests such as DJ Headman! This ...
Transcultural Collaboration 2017 Transcultural Collaboration 2017
25. October 2017
Date: 21.10 – 29.10.2017 Time: Weekdays 10:00am – 7:00pm; Weekends 10:00am – 9:00pm Venue: Hong Kong Science Museum, 2 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong Time: Did you ever dream of ...
24. October 2017
Date: 24.10.2017 Time: 10:00am – 12:30pm Venue: HKU SPACE – Admiralty Learning Centre, Room 302, 3/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong This Public Forum provides the opportunity to hear the head...
23. October 2017
Date: 23.10.2017 Time: 7:30pm and 10:00pm Venue: Hong Kong School of Creative Media, Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong The Concert is a live network performance via ...
22. October 2017
Opening: 22.10.2017, 7pm Exhibition: 23.– 29.10.2017 Opening hours: 12pm – 8pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) What constitutes urban renewal? What if one could buy two square meters of public...
Opening: 22.10.2017, 6pm Exhibition: 23.– 29.10.2017 Opening hours: 12pm – 8pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) «Cities and Natures – Thinking Beyond» is an interdisciplinary project from the M...
24. June 2017
Date and Time: 24 June 2017, 5pm – 8pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Timelines and graphs: Reading the network diagrams Speaker: Doron Goldfarb Time: 5pm – 6pm The hundreds of co...
Technopolitics Timeline Technopolitics Timeline
23. June 2017
A curated knowledge space and exhibition. Date: 24 June – 1 July 2017 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) TECHNOPOLITICS sets up a CURATED KNOWLEDGE SPACE that offers a discursive framework for ex...
21. June 2017
Date and Time: 21 – 22 June 2017, 3-8pm, Workshop 1: “The Timeline and the Curated Knowledge Space” Workshop 2: “Editing the Hong Kong Timeline” Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Space is ...
13. May 2017
Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich is announcing together with Hong Kong Stair Archive the upcoming exhibition Always at the edge of things and between places. Opening: 13.05 (SAT), 6:00pm – 9:00pm D...
Urban Gaming Urban Gaming
21. April 2017
Dream and Reality of Cultural Development in Emerging Cities Diploma of Advanced Studies ‘Executive Education on Global Culture’, Zurich University of the Arts, Hong Kong 3-Days Course Dates: 21 – 23 April 2...
‘Executive Education on Global Culture’ ‘Executive Education on Global Culture’
27. March 2017
International Curatorial Workshop: Curating and Social Change Diploma of Advanced Studies ‘Executive Education on Global Culture’, Zurich University of the Arts, Hong Kong 5-Days Course Dates: 27 – 31...
The Zurich University of the Arts is launching together with Bootes the Diploma of Advanced Studies ‘Executive Education on Global Culture’ in Hong Kong this March 2017 with the first 5-days course focussing...
22. March 2017
Zurich Date: 22 – 24 March Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm Venue: Gallery 2, Toni-Areal, Zurich Opening: 22 March, 11:30am, together with Helsinki and Hong Kong Helsinki Date: 22 – 31 March Time: 8:00am – 7:00pm (Mon-...
Accidental Tourist Guide Accidental Tourist Guide
16. March 2017
《鏡片工房:麻木》 日期:2017年3月17 日 – 24 日 時間:上午11點 – 晚上7點 地點:Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) 開幕酒會:3月16日晚上7點30分 《鏡片工房》- 現場表演:3月21日晚上7點30分 我們陷入單調機械化的消費與自拍之中,無法宣洩。 什麼時候,我們才能醒覺? 我們在聒噪不安的聲音和看似冷靜平和的文字之間遊走;又在意識...
Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres
2. March 2017
We are pleased to announce the 3rd edition of our transcultural and cross-disciplinary graduate program in the arts and design. This unique program enables selected students from the par...
10. February 2017
Book Launch “Happy Tropics” with Michael Schindhelm (author, culture adviser, theatre and film maker), Damian Christinger (curator, Zurich University of the Arts) and students of Zurich University of ...
Why Singapore Why Singapore
8. February 2017
“Accidental Tourist Guide” focuses on self-awareness and self-reflection in a transcultural context, on discerning differences in aesthetic perception and practices, and understanding differences of intercul...
13. January 2017
Happy Tropics I is a publication by Michael Schindhelm and Damian Christinger in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts, and is classified as the Connecting Spaces Document # 10.
8. January 2017
Experimental Drawing Collaborated by the Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zurich University of the Arts, supported by Connecting Space Hong Kong, Experimental Drawing features...
20. December 2016
20 December 2016 Installation and Talk Date: 20 December 2016 (Tuesday), Time: 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong Admission: Free Installation by Florian Dombois Florian Dombois in conversation ...
Florian Dombois: Where is the Wind, When it Doesn’t Blow? Florian Dombois: Where is the Wind, When it Doesn’t Blow?
12. December 2016
Three painters in Dafen, China encounter three self-portraits by Swiss artists. The Chinese copies then travel back to Zurich where they encounter the painters of the original works.
Lab Lab
1. December 2016
1 – 11 December 2016 Exhibition Date: 1 – 11 December 2016 Time: 1:00pm – 9:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich is pleased to co-p...
Excellent Swiss Design: Design Prize Switzerland, Edition 2015/16 Excellent Swiss Design: Design Prize Switzerland, Edition 2015/16
25. November 2016
25 – 26 November 2016 Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations “EXQUISITE CORPSE” playfully and unpredictably combining, displacing and replacing limbs, while forming cre...
Transcultural Collaboration 2016 Transcultural Collaboration 2016
15. November 2016
CONNECTING SPACES HONG KONG – ZÜRICH 2013 – NOW A THREE-PART EXHIBITION 15 – 22 NOVEMBER 2016 Opening: Fr 18 November, 6pm, Réunion KUNSTRAUM TU 15.11. – SU 20.11. (3pm – 7pm daily) Toni-A...
Art Art
8. November 2016
Public Lecture 8 November 2016 Date and Time: 8 November 2016 (Tuesday), 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Admission: Free Topic: Shifting Perceptions Speaker: Dimitri de Perrot, Artist (...
30. October 2016
Music 30 October 2016 Dates: 30 October 2016 (Sunday) Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) SCENATET brings the highly acclaimed Me Quitte to Hong Kong. Love is not alway...
Connecting Space Hong Kong New Music Theatre Connecting Space Hong Kong New Music Theatre
29. October 2016
Workshop 29 October 2016 Date: 29 October 2016 (Saturday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Take the opportunity to join in conversation with iconic composers in new music theatre &...
28. October 2016
Music Theatre World Premiere: 28 – 29 October 2016 Dates: 28 – 29 October 2016 (Friday & Saturday) Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) City Pieces is a ...
20. October 2016
Workshop 20 – 25 October 2016 Dates: 20 – 25 October 2016 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong Connecting Space Hong Kong is excited to be invited to collaborate with the Munich Bienni...
Munich Biennial – International Biennial Platform Hong Kong Munich Biennial – International Biennial Platform Hong Kong
18. October 2016
Public Lecture 18 October 2016 Date and Time: 18 October 2016 (Tuesday), 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Admission: Free Speaker: Prof. Isabel Mundry, Composer Until the end of the 20th...
12. October 2016
Lecture 12 October 2016 Date and Time: 12 October 2016 (Wednesday), 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Admission: Free Speaker: Dr. Silvia Fok, Lecturer, General Education Centre, The Hong...
23. September 2016
Presentation 23 September 2016 Date: 23 September 2016 (Friday) Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) The outcome of the one-week intensive international design workshop ...
International Design Workshop: Creative City — The City as a Living Laboratory International Design Workshop: Creative City — The City as a Living Laboratory
12. September 2016
Lectures 12 September – 3 December 2016 Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich welcomes the 2nd edition of Transcultural Collaboration, an international graduate semester program and cooperation of vario...
8. September 2016
Kick-off Module „Transcultural Collaboration 2016“ 22 August – 9 September On 22 August we started the 2nd edition of our new transcultural and cross-disciplinary semester program called “Transcultural Colla...
Lecture 8 September, 1.30 pm Zurich University of the Arts, Toni-Areal, Room 5.K01 Gwee Li Sui (Singapore): Whatever Happened to Politics in Singapore’s English-Language Poetry? The Singaporean writer Gwee L...
25. August 2016
25 August 2016 Music Date and Time: 25 August 2016 (Thursday), 8:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Connecting Space Hong Kong is excited to provide platform for local creative t...
Saxophone Recital by Charles Ng Saxophone Recital by Charles Ng
29. July 2016
29 July & 9 August 2016 Music Date & Venue: 29 July 2016 – Entrance Hall, Toni-Areal, ZHdK (Directions) 9 August 2016 – Wohn und Gewerberaum, Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, Halle am Hof (Dire...
City of Zurich Artist-in-Residence Programme City of Zurich Artist-in-Residence Programme
28. July 2016
28 – 30 July 2016 Conference Dates: 28 – 30 July 2016 Venue: Zurich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zurich Draft is an initiative by Khanabadosh (Mumbai) and Institute for C...
Draft Draft
24. July 2016
24 July 2016 Moving Images Date and Time: 24 July 2016 (Sunday), 5:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Nguyen Trinh Thi Vietnam | Color | 2007 | 54min | In Vietnamese with Engli...
Hazy Sundays Hazy Sundays
21. July 2016
21 – 26 July 2016 Workshop & Seminar Playing games seriously is a big deal to game scholar, Mela Kocher. In summer 2016, Mela is gaming half the world away from her Zurich home to invite youngsters...
15. July 2016
15 July 2016 Workshop Date: 15 July 2016 Time and Venue: (Hong Kong) 3:00pm – 9:00pm, Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) (Zürich) 9:00am – 3:00pm, Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts (...
Long Distance Laboratory Long Distance Laboratory
3. July 2016
3 – 11 July 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 2 July 2016, 3:30pm Dates: 3 – 11 July 2016 Time: 11:00am – 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Connecting Spac...
Ubiquitous Trash: Hong Kong Edition Ubiquitous Trash: Hong Kong Edition
2. July 2016
2 July 2016 Music Date: 2 July 2016 (Saturday) Time: 6:00pm & 10:00pm (Hong Kong) 12:00nn & 4:00pm (Zurich) Venue: AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) Konzertsaal ...
Conflux – A Telematic Concert Conflux – A Telematic Concert
28. June 2016
To create a community of active listeners who are curious about listening as a way of knowing ourselves and each other; To support, critique, and contribute to our public culture of listening.
Slow Spicy Curatorial Practices Slow Spicy Curatorial Practices
22. June 2016
22 June 2016 Presentation and Theatre Collective Dinner Date and Time: 22 June 2016 (Wednesday), 6:00pm Venue: Duttweiler-Areal, 8005 Zurich, between crossroad Pfingstweidstrasse/Duttweilerstrasse and footbr...
17. June 2016
17 – 26 June 2016 Exhibition Dates: 17 – 26 June 2016 Time: 10:00am to 10:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Connecting Space Hong Kong is pleased to be venue support...
Joan Cornellà Solo Exhibition Joan Cornellà Solo Exhibition
5. June 2016
5 – 12 June 2016 Workshop and Guided Tours Description Para Site is pleased to present “Tools to Orchestrate”, two Sundays of public programmes in conjunction with Orchestrations, a solo ex...
5 June 2016 Moving Images Date and Time: 5 June 2016 (Sunday), 3:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Paul Smaczny Color | 2005 | 92min | English with no subtitles This month, ...
26. May 2016
27 May – 12 June 2016 Exhibition Studies for Pastoral Music (Pistol Muzzleloader) Samson Young (2015). Courtesy of Living Collection Opening: 26 May 2016 (Thursday), 7:00pm Date: 27 May – 12 June...
19. May 2016
A series of practices around the process of disappearing physically or metaphorically, temporarily and at least partially.
Transcultural Collaboration 2015 Transcultural Collaboration 2015
19 – 21 May 2016 Artist Talks and Performances As part of the exhibition, participating artists invite visitors to challenge the visible and invisible in this show: it is the curators’ aim to collectiv...
RECONNECTING SENSES RECONNECTING SENSES
17. May 2016
17 – 21 May 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 17 May 2016 (Tuesday), 8:30pm Date: 17 – 21 May 2016 Time: 11:00am – 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Co-org...
8. May 2016
8 May 2016 Moving Images Date and Time: 8 May 2016 (Sunday), 5:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Shin Sang-ok; Chong Gon-jo Produced by: Kim Jong-il; Shin Sang-ok N. Korea | Co...
29. April 2016
29 April 2016 Music Date: 29 April 2016 (Friday) Time: 8pm (HKT) & 2pm (CEST) Venue: (Hong Kong) Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) (Zurich): 4K13, Gallery Space, Zurich University of the Arts Descr...
28. April 2016
28 – 30 April 2016 Workshop Dates: 28 – 30 April 2016 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Subsequent to the Call for Potentials by the organisers of “Slow Spicy Curat...
24. April 2016
27 April – 6 May 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 24 April 2016 (Sunday), 6:00pm Dates and Time: 27 – 29 April, 3:00pm – 6:00pm 30 April – 1 May, 5:00pm– 8:00pm 4 – 6 May, 3:00pm – 6:00...
Just Add Water Just Add Water
16. April 2016
16 April 2016 Music Date and Time: 16 April 2016 (Saturday), 3:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Food nourishes the body, music nourishes the soul. For centuries food and music ...
If Music be the Food of Love If Music be the Food of Love
13. April 2016
April 2016 Further Education Description How can art be understood as a tool for understanding foreign cultures? Why do cultural values play an important role in threshold countries undergoing modernisation?...
On Global Culture On Global Culture
11. April 2016
11 – 15 April 2016 Workshops and Performances A group of students from ZHdK will visit Hong Kong to collaborate with local artists, designers and scholars with the aim to explore possibilities and affo...
Texturing Space – A Mobile Lab for Research on Urban Textures Texturing Space – A Mobile Lab for Research on Urban Textures
2. April 2016
2 – 3 April 2016 Moving Images and Public Seminars “Jit Ze – Asian Film and Video Screening” will bring the “Director in Focus” section at the Connecting Space Hong Kong, showing mainland China directo...
Jit Ze – Asian Film and Video Screening Jit Ze – Asian Film and Video Screening
31. March 2016
What has Dada got to do with Hong Kong? What has Hong Kong got to do with Odysseus? What has Odysseus got to do with Zurich? What has Zurich got to do with transcultural competence? What has transcultural co...
Polytropos Polytropos
1 – 2 April 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 31 March 2016, 5:00pm Dates: 1 to 2 April 2016 Venue: Galerie 1, Toni-Areal Campus, Zurich University of the Arts (Directions) Students of Accidental Tou...
25. March 2016
25 March 2016 Party Date: 25 March 2016, 7pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) RSVP: connectingspace.hk@zh ...
Exorcism – Curating Each Other Exorcism – Curating Each Other
23. March 2016
23 – 26 March 2016 Moving Images Dates: 23 – 26 March 2016 Time: 23 Mar (Vernissage): 5:00pm – 9:00pm; 24 Mar: 1:00pm – 9:00pm; 25 Mar: 1:00pm – 8:00pm; 26 Mar: 11:00am – ...
Connecting Spaces HK-ZH at Art Basel HK 2016 Connecting Spaces HK-ZH at Art Basel HK 2016
21. March 2016
21 March 2016 Moving Images Date and Time: 21 March 2016 (Monday), 4:30pm Venue: Theatre 2, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong Directed by: Michael Schindhelm Color | 2016 | 93min...
20. March 2016
20 March 2016 Public Talks Date: 20 March 2016 (Sunday) Time: 3:30pm & 5:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description As part of the executive education course, “Chinese C...
20 March – 10 April 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 20 March 2016 (Sunday), 7:00pm Dates: 20 March – 10 April 2016 Time: 11:00am – 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) ...
18. March 2016
18 – 20 March 2016 Executive Education Date and Time: 18 – 20 March 2016 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Faculty Dr Uli Sigg, art collector, rower, patron, founder of the Chinese C...
4. March 2016
The conference brings together artists, community and peace building workers, scholars and (art) students. The conference provides a platform to share experience, ideas, and knowledge on using art strategie...
Some of the images shown reflect collaborative artistic work based on his in-depth experiences. They reflect the many dynamics at work when connecting people through using artistic and empowerment strategies...
25. February 2016
September – November 2016 MA programme in Arts and Design Description After its successful launch in 2015, we are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of our pioneering transcultural and cross-disciplin...
10. February 2016
28 February 2016 Open Call Description What do you Care about? “Donate to Curate” questions the economy driven city and are looking for gestures of care, forms of collectivity and modes of hospi...
6. February 2016
6 February 2016 Exhibition Exhibition Opening: 5 February 2016, 7:00pm Date and Time: 6 February 2016, 10:00am – 5:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong Digital technology advancement has travelled fa...
Reflecting Locations Reflecting Locations
23. January 2016
23 – 31 January 2016 Education Accidental Date: 23 January 2016 (Saturday) Each of the twelve students from Zurich has developed a different Accidental Tourist Guide Tour for the area of North Point, H...
4. December 2015
4 – 14 December 2015 Exhibition and Writing Workshop Date: 4 – 14 December 2015 Time: 11:00am – 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Presented by Mobile M+ – Li...
Mobile M+ – Live Art Mobile M+ – Live Art
27. November 2015
26 – 27 November 2015 Exhibition and Discussion Dates and Time: 26 November 2015, 4:30pm – 9:00pm 27 November 2015, 8:30am – 8:00pm Venue: Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich Information poi...
6 November 2015 – 30 March 2016 Exhibition Opening Reception: 27 November 2015, 5:30pm Venue: Design Boulevard, Hong Kong Design Institute Gallery and IVE (Lee Wai Lee) (Directions) Exhibition Dates: ...
Weingart Typography Weingart Typography
26. November 2015
27 November 2015 – 17 February 2016 Exhibition Opening Reception: 26 November 2015, 6:00pm Exhibition Dates: 27 November 2015 – 17 February 2016 Time: Monday to Wednesday, Friday: 10am – 7pm Satu...
Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project
20. November 2015
Spicy Little Art Festival Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations What happens if 22 artists from Asia and Europe from a wide range of art and design disciplines are collabora...
1. November 2015
November 2015 – March 2016 Artist Residence During her residency in Zurich from November 2015 to March 2016, Chow will be involved in different projects run by herself or together with partners from Zu...
30. October 2015
30 Oct – 6 Nov 2015 Workshop Dates: 30 October – 6 November 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 8:00pm with life connections to Zurich Venue: (Hong Kong) Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) (Zürich) G...
30 October 2015 Dance Date & Time: 30 October 2015 (Friday), 8:00pm 31 October 2015 (Saturday), 3:00pm and 8:00pm 1 November 2015 (Sunday), 3:00pm Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Sing Theatre, 12 Hing Nin...
15. October 2015
Thursday, October 15 – 7pm Lecturer: Kenneth Ip Shu Kei, Chair School of Film and Television HKAPA Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong There were two kinds of cinema in Hong Kong in the 1950s, the Cantonese ci...
Common Stage Common Stage
11. October 2015
11 October 2015 Moving Images Date and Time: 11 October 2015 (Sunday), 5:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Bo Wang China | Color | 2012 | 50min | In Chinese with English Subtit...
10. October 2015
Screening Event 10 Oct 2015, 3pm Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/F, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong Both Sides Now II – It Was the Best of Times, it Was the Worst of Times? 彼岸觀自在II: 最好的時代,最壞的時代? JUL ...
2. October 2015
3 – 30 October 2015 Exhibition Opening Reception: 2 October 2015, 6:00pm Date: 3 – 30 October 2015, Thursdays to Saturdays only Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm Venue: Counterspace, Röschibachstrasse ...
26. September 2015
Come and drift with us through a space of experimentation on 26 September in XXX club. Immerse in a party night with performances. Artists from Hong Kong, Mainland, Taiwan, Japan and Europe in collaborative ...
22. September 2015
9. September 2015
The economy goes global, and political systems are intertwined worldwide: goods, information, signs, and humans are on the way to (apparent) boundlessness. Trans- and multiculturalism seem to be the order of...
6. September 2015
6 September 2015 Moving Images Date and Time: 6 September 2015 (Sunday), 3:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Tomer Heymann Israel | Color | 2006 | 80min | In Hebrew with Englis...
3. September 2015
Exhibition Opening and launch of "Common. Journal für Kunst und Öffentlichkeit", n° 6: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015, 2 pm (Zurich) / 8 pm (Hong Kong)
City Metaphors City Metaphors
24. August 2015
Kick-off Events: Lecture Series with Mark Terkessidis (24.8.), Jörg Huber (27.8.), Roger M. Buergel (1.9.); Project Presentation: 3.9.
17. August 2015
The core idea of the residency (August to October 2015) is to create an archive of everything that is secondary in the production process, disclosing methodologies and processes that often disappear during p...
28. July 2015
28 July 2015 Book Launch Date and Time: 28 July 2015, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Description Connecting Space Hong Kong is pleased to host “A Journal of the Pl...
Connecting Spaces Connecting Spaces
17. July 2015
The exhibition 4 Solos @ Connecting Space brings together works by two Hong Kong-based and two Zurich-based artists, reflecting their stay in the opposing city. Presented as four simultaneous solo exhibition...
30. June 2015
The solo exhibition :) - no pressure by Hong Kong artist Trevor Yeung is presenting the artist’s reflections and responses to the artistic residency in Zurich.
29. June 2015
July 2015 Visual Arts Workshop Description SEE•HEAR•TRANSFORM brings together a group of artists who will collaborate and explore the transformation processes in urban social contexts through artistic experi...
28. June 2015
Hazy Sunday presents four Films on Migration selected by Luke Casey & William Davis.
15. June 2015
Saturday, 20th June 2015, 4 pm Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/f, Wah Kin Mansion, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong „City Metaphors” can be understood in the classic perspective of cultural studies (W...
6. June 2015
As an open collaboration based in Zurich and Hong Kong « Slow Spicy Curatorial Practices» reflects on contemporary curatorial practices and wants to share questions, urgencies and working practices.
5. June 2015
Art and Design Tools for Social Changes Friday, 5 June 2015, 11-12.30 Zurich University of the Arts, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich Room 4.D12 Lecture with Siu King, School of Design, The Hong Kon...
Politics of Space Politics of Space
4. June 2015
A three day conference in Mumbai to collectively consider how contemporary art can initiate, invoke and contribute to public debates.
28. May 2015
28 May 2015 Moving Images Date and Time: 28 May 2015 (Thursday), 7:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Clara Law Hong Kong | Color | 1992 | 108min | In Cantonese with Engl...
23. May 2015
ODD COUPLINGS is a performance by the Hong Kong-based choreographer Chun-ho Ivanhoe Lam in collaboration with Swiss scenographer Barbra Pfyffer. It is the product of his three months residency with the City ...
SABRe SABRe
13. May 2015
„if now was somewhere else“ is a live-audio-walk over a bridge. The walk takes place simultaneously in Zurich, Hamburg and Hong Kong. During 20 minutes, the participants are guided over the bridge. The liste...
13 – 14 May 2015 Symposium This symposium is linked to the exhibition Beyond the sound, as well as researches conducted by the Baptist University, Connecting Spaces and soundpocket. Sound art is...
Beyond the Sound Symposium Beyond the Sound Symposium
11. May 2015
Polytropos as aesthetic urban research in search for the face of a city and asks if there is the one face or if there are multiple faces, and how these faces can be assembled, joined together and configurate...
9. May 2015
9 May 2015 Workshop Date and Time: 9 May 2015, 2:00pm – 5:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) During the Umbrella Movement, Parallel Lab investigated the relationship between protest an...
1. May 2015
Understood that Switzerland has a strong Swiss Animal Protection Act to protect the rights of animals, Trevor Yeung feels strongly connected with his past experience and also how bad living situation in Hong...
30. April 2015
30 April 2015 Moving Images Date and Time: 30 April 2015 (Thursday), 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Directed by: Fruit Chan Hong Kong | Color | 1999 | 104min | In Cantonese with Englis...
22. April 2015
22 – 26 April 2015 Exhibition Opening Reception: 22 April 2015 (Wednesday), 6:00pm Date and Time: 22 – 24 April 2015: 10:00pm – 6:00pm 25 – 26 April 2015: 1:00pm – 5:00pm Venu...
6. April 2015
1 to 5 April 2015 Zurich, Zurich University of the Arts 6 to 11 April 2015 Hamburg, HafenCity University The main goal of the project “City Metaphors” is to investigate topics and methodologies of urban stud...
1. April 2015
Chloë Cheuk is a media artist based in Hong Kong. She received a BA (Hons) in Creative Media from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2012. In 2014, her work has been selected to partic...
30. March 2015
EXHIBITION: INTENCITY. International Design Workshop March 30 – April 2, 2015, Hong Kong, Connecting Spaces Hong Kong This exhibition displays the results of the International Design Workshop 2015, parallel ...
Intencity Intencity
28. March 2015
28 – 30 March 2015 30 May – 1 June 2015 Further Education Dates: 28 – 30 March 2015; or 30 May – 1 June 2015 Venue: Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Pfingstweidstras...
23. March 2015
The International Design Workshop 2015 of the Master of Arts in Design from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) will research and debate, develop, design, and present our design-based contributions to advan...
16. March 2015
16 March 2015 Talk Date and Time: 16 March 2015 (Monday), 3:00pm Venue: Auditorium, Entrance Hall 1A, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai (Directions) Speakers: Johannes M. Hedinger, Co-found...
What’s Next? What’s Next?
15. March 2015
The public workshop is devoted to the theme on applying the concept of curating to the study of creative economies and to the dynamic development of Hong Kong as a (creative) city. The topic will gather expe...
Alternative Futures: Curating Hong Kong Alternative Futures: Curating Hong Kong
Opening 15. March 2015 7.30pm: reception in presence of the artists 8 pm: Book Preview “What’s Next? Art after Crisis” (China Edition) and Talk with Li Zhenhua, Johannes M. Hedinger and Guests 8.30 pm: Perfo...
MOA MOA
13. March 2015
瑞士蘇黎世藝術大學榮譽呈獻此有關當代中國藝術議題之嶄新課程,為具創意的藝術家丶藝術行政人員丶策展人、
7. March 2015
7 March 2015 Artists Talk Date: 7 March 2015 (Saturday) Time: 2:30pm to 4:30pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Artists Chloë Cheuk and Samson Cheung are curious about what sound can do. In the...
1. March 2015
Lam had his residency in Zurich in March – May 2015, during when he explored the concept of truth and lies between presentation and reality based on social observation worldwide. As the values and mora...
27. February 2015
26. February 2015
New Graduate-Level Educational Format in the Arts based in Hong Kong A project by Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) City University of Hong Kong/School of Cre...
16. February 2015
31. January 2015
Collaborative Painting Him Lo & Dominique Lämmli with neighbourhoods Hong Kong House of Stories and Connecting Space Hong Kong January 19 to 31 Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/f, Wah Kin Mansion, 18-20 For...
12. December 2014
12 – 19 December 2014 Exhibition Opening Reception: 12 December 2014, 7 pm Date: 12 December – 19 December 2014 Venue: Gasthaus zum Bären, Bärengasse 20-22, 8001 Zürich Description “The rule is, jam to...
11. December 2014
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is focusing on its strategic objective to further internationalise its activities and to explore how a 21st-century arts university might advance as an institution in a g...
28. November 2014
14 October 2014 – 30 March 2015 Exhibition Opening Reception: 28 November 2014, 5:30pm Exhibition Dates: 14 October 2014 – 30 March 2015 (closed on Tuesdays) Time: 10:00am – 8:00pm Venue: d...
Official Opening Connecting Space Hong Kong Official Opening Connecting Space Hong Kong
Polytropos: Dada on Tour reports, presents & performs A Future Workshop 28. November 2014, 1pm – 10pm: Workshop: Presentations and Discussions 29. November 2014, 11am – 7 pm: Atelier: Insights into Polyt...
27. November 2014
From February to September 2014, Claudio Bucher, Patrick Kull, and Brandon Farnsworth, Master’s students at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and Michael Schindhelm explored how Hong Kong’s cultural situ...
Official Opening of Connecting Space Hong Kong 官方成立典禮 Since May this year, the exploratory platform for collaborative, artistic and intercultural projects, Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, has suc...
26. November 2014
26 November 2014 Conference, Workshop and Publication Date: 26 November 2014 Time: Conference and Workshops: 9:00am – 6:00pm Evening Events: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Cur...
25. November 2014
25 November 2014 Panel Discussion Date: 25 November 2014 Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions) Curated by: Desmond Hui, Christoph Weckerle and Simon Grand Speakers: Leo Ou-fan ...
6. November 2014
Some further examples of our research in April 2014 (videos: Yunlong Song): People from Sham Shui Po Loui’s “Happy Garden” Remgo & Ines Siu King
1. November 2014
1 – 30 November 2014 Exhibiton Opening Reception: 1 November 2014 Exhibition: 1 – 30 November 2014 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong The globalization of art problematises existing notions of art...
Opening Connecting Space Hong Kong Opening Connecting Space Hong Kong
14. October 2014
Concert Tuesday, 14. October 2014, 8.30 pm Toni-Areal, Zürich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich, Konzertsaal 1 Samson Young: The Anatomy of a String Quartet (2014). Eine Performance-...
Sonic and Visual Interfaces Sonic and Visual Interfaces
13. October 2014
Workshop Concert Monday, 13. October 2014, 7.30 pm Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich, Konzertsaal 1 Simon Grab: „What you see is [not] [t]here“. Audio Fieldrecordings from Hong Kong (6’) Ursula ...
9. October 2014
9 – 22 October 2014 Exhibition Date: 9 – 22 October 2014 Time: 12:00pm – 8:00pm daily, with early closing at 6:00pm on 22 October 2014 Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong* (Directions)...
TRACING DATA: What you Read is Not What we Write TRACING DATA: What you Read is Not What we Write
8. October 2014
“‘I really would like to encourage Hong Kong people and artists to keep on doing as they did until now. Go on with this respectful, but very self-confident way to express the visions of a possibl...
12. September 2014
Connecting Spaces – Project Call “Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zürich” is an initiative by the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). The main objective of this transdiciplinary and transcultural proje...
Project Call Project Call
8. August 2014
On August 8 and 9, in performances at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at Connecting Space Hong Kong, students from Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Taiwan and Singapore show some of the results of the Summ...
Education Education
17. July 2014
The globalization of art problematizes existing notions of art and rapidly widens the scope of artistic activities. Where this paradigmatic shift will lead is open and the subject of much discussion.
14. July 2014
Summer Academy “Common Stage 2014 – The Arts Between Cultures” 14 July – 10 August 2014, Hong Kong Short description “Common Stage” is a transcultural and cross-disciplinary summer academy and a collab...
City of Zurich Artist-in-Residence Program for Young International Artists In association with Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) Geographical focus 2014/15: Hong Kong The Artist-in-Residence Program in Z...
12. July 2014
Artistic strategies at the interface between Art / Community / Activism in Hong Kong, Zurich and elsewhere
20. June 2014
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich is proud to present «The Painter of Modern Life» – a solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Frank Tang, presenting the artist’s refl...
16. June 2014
The Cabaret Voltaire will be brought to Hong Kong in form of a tent called “Dada on Tour”. The tent itself is another space, a mobile museum visiting communities, giving and taking, collecting, archiving. “D...
16. May 2014
瑞士流行樂隊EUROPA-Neue Leichtigkeit 與香港四個獨立樂隊,將在5月16日下午5時開始於「連絡空間–香港」聯手表演。本地演出者包括:梁仁昭與朋友、Michael Lai、傻喇士多和崔展鴻四重奏。這場音樂盛會由作曲家和演奏家龔志成策劃,瑞士外交事務部贊助。秉承發展瑞士與香港更緊密的聯繫,瑞士駐港總領事邀請了三組本地的樂隊參與這場音樂會,藉此提升了文化交會的遠景。...
15. May 2014
Uli Sigg, Anna Liu, Lee Kit and Pi Li in conversation about the evolution of Chinese art talents reflected in the history of the Chinese Contemporary Art Award since 1998 and the current trends in Chinese co...
10. May 2014
ParaSite—香港首屈一指的現代藝術空間,也是亞洲歷史最悠久和最活躍的獨立藝術中心之一—今天宣佈「Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong」展覽正式開幕。這個突破性的展覽特別推介一系列的國際和本土藝術家,並聚焦香港社會和歷史背境下「性與慾」的關係。展品將在香港五個不同的地點展示,用以描繪我城多變的景觀。...
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong
1. May 2014
The Zurich University of the Arts connects on Thursday, 1st May 2014, Zurich and Hong Kong: 12 to 2.30 pm in Zurich, 6 to 8.30 pm in Hong Kong local time.
The Tunnel The Tunnel
Hong Kong < > Zurich: live Hong Kong < > Zurich: live
27. April 2014
An Exhibition about Visualization Strategies & Public Spheres Public Intervention | Sound | Image | Hong Kong | Zurich 1st May 2014 to 7th May 2014, 5 to 7 pm Museum Bärengasse, Bärengasse 22, Zürich Ope...
11. April 2014
Workshop with the artist collective Baggenstos/Rudolf The project «Politics of Space» examines (post-)democratic spaces in Hong Kong and Zurich. It addresses the question of whether these spaces exist despit...
10. April 2014
Some examples of our research in April 2014: Kweilin Street (Day/Night), Banks, Hai Tan Street, Trolleys
5. April 2014
An Exhibition about Visualization Strategies & Public Spheres Public Intervention | Sound | Image | Hong Kong | Zurich Presentation 5th April 2014 Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/f, 18-20 Fort Street, Nort...
4. April 2014
How do artistic practices involve into the social, political or cultural communities of cities? Who does benefit in which ways? And why are such Art & Community projects initiated?
14. March 2014
An exhibition about public space, art, sound and pop in Zurich, Hong Kong and elsewhere.
10. March 2014
Common Stage 2014 – The Arts Between Cultures Transcultural and cross-disciplinary summer workshop from 14 July – 10 August 2014 in cooperation with Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. We are looking for ...
Common Stage 2014 – The Arts Between Cultures Transcultural and cross-disciplinary summer workshop from 14 July – 10 August 2014 in cooperation with Zurich University of the Arts/Switzerland. We are looking ...
27. February 2014
Opening of the discussion about the development of an advanced transcultural and cross-disciplinary education format in the framework of a future ZHdK Study Centre in Hong Kong. 27 February to 1 March 2014, ...