photo courtesy : Tim Hailand
Serene Hui
Serene Hui is an artist based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong.
Her artistic practice aims to reframe and rethink conditions of the contemporary through politically driven art-making and research. She is particularly interested in the notion that aesthetics and politics both draft maps of the in/visible—trajectories between the visible and the sayable, relationships between modes of being and saying, and modes of doing and making. She addresses obscurity and nuances by creating an ontological shift of displacement in her installations, live works, and writings. Through juxtaposing and converging dissimilar situations, the works raise questions such as how one responds to, or what one can possibly get out of—the moment of conflict, estrangement or resistance, whilst exploring the diverse meanings of its complex contents— questions of authorship, authenticity, and authority.
Serene received her MA from The Royal Academy, The Hague. In 2021, she released the book-length publication “May We Live In Interesting Times- The Politics and Poetics of Ambivalence” and is now showing two new commissioned works at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
For full CV / portfolio / questions, email: clokserene(at)gmail(dot)com
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2021 Songs of Ambivalence - Performative Reading by Serene Hui, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2021 Post-Human Narratives - We, The Searchers v.2.0., Curated by Kobe Ko, online
2020 This Year There Were Very Few Fireworks (Silent Fire/Works Rhapsody), De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 We, The Searchers, Page Not Found, The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 Words Unsaid, Then Forgotten, Arts 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Everyday is just another day - Exhibition of HUI Serene Sze Lok, Venice Arts Project, Venice, Italy
2016 Waiting for the Polar Express ‒ HUI Sze Lok Serene Solo Exhibition, PMQ, Hong Kong
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2021 Para Site Rooftop Studio & Archive Project, Para Site, Hong Kong
2021 Birds Don’t Take The Train, But We Do, Artist in Retreat, curated by Xenia Klein, Sweden/Online
2021 Post-Human Narratives - The Coexisting Land, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2021 Non Native Native Fair, curated by Non Native Native (NNN), online
2021 Trust & Confusion, Tai Kwun Contemporary Museum, Hong Kong
2021 Post-Human Narratives, Curated by Kobe Ko, online
2021 Sun Kissed // Fog Off, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, The Netherlands
2020 The Ongoing Conversation #7, Gallery 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands
2020 3331 Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2020 A Simple Fizz, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019 FOLKLORE, Bedroom, Hong Kong
2018 A Song A Zine, dotdotdot Zine launch 2018, Hong Kong
2018 Nearly There, AIR 3331 Studio, Arts 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2018 無何有之香 - 文學x視藝展覽, 香港文學生活館 Hong Kong House of Literature
2018 WHY PRINT : Biennial Printmaking Exhibition, Presented by Marble Print Clay, Hong Kong
2017 Time, Space & Architecture, Cityscapes Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Travelling between Time and Matter, G126, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Hold Your Breath, Feel the Time, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 The Factory 2017 (Exhibition in the old herring factory in Djúpaviík), Djúpaviík, Iceland
2017 Dimension Convertor - Exhibition by Serene Hui and Bobby Yu, 100 ft. PARK, Hong Kong
2016 Here is Zine, Here is Hong Kong, PMQ, Hong Kong
2016 Nurturing Creativity - Friends of the Art Museum 35th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Central, Hong Kong
2016 The White Night Laboratory, Listhus Artspace, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
2016 L ights in the Old Phone Booths, Kaffi Klara, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
2016 THE PLAYROOM : Works by Ng Shuk Yin & Hui Sze Lok Serene, PMQ, Hong Kong
RESIDENCIES, TALKS, AND PROFESSION
2021 Open Studio Artist’s Sharing, Para Site Rooftop Studio & Archive Project, Para Site, Hong Kong
2021 After Hope Symposium, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2021 (re-scheduled) NIDA Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
2017-2019 Galerie Perrotin HK - Assistant to Director | Gallery Assistant, Sales & Artist Liaison
2018 Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Jockey Club Arts Education Programme - In Dialogue with Sculptures - Artist Tutor
2018 3331 Art Chiyoda Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Artist Initiative Kaus Australis Residency Program, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Listhus Artist Residency Program, Olafsfjordur, North Iceland
PUBLICATIONS & ARTIST BOOKS
2021 May We Live In Interesting Times - The Politics and Poetics of Ambivalence, Independent publishing, The Netherlands
2020 We, The Searchers, Independent publishing, The Netherlands
2018 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ME AND MY GHOST / WORDS UNSAID, THEN FORGOTTEN, Independent publishing, Hong Kong
2017 Hello, Darkness my old friend, Independent publishing, Hong Kong
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2021 Fonds Kwadraat, The Netherlands
2018 Cultural Exchange Fund, Hong Kong Art Development Council, Hong Kong S.A.R.
2017 Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong S.A.R.
2017 Professor Mayching Kao Fine Arts Fund - Artist-in-residence, Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong