Hidden Space, Kwai Chung (2026)

31/05/2026

Lai Tsz Yin’s award winning artwork 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺; 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 at the HKBU AVA BA grad show until 21 June 🔥

Hidden Space Award Winner 2026 🤩

The Hidden Space Award supports an artist graduating from a BA programme in Hong Kong. The winner receives a solo exhibition with eight months of mentoring, critical and curatorial support to develop their project. Plus full venue access for a further month prior to the show to move from art making to exhibition making, with installation support to re-articulate the space. Scheduled for March/April 2027.

HKBU AVA BA Graduation Exhibition
30 May - 21 June 2026
Kai Tak Campus

29/05/2026

Congratulations Lai Tsz Yin 🎉 Hidden Space Award Winner 2026!🥂🤩❤️
And Honourable Mention to Athena Kwan .m (accepted by )🔥♥️
Presented by last year’s winner 🤩
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Presented at the opening of the HKBU AVA BA Grad Show at the Kai Tak Campus.

The Hidden Space Award supports an artist graduating from a BA programme in Hong Kong. The winner receives a solo exhibition with eight months of mentoring, critical and curatorial support to develop their project. Plus full venue access for a further month prior to the show to move from art making to exhibition making, with installation support to re-articulate the space. Scheduled for March/April 2027.

HKBU AVA BA Graduation Exhibition
30 May - 21 June 2026
Kai Tak Campus

25/05/2026

We’ve selected the 9th winner of our annual Hidden Space Award at the AVA HKBU BA graduation show. 124 grads this year… it took a while!
Thanks for organising, .1202 for tirelessly shepherding us around and .kiu nice for all the info ♥️🤩

The winner will be announced at the opening this Friday 29 May 🎉

The Hidden Space Award supports an artist graduating from a BA programme in Hong Kong. The awardee receives a solo exhibition with eight months of mentoring, critical and curatorial support to develop their project, plus full venue access for one month prior to the show to move from art making to exhibition making, with installation support to re-articulate the space. Show scheduled for March/April 2027.

AVA HKBU BA Grad Show
30 May - 21 June 2026
Kai Tak Campus

18/05/2026

Hidden Space Award 2026!

Next Monday we’ll be selecting our 9th winner from the at AVA, HKBU - to be revealed at the opening on 29 May 🔥

Looking back at the 8 amazing young artists we’ve worked with so far, who’ll be next? ✨✨✨✨✨

The shows:
• 我記得你微揚的長髮 I remember you with wind in your hair. Betty Jiu (AVA, HKBU)
• Saturation. Fong Tsz Ho (AVA, HKBU)
• Sunrise. Shift your weight. Sami Yip (HKAS/RMIT)
• It’s not about design / I didn’t ask to win this award /
使用是產品放着是藝術品 Kaio Wu Hiu Nam (HKAS/RMIT)
• Linger (A While). Masahiro Nakamura (HKAS/RMIT)
• Polymorphs. Natalie Chu (HKAS/RMIT)
• Wandering. At Sea, Tang Kwong San .san (HKAS/RMIT)
• Between Waiting and Resisting - Au Man Kit (HKAS/RMIT)
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The Hidden Space Award supports an artist graduating from a BA programme in Hong Kong. The winner receives a solo exhibition with eight months of mentoring, critical and curatorial support to develop their project. Plus full venue access for a further month prior to the show to move from art making to exhibition making, with installation support to re-articulate the space.

Supported by the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU

03/05/2026

Across spoken and written text, multiple videos and a single anchoring photograph, Betty Jiu creates space for the tender frustrations of intergenerational relations. A woman stands alone on a rooftop framed by dense cityscape. A handwritten text stretches along a wall, legible but not without doubling back and forth for the reader. A young woman positions a girl in a stark corner. Someone considers place becoming home, how a mother chose schools for her daughters… Among these initially disparate seeming parts, the image of a leafy tree canopy hung with lanterns offers if not unity, at least a truce.

Jiu constructs an open-ended sensory narrative to examine the uneasy gaps in familial (mis)understandings. The contradictory push and pull of emotional and physical closeness and distance play out, forever on the yearning cusp of empathy.

我記得你微揚的長髮
I remember you with wind in your hair
Betty Jiu
Solo Exhibition

5 April - 3 May 2026
Friday to Sunday 1-6pm

Supported by

24/04/2026

A woman calmly recounts an emergency hospital visit in all its details but we only see an overgrown patch of wasteland lit by street lamp | A woman calmly recounts an emergency hospital visit in all its details but we only see a vibrant dreamlike patch of greenery bursting into life.
A space hovering between worlds, edged by paving, a metal fence, lampposts, distant tower blocks. A black bin bag tossed among the rampant plantlife, inert while the grasses wave and flowers bloom.

我記得你微揚的長髮
I remember you with wind in your hair
Betty Jiu
Solo Exhibition

5 April - 3 May 2026
Friday to Sunday 1-6pm

Supported by

24/04/2026

A woman calmly recounts an emergency hospital visit in all its details but we only see an overgrown patch of wasteland lit by street lamp | A woman calmly recounts an emergency hospital visit in all its details but we only see a vibrant dreamlike patch of greenery bursting into life.
A space hovering between worlds, edged by paving, a metal fence, lampposts, distant tower blocks. A black bin bag tossed among the rampant plantlife, inert while the grasses wave and flowers bloom.

我記得你微揚的長髮
I remember you with wind in your hair
Betty Jiu
Solo Exhibition

5 April - 3 May 2026
Friday to Sunday 1-6pm

Supported by

21/04/2026

The images and sound draw you in initially but there’s written text too. Faint and unlit, awkwardly placed and broken up so you’ll need to stoop or squat, follow along a wall, get up close, shaping your own body and squinting to make it out. The texts spill stories of intergenerational alienation, unfairness, becoming, belonging, place, the city, home, tension, family - microcosms of care and frustration.

我記得你微揚的長髮
I remember you with wind in your hair
Betty Jiu
Solo Exhibition

5 April - 3 May 2026
Friday to Sunday 1-6pm

Supported by

27/10/2025

Stamford student takeover! Over the last two weeks we’ve held workshops with students, including hands-on experimental installation practice. Let loose on a selection of artworks and objects from our stores, they were fearlessly interactive and innovative 🔥❤️ 🤩

Thanks Ms Williams, her class, and for involving us in the programme 🌱

28/06/2025

Did you notice the stones? Amidst the video, the ambiguous ‘portal’, the exposed support structures and the subtly altering walls in the main room, a handful of unremarkable small stones sit unlit on the floor. Tucked into a corner, easy to overlook, these real objects are small solid anchors. While the installation around them explores our perception and ability to perceive, our understanding of time passing shaped by light, these rocks lie within the exhibition but outside its human concerns, part of a geological span of time beyond our existence.

Well-lit
Li Hiuwa Solo exhibition
Curated by Kobe Ko

1-29 June 2025
Friday to Sunday 1-6pm
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Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.

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