Wong Ping: ༼;´༎ຶ༎ຶ༽~♡
Exhibition
16 June – 18 September 2022
Kunsthall Stavanger welcomes you to the opening of our summer exhibition ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽ ~♡, the first survey exhibition in Scandinavia by artist Wong Ping. The opening event will take place at Kunsthall Stavanger Thursday, June 16 at 18:00pm.
Wong Ping is one of Hong Kong's most exciting emerging artists. He creates disturbing and crude narratives that challenge conventional concepts of human desire, obsession, shame, isolation, and repressed sexuality through animation, sculpture, and immersive installations. His videos take on a bright and childlike aesthetic, creating a light-hearted, humorous, and accessible approach to the deep psychological issues experienced by the protagonists in his films.
༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽ ♡ is on view June 16 – September 18, 2022.
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Wong Ping
b. 1984
b. 1984
Wong Ping was born in Hong Kong and received his BA from Curtin University, Perth, Australia in 2005. In 2018, he was the recipient of the inaugural Camden Arts Emerging Arts Prize, and in 2019, he was one of the winners of The Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Wong has completed a residency at the Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art (2015).
Solo exhibitions by Wong Ping include Your Silent Neighbor, New Museum, New York (2021); Heart Digger, Cam-den Arts Centre, London (2019); Golden Shower, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Who’s the Daddy, CAPRI, Düsseldorf, Germany (2018); and Jungle of Desire, Things that can happen, Hong Kong (2015). His work has been featured in important group exhibitions such as One Hand Clapping, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018); 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum,New York (2018); XO State Dark: Aristophanes, Arts Centre Melbourne (2017); RareKind China, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (2016); Mobile M+: MovingImages, M+, Hong Kong (2015); and Essential Matters, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (2015).
Wong’s animation films have been presented at numerous international festivals, in Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia.
Wong’s work is held in several permanent collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+, Hong Kong; KADIST, Paris/San Francisco; Fosun Art Foundation, Shanghai, among others.