CHAT Celebrates 5th Year with 2024 Spring Programme: ‘Factory of Tomorrow’

Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) is celebrating its fifth anniversary with its 2024 spring programme, featuring a group exhibition showcasing CHAT’s contemporary art collection and newly commissioned works at its gallery at The Mills.

CHAT’s exhibition will include a series of events that will provide its guests with cultural experiences, divided into two parts.

“Factory of Tomorrow,” happening from March 16 to July 14, will gather the works of 19 Asian artists, ranging from sculptures, textile works, immersive installations, video displays, and artworks with themes such as climate change, textile technology, diversity, and many more.

Meanwhile, the “Misfitted: Unspoken Stories of Tailoring” exhibition, which opened on March 2, will introduce local textiles tailor-made for different purposes. It will also feature a new interactive experience, “Illumin-Loom,” where visitors can operate a virtual loom and create their own illuminated textile patterns, among other displays.

From March 15 to 17, a special photo booth will also be open for guests to take photos at. During the event, CHAT is also holding a birthday bash giveaway campaign, where they will give special gifts to the exhibits’ 5th, 55th, 555th, and 5,555th visitors.

Some of the artists to be featured at the exhibitions include Hong Kong’s Kimberly Chong, Singapore’s Fyerool Darma, Jakarta’s Ade Darmawan, Seoul’s Park Jeehee, and Tokyo’s Kobayashi Yuki, among others.

Commenting on the organisation’s anniversary, CHAT’s executive director and chief curator, said, “Through our various spring programmes with distinctive artists with Asian connections, you will see that CHAT is entering a new phase and constantly evolving.”

Learn more about CHAT’s Spring Programme 2024 and other special exhibitions by visiting its website.

Location: Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, 2/F, The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon