Young People Meet-Up:
Mapping Out a Journey to the Venice Biennale
Young People Meet-Up:
Mapping Out a Journey to the Venice Biennale
This workshop is for participants aged 16 to 24. Please bring valid ID.
The workshop ticket will include same-day access to General Admission exhibitions (excluding Special Exhibitions). Please retain a copy of your ticket to facilitate your entry to the galleries.
Are you studying in the arts or a creative field? Have you ever wondered how to forge your own career path? Whether you are aiming for a career in curation or any other arts-related profession, how can you best prepare yourself to make pivotal decisions when opportunities arise?
In this sharing session, artist Trevor Yeung, representing Hong Kong as a Collateral Event at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, will be joined by exhibition curator Olivia Chow to discuss their journeys from university graduation to becoming professionals in the arts and cultural sectors. They will reveal stories behind the exhibition Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice, offering unique insights on artistic creation and curatorial practice. Additionally, they will reflect on the experiments, explorations, and turning points that have shaped their careers, highlighting how those moments have led them down different yet fulfilling paths.
About the Speakers
Trevor Yeung (b. 1988, Guangdong) was raised, lives, and works in Hong Kong. His art excavates the inner logic of human relations. Fascinated by botanic ecology and horticulture, Yeung features carefully staged objects, photographs, animals, and plants in his mixed-media works as aesthetic pretexts to address notions of artificial nature. He often projects emotional and intellectual scenarios onto living substitutes in his work, translating his own social experiences into elaborate fables through which he continues to explore failure and imperfection. Yeung ultimately questions how closed systems contain and create emotional and behaviourial conditions.
Portrait of Trevor Yeung. Photo: South Ho, M+, Hong Kong
Olivia Chow is a curator and artist living in Hong Kong. As Assistant Curator, Visual Art, at M+, she works with artists to create exhibitions, publications, and public programmes, including Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood (2012/2022), Nalini Malani: Vision in Motion (2021), Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders (2020), and Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice (2019), Hong Kong’s Collateral Event in the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Portrait of Olivia Chow. Photo: South Ho, M+, Hong Kong
Related Exhibition
Established in 1995, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) is a statutory body set up by the Government to support the broad development of the arts in Hong Kong. Its major roles include grant allocation, policy and planning, advocacy, promotion and development, and special projects. The mission of HKADC is to support and promote the development of 10 major art forms in literary arts, performing arts, visual arts as well as film and media arts in Hong Kong. Aiming to foster a thriving arts environment and enhancing the quality of life of the public, HKADC is also committed to facilitating community-wide participation in the arts and arts education, encouraging arts criticism, raising the standard of arts administration, and contributing on policy research.
About Young People Meet-Up
The Young People Meet-Up series, designed and led by M+ Young Collective, encourages young people to explore and exchange their perspectives of the everyday through regular workshops, conversations, and talks.
The M+ Young Collective volunteer programme is supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Hong Kong, which engages fifteen local tertiary students and recent graduates. They work closely with the M+ team and creative practitioners from various disciplines to develop, plan, and deliver public programmes.
Image at top: Trevor Yeung and Olivia Chow. Photo: Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices, M+, Hong Kong