Para Site is Hong Kong's leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia. It produces exhibitions, publications, discursive, and educational projects aimed at forging a critical understanding of local and international phenomena in art and society.
Read MoreFounded in early 1996 as an artist run space, Para Site was Hong Kong's first exhibition-making institution of contemporary art and a crucial self-organised structure within the city’s civil society, during the uncertain period preceding its handover to Mainland China. Throughout the years, Para Site has grown into a contemporary art centre, engaged in a wide array of activities and collaborations with other art institutions, museums, and academic structures in Hong Kong and the international landscape. In early 2015, Para Site moved to greatly increased premises, in North Point/Quarry Bay. Throughout its history, Para Site's activities have included a range of different formats, among which P/S magazine (1997-2006), a bilingual publication, which was Hong Kong's first visual arts magazine and a central platform for the development of art writing and of a discursive scene in the city and the Curatorial Training Programme (2007-2010). Since 2012, Para Site has been running an International Art Residency Programme and has been organizing an annual international conference. This is accompanied, starting from 2015, by a new educational format aimed at training young curators and other art professionals. Para Site's activities are made possible by the generous support of its patrons, and grants from foundations and the Government of the HKSAR.
Ocula Insight | In partnership with Para Site, Hong Kong Vvzela Kook's Solo Exhibition at Para Site, Hong Kong By Celia Ho, Curator, Hong Kong Vvzela Kook imagines a future where humanity and AI coexist at Para Site in Hong Kong.
Ocula Insight | In collaboration with Para Site Para Site International Conference Diary: Day 1 By Elliat Albrecht What to Let Go?, the sixth annual Para Site International Conference (22–24 November 2018) organised by Hong Kong non-profit art organisation Para Site, took as its theme the tangled issue of heritage. Fittingly, the conference was held in the JC Cube Auditorium in the recently opened Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong's new...
Ocula Insight | In collaboration with Para Site Para Site International Conference Diary: Day 2 By Elliat Albrecht The second day of What to Let Go? — Para Site 's international conference at Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong Kong—was largely focused on the subjects of artefacts and repatriation. The day began with a local focus as Tina Pang— M+ curator of Hong Kong visual culture—presented an overview of the...
Ocula Insight Para Site Conference: Heritage and Dis/Possession By Vivian Ziherl For Para Site 's 2018 edition of its International Conference, titled What to let go? (22–24 November 2018), Hong Kong 's longest-running contemporary art space turned its focus to the politics of heritage. Hosted at Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, and led by Para Site director Cosmin Costinas together with guest curator Inti...
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Related Press Material World: Para Site Director Cosmin Costinas' Textiles Collection 8 April 2019, Hong Kong Tatler 'Oh, I'm getting all excited now,' Cosmin Costinas exclaims as he flings open a wardrobe in his apartment, revealing hundreds of brightly coloured, intricately patterned textiles stacked on top of each other. 'I think I have over a thousand,' he adds, opening a second cupboard packed with fabrics and gesturing at the reams of material draped...
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