Macau has a unique fusion of art with a splendid history. With a thriving community of local and regional talent, Macau is an emerging hub for art and culture lovers. Many of the city’s galleries have their own distinctive identity that deserves total exploration. Check our events calendar so you’ll know ones to watch out for on your next artistic adventure!
LOVE OF MACAO – PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE KUNG KIM
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The Macao Museum of Art (MAM), under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and the Black-And-White Photographic Society of Macao co-organize the exhibition: Love of Macao – Photographs by Lee Kung Kim, featuring 150 excellent documental photography works under the theme of Macao.
Lee Kung Kim is an experienced Macao photographer who likes landscape photography.He was dedicated to photography for over half a century and won awards in many international photography competitions. During his residence in Macao for 69 years, he has left Macao with precious visual memories through photography, including precious portraits of Macao’s society and the daily life of residents. Lee Kung Kim had said, “Photography has allowed me to meet numerous good mentors and friends. I have also built a strong body and accumulated experiences from success and lessons from failure. More importantly, I have accrued countless historical, documentary photos, which are the artistic fortune of my entire life. Photography is my second life, while cameras will always be my loyal partners.”
The exhibition Love of Macao – Photographs by Lee Kung Kim is held on the 1st floor of the MAM. It is open daily except Mondays from 10am to 7pm
When: December 30, 2016 – July 1, 2017
Where: 1st Floor, Gallery of Special Exhibitions, Macao Museum of Art
How much: Free admission
More information at www.mam.gov.mo
OVERLOOK THE MACAU CITY – WORKS BY CAI GUO JIE
“Overlook the Macau City – Works by Cai Guo Jie” is partly sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macao SAR Government. Media partners include Hoje Macau and Ponto Final.
When: April 4 to 23
Where: AFA Macau, 4th Floor, Art Garden, Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues N. 265, Macau
The gallery is on the Ground Floor, open from Tuesdays to Sundays (12:00pm to 7:00pm) and closed on Mondays and public holidays.
For more information, contact +853 2836 6064 during office hours or email to [email protected]. For more information, please visit www.afamacau.com.
GUNS AND FLOWERS－EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE WORK
This theater work depicts the situation of women in wartime and postwar times, concerning the issues of War and Gender. It is not the dichotomy on women and men; however, performers are both men and women on stage to show the humanity through their multiple roles, especially the quality of female soldiers. Regardless of the past and present, the people in wartime are treated as “consumable”. After the war, women are even classified as “defective” and hardly could successfully integrate into family and society. Even if women are not in prison, their physical and mental states are still “imprisoned” in dark corners of somewhere.
This experimental theater work is interdisciplinary with drama, music and movements; in particular, weaving handcraft delivers another layer of concept “Strings of Longing in Hands” into the play, which inspired from the lack of resources during or after wars. People have to maintain their life by hard labor work or creating things from few materials left around. For women, handicraft is no longer an interest or a hobby after wars; they must live on with this technique. Through which, women could perhaps deliver happiness when giving to someone else, or obtain some profit when selling to people. The least but the most important is that they could receive personal healing and enjoyment in the process of making.
When: April 21 – 22, 2017
Where: Ox Warehouse, No Cruzamento da Avenidado Coronel Mesquitacoma Avenida Almirante Lacerda Macau
How much: MOP $100 and Mop $80 for Students, Senior Citizens and Disabled Person
For more information, contact +852 853 0026 or email: [email protected] art
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NATIVE COLORS – WORKS BY CÉLIA ROSÁRIO
“Native Colors – Works by Célia Rosário” is partly sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macao SAR Government.
When: April 21 – May 7
Where: AFA Macau, 4th Floor, Art Garden, Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues N. 265, Macau.
How much: Free Admissions
The gallery is on the Ground Floor, open from Tuesdays to Sundays (12:00pm to 7:00pm) and closed on Mondays and public holidays.
For more information, contact +853 2836 6064 during office hours or email to [email protected]. For more information, please visit www.afamacau.com.
AD LIB – RECENT WORKS BY KONSTANTIN BESSMERTNY
This exhibition presents 34 of Konstantin Bessmertny’s recent paintings, sculptures, installations and mixed media, with the artist choosing not to theme this bustling, humorous visual feast in which he shares his personal musings and wittily responds to different phenomena occurring in society. A resident of Macau since 1993, the Russian artist once said: “I like a critical, sarcastic point of view on a subject. I prefer to take on a serious subject as a comedian rather than as a politician… Our duty as artists is to do as much as possible to influence bureaucrats and rich people.”
When: November 11 – May 28
Where: 2nd Floor, Gallery of Special Exhibitions, Macao Museum of Art
More information at www.mam.gov.mo
