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Canna TANG

Canna TANG Canna Tang is the Founder and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Expressive Arts Therapy Service Center (HKEXAT), a registered charitable organisation. She is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) and an IEATA‑approved Registered Expressive Arts Therapy Supervisor. She is also a Registered Arts (Expressive Arts) Therapist with the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association. Tang currently serves as Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She […]

Ah Bo

Ah Bo (Dawn Soft Toy Restoration) Ah Bo worked as head soft-toy sampler for many years. Having transitioned from the garment industry into the world of toy production more than 30 years ago, she is now a professional toy restorer. In recent years, she founded the DAWN (Do Amazing things With Needlework), where she cleans and repairs plush‑toy companions while also sharing the heartfelt stories between these toys and their owners on online platforms.

Cathleen PAN

Cathleen PAN Cathleen Pan is currently Curator at CHAT. From 2014 to 2020, she worked as Curator of Public Programmes at Guangdong Times Museum, where she used ‘relational production’ to connect contemporary art with everyday life. She also contributed as a curatorial researcher to the first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial (2021–2023, Guangzhou). With an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, she often translates abstract ideas into concrete experiences, exploring how changes in media and ecology influence the way […]

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WANG Huan

WANG Huan Wang Huan is a Beijing-based writer, art critic and curator. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of GENERAL manual. His recent research focuses on the relationship between the folk, the masses, secret societies, and the self-driving force of creativity.  Wang’s recent curatorial projects include Folk in Order at MACA Art Center, Beijing (2024); Guo Fengyi: COSMIC MERIDIANS at Long March Space, Beijing (2023); and The Intentional Fallacy at Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2022). Publications edited by him […]

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KUROSAWA Seiha

KUROSAWA Seiha Based in Tokyo, Kurosawa Seiha is currently the curator and project manager of the PAN Okinawa Preparatory Office, a private art centre dedicated to contemporary Asian art. He has previously served as curator at the Yayoi Kusama Museum and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. His curatorial approach often involves collaborative and research-based practices, integrating artistic production with ecological thought. Kurosawa’s major curatorial projects include Collection Exhibition 1: It knows: When Forms Become Mind (2023) and […]

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Eugene Hannah PARK

Eugene Hannah PARK Eugene Hannah Park is a Chicago-born, Seoul-based curator who explores the possibility of learning by collective minds. She curates and produces tools and processes as an ingredient to share questions and translate worlds. Park recently curated Min Oh: Conversation Dance (2024) and co-curated Hope is a discipline (2023) at de Appel, Amsterdam, and curated Arecibo at TINC, Seoul (2022). She served as Assistant Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026). As a producer, […]

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Aziza KADYRI

Aziza KADYRI Based in London, Uzbek visual artist Aziza Kadyri works across textiles, installation, performance, sculpture and creative technologies. She co-founded Qizlar, a grassroots collective rooted in intersectionality and social change. Kadyri examines themes of social invisibility, displacement, decolonisation and identity formation, particularly for Central Asian women. Using textiles and costume, she reimagines cultural heritage and traditional narratives through artificial intelligence, machine learning and extended reality, weaving together speculative stories that preserve memory, resist erasure, and contribute to alternative mythmaking. […]

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WATANABE Shiori

WATANABE Shiori Born in Tokyo in 1984, Watanabe Shiori grounds her practice in close observation of extinction, protection and exclusion among species, the nation state as an ecosystemic community, and the relations between humans and nature embedded in folk customs and ritual practices. Her representative installation sans room links water tanks cultivating plants, fish and bacteria collected from the Japanese Imperial Palace – an early playground for the artist – to form an artificial, circulating ecosystem. Watanabe received her BFA […]

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HAN Sang A

HAN Sang A Han Sang A is an artist currently based in Seoul. Working primarily with meok (traditional Korean ink) on cotton fabric, she creates soft sculptures and layered paintings that explore states of mind and existence. The tactile surfaces and sculptural forms of her work develop into a distinct visual language – at once rounded yet sharp, muted yet intense. Han has obtained her BA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University in Seoul. Her work has been […]

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Milay MAVALIW

Milay MAVALIW Milay Mavaliw is a Puyuma artist born in Katatipul Village, Taitung, in 1962. Spanning painting, fibre art and installation, her practice is shaped by the visual memories and colour traditions of her community. Drawing from ceremonial headpieces and earth-toned palettes, she has developed a chromatic language rooted in Indigenous life. Since 2019, she has focused on crochet, weaving and hemp-rope soft sculpture, creating layered surfaces with saturated blues, grounded blacks and earthy yellows that evoke both restraint and […]

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CHAT Special Opening Hours During Art Week

From March 24 to 29, CHAT will extend the opening hours for all art enthusiasts to have a greater access to our exhibitions. We look forward to seeing you at CHAT!

24 Mar 2026 (Tue) 10:30am-7:00pm
25 Mar 2026 (Wed) 10:30am-7:00pm
26 Mar 2026 (Thu) 10:30am-7:00pm
27 Mar 2026 (Fri) 9:30am-7:30pm
28 Mar 2026 (Sat) 10:30am-7:30pm
29 Mar 2026 (Sun) 10:30am-7:30pm