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Welcome to the Spinning Factory!
Experience the exhibition in full 360° immersion below. Double click to launch the VR 360° tour in full screen mode. The Mills building was formerly a cotton-spinning factory owned by Nan Fung Textiles. The green walls and high windows in The D. H. Chen Foundation Gallery are vestiges of the golden era of Hong Kong's textile industry. The exhibition Welcome to the Spinning Factory! will provide a brief but intensive history of Hong Kong's textile industry, featuring rich imageries, […]
Find out more »Untitled by Kato Izumi
Kato Izumi is a renowned painter based in both Tokyo and Hong Kong. Born and raised in a rural area in Shimane prefecture in Japan, young Kato’s playground was always surrounded by rich nature. This experience from his childhood instilled in him the idea that humans are a part of nature. When he was invited by CHAT for the Spring Programme in 2020, he made an installation of 5 figures with painted stone heads and bodies from living plants in […]
Find out more »Interactive Experience : Illumin-Loom
Operate a weaving loom from the future and create your own illuminated textile images in CHAT Arcade! Illumin-Loom is a walk-in interactive experience where visitors can design unique patterns on colourful light strips. The finished creation will be exported as a digital image to download. Visitors can also choose to print the image as heat transfer stickers, and in our 30-Minute Making workshop, iron it onto a special tote bag. Alternatively, visitors can bring home the sticker and follow the […]
Find out more »‘Factory of Tomorrow’ Community Embroidery Curtains
What is a ‘Factory of Tomorrow’ like in the eyes of primary school students? In CHAT Lounge, a set of embroidered curtains takes inspiration from the new motto as CHAT celebrates its 5th anniversary in March 2024. Over the course of several months, hundreds of primary school students from the '333 Learning Companion Leadership Program' supported by We R Family Foundation learned about CHAT and its history to create drawings and paper models of a ‘Factory of Tomorrow’. Several works […]
Find out more »Bloomberg Connects
The Bloomberg Connects app is a free digital guide to cultural organizations around the world that makes it easy to access and engage with arts and culture from mobile devices, anytime, anywhere. The app offers information about current exhibitions at a portfolio of hundreds of participating cultural partners through dynamic content tailored to each organization. Participating collections currently include botanical gardens, performance venues, outdoor sculpture parks, and world-class museums. Features include expert commentary, video highlights, pinch-and-zoom capability and exhibition maps. […]
Find out more »Threading Inwards
How can we learn to nurture sensibility? How do we care for each other and bear sorrow together? How might we begin to heal ourselves and the world around us? In a time of rapid change, this exhibition invites you to slow down, engage with the work of 14 artists from across Asia, and turn inwards. Textiles have always been inseparable from our spiritual life. They appear in rituals and ceremonies, accompanying people through the cycles of life and death, […]
Find out more »Artefacts of ‘Blue’
This thematic display explores Indanthrene Blue, the industrial dye iconically represented by ‘Miss Happiness’ in 1930s China. It is the world’s first synthetic vat dye and is known for exceptional vibrancy. The colour resonated with the nationwide sentiment during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s, pioneering a new modern aesthetic. The consistent, standardised shade of ‘blue’ also became a staple in school uniforms and other institutional attire. Discover a shade of blue that is not melancholic and trace its journey through […]
Find out more »Snuggle and Stitch: Childhood Textiles of Hong Kong
In 1950s Hong Kong, nearly one in every two people you’d meet was a teenager or child – swaddled in a baby sling, dressed in home-sewn clothes, or clutching a toy worn from love. While lacking the convenience of today’s screen-based world, children grew up surrounded by textiles, textures and playful peers just as creative. Snuggle and Stitch brings together local childhood textiles from the 1930s to the 2020s, featuring heirloom garments, ready-made fashion, mass-produced toys, artisanal dolls and hands-on […]
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