Introduction

Burger Collection launches a long-term exhibition platform and research project, developed and realized with 1a space, an artist-run organization in Hong Kong. I Think It Rains, the first exhibition, opens in May 2013 at the heritage site of the Cattle Depot Artist Village in To Kwa Wan, Kowloon. I Think It Rains, will feature works and performances by some 20 artists and writers from Hong Kong and abroad. Centering on installation and video works, the exhibition will explore time, history, and artistic process. It represents a further installment of the Quadrilogy, the Burger Collection’s exhibition and research program, curated by Daniel Kurjaković.

I Think It Rains is plotted as a platform for sustainable activities. The project will explore one possible mode of collaboration, connecting a local and an international organization, both mindful of the cultural specificity of Hong Kong and of contemporary currents in artistic practice. The collaboration aims to proliferate and branch out to a larger circle of artists and writers in Hong Kong and the region, as well as the local community or academia.

Apart from the exhibition, some of the further components of the yearlong activities are artist residencies, panels and workshops, performances, a magazine as well as the production of ephemera and a closing catalog documenting the first year. The title I Think It Rains is borrowed from a poem by Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka pointing to some of the motifs of the project: a sense of physical actuality, of details and multiplicity, of a continuous present and of a porous quality of space.

Exhibition May 17—June 30, 2013
Site: Cattle Depot Artist Village
To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong


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From Dusk Till Dawn (Performance Day)
May 24, 2013
Sites: Cattle Depot site and off-sites
Duration: one day and one night


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  • List of Contributors | Exhibition
  • Bani Abidi
    Fiona Banner
    Pierre Bismuth
    Muhanned Cader
    Filipa César
    Alejandro Cesarco
    Enoch Cheung
    Reds Cheung
    Choi Yan-chi
    Chow Yiu Fai
    Ryan Gander
    Gao Weigang
    Florian Germann
    Jon Kessler
    Kong Chun Hei
    Lam Tung Pang
    Lau Ching Ping
    Ng Ka Chun
    Kingsley Ng
    Pak Sheung-chuen
    Vittorio Santoro
    Fiete Stolte
    Annie Lai-kuen Wan
    Cally Yu
  • List of Contributors | Performance Day
  • Enoch Cheung
    Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng & Price Chu
    Reds Cheung
    Choi Yan-chi
    Florian Germann
    Lam Siu Wing
    Lau Ching Ping
    Ng Ka Chun
    Pak Sheung-chuen
    Fiete Stolte
    Wen Yau
    Wong Wai Yim
    Cally Yu
  • Press
  • Please address inquiries to presse@burgercollection.org / presse (at) burgercollection.org

    To download the press release, please click here.
  • Contact
  • info@burgercollection.org and info@oneaspace.org.hk
    (852) 2529 0087

    www.burgercollection.org | Burger Collection, Hong Kong

    www.oneaspace.org.hk | 1a space, Hong Kong

    www.quadrilogy.org | Quadrilogy, exhibition and research project

    To read the Theory/Conversations and consult Quadrilogy 1 project please click here.

    To download the pilot edition of Torrent please click here.

    To visit our Facebook page please click here.
  • About Burger Collection
  • Burger Collection is a private collection of contemporary art initiated in the mid-1990s with emphases in Euro-American, Indian, and Asian art. Currently, it includes more than 1200 works by some 200 artists. Since 2005 the inventory of works of Burger Collection are available for view at www.burgercollection.org. In 2009 the collection began its own exhibition and research project entitled Quadrilogy under the curatorial direction of Daniel Kurjaković. Key concerns of the collection are the cultivation of artistic dialogue by attracting an interested audience, maintaining a responsible and dynamic approach to the works, and developing a future vision for the collection.

    Not just an ensemble of works, Burger Collection also engages in arts patronage, and has helped make possible the realization of various outstanding artistic endeavors. To see a selection of these projects please click here. Burger Collection is the patron of Para/Site (Hong Kong), KHOJ Alternative Space (New Delhi), Kunsthalle Zürich, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Museum of Art, C&G Artpartment (Hong Kong), Swiss Institute (New York), Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

    In recent years, works from the Burger Collection have been lent amongst others to institutions such as Fundacio Antoni Tapiès, Barcelona, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, North Carolina, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hamburger Kunstverein, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, Serpentine Gallery, London, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Art Space, New Zealand, Venice Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Singapore Art Museum, São Paulo Biennial, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Art Institute of Chicago and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico.
  • About 1a space
  • 1a space is an independent, non-profit making contemporary visual art organization founded by a collective of Hong Kong art workers in 1998. It aims to promote the critical dissemination of contemporary visual arts practices and affiliated art forms through 1a space program drawn from Hong Kong and the international arena.

    1a space is operated by the Program Committee, governed by a Board of Directors. Operation funding of 1a space has been assisted by grants and donations. 1a space’s administration is partially supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

    Throughout the years, 1a space has developed a reputation as one of the Hong Kong’s leading contemporary visual art organizations. 1a space has produced and organized more than 100 exhibitions and activities, and has been operating with international exchanges, cultural activities and festivals as well as interactive community art, arts education, art criticism and publications. 1a space has played a vital role in developing new frontiers for the visual art scene in Hong Kong and abroad. One of its major achievements has been to establish contemporary visual art within a wide viewing public, making it more popular and accessible.

    www.oneaspace.org.hk
  • Team
  • Burger Collection

    Monique Burger, President
    Daniel Kurjaković, Curator / Head of Program
    Linda Jensen, Curatorial Asssistant
    Joanna Lisiak, Administrative Director
    Regula Himmelberger, Project Assistant
    Laura Hindelang, Project Assistant
    Katharina Suter, Senior Storage Manager
    Doreen Merkel, Manager logistics on site
    Philipp Hermann, Graphic Designer
    Alain Kantarjian, Filmmaker, Artist Photographer
    Evelyn Char, BC & 1a space Project Officer

    1a space

    Choi, Yan-chi, Vice Chairperson / Co-founder
    Chris Chan, Gallery Director
    Michelle Lee, Project Manager
    Enoch Cheung, Artist and Curatorial Team Member
    Cally Yu, Writer/Playwright and Curatorial Team Member
    Anki Lau, Program Officer
    Ada Ho, Project Assistant
  • Address, Dates and Opening Hours
  • Cattle Depot Artist Village
    63 Ma Tau Kok Rd
    To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong

    Please click here for detailed directions and public transportation.

    The exhibition and the performances are free and open to the public.

    I Think It Rains: Exhibition
    May 17– June 30, 2013
    Tuesday–Friday: 1pm to 7pm
    (during Art Basel Hong Kong, until 8pm)
    Weekends and public holidays: 11am to 7pm

    From Dusk Till Dawn: Performance Day
    May 24, 2013, 11am to 10 pm