Hong Kong Arts Centre | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Traditional Chinese | 香港藝術中心 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 香港艺术中心 | ||||||||||
Jyutping | Hoeng1 gong2 Ngai6 seot6 Zung1 sam1 | ||||||||||
|
Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC; Chinese: 香港藝術中心) is a non-profit arts institution and art museum established in 1977. It promotes contemporary performing arts, visual arts, film and video arts. It also provides arts education. Its rival is the government-managed Hong Kong Museum of Art. These two museums are considered to be the top two art museums in Hong Kong that dictate the discourse of art in Hong Kong.[1][2]
The centre comprises presentation spaces and venues including galleries, theatres, a cinema, classrooms, studios, restaurant and offices. It also includes sculpture, photography, ceramics, illustrations, and sound and visual installations.[3][4]
何慶基[Professor Oscar Ho]指,城內藝術論述當時主要由香港藝術館和香港藝術中心分庭抗禮。前者比較「保守」,後者較受年輕人關注,「當時藝術中心話俾你聽乜嘢係藝術,嗰啲嘢就會被視為藝術」
(採訪者陶穎康、陳安琪):香港藝術中心一直被不少人視為與象徵建制的香港藝術館抗衡的場所. 你到香港藝術中心出任畫廊總監時, 又有何定位? 陳贊雲[Michael Chen]: 在香港藝術中心任職這五年間, 我不時想到這問題. 對比得到政府支持的香港藝術館,[...]