Moving Subjects
When the Earth Remembers
Video Sculptural Installation
2025
Commissioned by Hong Kong Palace Museum
Producer: YUCOLAB
Digital Advise: Maxime Perreault and Camelia
In the video sculptural installation When the Earth Remembers, Chloë Cheuk reimagines a traditional jade pendant passed down through generations into a portal transcending time. Embraced by the sleek elegance of swirling stainless steel forms, the piece symbolises infinity and invites viewers to journey from the past into the future. Drawing inspiration from the textures of jade artefacts of the Palace Museum, the artist breathes life into static images, highlighting the geological and historical significance embedded in the jade. Each artefact serves as a testament to human history, intertwining the legacy of jade with contemporary resonance. The work invites viewers to perceive these antiques anew—not as static relics, but as vibrant narratives that whisper memories and reverberate with the footsteps of those who came before, capturing the heartbeat of history in every curve and texture.
If the Moment Came
Wired glass window, micro controller, wood, projector
, solenoid
video loop: 1 min, 3 sec
When I was doing a field recording in Admiralty during the Occupy Movement, I saw a few boys playing kendama near their campsites. I was attracted by the sound when the ball hit the wood handle in a quiet space ( which was used to be a central business district) and their concentration. I figured that the trial and errors through practicing kendama is similar to what the students were undergoing to pursue universal suffrage. I linked kendama with an incident that a window of the Legislative Council was smashed, to represent the two forces. I reposition this two objects to depict my feeling about the spirit of students (kendama) facing the power (wired glass window) which is being used as a metaphor of the authority.
The title If the Moment Came is a conditional phrase which is used for condition that is unreal. The ball of kendama is thrown up, hit and open the wired glass window, which soon closes again. Fantasizing about the moment of breaking free from the forces, the ball hits the window persistently, but in vain.
Stress Test
Fabric, custom electronics, motors
2022
Commissioned by Tai Kwun Contemporary
Curator: Erin Li
Fabricator: Tung Wing Hong
Formally inspired by both newspaper production lines and gym equipment, a belt of elastic fabric is constantly being pushed and pulled by forces from various angles, emitting a strong sense of tension and anxiety. A closer look would reveal glitchy vocabularies of emotions printed all over the fabric, which points to how daily information overload from news and social media nowadays keeps some people on an emotional roller coaster and even challenges their mental well-being. The artist’s determination to live with the inherent instability of the structure itself parallels her wish that those in adversity gains resilience through stress tests in life.
Hesitation grips me
Camera Obscura, latex, metal, acrylic, wheels
2018
Comissioned by Hong Kong Jockey Club and ifva
Hesitation grips me adapts the optical phenomenon derived from the camera obscura with a structure of dark chamber to depict the condition of hesitant to contact with the outside world. The image of the outside world falls into our eyes through the lens. The changes of the internal structure brings about images that wander between the thin line of blurriness and sharpness, catching and releasing .
Expose
valve, titanium heating coil, linear slide, metal, LDPE tubing, projector , micro controller
video loop: 7 min, 9 secExpose” is a video kinetic installation. An exposed crowd of unidentified people protesting under the sun is projected on a thin metal rod, which is heated to a very high temperature. When anonymous water from the top drops on people on the rod, it transforms into vapor and disappears, dissolving their souls to the air, without an end.
Showing now
Upcoming
November 2025 - November 2026
Hong Kong Palace Museum
----- Commissioned Public Art
Curator:
Grace Cheng
March - May 2026
1a space, Hong Kong
----- solo exhibition down to earth ( exhale )
Curator: Yeung Yang
May 2026
1a space, Hong Kong
----- Launch of first monograph, In Search of Completeness,
marking a comprehensive reflection on her over 10 years of artistic practice and research with handdrawn sketches and essays from respected art pratitioners.
Editor: Christina Chung
Book Designer: mmmmor studio
AboutChloë Cheuk is a Montréal-based Hong Kong artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans kinetic sculpture, installation, video, and generative art. Rooted in curiosity and an experimental spirit, she approaches the unknown as a site of discovery — embracing uncertainty as both process and philosophy.
Working through a minimal and poetic vocabulary, Cheuk transforms the ordinary into the profound. Her work explores intimacy, spirituality of objects, and the fragile relations between material, body, and emotion. Subtle gestures and quiet interventions invite viewers into moments of stillness — where touch, distance, and longing coexist.
Guided by an interest in how emotion can be mediated through form and motion, she constructs sensory environments that hold traces of human presence and absence. Through this practice, Cheuk reflects on the tension between solitude and connection, precision and chance, presence and disappearance.
CollectionM+ Museum, Hong Kong
Yi Qin Zhai Collection
Yuri van der Leest Collection
Private Collection in Hong Kong, Montréal and Zurich
Solo Exhibitions2026
2020
2017
2015(upcoming) down to earth ( exhale )
1a space, HK
Deep Cleansing
ELLEPHANT Galerie, Montréal
Side Effects
Dienstgebäude Zurich Art Space, Switzerland
She, herself - Experiments from Chloe Cheuk,
Things that can happen, HK
After Blossom
100ft. PARK, HK
Every Every
Videotage, HK
A Little Bit Different
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2012
Hong Kong Palace Museum (upcoming)
‘Karmic Fissure’, PODIUM, HK
International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Australia (Brisbane)
The Wrong Biennale, Japan (Tokyo)
Hong Kong Arts Centre, The 29th ifva (Media Category) Finalist Works Exhibition
Public Sweat at Festival of Cool, Canada (Toronto)
Foundation - A Web3 Media Art Festival, HK
‘emo gym’, Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK
‘10 years of ASP’, Soundpocket Hong Kong
‘Tongueless’, Goethe Institut Hong Kong
‘Hong Kong – Tales of the City’, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York
Canada (Montreal): International Symposium of Electronic Art Canada (Montreal): ‘Reset’, Art Souterrain Festival
Canada (Montreal): ‘Site of the Not Yet’, Peripheral Hours
Canada (Toronto): University of Toronto
'Matter’ Curated By William Lim, Seoul Auction Hong Kong
‘Nevertheless, History Continues’, Korean Cultural Center (co-presented by MMCA, HK Art Center, ifva and Korean Cultural Center)
Art Central
Exit Strategies, H Queen's
Hong Kong: Carnival - Jockey Club ifva Everywhere
Hong Kong: The Other Story, Karin Weber Gallery
Canada (Montreal): Homecoming, Homegoing: Into Heterotopias, Galerie 2112
Canada (Montreal): Fresh Paint / New Construction, Galerie Art Mûr
Canada (Montreal): HANDS, Studio A
Canada (Montreal): Concordia University MFA Degree Show, Darling Foundry
USA (New York): “William Lim: The Architect and His Collection”, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University
Netherland (Amsterdam): “IDEAL-TYPES”, HE.RO (curated by Alfredo Cramerotti)
Italy (Torino): The Others Art Fair
Greece (Athens): Platform Projects (Independent Art Fair Athens)
Canada (Montreal): “Human, I am lack of Confidence”, Tohu
Hong Kong: “Medialogue”, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
Hong Kong: “Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong”, Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Hong Kong : PMQ, deTour Festival
Hong Kong : Blindspot Gallery “⇒”
Switzerland (Zürich) : Dienstgebäude, “Catch of the Year”
Canada (Montréal) : École des beaux-arts de Montréal, Concordia MFA Group Show
Canada (Montréal) : Grey Nuns Building, " The Furniture We Are Forever Rearranging ”
Hong Kong : Art Basel Hong Kong, Videotage
Spain (Barcelona) : LOOP Festival 2016
USA (New York) : ArtHelix Gallery, The Furniture We Are Forever Rearranging
USA (New York) : Hong Kong Contemporary Film Festival , Downtown Community Television Centre
Argentina : 404 Festival
Australia (Melbourne) : Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Channels The Australian Video Art Festival 2015
Canada (Montréal) : Jouissance, 255 Rue de Rouen
Affordable Art Basel, JCCAC
K11 art space, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
Connecting Spaces, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
Videos and words from a Post-Industrial City, Chai Wan Mei
16th Media Art Biennale, WRO 2015 Test Exposure, Poland (Wroclaw)
LOOP Festival 2015, Spain (Barcelona)
Catch of the Year, Dienstgebäude, Switzerland (Zürich)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Week, Taiwan (Taipei)
United Kingdom (Leicester) : Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
United Kingdom (Hastings) : Electric Palace Cinema, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
United Kingdom (Brighton) : Fabrica, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
United Kingdom (Portsmouth) : Aspex Gallery, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
United Kingdom (London) : Institute of Contemporary Arts, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
United Kingdom (Manchester) : HOME, Both Sides Now II - It was the best times, it was the worst times?
Linz, Ars Electronica Centre
Linz, Ars Electronica Festival: “C…what it takes to change”
Art Experience Gallery, First Smash 2
10 Chancery Lane Gallery & Platform China, Chai Wan Mei 2014
Hong Kong : Hong Kong Arts Centre, The 19th ifva (Interactive Media Category) Finalist Works Exhibition
UAE : Dubai, 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2014)
Bodillusion, Twodogs Backyard
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HKFOREWORD: Discordia
Nexto Contemporary Art, The Next State of Mind
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, The SCM Annual 2012
HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Best Before Critical Intermedia Laboratory Creative Bulletin #3
Residencies
2019
2015
2014
Topological Media Lab, Concordia University
Zurich University of the Arts
Fuse:: Videotage, Hong Kong
Ars Electronica Futurelab, Austria
Commisioned Projects
2023
2022
2018
2017
Hong Kong: Foundation - A Web3 Media Art Festival
Hong Kong: ‘emo gym’, Tai Kwun Contemporary
Carnival - Jockey Club ifva Everywhere
Asia Society Hong Kong Center “Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong”
Awards2017
2015
2014
2012
Nominee: Award for Young Artist (New Media Art Category) Hong Kong Arts Development Award
Nominee: Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Nominee: Award for Young Artist (New Media Art Category) Hong Kong Arts Development Award
Soundpocket Supported Artist
Special Mention Award (Interactive Media Category), the 19th Hong Kong Incubator for Film & Visual media in Asia (ifva), HK
Creative Media Award, The SCM Annual
Grants
2024
2023
2020
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Travel Grant (Arts Abroad), The Canada Council for the Arts [Venice Biennale]
Explore and Create Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
Cultural Exchange, Hong King Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award
Concordia University Mobility Award
Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, Artist Residency Abroad Funding Scheme
Concordia University Travel Award
Concordia International Tuition Award of Excellence
Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award
Concordia University Faculty of Fine Art Fellowship
Cultural Exchange Arts Development Fund, Home Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong
Cultural Exchange Arts Development Fund, Home Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong
Ars Electronica Futurelab Residency Grant, Burger COLLECTION & European Union National Institutes for Culture
Emerging Artist Grant, Hong King Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
Talks2023
2022
2021
2019
2017
2015
2014
Hong Kong: Foundation - A Web3 Media Art Festival, Videotage
Hong Kong: PS Paid Studio Visits, Parasite
Hong Kong: “Hong Kong Art”, Hong Kong Art School
Canada (Sackville, NB): Mount Allison University
Hong Kong: UBS Open Classroom Series (Art Basel HK)
Canada : Concordia University, Design and Computation Art class (Pro. Brad Todd)
Canada : Concordia University, Sculpture class (Pro. Elise Provencher)
Hong Kong : Asia Society Hong Kong Centre
Hong Kong : “FUSE:: Artist-In-Residence”, Videotage
Hong Kong : “Dialogue with Chloë Cheuk and Samson Cheung”, Connecting Space
Artists in residency presentation on “Public Space”, the 6th European - Chinese Cultural Dialogue, co-organized by Romania Cultural Institute, European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Chinese National Academy of Arts (CNAA), Bucharest, Romania
Guest Lecture Speaker on topic of “Social Media in Umbrella Revolution”, Master’s degree program Web Sciences, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Speaker, Ignite! Lightning Talks by Hong Kong Artists, Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Related Experience2025
2024
2023
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Research Assistant - Indigenous Futures Research Centre, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Montréal, QC
Visiting Scholar - Post Image Cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Montréal, QC
Last Updated 25.10.13