Tai Kwun Contemporary will launch the two-part exhibition Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 on 26 September 2025. Stay Connected represents the most comprehensive panoramic presentation of contemporary art addressing the social realities of 21st-century Greater China organised outside of the mainland. Across two interconnected chapters, Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud and Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, the exhibition seeks to deepen audiences’ understanding of China through contemporary art and to foreground innovative art practices since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The first chapter, Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud, focuses on the profound impacts of the internet and technology on Chinese society and artistic creation, exploring how digital platforms have reshaped ways of living, cultural expressions, and values. The second chapter, Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, reexamines China’s role as the world’s manufacturing centre through contemporary perspectives on the environment, labour, social status, and community relationships.

The exhibition features more than 70 artists from Greater China and their international peers who approach China as their subject. From the dual perspectives of contemporary art and global art history, Stay Connected explores urgent issues around globalisation such as rapid technological and environmental changes, shifting patterns of migration, and new forms of personal and collective identity.

Throughout the project’s run through May 2026, Tai Kwun Contemporary will hold cross-disciplinary activities, including video screenings, curatorial talks, an international symposium, and the launch of a companion publication produced in collaboration with Asia Art Archive.

Image credit:
Li Shuang, Marry Me for Chinese Citizenship, 2015, inkjet print, 59.2 x 39 cm.