Public Art in Hong Kong

Public art fits a much broader definition than art in a gallery or a museum. In simple terms, public art is any work of art or design that is created by an artist specifically to be sited in a public space. It can be tower several stories high, or it can call attention to the pavement beneath your feet. It can be cast, carved, built, assembled or painted. Whatever its form, public art attracts attention. By its presence alone public art can heighten our awareness, question our assumptions, transform a landscape, or express community values, and for these reasons it can have the power, over time to transform a city’s image. Public art helps define an entire community’s identity and reveal the unique character of a specific neighborhood. It is a unifying force.

Park Decoration -- Quarry Bay Park, Hong Kong

The assembled furniture, constructed of seventeen modular units encased in recyclable EPDM, functions in ways similar to vines in nature, capable of embracing existing forms, regardless of its terrain and environment.
 

 Visitors can interact with each other and have fun while creating their own rhythms, releasing a pulse of nature through the vibrations in the air.

public art is a true symbol of a city’s maturity. It increases a community’s assets and expresses a community’s positive sense of identity and values. It helps green space thrive, enhances roadsides, pedestrian corridors, and community gateways; it demonstrates unquestionable civic and corporate pride in citizenship and affirms an educational environment. A city with public art is a city that thinks and feels.