The Last Supper.


A weekly podcast with an Asian perspective on contemporary art, featuring emerging and established artists, curators, gallerists, and collectors in Asia. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Google podcasts.

Curator Juliana Chan on the taste of your mother’s hand, live art, and grappling with meaning.
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Curator Juliana Chan on the taste of your mother’s hand, live art, and grappling with meaning.

Episode 24 | In this episode I sat down with curator Juliana Chan and talked about her current show The World Is Your Oyster, a group exhibition of five Hong Kong artists at Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Wong Chuk Hang. We explored the Korean fermentation culture of son-mat, her new live art initiative Per.Platform, what a lecture performance is, and the benefits of journaling.

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Art critic, writer, and cultural activist John Batten on honesty, politics, and the mundane.
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Art critic, writer, and cultural activist John Batten on honesty, politics, and the mundane.

Episode 23 | John Batten talked about how his background has informed his talent for writing, how he shifted from being a gallery owner to focusing on urban planning, he explained  why he avoids writing about bad exhibitions, and the impact of the security law. John shared his personal perspective on working with institutions on large scale public art projects as well and we talked about his deep admiration for the multiple sides of Hong Kong life.

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Private art collector Yuri van der Leest on collectorship, losing it and the value of art.
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Private art collector Yuri van der Leest on collectorship, losing it and the value of art.

Episode 22 | Art collector Yuri van der Leest talked about his group exhibition ‘A collection of two Acts’, an overview show of his private art collection of 42 artists from around the world. Yuri explained the exhibition’s concept of critical fabulation, we delved into collectorship, why he started collecting and how his acquisition of art has evolved over the years.

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Palimpsest, memorising and ancient Chinese mural methods with artist Wong Sze Wai.
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Palimpsest, memorising and ancient Chinese mural methods with artist Wong Sze Wai.

Episode 21 | Wong Sze Wai, who is also known as Four, is a Hong Kong artist based in Fo Tan. From her studio she talked about rituals, grottos, colour choice, and her unique clay mixture in her paintings. She addressed the significance of memorising, forgetting and erasing. We closed the conversation with Wong Sze Wai explaining what Palimpsest is and the impact of eastern and western school of thoughts in her current body of work.

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Can A.I. create true art? Cross-media artist and inventor Victor Wong explains.
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Can A.I. create true art? Cross-media artist and inventor Victor Wong explains.

Ep.18 | Victor Wong effortlessly incorporate a multiplex of historical domains, research and technological advancements into a seamless body of work. In this exclusive podcast, Victor describes what art is before talking about the deeply symbiotic relationship between man and machine, the conundrum of decision making and the importance of pertinence in art. We complete the podcast discussing the next steps for project Gemini.

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The Next Frontier of Art - Exploring Blockchain, Crypto and Metaverse with curator Angel Leung.
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The Next Frontier of Art - Exploring Blockchain, Crypto and Metaverse with curator Angel Leung.

Ep.17 | I talk to Angel Leung, a Hong Kong-born but London-based digital art curator. I spoke to her to unpack buzzwords from web3 to blockchain and the pitfalls of NFT art. We continued the dialogue and talked about her recent art projects, how the next generation of art collectors see ownership, we explored the evolution of mobility and we investigated what the future of digital art may look like.

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Understanding art and the role of education with Joyce Ng, Asia Society Hong Kong.
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Understanding art and the role of education with Joyce Ng, Asia Society Hong Kong.

Ep.16 | Joyce Ng, the head of gallery and exhibitions at the Asia Society, talks about her previous experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, her position at Christie’s in London and her current role in Hong Kong. We explore the development of conceptual art in Asia and also discuss the role of education at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

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The angry Tibetan monk and the role of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association with Fabio Rossi.
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The angry Tibetan monk and the role of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association with Fabio Rossi.

Ep.15 | I visit Fabio Rossi in his gallery in Wong Chuk Hang in Hong Kong. We begin the conversation how Fabio was introduced to contemporary art in Asia, we discuss why the Hong Kong art market is so resilient and successful, the role of Hong Kong Art Gallery Association and the changing landscape for galleries in Hong Kong. We end the conversation with his thoughts on the NFT’s.

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City hopping from Seoul to Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and New York with photomontage artist Wing Chan.
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City hopping from Seoul to Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and New York with photomontage artist Wing Chan.

Ep.13 | In this episode I visit Wing Chan, a photomontage artist who works and lives in Hong Kong. After Wing talks about his background and how he began his art career we discuss his stories, inspiration and narratives behind Wing’s exhibition at the SHOUT gallery in Singapore. Wing’s solo exhibition of photomontages is until the 8th of June 2022.

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Saving Hong Kong’s fading neon art with glass artist Robyn Leung.
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Saving Hong Kong’s fading neon art with glass artist Robyn Leung.

Ep.11 | In this episode I talked with Robyn Leung who is part of the new generation of glass blowers and neon artists in Asia. I sat down with her to examine the science and art of neon. Robyn talks about her work that explores the boundaries of the liminal space of her neon objects and we discuss the difference between working as a scientific glassblower and her personal neon art projects as well.

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Sovereign Art Foundation: Rats and Pigs in the city with Tiffany Pinkstone
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Sovereign Art Foundation: Rats and Pigs in the city with Tiffany Pinkstone

Ep.9 | On 21st April 2022 the Sovereign Art Foundation announced their 30 finalists for this year’s art prize. I sat down and met with the executive director Tiffany Pinkstone at her office in Hong Kong. We talked about the background of the art prize, how this has evolved over the years, how they began in Hong Kong’s shopping centres and we addressed rats and pigs in the city as well.

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SHOUT: fun, easy and happy art for the Asian consumer with Christopher Tang.
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SHOUT: fun, easy and happy art for the Asian consumer with Christopher Tang.

Ep.8 | Christopher Tang is my next guest on The Last Supper. We talk through his personal perspectives of market demand and his preference for happy, entry-level and approachable works. Christopher explains his ideas behind his new art concept, a hybrid between shop and gallery that he hopes will transform how we purchase art in Asia.

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Blue Lotus Effect: Shipping, Serendipity, Superstition with Sarah Greene.
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Blue Lotus Effect: Shipping, Serendipity, Superstition with Sarah Greene.

Ep.7 | Sarah Greene, owner of Blue Lotus Gallery and also known as Sarah Van Ingelgom, explains how she went from an early shipping career in Belgium to becoming a successful gallerist in Hong Kong and how photography, and many artists, found her in Fo Tan. She describes her experience of discovering Fan Ho’s work in the US and the commitment it requires to develop new emerging artists.

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