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.

Neon artist Chankalun on the neon society's secret code, circular art, and her upcoming work for Art Basel 2023.
Oscar Venhuis Oscar Venhuis

Neon artist Chankalun on the neon society's secret code, circular art, and her upcoming work for Art Basel 2023.

Ep.46 | I travel to Fo Tan in Hong Kong where I met Chankalun in her neon studio. We began our dialogue with a short quiz in which I attempted to see the difference between neon and LED. We continued the conversation how she learnt the craft of neon and her upcoming Art Basel work. We discussed as well the difference between American and Japanese Neon techniques and her project ‘The Neon Girl’.

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Artist Ice Wong on Hong Kong’s art education, glass blowing, jumping from a cabinet, and adopting sun flowers.
Oscar Venhuis Oscar Venhuis

Artist Ice Wong on Hong Kong’s art education, glass blowing, jumping from a cabinet, and adopting sun flowers.

Ep.44 | Mixed media and performance artist Ice Wong talked about her experience of studying art in Hong Kong, how she began with performance art, discussed what’s behind her recent work for Post-Human Narratives and the rapport she developed with sunflowers. Ice completed the conversation by explaining why she was jumping off a wooden cabinet and what other work she had planned for this year.

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Artist Jade Ching-Yuk Ng on the impact of Russian mosaics, escapism, and character proximity.
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Artist Jade Ching-Yuk Ng on the impact of Russian mosaics, escapism, and character proximity.

Ep.42 | I met with London-based artist Jade who is in Hong Kong for her first solo show. Our conversation centred around her experience of being back in Hong Kong after 3 years, how her trip to Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries made a lasting impression on her work, we talked about what Jade meant by character proximity and ended our conversation with her current solo show GUSH.

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Meet Shen the T. rex with Georgina Hilton, Christie’s Head of Classic Art, Asia.
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Meet Shen the T. rex with Georgina Hilton, Christie’s Head of Classic Art, Asia.

Ep.36 | A 66 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, also nicknamed as Shen the T. rex, is the very first skeleton offered at a public auction in Asia. I sat down with Georgina Hilton and we talked about Christie’s upcoming auction on 30th November in Hong Kong. We also talked about Paul Allan’s exceptional art collection at the Rockefeller Center galleries in New York.

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Amanda Sun on Arts For Good, the impact of her art programmes and her mission for social change.
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Amanda Sun on Arts For Good, the impact of her art programmes and her mission for social change.

Episode 32 | Amanda Sun is the founder of the Arts For Good Foundation, a social enterprise that is dedicated to social inclusion for future generations through the soft power of art and culture in Hong Kong. We spoke about a range of subjects including what drove her to begin Arts For Good and we delved into the purpose and impact of the art making programmes.

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Gallerist Rachel Lee on the role of Korean artisanship, grappling with ambiguity and The Paradox of Beauty.
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Gallerist Rachel Lee on the role of Korean artisanship, grappling with ambiguity and The Paradox of Beauty.

Episode 31 | In this episode I sat down with gallerist Rachel Lee, owner of Soluna Fine Art in Hong Kong. Rachel began our conversation by sharing her story where her interest in art came from, her journey of becoming a gallery owner and we ended the conversation exploring the meaning of Jeong Myoung-Jo's first solo exhibition, The Paradox of Beauty.

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Gallery owners Ysabelle & Willem on Hong Kong’s dichotomies; trauma-healing, fast-slow, sensory-paranormal.
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Gallery owners Ysabelle & Willem on Hong Kong’s dichotomies; trauma-healing, fast-slow, sensory-paranormal.

Episode 27 | In this episode of The Last Supper I sat down with Ysabelle Cheung and Willem Molesworth, co-founders and co-owners of the PHD Group in Hong Kong. We began the conversation talking about the background of their new gallery, their current exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hong Kong and they explained why they are committed to this city despite all the transformative changes in Hong Kong.

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