Spring Workshop and “Moderation(s)”
By John Jervis
The relentless march of Hong Kong’s art scene toward regional domination is, for many, a given. But, alongside the advent of the unfortunately titled “Art Basel in Hong Kong” this year, the influx of numerous flashy international galleries able to afford the city’s spiraling rents, and the much-anticipated opening of the M+ museum of visual culture in 2017, there is one recent arrival that may prove just as influential for the long-term art ecology of Hong Kong.
Nonprofits are thin on the ground here, and their square meterage tends to be minimal. However, opposite the filth of the new Wong Chuk Hang MTR station, currently under construction on the south of the island, there is a newcomer on a rather different scale. Housed on one floor of an imposing 1970s industrial building, the Remex Centre, are the immaculate white interiors of Spring Workshop, the brain child of its dynamic founder and director Mimi Brown.
