In Conversation: Doryun Chong and Joshua Mack on Tetsumi Kudo

Join us for a conversation between Doryun Chong and Joshua Mack on Tetsumi Kudo, on the occasion of 'Tetsumi Kudo. Cages' at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, followed by the exhibition opening reception at 6 – 8 pm.

The talk will be conducted in English. Kindly RSVP to hkrsvp@hauserwirth.com, or click here to register.

_{Images: Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator, with Dots Obsession—Aspiring to Heaven’s Love, 2022, at ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’, 2022 © YAYOI KUSAMA. Photo: Dan Leung. Image courtesy of M+, Hong Kong; Happening ‘Your Portrait’ presented at the opening of the exhibition Salon de Mai at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May 1966 © Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP Paris 2024. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth; Portrait of Joshua Mack}

About Doryun Chong
Doryun Chong was appointed the inaugural Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong in 2013. Since 2016 he has been also Deputy Director, Curatorial. Over a decade, he has overseen all curatorial activities and programmes at M+, including collections, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, publications, and digital contents across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art, as well as the thematic area of Hong Kong visual culture. Leading up to and following the museum’s grand opening in November 2021, he has led the transformative growth of the M+ Collections and steered the museum’s curatorial direction and pedagogical practices of the museum’s exhibitions and programmes to foreground the transcultural and transnational narratives of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture. He curated and oversaw more than twenty exhibitions prior to the museum’s opening, including four editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice biennale since 2015. He co-curated with Mika Yoshitake “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now”, the most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist to date, which opened to great critical acclaims and public receptions at M+ in November 2022 and toured to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2023, becoming one of the most visited exhibitions in that museum’s history, and then to Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal in 2024.

Prior to joining M+, Chong worked in various curatorial capacities at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (1999–2000), the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2003–2009), and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2009–2013), curating several landmark exhibitions including major retrospectives of Tetsumi Kudo, Huang Yong Ping, and Haegue Yang, and the post-war survey Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde (2012). He also coordinated the Korean Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Chong has published and lectured widely and served on numerous award juries and public panels across Asia, North America, and Europe.

About Joshua Mack
Joshua Mack is an advisor and collector who has focused on post-war Japan since 1990. He has assisted in organizing multiple Tetsumi Kudo exhibitions at Hauser and Wirth (NY and HK), Andrea Rosen Gallery (NY), and Marc Selwyn (LA), as well as retrospective exhibitions at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebaek, Denmark), and Fridericianum (Kassel, Germany).