- Show by Japanese brand teamLab will no longer have a preregistration requirement; founder says city’s replica of the creation is the largest they have made
- Exhibit faced several challenges due to adverse weather, including ensuring the pieces remained steady on water amid strong winds
An installation entitled “Continuous” by Japanese art collective teamLab, featuring some 200 giant egg-shaped objects which change colour to music as part of the Art@Harbour initiative. Photo: AFPHong Kong’s Victoria Harbour will extend its showing of an art installation comprising hundreds of giant glowing egg-shaped objects. The exhibit will be open until June 8, while visitors from Wednesday will no longer need to preregister before going.
On Monday, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department said it hoped the new arrangement for “teamLab: Continuous” at Admiralty’s Tamar Park could “allow more people to visit the exhibition”.
“[People] can visit the exhibition directly during the opening hours without prior registration [from Wednesday],” it said.
The free-access installation is open from 6.30pm to 11pm every night and was originally expected to wrap up on June 2.
The event is a collaboration between the department and Japanese brand teamLab, an interdisciplinary group of artists formed in Tokyo in 2001.
Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab, said the Hong Kong iteration of the installation was the largest it had created, with artists facing challenges such as ensuring the art pieces remained steady on the water amid strong winds.
Last month, some of the 200 installation pieces were found to have shrunk and fallen over.
The department also previously said some pieces were taken down over concerns about weather.
The installation launched in March as part of Hong Kong’s Art@Harbour initiative.
Along with another art project by local artists, the installation has been funded by HK$50 million (US$6.4 million) in taxpayers’ money.