The Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo is creating a new work for his first show at White Cube in Hong Kong in September.
The site-specific installation will be installed in the entire gallery, its corridors and stairwells and will “crystallise all of the vocabulary Danh has built up over the past ten years of his practice”, says Mathieu Paris, the director at White Cube who is organising the exhibition. The work is likely to be “a continuation of Danh’s usual practice”, Paris adds. The exhibition runs from 7 September to 12 November.
White Cube does not currently represent Vo, but in a statement the gallery says it hopes the “relationship will continue to build from strength to strength”. Paris, who has a long-standing friendship with Vo, says galleries are having to “rethink [their] relationships with artists”.
“This exhibition is more about Hong Kong. It's a project for this specific location and building,” Paris says, adding: “an artist like Danh speaks to anyone in any part of the world. He is very well respected by the major collectors in China, Japan and Korea.”
Vo is currently represented by Marian Goodman and Chantal Crousel, Kurimanzutto, Daniel Buchholz, Vitamin Creative Space and Take Ninagawa. The artist and his former Berlin dealer Isabella Bortolozzi parted ways in September 2014.