Curators
Enid TSUI
Kim LAM

Participating Artists
Aidan NG, Ho Long
Bethany MAN, Hoi Ying
Elizabeth LI, Shan Shan

Opening hours of the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio:
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Mon - Fri)
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Sat)
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays

Bethany Man, Elizabeth Li and Aidan Ng are three Hong Kong artists who graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Fine Arts in 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively.

This group exhibition is their effort to show how their generation prioritises agility when it comes to subject matters, materials and daily life in order to stay true to their artistic pursuits and what freedom means to them.

“Free Radicals", the exhibition title, refers to the category of molecules that are catalytic and highly responsive to their environments, unbound by stable structures, and essential.

The artworks taking over the Goethe Gallery and the Black Box Studio will demonstrate the importance of collaboration, while also spotlighting three unconventional practices that pertain to the "zeitgeist" of our time.

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Accompanying Programme
Free Radicals as Methodology: A dialogue between young artists and historians
23.5.2026 (Sat), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Library, Goethe-Institut
Guest Moderator: Daniella Lopez 

Speakers:	Angus Hui & Carlos Chiu (D-Day Hong Kong)
	Aidan Ng
	Bethany Man
	Elizabeth Li

Conducted in English.
Free admission. Priority is given to online registrants.

Staying true to the "HK Zeitgeist" theme, Daniella Lopez, licence holder and creative director of TEDxHongKong, will moderate a lively presentation during the opening reception to expand on how the "free radicals" theme applies beyond contemporary art.

Apart from the three artists, the speakers will also include Angus Hui and Carlos Chiu, two historians dedicated to unearthing  forgotten history in the city. Angus co-curated “Lost and Found in Hong Kong: The Unsung Chinese Heroes at D-Day”, a touring exhibition shown in Hong Kong, London and Normandy. Carlos is the co-creator of H Infinity, a Hong Kong-based programme dedicated to incubating young cultural curators, and the Executive Director of TEDxLionRock 2025.

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Artists- led tour
6.6.2026 (Sat), 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio
Artists: Aidan Ng | Bethany Man | Elizabeth Li
Conducted in Cantonese.
Free admission.

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About Artists
Aidan Ng (b. 2003, Hong Kong) is a multimedia artist who represents fear and alienation with droll metaphors, codes, and “lau bak”, the Chinese aesthetic concept of “leaving blank", creating quiet but affecting artworks that resonate with the sense of collective experience and living situations. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in CUHK in 2025.

Elizabeth Li (b. 2001) is a multimedia artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in CUHK in 2024. Her artistic practice navigates the intersections of memory, the subconscious and dreams. In 2025, she held her debut solo exhibition “River of Cycle” at Parallel Space. Through painting and creating immersive installations, she reconstructs childhood memories to explore abstract concepts such as reincarnation and time.
Beyond her studio practice, Li is a co-founder of a student-led café “The Infinity Room”. She is dedicated to fostering artistic dialogue and community engagement within the local art scene, while exploring the potential and possibilities of creative spaces in local development.

Bethany MAN Hoi Ying (b. 2000) is a Hong Kong mixed-media artist and co-founder of Noii.: arthouse in Sham Shui Po. A CUHK Fine Arts graduate, her practice explores the dialogue between materiality and emotion, seeking to create art that offers a "quiet place of companionship." Through process-led sculpture, installation, and drawing, she crafts a lived-in, bodily presence where tenderness and friction coexist.
Man treats materials as active collaborators that register touch and time, often utilizing transparency and shifting light to embrace uncertainty. Her work avoids fixed imagery, instead opting for translucent layers and reflections that echo how our inner states are continually reframed. By inviting viewers to notice their own "emotional weather," her art affirms the dignity of unspoken feelings, ensuring they feel less alone.

About Curators
Enid TSUI is the Arts Editor at the South China Morning Post, where she oversees coverage of visual and performing arts. A veteran journalist, she has worked at the Financial Times, RTHK Radio 3 and The Economist Group. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Hong Kong and she is the author of the 2025 book, Art in Hong Kong: Portrait of a City in Flux (Lund Humphries), a timely analysis of Hong Kong’s development as an international art centre.

Kim LAM, the founder & curator of Parallel Space, an independent art gallery located in Sham Shui Po that operated from 2018 to 2025. Throughout his tenure, Parallel Space established itself as a vital bridge between diverse creative worlds, curating numerous exhibitions spanning the spectrum from academic fine arts to local cultural movements. Deeply inspired by the local identity and social shift of Hong Kong, his curatorial practice focuses on providing a platform for artists whose work reflects the city's unique social fabric.