August 2025 — Sept 2025

This residency is realised in collaboration with PODIUM and Eaton HK.

Min-Jia (b. 2001, lives and works in Berlin) explore narratives of transformation through queer, diasporic, and disabled perspectives. Their work samples and remixes folk and ornamental arts and their global transformations—from Orientalist kitsch to Art Nouveau to manga—to re-examine fantasies of the Other across canonical and outsider art histories. They have completed a Shaanxi Huaxian shadow puppetry apprenticeship under Master Wang Tianwen in Xi’an, China, and graduated from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). They have exhibited in group exhibitions at ACUD Galerie, Berlin (2025), Tofu Space, Copenhagen (2025), PODIUM, Hong Kong (2024), James Fuentes Gallery, New York (2024), Franz Kaka, Toronto (2024), Bernheim, London (2023), A.I. Gallery with Linseed Projects, London (2023), X Museum, Beijing (2023), Hunt Gallery, Toronto (2022), among others. Their works can be found in the collection of the Royal Bank of Canada. They are currently completing their forthcoming novel, Mechanical Tail.

About the Residency

PODIUM, HART Haus, and Eaton HK are proud to announce a strategic partnership that bridges the gallery, not-for-profit, and hospitality sectors. Launching alongside the coming solo exhibition ‘World of Interiors’ of Berlin-based, Ürümqi-born artist Min-Jia that opens on 20 September, this collaboration aims to spark fresh dialogues through contemporary art, pioneering new collaborative models in Hong Kong’s vibrant art ecosystem.

This three-way partnership presents a holistic contemporary art experience that integrates artistic creation, commercial sustainability, and community engagement, nurturing a sustainable circulation of resources within Hong Kong’s art ecosystem. Ahead of the exhibition, HART Haus will host Min-Jia for a month-long residency, open studio, and a shadow puppetry workshop, offering collectors, patrons, arts professionals, and the public an exclusive opportunity to engage with the artist’s contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Chinese craftsmanship. Following the exhibition opening, Eaton HK will facilitate a series of community programmes and insightful talks featuring Min-Jia, master Wang Tianwen, and his assistants.