The exhibition is the outcome of the 2019 IAM international art moves workshop. It is organised by German artists and curators Martin Müller and Anne Müller, and was launched at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in May 2019. Its collective curation is the testimony to the training provided through the workshop.

The search for new and old paths represents multiple states of existence: a metamorphosis, a liberation, a negotiation, or a backtracking. How is the past associated with the future? How do individuals navigate through collective ideas? How are cultures connected to one and another? These questions, concerning the idea of path, connection and relation, anchor the exhibition in a complex socio-political reality.

Pathfinder takes as a departure point a pluralist understanding of finding paths, attempting to open up a space for artistic expression that is constantly in dialogue with personal histories and identity politics.

The exhibition features artworks by 18 emerging artists from Hong Kong, who have found their path to Berlin. Their art practices involve various forms and mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, moving image, and performance. Through exploring as ‘pathfinders’, the participating artists not only curate a space for the audience to navigate, read and interact, but also map out infinite possibilities for their own futures.

The exhibition is the outcome of the 2019 IAM international art moves workshop. It is organised by German artists and curators Martin Müller and Anne Müller, and was launched at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in May 2019. Its collective curation is the testimony to the training provided through the workshop.