Carl Kostyál is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibition of our Hong Kong gallery with London-based Chinese artist Rong Bao (b. 1997). The exhibition ‘Bao Rong is also me, two!✌️’ is the artist’s debut exhibition in Asia, and follows on from her 2024 exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, ‘Rong Bao is Me’. Known for her surreal, childlike and energetically subversive aesthetic, Bao’s sculptures and introspective self-portraits blur the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the intimate and the alien.

“Welcome to the playground of bold softness and unapologetic expression. A universe crafted in campy pinks, purples and blues, where biomorphic totems reign supreme, ingesting, vibrating and spasming across their dominion. At the heart of ‘Bao Rong is also me, two!✌️’ lies the colossal ‘The Hole’, a PVC pop extravaganza, which dares viewers to crawl inside its soft, unyielding exterior. At its entrance, a sunflower-like ruffle bursts open, its tendrils reaching towards the Hong Kong jungle. When the sculpture is dormant– that is when the artist is not inside of it, performing– a pair of helpless, eerily mindless prosthetic limbs dangle from its exit, swaying to a hypnotic rhythm.

Gallery address: 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan St, Wong Chuk Hang