Defying Boundaries: Female Vision | Exhibition

Defying Boundaries: Female Vision | Exhibition Introduction

Soe Yu Nwe, Pride of Burma and Green Burmese Python, watercolour and colour pencil on Canson Heritage paper, gold and silver leaf, adhesive, 76 x 56cm, 2024

Karin Weber Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition for the New Year. ‘Defying Boundaries: Female Vision’ highlights and celebrates a selection of female gallery artists, at different career stages and from a wide range of geographies.

Around the globe, women artists are achieving increasing – and long overdue – visibility and recognition for their talent and creative practice. There are far more gallery and museum exhibitions dedicated to female creators than ever before. More work by women is entering museum collections, and their auction prices are rising.

The start of 2025 provides a great opportunity to showcase a small selection of the fantastic female talent at Karin Weber Gallery, all of whom are ‘Defying Boundaries’ through their creations and dedication to their artistic career, often in the face of significant adversity.

A particular highlight of this show is the participation of three arts practitioners from Myanmar. In a country not only struggling with ongoing civil war since 2021, women artists traditionally have a minority voice in the local arts communities. Soe Yu Nwe and Thynn Lei Nwe both completed their arts education abroad, in the USA and Singapore respectively, bringing new impressions and techniques back to their home country. Khin Thethar Latt (Nora) remained local to her hometown Yangon; fertile ground for her multimedia practice which currently has a strong photography focus. Her figures, intentionally obscured with vibrant red faces, highlight the erasure of identity and individuality under oppressive regimes.

Closer to home in Hong Kong, local talents June Ho and Cassandra Lau engage with their local identities and sense of place via their chosen mediums of print making and painting. Their preferred subject, the city of Hong Kong, is explored, deconstructed, analysed and reimagined, always through their highly individualistic lenses.

With a background in Natural History and conservation, Annette Marie Townsend pushes the boundaries of her signature medium wax with her hyper-realistic reconstructions of plants in minute detail. Abstract painter Tina Buchholtz gives a new meaning to process with her multi- layered and strongly textured creations on canvas. Each brushstroke seems to dance.

These seven artists are only a small selection of the female talent that are part of the Karin Weber Gallery artistic family. ‘Defying Boundaries: Female Vision’ showcases their tireless search for new directions and powerful routes of self-expression.

Annette Marie Townsend, Flight of the Bumblebees (Black Series), Bird Cherry, wax and paper sculpture, (mounted in a 5 sided Perspex cover with painted MDF backboard), 25 x 25 x 6cm, 2024

Tina Buchholtz, Happy Harbour, acrylic, luminescent and pearlescent pigments, ink on canvas, 80 x 80cm, 2024

Exhibition Details

• Defying Boundaries: Female Vision


• Date: 18 Jan - 8 Mar 2025


• Time: 11:00-19:00 (Tuesday-Saturday)


• Venue: Karin Weber Gallery


• Address: 20 Aberdeen Street Central, Hong Kong

Information Source: PR