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Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael - Hong Kong Festival Events

Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael by Tai Kwu at 1/F, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, in Co-creation Period: 4–26 July (Ticketed Admission)
Public Viewing Period: 4 July – 2 August (Free Admission)
Closing Ceremony: 2 August (Free Admission)
Closed on Monday. You can view the Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael event venue, event theme, etc. on this page.


  • Festivals Event Name: Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael
  • Related Themes: Museums / Galleries / Public Spaces - Arts
  • Organiser(s): Tai Kwu
  • Festival Description: Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael
    is a slow-growing, participatory programme. Participants are invited to co-create a paper canopy that evolves over time – formed by multi-level suspended clusters that together become a shared, collective landscape.
    Pleasant Place
    belongs to the Filipino artist Ryan Villamael’s ongoing
    Locus Amoenus
    series. In Latin,
    locus amoenus
    describes a ‘pleasant place’ – a dreamlike pastoral landscape of refuge, abundance and harmony. This series explores history and collective memory, looking at the interpenetrating layers that constitute a locality and the invisible threads that connect us to it.
    Participants are invited to wander through this immersive, forest-like environment, moving beneath and around floating foliage while actively contributing to the work’s growth. Through workshops, they will create clusters of leaves, vines or abstract terrain fragments, assembling small landscapes that reflect their own interpretation of a ‘pleasant place’.
    It is a shared refuge shaped by many hands – a network of stories connected by migration and ideas of belonging.
    Photo 1 |
    Open the Box 2026: Pleasant Place with Ryan Villamael
    Photo 2 |
    Locus Amoenus
    , 2016, Singapore Biennale, photos by JL Javier
    Courtesy of Tai Kwu
  • Festival Date: Co-creation Period: 4–26 July (Ticketed Admission)
    Public Viewing Period: 4 July – 2 August (Free Admission)
    Closing Ceremony: 2 August (Free Admission)
    Closed on Monday
  • Festival Time: Various Times
    Please refer to event website for detail
  • Venue Remarks: 1/F, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong Island
  • Ticketing: Please refer to event website for detail
  • Ticket_Price: Please refer to event website for detail
  • Website: http://www.taikwun.hk/zh/programme/detail/open-the-box-2026-pleasant-place-with-ryan-villamael/1777
  • Tel: 3559 2600
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