Greg Girard In Conversation With Silke Schmickl

To mark the closing of Greg Girard's career survey, join us at The Polygon for a conversation between Girard and Silke Schmickl, CHANEL Senior Curator, Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong.

Doors at 6:00pm
Conversation at 6:30pm

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Join us later on for a concert by Gong Gong Gong

About Silke Schmickl
Silke Schmickl is the CHANEL Senior Curator, Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong. She was previously curator at the National Gallery Singapore and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, a researcher at the German Center for Art History in Paris, and the co-founding director of Lowave, a Paris-based curatorial platform and publishing house for moving image artists.

In her contribution to the major monograph Greg Girard: Photographs 1972 - 2026 (The Polygon Gallery and Magenta Foundation, 2026), she writes about her collaborations with Greg Girard for M+:  a monumental slide projection on the museum’s façade based on Girard’s photobook HK:PM, and the live cinema work, Hong Kong Made Me, scored by the punk band Gong Gong Gong.

Banner Image: Alana Paterson.

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