Guided Viewing: “Bamboo Baskets: Chinese Origins, Japanese Innovations” with Dr. Florian Knothe at UMAG (Members Only)

The HKU Museum Society is pleased to present a guided viewing of Bamboo Baskets: Chinese Origins, Japanese Innovations with Dr. Florian Knothe at UMAG.

Supported by the HKUMS 30th Anniversary Endowment Fund, this exhibition showcases over 200 bamboo objects that illustrate a wide range of weaving techniques, tracing the evolution of early Ming and Qing dynasty vessels to their influence on Edo period artefacts and the innovative development of contemporary kogei.

This exhibition relies on exemplary loans from both the Naej Collection in Germany and the Muwen Tang Collection in Hong Kong, and is supported by the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong and the HKU Museum Society.

Speaker

Dr. Florian Knothe is the Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery and an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, HKU. He serves as the MA in Museum Studies programme director and has taught Museum Studies at undergraduate and post-graduate level for more than 15 years. Florian trained in conservation, art history and heritage law, and lectures and teaches internationally. With the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, he held a Mellon Foundation grant to investigate and initiate Museum Studies at HKU.

Image Credit: Courtesy of UMAG