The Hartz Project is proud to present “Us,” Part 2, a group exhibition curated by Thom Oosterhof. This exhibition features eight noteworthy artists in contemporary art world today - Robert Russell, Rachel Lancaster, Kevin Yaun, Dani McKenzie, Steffen Kern, Jonah Gebka, Michael Angel, and Arnaud Adami. The show opens on March 21 and will be on view until April 25, 2026.

The second chapter of “Us” unfolds in Hong Kong. Where the Berlin edition began within the quieter confines of the domestic interior, this iteration prepares us to step outside. In this intermediate space, we encounter change, the presence of others, the pull of the external, and the charged energies of the city.

If “Us” in Berlin was concerned with the intimacy of the room, "Us" in Hong Kong turns to the intimacy of proximity: brushing shoulders, fleeting glances, lives moving in parallel. Here, the idea of “us” becomes harder to pin down. It flickers in and out of focus. Emerging in the rhythm of the crowd, in overlapping gestures, in the way one story bleeds into another. 

The works gathered for this chapter echo this sense of transition, moving from inside to out. Figures blur, objects hum with memory, fragments of the everyday are drawn close, reminding us that even the smallest traces of us carry weight.

The city itself becomes a mirror. Its shifting lights and compressed spaces turn the question back on us. What part of ourselves emerges in these moments? What do we choose to reveal, and what is absorbed into the collective blur?

Taken together, the exhibition resists a fixed answer. Instead, it offers a moving portrait alive to contradiction and change. The "us" here is fractured and multiplied, yet no less real.

As with Berlin, this project will continue to unfold across new cities, with new artists, contexts, and spaces. Each chapter differs, yet all are bound by the same impossible pursuit. To hold, however briefly, something of our shared selves before it slips away again.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Island

The Hartz Project

"Us," Part 2 in Hong Kong features works by Robert Russell, Rachel Lancaster, and others. The exhibition delves into urban intimacy and collective identity through art's dynamic lens.

Us, Part 2

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