Para Site

Sep 1 – Oct 31

Announcing Liao Jiaming as Selected Artist for 2026 International Residency in Lisbon, in partnership with HANGAR and Triangle Network

Key visual of ‘2026 International Residency Programme’. Designed by The Exercises.

A new residency for early‑career artists offers an opportunity to connect local artists with the international artistic ecosystems.

Para Site is pleased to announce Liao Jiaming (b. 1992, Guangdong) has been selected as the inaugural artist for its new International Residency Programme, organised in partnership with Triangle Network. Launching in 2026, the programme begins with HANGAR (Lisbon) as its first partner organisation.

Connecting Hong Kong-based Artists to Global Narratives

Launched as part of Para Site’s 30th‑anniversary programmes, this residency is in line with Para Site’s mission to connect Hong Kong’s local ecosystem with the global artistic landscape, expanding international opportunities for Hong Kong‑based early‑career artists. Envisioned as an open platform for genuine exchange, the programme will rotate to different partner destinations each year through Triangle Network’s global reach. In 2026, the inaugural residency takes place at HANGAR, based in Portugal. The two-month residency will connect the selected artist with Lisbon’s contemporary art scene. Whilst allowing the artist to utilise Hangar’s on-site facilities for art-making—including a painting room, dark room, and music studio— the residency is also devised with dialogue in mind, and will encompass collaborative activities, studio visits, and public programmes. 

A Partnership Rooted in Shared Values 

As an Artistic Research Centre located in Lisbon, HANGAR shares a similar history with Para Site as an independent space founded by artists and curators, with a deep commitment to artistic research. It is a place for experimentation, offering shared working studio and living accommodation, and facilitating exchanges with residents from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. The residency is also part of Triangle Network’s global reach, connecting artists across continents through residencies, dialogue, and innovation. 

Additionally, Lisbon shares an interesting synergy with areas that neighbour Hong Kong, making it a compelling site from which to research shared colonial histories, while also familiarising the participant with a growing, vibrant cultural ecosystem rooted in Europe.

Looking ahead, the residency represents a long‑term commitment by Para Site and Triangle Network to expand cultural exchange opportunities for early‑career artists based in Hong Kong.

About the Artist

Liao Jiaming works across photography, video, installation, and performance. His research interrogates the entanglement of technology, ideology, and embodied subjectivity within diasporic and networked contexts. Drawing on his experience as a queer person navigating mainland China, Hong Kong, and digital space, his practice questions normative constructions of gender, productivity, and collective identity. He is currently researching digital avatars and the history of radio calisthenics in East Asia, extending his inquiry into the technological modulation of collective bodies.

About

About HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística | Artistic Research Centre

HANGAR is an Artistic Research Centre located in the area of Graça in Lisbon. It includes spaces for artistic residences, artists’ studios, art education, exhibitions and public programme. With an aim to connect geographies, cultures and identities, HANGAR seeks to organise and produce cross-disciplinary visual art projects and public presentations, making Lisbon the focus of such activities.

HANGAR is an independent space run by artists and curators. It is a place for experimentation, research and reflection of artistic practices. HANGAR aims to act as a catalyst for artists, researchers and other artistic initiatives and professionals, encouraging discussion on emerging contemporary art and stimulating the development of artistic and theoretical practices motivated by experimental and shared experiences.

https://hangar.com.pt/ 

 

About Para Site

Para Site champions original developments in contemporary art by centering artistic voices and innovations. Collaborating closely with practitioners from both local and international contexts, Para Site enables new works, initiatives, and ideas to come into being. Placing an emphasis on inclusiveness and independent thought, Para Site has developed a strong reputation for giving milestone opportunities to a myriad of artists and curators, many of whom go on to develop significant careers in contemporary art. Through producing benchmark exhibitions, commissioning transformative works, and cultivating new talent, we emphasise contemporary art’s ability to reshape our understanding of society. Since its founding in 1996 by seven Hong Kong-based artists as an alternative space, Para Site has mounted over 300 exhibitions locally and globally, hosted over 80 international residents, and delivered over 1,000 public programmes.

https://www.para-site.art/ 

 

About Triangle Network  

Established in 1982, Triangle Network is a global network of artists and visual arts organisations that supports professional development and cultural exchange among artists, curators, and other arts professionals worldwide. 

Since its founding, Triangle has provided opportunities for over 5,000 artists to connect with one another, produce new work, and develop their practice through workshops, residencies, events, exhibitions, work placements, and studio provision. Over the past four decades, Triangle has instigated and supported more than 90 projects and art spaces in 41 countries, creating an extensive, artist-focused, and flexible infrastructure that fosters innovation and audience engagement in the visual arts.

https://www.trianglenetwork.org/