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2020 Power List 300: Powerful new faces who are pushing for change

Some powerful new faces have made up the Gafencu 2020 Power List 300 and are putting in genuine effort towards change. In case you’ve missed it, check out some of the newest additions below: 

2020 Power List 300 gafencu magazine edwin pun

Pun, Edwin

Keyestone Group, Director of Business Development

The youngest son of Benson Pun, chairman of Keyestone Properties, Edwin pursued a Bachelor’s in international business and finance
and spent several years in consulting before joining the family’s expansive real estate business. Now, as its Director of Business Development, the MBA-holder oversees multiple aspects and projects, including a mixed-use development with a theme park set to open in 2024.

2020 Power List 300 gafencu magazine douglas so

So, Douglas

F11 Foto Museum, Founder and Director

A corporate lawyer by training – Douglas So graduated with a law degree from the University of Hong Kong – his lifelong passion for heritage conservation and photography saw him found the Happy Valley-based F11 Foto Museum. Charity is also close to his heart, with So currently serving as Chairman of both The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance  Fund and the Chinese Medicine Development Fund. He also serves as chairman on the government’s Antiquities Advisory Board.

2020 Power List 300 gafencu magazine chloe suen

Suen, Chloe

Sun Museum, Founder

A dedicated patron and promoter of art and culture, Chloe Suen is the chairwoman of Simon Suen Foundation and founded its non-profit Sun Museum in 2015. The 12,500 sq.m. Sun Museum in Kwun Tong is the most stylish repository in the city of Chinese artwork and aims to foster the development of arts and culture in Hong Kong and China. The Columbia University alumnus actively contributes to the city’s cultural development by serving on multiple NGO boards as well as the Advisory Committee on Built Heritage Conservation, the
Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, and the Museum Advisory Art Sub-Committee.

2020 Power List 300 gafencu magazine Leigh Tung-Chou

Tung-Chou, Leigh

Tung Foundation, Director

Daughter of Tung Chee-chen, GBS, JP, a Hong Kong billionaire businessman who is chairman and chief executive of shipping company
Orient Overseas, Leigh Tung, pursues charity work with a deep and admirable passion. The younger Tung actively renders charity work
in her capacity as a member of the board of governors of the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital Foundation and Hong Kong Ballet, as well as a
director of the Tung Foundation. She shares three children with husband Stanley Chou.

New Sun Museum exhibitions showcase works by Liu Cheng Mui and Dickson Yewn

Sun Museum Presents Liu Cheng Mui and Dickson Yewn gafencu magazine
Image courtesy of Sun Museum

Dedicated to promoting a wider understanding of Chinese arts and culture, Sun Museum is housed on the fourth floor of the SML Tower along the Kwun Tong harbourfront. Established as a non-profit institution by the Simon Suen Foundation, it’s latest initiative is a joint exhibition. One half is titled Scenic Romance, showcasing the works of renowned local female painter Liu Cheng Mui, while the other, Slowness, spotlights photographs taken by famed jewellery designer Dickson Yewn. 

Sun Museum Presents Liu Cheng Mui and Dickson Yewn passage of time blue
Passage of Time: Blue by Liu Cheng Mui

Scenic Romance by Liu Cheung Mui comprises a collection of over 40 paintings and sketches, with oil paintings serving as the main artistic medium. After a decade-long break from painting, Mui returned with a burst of creativity in 2008, resulting in a great number of artworks, several of which showcased at the exhibition. Through her distinctive use of colours and brushstrokes, familiar forms of life such as the human body and animals are transformed into figurative illustrations of expressive emotion, a move that both enlivens her subject matter and elicits the viewer’s empathetic interpretation of the artist’s view on life. 

Sun Museum Presents Liu Cheng Mui and Dickson Yewn intimacy
Intimacy by Dickson Yewn

Concurrently, across the opposite side of the gallery, a spread of 60 black-and-white photographs by Dickson Yewn are displayed, with a single Chinese character adorning the below of each printed frame. Embodying a breadth of subject matters, each image is meant to leave the symbolism of each subject up to the viewer’s own interpretation. Although the photographs resemble the aesthetics of ink paintings, all 60 images were surprisingly captured by an Iphone 4 and an Iphone 5 over the span of a decade. Being a fan of platinum print, Yewn opted to use a monochromatic filter, focusing on the lines and compositions of each subject without the distraction of decorative elements. The series features numerous scenic spots, historical sites, town villages, gardens and buildings across China.

This exciting new exhibition is on show until 11 February 2021. For more information visit sunmuseum.org.hk.

Sun Museum Presents Liu Cheng Mui and Dickson Yewn with chloe and simon suen
(From right to left) Ms. Chloe Suen, Chair of Simon Suen Foundation, Ms. Liu Cheng Mui, Mr. Dickson Yewn and Mr. Yeung Chun Tong, Director of Sun Museum.