Ken Kelleher’s Anchorball Takes Over AIRSIDE in a Large-Scale Public Art Activation

For Immediate Release · 2024

Ken Kelleher’s Anchorball Takes Over AIRSIDE in a Large-Scale Public Art Activation

A multi-platform installation brings the characters of Low Orbit City into one of Hong Kong’s newest cultural destinations.

Hong Kong

HONG KONG — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has completed a large-scale, multi-platform public art activation with AIRSIDE, translating the world of Low Orbit City into an immersive retail and cultural destination across sculpture, installation and experience.

The activation extends Kelleher’s Luminal Pop language beyond a single object into an environment, using scale, colour and character to transform circulation space into a place of arrival, play and discovery — designed to move fluidly across physical space, photography and social media.

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An activation is a chance to let a whole world spill out into a space. At AIRSIDE, people didn’t just see the work — they walked through it. That’s when a character stops being an image and becomes an experience.
— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)

For developers and brands, the project demonstrates how character-led contemporary art can create recognition, dwell time and cultural relevance — giving a destination an emotional centre that audiences associate directly with the experience of the site.

The AIRSIDE activation reflects the expanding role of Kelleher’s practice within major mixed-use developments across Asia, where art, architecture and brand identity increasingly converge.