The Qing dynasty (1644–1911) is a regime ruled by the Manchu ethnic group, established its military foundation upon a rigorous martial organisation, superior military technology, and a distinctive martial ethos. The Forbidden City in Beijing was the nexus of Qing political and military power, embodying over two centuries of military history from the Qing dynasty. It vividly illustrates the Manchus’ adherence to ancestral martial traditions, their absorption of, and innovative adaptation of, military technologies, and their ceremonial protocols, making it a treasure trove of traditional military culture. The exhibition features nearly 190 military artefacts from the Qing court in The Palace Museum’s collection, featuring a wide range of objects such as helmets, archery sets, sabres and swords, equestrian equipment, paintings, textiles, books, albums, and scientific instruments.

This exhibition is organised in six thematic sections: “The Rise of the Eight Banners and Qing Rule”, “Swords and Sabres across the State”, “Equestrian Archery and Firearms”, “Military Drills, Inspections, and Rites”, “Images as Histories”, and “Coastal Defence”. With a diverse array of exceptional objects, the exhibition presents the development of Qing military organisation, technology, and artistry, enriching the understanding of Qing military culture.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) presents a new special exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Treasures of the Mughal Court from the Victoria and Albert Museum” (“Treasures of the Mughal Court”), which will be open to the public from 6 August 2025 to 23 February 2026. “Treasures of the Mughal Court” will be Hong Kong’s first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Mughal art, celebrating the diverse artistic traditions and unparalleled craftsmanship from the “golden age” of the Mughal dynasty (1526–1857) through a display of over 100 precious artefacts. Jointly organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the HKPM, and solely sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, this exhibition also marks the first major collaboration between a Hong Kong museum and the V&A, the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design. Tickets for the exhibition are now available on the West Kowloon Cultural District’s online ticketing platforms and ticketing partners.

Gallery 8, Hong Kong Palace Museum

Collaborating again with the Min Chiu Society, an internationally acclaimed and prestigious collectors' group in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) is staging the "Engaging Past Wisdom: Min Chiu Society at Sixty-five" exhibition at the Special Gallery on the second floor of the museum from tomorrow (August 30) to January 14 next year. This year marks the society's 65th anniversary, and the exhibition features over 400 precious artefacts from more than 40 members' collections, the largest number of exhibits of the Min Chiu Society to date, providing a rare opportunity for the public to appreciate Chinese cultural treasures spanning 5 000 years.      

Venue address: 2/F, The Special Gallery, HKMoA

Artist Angela Yuen has a profound emotional and artistic connection with Hong Kong's urban culture, shaped by her unique perspective. By collecting nostalgic plastic toys, stationery, and locally distinctive ready-made objects, she transforms them into evocative sculptural works. Through light projection techniques, Yuen reinterprets Hong Kong's iconic skyline in a lively and artistic manner.

In this exhibition, Yuen expands on her signature approach, presenting the art installations specially created for the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre. Her inspiration draws from the musical fountain displays that were popular in shopping mall public spaces during the 1990s—a hallmark of that era which has gradually faded away. Through large-scale installations incorporating kinetic lighting effects and objects embodying collective memory, Yuen evokes recollections of communal mall spaces and invites viewers to reflect on the changing rhythms of urban life.

Opening and artist-led tour: 6:30pm

Venue address: Public area on the 5/F – 3/F, 7A Kennedy Road, Central

Environments are artworks in which viewers play an active role, stimulated by objects, light, moving image, and sound as they move through and around the work. They have been a major feature in international art since the mid-twentieth century, laying the groundwork for the immersive experiences that dazzle museum audiences today. However, the important history of this art form is only partially understood, as so many of these groundbreaking works were destroyed after display, and the focus to date has been almost exclusively on male artists.

Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now presents the works of trailblazing women artists whose environments made a lasting impact on the history of visual art, illuminating artworks of the present and offering glimpses into the future. It spans several generations of artists from Asia, Europe, and North and South America, presenting full-scale reproductions of each work. These reconstructions are as close to the originals as possible, developed through research and collaboration with experts and the artists themselves.

The oeuvre of the seminal painter Maria Lassnig covers an incredible lifespan of more than 70 years of intense work between the end of the Second World War and her death in 2014. At the center of her profound research into painting we find a unique interest in the relation between awareness and the human body – the artist's body –, which Lassnig calls Body Awareness. It is research that is fuelled by an occupation with philosophical and scientific theories on perception. Examples include texts by the Austrian scientist and philosopher Ernst Mach and those of her peer and close friend, the Austrian writer Oswald Wiener, with whom she undertook perceptual experiments in the 1970s.

Lassnig questions the perception beyond the visual, how our body senses as a whole. She also explores the ways in which language becomes part of such perceptions, leading to her lifelong interest in literature and friendships with such eminent poets as Paul Celan and Friederike Mayröcker. Within this research, the human body is subject to change, it is morphing constantly, sometimes even into the mythological. Titled 'Self with Dragon', this is Maria Lassnig's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. With this selection of paintings, the show attempts to provide an insight into Lassnig's approach to such reflections and their manifestation on the canvas.

Opening Reception: 26 September 2025, 6 – 8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central

For more than five thousand years, silk was an integral part of life in China, composing an illustrious chapter in the history of Chinese civilisation and global cultural interaction. Strong yet soft, silk is woven from the fibre produced by silkworms. Its natural lustre adds to its appeal. China, the birthplace of silk, was known as Serica (State of Silk) by ancient Greeks and Romans, and China remains the world’s largest silk producer today. Sericulture, which includes mulberry cultivation, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, and silk weaving, was a remarkable creation of the ancestors and served as an important step in the origin and development of Chinese civilisation. Silk production has played a key role in the livelihood of the Chinese people, as well as in socioeconomic developments and technological innovation in China.

Silk not only helped connect diverse ethnic groups and vast regions across China but also bridged China and the rest of the world. Silk was a highly sought-after luxury good, as precious as gold, and was also a form of currency that facilitated vibrant exchanges between China and many parts of the world along the trade routes known as the Silk Roads. Silk has made unique contributions to world art: it has been widely used as a support for Chinese paintings and calligraphic works, as a canvas for artistic experiments in colour and decoration, and as a fabric for clothing.

Para Site is delighted to present “In drawing, in remembrance” (open 11 October 2025 – 1 February 2026), a solo exhibition by Pakistani artist Shahana Rajani. As the artist’s first institutional presentation in Hong Kong, the exhibition centres on two video works that follow communities in the Indus River Delta displaced by infrastructural violence and climate collapse. 

Four Acts of Recovery (2024) is a meditative documentary that examines different drawing practices used by a family from the Delta region as the titular ‘acts of recovery’. Making maps from memory, painting lost landscapes, crafting Islamic talismans—these all become poignant ways for the family to maintain a connection to their homeland, which is on the brink of submersion due to urban development, environmental crisis, or environmental crisis caused by urban development.

Opening reception: 2–6pm

Venue address: 0B, Wing Wah Industrial Building., 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong is honoured to present Handmade and Handheld: Song to Qing Dynasty Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio. The eighty-seven objects illustrate a remarkable cultural continuum that links ancient ritual traditions to a sophisticated literati aesthetic and intellectual life. These bronzes, having transcended their original ritual functions, became prized art objects, instruments of scholarly inquiry, and emblems of moral and political values. Their diverse forms—from ritual vessels to intimate incense burners and scholarly desk pieces—reflect the deep integration of bronze into the fabric of imperial and literati culture. In so doing, many of the plants and animals—mythical or real—carry important auspicious meanings that contribute to the learned culture from which they originate. 

Venue address: 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present 'Thresholds', a group exhibition featuring the work of 9 contemporary artists whose practices are rooted in or connected to Indonesia.

Through a diverse range of mediums, the exhibition explores the interwoven cycles of life, death and transformation, with a focus on themes of ritual, spirituality, and reincarnation.

Featured artists: Christine Ay Tjoe, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Galuh Anindita, Kei Imazu, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, Arahmaiani, Jennifer Tee, Ines Katamso and Citra Sasmita.

Preview: 30 October 2025, 6–8pm

Curated by Galuh Sukardi

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

3812 Gallery is honoured to announce the launch of the Hsiao Chin Archives, a significant milestone in the legacy of Hsiao Chin, the revered post-war Chinese abstract master.

The vision of the Hsiao Chin Archives is to establish a leading global resource for understanding and celebrating Hsiao Chin's contributions to abstract art, fostering a deeper appreciation for his unique blend of Eastern philosophy and Western artistic practices. The Archives will focus on preserving, documenting, researching, and promoting Hsiao Chin’s artistic heritage, achieving this through comprehensive documentation of his works, supporting scholarly research, and producing a definitive catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre.

Opening reception:  Friday, 7 November, from 5 to 8pm.

Gallery address: 26/F, Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street, Central

Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia of American artist Ann Leda Shapiro at its Hong Kong space. Body is Landscape brings together a historical work from 1980 alongside a series of recent paintings highlighting the central concerns of Shapiro’s practice: advocacy, care and the interplay between personal experience and the wider world.

Shapiro emerged as an artist during the feminist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a period when her work engaged directly with questions of gender, social justice and the visibility of women in society. Her early practice combined sharp social awareness with a commitment to care, laying the foundation for a lifelong exploration of how art can respond to and reflect upon the broader human condition.

Opening reception: 8 November, 2 - 5 pm. The artist will be in attendance

Gallery address: 21/F, Coda Designer Centre, Wong Chuk Hang

Join us from November for this exciting show of 8 artists from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, connected by their engagement with the Ocean. Highly topical in a world addressing climate change, but also highly personal in each artist's relationship with the vast sea that connects us all. Curated by Dr. Caroline HA THUC.

Participating artists: Ari Bayuaji, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Faris Ridzwan, Lim Sokchanlina, Joar Songcuya, Louis To Wun, Juria Toramae, Tsang Chui Mei.

Opening reception: Saturday, 8 November 2025, 4 - 8pm

Gallery address: 20 Aberdeen Street, Central

MAYAO is pleased to present Chinese artist YU JI’s solo exhibition, Peony Pavilion. Join us for the opening reception on November 8th from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, as ink and brush recompose the operatic imagery and bring us to a spiritual garden where absurdity and reality intertwine.

China has long had the custom of illustrating its plays. Compared to the ancients, Yu Ji places ceremonial processions, grand spectacles, and Opera stages within surreal, grotesque mountains and forests. Humans and animals, rolling their eyes, gaze disdainfully at modern cars, airships, and hot-air balloons that trespass through their world—yet they continue to play their eternal roles. Human history unfolds acompanied by construction and destruction, as well as the tangled stories of passionate men and women caught within. These fleeting “small loves,” suspended within the dust of “great history,” can only gain visibility when entangled with national tragedy and collective hatred. Such is the eternal sorrow of humankind.
Opening Reception: 4:00 - 7:00 PM, 8th Nov, Saturday

Gallery address: 10/F, Derrick Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang

Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is delighted to present Alighiero e Boetti: Ononimo, an exhibition exploring the artist’s enduring fascination with systems, collaboration, and variation. Bringing together works from Boetti’s celebrated Biro and Aerei series, the exhibition traces his investigation into how order and repetition give rise to difference, and how meaning emerges through collective labour, time, and chance.

 The exhibition’s title, Ononimo – borrowed from Boetti’s 1973 work – derives from a neologism he coined by merging the Italian anonimo (anonymous) and omonimo (homonymous). First written in blue biro in 1971 as a self-reflexive expression, it reflects Boetti’s preoccupation with duality and the splitting of identity, a principle he formalised that same year by inserting an “and” between his names to become “Alighiero e Boetti.”

Private view: 11:00 - 7:00 Saturday 22 November

Gallery address: 201 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang

Gulnur Mukazhanova is a Kazakh contemporary artist who combines Central Asian felt with other media to examine the interaction between ancient textile culture and contemporary issues. This solo exhibition showcases diverse creations from across her career, including felt paintings, felt sculptures, patchwork installations, photography and video.

Felt making is a laborious process that demands both physical strength and mental focus – wool fibres are repeatedly squeezed, kneaded and pounded into a densely matted textile. Mukazhanova blends traditional techniques with bold colours and experimental collages, taking Central Asian felt beyond its everyday uses and cultural significance for freer, more open and more emotional expressions.

Venue address: 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, N.T.

Evading the boundaries of the traditional picture plane, McGurn often eschews the limits of her canvases by extending the imagery directly onto the gallery walls and furniture brought into the space, displacing her subject and creating an immersive environment. Instead of approaching a static painting, the artist activates the composition allowing the figures and forms to be seen as though in a field of vision. Occasionally confrontational, sometimes passive, sometimes ecstatic, these characters shift through these emotions constantly reforming their personas.

Key themes in Mcgurn’s work include music, dreams, memory and popular culture. Her visual sources have included 70s film stills, Janus fetish magazine, Botticelli prints and celebrity autographs. The works are developed intuitively via the artist's use of swift calligraphic brush marks and attention to the human form. Repeated lines and movement recall antiquity but are similarly influenced by Glasgow’s post-industrial city aesthetic. With her paintings, Mcgurn builds loops through pastel colours, speed and fluid motion. Playing with ideas around circadian rhythms and familiarity her works un-stagnate and are experienced rather than seen.

Opening reception: 19 November, 6-8pm

Gallery address: Shop 03-205A & 205B & 206, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, Central

David Zwirner is pleased to announce Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s (1957–1996) first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Featuring examples from key bodies of work by the artist, this presentation will also extend beyond the gallery into the city, and will seek to draw out the deep resonances between Gonzalez-Torres’s practice and the city’s complex urban fabric, historical trajectory, and evolving national identity. Hong Kong—a place shaped by histories of passage and transformation—mirrors many of the dualities the artist explored throughout his life, such as belonging and estrangement, the particular and the universal, the individual and the collective, and the fixed and the fleeting. 
 
Beyond the gallery, simultaneous manifestations of candy and stack works in the show will be displayed at significant public sites around the city. These installations will explore the complex relationships and negotiations between private and public space, and intimacy and anonymity, that inform Gonzalez-Torres’s practice. By embedding the artist’s work within the broader contexts and daily rhythms of Hong Kong’s urban environment, this project brings into question notions of access, who constitutes the public, and what defines public versus private space. 

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 19, 5–7 PM

Gallery address: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Central

Gagosian is pleased to announce Paint, an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Sweeney opening at the Hong Kong gallery on November 19, 2025. These imposing works—oil portraits of seated figures with visible torsos, and others in which only the subjects’ heads and shoulders are depicted—convey intense energy and feeling through Sweeney’s use of rich color and bold paint handling.

Sweeney cites jazz as having sparked his love for improvisation, which he interweaves with references to pop culture and art history in nudes, portraits, and self-portraits. Resonating with the spirits of artists from Henri Matisse to Giorgio de Chirico and American painter Bob Thompson, his images embody a Neo-Expressionist verve while repeating signature motifs, and are characterized by their juxtaposition of direct emotional appeal with a freewheeling exploration of the creative process. In a complement to his painting practice, Sweeney transforms gallery spaces into studios and stages, conjuring dynamic “atmospheres” in conjunction with figures from various disciplines, including Lizzi Bougatsos, with whom he cofounded the New York noise-art group Actress.

Opening reception: Wednesday, November 19, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 7/F Pedder Building, Central

The largest and most comprehensive exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures in Hong Kong in recent decades features nearly 250 exquisite objects from seven important institutions in Egypt, including the Egyptian Museum and Luxor Museum. It also highlights significant new archaeological discoveries from the large tombs at Saqqara near Cairo. The exhibition illustrates the legendary life of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. ca.1332 BCE–1323 BCE) while exploring statues, coffins and animal mummies found in Saqqara since 2018.

Gallery 9, Hong Kong Palace Museum

Zhang Kechun, one of the most famous and award-winning contemporary Chinese photographers, is returning to Hong Kong for the first time since 2017 to unveil his latest photo series, Yellow Land and The Sky Garden.

Opening Date: Thursday 20 November 2025 at 6-8:30pm

As part of the opening programme, we are pleased to invite you to a Dialogue with Zhang Kechun. The Artist will share his perspective on the transformations of contemporary China, drawing on the inspirations and insights behind his most recent series, "The Yellow Land" and "The Sky Garden."

 First Dialogue (Conduct in Chinese) - Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 6:30PM

Second Dialogue (Conduct in English) – Saturday 22 November 2025 at 5PM

*Each session lasts about 40 minutes, including the Q&A.

*The Second Dialogue will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to engage in conversation with the artist.

Seats are limited, please RSVP.

Gallery address: G/F 74 Hollywood Road, Central

Following the evocative journey of Life Records I, which delved into the formative years of several pioneering Indonesian artists, Life Records II continues this intimate exploration — shifting the focus to another group of remarkable artists whose creative lives have also intersected with Sin Sin Fine
Art in deeply meaningful ways.

This second chapter brings together works by Anusapati, Andy Dewantoro, Dani Huda, Hanafi, Jumaldi Alfi, Lie Fhung, M. Irfan, Nasirun, Rudi Mantofani, Talitha Maranila, and Zulkarnaini Rustam — alongside a more recent series of works by Sin Sin Man herself. Each artist presents pieces that act as visual
memoirs — quiet yet powerful reflections on the personal, emotional, and philosophical landscapes they have traversed over the years.

These artists are not merely names in a list; they are companions on a shared creative journey that has unfolded across decades. Their works — contemplative, courageous, and deeply individual — speak of
transformations both internal and external. Some explore memory and identity through abstraction, others through figurative narratives or material experimentation. Collectively, they form a rich, multidimensional portrait of artistic resilience and evolution.

Opening reception: 21 Nov, 2025 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Gallery address: 4/F, Kin Teck Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts is delighted to unveil "Discover the Diamond, Art & Science", a comprehensive range of programs in Hong Kong to explore the diamond journey from rough stone to brilliant elegance. The newly curated series of activities will feature opresentation, talks, courses and a variety of cultural moments centered around theme of diamonds. “Discover the Diamond, Art & Science,” is scheduled to take place at the L’ÉCOLE Hong Kong campus at K11 MUSEA from November 22nd, 2025, to April 30th, 2026.

Venue address: 510A, 5F, K11 MUSEA, Tsim Sha Tsui

DE SARTHE is pleased to present its second solo exhibition for Shanghai-based artist Caison Wang, titled Limerent Warrior • The Digital Reincarnation. The exhibition features a new body of works on canvas and a sculpture that predicts a hypothetical post-human era wherein spirituality has been abdicated, and data logic is embraced in its stead. In this imagined future, there is a strong distrust of the present, causing existing belief structures, even emotional mechanisms to be thoroughly rewritten. Humans gradually relinquish control over lived realities, entrusting decisions of love, infatuation, life, and even death to algorithms. A wildly colorful, dystopic read of the future, Limerent Warrior • The Digital Reincarnation opens on November 22nd and will be on view until January 17th. 

A prominent motif runs through the exhibition – a powerful female figure, accompanied by symbols of birth and procreation; this is the limerent warrior, a fictional character that Wang imagines to be the face of post-human humanity. Using the Buddhist and Hindu goddess Mahākālī – the great mother who governs time, destruction, and rebirth – as a prototype, the artist imagines the warrior to be the digital reincarnation of what humans had once fantasized to be pure love, as well as the data mother to the new calculated world. Through the limerent warrior, what was once expressed through literature, mythology, film, and personal narratives are now produced through code and programs, and the once romantic hero of human imagination becomes both a product and agent of an intimacy economy. 

Opening: Saturday, November 22nd, 3 – 7 pm

Gallery address: 2/F, Block A, Vita Tower, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road

This exhibition brings together a selection of major works produced by Rauschenberg during and in response to his time in Asia. It traces the conceptual, formal and material influences on his practice, such as sourcing textiles and collaborating with paper makers and ceramicists in China, India, and Japan. The exhibition also considers the history and legacy of his Asian Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) projects, which included exhibitions in Beijing (1985), Lhasa (1985), Tokyo (1986), and Kuala Lumpur (1990), and their lasting impact on local artists. The display will feature works by Rauschenberg and by Asian artists in dialogue with his practice, and marks the centenary of the artist’s birth.

Alisan Atelier is pleased to announce Spirit In Flux, a special group exhibition of 11 artists inspired by and engaging with the innovative spirit championed by the founder of Hong Kong’s New Ink Movement, Lui Shou-kwan. Participants include Au Hoi-lam, Fan Yan, Fung Hoi-shan, Sherry, Heung Kin-fung, Alex, Kong Chun-nga, Kitty, Li Tingting, Miao Hanwen, Mok Hoi-ching, Silvester, Tang Kai-yiu, Frank, Tse Chun-sing, and Yuen Ka-yee, Angela. They each chart their own course in artistic innovation, directly and indirectly responding to the legacy of Lui Shou-kwan, which is currently celebrated in a landmark solo exhibition at Alisan Fine Arts’ Central Hong Kong gallery.

Curated by veteran curator Leung Siu-kee, the exhibition showcases a diverse array of works, from two-dimensional paintings in ink, oil, and mixed media to three-dimensional pieces incorporating ceramics, paper sculptures, light installations, and new media. These artworks explore contemporary artistic expression, echoing the Spirit central to the exhibition’s title. Lui Shou-kwan's Zen paintings uniquely blend Eastern philosophy with Western abstract art, expanding the world of Chinese ink painting. He once remarked, “Brush and ink have no legacy; they are the universe of the self,” suggesting that artists should not be confined by traditional teachings but should instead pursue their own creative impulses. This exhibition also aims to showcase the artist's continuous pursuit of change and the deepening of his personal style.

Opening Reception: 22 November 2025, Saturday, 2PM - 5PM

Gallery address: 1904, Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen

DE SARTHE is pleased to announce the activation of its new media room, dedicated to showing contemporary multimedia artworks, in elaboration of the gallery’s exploration of technologically influenced artistic practices. To host an independent program in parallel to the gallery’s contemporary and 20th century exhibitions, the new media room will be inaugurated with a presentation of two video artworks by Shanghai-based artist BingQing Dong, including Don’t Talk to Paula (2024) and Moist Theater (2025).

Gallery address: 2/F, Block A, Vita Tower, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road

“If Lee Ufan’s brushstrokes capture his reflections on his relationship with the world, my brushstrokes represent a journey to contemplate the transient emotions I carry within. Although the direction of our thinking may differ, the essential questions surrounding existence and the inner self ultimately lead us to the same horizon.”

- Lee Chae

Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present “Trace of Wind”, an exhibition that brings together significant works of two distinguished Korean artists from different generations, Lee Ufan (b.1936) and Lee Chae (b.1989), fostering dialogue that explores our deep and enduring connection with the natural world and the inner self.

Opening Reception 2025.11.22(Sat) 3 - 6 pm *Artist Lee Chae will be present

Gallery address: 7/F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware is staging a new exhibition, "Hong Kong Artist Dialogue Series: Shape of Tea", featuring 35 sets of tea ware in various types such as tea bowls, tea caddies and teapots, from the museum's collections spanning the Song dynasty to the 20th century, along with 20 sets of new wood and bamboo works created by Hong Kong artists Yan Yung and Inkgo Lam.
     
 Drawing inspiration from the collections of the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, wood artist Yung and bamboo artist Lam integrate the aesthetics of life in the Song dynasty, with rustic simplicity and unpretentious elegance, into daily life. They have created works diverse in form, including small tea bowls, exquisite bamboo carved tea ware, as well as large mortise tea racks and bamboo woven tea tables. They have also created art from fallen tree wood and drawn inspiration from flora and species named after Hong Kong, expressing their visions of Hong Kong in their works.

Venue address: 10 Cotton Tree Drive, Central (inside Hong Kong Park)

Giuseppe Castiglione’s Gathering of Two Auspicious Signs is a painting intimately connected to the fate of China. It is also the very work that marked the entry of a Western painter onto the stage of the Chinese imperial court, a figure forever etched into the canon of art history. From its very moment of creation as an allegorical painting in the imperial court to win the favour of the Yongzheng Emperor, Gathering of Two Auspicious Signs was destined to be symbolic of the Mandate of Heaven. Its silk threads bear signs of the vicissitudes of time, witness to the nation’s fateful turns of fortune and a bygone era of the last three hundred years. There is perhaps no other painting that beholds such a powerful line of succession, passed through the hands of many of the most influential figures in Chinese history from the Great Qing to this day.

Venue address: G/F, Landmark Chater, 8 Connaught Road Central, Central

HART HAUS and artist collective Gloria Awareness are excited to present an upcoming group exhibition MADAM I'M ADAM, featuring latest works by six emerging artists practicing and diaspora with Hong Kong — Amy Tong (Hong Kong), Chan Kakiu (Canada-born, Hong Kong-based), Dony Cheng (Hong Kong), Lau Hiu Tung (Hong Kong), Tiger Wong (Hong Kong), Wu Jiaru (based in Hong Kong).

Perhaps you are familiar with the exhibiting artists and their practices, and yet, this exhibition "MADAM I'M ADAM” is rather an unconventional and thought-provoking exploration of art-making with the concept of repetition and its inherent complexities. The works delve into the idea that repetition is not simply a reproduction; rather, it serves as a re-illumination that carries a displacement, inviting viewers to engage with the nuances of systemic repetition.

Opening reception: 27.11.2025 (Thurs 四) 19:00 - 20:30

Gallery address: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

The Yijing, or Book of Changes, is unquestionably a quintessential Chinese cultural heritage. Confucianism and Daoism have their common roots here. Ancient Chinese philosophy, science, and statecraft and even modern living have all drawn inspiration from it. As a classical divination document and a philosophical exposition, this book has an enduring imprint on many aspects of Chinese life. 

The current exhibition highlights the continued relevance of the Book of Changes through the artistic interpretation of Hong Kong photo artist Basil Pao. Two series of his works—The Great Walls of China and Glimpses of Silence—are presented here to explore the relation between heritage and artistic creation. Capturing a world of changing reality and changing appearances, these pictures are the testament to Pao’s deep connections to the Book of Changes for embracing the authentic self and beholding the beauty and mystery of the world. The show offers a visual feast for observing the eternal energy and subtleties of change in all-embracing landscapes. It invites contemplation on the interaction and unity of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity—an ancient Chinese philosophical concept presented in the classic. 

Venue address: Duplex Studio, Tai Kwun

We are thrilled to invite you into the world of “Where Life Meets, Once — New Works by Mizuki Nishiyama”! Mizuki Nishiyama, a multi-cultural artist born in Hong Kong and raised between Japan, Italy, London and New York, expresses her kaleidoscopic roots through artworks that celebrate both fragility and resilience. Her expressive, multifaceted works bridge East and West through vivid explorations of human fragility, identity, and ancestry, especially from the perspective of the female experience.

Mizuki’s journey spans New York and London, where she studied at Parsons and Central Saint Martins, and currently a PHD candidate at the Institute for Doctorial Studies in the Visual Arts, her art has been showcased across continents. With each piece, she shares fragments of emotion and ritual — drawing viewers into a space where past and present, ancestry and longing, quietly meet. Her earlier series, “Fragile,” “Bodies in Landscape,” and her latest series “Between Land and Earth,” remind us that every moment can be both fleeting and unforgettable.

As curator William Fong remarks, “In the quiet epiphany her work awakens, each canvas becomes where life meets — a convergence of self, world, and time, a presence that can never be lived twice, existing only now — and once.”

Gallery address: Pottinger 22, Central

Flowers Gallery Hong Kong is delighted to announce Roadkill, the first solo exhibition in Asia by acclaimed British painter Stuart Pearson Wright. The exhibition presents a new series of portraits created over the last five years, offering a deeply personal and darkly humorous reflection on one of the most challenging chapters in the artist's life.

Best known for his psychologically-charged portraiture, Wright uses the language of painting to explore the tension between vulnerability, absurdity, and resilience, featuring the artist's renowned embodiment of rich surfaces and fine detail. In this body of work, anthropomorphism becomes a central device: human figures merge with animal traits, everyday objects, and theatrical exaggerations. These hybrid presences serve as both unsettling and comical stand-ins for the human condition.

Gallery address: 9 Tung Street, Sheung Wan

The HKDI Gallery is pleased to announce its first flagship exhibition in its 2025-2026 slate, the Pluriversal Futures – Ars Electronica Exhibition in Collaboration with Hong Kong Design Institute (“Pluriversal Futures”), jointly organised by Ars Electronica, the world’s leading platform of media art for the intersection of art, technology and society based in Linz, and Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI). The curation presents a reinterpretation of “multiple” and “pluriversal” visions of the future, which entails the coexistence of several worldviews, futures, and realities that are entangled, interconnected, and intertwined.

Venue address: Hong Kong Design Institute, 3 King Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O

PHD Group is pleased to present “Mothering,” their third ever group show.

It is a paradox that we all experience: to heal, we must grow, but to grow, we must endure. Our group exhibitions have always been opportunities for us to meditate and reflect on our space and its purpose, a brief respite from the operational grind of openings and closings, fairs and travels. In examining the work of the artists we surround ourselves with, we find introspective turns within each practice, a homage to the invisible, sometimes more-than-human elements that give form to new life. To mother is to birth, to nurture, and to seek alternate, sometimes even painful, paths of growth—we are reminded of the tiny plantlets that fall from the parent, bright-white roots already attached, ready to begin again.

The group show will feature work by Chan Ting, Michele Chu, Liao Wen, Yuko Mohri, Sasaoka Yuriko, Tan Jing, Pam Virada, Wang Xu, Xi Jiu, and Zheng Mahler.

PODIUM is proud to present ‘Like a Thief in the Night’, Berlin-based artist Dennis Scholl’s first solo exhibition in Asia and with the gallery. Known for his lush and phantasmagorical paintings and drawings, Scholl has been creating enigmatic worldviews where human and non-human beings oscillate between brutality and beauty, violence and tenderness. In this ambitious body of work, spanning 16 new paintings and a collection of drawings, the artist draws upon the pastoral as both a locus of sentimentality and a theatre of profound spiritual allegory. Centring on the recurring image of the shepherd—a guide of flocks—Scholl reimagines it as a sacred figure that commands cultivation and sacrifice across human and non-human life. Through his enchanting visual language and storytelling, Scholl invites the viewers to inhabit the crux of tension between comfort and foreboding, belonging and exile, nurture and disruption; reminding one that vigilance is not merely a stance of fear but also of attention and tenderness—that to live in anticipation of the unknown is to remain awake to care for oneself.

The exhibition opens on 29 November 2025 (Saturday) from 2 to 7 pm

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

Grotto Fine Art is pleased to present 𝘈 𝘝𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, the third solo exhibition of Hung Fai, with an opening reception on Saturday, 29 November, from 2 to 6 pm. The exhibition will run from 29 November to 30 December.

Following his representative 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 series, this exhibition presents an entirely new body of ink works by Hung Fai. Continuing Hung’s exploration of the ink medium, the works employ folding and diffusion techniques to construct layered, interwoven compositions, showcasing a distinctive conceptual visual language. The new series 𝘙𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘔𝘢𝘻𝘦 and 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 breaks away from the rules set in his earlier works and highlights the mutual pull between artist and medium. At the same time, Hung turns to more private emotions, hinting at the tension between personal pursuits and the expectations of family and community. The new series incites a mental and visual collision, as traces of tradition, heritage and familial lineage quietly surface, all unified by the essence of ink as a medium.
Opening Reception: Nov 29 (Sat), 2-6pm

Gallery address: 2/F, East 17, No. 17 Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present “Un Cheng: Bedroom Paintings”, from 29 November 2025 to 31 January 2026, marking the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will debut her newest body of works and coincide with the book launch of her first artist monograph titled Un Cheng: Now, and Then?, encompassing her works from 2017 to date. 

Un Cheng is known for her distinct palette, capturing the quotidian details of city life, each scene brimming with psychological depth and emotional fervor, depicting a universal longing for human connection. In “Bedroom Paintings”, Cheng captures the complexities and nuances of the human experience. The scenes are recreated from photographs and memories, each rendered in expressionistic strokes that evoke the artist’s underlying psyche. Her brush marks oscillate between intuition and conscious control, infusing her works with immediacy and viscerality.

Gallery address: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang

Double Q is delighted to announce Maria Kulikovska's first solo exhibition in Asia and at the gallery, scheduled to open in December 2025.

Maria Kulikovska was born in 1988 in Kerch, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. Following her studies in Kyiv and Stockholm, Kulikovska designed several architectural projects and gave lectures and workshops on contemporary art in Ukraine and abroad. She is known as a multimedia artist, performance artist, and master of political performance. Kulikovska has been forced to flee her home twice – first from Crimea in 2014 during the Russian annexation, and then once again from Kyiv in 2022 when the war erupted. Focused on creating sculptures using original ballistic soap and natural materials, her work explores themes of the body and its borders, gender and queerness, war and migration, women in a patriarchal society, and fragility of life. 

As a multimedia artist, activist, researcher and lecturer, Kulikovska creates art that generates visceral responses in viewers. The nucleus of Kulikovska’s work is her own body, its perpetuation, its transformation and its decay. Throughout her oeuvre, the idea of her body is transformed into architectural structures made from natural materials, such as salt, milk or sugar, in order to deal with ideas of production, construction and de-construction. Her self-casted body sculptures invite us to ponder on social and political issues of feminism, queer representation, war, and human rights. The artist considers her watercolour and ceramic works as performative paintings, in which her oft-macabre, oft-nude subjects visualise her psychological distress over her sense of abandonment and loneliness that arose from her loss of agency in life. 

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan

Over the past five years, Villepin has championed artists and created spaces where their voices endure. This anniversary exhibition, The Villepin House, brings together works by Zao Wou-Ki, Myonghi Kang, Marie de Villepin, Lawrence Carroll, and Yukimasa Ida - visionaries who represent different chapters of Villepin’s story.

Villepin’s journey began in 2020 with Friendship & Reconciliation, an exhibition dedicated to Zao Wou-Ki - a natural choice, as Villepin’s founders shared a deep friendship with the artist long before the gallery was conceived. Today, this bond is reflected in a new commission: a tapestry inspired by Zao’s triptych Le vent pousse la mer (2004–2005). Woven over 1,000 hours by the artisans at Pinton using 120 colours, it captures the chromatic depth and spirit of Zao’s original oil on canvas, a symbol of continuity and transformation.

Since then, Villepin has curated over twenty exhibitions, including four museum shows in China and Korea, and curated four exhibitions at unique locations across the globe

As dawn creeps through the window frame, as dusk paints the horizon, time slips away unnoticed in the ticking of moments. Yet the passage of time never reveals any form. It can be linear; it can be cyclical. We embrace space within the folds of time, yet often find ourselves left with nothing but frustrations in its formlessness. Grandly opening on 4 December 2025, this solo exhibition, Form of Time, by Lin Yusi will present a series of works on paper created in 2025. Inviting every viewer to participate in this artistic and spiritual journey about time as we approach the end of the year.

Using paper as his canvas and pastel as his brush, the artist captures time within the two-dimensional realm, sketching its vibrant contours. The “Form of Time” series represents Lin Yusi's bold breakthrough beyond his artistic boundaries, abandoning his carefully constructed formal systems, and relinquishing his pursuit of sharp brushwork to return creation to its most authentic state. Each contact between fingertips and pastel is not a deliberate design but a natural response to the preceding movement.

Opening reception: Thursday 4 Dec 2025 | 6-8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 46 Sai Street, Sheung Wan

Prepare to be swept away into an extraordinary world where timeless legend collides with trailblazing contemporary art! JPS Gallery Hong Kong is thrilled to unveil “Guan Yu vs. Wilson Shieh”, an exhilarating solo exhibition by Hong Kong’s visionary artist Wilson Shieh. At its heart beats the fierce spirit of Guan Yu (160-220 AD), the iconic warrior deity from the Three Kingdoms era, reimagined through Shieh’s innovative lens.

Here, Shieh’s signature architectural figures, cloaked in the silhouette of Hong Kong’s landmark buildings, roar to life as mighty warriors wielding traditional Chinese weapons. This mesmerising experience extends beyond traditional gallery viewing—featuring a meticulously recreated vintage cinema environment and groundbreaking AI-generated film that brings these painted warriors into stunning animated battle.

Opening reception: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 5 - 8 pm 

Artist Tour: Saturday, December 13, 2025, 3 - 4 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 88-90 Staunton Street, Central

Soluna Fine Art is proud to present Kaleidoscope City, the inaugural Hong Kong solo exhibition by Australian contemporary artist Jasmine Mansbridge. Deeply rooted in geometric art, Mansbridge constructs intricate visual worlds and distinctive compositions through her dynamic use of shapes, lines, and vibrant colours. Having visited Hong Kong multiple times, she infuses this new body of work with the city’s dynamism and visual rhythm. Kaleidoscope City embodies more than personal memory or experience; it is a meditation on universal values, human connection, and the infinite capacity of imagination. Through Mansbridge’s artistic lens, we are invited to journey into a world that is dynamic, multifaceted, and luminous, much like the ever-shifting patterns of a kaleidoscope.

Opening Reception: 4 December 2025 (Thursday) 6 - 8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 52 Sai Street, Sheung Wan

Born and raised in France, Antoine de Saint Vaulry has spent the greater part of his life abroad. Over twenty years ago, he left Paris for London before eventually settling in Hong Kong, where he has lived with his family since 2010.

A life of expatriation has proven deeply enriching — a continual encounter with new cultures, perspectives, and friendships that have shaped both his personal and artistic identity. For Antoine, this experience has inspired a constant reflection on questions of cultural identity, belonging, and heritage.

How does one define identity when life is lived between cultures? What becomes of national origins when experience and environment extend far beyond their borders? « Home is a Map » emerges from these questions — from the interplay between Antoine’s French heritage and his perspective as a guest in Hong Kong, immersed in a complex and ever-evolving city.

By appointment only

Gallery address: 8/F, E Wah Factory Building, 56-60 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

Rossi & Rossi is pleased to present Luce Iconica, a solo exhibition by Italian artist Massimo Antonaci (b. 1958). On view from 6 December 2025 through 21 February 2026, the presentation marks his third solo project with the gallery.

The Italian word ‘luce’ translates to ‘light’, and the light revered in the works of Antonaci is absolute and pure. Luce Iconicahighlights a series of works in gold, silver and white, all veiled by glass. Adhering to a 60 by 60 cm compositional guide, the artist has created virtual grids, where mental images intersect with space. In Cornerstone (2019), a slightly tilted glass pane rests atop a square of white paint, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface and see what the element truly embodies. As Antonaci noted in the catalogue from his 2019 retrospective at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong, ‘When the reflection of consciousness no longer projects any image, the mental substance manifests itself in its own nature, which is colourless’. Here, the glass is a window that frames human sight as a medium of manifestation.

Gallery address: 11F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

The exhibition features a variety of exquisite craftworks that create a crucible for innovation — the convergences between traditional masters’ disciplined techniques and contemporary designers and artists’ forward-thinking visions. Central to this exhibition is the concept of “creative cross-pollination”—a dynamic process where seemingly disparate ideas and techniques, drawn from diverse sources with traces of common ground, are brought together to generate something entirely new.

It brings together five groups of local and international artisans to create five groups of work that transcend boundaries and topple conventions.

Venue address: 11 Peel Street, Central

La Moustache, a group exhibition organized by Jordan Stein, opens this Saturday, 6 December, 6–8 PM, with a performance by Bill Orcutt.

With works by Lutz Bacher, Mary Helena Clark, Jay DeFeo, William Eggleston, Vincent Fecteau, Maureen Gallace, Doris Guo, Stephen Kaltenbach, Paul Kos, Lee Lozano, Danny McDonald, Kazuna Taguchi, Leo Valledor, and Jonathan Velazquez

Drawing loose inspiration from the existential thriller of the same name, La Moustache presents a searching exploration of that precarious psychic territory in which the accepted borders between sense and nonsense, interior and exterior, the abstract and the concrete, are rendered scintillatingly porous.

Gallery address: 19/F Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan

Curated by Wong Ka Ying, the exhibition features selected artworks in the British Council Collection alongside Hong Kong young artists, baaak3, David Chan, Genie Hui, Arlie Leung and Harris Wong, setting the stage for a vibrant exchange across generational, cultural and artistic visions.

Venue address: Bookshop Gallery, Level 1, British Council Hong Kong, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Zhao Hai Tien—Cultivation: 50 Years of Painting, a comprehensive overview of Zhao Hai Tien’s artistic journey as a painter and her boundless explorations as a Hong Kong artist, both locally and internationally. Her work is distinguished by a poignant confluence of abstract expression, spiritual depth, and cross-cultural dialogue. From her early New York-inflected abstractions to the later meditative, calligraphic, and cosmic visual language, she has consistently infused her practice with vitality, reflection, and resilience—an enduring testament to her inquiry into identity, spirituality, and the cosmos.  

Born in Shanghai in 1945, Zhao Hai Tien emerged as a pioneering figure in modern Chinese art and was among the few of her generation to train overseas before China’s opening in 1979. She completed her early studies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, before moving to New York, where she earned a BFA from Cooper Union in 1969. Immersed in the dynamic New York art scene of the 1960s, she began experimenting with abstraction, transforming her artistic language in bold and innovative ways. Zhao Hai Tien’s artistic evolution and creative explorations are characterised by a remarkable diversity of media—from airbrush and automotive spray paint on wooden folded screens and acrylic on canvas to calligraphic experiments, large-scale public murals, and oil paintings. Her practice blends technical precision with expressive freedom, deeply informed by spiritual traditions.  

Gallery address: 1/F, T. T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Korean Cultural Center invites you to the Opening Reception of the exhibition "Unfolding Silence (2025 Korean Artists Series)" on Wednesday, 10th December 2025. In collaboration with Whitestone Gallery, Gallery Exit, Soluna Fine Art, and Stroll Gallery, the exhibition will feature works by six prominent Korean abstract artists: KWON Soonik, BAE Sangsun, WOO Jong-Taek, JEONG Yun Kyung, KIM Deok Han, and LEE Chae.

This exhibition brings together Korean artists represented by Hong Kong galleries, showcasing the depth and diversity of contemporary Korean abstract art. Through their works, visitors will experience a visualized "Unfolding Silence"—an expression of inner reflection and sensory experience.

Opening Reception: Wed, 10 Dec 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM (Artists introduction at 7 PM)

Gallery address: 6-7/F, Block B, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central

Laibach’s artistic method operates through a precise and often unsettling strategy of over-identification. By appropriating and amplifying the rhetoric, aesthetics, and rituals of authority, the group transforms ideology into spectacle, compelling the viewer to confront their own complicity in the systems they believe they merely observe. This performative mirroring of power does not aim at parody or subversion in the conventional sense, but rather at revelation — a disclosure of the unconscious drives, fantasies, and desires that sustain collective belief.

Opening | 11 December 2025, 18:00

Talk | 13 December 2025, 15:00

hosted by Ivan Novak (aka Ivo Saliger), founder and core member of the Slovenian cult band Laibach.

Venue address: No.218, Hollywood Road

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Symbols of Identity: IKAT Textiles from Indonesia , a highly focused exhibition highlighting the artistic virtuosity of weavers across the Indonesian archipelago. Building upon the Museum’s presentation of IKAT Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago in 2017, and two new publication projects, including Noble Virtuosity: Hidden Asymmetry in Ikat Textiles from Sumba, the display reveals forms of asymmetric design that scholars so far have consistently overlooked or explicitly negated in the past. Today, investigations of early specimens reveal that high class weavers from these islands excelled in hiding tiny visual elements that disrupted expected symmetry in a way that was made to be overlooked. They exploited insights in the way we process visual information by simulating regularity, while deceitfully tying in elements that break it. Thereby they were so successful in their deceit that in academia it remained unnoticed for over a century.  

The creative virtuosity of these highly skilled artists was a product of the islands’ highly competitive culture, suffused by an ancient headhunting ethos. As the weavers strove to outsmart each other, naturally they guarded their repertoire of tricks. This secrecy increased the social distance between the nobility, commoners and slaves, reinforcing the islands’ feudal societal structure. Only high-caste initiates would even begin to look for hidden devices.  

Venue address: Study Gallery, G/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

This December, Kwai Fung Hin presents Enchanted Visions, a group exhibition featuring seven contemporary artists with ties to Italy. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, they conjure mythic, uncanny worlds where certainty dissolves and boundaries blur. Drawing on history, cultural heritage, symbolism, and philosophy, each artist translates reality into a field of possibilities beyond conventional logic.

Distinct in approach yet united in creative courage, they reveal hidden magic woven through the layers of perception in our contemporary world. Here, enchantment is not about pretty lies of fantasy, but about guiding viewers beyond the familiar toward the essence of things.

Gallery address: Office A, 9/F, Entertainment Building, 30 Queen's Road Central, Central

Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘Muted Hums’. The exhibition is curated by Celia Ho, featuring works by nine international and asian artists, including Catalina Africa (Philippines), Özlem Altın (Germany), Lêna Bùi(Vietnam), Oscar Chan Yik Long (Hong Kong/ Finland), Saodat Ismailova (Uzbekistan/ France), Ling Pui Sze (Hong Kong), Man Mei To (Hong Kong/ UK), Christina Quarles (USA), and Aycoobo - Wilson Rodríguez (Colombia), with three presenting newly commissioned works. 

‘Muted Hums’ explores the interplay between inner selves and the broader worlds around us. The exhibition invites the audience to engage with the multiplicity and fluidity of existence, attuning to a deeper awareness of the multifaceted dimensions of being. The exhibition title prompts our attention to the subtle and quiet pulses of intimate emotions that are often overlooked. It emphasises the significance of looking beyond immediate perceptions, connecting with the silent gestures of consciousness, revealing the fragmented truths we carry within our bodies that are inherited from those before us.

The exhibition revolves around the concept of mapping ourselves, and observing what our bodies hold. This inquiry transcends the corporeal boundaries beyond the present, serving as a reminder of the invisible energies that shape our connections. It challenges us to reconsider our sense of place within this intricate web of existences, where bodies exist within bodies and worlds unfold beyond the immediate. Spanning a wide variety of media (including paintings, sculptures, video, and site-specific works), the artworks illuminate the unseen realms of personal narratives and collective memories. Through the tensions between the fragmented and the unified, ‘Muted Hums’ reimagines the interconnectedness of all beings across time. 

Opening reception: Sat, 13 Dec 2025, 3-6pm

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Ind. Building 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker explores the Chinese-French artist’s life, his prints, and his mastery of abstraction. It sheds new light on Zao’s printmaking practice, introducing the unique aesthetics, techniques, and styles of this medium while investigating the connections between oil painting and printmaking as equally significant aspects of his oeuvre. The exhibition explores how Zao’s printmaking catalysed his experiments in abstraction and considers the role of prints as a visual and conceptual vehicle that facilitated the circulation of his works, positioning him as an eminent cross-cultural figure in the post-war art landscapes of Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Venue address: Main Hall Gallery, G

Hanart TZ is pleased to present: Morphology, by 𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗢𝗡 彼得•倪森 and 𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗦 𝗞𝗟𝗘𝗜𝗡 簡嗚謙
(In collaboration with Alvaro Cassinelli). The exhibition is supported by 𝘚𝘐𝘎𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘗𝘏 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢 2025 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 (𝘜𝘔𝘈𝘎)

Opening reception (artists will be present): 13 December 2025 (SAT) 2-6pm

Gallery address: 2/F Mai On Industrial Building, 17-21 Kung Yip Street, Kwai Chung

Alisan Fine Arts is delighted to present its sixth solo exhibition for Chinyee (1929-2023), honouring six decades of the renowned female abstractionist’s career. A first-generation Chinese-American artist, Chinyee was associated with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition marks her first posthumous solo show in Hong Kong since her passing in 2023 and features approximately ten oil paintings along with selected works on paper, including watercolours and collages created between 1955 and 2018. From traditional calligraphic strokes to vibrant Western hues, these pieces invite viewers to revisit the artist's evolution in abstraction. Many of the pieces have never been exhibited in Hong Kong, including several that will make their global debut.

Opening reception: 16 December 2025, 5pm-7pm

Gallery address: 21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce that, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Hong Kong space, we are presenting a large-scale group exhibition, "Decade One: Chronolect," from December 18, 2025, to January 31, 2026, at both our Central and Wong Chuk Hang spaces. The exhibition's title, "Chronolect" – a lexicon of time – captures the distinct artistic language developed over this inaugural decade. The exhibition aims to focus on the most precious gains in artistic practice—namely, "accumulation and growth"—connecting the iterative evolution of the artists' works, the gallery's and collectors' explorations within the industry, and the unwavering adherence to their original aspirations.

Since its establishment in Central in 2015, the space has hosted nearly 100 exhibitions, accumulating a wealth of academic knowledge, and has become a vital bridge connecting Chinese contemporary art with global dialogue. The second Hong Kong space was established in Wong Chuk Hang in 2023, focusing primarily on pan-international projects with young artists, interspersed with group and solo exhibitions featuring artists from Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and Japan.

Artists: Jonas Burgert, Cai Lei, Heri Dono, Huang Yongping, Jigger Cruz, Leng Guangmin, Edgar Plans, Qin Qi, Wang Du, Xiyao Wang, Wu Yi, Yue Minjun, Yang Jiechang, Zhao Zhao, Zhu Jinshi

Opening reception: 18 Dec, 2025, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Gallery address: 10/F, H Queen's, Central & 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

Square Street Gallery is pleased to present ‘Training Centre for the Soul’, a group exhibition curated by KY Wong, featuring Yarli Allison, Fyerool Darma, and Tu Lang. Taking its title from a meditation centre nearby, the exhibition draws parallels between machine learning, which trains algorithms through data and feedback, and the formation of human consciousness through lived experience. Who trains whom? Rather than fearing artificial intelligence as inherently threatening, we must examine how human biases and power structures become embedded within technological frameworks. The exhibition presents three artists who reveal these hidden infrastructures and reimagine technology’s potential for community building and social transformation through speculative possibilities.

Opening: 18 Dec 6 - 8 pm
Gallery address: 21 Square Street, Sheung Wan

In the coming December, SC Gallery will present “Becoming of Places”, a group exhibition featuring the works of Tsang Chui Mei, Hui Chung Ling, Genie and Ng Yin Lam, Ann. The three artists share a material-centred art practice and engage with the physicality of their medium: whether through accumulation and erosion of pigment, or by firing clay to become ceramics, they transform the fluctuation of time and inner sentiment into tangible physical marks and embodied space, constructing a visual landscape where fantasy and reality coexist.  “Becoming of Places” will open on 20th December and run till next year on 17th January.

Opening reception: 20 December, 4-7pm

Gallery address: 1902, Sungib Industrial Centre, Wong Chuk Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Wuhan based artist Li Chuangli’s first solo exhibition in Asia, titled Portrait. Featuring a series of new work on canvas centering on the theme of portraiture, Li explores his understanding of modernity and postmodernity, examining the subtle evolution of imagery and painting in a consumerist society, as well as the resulting phenomenological transformation in human perception.

Since 2023, Li has been creating paintings of the MT8 chrome-plated steel tube table lamp designed by Wilhelm Wagenfeld nearly a century ago. This lamp symbolizes the Bauhaus style born of the industrial renaissance era and stands as an emblem of modernity. The artist anthropomorphises it into a series of portraiture, thereby alluding to the individualistic tendencies of postmodernism. This series of work engages with the historical narrative of art-making, showcasing the overlapping shadows of time, evolved from religious subjectivity, to a modernist human-centric approach, and finally the contemporary individualistic expression.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

Looking back on decades in the world of ink and brush, I have increasingly come to appreciate the beauty of small and delicate in recent years—a realization that while the strokes may be simple, their meaning is infinite; and though the characters may be sparse, they are complete in the mind’s eye. This exhibition centers on “small-character” calligraphy, complemented by small regular script, as a deep dialogue between traditional heritage and modern visual expression. It is also my artistic exploration, as a calligrapher, of returning to the source of the heart.

Small-character calligraphy is where true skill shines through: the calligrapher must be able to balance composition, brushwork, ink resonance, line quality, structure, spacing, and emotional expression. Every dot and stroke is a response to the meaning of the character, and the literary intent of the work must harmonize with its expressive form, striving to achieve “perfection”. At the same time, calligraphy is a dialogue between the calligrapher and their own emotions—so what the viewer sees is not only the beauty of the form but also an image of the inner state.

Opening reception: 2026.01.08 (Thur) 5-7pm
Gallery address: Shop 103, 1/F, Block 3, Tai Kwun, Central

Japanese artist Ayano Tamuro has long centered her practice around the theme of the "interior space," constructing serene and warm worlds on canvas. For this solo exhibition, "LAMP", she focuses her gaze on this silent guardian of the room—the lamp. In the moment the light is switched on, the room's expression subtly transforms, as atmosphere, temperature, and emotion begin to flow and intermingle. This is more than a mere change in physical illumination; it symbolizes the awakening and return of inner feeling, offering a gentle invitation to viewers to shed the clamor of daily life and confront their most authentic yearnings.

Tamuro's work is rooted in the pursuit of "tranquil space." She meticulously weaves together precious moments with family, fragments of memory from travels, and flights of personal fantasy, translating them into narratives within her paintings. Skilled in the use of oil paint and oil pastel, she builds up layers of color on wooden panels, then employs a distinctive technique of scraping and carving to create vivid, soft textures and emotionally resonant bas-relief surfaces. Her palette is both vivid and gentle, delineating a tranquil universe uniquely her own, poised between reality and imagination.

Opening reception: 2026.01.10 (Sat) 5-7pm

Gallery address: Shop 202, 2/F, Block 3, Tai Kwun, Central

Aperture of Seeing presents Maggie Chu’s year long reflection on fleeting encounters. It drifts between seeing, memory, and place—collecting little fragments that stay.

Set inside a Tong Lau in Sheung Wan, the space unfolds in two acts—Seeing and The Pensieve—where layered marks and intuitive symbols trace an inner landscape. It’s a space to wander, pause, and maybe find a bit of your own story along the way.

Opening: Sat, 10 Jan 2026, 2 — 7 pm

Open Studio Preview: Thurs, Fri 8~9/1/2026 | 2 ~ 7 pm

Venue address: 2/F, No. 1 Queens Road West, Sheung Wan

gdm Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Wu Shan, featuring a curated selection of lacquer paintings and ink works created between 2012 and 2025. Recognized as a leading figure in contemporary lacquer art in China, Wu Shan has devoted himself to an in-depth exploration of the medium’s visual language. For him, lacquer embodies profound cultural resonance and conceptual richness. Through the meticulous process of layering and the passage of time, his works trace subtle trajectories of emotion and thought, crystallizing into tangible forms.

Wu Shan (b. 1960) was born into an artistic family. He received his degree in oil painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1982, pursued advanced studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, and returned to Hangzhou in 2006. Wu Shan’s turn to lacquer began unexpectedly. He positions the medium beyond its traditional associations with Eastern culture and craft, recontextualizing it historically and articulating it as a language of contemporary painting.

Opening Reception: 8 January 2026, 5-7pm
Gallery address: 11 Duddell Street, Central

Eaton HK is pleased to present “Decolonising Madness: The Naturally (In)complete Human”, curated by artist Sophie Cheung at Tomorrow Maybe during 9 Jan – 1 Feb 2026, advocating disability justice and questioning the legal framework for mental illness in Hong Kong and the world.

In a world that labels systemic failures and its normality as “madness,” we choose to respond by delving deeply into the laws of nature: every life is, by its very essence, (in)complete.

This exhibition critiques the legal concept of “mental incapacity” and the systems that measure legal capacity and subjectivity. Artist Sophie Cheung adopts “dis-identification” as method—neither fully accepting nor rejecting labels like “disability” or “recovery,” but strategically reclaiming and reassembling them.  Through ten years of community art workshops in Hong Kong and London, she and participators forged excluded experiences into raw material for creating “life” as the ultimate artwork. The show reveals how, at the margins of discipline, each of us can find vibrant ways of becoming ourselves.

Venue address: 4/F, Eaton HK

Vivian Ho’s solo exhibition You Will Never Walk Alone marks a significant moment of experimentation.
She brings her signature playful and quirky style onto canvas, exploring new techniques with acrylic paint and marker pens, while rediscovering the pure joy of painting. Her lenticular prints add a new dimension to traditional printmaking, offering fresh visual stimulation.

Through a whimsical lens, Ho reimagines Hong Kong’s urban life and culture. Her works are surreal yet grounded, weaving dazzling colors and intricate lines into the city’s sense of disorientation—just like Hong Kong itself: mesmerizing, inescapable.

The speeding train may never stop, and we may never find the so‑called exit. Yet this does not matter—for home is wherever we are together. Amid the city’s strange and dazzling scenes, there is no need for fear. Remember: you are not alone.
Even if the train never reaches the ideal shore, the journey itself is radiant. With companions by your side, every detour becomes a homecoming.

Opening Reception: 9 Jan (Fri) 5:30pm – 8:00pm

Gallery address: Suite 1703, Chinachem Building, 1-13 Hollywood Road, Central

A moment from the past does not rush, yet it is soft and persistent. It lingers in the memory, in the echo of a glance, in the pause between footsteps. Lingering is how a moment speaks when it refuses to be forgotten, it stretches a second into a story. The residue of motion, the shimmer of what was just there, still trembling in the air. In lingering, it reveals its true nature of being a rhythm, a breath, a presence that never fully fades.

In this exhibition, Choi Nga Sze Angie continues her use of taxi serving as a metaphor for life’s constant motion—a cycle of arrivals and departures. Inspired by photography, stop motion animation and the zoetrope, Choi uses ceramic works to capture fleeting moments that layer into memory. By suspending motion on surfaces both fragile and enduring, the pieces invite reflection on how transient experiences quietly shape who we are.

Opening reception: 10 Jan, 14:00-19:00

Gallery address: G/F, 13A Prince's Terrace, Mid-Levels Central, Central

Constant overexertion slowly drains the self. Letting go would break the long-built sense of identity. To sustain the continuity of daily life is merely to force the old contours back together in a fragile adhesion, while the interior has long since become hollow.

This showcase comes from Kan Kin Kin’s long experience caring for family members during illness. It captures the specific emotional and mental state of that time. On canvas, he replaces consolation or resistance with silence.

Kan Kin Kin seeks to understand the structure and emotional tension of this experience through painting. He renders a series of interior scenes and still lifes in oil. The reference images are first printed on a home printer into rough, distorted versions, then transferred onto canvas with soft, barely discernible brushstrokes. This process softens the originally sharp outlines, forming planar spaces imbued with feeling and evoking an atmosphere at once intimate and alienating.

Gallery address: Unit 707, 7/F, Block B, Po Lung Centre, 11 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay

Featuring seven emerging artists from across the globe—Yuno Fukuda, ISATO, Wing Mak, Carlos Koo, Anjali Purkayastha, Danni Shen, and Kaisha Woo—this show unfolds between the start of the Gregorian year and the end of the Lunar Year of the Snake.

At its heart is the symbol of the Ouroboros, representing the eternal cycle of self-destruction and creation. The exhibition traces a visual passage from darkness to light, reflecting both the curated journey of the works and the rising careers of the artists. “Daybreak” signifies breakthrough, shedding the old, and the resilient light that follows the darkest night.

Opening: 10 January 2026 (Saturday), 5pm–7pm

Gallery address: 18-20 Wyndham Street, Central

Hong Kong Arts Centre ifva continued partnership with the Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present a solo exhibition for the outstanding winner of the ifva Media Art Category. This year, we are delighted to present L.O.V.E.R a debut solo media arts exhibition by Natalie Isdoingokay, recipient of the Gold Award at the 29th ifva Awards.

IN and OUT. Right now take that breath in and out. Memories rush in, reflecting on how time slips through the blink of an eye. Visions and memories lash out, swiftly in between the fingers.

Grasping fragments of her past, musing a future puzzle, weaving the pieces into the fabric of her future, forging a pathway to her tomorrow. She’s on a quest for the light and the truth in the loom of lost in a mist. The infinite void engulfs her wrestling strength gazing and blinking through the chaos of now.

Opening reception: 16/1/2026 (Fri) 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Venue address: 14/F, Goethe-Gallery & Black Box Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai

Asia Society Hong Kong Center, in collaboration with INKstudio, is proud to present Bing Yi: Taihang Rhapsody, the latest contemporary ink art solo exhibition by art historian and artist Bingyi.

The exhibition is presented as the long-lost artworks of Hua, the fictional Northern Song Matriarch of Painting, rediscovered and "archaeologically excavated" by the artist Bingyi from a Song Dynasty temple site in the Taihang Mountains – partly based on historical clues and partly on personal imagination. In Bingyi's series of speculative reconstructions, Hua is not only a pioneering female artist in Chinese art history but also a visionary philosopher and political thinker. Independent of the great masters of the Song Dynasty landscape painting and the subsequent male literati painting tradition, Hua created an alternative aesthetic system that de-centered the patriarchal, Confucian, brush- and ego-centered mode of literati landscape painting and re-centered the expressive possibilities of brush-and-ink on water, on Taoism, on nature, and on the creative experiences of women.

Venue address: Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Admiralty

Sotheby’s is pleased to present Intimate Form: A Collection of Small-Scale Sculpture by Henry Moore. Maquettes were small models Moore created as studies for a larger sculpture. This exhibition displays for the first time in Hong Kong, forty miniature works, most of which can fit in the hand.

Henry Moore stands as one of the most transformative figures in 20th-century sculpture, a visionary whose work redefined the parameters of modern art. His signature semi-abstract forms, often rendered in bronze and stone, are celebrated for their organic fluidity and profound engagement with the human figure.

15 January - 2 February 2026

Venue address: G/F, Landmark Chater, 8 Connaught Road Central, Central

Contemporary by Angela Li is proud to present a group exhibition, "Still Be-Life", curated by Hong Kong curator, Shirky Chan, from 15 January to 28 February 2026, showcasing works by seven Hong Kong artists, including Jess Lau, Doris Ng, Natalie Ng, Lukas Tam, Tsang Chui Mei, Annie Wan and Candyce Wong.

We may believe still life is a quiet art. A captured moment. A bowl of fruit, forever fresh; a vase of flowers, eternally in bloom. But if you listen closely, you can hear the hum.
 
This exhibition, “Still Be-Life”, is an invitation to listen. It is the second chapter in a conversation that began by questioning a genre's assumptions. Now, we venture deeper—into the space where objects begin to speak. They tell stories of love and loss, of present and memory, of a world thrumming with life just beneath the surface of the still. The artists here are not arrangers of form, but translators of voice. They stage quiet dramas and give language to the seemingly mute.

Opening reception: Thursday, 15 January 2026, from 5 to 8:00 p.m., with the curator and six artists present.

Gallery address: G/F, 248 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan

Illuminati Fine Art is thrilled to present "TAN TAN · XU LIANG duo solo exhibition". The opening reception is on 15 January 2026 (5-7 PM) with the artists attendance. Exhibition runs from 15 January to 5 February 2026.

Gallery address: 31-33 Hollywood Road, Central

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Hong Kong location “Play Gravity”, Yirui Jia’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Yirui Jia was born in China in 1997 and moved to the US in 2015. She graduated with a BFA from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2022. In the last five years, Jia has presented a series of boisterous, multilayered paintings driven by unplanned cadenza and relentless overpainting, building a highly theatricalised world that is colourful and exuberant, communicating between intuition and lived experience. She understands painting as a process of impulse and detour, commanding recurring characters such as an alien-like skeleton and a heroic one-eyed bride who freely changes into a warrior, an astronaut, or an untamed femme fatale.

Gallery addreee: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai

WMA presents ‘Pollyanna and the Glad Town’, the inaugural commissioned project for its 2025/26 biennial theme ‘Hope’. Hong Kong artist Doris Wong Wai Yin, known for her conceptual practice attuned to everyday experience, ventures into new ground with AI‑generated images alongside performance and video. Rather than resorting to slogan-like declarations, the project probes hope as something far more intricate, authentic and emotionally multifaceted in contemporary society.

The artist introduces the classic children’s literary character Pollyanna－an unwavering optimist who ‘finds the good in everything’－and sends her into the battleground of ‘Glad Town’. Can such a persona remain intact? A series of video and installation works marked by ruptures and a sense of aesthetic excess interrupts our numbness to the digital and physical worlds, prompting us to reflect on the meaning of hope.

Gallery address: 8/F Chun Wo Commercial Centre, 23-29 Wing Wo Street

For his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Tide presents “Edit,” a meditation on the evolving awareness of time.

Moving away from his characteristic immediacy, the artist revisits each canvas over extended durations—repeatedly erasing and overdrawing to construct a quiet, hidden history. Though the surfaces remain poised and refined, the works reveal an atmospheric depth beyond his earlier style. Each painting becomes a translucent record of patience and revision, inviting the viewer to perceive within its layers the slow passage of time.

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Gallery address: 20/F, Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

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BELOWGROUND (January 15 to 30, 2026)
Gallery address: Basement, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Central

Gallery EXIT presents ‘Sprawl’, a solo exhibition by Elpis CHOW featuring her latest and recent oil paintings. The works mostly focus on natural scenes found throughout Hong Kong—plants, animals, and quiet corners near bus stops or parks—transformed through the artist’s keen observation into personal records of the urban landscape. Chow is known for her ability to depict the texture and form of plants within the cityscape. She reimagines overlooked spaces on her canvases, bringing a new sense of order through her distinct color palette and composition.

Opening reception: Saturday, 17 January, 2 - 5pm

Gallery address: 3?F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen

HART HAUS is pleased to present “No Man’s Land”, Marian Ang’s solo show showcasing works created in the HART Studio Programme within the past year.

Fragments of stories from the Chinese diaspora about women and motherhood are intertwined with disconnected markers of reality: antique jewel boxes, faded travel souvenirs, cheaply printed lunar calendars, ancient and mass-produced ceramics, worn-out baby shoes.

Displaced over several generations of women who migrated around the world over the past century, these dislocated objects have become evidence of lives lived in unfamiliar places - homes made, traditions carefully preserved, and buried frameworks of thinking that persist even centuries later.

Reconstructing these broken threads into narratives of the existential search for luck and fortune amongst the Chinese diaspora, Ang creates new systems of identity and belonging.

Opening reception: Saturday 17 January 2026, 15:00 18:00

Venue address: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town

We are delighted to present Lost and Found (失物招領, a duo show by British artist Thomas Cameron and London-based Korean artist Momin Choi, exploring the complexity of urban life and its tension within.

Opening reception and meet the artists: Saturday, 17 January 2026 | 4-7 PM
Gallery address: 2101, Landmark South, Wong Chuk Hang

The newly commissioned work A Day is an eight-channel video installation created by the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Peili.  

Rooted in reflections on bodily impairment and the limits of life, the work guides viewers through everyday public and private spaces via moving images. As the visuals continuously accelerate, decelerate, and collapse, they create a disorienting and elusive experience of time and space. 

A Day is the third multimedia installation of the DigiRadiance series and is specially commissioned to transform the historic F Hall Studio on Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard into an immersive artwork.

Temp_ Institute is a two-week programme comprising research seminars and public lectures, designed for arts and cultural professionals and tertiary-level students from Hong Kong and across Asia.

From 2018 to 2023, Tai Kwun Contemporary curated five editions of Summer Institute, bringing together scholars and participants to explore a range of pressing and significant art and cross-disciplinary topics - body and artificial intelligence, ecology and technology, time and space, labour and privilege, among others. Through alternative approaches to pedagogy and knowledge-making, we investigated future opportunities and challenges facing art, society, and the wider world.

Building on this legacy of "temporarily instituted" learning and discussion, Temp_ Institute continues to foster an open network, enabling participants to engage in in-depth dialogue with some of the most important art theorists and scholars, curators, artists, and philosophers from Hong Kong and abroad, together constructing a platform for the convergence of ideas.

White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia by London-based artist Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton, UK), featuring new large-scale paintings.

Exploring time, space and the subconscious, Whyte’s imagined environments evoke a sense of mystery and introspection, using loose brushstrokes and expansive compositions. Through a non-linear narrative, his recurring motifs and staged figures lend a theatrical quality, as if his canvases were scenes from an unfolding play. Though devoid of self-portraiture, Whyte’s paintings reflect his inner life, inviting viewers to interpret his surreal, dreamlike worlds as reflections of their own.

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

seeing sound, hearing time celebrates the legacy of composer, producer, and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese, 1952–2023). Sakamoto is renowned for his award-winning film scores, wide-ranging collaborations, and exploratory spirit. His 2017 album, async, which he described as ‘some of the most personal music I have ever created’, forms the core of async–immersion (2023), a large-scale installation created in collaboration with artist Shiro Takatani (Japanese, born 1963). The work is part of a series of what they call ‘installation music’, in which the album is paired with a three-dimensional representation of the music in a gallery space. Shown as a site-specific installation in The Studio, the work features Takatani’s visual compositions of Sakamoto’s instruments, plants, books, and other objects in his studio, shown on a large LED screen. The images emerge from either side of the screen and dissolve, one pixel at a time, into abstract horizontal lines before regaining their original form. Takatani’s visual interventions are not synchronised with the sound but evolve continuously, creating a parallel time axis within the artwork. The music from async plays through multiple channels in a surround sound system via high-precision speakers, enveloping visitors in an immersive sonic experience.

Lee Bul (South Korean, born 1964) is one of the most prominent contemporary artists to emerge from Asia in recent decades. Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now is a comprehensive survey of her career to date, featuring major works from the artist’s studio and collections across Asia and beyond.

The exhibition at M+ unfolds in three comprehensive sections that span the artist’s career. It opens with an immersive open landscape, featuring iconic architectural installations from Lee’s Mon grand récit series (2005–ongoing). These complex works encourage visitors to reflect on the grand narratives of the modernist project and the aesthetics of failed utopias. This section also includes a selection of two-dimensional works from the Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable—Velvet) and Perdu series (2016–ongoing). The second chapter presents examples of Lee’s groundbreaking Cyborg and Anagram series from the late 1990s and early 2000s, which first brought her international acclaim. Combining wide-ranging references from critical theory, art history, and science fiction, these striking works explore entwined ideas of figuration, gender, and beauty in an increasingly technological world. The final section, evoking an artist’s studio, features a constellation of drawings, sketches, and maquettes, revealing how Lee conceptualises and realises her artworks.

Venue address: West Gallery, L2, M+

Double Q is delighted to announce Luca Sára Rózsa's second solo exhibition at the gallery, scheduled to open in March during Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.

Luca Sára Rózsa (b. 1990, Hungary) analyses the complex relationship between mankind and his environment. Her figures, taken from the Bible and mythology, are often shown in a natural setting in line with the representational portraiture of the Renaissance and the baroque. Placed within a utopian, dreamlike landscape of solitude, her figures are forced to face their own anxieties stemming from the eternity of the world. As the artist describes it, “The figures in my paintings are mammals who have eaten from the Tree of Knowledge and have been expelled from Paradise. They are fully exposed to their fate, facing it either with resignation or hope.”

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan

David Zwirner is pleased to present Pearl Lines, an exhibition of new paintings by New York–based artist Walter Price (b. 1989). Price is known for his richly vibrant paintings and drawings, which bypass strict allegiances to representational or abstract modes. His canvases and works on paper not only experiment freely with color, line, and space but also reveal emphatic shifts in perspective, suggesting scenes and imagery that the artist ultimately leaves for viewers to absorb and contemplate on their own.

This is Price’s first solo exhibition in Asia, and his second with the gallery since he joined David Zwirner in 2024. Price’s work is also included in the 2025–2026 group exhibition MONUMENTS, co-organized and co-presented by The Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson.

Gallery address: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, Central

Asia Society Hong Kong Center proudly presents Hung Hsien: Between Worlds, the first part of “Celebration of Ink” – a two-part series that celebrates the profound legacy and spirit of contemporary ink art.

93-year-old Hung Hsien (洪嫻, Margaret Chang) was born in Yangzhou, China in 1933, she moved to Taiwan in 1948, where she studied under revered scholar-painter Prince Pu Ru. She continued her studies at National Taiwan Normal University before relocating to the United States in 1958, where she engaged deeply with Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and other modernist movements while studying at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gallery address: 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Poet John Giorno (American, 1936–2019) initiated Dial-A-Poem in 1968 to bring poetry into everyday life. Believing that ‘much poetry is intended to be heard, not merely read’, he invited writers, artists, and musicians to contribute works that anyone could access by dialling a hotline. The project later evolved into a gallery installation of telephone sculptures, allowing visitors to listen to randomly selected readings.

In recent years, the project has expanded internationally. Versions developed in France, Mexico, and Brazil showcase works by local makers in their own languages. Dial-A-Poem Hong Kong features newly recorded readings in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English by approximately thirty local poets, including Bei Dao, Cao Shuying, Tim Tim Cheng, Chow Hon Fai, Derek Chung, Olivier Cong, Ho Fuk Yan, Hon Ki Chau, Huang Canran, Kitty Hung, Stuart Lau, Louise Law, Liu Wai Tong, Lok Fung, Luk Wing-yu, Isadora Neves Marques, Wong Hin Yan, Jennifer Wong, Nicholas Wong, Peace Wong, Sonia Wong, Xixi, Yam Gong, Yasi, Yau Ching, Eric Yip, and Zheng Danyi, and more. Visitors can listen to the poems via telephones in the Focus Gallery or by calling a local phone number.

This exhibition brings together two thought-provoking works from the M+ Collection by artists Heri Dono (Indonesian, born 1960) and Wael Shawky (Egyptian, born 1971). Both artists explore how civilisations evolve and intertwine, drawing on enduring traditions such as mythology and folk tales, oral storytelling, and theatre. These forms do not merely connect us to the past—they invite us to imagine alternative futures beyond the relentless drive of economic progress and modernisation.

Wael Shawky’s video work I Am Hymns of the New Temples (2023) delves into humanity’s beginnings and the construction of national narratives. Set among the ruins of Pompeii, actors wearing handmade ceramic and papier-mâché masks move through the remnants of the city, situated at the ancient crossroads of exchange between Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures. The work reinterprets shared creation myths and theatrical traditions to explore our need to make sense of the world through storytelling, and the way these narratives are adapted and reshaped for national purposes.

Heri Dono’s kinetic installation Fermentation of the Mind (1992–1993) resembles a classroom, featuring rows of old wooden desks topped with white fibreglass heads. When activated by a pedal, the heads nod in unison and emit distorted chanting sounds. The work is inspired by Indonesia’s sociopolitical landscape in the early 1990s, particularly the state’s influence on public opinion and independent thought through propaganda. Drawing on the rich Javanese tradition of wayang kulit (shadow puppetry), Dono uses satire to reflect on history, society, and culture.

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This exciting, family-friendly exhibition explores contemporary design and its hidden impacts on our everyday actions, like walking, eating, and sitting. It reveals how design can improve our lives, influence our behaviours, and foster human connections. General director Taku Satoh (Japanese, born 1955), video director Yugo Nakamura (Japanese, born 1970), and music director Shuta Hasunuma (Japanese, born 1983) invited designers and artists to respond to the exhibition’s ideas, resulting in a variety of activities: hands-on games, interactive installations, and immersive audiovisual rooms. The show aims to spark creativity and surprise—moments of inspiration that make you say ‘Ah!’.

Design Ah! at M+ is an adaptation of the highly successful exhibition at TOKYO NODE, produced with NHK Educational and NHK Promotion. It is based on Design Ah! neo, a Japanese children’s educational television programme produced by Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation). The programme has received numerous international awards, including at the Prix Jeunesse and Peabody Awards. The M+ presentation is the first Design Ah! exhibition organised outside of Japan.

Venue address: Main Hall Gallery, G, M+

This presentation celebrates the museum’s fifth anniversary with a significant donation to the M+ Collections from Herzog & de Meuron (established Switzerland, 1978), the world-renowned architecture firm that designed the museum building.

The exhibition showcases newly donated models, drawings, and material samples that reveal Herzog & de Meuron’s innovative architectural practice. It focuses on built and unbuilt projects in China, including landmark buildings such as M+ (2013–2020), Tai Kwun in Hong Kong (2006–2018), and the National Stadium in Beijing (2002–2008), as well as urban planning projects that respond to how territory and landscape fundamentally shape the form of cities. These works reflect the firm’s deep engagement with China since the early 2000s, set against the backdrop of the country’s rapid economic growth and ambitious infrastructure development.

Myths, Monsters, and Manga: The Art of Fantasy in Asia explores the role of fantasy in the evolution of Asian visual culture and its global impacts. Spanning from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, the exhibition presents fantasy as a potent creative tool for artists to respond to shifting sociopolitical conditions. Through imaginative stories, characters, and worlds, these artists confront complex realities that resonate with contemporary experiences. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the links between a wide range of genres and styles, highlighting historical connections that have rarely been explored.

Unfolding across four chapters, the exhibition begins with pre-modern traditions such as Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Indonesian shadow puppetry, and Tibetan Buddhist scrolls. These traditions helped establish fantasy as a foundational element of Asian visual culture. Chapters two and three trace major twentieth-century developments, including the spread of Surrealism through Asia and the post-war emergence of Japanese manga and anime. The final chapter presents the explosion of fantastical anime aesthetics in art, design, architecture, film, fashion, video games, and digital culture around the world that continues to the present day. It shows how these creative forms move fluidly across disciplines and regions in the twenty-first century.