THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to announce the 6th edition of its annual residency programme, DOOR, featuring Hong Kong–based artist Kan Ka Kin and Tokyo-born artist Masamitsu Shigeta. Since its inception in 2021, DOOR has transformed the gallery’s historic shophouse into an active studio environment, fostering a tripartite dialogue between artist, audience, and space.

Conceived around the metaphor of the door as both physical and psychological threshold, DOOR frames art as an entrance—into a building, into a process, and into the interior world of another. The programme foregrounds artistic process, displacement, and exchange.

Although shaped by different personal histories and geographies, Kan and Shigeta share a similarity in their approach: both begin with photographs taken in their everyday lives—often using their smart phones, just as most people do.

The images are not staged or spectacular. They are fragments of the ordinary: a quiet corner of a room, a city facade, a tree glimpsed during a commute, a fleeting posture, an unnoticed threshold. Yet from these casual snapshots, each artist constructs a highly individual visual language. What others scroll past becomes, for them, a site of sustained attention.

DOOR 2026

Residency period: 3.6 - 1.7.2026
Exhibition period: 4.7 - 19.7.2026
Address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang,