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