Tai Kwun Contemporary's latest public art commission, Waiting Pavilions, investigates the passage of time in the setting of a former prison, the Victoria Goal. Created by the acclaimed Polish artist Alicja Kwade—known for using everyday materials to ask questions about existing realities and social structures—Waiting Pavilions are the artist's first site-specific installation in Hong Kong, bridging the past and present on Tai Kwun's Prison Yard.

With glass, metal, and stone, Kwade reimagines the waiting experience in a contemporary context. Six prison-like structures, built with glass bricks, dot the Prison Yard. The transparency of the bricks alludes to the unseen confines of modern life. The numerous white chairs nearby, each holding up a sizable stone, may also allow viewers to think of how the external environment is connected to our inner worlds. In a way, Waiting Pavilions points to how reality often transcends initial appearances.

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 Garden of Resemblances" is an exhibition inspired by the ancient doctrine of signatures, a belief that the visible forms of natural objects reflect their hidden properties, particularly in medicine. While modern science has rejected this notion, its evocative associations provide a rich springboard for artistic imagination. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the episteme from The Order of Things, the work examines the shifts in knowledge structures from traditional to modern thought.

By transforming the exhibition space into a dreamlike, otherworldly environment, this exhibition features kinetic installations that blurs the boundaries between nature, technology and imagination. The garden serves as an experiential landscape, inviting visitors to wander in the liminal space between the real and the imagined. Integrating the organic with the mechanical and the natural with the artificial, the installation offers a meditative journey through the interplay of historical imagination and contemporary innovation.

Venue address: 12 Oil Street, North Point

Jointly curated by Mr Hing Chao, Mr Henry Lu and Ms Amanda Wang Youlin, the exhibition will showcase nearly 200 exhibits of Central Africa, spanning the 19th to the early 20th centuries, allowing visitors to appreciate the three treasures of Central African art––sculptures, masks, and weapons––and understand their fundamental roles in society. This groundbreaking exhibition will transform the gallery into an immersive theatre through new media technologies, allowing visitors to appreciate Central African art from all angles.

The exhibition is organised into three main sections—(1) Ritual Sculpture – Invocation; (2) Masks – Transfiguration; (3) Weapons – Social & Symbolic Action—as well as a section on Geographical Zones. Additionally, the exhibition (re)interprets the arts reflecting the beliefs, rituals and sociocultural memories of the people through five media art installations curated by Dr Yumeng Hou, spread across sections. This engaging journey invites visitors to perceive art through multi-sensory channels while encouraging them to interact within the boundaries of sacred, spiritual experience.

Venue address: 18/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong 

Established in 1925, The Palace Museum is a large-scale national museum housed on the grounds of the palatial complex of the Ming and Qing dynasties known as the Forbidden City. The most expansive and best-preserved historical palatial complex in the world, it holds a vast collection of over 1.86 million cultural objects based on the Ming and Qing imperial collections.

Inside the Palace Museum, visitors are greeted by exquisite patterns that adorn the eaves, walls, and windows of the grand palace buildings, as well as the furniture, objects, and garments on display. Chinese people take pleasure in embellishing everyday life with rich and diverse symbolic patterns that reflect their love and respect for nature and the living. These patterns, celebrating traditional craftsmanship and an unwavering pursuit of beauty, embody the enduring legacy of Chinese aesthetic sensibilities and cultural values that continue to shape our life today.

Venue address: Gallery 7, Hong Kong Palace Museum

The Stallery is proud to present Artifice, a groundbreaking new exhibition by CHANG, opening on 24 May 2025. Coinciding with The Stallery’s 10th Anniversary in 2025, the series delves deep into the inherent conflicts within our modern existence, the passage of time, and the intersections between the natural and the artificial.

At its core, Artifice explores the concept of duality—how every aspect of life is made up of contradictions. This body of work, which began with an exploration of Chinese scholars’ rocks, evolved into an examination of nature, existence, and technology. Just as rocks tell the story of millions of years, through their shapes and textures, Artifice juxtaposes the purity of the natural form with the heresy of symbols from contemporary society.

The artist’s fascination with duality is reflected not only in the subject matter but also in the process itself. Months of painstaking work are distilled into an instant through the medium of screen printing, embodying the tension between the long and the short, the deliberate and the immediate. Sculptures that resemble Lingbi stones are cast in bronze and hollow within. The series is the artist’s most conceptual work to date, stripping away color, line, and excess to focus on form and concept. These minimalist pieces draw inspiration from ancient Chinese rock appreciation, which venerates the interplay of solid and void, of permanence and decay. Each piece holds a mirror to reality, revealing both authenticity and deception within it.

The British Council Hong Kong is delighted to announce the launch of its newly transformed art space Bookshop Gallery, with the opening of its inaugural exhibition, “Moore’s Visions. More Revisions.”, curated by Hong Kong curator Jims Lam.

Moore’s Visions. More Revisions. aims at honouring Henry Moore's legacy as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the exhibition also stage a dynamic dialogue between historical influence and contemporary perspectives in our present moment. The works by four contemporary artists Zheng Bo, Chihoi , Wilson Shieh and Liao Wen foster intergenerational exchange and challenge historical hierarchies within the visual arts.

Venue: Bookshop Gallery, G/F, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty 

The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong and L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, are honoured to welcome for the first time an exhibition devoted to jewellery designs, jewellery masterpieces, and the process of creating art from precious metals and stones. Little studied and published, even more rarely exhibited, jewellery drawings remain relatively unknown to the public.

Benefitting from Van Cleef & Arpels Patrimony Collection combined with the Van Cleef & Arpels Jewelry Culture Fund, set up for research, presentation and educational purposes in 2019, loans from Lalique Museum France, and private jewellery Collections from Hong Kong, the exhibition features a remarkable collection of about 100 drawings alongside 13 exquisite jewellery pieces. 

Venue address: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Representing Hong Kong in a Collateral Event at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Trevor Yeung returns to M+ with a new configuration of his commissioned solo exhibition, Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice. Yeung’s installations explore the relationships between human and aquatic ecosystems and comment on the emotional disconnections and power dynamics of contemporary society. Restaged in a museum setting, the exhibition shifts focus to discuss larger environmental and systemic issues. This response exhibition is part of the sixth collaboration between M+ and Hong Kong Arts Development Council on Hong Kong’s presentation during the Biennale.

As the first major Islamic art exhibition held in Hong Kong, “Wonders of Imperial Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” features carpets from Iran, Türkiye, and India, along with ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts, and jades from the 10th to 19th centuries. These exquisite works illustrate the vital artistic exchange, facilitated by trade, migration, and diplomacy, among the three major pre-modern Islamic empires, namely the Safavid dynasty (1501–1736), Mughal dynasty (1526–1857), and Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923). This exhibition also evinces the inspiration Chinese art has given artists in the Islamic world, and vice versa.

The exhibition is divided into four sections: the first section introduces the cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the Islamic world and China since the Tang dynasty; the following three sections focus on, respectively, the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman dynasties. The design and creation of carpets and other works of art are explored in each section, offering insights into the cultural significance of imperial and finely knotted carpets, the transfer of interregional knowledge, and local characteristics.

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Venue address: Gallery 9, Hong Kong Palace Museum

Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present Cherie Cheuk’s long awaited first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Featuring more than twenty works from four distinct series—Gathering of Ten Fragrances, Transcending Boundaries, Ballad of the Seasons, and Mutual Reflections—the exhibition reimagines ink art through contemporary perspectives. Steeped in Song Dynasty painting traditions yet fluent in digital-age visual culture, Cheuk bridges antiquity and modernity with lyrical wit, transforming classical techniques into vibrant dialogues with our times.

A graduate of Hong Kong’s rigorous ink painting programmes, Cheuk represents a generation that honours tradition while embracing conceptual freedom. Her works retain Song Dynasty technical mastery—evident in exquisite renderings of birds and branches—yet pulse with comic book energy and digital-age hybridity. The artist’s earlier triptych Eternal Current visualizes this duality: seabirds and waves form an infinity symbol, capturing what Cheuk calls “life’s unbroken rhythm within fragmented time.”

Opening Reception: 18 June 2025, Wednesday, 5pm-7pm

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

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Bamboo Baskets: Chinese Origins, Japanese Innovations, a major exhibition offering an overview of the finest achievements of bamboo art in East Asia. The expansive yet meticulously curated selection prompts a reassessment of the central role played by continental prototypes, or Karamono (唐物, literally ‘Tang things’ or ‘Chinese things’), in the remarkable development of Japanese basketry over the past 150 years. Supported by two visionary collectors, this exhibition marks the first time that Chinese and Japanese baskets are being presented side by side in Hong Kong. 

The display of bamboo baskets encompasses more than 200 objects that illustrate a wide range of weaving techniques, tracing the evolution of early Ming and Qing dynasty vessels to their influence on Edo period artefacts and the innovative development of contemporary kogei. Focused on the transfer of knowledge and the preservation of long-practiced bamboo weaving techniques, the exhibition also explores the cultural context of the traditional tea ceremony and the related art of ikebana flower arrangement. Together, the exhibition documents the handcrafted creation of some of East Asia’s finest decorative arts and celebrates a significant form of intangible cultural heritage, still perfected by family workshops that have passed down their skills through generations. 

This exhibition relies on exemplary loans from both the Naej Collection in Germany and the Muwen Tang Collection in Hong Kong, and is supported by the HKU Museum Society.  

Canton Modern presents twentieth-century Cantonese art and visual culture in its full complexity as an important chapter in global modernism. United in a shared linguistic and cultural identity, the southern port cities of Guangzhou (also known as Canton) and Hong Kong were historically marginal in China. The birthplace of revolution, the two cities gave rise to a distinctive visual and artistic modernism, one shaped by cross-cultural interactions and tensions between conservative and progressive artworlds. Cantonese artists broke away from the elegant poetics of classical ink painting to forge a socially oriented realism, depicting subjects ranging from leisure and labour to war and disaster. Working as journalists and publishers, they exploited the immediacy and circulation of print, photography, and cartoons to intervene in and even reform society.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is delighted to unveil the new M+ Facade commission HK:PM (2025) by internationally acclaimed photographer Greg Girard. This thrilling work is a visual journey through Hong Kong’s cityscape. HK:PM will be shown on the M+ Facade every night from Friday, 4 July to Sunday, 28 September 2025.

HK:PM animates analogue photographs from Girard’s personal collection, shot between the 1970s and 1990s. They portray the bustling streets of Central, featuring students, fashionistas, and workers going about their daily lives. Girard also weaves in rare photographs of the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City. In other scenes, neon-lit streets, lively nightclubs, and magical celebrity moments come to life. There is a sense of perpetual motion, from airplanes soaring between dense skyscrapers near old Kai Tak Airport to the constant activity along Victoria Harbour.

 Girard is renowned for capturing cities in transformation, and HK:PM returns his photographs to the site of their creation. In this new format, incidental situations become lasting images, and their sequence unfolds like a film. As a keen-eyed urban explorer, Girard considers how intimate moments and personal memories together shape a collective history, connecting the past with the present.

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Hong Kong headquarters “Summer”, an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Liu Yin. The exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of nature that began with her 2023 exhibition “Spring”, revealing gentle and surging emotions in flowers, trees, fruits, seas and rocks.

More than a dozen paintings on view at Kiang Malingue’s Sik On Street space are organized into three chapters. In the first series of paintings, one sees a number of fruit-figures floating and frolicking in the waters: works such as River #1 (2025) reflect the artist’s interest in small bodies of water, such as rivers and streams, where traces of life remain and constantly redefine the environment in which they are left—the natural elements found in the waters interact with one another, adding another lively layer to the complex ecosystem of the flowing waters. In these paintings, Liu continues to paint adorable shōjo manga faces over flowers, leaves, and fruits, turning them into sentient, sensitive beings. They are unapologetically emotional in the network of affect they form with the environments, guiding the viewer’s gaze through compositions that deal with bodily concerns and expressiveness. Another work in this chapter, Summer (2025), actively draws the viewer’s body into a verdant landscape where joyful flowers emerge from a deep labyrinth of branches and leaves.

Opening reception: Thur, 10 July, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai

"THE HONG KONG ICONICS: Hong Kong Art Basel Review" exhibition opened on July 11 at Lucie Chang Fine Arts. This exhibition focuses on three iconic Hong Kong artists—King of Kowloon(Tsang Tsao Choi), Zhao Haitien, and Anothermountainman (Stanley Wong)—revisiting Hong Kong's cultural context and artistic spirit through works spanning half a century.

Centered around the theme of "Hong Kong Classics," the exhibition highlights these artists' profound reflections on urban memory, identity, and spiritual awakening. King of Kowloon's graffiti calligraphy challenges tradition, becoming a legendary mark of Hong Kong culture; Chao Haitien's works blend abstraction with emotion, reflecting the intertwining of the individual and the times; Anothermountainman (Stanley Wong) utilizes local visual symbols to explore urban memory and social phenomena.

Gallery address: Unit C, 12/F, Gee Chang Hong Centre, 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to present Wish You Were Here, an exhibition curated by New York-based curator, art advisor, and independent scholar Jie Xia. On view at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, the exhibition evokes the intoxicating pull of summer: the heat, the haze, and the promise of escape. Featuring works by leading postwar and contemporary artists — drawn from the gallery’s programme and beyond — the exhibition explores the iconography of travel, the sea, and the rituals of seasonal escape, approached with varying degrees of meditation, longing, and nostalgia.

This seminal exhibition features the work of Lucas Arruda, Milton Avery, Miquel Barceló, Alejandro Cardenas, Tseng Kwong Chi, Loie Hollowell, Hon Chi-Fun, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, José Parlá, Hilary Pecis, Enoc Perez, Gerhard Richter, Ena Swansea and Christine Ay Tjoe.

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

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Sun Museum announces a series of exciting events to be launched in 2025. Following the successful opening of the exhibition, "Colours of the Universe: Jade and Colour Stone Carvings from the Little Moon Pavilion and Songde Tang Collections" in March 2025, the museum’s anniversary programme “Sun Delight” will present "Variegated Memories: The Art of Leung Shek Yuen" in July 2025. This exhibition and activities will focus on the outstanding Chinese ink artist Mr. Leung Shek Yuen and continue to promote local artists in Hong Kong.

Mr. Leung Shek Yuen was born in 1946 and grew up in mainland China before moving to Hong Kong in 1978. He has dedicated his life to art, demonstrating extraordinary talent since his school years, and has engaged in painting and teaching after graduation. In the 1980s and 1990s, his works were exhibited multiple times not only in various cities across mainland China, but also in Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, and South Korea. As a veteran artist, his works have been widely collected by museums, art galleries, academies, and private collectors.

Venue address: G/F & 1/F, Artisan House, 1 Sai Yuen Lane, Sai Ying Pun

We’re delighted to announce our latest exhibition, Blue Lotus Revisited, a celebration of the gallery’s most iconic exhibitions and defining moments in recent years. With a steadfast commitment to exploring Hong Kong’s identity and culture through photography, we have long championed artists whose work captures the soul of this ever-evolving city, alongside others whose unique perspectives reflect our broader vision.

Greg Girard, Fan Ho, Bianca Tse, Birdy Chu, Palani Mohan, Thomas Gust, Keith Macgregor, Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, Michael Kistler, Yasuhiro Ogawa and Michael Kenna

Gallery address: 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan

The undercover film’s theme of surviving on the edge and in the gaps in-between has flourished in the cinema of Hong Kong, a city that has often found itself in a similar in-between position. From New Wave pioneer Man on the Brink to heroic bloodshed classics City on Fire, A Better Tomorrow II and Hard Boiled; from the generational change of superstars in Century of the Dragon to the immensely influential Infernal Affairs; and from the standard setter of Hong Kong-China co-production crime films Protégé to the action blockbuster The White Storm — undercover heroes have been with us all the way. Precariously caught between black and white, shadow and light, evil and justice, they struggle hard to do the right thing. Undaunted by the most spectacular explosions and reticent about their identity, they defiantly live up to the international reputation of Hong Kong cinema as “all too extravagant, too gratuitously wild.”

Tai Kwun’s summer show Undercover Underworld will take you on a journey through these eight films, pursuing the shadows of real Hong Kong undercover cops. The exhibition’s co-curators Sunny Chan and Kristof Van den Troost have reproduced many memorable moments from these films into enticing interactive installations featuring priceless items — manuscripts, awards and trophies — on loan from top filmmakers. In addition, heavyweight artists from the industry (Hong Kong Film Award Best Actor Louis Koo; celebrated directors Tsui Hark, Alan Mak and Alex Cheung; Hong Kong Film Award Best Music recipients Teddy Robin and Peter Kam; director/former police officer Philip Chan) along with real undercover cops, their coaches and psychiatrists, will help separate fact from fiction.

Venue address: Duplex Studio, Tai Kwun, Central

Whether ocean, strait or stream, water is not merely a connector of lands, but a living presence that moves with memory and labour, carrying traces of migrations, trade, rituals and kinship. Similarly, textile is not only a cultural artefact, but also a mobile, tactile archive threaded with the everyday, the sacred and the collective.

Tidal Weavers unfolds as a process and generative space of shared memory and interwoven knowledge. Central to it is an artist exchange between grassroots organisations across South China Sea to cultivate mutual learning and long-term collaboration. Artists, weavers, researchers and community members dwell and work together in immersive settings. Through conversations, shared meals, daily routines and collaborative making, friendships grow and shape the artworks as much as the materials themselves.

Venue address: The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan

Para Site is thrilled to welcome Hong Kong-based artist Sam Lui for a two-month residency (4 August – 20 September 2025) in its tenth-floor space.

As the third iteration of Para Site’s on-site residency programme, Lui probes her ongoing project ‘Wendy’s Wok World’—a narrative-driven performance of wok cooking as an exploration of concepts of purity, discipline and absolutism. Through the constructed persona of Wendy, an apprentice devoted to mastering the exacting philosophy of traditional Cantonese wok cooking, Lui examines how ‘authority’ is internalised and performed in cultural practices.

During the residency, Lui will spend time developing her new artist book—a reflective and archival project that translates ‘Wendy’s Wok World’ into print. The residency will serve as a space for writing, dialogue, and shared thinking, inviting the public into the process through discursive formats such as book club, group discussions, and gathering events. Additionally, open studio hours will be held every Thursday from 4–6 PM, when Lui will be available in the studio to meet and chat with the public.

Venue address: 10/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, Quarry Bay

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

Korean Cultural Center invites you to the Opening Reception of the exhibition "Alice • The Turtle, Rabbits beyond the Door", the second 2025 Open Call Exhibition, featuring diverse works by Burgundy (LEE Jooyoung, KIM Myongjong, KIM Jeongwoo, and JEONG Woojin). The exhibition examines the intertwined concepts of identity and change, connecting them through the central metaphor of the door. While these concepts may appear antithetical, the exhibition reconsiders them as mutually sustaining, each defined and deepened through its relation to the other.

Opening Reception: Thursday, 7 August 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM (Artists tour at 7 PM)

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

Whitestone Gallery is pleased to announce the soft opening of its new Hong Kong space in Wong Chuk Hang with the group exhibition Contours of Expression.

This exhibition brings together an extraordinary lineup of artists spanning different generations and practices: post-war Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Maekawa (b. 1936), celebrated painter Tetsuo Mizù (1944 - 2025), contemporary duo Julie & Jesse (established 2012), and emerging talent Kohei Kyomori (b. 1985) — whose practices challenge traditional boundaries through a vibrant expression of contour and composition.

Artists: Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Tetsuo Mizù, Julie & Jesse, Kohei Kyomori

Opening: 9 August 2025 from 15:00-19:00
Gallery address: 7/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road

Imprints of Time is more than an exhibition—it is a living dialogue that transcends time, dissolving the boundaries between past and future to weave Hong Kong’s collective memory into an unfolding, flowing narrative. Featuring ten artists spanning from the post-80s generation to Gen-Z, this show explores the intimate resonance between personal identity and the city’s soul. Their works rise beyond individual expression to form a rich cultural polyphony—layered histories, constant reinventions, and the resilient core of selfhood amidst relentless change.

In this ever-shifting metropolis, transformation itself becomes the central theme. Each artwork acts as a temporal amber—preserving vanished moments and crystallizing fragile poetry that lingers before dissolution. Through varied media—drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation—the artists decode Hong Kong’s cultural alchemy, translating its hybrid heritage into a vivid visual poetry.

Peter Hong-Tsun Chan, Kila Cheung, Chow Chun Fai, Kwong Man Chun, Lewis Lee, Ling Wai Shan, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Pak Sheung Chuen, Tam Kwan Yuen, Angela Yuen.

Opening reception: 16 August, 4pm

Gallery address: 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

“For every journey, in the end, is a becoming. And in the bend of the light, is where we meet.”

一 Shirky Chan, Where the Light Bends Between Us Curatorial Statement

Soluna Fine Art proudly presents Where the Light Bends Between Us, a compelling summer group exhibition curated by Shirky Chan. Featuring the works of five artists from Hong Kong, Korea and the UK: Ashlee Ip, Heyse Ip, Jeremy Ip, Chino Ng, and Ido Park, the exhibition explores the theme of space and time in-between. It invites viewers to discover the subtle thresholds where transformation and transition reside, immersing them in a realm where light and shadow intertwine. Through their diverse creative practices, these artists guide us across invisible passages, revealing the delicate beauty of change, emergence, and process. 

Opening Reception: 21 August (Thursday) 6 - 8 pm

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

Alisan Atelier is pleased to present The Remains of Our Days, bringing together artists Amy Tang, Jeremy Ip, and Rivian Cheung. This exhibition marks our first collaboration with curator Joyce Hei-ting Wong, and it’s also the first time we are showcasing these three talented artists at the gallery.

The artists share a unique interest in the overlooked aspects of our daily lives, drawing inspiration from everything from floor stains to peeling walls and wild weeds. They explore the messages embedded in what we often discard or forget. Through their creative use of gesture, colour, and materials, they craft contemporary visual stories that touch on themes of consumption, waste, resistance, decay, and regeneration.

Opening reception: 27 Aug, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

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

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present the 14th edition of HKFOREWORD in 2025, which introduces new art from Hong Kong through its latest art graduates. This year we have selected 12 artists from 3 Hong Kong universities and 2 overseas universities. The exhibition includes painting, video, installation, ceramic, sculpture, animation, artist's books, and a live performance at the opening. HKFOREWORD25 offers a fresh perspective on artistic development in Hong Kong, revealing the inspirations and concerns driving a new generation of creators.

Frankie Au 區卓勳, Tiffany Chan 陳卓霖, Hugh Cheng 鄭皓軒, Thomas Fung 馮倚天, Jenny Jiang 姜燁, Jonathan Kan 簡以誠, Monica Lam 林沚潣, Lola Law 羅苑櫻, Stephanie Teng 鄧詩廷, Jocelyn Tsui 徐曉瑜, Louise Wan 温洛儀, Yuen Lok Yiu, Vera 袁樂遙.

Opening: 28 August, Thursday, 5 – 8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, SoHo, Central

Tang Contemporary is proud to present the group exhibition “August in Bloom,” featuring 10 internationally acclaimed artists: Ai Weiwei, Jonas Burgert, Mao Xuhui, Yue Minjun, Xiyao Wang, Edgar Plans, Woo Kukwon, Rodel Tapaya, Kitti Narod and Gongkan. Through the lens of "light," the exhibition investigates its multifaceted symbolism in contemporary society, culture, and the realm of personal experience. August’s radiance blooms not only in the natural world but also in the mind—a luminous projection. Through their own prisms, the artists reveal light’s dual nature: a wellspring of hope and energy, yet also a heat that burns, a flicker that slips into shadow. “August in Bloom” invites both visual and philosophical conversation and reflection on nature, time, and our shared human experience.

Opening reception: Thursday, 6-8pm

Gallery address: 10/F, H Queen’s, Central

Using orthographic projection, Lee explores new visual possibilities, aiming to make art a precise tool for interpreting space and reality. Her paintings, created with surveying and cartographic methods, challenge the subjective limits of traditional perspective drawing. By keeping light rays parallel, she strives for visual objectivity.

Lee views orthographic projection as more precise than the human eye, re-examining everyday spaces and objects through her work. Often inspired by urban landscapes like cars and roads, her paintings reveal the blind spots of pedestrians and drivers while expanding spatial imagination.

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

wamono art proposes a lifestyle of "Nagomi" through spaces featuring bamboo art. "Nagomi" is a Japanese concept that represents harmony, calm, serenity, and a sense of well-being. It embodies a sense of stillness and balance within ourselves and our surroundings. 　Creating contemporary and original bamboo sculpture requires years of skill and a deep understanding of natural materials. This is an exquisite form of natural art that has developed almost exclusively in Japan.

By appointment

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

MAYAO is thrilled to present Water-Grid-Silence, a solo exhibition by Dirk Vander Eecken, featuring drawings by Joris Ghekiere.
In the early 1990s, Beilium artist Dirk Vander Eecken and Joris Ghekiere made a long trip together through Asia. That shared journey deepened their friendship and carved a space of mutual critique that lasted decades. This exhibition brings their works back into proximity—not by nostalgia, but by resonance. Ghekiere’s ink and watercolor drawings from that Asia trip are shown here alongside Vander Eecken’s recent paintings. One draws outward, the other inward. Ghekiere’s lines move with agility through the world; Vander Eecken’s grids invite stillness and reverie. Together, they frame a spectrum of seeing—roving eye and inward gaze, memory and method.

CURATOR: Tommy Simoens

Gallery address: Shop E, 10/F, Derrick Industrial Building, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road

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

The exhibition explores emotional moments in her relationships and the way she processes inner dialogue and experiences through painting. Lee transforms everyday objects and personal memories into visual expressions, reflecting her deep observations of her inner world and her surroundings.

Lee strongly believes, “What we see is a reflection of our minds.” Building on her 2021 series ‘See the mind with the mind’ and expanding in the 2024 series ‘Here’, she explores how memory and perception intertwine over time. Her attachment to objects evolves from novelty to familiarity, driving her repeated depictions of the objects. This process, both technical and meditative, helps her capture emotions and expand personal experiences into artistic expressions.

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

HART Haus is pleased to present “Möbius Loop”, Yvonne Feng’s debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong, following the Guangdong‑born, UK‑raised visual artist’s relocation to the city last year. The exhibition features works from Feng’s ongoing painting series Docile Bodies, a trilogy of exhibitions exploring the theme through barrier, gesture, and sight. This presentation focuses on gesture, examining the intricate entanglement between the body and the spaces it inhabits. The works are exhibited in the ground‑floor gallery, where the interplay of interior space and street‑facing windows blurs the boundaries between strangers and intimacy, between watching and being watched, echoing the staged realities in Feng’s paintings.

Opening Ceremony: 30.08.2025 (Sat 六), 16:00 -18:00
Venue address: HART Haus G/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

Gallery EXIT is pleased to present 'Shaping Surface into Light' by Hilarie HON, featuring her latest paintings from 2025. Part of her 'Sunlight Murmur' series, this body of work continues her exploration of the sea as a metaphor for her inner world. Growing up by the coast, Hon developed a deep connection to the ocean, inspired by its shifting light and rhythmic movements. Her seascapes reflect personal emotions and offer reflections on the passage of time, transcending traditional landscapes.

Gallery address: 13/F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen

Running Out of Space presents a chromatic convergence featuring artists Cornelia Erdmann, Cecil Kwok, Masamitsu Shigeta, and DD Yung —who also curates this exploration of color as living energy. Witness pigments transformed into emotional landscapes that breathe, bleed, and sing.

MON–SAT: BY APPOINTMENT
SUNDAYS: 2–7PM

Galery address: Unit 11, 12/F, Remex Centre , 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road

An exhibition that brings together nearly 30 artists commissioned to create new works around the theme of animals. This is not simply a show about animals, but a reflection on the shifting and complex position of human beings in relation to the natural world. Through painting and sculpture, each artist invites us to reconsider empathy, coexistence, and the fragile balance that binds us to other species.

Looking forward to welcoming you to explore this conversation — where animals are not just subjects of representation, but mirrors to our humanity.

Afa Annfa, Chang Tengyuan, Chino Lam, Chow Chun Fai, Chui Pui Chee, Dan Oliver, Dave Chow, Elpis Chow, Eric Lai Wai Lam, Eric So, Fok Wai-chung, Chantal, Ho Sin Tung, Jan Lamb, Joanne Chan, Joey Leung Ka Yin, Kenny Wong, Kitty Kong, Lin Yusi, Ling Ling Ling, Michael Lau, Natalie Cheng, Nozomu Uchida, Pan Wenxun, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Tao Hoi Chuen, Jacky, Tse Yim On, VASEBYSU, Virginia Yung, Wang Chien Yang, Wilson Shieh, Wu Xuelian, Yeung Hok Tak

Venue address: Bonhams Hong Kong, 10F, Six Pacific Place

Lau Kam Hung’s latest exhibition “Light On Light” will be on view during September 2025 at Touch Gallery in Tai Kwun. This is his new exhibition since his solo exhibition “Silver Lining” in 2023, and is a culmination of his past two years of deep discovery. True to his style, he continues to use modern, unique materials to reinvent the wheel on Chinese traditional landscape painting.

American artist Bob Ross once said: “light and dark and dark and light, in painting. If you have light on light, you have nothing. If you have dark on dark, you basically have nothing. Just like in life. You gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come.” This idea was akin to a guiding light for Lau, giving him the drive to push the boundaries of his artistic practice.

“Light On Light” dives deeper into the conversation between light and shadow. Lau revisits gold-leaf again, and continues to broaden its expressive potential. No matter what variation of light he draws, Lau hopes to invite viewers to reconnect with the quiet awe we get when looking upon vast landscapes, encouraging us to reflect on the relationship between man and nature. His works capture the fleeting moments where light refracts, shifting into shadow.

Opening Reception: 2025/09/13 (Saturday) 16:30 - 18:30pm

Gallery address: Shop 103, 1/F, Block 3 Barrack Block, Tai Kwun

In this exhibition, Yanis Wong examines some of the messages nature offers us indirectly through our relationship with it. Using photographs, ceramics, found objects, and site-transformation, he explores these themes to develop a new body of work.

Opening reception: 4 - 7 pm on the 6th September

Gallery address: 13A Prince’s Terrace, Central

Creation is a process of repeatedly returning to your roots. To slow down, looking at familiar scenes with a new lens — the still pond in my father’s garden, the clouds rolling through the mountain ranges of Taichung, the quivering leaves on the eve of a typhoon. These scenes mark my path between Hong Kong and Taiwan, like a diary made from markers of scent and light. 

The sketches I made in the airport lounge, the pencil markings beside the coffee shop window, damp watercolors on a sunlit afternoon. They are all spontaneous, rough recreations, direct imprints of my state in those moments. And when these fragments gradually pile up, they create stories of movement, memory, and return that are essential to my creations.

This exhibition details my journey from small sketches to finished pieces, all of which serve as different checkpoints in my life. Join me amongst the mountainous layers of pigment, the still blue dusk of a frozen sea, and all these fleeting moments caught in the stroke of a brush.

Opening Reception: 2025.09.04 (Thursday) 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Gallery address: Shop 103 & 202, 1-2/F, Block 3 Barrack Block, Tai Kwun

AISHO Hong Kong is honoured to announce Japanese artist Wataru Ozu’s first solo exhibition “Between Stillness” in Hong Kong. The show is on view from 5 September to 3 October, 2025.

In this solo exhibition, while reconsidering "Ma（間）" - one of the essential elements in Japanese art - Ozu has painted vanitas motifs known in Western art, such as clocks, fruits, flowers, lobsters, and crabs. By directing consciousness toward the empty spaces and silence that emerge between these elements, the artist contemplates the spaces between objects, between different cultures, and between paintings and viewers.

“For me, ‘Ma’ is not merely empty space. While it serves as a boundary connecting the space of painting with the space where viewers stand, it is also a place that gives breath to this relationship and brings both tension and relaxation to the painting. I understand ‘Ma’ as ‘a state where one can choose whether to paint or not to paint.’ There is a fluctuation in this selection process, and I believe this very fluctuation gives richness to the painting. This perspective of valuing the subtle presence and silence that float in between represents my understanding of Japanese art's essence and forms the core of this body of work.”

Gallery address: Shop B, Po Hing Mansion, 2-8 Po Hing Fong, Tai Ping Shan, Sheung Wan

Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition, Vessel of Emptiness, in Hong Kong. The symbolic power of the vessel serves as a gateway to understanding the profound concept of emptiness. Centred around five moon jars by Korean artist Kwon Dae-Sup, the exhibition features works by Shi Zhiying, Shen Chen, Otto Boll, Norio Imai, and Yuko Nasaka. These artists collectively explore the delicate interplay between presence and absence, form and void, as expressed through diverse artistic perspectives.

In a world preoccupied with the tangible and the absolute, Vessel of Emptiness offers a sanctuary for contemplation. Each artwork acts as a vessel, beckoning viewers to explore the intricate relationship between form and void. Through their creations, these artists unveil a paradox resonant with śūnyatā: these vessels, though seemingly empty, overflow with the fullness of existence. By embracing the beauty of the unseen and the interconnectedness of all things, visitors are invited to look beyond the physical and uncover the infinite possibilities within the void.

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

This exhibition brings together new and recent works by six artists shortlisted for the Sigg Prize 2025. Established in 2018 by M+, this prestigious prize is open to artists born or working in the Greater China region and its diasporas. It aims to recognise important artistic practices in the region and to promote the strength and diversity of Chinese artists on an international platform. For the third edition, M+ will showcase the works of six leading contemporary artists, including Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, Heidi Lau, Pan Daijing, and Wong Ping.

The six finalists were selected by an international jury chaired by Suhanya Raffel (Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong), with members Maria Balshaw (Director, Tate, United Kingdom), Mami Kataoka (Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Gong Yan (Director, Power Station of Art, Shanghai), Glenn D. Lowry (Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Uli Sigg (collector and member of the M+ Board, Switzerland), and Xu Bing (artist, Beijing).

Xie Chengxuan, born in 1997 in Guangzhou, China, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, and completed a Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom in 2023. He primarily works with acrylic and mixed media on synthetic papers and canvases. 

His current artistic approach is based on deconstructionism, where he deconstructs objects into their most basic visual language and then reassembles them. By taking into account the different understandings of object names due to varying personal growth and cultural experiences, the reassembled images have different interpretations when viewed by different people. This also allows the independent basic visual elements (points, lines, shapes, color blocks, textures, etc.) to continue to interact and communicate even in the finished artwork.

Opening reception: 6 September, 2-6pm

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

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of London-based artist Sam Creasey in Hong Kong, Dark Waters, featuring a new body of work on canvas and mixed media works. Creasey's paintings occupy an uneasy territory between familiarity and estrangement, showcasing his profound concern for place and identity. It interrogate how the physical structures we inhabit—streets, offices, public utilities, and governmental buildings—both reveal and conceal the system of power that shape everyday life. The exhibition extends to consider not only the psychic weight of built environments but also reflecting on underlaying issues rooted in late-stage capitalism, rapid technological change, public services, or urban expansion, while highlighting how privatisation and profit routinely overshadow the public good.
Opening reception: 6 September 2025 (Saturday) 3 - 6 PM (Artist will be present)

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

WKM Gallery is pleased to announce In the meantime, Japanese painter Yukari Nishi’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Renowned for her surreal and psychologically charged compositions, Nishi’s work invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between reality and fantasy dissolve. Featuring a series of all new paintings, this exhibition continues Nishi’s exploration of the surreal as a place that serves as both an escape from, and mirror of, reality. Describing her process as a form of “collage therapy”, Nishi’s somewhat psychological approach to painting — which begins with a playful indulgence of the subconscious, but ends with a very deliberate process of reflection — reveals to us the relationships and emotions of the artist’s day-to-day, particularly through the lens of her role as a mother. These strange scenes may seem slightly uncanny at first, but they are tied together by affectionate acts of giving and sharing. Nishi’s works open our eyes to the complicated nature of caretaking; its heavy burden as a never-ending task, but one that leads to the joys of love, connection, and family.

Opening: Saturday 6 September 2025, 5–8pm

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

‘CINEMA REIMAGINED: A JOURNEY THROUGH CELLULOID DREAMS’

Wong Wo Bik & Lau Ka Chun Jay Introducing Kenrick Ho

Karin Weber Gallery is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking exhibition centered on film and the history of cinema. Cinema and filmmaking are integral to Hong Kong's visual culture, embodying its rich history and diverse narratives while showcasing the city's vibrant creativity and artistic spirit. This exhibition marks the first collaboration with three exceptional local artists, each bringing a unique perspective. ‘Cinema Reimagined: A Journey Through Celluloid Dreams’ is distinguished by the artists' access to a rare collection of vintage cinema equipment in Hong Kong, which serves as a profound source of inspiration for their innovative artworks.

Opening reception: Saturday 6th September 3-7p.m.

Artist-led Tour 3-4pm

Gallery address: 20 Aberdeen Street, Central

Boogie Woogie Photography, Hong Kong, and MUG Gallery, Tokyo, cordially invite you to the opening reception of a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Takanori SUGA.

Born in Nagasaki in 1985 to a family immersed in language and art, Suga grew up in a creative household, flanked by siblings who are also artists today. Trained in classical oil painting at Nagoya’s renowned art university, Suga’s practice has always defied boundaries—his canvases extend far beyond the traditional frame.

From painting on the human body and creating murals on abandoned buildings, to working with unconventional supports such as his grandmother’s beloved silk kimonos, temple sculptures, and even animal bones, Suga’s work weaves together disparate materials and histories. His art has adorned department store halls on the eve of their demolition and spilled into the natural landscape, always incorporating the memories and emotions of the places and people he encounters.

Opening reception: Saturday 6  September, from 5pm to 8pm, the artist will be present

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

We raise our heads to see stars and lower our gaze to find asterisks —stars pressed onto paper, their stems radiating outwards like constellations inked against the void. These sporadic marks, scattered across the two-dimensional blackness of text, activate expandable spaces for thoughts and redirect attention like celestial flares. Taking after the Greek asteriskos, they function as citations, breaks, censorship, or edits—each a point of light in the textual cosmos.

Just as starlight travels billions of years to reach human eyes, these asterisks are points of vestigial and prophetic references. Ever-changing in human interpretation, these patterns overwrite each other, yet individuals never cease to recognize meanings in the palimpsest of signs. The asterisk blinks, and its meaning recalibrates. Stargazing does not lead to eternal truth, but we watch on, mapping glitching signs to meanings that shimmer across the vastness of time.

Participating artists: IV Chan, Joseph Leung, Michelle Tam, Shawn Tang, Jennifer Yue
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Opening reception: 2–6pm, 14 September (Sun)
Address: 9/F, Cheong Tai Factory Building, 16 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong

At which point does my body end and the rest of the world begins?

Continuing the exploration of mutual, interpersonal, and phenomenological boundaries in NEGOTIATIONS, HUMUS (latin, “ground, soil”) treads lightly upon the creation stories that have long separated humanity from the natural world. Echoing the structural principles of ancient philosophies, Setiadi constructs images of an agnostic mythology—a kind of biblical re-imagining— inviting viewers to come home to the body, the humus, to a self-evident and benign origin story told from an acultural, post-historical present.

The paintings of Celine Setiadi (b.1995, Jakarta) invoke the corporeal self through an aesthetic and phenomenological exploration of embodiment. Led by the notion of the vessel-body, her work echoes stories of individual and collective human origins from time immemorial. Currently living and working in Singapore, she supports her painting practice with her design career.

5/9 - 28/9 , Friday to Sunday 1-7pm
Venue: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai,

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

White Cube is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of works by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

The exhibition explores the profound impact that Chinese master painter Qi Bashi had on Noguchi’s artistic development, notably the creation of his fluid ‘Peking Brush Drawings’ under Qi’s guidance in the 1930s. Tracing the influence of these calligraphic forms on Noguchi's sculptural practice throughout his career, highlights of the presentation include innovative constructed bronze works from the late 1980s.

Preview: 11 September 2025, 5–8pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

Leo Gallery is honored to present Karl Horst Hödicke’s solo exhibition Under the Sun's Favor in Hong Kong on 11 September 2025. This event comes five years after his previous show, with the success of his solo exhibition in Hong Kong and group exhibition at our Shanghai space, both titled Eingedunkelt. The upcoming exhibition will focus on Hödicke’s artwork from the 1980s, exploring the unique lens of luminosity and vitality the artist developed from Berlin's vibrant and ever-changing urban fabric. In a city laden with post-war memory, Hödicke turned his gaze to resilient plants, sun-drenched beaches, and fragments of daily life, transforming them into a warm visual poetry.

Opening reception: Thursday 11 Sep 2025 | 6-8 pm

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

gdm Hong Kong is pleased to present “Gordon Cheung: New Territories”, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring a retrospective of Gordon Cheung’s work, spanning across painting and sculpture. New Territories circumnavigates the historical and geographical passage of global capitalism from the Dutch Golden Age to the rise of China as a 21st Century superpower, questioning its lasting impact on our perceptions of identity, territory, and sense of belonging. Painting an intimate picture of both his ancestral lineage as well as the history of Hong Kong at large, Cheung’s practice sits against the backdrop of this city emerging from its colonial past, charting new possibilities into an uncertain future.

Gallery address: 108 Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central

JPS Gallery Hong Kong unveils “Encounter,” a soul-stirring solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Jackie Lam a.k.a. 009. The gallery is transformed into a luminous harbour where his signature cosmic travellers float through the exhibition space as silent witnesses to both earthly beauty and celestial wonder. With quiet grace, these enigmatic figures navigate emotional landscapes that mirror our own, creating visual poetry that speaks to our deepest yearning: to be truly seen and understood by another soul.

“I hope viewers can temporarily set aside life’s constant noise and discover their own stories within my works,” says Jackie. “Just as I find peace facing the sea, I hope they find unexpected resonance here—whether our feelings align or differ.”

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 2025, 5 - 8 pm

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

MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, featuring a recent body of work first shown in October 2024 at ICA Milano. Rooted in the visual language of the everyday, these paintings take familiar figures and gestures and subtly distort them.

In this new body of work, the artist took the everyday as a starting point: ordinary gestures, banal settings, and seemingly familiar roles. In works like Doctor and Patient or Ventriloquist, Gokita reimagines these mundane pairings with subtle absurdity, shifting them just enough to feel both recognisable and dreamlike. Even in larger canvases like Amnesia, the subject matter feels suspended, both personal and oddly generic, like a déjà vu with the edges smudged. It’s here, in this register of the ordinary made strange, that Gokita is perhaps most compelling: reminding us that the everyday, too, is filled with illusion.

Opening reception: Thursday, September 11, 6-8:00PM

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

Gagosian is pleased to announce Harbour Fragments, an exhibition of new paintings by Rick Lowe. These works abstract from aerial views of Hong Kong that feature sections of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon Peninsula, interpreting the dynamic metropolis. On view at the gallery’s location in Hong Kong’s Central district from September 11 through November 1, this is Lowe’s first solo exhibition in Asia.

Taking an exploratory approach to geography and abstraction, Lowe’s practice encompasses both studio work and community-based projects that address urban transformation. His vibrant canvases employ the visual languages of painting, collage, and cartography. These paintings emerge from an improvisational approach derived in part from games of dominoes that Lowe plays with residents worldwide, adapting their intricate patterns and juxtapositions to foreground aspects of urban structures and civic relationships.

Opening reception: Thursday, September 11, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central

Please join us for the opening of Melody Qingmei Li’s solo exhibition ‘my gaze is as clear as your breath’ at Square Street Gallery, curated by Tong Hu. The exhibition presents a series of new works Melody created this year, in a wide range of media, based on her repeated practices of ‘drawing skin’, a meditative methodology she developed in the past five years.

At its core, my gaze is as clear as your breath invites viewers to reflect on the boundaries of the self and our connection to the world. Qingmei’s methodology of drawing skin begins with a simple act of gazing at a patch of skin. Through sustained observation, the familiar is transformed. Patterns, textures, and imperfections emerge, dissolving preconceived notions tied to race, gender, health, or class. The boundary of skin begins to dissolve through the gaze.

Opening reception: 11 Sep 6 - 8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 21 Square Street, Sheung Wan

Step into “Echoes of Nature”, an enchanting solo exhibition by the acclaimed master of Eastern Expressionism Pang Jiun. This showcase of 12 masterpieces invites you on a reflective journey through the delicate concept of “Echoes of Nature”, encouraging an escape from the busy noise of our lives to discover a more serene inner world.

Pang Jiun, born in 1936, stands as a pioneer of Eastern oil painting with a unique flair. His artistry marries the brilliant colors reminiscent of Western Impressionism and Fauvism with the deep philosophical essence of traditional Eastern ink painting. His landscapes are not just visually stunning; they pulse with energy while radiating a profound clarity and calmness. Through his work, he encapsulates the Eastern ideal of “the harmony between heaven and earth”, illuminating a path toward artistic resonance.

The curator of this exhibition, William Fong, invites you to indulge yourself into the essence of silence, encouraging a contemplation of the spiritual quest that flows from chaos to simplicity, from sound to tranquility, as you absorb the poetic echoes of nature.

Venue address: 22 Pottinger Street, Central

From the early 1950s, Zao Wou-Ki distinguished himself as one of the foremost international artists in the field of printmaking, renowned for the exceptional quality of his works and the innovative nature of his technique. In parallel, his unique works on paper—particularly his watercolors and ink drawings—constituted the solid foundation of his extraordinary and enduring career.

Over the years, ART PERSPECTIVE has been one of the leading galleries in Asia in promoting Zao Wou-Ki’s works on paper

Gallery address: Unit 1201, 12F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

The essence of life lies in its constant flux, with impermanence being an unavoidable reality.

Hong Kong artist Jim Chan‘s solo exhibition, ”THE FLOW OF LIFE,“ guides us through an emotional journey—from initial resistance and helplessness to adaptation, ultimately arriving at a state of tranquility and acceptance.

Jim seeks to convey that although impermanence is inevitable, we hold the power to embrace it with a mindful attitude. By learning to coexist with these changes, life transforms into a journey brimming with possibilities.

Opening reception: 2 Sep 2025 (Fri) 5:30-8PM

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

Twenty-two years ago, in 2003, renowned free-spirited artist and designer Sin Sin Man founded Sin Sin Fine Art, inspired by a transformative encounter with contemporary Indonesian art during one of her many travels. While exploring the historic city of Yogyakarta, she connected with a group of emerging
Indonesian artists whose raw talent, authenticity, and unfiltered expressions left a profound impression on her. Struck by the emotional depth and sincerity of their work — as well as their genuine, down-to-earth personalities — Sin Sin felt an immediate and deep resonance. This pivotal experience ignited a
new artistic mission: to bring these bold, expressive works to Hong Kong and introduce them to the international art world. Many of these artists have grown and achieved international recognitions and accalodes since then. Looking back, it was such a precious, life-changing period for Sin Sin and for the artists themselves.

The artworks featured in this exhibition serve as Life Records — visual diaries that trace each artist’s personal and creative evolution. Every piece carries the unique imprint of its maker, capturing key moments in their artistic journey and reflecting the growth that has shaped who they are today.

Life Records I presents a compelling selection of early works by Abdi Setiawan, Bob Yudhita Agung, Dwi Setianto, EddiE haRA, Eddi Prabandono, FauZie As’ad, Kokok P. Sancoko, S. Teddy Darmawan, Pande Ketut Taman, Putu Sutawijaya, and Tisna Sanjaya

Opening reception: 12 Sep, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Gallery address: 4/F, Kin Teck Industrial Building, 26 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

Para Site is thrilled to present ‘Empty Set’, a solo exhibition by Pratchaya Phinthong.

Phinthong’s first institutional solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Empty Set’ serves as both an intervention and a stage—bringing together cultural workers, scientists and cross-disciplinary collaborators to pose questions, share critical reflections and explore futures shaped by the climate emergency. The exhibition acts as a catalyst for a larger project that will unfold throughout fall 2025 in and around Para Site’s space through site interventions, a symposium, a film programme and performances.

The exhibition uses the ‘empty set’ (∅) as a guiding concept and a conceptual placeholder for ideas and discussions outside of rigid knowledge structures. ‘Empty Set’ creates a place for new possibilities, a literal opening of the exhibition space to the outside world. Walls, windows and other thresholds become elements of an experiential montage, edited into interventions that dissolve the fourth wall of the gallery and expose it to realities beyond.

‘Empty Set’ is curated by Billy Tang.

Opening reception: 12 Sep 2025, 6–8pm

Conversation between the artist and curator Billy Tang (6:30–7pm).

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

This autumn, Sotheby’s Hong Kong presents a wide range of rarities, including modern and contemporary art, high and fine jewellery, handbags and accessories.

Check the website for viewing details and bidding information.

Venue address: 1/F, Landmark Chater, Central

EROS/THANATOS explores the enduring tension between the forces of desire (Eros) and death (Thanatos) — twin compulsions around which the human experience perpetually turns. Drawing on mythology, psychoanalysis, and art history, the exhibition traces how artists across centuries have long dwelt in this contradiction, where desire gestures towards destruction, and beauty is an expression of decay.

Inspired by the writings of Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, the works on display capture moments of divine ecstasy and rapturous dissolution. From the seductive, violent energy of Francis Bacon’s Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1968), to the haunting skull of a Late Pleistocene Woolly Mammoth, EROS/THANATOS revels in the sublime contradiction of love, life, art and death.

EROS/THANATOS, rather than seeking to reconcile the forces of desire and death, heightens the experience of both, compelling us to linger in the places where desire burns brightest against the inevitability of its ending.

*No admission under age 18

Venue address: G/F, Sotheby’s Maison, Landmark Charter, Central

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Isaac Chong Wai’s second solo exhibition, “carefully”, from 13 September to 1 November 2025. Chong explores the human condition through the lens of movement, time, and the traces they bear. He delves into the performative qualities of materials, showing their relationship with the body and their potential for world-making.

“carefully” acknowledges precarity while embodying a gesture of care. It proposes solidarity as a way to heal and to move forward from traumas. The new works featured in the exhibition continue themes Chong explored in his video installation and performance, Falling Reversely (2021/2024), presented at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting upon the fragility and resistance of the body in the face of systemic violence. In “carefully”, Chong probes our attentiveness to the past by drawing from his upbringing in colonial Hong Kong, contemplating what we choose to remember and its influence on identity and the present. Through neon lights, glass sculptures, drawings, prints and video, the exhibition invites us to reflect upon our shared humanity converging temporalities, and to imagine an alternative microcosm of human relationality through mutual support and understanding.

Opening Reception: 13 September 2025, Saturday; 3:00 – 6:00pm

Artist Talk–Isaac Chong Wai in conversation with Tobias Berger: 13 September 2025; 4pm (conducted in English)

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

David Zwirner is pleased to present a group exhibition opening this September at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Border(line) will bring together artists from the gallery program alongside thought-provoking young voices from Asia and its diaspora.

Borders are inescapable thresholds that demarcate contemporary life, separating nations, public and private spaces, and conceptual and psychological states of being. A seminal video work by the Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs, serves as a thematic anchor to the exhibition. In Painting/Retoque (2008), the artist repaints the fading median strips of a road that crosses the Panama Canal, a gesture that underscores the mutable and arbitrary nature of such boundaries.

Additional works by David Zwirner artists will include those by Josef Albers, Raoul De Keyser, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, all of whom explore the idea of frames, horizons, and boundaries from cross-generational and transcultural perspectives.

Opening Reception Saturday, September 13, 3–7 PM

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

W Hong Kong is delighted to present “Time-Lapsed Tales: Sketching the City Life of Hong Kong”, a collaboration with Hong Kong’s urban sketching artist Rob Sketcherman. This art exhibition invites guests and art enthusiasts to explore diverse perspectives on the local city life, captured through Sketcherman’s unique interpretations.

Sketcherman vividly captures the city’s most iconic attractions, vibrant street scenes, nostalgic neighborhoods, and distinct island culture on location using his iPad. In the hotel lobby, five screens will showcase time-lapsed videos that reveal the meticulous process behind each artwork, highlighting over ten of his favorite pieces. These include scenes from Victoria Harbor as viewed from Braemar Hill, Triangle Street, Tai O Stilt House, as well as the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, in celebration of the upcoming Mid- Autumn Festival, and more.

Venue address: 1/F Lobby in W Hong Kong.