Making it Matters is an exhibition exploring different approaches to the topic of making as a process of creative expression and the long-lasting impact this process has on our individual lives, global communities, and ecosystem. The experimental display will feature ideas that innovative makers have adopted to incorporate responsible design, material innovation, and creative reuse strategies into alternative modes of thinking and how these ideas are situated within wider historical, pragmatic, or sociopolitical contexts. The exhibition draws upon the diverse work of artists, designers, and architects currently in the M+ Collections—including John Cage, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Julie & Jesse, Fujimori Terunobu, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, and Rural Urban Framework—to highlight the diverse stories that show us why the act of making continues to matter in society, now more than ever.

Nutz observes and responds to life through ceramics. Her art practice begins with various objects we use every day, integrating the functional and artistic expression aspects of ceramics. By delving into life through reshaping these items, she connects the traces of life left behind in their historical and cultural contexts with her own experiences and those of the viewer, piecing together different interpretations of life across various contexts.

In this project, Nutz draws inspiration from the century-old building of vA!, which was formerly Cassels Block, married quarters for British military officers, using ceramics to transform a series of everyday objects representing the lifestyle of the last century. By bringing these reimagined objects back into this former living space, she invites viewers to explore their past and present, to read and reimagine them, and to envision different forms of life.

Venue address: 7 Kennedy Road, Central

The “Hong Kong International Poster Triennial” jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Hong Kong Designers Association, and organised by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, is now in its eighth edition since its debut in 2001. The theme of this Triennial is “Multiverse”, exploring how the function of posters as a medium for conveying messages can be extended in an era where digital, technological, and multimedia techniques are widely used. We invite designers worldwide to unleash their creativity to pioneer new fields that are diverse and interdisciplinary. The call of entry of this Triennial is divided into four categories, namely “Thematic: Multiverse”, “Promotion of Cultural Programmes”, “Commercial and Advertising” and “Animated Poster”. A total of 3,189 entries from 55 countries/ regions were received.

This year, two independent specialist judging panels are formed by prominent international designers and team. Members of the printed poster judging panel are Eric Chan (Hong Kong, China), Huang Hai (China), Felix Pfäffli (Switzerland), Shinnoske Sugisaki (Japan) and Eva Wendel (Germany). Members of the animated poster judging panel are Henry Chu (Hong Kong, China), Thomas Widdershoven (the Netherlands), and team Tin Nguyen and Edward Cutting (Australia/the United States). The judges have gone through online judging, video conferencing, as well as onsite judging for printed posters to assess the entries based on originality, creativity and technical competence. Ultimately, 155 entries including 18 award-winning entries and 137 selected entries, as well as works contributed by the international judges are featured in the exhibition. Through graphic design, we traverse the infinite boundaries of creative imagery with the audience.

Venue address: Thematic Galleries 3, 4 & 5, 1/F, Hong Kong Heritage Museum 

In a world first, M+ presents a two-person exhibition of the photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history.

Featuring works from major early series by Morimura and Sherman, the exhibition traces the genesis of their practices that reimagine iconic imagery from art history, cinema, and media culture. These creative acts of masquerade not only emulate the source material, but also embody the artists’ unique perspectives and contexts. Their representations deviate from the original images, triggering a sense of familiarity as well as ambiguity. By establishing a fluid relationship with their subjects, Morimura and Sherman explore identity as a malleable construct.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Forbidden City in China and the Palace of Versailles in France each stood as the centre of their respective countries’ political, cultural, and artistic life. Despite the vast geographic distance between them, the courts in Beijing and Versailles were keenly curious about one another. Led by a number of enlightened rulers and facilitated by travelling French missionaries, China and France embarked on extensive and impactful exchanges.

This special exhibition presents nearly 150 spectacular treasures from the Palace Museum and the Palace of Versailles, illuminating the fascinating encounters and exchanges between China and France in science, artisanship, arts, culture, and philosophy during the 17th and 18th centuries. The objects on display tell stories of the special bonds forged between China and France through mutual admiration and respect, which provided new incentives to expand skills and knowledge and create new art forms. Together, people in China and France created a splendid chapter in the history of world cultural exchange.

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Venue address: Gallery 9, West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive, Kowloon

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.

Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) asserted themselves as two of the greatest masters of French painting during the last quarter of the 19th century and the very beginning of the 20th century. As icons of the Impressionist art movement in France, the two artists sought to reinvent the art of their time with their innovative depiction of the rapidly changing modern world. Along their artistic journey, they forged a lasting friendship and became influential figures for the new generations of painters, including Spanish master Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973).

This is the first large-scale exhibition of the two Impressionist masters Cézanne and Renoir in Hong Kong, showcasing 52 masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay in France.

Solely sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Jointly organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay
Exhibition Coordinator: Manifesto Expo

Venue address: The Special Gallery, 2/F

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.

Tonight with the Impressionists, Paris 1874 – An Immersive Expedition in Virtual Reality is organised by HKDI and co-produced by Excurio, GEDEON Experiences and Musée d’Orsay in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition. The exhibition integrates unpublished research materials, 3D reconstruction and immersive VR technologies, providing a 42-minute long VR experience that will bring visitors on a journey to explore the origins and influences of the Impressionist art movement.

Upon donning the VR headset, audiences will be transported back in time to 15 April, 1874, to the Parisian studio of the famous photographer Nadar, which was the venue of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition, and experience this pivotal moment in art history. Apart from this, visitors can also “travel” to other moments and sites of great historical value to the Impressionist movement, such as the studio of the painter Frédéric Bazille, a popular meeting spot for the artists and where the idea of the first Impressionist exhibit was born; and view Oscar-Claude Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise” up-close at Le Havre, witnessing first-hand the talents of the movement’s leading painters. The VR experience is offered in Cantonese, Putonghua, English and French to cater to the different needs of audiences.

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Venue address: 3 King Ling Road, Tiu Keng Leng, Tseung Kwan O

Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to present Xie Xiaoze: The Archaeology of Knowledge, the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. As the opening act of Alisan Atelier in 2025, the exhibition presents a thought-provoking selection of oil paintings, ink on paper and resin and porcelain sculptures- primarily drawing from Xie’s acclaimed Chinese Library series and Amber of History series. These works excavate the ancient poetics and contemporary relevance of books and knowledge.

Born in rural Guangdong province in 1966, Xie was profoundly influenced by early memories of his father, a school principal, being forced to collect books for destruction during the Cultural Revolution. After moving to the United States in 1993, where he now serves as a professor of art at Stanford University, Xie developed a deep fascination with books. This led him to explore major museums and libraries worldwide, including return visits to China,investigating repositories of past knowledge. For over three decades, his practice has focused on unravelling the complex relationships between knowledge, history and power through paintings, installations, photographs and videos.

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

wamono art—a gallery in Wong Chuk Hang committed to introducing the bold ideas of Japanese artists—is excited to hold the first solo exhibition by Kyoto-born artist Hayaki Nishigaki in Hong Kong. This show will feature new works from Nishigaki's representative series: Rakuchu Rakugai-zu(A Day), Hyakkiyako (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), Enso (Circle), Taki (Waterfall), and Sansui (Landscape). Notably, new works created with a Hong Kong theme from Rakuchu Rakugai-zu will be unveiled for the first time.

Saturdays: 12:00pm–6:00pm
By appointments only on Monday to Friday

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

The exhibition Through Time —Print Art in Aberdeen Street takes visitors on a journey starting at 22 Aberdeen Street, the site of the London Missionary Society’s Printing Office (the Anglo-Chinese College, now Ying Wa College) in nineteenth-century Hong Kong. It invites the audience to travel through time and wander the alleys of Central to uncover the fascinating history of Hong Kong’s Chinese type casting industry. Finally, we return to Print Art Contemporary at 35 Aberdeen Street, PMQ, to witness how a new generation of artists and writers draw inspiration from this intangible cultural heritage of Chinese movable types to create innovative contemporary visual art and literary works.

Venue address: SG03-07, G/F, Block A, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central

M+ presents Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand, a large-scale installation and performance to be staged in The Studio. Taking Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1937 masterpiece Guernica, painted in response to the violence of the Spanish Civil War, as its departure point, Lee Mingwei recreates this painting in sand—a material that connotes impermanence and instability. This meticulously crafted work references the indigenous and religious traditions of sand paintings found around the world. Towards the end of the display, a live performance will take place in which visitors are invited to walk on the sand painting. Four performers will then gently sweep the sand in spontaneous movements that simultaneously destroy and recreate the image anew.

The performance is scheduled to take place in late June. Please check this webpage closer to the date for additional details.

Square Street Gallery is pleased to present Dave Chow’s solo show ‘Reinstatement Works,’ from 12 March to 10 May 2025. With exposed ceiling grids and a floor filled with the debris of dismantled office ceiling panels, Dave Chow references an office in the process of ‘reinstatement work.’ The viewer is forced to interact within a space of limitations, echoing the stifling experience of individuals navigating and conforming to the various rules of working within our modern capitalist society.

Curator: Aaditya Sathish

Opening reception: Tue 11 Mar 6 - 8 pm

Gallery address: 21 Square Street

AIRSIDE is excited to announce the launch of “WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR” in Hong Kong, to be held at AIRSIDE’s GATE33 Gallery between 14 March and 13 July 2025 – launching during the city’s most anticipated art month.

First showcased in Stockholm as a pioneering exhibition organised by ArkDes, Sweden’s National Centre for Architecture and Design, and later presented in collaboration with the Design Museum in London as the UK’s first ever exhibition to explore ASMR, Hong Kong will be first city in Asia to host the exhibition.

Building on the acclaimed touring exhibition curated by James Taylor-Foster, this Hong Kong edition will feature newly commissioned works by Hong Kong-based artists that interpret the global phenomenon for today. This marks Hong Kong’s first immersive exhibition dedicated to the culture, creativity, and community of ASMR, as well as the first time that AIRSIDE, Nan Fung Group’s flagship commercial development at the city’s former Kai Tak airport, collaborates with an international museum since its opening in late 2023.

Venue address: GATE33 Gallery, L312, AIRSIDE, 2 Concorde Rd, Kai Tak

The dragon has taken countless forms through the centuries: in ancient China, it was reserved for religious or imperial use; today, it is a symbol of prosperity widely applied in everyday life and on special occasions. Through the dragon, this display of CHAT Collection objects questions and attempts to answer how traditional motifs are sustained and reinterpreted, how they gain character, and how the success of their contemporary interpretations is measured. The display also aims to create dialogue with the seasonal exhibition by expanding on understandings of traditional motifs often featured in folk craft.

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

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, proudly announces Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, a groundbreaking Special Exhibition featuring more than sixty masterpieces from the late 1890s to the early 1970s by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) alongside works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists selected from the M+ Collections.

Co-curated by M+ and Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), the exhibition will be co-presented with the French May Arts Festival. Picasso for Asia: A Conversation will be held at M+ from 15 March to 13 July 2025. This exhibition is a significant milestone, as it marks the first instance in which masterpieces from the Musée national Picasso-Paris are being shown together with works from a museum collection in Asia. It will showcase Picasso’s enduring influence and relevance by putting the master artist’s works in dialogue with Asian contemporary artworks.

Picasso for Asia: A Conversation is co-curated by Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator, M+, and François Dareau, Research Fellow, Musée national Picasso-Paris, supported by Hester Chan, Curator, Collections, M+. The exhibition adopts a new, unique perspective to interpret Picasso’s legacy, exploring complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, and West and non-West. More than sixty masterpieces by Picasso will be on loan from MnPP, which holds the largest and most significant repository of Picasso’s works in the world. These will be in dialogue with around eighty works from the M+ Collections by more than twenty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the early twentieth century to the present.

From beadwork to embroidery, straw weaving to paper craft, patchwork quilts of nomadic tribes to silkscreen prints of agrarian island communities, handicraft techniques and everyday objects inherited through time immemorial have often been sources of inspiration and materials for contemporary artists. Both folk craft and contemporary art originate from humanity’s innate desires for creation, expression, exchange and identity, and are vessels for conveying emotion and reason.

Lining Revealed examines the interactions between folk craft and contemporary art by juxtaposing artworks, handicrafts and archival documents. Through the critical lens and creative manifestations of contemporary art, it reveals the historical, social and cultural significance embodied in folk craft and the role craft plays in reinvigorating contemporary vision. The exhibition also speaks to the importance of contemporary art in the continuity of cultural heritage, such as challenging the over-celebration of the handmade and encouraging us to look beyond the value frameworks and ideologies of modern society to uncover the deeper content and meaning of folk crafts.

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

Embroidery, beading, drawnwork – these intricate tasks were once skilfully carried out by many of our older generations. Upon closer look, they also illustrate the defining qualities of commercial craft production and circulation in 20th-century Hong Kong, such as systematisation of skilled work, female labour and leadership, adaptation for export markets, and alienation between makers and consumers.

Busy Needles examines embroidery materials from Maryknoll Convent School Foundation, drawnwork from Swatow that circulated through Hong Kong, beadwork and its cottage industry, traditional kwan kwa marriage gowns and more, at the same time encouraging alternative and personal views of craft in Hong Kong.

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

In March 2025, Hanart TZ Gallery will present Wayfaring Ways To Be, the first Hong Kong solo exhibition by Raqs Media Collective, in conjunction with the gallery’s highlights in Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.

Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Raqs practises across several media: installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica, and curation. Their work finds them at the intersection of contemporary art, philosophical speculation and historical enquiry. Raqs has exhibited widely, including at Documenta, the Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Shanghai, Sydney and Sao Paulo Biennales.

The Artist Conversation and Opening Reception: 15 March, 2:30-4pm

On 28th March, the collective will also bring us a Performative Work at the gallery, engaging with public creative response, to explore how the boundaries of flesh transgress.

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

József Csató draws inspiration from motifs borrowed from nature, combining them with dreamlike figures and other fantastic creatures in the creation of beautifully quirky compositions that are simultaneously figurative and abstract.

Csató’s paintings speak a very unique visual language and fuse a number of art-historical references in his world of fantasy. His compositions often feature totemic figures and hybrids reminiscent of ancient, prehistoric cultures and civilisations, which the artist deliberately fuses with European compositional schemas such as still life, landscape or even portraiture. In his unfettered visual world, characterised by humour and playfulness, it is not unusual for strange forms resembling plants and anthropomorphic hybrid figures to emerge from the surfaces of his brightly coloured paintings. His figures and forms are part of a kind of psychedelic and personal symbolism, in which the amorphous shapes seem to represent real, existing beings.

Opening reception: 15 March, 3-6m

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan

‘Take Turns’ by Hong Kong artist Wing Po So is a newly commissioned exhibition at Para Site that examines the shifting dynamics among nature, the body, and materiality using Chinese medicine drawers as vessels. Growing up in a family-run Chinese medicine shop, So was immersed in the world of materia medica, and this upbringing has deeply influenced her artistic practice. Central to the exhibition are salvaged drawers from now-defunct traditional Chinese pharmacies in Hong Kong, reimagined as sites of transformative healing. 

The exhibition presents works across three ‘islands’ within Para Site’s tenth-floor space, anchored by a central wooden structure inspired by generative systems. The immersive installation integrates Chinese herbs, rocks, kinetic sculptures, 3D-printed objects, sonic rhythms and more, creating an ecosystem where the boundaries between the organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate, dissolve. ‘Take Turns’ is curated by Yuanyu Li.

Opening reception: Sat, 15 Mar 2025, 2–7pm

Venue address: 10/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

九仞 Memory Smuggler is the opening exhibition of To Art House 嚮渡藝術空間. Invited by the founding team, four Hong Kong artists—Natalie CHU Lok Ting 朱樂庭, HO Siu Kee 何兆基, Jay LAU Ka Chun 劉家俊, LI Ning 李寧 —have collaborated since the art house’s construction phase to help define an experiment in art and articulate the vision for this new place.

Founded in the fringe of industrial Fo Tan 火炭 by the Tai Mo 大帽 mountain range, To Art’s unique vantage point inspires the four artists to delve into the area’s natural and anthropological past and future. In dialectics between handmade artifacts and natural elements, and often via digital objects, they find expressions of memory crisscrossing across time, even lapping recursively, but never lose their ground. In the counterpointing ensemble of their individual practices, a first quartet emerges.

Venue：location in Fo Tan will be provided upon confirmation of registration.

RSVP：you may complete the RSVP form at Visit us to secure your visit.

As the global art market, particularly in Asia, eagerly anticipates Hong Kong Art Month this March—highlighted by M+ presenting a high-profile Picasso exhibition—3812 Gallery is excited to announce our upcoming curated exhibition titled “When Schiele Meets Peking Opera Figure: Global Modern and Contemporary Masters Exhibition.”

Featuring the Austrian Expressionist master Egon Schiele alongside renowned artists such as Chu Teh-chun, Cheong Soo Pieng, Georges Mathieu, Guan Liang, Hans Hartung, Hsiao Chin, Le Pho, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Lim Tze Peng, Lin Fengmian, Richard Lin, Sanyu and Zao Wou-ki, among others, the exhibition explores the continuity and evolution of aesthetic inquiries among these artists, showcasing the dynamic interplay of multicultural influences. The exhibition will also present some exquisite works by our 3812 artists, further exploring these themes.

RSVP to hongkong@3812cap.com is strictly required. 

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

As a highlight of 'Art March 2025', the HKPM will present the special exhibition 'A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink in China' from March 19 to June 18, 2025 in Gallery 8. Food culture is a vital component of traditional Chinese heritage, boasting a rich and diverse history. This exhibition will take the audience through a feast that traverses spiritual, cultural, and physical spaces. It explores the culinary culture and lifestyle of ancient Chinese people through the evolution of food vessels, eating practices, and traditions, presenting approximately 110 exquisite works. These objects, primarily on loan from The Palace Museum, span from the Neolithic period (c. 10000 BCE – c. 2000BCE) to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Additional works on display will come from the British Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, as well as museums in Hong Kong.

gdm Hong Kong is pleased to present ”TSANG Kin-Wah: T  REE O  GO  D EVIL,“ the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. ”T  REE O  GO  D EVIL“ is an immersive experience that probes at the fragile core of morality.

The title of the exhibition, “T REE O GO D EVIL,” invokes the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve's premature consumption of the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represents a pivotal moment of moral awakening. By acquiring this forbidden knowledge, they ushered in an awareness of the duality of good and evil, a concept that would come to be seen as the root of sin. The gallery space is transformed to imitate the Garden of Eden, the site of Golgotha, and the scene depicted in Francisco Goya's haunting “Disasters of War” print series, Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!).

Through rich spatial and visual elements, ”T  REE O  GO  D EVIL“  explores moral ambiguity, human brutality, and the instability of ideas and values.

Opening reception: 19 March (Wed) 5-7pm

Gallery address: 11 Duddell Street, Central

The UK-based artist and filmmaker Maeve Brennan explores the legacy of human impact on the environment and unearths hidden narratives within society’s dominant narratives. Led by an investigative approach, her works span moving image, installation, sculpture, and printed media.

Central to Brennan’s practice is research focusing particularly on ecological issues, obscured material past, and underground economies. Despite grappling with complex structures and systems, Brennan engages with her subjects intimately, drawing from chance encounters, personal experiences, and long-term relationships.

Presenting her works for the first time in Asia, this exhibition brings together works from The Goods, an ongoing project that delves into the international traffic in looted antiquities. Also debuting in the exhibition is a new film that traces stolen objects back to Southern Italy, weaving together local stories and anecdotes to understand the impact of archeological excavation on the region’s landscape and communities.

This is the first exhibition of ancient Chinese artifacts since Sun Museum relocated, and it is also a highlight of the museum's annual "Sun Delight" program.

The exhibition will showcase 120 pieces of jade and stone carvings from the Song to Qing dynasties, all from private collections at the Little Moon Pavillion and Songde Tang. The exhibition is divided into two parts: the first part features carved jade and stone pendants, while the second part focuses on decorative art objects made of rare colour stones, including agate, white jade, lapis lazuli, coral, etc.

Chinese ancient arts and crafts are outstanding, and the brilliant achievements in jade and stone carving can be attributed to the various natural gemstones, the extraordinary skills of artisans throughout Chinese history, and the remarkable creativity of ancient people in expressing auspicious meanings through visual forms. Visitors to the exhibition can admire the scholar’s objects and decorative items made from various jade and stone carvings, some of which even come with original stands crafted by artisans from the Qing Palace's workshops. Through the auspicious meanings of some of the works, one can also appreciate the ingenuity of the ancients.

Venue address: Sun Museum, 1 Sai Yuen Lane, Sai Ying Pun

The bustling metropolis of Hong Kong, with its striking juxtapositions of towering skyscrapers, meandering alleyways, neon-lit streets, and tranquil harbors, has long been a muse to photographers from around the world. This March, the essence of this iconic city is brought to life in the group exhibition, Hong Kong Poetry, featuring the evocative works of celebrated photographers Fan Ho, Palani Mohan, Thomas Gust, and Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze.

Running from 22 March to 27 April at Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong Poetry invites visitors to explore the city through the poetic lens of four distinctive artists, each of whom has captured the spirit, energy, and contradictions of Hong Kong in their own unique way.

Hong Kong is more than a city; it is a living, breathing tapestry of stories. Its urban labyrinth of sleek modernity, colonial remnants, and deeply rooted traditions has inspired generations of photographers to uncover its layers and nuances. From the interplay of light and shadow in narrow streets to the human narratives unfolding amidst its urban density, Hong Kong’s dynamic essence is a natural canvas for poetic photography.

Preview: Thursday 20 March, 6-8pm

Gallery address: 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan 

An exclusive selection of MÉNOS photographs from their second book, The Weight of Silhouette, features both black-and-white and color images that capture the fleeting moods and emotions that shape our memories through photography.

Founded in 2018, MÉNOS is a collective dedicated to promoting Hong Kong's photographic culture through community showcases and volunteer-led youth workshops. This exhibition emphasizes the collective memories of Hong Kong in recent years. Through these images, viewers can delve into visual storytelling, exploring the interplay of light and shadow, which conveys abstract emotions rather than straightforward narratives.

Opening reception: 18:00 - 20:30

Gallery address: G/F, 74 Hollywood Road, Central

'In Our Own Backyard' explores the creative impulses of two pioneering artists, Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh, through their participation and engagement with women’s movements in South Asia from the 1980s to the 2000s. It showcases artworks and archival materials from the two artists, as well as contributions from other feminist practitioners and organisations in the region. The materials illuminate their involvement in documenting street actions, designing posters and publications, and participating in workshops and theatre productions. This project is part of AAA’s research initiative on gender in art history, highlighting narratives that emphasise communities and exchanges within the cultural field. 

Soluna Fine Art proudly presents The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics, a group exhibition featuring six prominent Korean contemporary artists: Choi Young-Wook, Ha Tae-Im, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Hyun-Sik, Kim Keun-Tai, and Woo Jong-Taek. Curated in collaboration with esteemed curator Dr. Ahn Hyun-Jung, this exhibition draws inspiration from her acclaimed book “Layers of Korean Beauty”, exploring the depth of Korean art and offering profound insights into the nation‘s rich cultural tapestry. Viewers are invited to experience diverse artistic expressions that reflect timeless themes of harmony, craftsmanship, and nature, which are central to Korean aesthetics and cultural heritage.

Opening reception on 20 March (Thurs) from 4 to 8 pm.

Gallery address: 52 Sai Street, Sheung Wan

Leo Gallery is thrilled to unveil Secret Garden, a solo project by Byoungho Kim curated by Woosuk Choi, which is cultivated using metallic modules, hinting at the foundational elements of sculptures. It explores geometric aesthetics that unfold within the orderly landscapes of civilised society. A garden is a human-scaled cosmos that humans can tame. Byoungho Kim refines overgrown forests into artificial gardens, indulging in the unique value of mechanical civilisation. The garden he refines serves as a metaphor for mechanical civilisation and a symbol of mass production.

Opening Reception: 20 March, 4 - 8pm

Gallery address: 46 Sai Street, Sheung Wan

In the exhibition ‘8 times 8. stories · series · systems in mythology & art’ works from the visual and applied arts contain serial narratives that respond self-reflexively to the artist’s oeuvre. The number 8 plays a crucial role in mythology. In Asian art this can be seen, for example, in the 8 trigrams of the I Ching, the 8 Immortals, the 8 Buddhist symbols and the 8 Auspicious symbols. These interrelated elements are often depicted as a group of 8 in the form of a serial narrative, which are supplemented by motifs of pairs, figures or scenes from stories, landscapes, plants, flowers, animals, ornaments and symbols. 

To illustrate this point, objects, each consisting of eight sections, were selected from the UMAG collection. These collection items, created with a range of techniques, demonstrate the diversity and richness of serial narratives in Chinese art and craftsmanship. These traditional works of applied art are juxtaposed by contemporary artists, so as to show that serial and systemic narratives are still used as artistic strategies. Systemic is used here in the sense that individual artworks are part of a larger overall system of interrelated elements. Participating artists: Arvid BOECKER (*1964 Wuppertal, Germany), Adrian FALKNER (*1979 in Basel, Switzerland), Daphne Alexis HO 何居怡 (*1975 in Hong Kong), Klaus MERKEL (*1953 in Heidelberg, Germany), YAU Wing Fung 邱榮豐 (*1990 in Hong Kong), and YU Hee 유희 (*1967 in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

Curated by Dr Harald P. Kraemer 

Curator Tour: 17:00-18:00

Opening Ceremony: 18:00-20:00

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

Contemporary by Angela Li is proud to present a solo exhibition of Beijing-based artist Wu Didi, “extra/ordinary.” Wu’s works explore the quiet abundance of nature, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary and inspiring viewers to reflect on themselves and our relations to the environment around us, with the artist present.

Contemporary society is saturated with endless information, ideologies, and material desires, often leaving people feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once observed that human desire is insatiable; the fleeting pleasure of fulfilment fades quickly, compelling us to constantly seek more. Amidst this relentless pursuit, Wu’s minimalist oil paintings stand out for their ingenuity and simplicity. Combining the essence of Western abstraction with Chinese literati paintings, she appropriates natural elements embedded in cultural consciousness. Bamboo twists and contorts without severing; moss grows on rocks, forming self-contained microcosms; birds weave through intricate spiderwebs—each transcending its inherent natural state. Through deconstruction, refinement and reconstruction, these familiar elements are transformed into unexpected forms on the canvas, expanding our perception of the ordinary nature.

Opening reception: 4-8pm

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

CAUTION: This Exhibition May Cause Spontaneous Laughter and Pleasant Confusion

Attention, art aficionados, weirdness enthusiasts, and connoisseurs of the gloriously bizarre! JPS Gallery Hong Kong is about to be invaded by the delightfully twisted mind of artist Joe Foti. Born in Queens, New York, in 1962, Foti has been orchestrating visual marvels for the luxury brand Chrome Hearts' Art and Science Division since 1990. His artistic vision can be likened to that of a modern-day alchemist, creating art that is a harmonious amalgamation of disparate objects that, against all odds, coalesce into cohesive and thought-provoking masterpieces. Opening on March 20th, Foti's first solo exhibition, "Souvenirs, Novelties, Party Tricks", in Hong Kong, will be one part fever dream, two parts nostalgia, and a whole lot of "What the F*** is that?"

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 20th, 2025, 5 - 8 pm
Gallery address: G/F, 88 - 90 Staunton Street, Central

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time”, an exhibition of recent films and video installations by Ho Tzu Nyen. This is the esteemed artist's second exhibition with Kiang Malingue, showcasing three independent bodies of work: “Night March of Hundred Monsters” (2025), O for Opium (2023), and a suite of more than forty “Timepieces” (2023), first shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2024.

Known for critically reflecting upon the construction of history, myth, ideas and identities by working across a range of media in the past two decades, Ho continues to explore subjects as diverse as yōkai (monsters, demons or spectres as they are known in Japan); the history of opium war; and the concept of time in particular manifestations. “Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time” is a structured exhibition that alludes to trailokya or the three realms, the religious division of the world into three domains: the netherworld, the earth, and heaven.

Opening reception: 20 March, 6-8pm

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wan Chai

"The Golden Snail Series" is a solo exhibition by Thai artist and filmmaker, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, curated by Joseph Chen, the Director of Culture of Eaton HK. The exhibition showcases a series of videos and prints using golden snail as a motif to further reimagines existing narratives related to its geometric forms and cultural meanings. Through appropriating the genres of silent films, video essay, TV advertisement and karaoke video, the artist reenacts the history in Thailand and Asia to deconstruct the myths behind the political ideology, consumer culture, pop music and contemporary art.

Gallery address: 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

The Peninsula, whose commitment to supporting the work of visionary artists is exemplified by its global Art in Resonance programme, will launch the programme’s latest iteration with a stunning new exhibit at its flagship Hong Kong property. The exhibition, which will debut during Hong Kong Art Week and be open to the public through May, will present commissioned works from local artists Phoebe Hui, and Chris Cheung (widely known as h0nh1m) along with Shanghai-based artist Lin Fanglu in partnership with the esteemed Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

The original works from these boundary-pushing artists will be displayed in public spaces at The Peninsula Hong Kong, where the works will be accessible to both hotel guests and visiting art enthusiasts throughout the exhibition period. The programme’s 2025 edition will offer exciting and interactive art experiences, while reaffirming The Peninsula Hong Kong’s significant role in the cultural landscape of its home city. 

Presented in conjunction with Art March Hong Kong and Art Central, Echoes of Expression brings together a dynamic group of artists—Anthony Chan, Chen Xi, Chen Yi Ching, He Baili, Eric Ho, Jess Leung, Joe Li, Kathy Fung, Liu Cheng Mui, Lu Jun, Rita Huang, and Wong Chak Hung. Showcasing diverse interpretations of contemporary art, the exhibition explores the interplay of emotion, memory, and form. Through vibrant brushwork, intricate textures, and evocative compositions, each artist resonates with the collective pulse of artistic expression, creating a dialogue between tradition and modernity.

Opening reception: 21st March, Friday 2:00pm–6:00pm

Gallery address: 7/F Vogue Bldg, 67 Wyndham St, Central

Sin Sin Fine Art is delighted to announce the unveiling of “2084”, a solo exhibition, which features over thirty whimsical artworks across mediums, including woodcut paintings, ink paintings，and drawings by local artist, Michelle Fung.

With five imaginary countries, “2084” is the world in fifty-nine years created by Michelle, which she has been developing for the past decade. This exhibition marks an important milestone of Michelle’s ten years of research and hard work; and a focus on her continuing chapter on two fantastical realms: Contradictoria (Polluta) and Northlandia. With thorough research, creativity, and the ability to articulate, each of these countries offers some in-depth and multi-dimensional narrative. Blending irony, imaginary fiction, and complex visual metaphors; “2084” is considered to be both a reflective tale and a whimsical re-imagining of the future, challenging our perceptions of reality, environmental crisis, and human agency.

Opening Reception: 21 March 2025 (Friday), 6—9pm

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

When a Cuban looks at the sea, it evokes the isolation and pain of thousands of families, the anxiety, and the psychological frustration of living in a divided country. The sea becomes a wall or a barbed-wire fence delimiting one’s destiny.

- Yoan Capote

Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is delighted to announce Yoan Capote: Mixed Feelings, an evocative exhibition of new works by acclaimed Cuban artist Yoan Capote on view from 22 March to 21 June 2025. In this presentation, Capote weaves together the sublime beauty of the Cuban landscape with the weight of its turbulent socio-political history. As its title suggests, Mixed Feelings explores duality – love and disillusionment, belonging and estrangement, hope and despair – and captures the paradoxes of the artist’s homeland in works that speak to global themes of migration and political turbulence. Capote’s meditations on Cuba’s fraught realities
extend far beyond its physical and ideological borders, resonating powerfully with the shifting political landscape of Hong Kong – a city and an island where the erosion of autonomy has fostered an increasing sense of insularity. Through his exploration of the ambivalent and often contradictory emotions that arise from living at the threshold of self-governance, Capote reveals the universal tensions of contested identity and political uncertainty.

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

Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich at its Hong Kong space. This new group of 12 works reflects Cambodia’s current societal conditions and history while paying homage to nature, expressed through wall reliefs and glass sculptures. The wall relief works recall corrugated roofs, using recycled aluminium and found rice pots, showcasing the everyday cityscape of the country, while a hanging sculpture resembles lungs, crafted from glass, bamboo strips, and copper, embracing the possibilities of materials. Pich’s works explore materiality and become a confluence point through his labour-intensive creative process. Furthermore, an artist talk moderated by John Tain is scheduled for 27 March 2025 (Thursday) from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Sopheap Pich (b. 1971, Battambang, Cambodia) is one of the most celebrated contemporary artists in Southeast Asia. Pich is known for creating timeless, minimalist sculptures and wall reliefs using regionally ubiquitous materials such as bamboo, rattan, and aluminium. "Materials hold infinite possibilities," Pich says, placing absolute trust in the power of materiality to convey social and political histories, collective traumas, or personal memories that Cambodians experienced during the radical era under the Khmer Rouge. Through his painstaking and labor-intensive process, Pich’s artistic practice serves as a fundamental act of connecting the past, present, and future.

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

Swire Properties’ Arts Month 2025 returns with its month-long festivities dedicated to celebrating art. This year, ArtisTree is pleased to partner with Sara Shakeel, a globally celebrated multidisciplinary artist, to present ArtisTree Selects: The Jewel System – visitors are invited to a celestial dialogue of two transformative art installations located at ArtisTree and Two Taikoo Place from 22 March to 27 April 2025.

Sara Shakeel, widely recognised for her mesmerising digital art, pioneers a new frontier by translating her virtual concepts into a physical exhibition. ArtisTree showcases the artist’s imaginative artwork out of the digital space, harbouring the healing and transformative qualities of the pieces while marking Shakeel’s debut in Hong Kong through a tangible and novel experience.

Location: 1/F Cambridge House, Taikoo Place,

1/F Lobby, Two Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

From 22 March to 3 May 2025, WKM Gallery is delighted to present Embodied Perspectives, a compelling group exhibition featuring six contemporary Japanese painters: Soh Souen, Iori Nagashima, Koji Yamaguchi, Jun Tsunoda, Kohei Yamada, and Momo Yoshino. This exhibition explores the interplay between corporeality and the two-dimensional realm of painting, focusing on how viewers viscerally experience the artist’s unique perspective.

The body’s engagement with painting unfolds in three crucial stages: the initial perception of the motif, the physical act of applying paint, and the viewer’s ultimate experience of the completed artwork. Embodied Perspectives showcases paintings that subtly yet powerfully incorporate the body as a mediating force, prompting viewers to become acutely aware of its presence – or deliberate absence - within the artistic process.

Opening reception: Saturday, 22 March 2025, 3pm–8pm

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

“Oi! Spotlight” is Oi!’s annual flagship project held in Art March every year. It aims to showcase the creativity of both local and international artists, encourage cross-cultural dialogues, foster exchanges between regions and embrace innovative ideas. This year, “Oi! Spotlight” has invited renowned Japanese artist Toyofuku Ryo to organise his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Toyofuku has been invited to participate in various international art events. For this exhibition, he has drawn inspiration from Hong Kong's local culture, using large-scale installations to present a peculiar space that combines Japanese aesthetics and cultural elements of Hong Kong.

Venue address: 12 Oil Street, North Point

In her practice, Osaka-born artist Sasaoka Yuriko explores the ambiguous relationship between humans and the natural world through gesamtkunstwerk installations that reveal surrealist, immersive landscapes. Drawing inspiration from animism, masquerade, theater, puppetry, and Osaka’s comedy traditions, her work delves into fundamental questions around agency, mortality, and the narratives we tell ourselves.

For “Animale,” Sasaoka investigated the historical roles of animals in society—from fables and pets to their use in political diplomacy and labor. Her research began with the story of Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who became a symbol of resilience during World War II. Discovered as an orphaned cub, Wojtek was sold to Polish soldiers and integrated into their military operations, where he reportedly carried ammunition and adopted human habits like smoking and drinking coffee. After the war, he was gifted to Edinburgh Zoo, where a memorial still stands in his honor. Building on Wojtek’s life story and his mirroring of human behavior, Sasaoka expanded her research to other cases of working animals through residencies and projects in Berlin, Edinburgh, and Japan.

Contact the gallery for exact address.

The Stroll Gallery by Stella A&C, a Hong Kong-based venue that has been introducing the works of Korean artists, will host ISoo Jeon’s solo exhibition In the Name of Love! from March 22 to April 26. This exhibition will showcase Jeon’s unique perspective on the world around him, articulated through an array of captivating paintings that invite viewers into his artistic vision.

The artist often draws inspiration from personal experiences, as well as from universal themes that resonate with people from all walks of life. He believes that love is the deepest essence of our lives, possessing a powerful force that can uplift us even in the most challenging times. Jeon is also known for his distinctive sensibility and delicate touch, which shine through in each of his works. Through the vibrant colors and profound emotional depth in his paintings, he hopes to invite the viewers to explore and reflect on their own relationships, emotions and the connections of humanity.

Gallery address: Unit 504, 5F, Vanta Industrial Centre, Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Tsing

"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

DESARTHE is pleased to present Soul Light Legacy Plan, its fourth solo exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Wang Xin that posits itself as a fictional service agency that provides what humans have coveted for centuries– immortality. Unveiling a new body of interrelated sculptural, multimedia, and interactive installations, the immersive exhibition appears as a showroom of unusual artifacts imagined to preserve spiritual consciousness via the technological avant-garde.

Upon entering the gallery, visitors will find themselves in an ambiguous environment that simultaneously recalls a calming sanitarium for meditative retreats and a showroom for cutting-edge technological devices. To the artist, the mission and business viability of the Soul Light Legacy Plan is founded either on the human desire to live forever or the fear of being forgotten after death. Checking in at the front desk, any visitor can become a participant of the program by registering for an account on the agency’s official website. Packaging spirituality and legacy as a luxury service, Wang creates a hyperbolic yet reflective statement regarding the factorization as well as the commodification of inherent human qualities under the guise of technological advancement.

Opening: Saturday ,March22nd, 12–7pm (concurrentwith#SouthsideSaturday)

Gallery address: 26/F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

Carl Kostyál is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibition of our Hong Kong gallery with London-based Chinese artist Rong Bao (b. 1997). The exhibition ‘Bao Rong is also me, two!✌️’ is the artist’s debut exhibition in Asia, and follows on from her 2024 exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, ‘Rong Bao is Me’. Known for her surreal, childlike and energetically subversive aesthetic, Bao’s sculptures and introspective self-portraits blur the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the intimate and the alien.

“Welcome to the playground of bold softness and unapologetic expression. A universe crafted in campy pinks, purples and blues, where biomorphic totems reign supreme, ingesting, vibrating and spasming across their dominion. At the heart of ‘Bao Rong is also me, two!✌️’ lies the colossal ‘The Hole’, a PVC pop extravaganza, which dares viewers to crawl inside its soft, unyielding exterior. At its entrance, a sunflower-like ruffle bursts open, its tendrils reaching towards the Hong Kong jungle. When the sculpture is dormant– that is when the artist is not inside of it, performing– a pair of helpless, eerily mindless prosthetic limbs dangle from its exit, swaying to a hypnotic rhythm.

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

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present the group exhibition Birth of Poetry, featuring works by artists Chen Jinbin, Ted Gahl, Han Mengyun, Joy Li, Shi Zheng, and Zhang Ji. The exhibition explores the origins of poetry and its enduring significance in life, offering a glimpse into its primordial essence. Through a diverse range of mediums including painting, video, sculpture, and installation—the exhibition reveals how poetry emerges from the vastness of the cosmos, the quietude of the everyday, and the struggles of existence.

Birth of Poetry offers a nuanced and multifaceted exploration of the genesis and sustenance of poetry as manifested through the diverse artistic practices of six contemporary artists. The exhibition delves into the myriad ways in which poetry emerges, evolves, and endures across varying contexts and mediums. From Zhang Ji’s expansive inner landscapes to Shi Zheng’s embrace of linguistic randomness, from Joy Li’s embodiment of the quotidian through the corporeal to Ted Gahl’s synesthetic recollections, from Chen Jinbin’s meditation on objectless love to Han Mengyun’s poetic force arising from concealed anguish, each artist contributes a unique lens through which the birth of poetry is articulated. The exhibition posits poetry not merely as a written or spoken form but as an omnipresent force that permeates the fabric of existence.

Opening reception: 22 March 2025 (Saturday) 2 - 6 PM

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

MOU PROJECTS is pleased to present "Fabric of Belonging," Tap Chan’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Showcasing nine newly created bodies of work—including sculptures, installations, photographs, and a double-channel video work—the exhibition seeks to weave the concept of diasporic existence. It evokes the imagination of journeys to distant galaxies and the disorientation of being lost, all while encapsulating a longing for escape.

Upon entering the space, visitors are immediately drawn to Their Sun: Our Sun (2024), strategically positioned in the gallery’s first segment. This piece embodies Chan’s exploration of wormhole theory and its ontological implications. Comprising six modular forms that mirror the curvature and topology of a wormhole, the work serves as a visual metaphor for mass migration and displacement. Its interior surfaces are gilded with 24-karat gold, symbolizing the wormhole’s immutable constancy, while its exterior, made from an iron composite, will gradually oxidize—signifying the inevitable entropy of time. This interplay between permanence and decay prompts reflection on the dialectical relationship between the eternal and the ephemeral, the cosmic and the corporeal. The sun within this work alludes to an astral voyage through the void, where the pursuit of new suns becomes a poignant metaphor for migratory trajectories in search of new beginnings.

Opening reception: 4–7 pm, Saturday, March 22

Gallery address: 13F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo St, Aberdeen

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present “Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives”, marking the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 24 to May 10, 2025. The exhibition features Sin’s latest video works: The Time of Our Lives (2024), The Fortress (2024), and Asleep (2024). These will be shown alongside face wipes imprinted with the make-up of Sin’s characters featured in the films. This marks the final stop of a touring solo exhibition that has travelled to Accelerator (Stockholm), and is on show at Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim) until March 16, and at Canal Projects (New York) until March 29.

“Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives” immerses audiences into the artist’s cinematic multiverse, comprising a recurring repertoire of characters, all played by Sin. The works in the exhibition draw upon science-fiction, metaphysics, cinema, drag performance, history, theater, and architecture to challenge the dichotomous and binary perceptions of time, objectivity and identity. The notion of the stage, the scripted lines, the role, and the performer takes precedence across the works, prompting contemplation as to how reality is often built on pre-existing narratives and reified constructs. Sin’s works untethers this notion through speculative fiction and fantasy world-building, presenting the artist as a carrier bag of fiction.

Artist talk at 4:30 pm with Sin Wai Kin in conversation with John Tain, Curator of the 2024 Lahore Biennale

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

EXIT announces CHAN Wai Lap’s latest solo exhibition ‘LOVEGUARD’, which reimagines the role of lifeguards, exploring the connection and disconnection between people in contemporary society. The exhibition responds to Hong Kong’s lifeguard shortage while contemplating how strangers might build trust and maintain intimacy in an age of widespread wariness.

Opening: Saturday, 22 March, 2 - 5 pm

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

On the occasion of the gallery’s anniversary and 2025 Art Basel Hong Kong, PODIUM is proud to present 'Aftershock’, a major group exhibition that explores the seismic reverberations of trauma and the transformative potential that lies in its wake. Inspired by the seismological concept, this presentation parallels the earth's readjustment process following a mainshock with the existential experience of searching for alternative futures after a profound disruption. Just as tectonic plates shift and settle into new configurations, all participating artists, including Ivana Bašić, Sihan Guo, Ittah Yoda, Yein Lee, and Diane Severin Nguyen, will showcase new works to probe the liminal space between devastation and renewal, inviting viewers to contemplate how one can revitalise without defaulting to, and being bounded by habitual operational logic.

Opening reception: 22 March, 2:00—7:00 PM

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

Asynchronous Affinities marks a new phase in Gongkan’s creative practice, exploring displacement to challenge social norms, cultural codifications, and moral values while nurturing transcultural interconnections and individual development. The exhibition invites viewers to explore the poetics of in-between frontiers, gaps, and links across cultures and generations, as well as the interstices of sexual and gender diversities.

Curated by Larys Frogier

WITH… you ~ people ~ bonds ~ heart ~ cultures ~ sex ~ nature ~ infinity ~ love…
OUT… of limits / frontiers / space / codes / time / identity / walls / exclusion…

Opening reception: 3-6pm

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

Rossi & Rossi is thrilled to announce Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time, a solo exhibition on the work of Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol (b. 1982). Derived from the Sanskrit words Chitra (light or awareness) and Kala (time or emptiness), the exhibition’s title Chitra-Kala translates to ‘art’. Reflecting a deep philosophical framework rooted in Eastern thought, it also speaks to the interplay between awareness and the passage of time.

Opening on 22 March 2025, the presentation, which features a new body of paintings and drawings, marks the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. It follows his large-scale 2024 Met commission Biography of a Thought – – a site-specific installation of paintings and carpets, which was juxtaposed with traditional Himalayan art and ritual objects in the museum’s exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.

Opening reception: Sat 22/03 11:00 - 19:00

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

Empty Gallery is pleased to present The Garden of Loved Ones, the first solo exhibition by Los-Angeles based-artist Richard Hawkins in Greater Asia. Since emerging in the early 1990s, Hawkins has developed an idiosyncratic practice centered around the intense pleasure of looking and the dynamics of projection and desire which animate both sexual and art historical expression. Employing collage as an underlying mode structuring his work in painting, sculpture, and various other media, he juxtaposes and intermingles low culture with high art––operating in that fertile and unobserved intersection between graverobber and archaeologist, fanboy and connoisseur, degenerate and avant-gardist.

For his show in Hong Kong, Hawkins stages a return to his long held obsession with the figure of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986), the enigmatic founder of Butoh dance. A suite of new video works are inspired by, and presented alongside, a series of collages in the manner of Hijikata’s scrapbooks. These bizarre and hermetic documents appropriated and disfigured fragments of the Western canon––Picasso, Bellmer, and Francis Bacon amongst others––in order to translate them into choreographic instructions, contorting history in order to broaden the ways in which we might contort our bodies. In his homage to these scrapbooks, Hawkins emphasizes the surreal juxtapositions, distortions of context, and interpretive perversity which enabled Hijikata’s radical transformation of movement––suggesting a queerer and more promiscuous reading of art history––one unbound by linear notions of influence and origin.

Gallery address: 19/F & 18/F, Grand Marine Center, Aberdeen

The Room of Spirit and Time was established by Empty Gallery in September 2024. Situated in an independent chamber to the left of the gallery’s entrance foyer, TRST is an occasional platform for the extended contemplation of single works from a variety of periods and contexts. This new initiative functions as a space apart from the determinative logics and pressures of our formal exhibition program. Traversing both vast distances and infinitesimal niches, each presentation will be accompanied by a commissioned text approaching the work as a dynamic palimpsest in conversation with the unique social and historical circumstances of our city.

Playfully referencing Toriyama Akira’s hyperbolic time chamber—a fictive dimension for self-cultivation in which the laws of space-time are transformed—TRST proposes a speculative epistemology grounded in non-Western philosophical resources as one potential method for productively wandering the treacherous crags and precipices of globalized culture.

The Room of Spirit and Time was a collaborative project which took place at the Queens Museum between 2018 and 2021. Its name and concept have been leased to Empty Gallery for an indefinite period of time in a convivial spirit.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery presents Beauty Will Save the World: eight artists from Southeast Asia, with works by Bùi Công Khánh, Chan Dany, Dinh Q. Lê, FX Harsono, Htein Lin, Josephine Turalba, Moe Satt, and Vũ Dân Tân. Grappling with dire conditions, they mobilize viewers with humor while radiating poetic light and humanity. Curated by Southeast Asian art specialist Iola Lenzi, Beauty Will Save the World: eight artists from Southeast Asia assemble iconic artworks by Southeast Asian contemporary masters, as well as newly commissioned pieces impactful for their visual and sensorial seduction operating in tandem with their semantic play.  

Opening reception: 24 March, 1-7pm

Curator’s Talk and Brunch: Fri, Mar 28, 10am - 12 noon

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

Alisan Fine Arts is delighted to present Tradition Transformed, examining how three generations of artists have negotiated the boundaries between traditional Chinese ink painting and contemporary artistic practice. Through the works of 18 artists, this exhibition traces the evolution of ink art from mid-20th century modernist experiments to present-day innovations. The selected works, organized along the themes of Form, Narrative, and Materiality, demonstrate how artists have both challenged and sustained the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of the ink medium.

Opening Reception: 2PM-6PM, Monday, 24 March (Central Gallery Day)

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

Dominique Fung (born 1987, works in New York) is a Canadian artist with ancestry in Hong Kong and Shanghai, whose practice explores the subliminal liminal territory in which tradition, memory and legacy seep through our collective subconsciousness. Through her interest in casting light on overlooked or forgotten stories and her use of specific historical artifacts she infuses with living qualities and complex non-linear narrative paths, she models a new, broader, alternative space of belonging.

Opening reception: March 24th, 2.00-8.00PM

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

Throughout history and across cultures, mountains have been regarded as places of power and mysticism, home to deities, ascetic sages, and creatures of myth. Depicted as thresholds between the mortal world and the divine, their rugged peaks form the border where human ambition meets the unknown. Thorpe’s new paintings explore our fractured relationship with these culturally significant landscapes, through contrasts of tone and texture, challenging our assumptions of what is marginal and what is teeming with life and meaning. In so doing, he inverts our expectations of the exterior and the interior; and invites a conscious examination of interiority.

Gallery address: 105-107, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central

Born in Paris in 1911, and working in New York from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the past century. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, and ranging from intimate drawings to large-scale installations, her work expresses a variety of emotions through a visual vocabulary of formal and symbolic equivalents. For over seven decades, Bourgeois’s creative process was a form of exorcism: a way of reconstructing memories and emotions in order to free herself from their grasp. Opening on 25 March and on view through 10 May 2025, Hauser & Wirth will present Bourgeois’s second solo exhibition with the gallery in Hong Kong, organized in collaboration with The Easton Foundation. The show brings together a selection of works from the 1960s to 2008, including rarely exhibited sculptures and works on paper. A three-meter-long fountain installation, ‘Mamelles (fountain)’ (1991), and a steel and marble sculpture, ‘Spider’ (2000), will be shown in Asia for the first time.

Opening Reception: 24 Mar, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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

Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to present Niao Niao, a solo exhibition in collaboration with the Su Xiaobai Foundation, showcasing the works of renowned artist Su Xiaobai. This exhibition, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, is exemplary of the gallery’s long-term focus on abstraction.

Su Xiaobai pursued his postgraduate studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1980s and was taught by Konrad Klapheck. He embraces abstraction by consciously stripping his work of narrative and explicit meaning. Known for experimenting with lacquer, a resin-based material traditionally used for making lacquerware that can be dated back to the 5th millennium BC, Su is drawn by its unpredictable characteristics. His core interest is to realise physical forms that are inherent to the material and diverse properties of lacquer.

Opening reception: 24 March, 2-8pm

Gallery address: 11 Duddell Street, Central

Emma Webster’s landscape paintings teleport viewers into the otherworldly. The places she depicts, convincing and hallucinatory, merge spatial expectations with mystifying fantasy. The paintings come from a hybrid sketching-sculpting process within screen-space. Webster first constructs scenes in virtual reality, which she then embellishes with theatrical illumination, to create natural vistas that relish in artifice, drama, and distortion. Of her VR models, Webster says: “Working from within the still-life is more akin to how we go about the world. There can be no ‘outside.’”

Emma Webster (b. 1989) is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, 2011) and Yale University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 2018. In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a collection of musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world.

Gallery address: 807, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

White Cube is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia of painting by American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99). 

Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, ‘Lynne Drexler: The Seventies’ will debut never-before-seen works created during a pivotal decade in the artist’s practice.

Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist’s vivid chromatic compositions reflect a breadth of stylistic influences, drawing from Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism, as well as classical music and the natural landscape. Executed through tessellated rectangles of paint, Drexler’s colour fields emanate an organic, kinetic dynamism.

Opening reception: 5pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by New Zealand–born and Los Angeles–based artist Emma McIntyre (b. 1990) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. This is the artist’s first solo show in Asia and her second exhibition with David Zwirner, following An echo, a stain (2023), a solo presentation of her work at the gallery’s East 69th Street location in New York. McIntyre creates vivid abstractions imbued with chromatic and gestural energy. Made with oils and unconventional substances like oxidized iron, her instinctual yet deeply considered works explore the alchemical possibilities of the painted medium and expand traditional understandings of landscape and the natural world. McIntyre’s practice is protean and rhizomatic; each painting shares its roots with the ones before and after it, enacting an endlessly transformative system of generation and discovery. Building on her investigations into process, material, and divergent lineages of art history, the paintings on view in Hong Kong open new avenues of dialogue between the creative drive of the artist’s hand and the forces of physics and nature. McIntyre has been represented by David Zwirner since February 2024.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 25, 3-7pm

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

Over the Influence is pleased to announce its latest show in the gallery's Hong Kong space, with a major group exhibition entitled Beyond Borders.

Bringing together Camilla Perkins, Michael Kagan, Tubagus Salamudin Alamin, Suanjaya Kencut, Taku Obata, and Florent Stosskopf, international artists whose figurative works push the boundaries of contemporary representation.

This exhibition represents a visual dialogue that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries. From England to Japan, from the United States to Indonesia, these artists offer a global perspective on how movement, memory, and transformation are interpreted through different artistic traditions.

Opening reception: 25 March 6-9pm

Gallery address: G/F – 2/F, 52 Wyndham Street, Central

Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Robert Indiana, on view at the gallery’s H Queen's location from March 24 to April 30, 2025, following the artist’s major survey Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery at the Procuratie Vecchie, an official collateral event of the 2024 Venice Biennale.

The show, coinciding with next year's edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, will include sculptures and paintings from throughout Indiana’s career, showcasing his uniquely graphic visual vocabulary that made him one of the most inventive and enduring figures in the history of American art.

Gallery address: 12/F, H Queen’s, Central

Images and their authorship are always in flux. We build, rebuild, and trade images like never before.
—Sarah Sze

Gagosian is pleased to announce Sarah Sze’s first solo exhibition in Asia, and her sixth with the gallery, opening in Hong Kong on March 25, 2025. The exhibition features new large-scale mixed-media paintings alongside a new series of hanging sculptures.

In her latest exhibition, Sze explores how we make meaning from the never-ending stream of images that saturate contemporary life. Woven together from elements of her visual vocabulary—a bird, a wolf, a hand, a sunset—Sze’s new works destabilize the boundary between two and three dimensions, as imagery repeats across media, flowing from painting to sculpture and back again. Through this pictorial call-and-response, Sze prompts meditations on time, memory, and perception.

Opening reception: Tuesday, March 25, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 7/F Pedder Building, Central

Tang Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of the international group exhibition "Ritual, Trauma, and Allegory" on March 25, 2025, in Hong Kong Central HQueen’s Space. The exhibition will feature the remarkable paintings of eight artists: Anouk Lamm Anouk, Jonas Burgert, Jigger Cruz, Guillermo Lorca, Leng Guangmin, Edgar Plans, Rodel Tapaya, and Woo Kukwon.

Contemporary painting is continuously experiencing a revolutionary grammar of violence on both physical and metaphorical levels amidst globalization and technological upheaval—ranging from the material tearing of the canvas to the deconstruction of cultural symbols, and the fragmented reassembly of identity narratives. This revolution is not merely an aesthetic stance; it is a cognitive guerrilla initiated by artists in the fault lines of civilization.

Opening reception: 25 March | 6 - 8pm

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

HOO Mojong (1924-2012), a trailblazer in modern art, stands as a key figure in bridging Eastern and Western artistic languages. As one of the most prominent Chinese female artists following Pan Yu-Lin, she has become a significant representative of Asian modernism in the 20th century.

This Retrospective exhibition takes place during a significant moment: the centenary of Hoo Mojong’s birth. Hoo was born in Shanghai and left her hometown in her early 20s. Her extensive travels and residencies around the world not only enriched her personal experiences but also infused her artistic creations with multicultural inspiration. From Shanghai to Taipei, then to Brazil and Spain, and finally settling in Paris where she created art for 37 years as a painter and printmaker. She returned to China in 1996, museums and institutions throughout China have since celebrated her distinct explorations of bodies and mundane, yet playful, objects. “Objects of Play ” will comprehensively trace her artistic creation features nearly 100 artworks including paintings, prints, drawings, and archival materials from various periods of Hoo’s career, recapping her integration of Chinese and Western art styles and investigations of the spirituality and power of ordinary life.

Venue address: Chantal Miller Gallery, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Following Xu Bing’s appointment as Hong Kong’s Ambassador for Cultural Promotion in 2024, "Xu Bing in Hong Kong: Square Word Calligraphy" marks the renowned artist’s first large-scale art endeavour in the city. As part of this project, he has curated an exhibition centred around the Square Word Calligraphy Classroom at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, showcasing a unique fusion of Chinese and English languages intertwined with Hong Kong's linguistic culture. Through this exhibition, Xu enriches the meaning and interpretation of Square Word Calligraphy, opening new avenues for cross-cultural communication in a vibrant context.

AISHO Hong Kong is honoured to announce Spanish artist Cristina Lama’s first solo exhibition “Unreasonable (LA SINRAZÓN)” in Hong Kong. The show is on view from 27 March to 26 April, 2025.

Cristina Lama's artistic practice is fundamentally grounded in abstract emotional expression, employing a relatively loose narrative approach that leaves the interpretation of her works open to the viewer. Rather than focusing on specific themes, characters, or subjects, she transforms these elements into instruments for exploring the possibilities of composition. Lama relies heavily on intuition, regarding the realistic imagery merely as a premise for her experimental arrangements of lines, forms, and colors. Her primary concern lies in how these elements achieve harmonious fluidity across the canvas. Working predominantly with acrylic paint on large-scale canvases, Lama incorporates dilemmas related to family, childhood, and freedom into her works. Her paintings, which reject conventional rules and perspectives, demonstrate compelling force through deliberate and vigorous brushwork while manifesting her sensitivity and emotional depth.

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

Wu Jiaru grew up in a typical Guangdong city in southern China, an area shaped by the entertainment, aesthetic and lifestyle influences that entered the mainland through Hong Kong in the 1990s. Within her practice, Jiaru examines these cultural exchanges between mainland China and Hong Kong alongside questions of identity and belonging through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, video and painting.

In To the Naiad's House (2022), Jiaru's first exhibition with Flowers Gallery, she constructs a memory palace, drawing on her own childhood memories of a room in the restaurant her mother owned (known as a Jiu Lou). Functioning as both a restaurant and entertainment venue, Jiaru describes the Jiu Lou as an aesthetic hybrid inundated with the optimism of economic expansion and the desire for individual freedom brought on by social transformation.

Breakfast and Preview (RSVP required): 27 March 2025 10am - 12pm

Gallery address: 49 Tung Street, Sheung Wan 

Riding the ferry across the sea has become a daily routine, revealing the ocean as the most profound hue in this city. It glimmers in shades of teal and blue, while the gentle breeze stirs delicate ripples on the surface. As the sky shifts, gazing at the sea from the ferry feels like watching a series of films, quietly witnessing the changes.

Every day, the boats come and go at the dock, sharing their own stories. They neither pursue the connections that have slipped away nor turn away the good fortunes yet to come.

Shop 202, 2/F, Block 3 Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Rd, Central

Touch Gallery is honored to collaborate for the first time with the pioneer of the ink art movement, Chui Tze Hung, for his solo exhibition "My Artistic Journey", which will be held in April 2025. Approaching his nineties, Chui Tze Hung continues to create tirelessly, and this exhibition will showcase his new works ranging from modern landscapes to abstract splashes of color, as well as colorful ink calligraphy, cleverly blending these elements. With his unique perspective and profound artistic accomplishments, Chui Tze Hung invites the audience into a space filled with inspiration and contemplation.

Chui Tze Hung has achieved significant recognition in the art world, earning numerous accolades throughout his career. Notably, he received the Urban Council Fine Arts Award for Painting in 1979 and for Calligraphy in 1994 at the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition hosted by the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In 1988, he was honored with the U.S. International Artist Award and a Federal Fellowship, which allowed him to spend six months as an artist-in-residence at the "Artists' Retreat". Additionally, he has been invited as an "International Guest" to engage in artistic exchanges around the globe. In 2005, Chui was presented with a Certificate of Commendation by the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government in recognition of his contributions to the arts.

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

In the thick of the Pandemic, an underground artist collective was burgeoning in Hong Kong while we were panicking about what the unpredictable future would bring. EJAR ( EASTERN JADE Art Renaissance) envisions and creates a utopia in a tenement building in Shau Kei Wan. EJAR is the name of: a shared artist studio space, an artist-collective, and a spirit. Their artistic practices encompass visual arts, contemporary sound and music, curation and arts education. The curator capitalizes the Goethe-Gallery and presents personal works by the four core members; and through their experiences and creations they respond to our time, the Zeitgeist.

EJAR is a self-initiated Hong Kong’s artist collective. This exhibition features personal works by the four core members– HO Julvian, Dino Rib, Shek Po Kwan and Gavin Yip. Curated by Kalen Lee.

The exhibition opens on April 5, 2025 (Sat) from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM with a guided tour by the curator and the artists.

Venue address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Co-presented by Hong Kong art teams and Italy’s Arkad Foundation (Seravezza), this groundbreaking exhibition redefines cultural exchange through 10 emerging artists (5 Hong Kong × 5 Italy-based international talents). Their three-year collaborative experiment embodies the "fusion" ethos—a silent manifesto on trust, forged through marble and rare woods.

Material Dialogue: Italian artists carve marble | Hong Kong masters sculpt rare hardwoods—2 distinctive cultures meet and created harmony. Creative Subversion: Artists proposed artworks to partners for reinterpretation, with respect and care of each other’s work. Global Premier: 36 dual-signature sculptures – four years relay creation – debut as a complete collection.

Venue: 5/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Art Centers, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai

Hidden Space is delighted to present Saturation, a solo exhibition by Fong Tsz Ho, the seventh recipient of our annual Hidden Space Award.

A pulsing soundscape of escalating tension. A narrow antechamber uncomfortably filled with mismatched seating. Beyond it, in a material shift from red painted walls into red light, piles of furniture temporarily arranged and rearranged into structures that might resemble barricades or sprawling nests.

Fong has created an experimental arena for combining sound, colour, making and unmaking. Over the course of the exhibition, he utilises chairs, stools, tables, ladders, and items as varied as rocks and a metronome, as interlocking puzzle pieces. In reshaping the environment, both in response to and defiance of the relentlessly discomforting sound, there is the maintenance of agency and balance in the face of alienation. In a moment of crisis where solace can feel elusive, there is resistance and refuge in the crevices.

Venue address: Unit 6, 16/F, Block A, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing St, Kwai Chung

Life unfolds through ruptures, navigating the vast sea of time. The changes in life are scouring, drifting, and surging; how can we anchor ourselves in the here and now? The anchor unexpectedly appears in a basket of washed fruit, in lunch shared with others, in the soles of sneakers while walking, and in an old dream that has been revisited several times. It is neither yesterday nor the future, but an anchor that exists in the present moment. We discover it, tie it, and lower it, until the next wave comes.

Anchoring the Presence is a solo exhibition by artist Sin Wah Lai, co-curated by Siu Tung (Venus Lau) and Sally Leung. In times of ongoing crises, the exhibition returns to the pure connection between art and everyday life, practicing the state of being present during ordinary routines. After several relocations, Lai describes her current situation as being in a period of “housewarming of an old home.” The works reflect her process of settling down, along with the entanglements with her family, following her return to Hong Kong and a lengthy renovation process. In the exhibition, she closely examines eating and walking—two fundamental experiences in life—as materials to build an inner home within her heart. Lai explores the notions of "anchoring" and "moving," existing in our food and steps, and transforms them into installations, images, performances, and their traces. In the intimate, trivial, and mundane pieces of life, we try to nourish resilience within, find each other, and flow together.

Venue: Diana Cheung Experimental Gallery, 3/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre  

A multimedia installation exhibition drifting between reality and illusion. Artist Jessica Fu, dedicated to research-creation explorations of historical sites in recent years, transforms historical buildings into vessels of collective memory for people and place. On the canvas of red-brick heritage architecture, she etches “ephemeral tattoos” through fictional sci-fi symbols—fleeting imprints of forgotten collective consciousness—guiding audiences into a vortex that blurs the tangible and the imagined. This exhibition reimagines site-specific installations and research-creation artworks, unveiling multi-contextual realities and historical narratives within time’s hidden threads.

Venue address: UG/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

World-renowned photographer Michael Kenna presents his largest-ever Hong Kong exhibition, Japan / A Love Story, featuring 100 stunning silver gelatin prints that distill four decades of his deep connection with Japan’s landscapes, traditions and culture. Known for his dreamlike black-and-white compositions, Kenna’s work is poetic, minimalist, and meditative—offering a rare moment of stillness in a fast-moving world.

Public preview and book-signing with Michael Kenna
Wednesday 23 April, 5-7pm (Free entry)

Venue address: 9/F, 80 Queen's Road Central, Central

On 1 May, the Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings auction will present nearly 200 remarkable artworks. Leading the sale is In Search of Paradise, a masterpiece painted in the 1981 by Zhang Daqian. The auction also features exquisite works, including Blue Landscape by Huang Binhong, Village in Mount Wuyi by Wu Guanzhong, Longevity by Qi Baishi, and Heavenly Horse Galloping across the Sky by Xu Beihong.

Curated with an extraordinary selection from esteemed private collections worldwide, the auction includes works from the Collection of Singapore Bai Hong Lou Master Tan Keng Cheow, Lin Fengmian paintings from the Van Roosbroeck Family Collection, the Harold Wong Collection, the Collection of Loh Cheng Chuan in Penang, the Foh Collection from Singapore, the Collection of the Descendants of Qi Rushan, the M K Lau Collection, and the Kwok Family Collection.

Venue address: 6/F, The Henderson, 2 Murray Road, Central

Hong Kong Photographer Amy Law’s Debut Exhibition Bridges Impressionism and Female Empowerment

Capturing Moments, Inspiring Change: An Impressionist Journey by Amy Law invites you to explore the delicate interplay of light and shadow, inspired by the timeless beauty of French Impressionism. In her debut solo exhibition, Law honours the legacies of Monet and Van Gogh while revealing the profound connections of family, empowerment, and self-care. This collection invites you to experience the rich landscapes of Hong Kong, France, and beyond, celebrating the strength found in vulnerability.

Join us on this artistic journey, where each image inspires change and every moment encourages reflection. Let us embrace these precious instances, as they define the beautiful, messy symphony of who we are. 

Venue address: 4/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Beijing-born artist Lin Yan’s artistic practice centres on her innovative use of Xuan paper, transforming this traditional Chinese material into site-specific installations that respond to architectural spaces. Lin creates works that navigate between two and three dimensions, using layers of pleated paper, ink, and plaster moulds to capture both natural beauty and temporal traces. Her technique breaks free from traditional ink art while maintaining subtle references to Chinese landscape paintings through undulating paper formations that evoke water ripples. Lin’s artistic language is deeply influenced by her time in France, where she studied at L’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1985-1986), following a family legacy of Franco-Chinese artistic exchange - her grandfather Pang Xunqin studied there in the 1920s, and her mother Pang Yao was among the first Central Academy of Fine Arts professors to study in France. After further studies in the US, Lin has dedicated herself to pioneering a unique artistic realm that harmoniously blends minimalism with Eastern aesthetics. In Alisan Fine Arts’ first collaboration with the artist, Lin will present never-before-shown works and create site-specific installations at Alisan Atelier in Aberdeen that strike a balance between material tranquillity and contemporary dynamism.

Opening Reception: 06.05.2025 (Tue)

"I believe that the best way to approach my colours is to bathe in them, dive into them, and let oneself be enveloped by them." — Pierre Boncompain 

Step into a universe where colour transcends observation to become pure sensation. The World as Palette celebrates Pierre Boncompain, one of the most distinguished living modernists from the School of Paris, and his six-decade mastery of modernism. In his work, the nude, landscape, and still life dissolve into symphonies of light and emotion. Inspired by the luminous landscapes of southern France, he blends Fauvist boldness with classical harmony, distilling life’s fleeting moments into meditative stillness.  

This exhibition unveils Boncompain’s philosophy: “Painting is creating silence.” Here, the world becomes a palette, where colour whispers of joy, sensuality, and the timeless beauty of existence.

Gallery address: G/F, Headquarters Block, Tai Kwun, Central

Discover A Moveable Feast at Galerie Koo, an engaging exhibition showcasing the works of Hong Kong artists Cassian Lau and Kathy Fung. This captivating display invites you to explore the rich culinary traditions of France and Hong Kong through the lens of art, celebrating the harmony of flavours and the cultural stories they tell.

Cassian Lau’s playful creations bring historical icons to life in unexpected ways, such as Napoleon relishing a crusty baguette and other figures indulging in classic French treats. His works weave humour with gastronomy, offering a lighthearted and imaginative take on history and its connection to food.

Kathy Fung’s intricate artworks focus on the delicate balance of East and West, featuring beautifully rendered afternoon tea scenes that seamlessly blend French pastries with traditional dim sum. Her pieces celebrate the fusion of tastes, traditions, and aesthetics, creating a harmonious dialogue between the two cultures.

Together, their art presents a feast for the senses, inviting viewers to savour the beauty of culinary traditions and the stories behind them. Join us for this unique celebration of food, culture, and creativity that promises to inspire and delight audiences of all ages.

Opening Reception: 08.05.2025 (Thu) 2 – 7 pm

Children of the Mekong - Hong Kong is pleased to present the charity art exhibition
"COLOURS OF HOPE"
We warmly thank all the artists, sponsors and partners for their support and generosity.
All the proceeds will be donated to fund @childrenofthemekongprograms in SouthEast Asia.

Opening: May 8, 5 pm - 9 pm
Venue address: Visual Arts Centre, 7 Kennedy Road, Central

Echoing Above is a captivating photo exhibition that invites viewers to explore the hidden life found in the heights above city streets. Through stunning imagery, the exhibition highlights the interplay between nature and urban life, featuring birds soaring gracefully amidst towering buildings. Viewers witness the artistry of men skilfully constructing bamboo scaffolding, a testament to resilience and craftsmanship. Wild fig trees emerge triumphantly from concrete, symbolising nature's enduring beauty in a high-density environment. Experience the harmonious echoes of life in this unique urban habitat.

Opening reception: 09.05.2025 6 – 8 pm
Gallery address: G/F 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan

Para Site is pleased to present ‘Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs’ (opening on 9 May 2025; on view until 10 August 2025), an exhibition that refocuses on Ha’s printmaking practice on the occasion of Ha’s 100th birth anniversary.

‘Motherboard’ is the term Hong Kong-based artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925–2009) coined for his collagraph plates. They are assembled from wood and other found material through a highly labour-intensive process. Throughout his life, Ha created over 100 motherboards and kept them away from public view. He used these motherboards to produce over 3,000 editioned collagraphs mostly in the 1970s and 1980s.

‘Reframing Strangeness’ stages a selection of Ha’s motherboards, collagraphs and gouache drawings. In the exhibition, the motherboards are placed next to their ‘offspring’ collagraphs and ‘parallel’ drawings to offer a re-reading of Ha’s interconnected art practice. It encourages viewers to examine Ha's motherboards as aesthetic objects. It invites them to contemplate the artist's distinctive relationship to materials circulating in the region then, which was a key part of Ha’s art-making process.

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

Hong Kong to Paris is a photography exhibition that celebrates the profound artistic journeys of two French photographers: Raymond Cauchetier and Rémi de Laquintane. Although nearly a century separates their births, both artists share a common thread – an insatiable spirit of adventure and a passion for storytelling through imagery that transcends borders.

Raymond Cauchetier’s photographic journey began in the rugged landscapes of Indochina, where his role in the press corps of the French Air Force ignited his lifelong fascination with capturing ephemeral moments. Returning to Paris, he found himself at the epicentre of the French New Wave, mingling with avant-garde filmmakers like Jean Luc Godard. His lens has traversed not only the enchanting sites of Cambodia and Europe, but also the sacred narratives woven into Romanesque sculpture. As a trailblazer of visual storytelling, Cauchetier's work has graced the pages of renowned publications such as Aperture and The New Yorker, solidifying his legacy as a master of his craft.

In stark contrast, Rémi de Laquintane emerges from a contemporary realm steeped in creative innovation. Armed with a degree of Philosophy from the illustrious Sorbonne, Rémi transitioned from his role as a visionary fashion creative director to a dedicated photographer, seeking deeper emotional resonance in his work. His photographs invite viewers into a meditative space where introspection reigns, capturing the essence of fleeting moments that often slip through our fingers.

The highly anticipated 12th edition of Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong is set to return to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 22 to 25 May 2025, bringing together 98 exhibitors to showcase a stunning array of contemporary artworks.

This year’s fair is centered around the empowering theme, “I Am an Art Collector,” designed to inspire art enthusiasts of all levels to explore and acquire art with confidence. By offering a diverse selection of high-quality works at accessible prices, the fair aims to foster a welcoming environment for both seasoned collectors and first-time buyers.

The event will feature a distinguished lineup of galleries from Hong Kong and across the globe, including exhibitors from Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the UK, the US, and more. From thought-provoking paintings and innovative sculptures to experimental installations, the fair will showcase an exciting, diverse collection of high-quality art—all priced affordably to encourage budding collectors to take the first step in building their unique collections.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is pleased to present Sea of Silver Sand, a solo exhibition by pioneering Chinese contemporary artist Huang Rui, on view from May 22 to July 5, 2025. This exhibition showcases Huang Rui’s latest works from his ongoing Sea of Silver Sandseries, a deeply meditative body of paintings inspired by his long-standing fascination with Zen gardens and the transient beauty of nature. The exhibition will coincide with The French May in Hong Kong, marking a significant moment as the artist will be present to attend the opening.

The Sea of Silver Sand series, conceived over the past five years, finds its origins in an initiatory journey Huang Rui undertook in 2000, when he visited Kyoto’s Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion) and its famed Zen rock garden. This experience left an indelible mark on the artist’s spiritual and artistic practice, shaping his continued exploration of nature’s fleeting yet eternal presence.

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

Chou Yu-Cheng's upcoming exhibition at Kiang Malingue's Sik On space features a new series of gradient paintings titled Imaginary Body. By incorporating meticulous surfacing techniques, bodily shapes, and a specific, disorienting gravity, Chou has further developed an abstract painting practice that depicts complicated states of suspension as well as celebration of life. 

Opening Reception: 22.05.2025 (Thu) 6 – 8 pm

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai

Long before social media, On Kawara used the advanced communication tools of his time—postcards, telegrams, and calendars and CD to mark his presence and connect with others, bridging the personal and universal. In the early 1960s, he emigrated from Japan to Mexico, then to the US. His relentless voyages across continents are inscribed in uniquely distinguished forms, highlighted by his singularly schematic Date painting. These works redefine our perceptions of time and existence. His work transcends the fleeting nature of modern communication, reminding us of the value of authenticity and intentionality in how we record and share our lives.  

Kawara stands as a pivotal figure in conceptual art. His practice centered on the constant negotiation between self-imposed rules of creative practices and real-life experiences—particularly the tension between rules and freedom. He was a pioneer who transformed the mundane into profound meditations on time, presence, and existence. His work transcended cultural and geographical boundaries, offering a quiet yet universal reflection on the human condition.

Rule of Freedom, Freedom of Rules is the first institutional solo presentation of On Kawara’s work in Asia and the first since his passing in 2014. This landmark exhibition presents his most iconic series spanning five decades, with a special section focusing on his trip to Hong Kong. The exhibition reflects on Kawara as both a global citizen and an artist-philosopher who bridged divides between the everyday and the metaphysical, simplicity and complexity, the present and the eternal, and ultimately, life and death. His work, minimal in appearance yet rich in meaning, captures the paradox of stability within the flux of his nomadic lifestyle, widely shared by artists in a globalized world today. 

Venue: 1F JC Contemporary & 1F F Hall, Tai Kwun

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Robert Ryman (1930–2019) at the gallery's Hong Kong location. Marking Ryman's first solo presentation in Greater China, this exhibition will feature a range of works from the early 1960s through the 2000s, offering a concise survey of the materials, supports, painterly treatments, and ways of engaging with the wall that Ryman utilised over the course of his six-decade-long career.

Ryman is widely celebrated for his tactile works using white paint in all its many permutations, which he executed using a range of painterly mediums on various supports including paper, canvas, linen, aluminium, vinyl, and newsprint. Emerging in the 1960s, Ryman eschewed self-contained representational and abstract imagery, instead giving precedence to the physical gesture of applying paint to a support.

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

White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006), marking the first solo presentation in Asia of works by the Italian artist. Born in 1929 in Terzigno, Naples, Emblema, with his singular focus on the qualities of light, space and transparency, diverged from his contemporaries in Italy’s post-war avant-garde. Inspired by the landscape of his upbringing – a volcanic red-zone on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius – Emblema worked predominantly with natural materials, extracting his pigments from soils, stones and agricultural materials.

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road, Central

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.

Dai Guangyu’s  And Thus Is This Land  is a work of participatory performance art to be held and exhibited in the Focus Gallery in conjunction with the special exhibition Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s. Invited artists and art students will collaboratively recreate This Land So Rich in Beauty (1959), a monumental landscape by Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) and Guan Shanyue (1912–2000). An icon of modern Chinese art history, This Land So Rich in Beauty hung in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People from the time of its creation until 1990, when it was replaced with a replica. Guangdong-born Guan Shanyue is considered one of the four contemporary masters of the Lingnan School of Painting, and his works are featured in Canton Modern.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Zao Wou-Ki: Graphic Works (working title) 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.