M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story  takes a visual approach to examine the styles and practices of contemporary Chinese art from the 1990s to the present. Distinct from the socio-political interpretative framework or the chronological narrative of the inaugural exhibition of the M+ Sigg Collection—From Revolution to Globalisation, Another Story  surveys how artists reconsider their cultural identities and express their uncertain state of being during China's rapid modernisation in the 1990s. The exhibition brings together a multitude of works that exhibit qualities of overflowing visuals, ambiguous meanings, obsessions with transiency, and traditional interpretation. Another Story is the second of three planned exhibitions of the M+ Sigg Collection. It offers a different perspective on understanding contemporary Chinese art and foregrounds its unique visual language through the lens of artists who strive for self-presence.

Location: Sigg Galleries, M+

Shanshui: Echoes and Signals is a thematic exhibition with works drawn from the M+ Collections to explore the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Shanshui, the Chinese literally meaning ‘mountain and water’ and commonly translated as ‘landscape’, is a cultural legacy integral to Chinese philosophical thinking and poetic imagination and has motivated a millennium-long tradition of ink painting across East Asia. Attuned to the interplay and resonance between stillness and motion, as well as space and time, shanshui offers a powerful framework for understanding humankind’s relationship to nature.

Venue address: South Gallery, M+

Ho Iu-kwong, the Master of Chih Lo Lou once lamented the destruction of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy due to wars, natural calamities, pest damage and the natural elements. The survival of these artworks owes much to the meticulous craftsmanship of traditional mounting techniques. In collaboration with the Conservation Office, the Hong Kong Museum of Art presents this exhibition that focuses on selected research studies of the Chih Lo Lou Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. It explores Chinese paintings and calligraphy from artistic and scientific perspectives, providing insight into the conservation work behind the scenes of the museum.

Echoing the theme of merging art and science, the exhibition features a series of multimedia displays created by the local art group XR Experience. Through the use of augmented reality technology and projections, revealing the step-by-step processes in mounting and introducing a variety of commonly used mounting tools. The designed interactive animation also allows you to gain first-hand insights into their work. 

Venue address: 4/F. Chih Lo Lou Gallery of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, HKMoA

Wu Guanzhong (1919 – 2010) practiced traditional Chinese ink painting in his early years and later ventured into the colourful realm of oil painting. After furthering his studies in France, he made the deliberate choice to return to China, dedicating his life to exploring the integration of Chinese and Western aesthetics. In his later years, he rediscovered the monochromatic appeal of ink painting uniquely and profoundly. Wu’s exceptional life experiences and artistic pursuits have transformed the seemingly cool and unexciting black, white, and grey into the most emotionally resonant and captivating tones, imbued with rich connotations encompassing Western design and traditional Chinese aesthetics. This exhibition showcases a fine selection of Wu’s ink and oil paintings in two phases. Accompanied by insightful excerpts from the artist’s own writings, we invite you to immerse yourself in the art master’s distinctive chromatic aesthetics and explore the boundless passion and imagination evoked within the interplay between black and white.

This exhibition is made possible by “Wu Guanzhong Art Sponsorship: Thematic Exhibition Series”. The Sponsorship is dedicated to promoting the art of Wu Guanzhong and related modern Chinese art. Through a diversity of programmes, the Museum endeavours to shed new light on Wu’s artistic theories.

Venue address: 4/F, Wu Guanzhong Art Gallery, HKMoA

Asia Society Hong Kong Center proudly presents Never End: The Art and Life of Gaylord Chan, the artist’s first retrospective since his passing in 2020. 

Gaylord Chan (1925-2020) was a prominent Hong Kong artist who only formally began his painting career in his 40s, developing a unique, youthful, and iconographic mode of abstract painting that he continued into digital art in his later years. Chan was also a beloved teacher, basing his pedagogy off his own experiences as a painter and shaping the next generation of Hong Kong artists. Never End includes a selection of paintings, rarely exhibited digital drawings, and newly organized archival materials that pay tribute to the artist’s art, life, and ongoing legacy.

The exhibition is guest curated by Joyce Hei-ting Wong with Josephine Chow as Exhibition Consultant and Hain Yoon as Assistant Curator. With support provided by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Virginia and Wellington Yee, Ms. Yang Mun Tak Marjorie, Rita and KC Kung, and Mystic Island Winery.

Venue address: Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

The first major retrospective of Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture properly appraises for the first time the work of one of the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Pei’s high-profile projects were realised over seven decades with an exceptionally wide geographic reach, including the National Gallery of Art East Building in Washington, D.C., modernisation of the Grand Louvre in Paris, Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. These iconic landmarks solidified Pei’s position in architectural history and popular culture. His life and work weave together a tapestry of power dynamics, geopolitical complexities, cultural traditions, and the character of cities around the world, and his transcultural vision laid a foundation for the contemporary world.

The exhibition takes an expanded and closer look at Pei’s practice through six themes representing areas of focus and approaches throughout his career: ‘Transcultural Foundations’, ‘Real Estate and Urban Redevelopment’, ‘Art and Civic Form’, ‘Material and Structural Innovation’, ‘Power, Politics, and Patronage’, and ‘Regenerating Cultural and Historical Archetypes’. The themes place Pei’s practice in close dialogue with social, cultural, and biographical trajectories that show architecture and life to be inseparable.  The exhibition features a rich selection of drawings, sketches, videos, models, photographs, and other archival documentation, many of which will be on view for the first time.

Para Site is pleased to present ‘Cloud Chamber’, the first institutional exhibition to survey the activities of Art Labor, a Ho Chi Minh City-based collective formed by Thao NguyenPhan, Truong Cong Tung and Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran.

The exhibition ‘Cloud Chamber’ presents Art Labor’s long-term historical research, poetic observations, and decade-long practice of relationship-building with the Jrai community in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Alongside Art Labor’s newly commissioned and existing works, the exhibition features artwork from Jrai artists, with whom the collective has created collaborative projects since 2016, archival material from a missionary-turned-anthropologist in the French colonial period, and works by contemporary artists inspired by the region.

By reframing the region beyond its turbulent past, ‘Cloud Chamber’ looks to engage the audience in an imaginative reflection on the region’s complex history and its ongoing impact, from war, and industrialisation, to the lingering effects of missionary activity. The exhibition title ‘Cloud Chamber’ alludes to the duality of matter and antimatter reacting to one another, a concept echoed by reincarnation beliefs in indigenous cosmologies of the Central Highlands. Expanding on this duality like a gravitational field, the exhibition explores the interplay of opposing forces—regeneration and destruction, modernity and tradition, reality and dream—that continues to shape the complex dynamics and ever-changing landscape of the Central Highlands today.

Opening Reception: Fri, Aug 16, 6–8pm

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


A.A.Murakami (est. 2011) is a Tokyo- and London-based artist duo formed by Alexander Groves (b. 1983) and Azusa Murakami (b. 1984). Their multidisciplinary practice straddles the spheres of sculpture, installation, cinema, and digital art, creating experiences that augment their science-based inquiries with moments of daring and spectacle.

The exhibition will feature two interlinked immersive installations which offer an otherworldly experience: one traces the journeys of physical fog rings travelling into the digital realm, and the other reveals an environment of floating bubble clouds. With transient materials and the innovative application of custom-built technology, these two large-scale installations inspire visitors to question philosophical ideas about the nature of reality, artifice, and the digital lives that we increasingly embody within today's contemporary landscape. The presentation at M+ further develops the duo’s pioneering concept of ‘Ephemeral Tech’, in which innovative technological research is used to reimagine primordial origins and to speculate possible future scenarios.

Horizon Plaza, renowned for its exceptional design furniture, interior and fashion retail offerings in Hong Kong, now welcomes a creative new addition - YA! YOUNG ART art space. Unlike the conventional white cube, this venue adopts a warm, homely appearance, showcasing the malleability of "home" and providing a stage for young artists to share their unique perspectives.
 
Introducing the inaugural exhibition in this fresh art space, "House Warming," which carries a dual meaning. Firstly, it celebrates the opening and welcoming of this new art space - a metaphorical "housewarming" to invite guests into this creatively reimagined "home" for art and creativity. Secondly, the theme explores the concept of "home" itself, examining how contemporary art can redefine our understanding and experience of modern home living spaces. The exhibition will be on view at YA! YOUNG ART art space, Unit 803, 8/F, Horizon Plaza, Ap Lei Chau from 6 September to 8 December 2024, with an opening reception on 5 September from 6 to 8pm.

Gallery address: Unit 803, 8/F, Horizon Plaza, Ap Lei Chau

“I Am a 70-Year-Old British Sculptor”, Christopher K. Ho’s first solo exhibition at PHD Group, opens September 14. It features thirty sculptural works and ten new drawings.

Christopher K. Ho (b. 1974, based in Hong Kong) is an multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer. In his practice, he examines colonial histories and identity as articulations of power and politics. In his role as arts educator and organizer, he has led workshops on otherness and decolonization. He is currently executive director of Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and co-edited “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,” a Paper Monument publication.

Alisan Fine Arts - Central Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a groundbreaking group exhibition, titled Word Play, on September 19, 2024. Centered around the expression, investigation and deconstruction of Chinese characters, this carefully curated exhibition invites the audience into a compelling journey of contemporary Chinese art through “wordplay.” Across pure calligraphy, sculptural experimentation, AI-assisted creation, word formation and abstraction, the show features works by 19 artists across different generations: Chu Chu, Chui Tze- Hung, Chui Pui-Chee, Fung Ming-Chip, Gu Gan, Gu Wenda, Hao Shiming, Hon Chi-Fun, Pat Hui, Hung Keung, Kan Tai-Keung, Li Huasheng, Ren Tianjin, Fabienne Verdier, Wang Dongling, John Way, Wei Ligang, Wucius Wong, and Xu Bing. In four distinctly thematic galleries - Contemporary Calligraphy, Composing with Words, Word as Image, and Abstraction, artists from diverse historic and cultural backgrounds contribute their unique “play on words,” with works selected from a period of 40-plus years since the 1980s. The written word - long considered the essence of Chinese culture - continues to serve as the point of departure for both faithful emulation and radical innovation in contemporary art, and is at the heart of this not-to-miss exhibition.

Opening Reception: 19 September, Thursday, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

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

Leo Gallery is thrilled to present Wu Jiannan’s first solo exhibition with us in Hong Kong on 19 Sept 2024. The exhibition will showcase the artist’s various series of sculptures and the development of his creative practice in a cross-cultural context.

Living and working in both the US and China, in recent years, Wu’s work has consisted mainly of two types: one involves the recreation and transformation of collective memory through public images, and the other represents feelings and perceptions formed from personal life experiences. The former is related to social contexts, where the events and scenes depicted in the works can be traced back through the dissemination of media images. The latter is fictional, resembling a dreamlike creation, with no public images as reference.

Curated by Duan Shaofeng

Opening reception: 19 September 6-8pm (artist will be present)

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

3812 Gallery is pleased to present “Dusk Upon the Hush: Liu Guofu Works on Paper Exhibition", the artist’s first solo exhibition dedicated to his works on paper series with 3812. As an artistic extension from his quintessential oil on canvas oeuvre previously showcased at 3812, “Dusk Upon the Hush” showcases 26 works on paper created between 2016 and 2024, demonstrating Liu’s mastery on three varieties of paper works: ink and colour, oil, and oil pastel. The exhibition will be on view at our Hong Kong gallery from 23 September to 29 November 2024.

 Inspired by a poem by the Chinese Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei (699–759 A.D.), the exhibition title "Dusk upon the Hush" echoes the rhythmic and lyrical interplay of light and shadow in Liu's works. Set in a secluded forest where whispers are heard but untraceable, the poem concludes with an ethereal image of dusk light casting shadows on a bed of moss, evoking a sense of serene vitality.

Artist Talk & Opening Reception: 20 September 2024, 6 – 8pm

Gallery address: 26/F, Wyndham Place, 40 Wyndham Street, Central

Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s first couture artist, combines Chinese cultural heritage with international elements and artistic expression. Guo's astonishing runway collections have impressed fashion and art audiences alike for almost 30 years. Presenting the first major exhibition of Guo’s work produced in China, M+ will showcase Guo’s key collections and early designs, highlighting her unique career connecting China and the rest of the world and the cultural symbols created through her sophisticated and visually dazzling practice. Working with the couturier and her studio, the exhibition presents a selection of garments shown to audiences in the region for the first time, creating a layered dialogue with the M+ Collections around visual imagination and workmanship. The exhibition foregrounds Guo Pei's unique artistic style that resonates with imperial Chinese dress etiquette, European royal fashion, architecture, and the botanical world.

Ticket Information

Standard: HKD 160
Concessions*: HKD 80
M+ Members’ Additional Ticket: HKD 112
M+ Patrons’ Additional Guest Ticket: HKD 80

Born in Japan, Taro Masushio is an artist based in New York City. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MFA from New York University and has taught at both institutions. His works have been exhibited internationally including at 47 Canal, Capsule Shang-hai, Immanence, Pacific Film Archive, and other venues. He was the 2022/23 City Artist in Residence at Internationales Atelier-stipendium Mönchengladbach. He opened a solo exhibition, Liar Liar, at Ulrik; New York in 2023, and Rumor Has It at Empty Gallery; Hong Kong (2020). In Fall 2024, he will join Cooper Union; New York as the Henry Wolf Chair in Photography.

Opening reception Saturday, September 21, 6-8PM.

Gallery address: 19/F, Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung St, Aberdeen

Chinese civilisation is ancient, profound, and enduring, standing as the the world's longest continuous civilisation. In 2002, the country launched the “Project to Trace the Origins of Chinese Civilisation” (the Project), which has yielded remarkable results over the past two decades, mapping out the historical trajectory of the origins of Chinese civilisation. The Project, through archaeological surveys and studies, has showcased the tangible continuity of the civilisation and the diversity of its origins. It reveals how different regions and cultures interacted with one another, and eventually merged into a cohesive whole, forming the “diversity in unity” developmental pattern of the Chinese people.

This exhibition features the excavates of the Project as well as important archaeological discoveries in the centennial modern Chinese archaeology. Over one hundred exhibits come from fourteen archaeological institutions and museums in the Mainland and Hong Kong, covering nine archaeological cultures and nine major archaeological sites. It is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions in recent years dedicated to exploring the origins and achievements of Chinese civilisation.

The exhibition is jointly organised by the HKPM and Art Exhibitions China, and sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong), the Museum’s strategic partner.

In 2022, Oi! launched the Archaic Curator Series, inviting Chinese art historians and curators to collaborate with us on exhibitions that engage with traditional Chinese art through innovative forms of expression, bridging the old and the new. This third exhibition of the series is guest curated by Dr Wang Guanyu, Associate Curator (Antiquities) of the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK Art Museum), with three accomplished artists from Jingdezhen and Hong Kong—Gu Yue, Fiona Wong and Caroline Cheng—participating.

The challenge of balancing tradition and modernity has always been an important topic to the creation of art. Each of the three artists featured in this exhibition approaches their works from a different angle: ceramic traditions, contemporary ceramics and the sustainable future of ceramic art. Focusing on the rich essence and endless possibilities of using colours in ceramics and taking inspiration from the CUHK Art Museum’s collection, the artists infuse their own technical artistry and aesthetics into their works, showcasing their personal understanding and interpretation of contemporary ceramic art.

Guest Curator: Wang Guanyu
Artists: Gu Yue, Fiona Wong and Caroline Cheng

Venue address: Oi! Glassie, 12 Oil Street, North Point

Realism and fiction blur in the otherworldly realm that is In the Land Beyond Living, opening up new angles from which to contemplate contemporary society in China and the human condition at large. With elements of painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation, and set design, this solo exhibition by the artist Tao Hui takes us from north to south, the inland to the coast, the urban to the rural, the industrial to the natural.

In the Land Beyond Living highlights how Tao Hui’s absurd yet realistic artistic practice explores individual struggles. These include the ethnic minorities guarding the Gansu Corridor; migrant workers striving for a better life in drastically developing cities; and the nouveau riche yearning for spiritual sustenance. In seeking new ways to present and comprehend the complex realities of today, the artist interweaves depictions of harsh environments, migration flows, geographical disparities, and the relentless drive for a better life—into surrealistic imagery that casts new light onto the complex flow of reality.

Curator: Jill Angel Chun

Venue address: 3/F, JC Contemporary

Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents 'Exotica,' a major solo exhibition by Mark Bradford that navigates the concept of 'otherness' through a formally innovative body of work.

Consisting of around 20 new paintings, the exhibition extends Bradford's study of figuration through the use of a signature staining technique, which uses caulk to create ghost-like imprints on the canvas. These forms inject the artist's layered compositions with a trace of fantasy, spectres and strangeness.

The exhibition is anchored by a group of paintings centred on the agave plant, a monocarpic variety that blooms only once at the end of its lifecycle. Drawing inspiration from a 1970s' encyclopedic text that catalogued 'exotic' plants from a western perspective, this new body of work considers how we imagine, internalise, and project a sense of 'otherness' onto which we may be able to name, but have not understood.

Opening reception: 5-7pm

Gallery address: Ground FLoor, 8 Queen's Road, Central

Our daily lives are structured by measurements of time. Calendar systems track the passage of weeks, months, and years, while clocks divide days into hours, minutes, and seconds. Yet, time, as we experience it, resists precise measurement—it can slow down, stretch, accelerate, or even spiral. As an art archive, we are interested in this tension between precision and elusiveness. We often ask ourselves if historical events and art histories have definitive beginnings and endings. And how might artists counter strict chronologies? 

Countering Time has grown out of discussions with four artists and writers over the course of six months. The exhibition presents new works by Merve Ünsal, Simon Leung, Gala Porras-Kim, and Lee Weng Choy, who speculate on the immeasurability of time. Merve Ünsal uses her body to record a centuries-old sinkhole where human and geological time collapse. Simon Leung bends and folds the afterlives of a moment captured in a 1967 photograph from Hong Kong. Gala Porras-Kim traces recollections of lost works and archives. Lee Weng Choy uses personal annotations to mark time. Together, they tune in, refract, exhume, and annotate artworks, archival records, and past events, demonstrating how archives are sites of imagination instead of final resting places of historical records. 

Venue address: CCG Library, Asia Art Archive

PODIUM is delighted to present ‘Vitalis Violentia’, a group exhibition that responds to the question of violence from an aesthetic point of view, investigating how one may transform violence into a creative principle. The works by five participating artists, including Dew Kim, Dennis Scholl, Tseng Chien-Ying, Wang Pei, and Hannah Woo, offer the audience valuable yet often ignored insights into crucial aspects of 'real' violence that cannot be revealed via mere observation of the social and political scenes, mobilising ideas and affects that are suppressed, relegated as insignificant, or marginalised by mainstream discourse. 

Artists: Dew Kim, Dennis Scholl, Tseng Chien-Ying, Wang Pei, Hannah Woo

The exhibition opens on 28 September 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7 PM and is on view till 23 November 2024 (Sat). Artist Dew Kim will be present at the opening, while at 4 PM there will be an artist talk conducted in English.

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

"Hong Kong Paintings in Sai Yuen Lane" invited a diverse range of Hong Kong artists to exhibit their works, aiming to showcase the breadth and depth of Hong Kong's artistic landscape and reflect the diverse styles and perspectives of local artistic talent. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to the artists for their enthusiastic support.

The exhibition features over 130 outstanding works by 92 artists and is presented in two phases. The first phase features 66 works by 44 artists, including ink, acrylic, charcoal, and mineral pigments paintings. The second phase showcases 66 works by 48 artists, including oil, watercolour, pastel, and marker pen drawings. All the works are recent creations from the past two years by the participating artists.

We aspire for Sai Yuen Lane to represent the museum. Through tireless dedication, we aim to integrate with the community to establish a vibrant space for cultural and artistic exchange.

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

DE SARTHE is pleased to present Into the Matrix, a solo exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Lu Xinjian, featuring a new series of works on canvas and luminous installation artworks. Observing the relationship between urban and technological advancement, the exhibition draws inspiration from the similarities between the infrastructures of civilization and the constructs of contemporary culture. An extension of the artist’s iconic visual language, Lu’s mesmerizing artworks elucidate the layered spectrum of the post-human era. Into the Matrix opens October 5th and runs through November 23rd.

As of the 21st century, society has become an increasingly formatted existence. The form of grids has become ubiquitous to the prevailing landscape, manifesting in social platforms, electronic hardware, and city planning alike. A new ecosystem has been fostered as a by-product of development, wherein individual entities serve as data points in a matrix, collectively illuminating the topography of the digital Anthropocene. 

Opening: Saturday, October 5th, 2 - 7 pm

Gallery address: 26/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road

Save the date for Gianluca Crudele’s Echo

Square Street Gallery is please to announce Gianluca Crudele’s second solo exhibition with the gallery wherein he examines language, disembodiment, and the dissonance of choice through the myth of Narcissus and Echo.

The artist will be present at the opening.

Opening: Thursday | 6 - 10 PM

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

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Japanese Printmakers of the Twentieth-Century Renaissance: Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi. The exhibition highlights two of Japan’s most remarkable printmakers and their influence on a resurgence of printmaking in Japan. This cultural phenomenon grew as the artists underwent rigorous training while maintaining a robust interest in traditional printing methods, such as the world-renowned woodblock technique. Through their innovative experimentation, the two printers spearheaded a revival that further developed and expanded upon established printing techniques.

The unusual juxtaposition of two contemporary artists emphasises both Kurosaki and Nakabayashi’s masterpieces and their individual contributions to the ongoing development of Japanese printmaking. This pairing also highlights the distinctiveness, cultural relevance and novelty of their work. Both born in 1937 and similarly trained, Kurosaki and Nakabayashi pursued different topics and employed distinctive colour palettes. Despite these differences, they both excelled at abstract artmaking and are celebrated for their masterful storytelling.

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

Blue Lotus Gallery is excited to announce the opening of “Voices of the Walls" an exhibition that explores the history and culture of the infamous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong through photographs by Ian Lambot, Greg Girard, Bianca Tse and Keeping Lee.

Photographs serve as a vital medium for archiving collective memory and preserving heritage, particularly for places that will eventually disappear, like the walled city. While few ventured there, even fewer thought to document it. However, Ian Lambot and Greg Girard did just that in the years leading up to its demolition, culminating in the iconic book City of Darkness, published by Watermark, which has sold over 20,000 copies to date. This collection not only preserves the heritage of the notorious walled city through photographs and stories but also served as a source of inspiration for future generations of artists, still influencing everything from video games and AI-generated imagery, like that of Bianca Tse showcased in this exhibition, to films such as the latest blockbuster,  ‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled in.’

Gallery address: 28 Pound Lane, Tai Ping Shan

Wyndham Social gladly presents we have to be very strong, a collaborative exploration through installation, participatory creative sessions and a workshop series on the neglected, intimate personal spaces in our urban daily lives in collaboration with a group of local artists and creative units.

In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, the rhythm that individuals experience is primarily dominated by social rhythms. Each day, at almost the same time, individuals perform nearly the same tasks alone, with their daily lives generally divided into similar segments: work time, commuting time, and sleeping time. In non-places such as the lobbies of commercial buildings, during daily commutes and lunch hours, everyone tends to head towards nearly the same destinations before moving on to the next, with all linear time pointing in a specific direction. Immersed in this flow, personal emotions become numb and feel inconsequential.

Opening Reception: 17th October 6:30 – 8:30pm

With performance by Sonia Wong and VIOLA at 7:15pm and 8:00pm

Gallery Address: G/F, 33 Wyndham Street, Central

Hanart TZ Gallery is proud to present AU Hoi Lam’s new solo exhibition Painting, Its Reasons to Be. The opening reception will take place at Hanart TZ Gallery on October 19, 2024 (Saturday), from 2 to 6 pm, in the presence of the artist. AU Hoi Lam views the creation of art as a method of “Care of the Self”. She equally uses the language of painting and self-writing as vehicles to change and ultimately to transform herself. Her contemplations on life and her commitment to craftsmanship are all integrated into her art. From the brewing of an idea, to stretching the canvas, mixing the paints, and making and installing the work, for AU the entire creative process is a means of exercise and ascesis of the self. It is a process of retrospection, contemplation, remembrance, oblivion; of otium, vigilance, prayer, relaxation; of soothing and cultivation.

Artist’s Reception 19 October 2024（Saturday）2-6 pm

Gallery address: 2/F Mai On Ind. Bldg., 17-21 Kung Yip St., Kwai Chung

SC Gallery is delighted to present Wong Shun Yu “Bulliform Maternity”, an exhibition showcasing 19 artworks from the artist.

In Wong’s previous exhibition, he explore Hong Kong through a macro historical lens, where his personal experiences are remain understated. This time, inspired by “Dream of the Red Mansion”, Wong reflects on how migration in intertwining personal fate with with larger environmental forces. He shifted to on a more intimate, personal narrative and inspect the changing relationships between people and places in the process of family migration from his own experience. For him, the notion of “place” becomes less a physical location and more of an abstract concept, a spiritual landscape. His family's migration story is intrinsically linked to women—from his grandmother to his mother, aside from himself.

In Chapter 59 of Dream of the Red Mansion, the metaphor of “pearls and fish eyes” is used to describe young girls and their mothers. Pearls are often associated with women in both Eastern and Western mythology, appears as a symbol of purity, sacredness, and beauty. Wong recalls his grandmother speaking of the memories of arriving in Hong Kong from Shanghai and how she see herself as a clam carrying few smaller clams, as well as describing his mother’s relationship with Hong Kong with a line from the Cantonese opera, “A Lin sister dropped from the sky.”

Opening reception: 19/10/2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Gallery address: 1902, Sungib Industrial Centre, 53 Wong Chuk Hang Rd

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “Daydreams”, an exhibition of Su-Mei Tse’s sculptural and photographic works. It is the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery since “Elegy” in 2017, featuring around twenty recent works finely placed in the space of Kiang Malingue’s Sik On building.

For Tse, the formation of daydreams is a personal sharing of the everyday life, and a sensitive operation that is particularly poetic and substantial in relation to the world’s reality today. “It helps me to handle the everyday experience and to deal with suffering in the world by shifting the view and weaving the vulnerable material into my artistic process.” Against overwhelming waves of negative news, threats and crises, daydreaming and the pursuit of poetry could be regarded as a vital practice, empowering an individual by offering alternative perspectives and a sheltered space of one’s own.

Opening reception: Thur, 24 October, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai

MAYAO is thrilled to present the group exhibition “Children Of The Dust”. This exhibition aims to create a contemplative space where art serves as a refuge from collective despair.

Featuring artworks that utilize natural materials, the exhibition reflects on geological transformations and juxtaposes them with the rapid, often tumultuous changes in our personal and societal lives. The echo from the deep time provides solace amidst the noise of day-to-day struggles.

The word “Dust” refers to the fundamental basis of all physical matter, which is also the shared visual element that connects the works in this group exhibition. The title “Children of The Dust” comes from the theory that nearly all the elements in the human body were forged in stars. We, like the clay, salt, metal, and stones used in the artworks, are fragments of a vast cosmic past. We are all children of dust, shaped by the same echoes of the deep time.
Curator: Dr. Penny Dan Xu
Artists: Alchemyverse, Dawn Ng, Ella Littwitz, Guo Hongwei, Hugo Deverchère, Nicolas Lamas, Ni Youyu, Shahpour Pouyan
Opening reception: 5pm-8pm, October 25

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

Jun Takahashi (b. 1969, Gunma, Japan) is an artist and the internationally renowned fashion designer of pioneering label UNDERCOVER. The fashion brand’s undying status as a cult favourite for the past three decades has cemented Takahashi as one of Japan’s most important contemporary creatives, and his pursuits in the fine arts remain closely intertwined with his work in fashion.

Takahashi’s paintings mirror the core elements of his past creative work, reflecting the uncanny and fantastical with a graphic sensibility that nods to the aesthetics of various fringe cultures that have challenged ideas of beauty and convention. Takahashi established UNDERCOVER in 1990 and has been presenting his collections at Paris Fashion Week since 2002. Recent activities include the solo exhibition “They See More Than You Can See” at GALLERY TARGET, Tokyo (2023), and a solo presentation at Tokyo Gendai 2024.

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

M+ invites Danh Vo (Danish, born Vietnam, 1975) to work on a long-term project in the museum’s Found Space, a dramatic concrete atrium that lies at the heart of the building. Vo’s art uses everyday and found materials that carry specific histories and symbolic references, while often integrating the work of other artists, family members, and friends. For this project, Vo has responded with a proposal to transform the experience of the site and the way in which it is programmed.

Over the next few years, Vo will work within M+, drawing on the skills of its various teams to reimagine the institution’s potentials and exhibition-making practices. Vo will use the space in organic and sustainable ways, reimagining it as a welcoming social zone that is also a stage for different programmes. The space will incorporate changing displays and events that build on the museum’s exploration of global conceptual art and design from an Asian perspective, as in previous projects the artist has participated in, such as Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (2018) and The Dream of the Museum (2021).

Grotto Fine Art is proud to present ‘The Luminous and Hidden’, a solo exhibition by renowned Hong Kong artist Hung Hoi.
The present exhibition features new works that shatter boundaries or limitations on how a traditional Chinese ink painter addresses abstraction on a conceptual level. Hung Hoi’s new works feature a conceptual abstraction that combines irregular color shapes and patches with intense emotional ideas. The artists want to express thoughts and questions about the environment and time. The paintings do not show clear objects. Instead, shapes, colors, and textures represent concepts. Viewers must interpret the meaning from the work’s visual language.

Opening Reception:
Oct 26 (Sat), 2-6pm

Artist Sharing Session:
Nov 2 (Sat), 3-5pm

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

To celebrate the grand opening of Alisan Atelier, Alisan Fine Arts proudly presents Remaining the Mountain, Becoming the Ocean - A Joint Exhibition of Mok Yat-san and Man Fung-yi as the inaugural exhibition of Alisan Atelier, featuring the first joint showcase of artist duo Mok Yat-san and Man Fung-yi. Although the gallery has worked with the artists respectively since 2007, this exhibition is the first joint presentation, both in curatorial coherence and exhibition design. It exemplifies Alisan Atelier's mission of fostering collaborative artistic dialogue, highlighting the two Hong Kong natives’ interdisciplinary exploration of Chinese aesthetics. Featuring 22 recent works by Mok and Man across a wide range of materials and media, this exhibition is a meditation on the concept of duality and companionship, offering insights into the duo’s creative process and the philosophical underpinnings of their art. Both graduates of the Fine Arts Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mok and Man have developed distinct yet complementary artistic styles that blend traditional Chinese aesthetics with contemporary forms of expression.

Opening Reception: Saturday, 26 October 2024, 3pm-6pm

Gallery address: 2305 Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Tin Wan space an exhibition of drawings by Jin Mei. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of more than 150 drawings by the artist, tracing the origin and developments of Jin Mei’s drawing practice since 2015. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay written by Jin Mei’s daughter Chang Yuchen, who acted as the editor of the artist’s recent publication, jm.

Opening: Sat, 26 Oct, 3 – 6 PM

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

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present From Another Room, the first solo exhibition in Asia by UK-based artist Rachel Lancaster, featuring a new body of works on canvas that posits paintings as windows into other spaces. As if imagery transmitted from a parallel dimension, the artworks elucidate but solitary moments yet each containing cues of continuation. Evocative of suspense and displacement, the exhibition pieces together fragments of an omitted narrative, untold as to whether a memory, a story, or a daydream.

A turned head, an unopened box, an arm that reaches beyond the edge of the canvas – anticipation and the festering feeling of uncertainty are the marks of Lancaster’s works. Realized by the intentional withholding of information, the enticing tension between absence and presence is further enhanced by the artist’s masterful portrayal of imagined textures. Familiar sensations, such as the crisp of tissue paper or the residual heat of a pillow recently slept on, become both means of immersion and clues to the before and after. Activating the depicted scenes via the arousal of tactile associations, even the air within becomes vivid with density – almost palpable, separated merely by the surface of the painting.

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to present Prelude of Gaze, a group exhibition featuring Reuben Beren James, Joseph Jones, Bartosz Kowal, Li Chuangli, and Wu Yumo. With a curated body of works on canvas and photographs, the exhibition explores the varied states of uncertainty that occur in the in-between - it asks: What precedes the moment of seeing and exists prior to the enlightenment? What happens in the transition rather than the resolution?

Gallery address: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang

Flowers Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present Transhumance, the debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong by renowned British artist Ishbel Myerscough. Known for her highly detailed and meticulously observed portraits, Myerscough delves into the transient nature of life through a series of paintings and drawings created between 2018 and 2024. These works explore the vibrancy of youth, the subtleties of middle age, and life’s impermanence.

Private View: 30 October (Wednesday), 6-8pm

Gallery address: 49 Tung Street, Sheung Wan

Pace is pleased to present Penumbra, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Mika Tajima at it's gallery in Hong Kong.

This will be Tajima’s first-ever solo show in Hong Kong, presenting a holistic view of her multidisciplinary practice through four bodies of work.

Opening Reception: Oct 31, 6 – 8 PM

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

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong is delighted to announce Perckhammer’s Peking: A Photographic Documentation of China’s Capital City in the 1920s, an exhibition of work by Heinz von Perckhammer (1895–1965). A prominent South-Tyrolean photographer and photojournalist, who grew up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Perckhammer travelled to various regions of China and documented daily life, rituals and architecture in images that display a Westerner’s curiosity for Chinese customs and culture. Today, the illustrations in Perckhammer’s publication are of great historical value since they document the beginnings of China’s modernisation and social change in Beijing during the early years of the Republic. For the aspiring photojournalist, the 1920s presented an era of transformation and the fifteen hundred photographs taken by Perckhammer constitute an archive of extraordinary scope and diverse subject matter. Although the publication includes only 200 images, Peking offers a compelling account of the artist’s fascination with various subjects, such as the Imperial Palace, religious architecture, city views, street scenes and glimpses of daily life. These subjects fascinated the artist and drove him to document his experiences.

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

You are cordially invited to join us for the exhibition Intimate Exposure: The Art of Arakifeaturing the captivating works of renowned Japanese photographer and contemporary artist Nobuyoshi Araki. Discover his iconic Polaroids photography, the debut of his furniture collaboration, and exclusive special edition merchandise. Seize the opportunity to experience the live Shibari performance at the exhibition opening!

Opening Reception: Nov 1, 6-8 pm;
Live Shibari performance: Nov 1, 7 pm.

Venue address: 7/F H Queen’s 80 Queen’s Road Central

We are delighted to invite you to visit the upcoming showcase《生物煉金投資公司》"Bioalchemy Capital" by Liv Tsim & Yilin Han at WURE AREA, venue partner.

《生物煉金投資公司》"Bioalchemy Capital" takes the form of a virtual company, dedicated to discovering new wealth opportunities in the digital era. The company director/ artist employs biotechnology, using microorganisms and the human body as mediums to transform discarded electronics into pure mineral resources. These once-abandoned metals are now becoming limitless investment goldmines. Biotechnology is inseparable from modern economics, and this boundless extractivism gives investors immense confidence. We warmly invite you to join this digital gold rush, and together, unlock the vast wealth potential hidden within e-waste.

Opening Reception: 2.11.2024, 2pm

Gallery address: No. 707, Block B, Po Lung Centre, 11 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay

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.

Tai Kwun is proud to present “DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL”, an immersive digital exhibition on view from 2 to 30 November 2024 in F Hall Studio. Featuring a newly commissioned multi-channel video installation produced by the acclaimed Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, this exhibition, curated by Tobias Berger, brings together the far-flung islands of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Hong Kong. Based on the moving yet tragic story of the sinking of SS Ventnor, the video immerses audiences in an extraordinary funeral procession from New Zealand to Hong Kong. The artist’s work draws on what is shared by these islands, including a strong maritime legacy and a history shaped by colonial forces—in a way following her distinctive blend of history and fiction in her large-scale video installation, in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (2015-17), when she represented New Zealand in the 2017 Venice Biennale.

In “DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL”, Lisa Reihana explores issues surrounding foreign labour, longing, and displacement. The work takes us back to the late 1800s, shining light on the untold stories of Chinese gold miners who relocated to the Otago region on the South Island of New Zealand. Under tremendous hardship and severe living conditions, many died far away from their homeland and became “hungry ghosts”. Delving into this important part of history, Reihana revisits the story of the SS Ventnor, which in 1902 was en route to Hong Kong and Canton carrying coal and 500 boxes with the remains of the Chinese gold miners. During a storm, the ship sank close to a Māori settlement south of Hokianga on the North Island of New Zealand, where the Māoris found and gathered the lost remains and buried them ceremonially according to their customs.

Venue address: F Hall Studio, Tai Kwun

The Stroll Gallery by Stella A&C, a Hong Kong-based venue that has been introducing the works of Korean artists, will host Kajin Kim’s solo exhibition <Sensory Utopia: Between Nearness and Distance> from November 2 to December 7. This exhibition will showcase Kim’s innovative multimedia works that explore the desire for communication and contact among isolated individuals in contemporary society.

The artist notes that while technological advancements have facilitated more convenient and unconstrained interpersonal connections, they have also led to extreme separation and disconnection in our direct, physical interactions. For Kim, this human deficiency translates into a longing for reaching mutual boundaries – ‘touch’. The ‘skin membrane’ then emerges as a boundary dividing the interior and exterior of the body, as well as a device representing the scope of the self.  

Kim gives visual and spatial form to this concept of contact. She casts organic-looking images surrounded by membranes in translucent silicone or transfers them onto resin surfaces, installs them on thermoformed transparent acrylic. The light designed to penetrate these transparent surfaces creates and connects the dual spaces of the interior and exterior, penetrating and connecting to form a new sense of space.

Para Site is pleased to present ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, an unfolding exhibition ofall-new commissions by Michele Chu, Florence Lam, Monique Yim, and Bunny Cadag,curated by Jessie Kwok.

The exhibition examines the complex relationship between host and guest as a frameworkto explore questions of intimacy and hospitality during times of transition anddisplacement. A host embraces, cares, and remains, while a guest arrives, adapts, anddeparts. In the physical or metaphorical sense—as a body, home or a place—the host-guestdynamic is marked by codependence, negotiation and sometimes conflict.

Opening Reception: Sat, Nov 2, 2–7pm

Gallery address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg.
 677 King’s Road,
Quarry Bay


MOU PROJECTS is pleased to present "Main Switch," Düsseldorf-based Chinese artist Yang Dingliu's debut gallery solo exhibition, following her first collaboration with the gallery in the Discovery section of Art Basel Hong Kong in 2023. Featuring a selection of recent video works centered around the intriguing world of freediving, this captivating showcase provides a deeply immersive experience for viewers, offering glimpses of the divers' lives beyond imagination. Through a quasi-documentary approach, Yang captures the daily endeavors, rigorous training sessions, and heightened ambiance of competition of freedivers in China and Panglao, Philippines—a well-known heaven for enthusiasts of this extreme sport

Opening reception: November 2 | 2–6 pm

Gallery address: 202, The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang

Exuberant colours, cadent sounds and dazzling lights manifest as an immersive environment. Retaining only the placebo of planarity, striking neon tones, gestural brush strokes and layered surfaces combine into mixed-media compositions. These deconstructed picture planes transcend the objecthood of artworks with the simplest of gestures: visible and audible wavelengths embrace the paintings, reverberate in unison and collide in the spectatorial perception. Citing his exhibition Techno Zen at the 60th Venice Biennale, Nemes continues to dissect sound frequencies into low, mid and high ranges, while dividing light information from the visible spectrum into three interwoven realms. Nemes, fascinated by pink not existing on the visible spectrum but resulting from the brain mixing colours, indirectly points to the subjective nature of perception and the brain’s role in constructing realities, highlighting reciprocity between physical phenomena and cognitive interpretation. Inspired by techno music and rave culture, Nemes explores sensory experiences through art.

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan

Artspace K proudly presents “Glitter ─ Wong Chau Tung Solo Exhibition” from 6 November 2024 – 27 January 2025. This time, we invited urban ink artist Wong Chau Tung to exhibit, showcasing 22 pieces of Hong Kong urban ink paintings of night scenes and festive atmosphere.

In this exhibition, Wong Chau Tung’s works focus on Victoria Harbour night views, city streets, neon signs, fireworks, and cultural celebrations, presenting the ever-changing Hong Kong through ink creations. We hope that through these works, everyone can experience Hong Kong’s artistic and romantic atmosphere.

Urban Ink Painting: Lecture & Demonstration (Cantonese)

Artist: Wong Chau Tung
7/12/2024 (Sat)  & 11/1/2025 (Sat)
Time:2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

WOAW Gallery is pleased to present Pop Craft Structure, a solo exhibition by Korean artist Gyuhan Lee. The title is derived from Lee’s transformation of mass-produced consumerist packaging into structured designs. Using the packaging of iconic brands, he creates furniture and furnishings with easily-accessible materials, infusing utilitarian function to waste and further drawing attention to consumerist behaviors.The exhibition will be on view from 7 November to 16 December 2024 , which also celebrates his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

Most of us know the familiar crumple of paper bags in our hands. We tear them open to consume its insides, barely registering the material beneath our fingertips as they are balled up and tossed aside like an afterthought. In the hands of Lee, the Korean artist breathes new life into the “valueless” material, skillfully weaving the recycled fiber with traditional Korean paper as he turns disposable waste into detailed craftsmanship

Opening Reception: Nov 7, 6-8PM

Gallery address: 3 Sun Street, Wan Chai

“The First Sinner” is an exhibition celebrating the complexities and beauty of womanhood, confronting and challenging traditional narratives of female inferiority in society. Through the pieces, JUM portrays female figures in harmonious interaction with nature, reimagining the familiar concept of Eden. This reinterpretation asserts that The First Sinner’s act of eating the apple was not a sign of weakness or seduction by the serpent in Eve’s story, but rather a bold assertion of her power and freedom. By celebrating these themes, the exhibition serves as a homage to women and womanhood, reclaiming the narrative and highlighting the strength, resilience and beauty inherent in the female experience.

𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚:⁠ Thursday, November 7 from 6PM - 10PM⁠

Venue address: B/F, 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

In this vibrant city, culture and art flow like a gentle stream, enriching our lives. After a year of meticulous preparation, I am thrilled to once again  present my second solo exhibition at Touch Gallery, "Fish Wishes." This exhibition not only continues my artistic journey but also pays heartfelt homage to the rich culture of Hong Kong.

In Chinese culture, auspicious symbols carry profound meanings, representing comfort and blessings. Over time, these symbols have gradually woven themselves into our daily lives, becoming an integral part of our spirit. In Hong Kong, auspicious culture is omnipresent, reflected in everything from home decorations to social etiquette, showcasing people's aspirations for a beautiful life. 

My fascination with fish stems from their unique symbolism and vitality. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2011, I designed a colourful lantern installation called "Lantern Wonderland" in Victoria Park. This piece not only celebrated the vibrancy of fish but also expressed my admiration for life itself. While fish are often depicted as culinary delights in Western art, in Chinese culture, they embody a deeper spirituality, symbolizing prosperity and hope.

Opening Reception: 2024.11.15 (Friday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm

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

“Have you ever heard about watermelons growing in your stomach?”

“We have a same saying in Hong Kong.”

In recent years, Wong has been immersing herself in a non-native language environment, experiencing the world with a sense of wonder akin to that of a child. The constant shifts between languages, cultures, and places often result in feelings of disorientation and silence. Whether navigating her native or non-native linguistic landscapes, she encounters various forms of distance that cultivate moments of stillness, allowing for deeper feelings, observations, and listening. At times, the world seems to contract to the space around her, while at other moments, it expands infinitely. 

WONG MEI YIN HAZEL, based in Hong Kong and Sapporo, graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. She focuses on painting and prints. Her work transforms unforgettable details from everyday life into narratives or sequential scenes.

Date : 8/11-1/12 , Every Friday to Sunday 1-7pm 

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

The exhibition traces the landscape transformations and the dynamic interactions between people and the environment that have shaped the character of Happy Valley, portraying the layered life of this evolving valley as one of Hong Kong’s iconic cultural landscapes.

Multimedia presentations—including an interactive topographic model, documentary films of the 1930s, the 1970s, and the present day, as well as rarely seen historic photos and maps—reveal the interwoven experience and everyday relationships that people have with Happy Valley. Through Happy Valley, this exhibition advocates for a holistic vision for urban heritage conservation to build an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future. 

The exhibition is part of the 140th anniversary activities for The Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Venue address: Duplex Studio, Block 01, Tai Kwun

Hong Kong International Photo Festival (HKIPF) is returning from 8 November to 8 December 2024, with the flagship exhibition Mega Family: Imagining Home at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Co-curated by Blues Wong and Carol Chow, the exhibition echoes the Festival’s earlier explorations of the theme of “home” in exhibitions 300 Families in 2013 and 1000 Families in 2016. Sponsored by FUJIFILM HK, Mega Family: Imagining Homeinvites 15 local photographers from different generations to showcase their works about Hong Kong since 2020, reflecting on the redefinition of home and family in the post-pandemic era and serving as a visual documentation of the social changes experienced under the new normality. 

Unlike previous years, which featured satellite exhibitions and collaborations with overseas artists, this year’s HKIPF focuses on local culture through this single thematic exhibition. Mega Family: Imagining Home aims to explore the evolving physical, cultural, and even mental landscapes in post-pandemic Hong Kong, examining how the meaning of “home” and “family” shifts with changes in the environment amidst a dynamic social backdrop.

Venue address: 4-5/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Karin Weber Gallery is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, ‘Palatable Parables’, a focal point for our 25th anniversary celebrations. This milestone not only marks a quarter-century of showcasing innovative art but also highlights our commitment to fostering meaningful dialogue within the local and international community.

‘Palatable Parables’ invites visitors to explore how culinary traditions, rituals, and symbolism are influenced by mythological beliefs and storytelling. From the ritualistic and celebratory use of specific ingredients to the superstitions and tales that have been passed down through generations, food constitutes a vital thread woven through the fabric of our collective imagination.

With a diverse array of artworks, the exhibition highlights the deep-rooted connections between food and the mystical, revealing how these associations influence our lived experiences. Visitors will gain insights into how food not only nourishes, but also reflects cultural identities and shared narratives. Hong Lam Lau’s cake-themed collection of mezzotint prints showcases his ability to imbue still life compositions with a captivating sense of drama and atmosphere, drawing from the tradition of cake offerings for the Gods in Greek mythology.

Opening Reception: Saturday, 9th November, 6-9pm

Gallery address: 20 Aberdeen Street, Central

Curated by Edward Stokes and presented by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM)'s curatorial team, Voyage Through Time is a new exhibition of captivating photographs taken in Hong Kong between the 1940s and 1970s by celebrated photographers Hedda Morrison, Brian Brake and Edward Stokes. These photos portray Hong Kong’s harbour, its port, shipping, maritime life, and boat people. Generously supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation HK with additional sponsorship from The Swire Group Charitable Trust, the exhibition is open to the public free of charge, from 13 November 2024 to March 2025.

Each Photograph Tells a Hong Kong Harbour Story 

From the post-war era to its rise as a modern metropolis, these photos vividly capture a slice of Hong Kong’s history. Each photograph tells a unique harbour story.

Hedda Morrison captured post-war maritime Hong Kong with her camera. In one photo, Wan Chai can be seen, still barren after the war, overlooking Victoria Harbour. Life for most people during this period was extremely hard. Many people were gaunt from hunger.

Brian Brake’s photos were mainly taken in the 1960s to mid-1970s. During this era, port facilities and city’s skyline saw significant development, and the lives of its people became less hard.

Edward Stokes’ photos were taken in 1979, a pivotal time when Hong Kong transitioned to its emergence as a modern metropolis. There is one photo that depicts two boys who look adequately fed, and almost certainly going to school – an unthinkable benefit for virtually all boat children in 1946.

Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is pleased to represent emerging Italian painter Paola Angelini in Asia. The gallery will present her first solo exhibition in the region Image Outside of Time in November. Angelini is known for her symbolically loaded canvases filled with anachronistic atmosphere. Her aesthetics exudes a kind of quiet dissonance that at once encapsulates and destabilizes the viewer.

Angelini’s work peels back the layers of our mass media culture through the use of age-old symbols and metaphors in her oneiric images. This exhibition calls for a way of seeing and imagining that breaks away from our time-bound mind through Angelini's psychologically charged works.

Gallery address: 01-G04-G05, G/F, Headquarters Block, Tai Kwun, Central

Soluna Fine Art is proud to present Invitation, the first solo exhibition of Hong Kong-based Korean artist Zang Zong-Son with the gallery. The exhibition will feature a selection of Zang's latest works, showcasing her distinctive flair for vivid colors, intricate patterns, and her unique ability to blend spontaneous intuition with deliberate contemplation. By transforming the ordinary into extraordinary visual narratives, Zang’s captivating collection of paintings encourages viewers to appreciate and cherish the beauty embedded in the small and mundane objects of everyday life. From still life compositions in her studio to landscapes of her familiar Stanley neighborhood, Zang’s creations reflect the rich texture of her experiences in vibrant Hong Kong. This exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into Zang’s studio and her creative process, inviting you to embark on a journey through her sensuous paintings and enchanting artistic universe.

Opening Reception: 14 November (Thursday) 6 - 8pm

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

The World Press Photo Foundation, Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Hong Kong & Macao SAR and Lumenvisum in Hong Kong present “Resilience - Stories of Women Inspiring Change”. The exhibition will be on display at Lumenvisum in Hong Kong JCCAC staring from 14 November. This special photo exhibition showcases a selection of stories, awarded in the World Press Photo Contests from 2000 to 2021, that highlight the resilience and challenges of women, girls and communities around the world.

Venue address: L2-02, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre 30 Pak Tin Street Shek Kip Mei

The intricate web of human interactions and their impacts is the essence of ‘Ripple Effects’, a group exhibition showcasing 23 artists shortlisted for the Colours of Humanity Arts Prize 2024, co-organised by Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao.

Through a citywide open call, local artists with diverse backgrounds explore themes of inclusion, diversity, and equity, offering a vibrant exploration of what it means to be human in an interconnected world. Through a multitude of perspectives and experiences, each artwork starts with a small gesture that reverberates into something larger. From restful and social gestures like sewing, cooking, dancing, to flat-hunting and house renovation, these artworks set to challenge norms, spark conversations, and raise questions about societal complexities.

Artists: 
Kingson Chan | Holok Chen | Wing Tung Chu | Abhishek Desai | Rhenea Diclas | Dholeeh Ann Hidalgo | Hou Wun Ho | Weera it Ittiteerarak | Siu Fung Hugh Leung | Jinghui Li | Lai Lai Natalie Lo | Paulina Alonso Meza | Doris Ng and Kong Wan Ki | Ho Long Ng | Sai Pradhan | Raúl Hernández Romero | Angelique Santos | Rajat Sharma | Amrita Tandon | Hou Lam Tsui | Chris Wong | Siu Kuen Yau | Kai Chun Yip

Curatorial Team:
Eunice Tsang | Candice Yiu | Amandine Vabre Chau

Gallery address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai

gdm Hong Kong is thrilled to present pioneering Chinese artist Wang Gongyi’s solo exhibition from 14 November to 31 December 2024, the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery. Presenting 11 important works by Wang Gongyi created in 2020-2024, the exhibition features the artist’s wild cursive calligraphy and her iconic Winsor Blue series and Leaves of Grass series.

Wang Gongyi’s works are imbued with vitality. Through bold brushstrokes, Wang captures the unfiltered essence of her subject. Her lines are unrestrained, devoid of traditional conventions that often mark ink painters. Born in Tianjin in 1946, she has always discovered, evolved, and embodied an attitude unexpected of her age.

Opening reception: 14 November, 5-7pm

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

JPS Gallery is pleased to announce the inauguration of its new location in Hong Kong, scheduled to open on November 14, 2024, coinciding with the gallery's 10th anniversary celebration. The new premise is situated within a meticulously restored Grade II historic building at 88-90 Staunton Street, Central, Hong Kong. The inaugural exhibition will feature an impressive roster of both in-house and exhibited artists, including world-renowned names such as Jeff Koons, Wilson Shieh, Kila Cheung, Afa Annfa, Muu Nanahoshi, Prodip, and Barminski, among others.

Opening reception: 5-8pm

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

Gagosian is pleased to announce |, an exhibition of new paintings by Sterling Ruby from the TURBINE series (2021–), opening at the gallery in Hong Kong on November 14, 2024. The title, |, is an ode to verticality. This exhibition marks not only ten years since the artist’s debut with Gagosian, but also a return to the site of that inaugural presentation.

In a practice that spans painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, video, ceramics, and textiles, Ruby alludes to key artistic tendencies and to the intersection of sociopolitical histories with the narrative of his own life. Through formal juxtaposition, he interweaves the disruption of aesthetic convention with the reexamination of civil structures. In Ruby’s 2014 exhibition VIVIDS, large-scale spray paintings seemed to gaze into the horizon in apparent anticipation of changes to come. Those works’ horizontal orientation stand in stark contrast to the precariously balanced compositions of the new TURBINE paintings on view in Hong Kong.

Ruby recalls the sensation of witnessing such monumental collapse as a child: “When I was young my father worked as an explosives technician. On a number of occasions, I went with him and watched, in real life, the collapse of large structures, the thinness of architecture, chimneys and smokestacks crumble in one sweep, one motion. Transforming solids to particulates. Watching these smokestacks, built on twentieth-century labor and progress, fall, I cannot help but think of societies’ and civilizations’ collapse.”

Opening reception: Thursday, November 14, 6–8pm

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

Cadenza, the Korean Young Artists Series this year, features works by three prominent Korean artists, SON Donghyun (1980-), WOO Jeongsu (1986-), and KEY Min Jung (1986-).

From SON Donghyun, who deconstructs and reconstructs classical Asian painting, WOO Jeongsu, who weaves narratives about contemporary issues based on medieval European publications and visual images, to KEY Min Jung, who explores the relationship between medium and material through continuous experimentation with traditional ink painting, the oeuvre of these three artists stimulates discourse with various contexts such as East and West, form and content, material and technique.

Cadenza, a classical term referring to a musical passage in a concerto or solo performance, usually denotes a free, unnotated section where the performer showcases their skill and creativity, displaying their unique style. The artistic worlds and working methods of the artists can be compared to a cadenza, where the artists fully demonstrate their skills within the existing media.

The participating artists Mr. WOO Jeongsu and Ms. KEY Min Jung will be present and sharing about the artworks at the opening reception at 6pm

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

Missed calls drift between Durban, Cape Town, Japan and Hong Kong, from Mother Nature to urban dwellers, until four artists from Hong Kong and South Africa unite, breathing life into anthropomorphic creatures and nature’s cadence, blending skyscrapers and natural wonders.

Young Soy Gallery is proud to present Missed Calls, a group exhibition featuring the works of Hong Kong based Japanese artist TAXA & Hong Kong artist ZLISM, alongside South African artists Ross Turpin & Resoborg.

As the four artists come together in the city having been over 10,000 km apart, their reunion prompts them to respond to the missed calls from one another, then to nature’s unanswered calls through art. Along with their distinct experiences that come from their diverse backgrounds, they unravel vibrant narratives inspired by the spirit and soul of their familiar land, intertwining wildlife with cityscapes, bridging the distance across continents.

Opening reception: November 14th, 6:00pm - Late

Gallery address: G/F, 40A Upper Lascar Row, Sheung Wan

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is honoured to the debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong of Mongolian artist ANUnaran J. Solo Exhibition “Inner Nature – Return to Innocence” in Hong Kong from 15 November 2024 to 11 January 2025.

ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan, is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Living and working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Her diverse practice and use of materials and performance are deeply connected to nature. In this exhibition at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery we will see the diversity of her practice which includes a unique mix of techniques that are embroidered, sewed, appliquéd and as well as, photo-based work combining various materials such as fabric, pens, thread, acrylic, oil and printing.

In a poignant reflection on the intricate relationship between humanity and nature, ANUnaran J. delves deep into the essence of our inner nature. She shares, "We feel things both externally and internally. Our relationship with nature resides within us, as does Mother Nature herself." Her introspective musings underscore the crucial yet fading connections we share with the natural world.

Artist’s Talk and Opening Reception: Saturday, 16 November

Artist’s Talk: 3 pm, Reception: 4 - 6 pm

AISHO Hong Kong is honoured to announce Japanese artist Hidetaka Suzuki’s first solo exhibition “Stereoscope” in Hong Kong. The show is on view from 15 November to 21 December, 2024.

Throughout his career, Suzuki has persistently engaged with the theme between "Reality” and “Fiction," investigating the possibility of painting as a medium of expression. Echoing the sentiment of American author Mark Twain, who famously stated, "Truth is stranger than fiction," Suzuki's creation can always be interpreted through both perspective of reality and fiction. The motifs he presents, often detached from their original contexts,  invite viewers into a fantastical yet empty world that exists in the space between the two realms. Moreover, Suzuki's distinctive distortions and brushwork effectively transform reality into fiction and vice versa.

The title of this exhibition, "Stereoscope," references a technology originating in the 1850s that enables viewers to perceive images in three dimensions by observing two slightly offset images through a scope. This endeavour to transform flat images into three-dimensional representations has spurred numerous innovations, including red-green 3D glasses found in encyclopedias, the 3D televisions that gained popularity in the 2000s, the Nintendo 3DS, and more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. The artist believes that the original stereoscope serves as a pioneering device that bridges "reality" and "fiction," resonating with his own creative process and themes.

Opening reception: 15 November, 5-7pm

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

Marcel Proust once said, “The only paradise is paradise lost,” highlighting the bittersweet nature of memory. Titled Vessels of Memory, this group exhibition investigates how memories shape our sense of being in a world with rapid social changes through the work of 13 artists including Alimi Adewale (b. 1974, Nigeria), Enrico Marone Cinzano (b. 1967, Italy), Philip Colbert (b. 1979, UK), Leonardo Drew (b. 1961, USA), Du Zhenjun (b. 1961, China), Gonkar Gyatso (b. 1961, Tibet), David LaChapelle (b. 1963, USA), Antony Micallef (b. 1975, UK), Samuel Nnorom (b. 1990, Nigeria), Babajide Olatunji (b. 1989, Nigeria), Gatot Pujiarto (b. 1970, Indonesia), Michael Staniak (b. 1982, Australia), and Danful Yang (b. 1980, China). Divided into five distinctive chapters, this cyclical exhibition addresses the formation, deformation, loss, and preservation of our memories. Audiences are invited to transverse between different spheres to come to terms with the amorphous qualities of memory.

Gallery address: G/F, Ruttonjee House, Ruttonjee Centre, 3–11 Duddell Street, Central

The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong is thrilled to present David Clarke: Colour in Space, an exhibition displaying giclée prints of the artist’s own watercolour paintings. By presenting one medium as another, Clarke develops an abstract art that plays with scale and explores different materialities. The images capture both the translucency and opacity of the carefully applied watercolours, while the digital printing technology helps to represent or transfer the design into a scalable print form.

Beyond the multifaceted visual qualities of these works, Clarke is interested in the relation and transfer of words into images and vice versa. Where abstract art is less confined to representing definable subject matter, the ability of visual compositions to represent verbal content offers a tangible or readable dimension. Clarke, who has previously collaborated with composers and writers in response to his photographs, now invites a composer and visual artist to draw inspiration from the paintings central to his current project.

Venue address: 2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

In Susumu Kamijo’s latest exhibition, Table for Us at Perrotin Hong Kong, the artist steps sideways into the realm of still life, only to transform the genre with a sleight of hand that feels at once candid and elusive. Known for his playful, abstract paintings of poodles and other sentient forms, Kamijo here shifts gears into a more intimate space, where florals and creatures coalesce in arrangements that hover between fantasy and familiarity. What appears to be a traditional still life at first blush—Morandi-esque vases, plates of food, large goldfish with petal-like fins bulging in their bowls—quickly dissolves into into riddles of texture and composition, pulsating with a strange vitality, even a glint of poison in Summer Blossoms (2024).

Opening reception at 4pm

Gallery address: 807, K11 ATELIER Victoria Dockside, Tsim Sha Tsui

Featuring artists based in Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, and New York, Weather-world re-imagines the atmosphere as a blend of poetic and political landscape. Showcasing recent and new works, including videos, paintings, collages, installations, and sculptures, the exhibition explores how art can allude to the atmosphere as a formative and contingent way of being in the world and revealing the broader non-human world through aesthetic categories such as landscape, naturalism, romanticism, and idioms. Within these categories, the concept of atmosphere, whether as weather or whim, shapes how we understand and represent the natural and non-human world and how we imagine our relation to them. The exhibition’s title “Weather-world” is inspired by the anthropologist Tim Ingold, who examines how the concept of the atmosphere is molded by the fusion of the meteorological perspective— viewing the atmosphere as a measurable and observable external phenomenon— and the affective viewpoint, which sees atmosphere as an extension or projection of inner psychic moods.

Curated by Jims Lam and Carlos Quijon, Jr.    

Opening: 16 November 2024, Saturday

Curators in conversation with Artists: 16 November 2024, Saturday; 4:00 – 5:00 pm (conducted in English)

Gallery address: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road

We are delighted to invite you to visit《雙關》Between us at Yrellag Gallery, a dual exhibition featuring artists Jake Wong and Alan Cheung. The opening reception for this exhibition will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 6 PM to 8 PM, where the artists will be present. The exhibition will run from November 19, 2024, to December 7, 2024.

In this exhibition, the two artists will explore the theme of relationships, which are inherently inseparable from the human experience. Each artist brings their own perspective into the discussion and uncovered their dual understanding to the concept of relationships.

Gallery address: 13A Prince’s Terrace, Central

I study nature, and a lot of these forms come from observing plants. I really look at nature and I just do it as I see it. I draw something on paper. And then I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing it from anyone. —Ruth Asawa

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Relentlessly experimental across a range of mediums, Asawa is known for her works built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. The artist moved effortlessly between abstract and figurative registers in both two and three dimensions, creating a vast and varied oeuvre that, despite its visual heterogeneity, reflects above all her belief in the total integration of artistic practice and family life. The first solo presentation of Asawa’s work in Greater China, the exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s wide-ranging practice, focusing in particular on her affinity for the natural world, which in turn provided a constant source of inspiration in her art.

Opening Reception Tuesday, November 19, 5–7 PM

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

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by American artist Scott Kahn (b. 1946) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Once in a Blue Moon will feature a body of new paintings that focus on the full moon in various phases—with its myriad connotations—as their central compositional element. Also on view will be a selection of landscapes from throughout Kahn’s career, several of which include the moon, often glimpsed in the background, materializing as a sort of omen for the scene laid out beneath. Viewed together, these works exemplify the artist’s distinctive approach to the genre, showcasing his masterful use of formal elements to impart psychological resonances and heighten the theatricality of everyday experience. This will be Kahn’s first solo presentation in Asia and first with the gallery since his representation was announced in May 2024.

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

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

White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by American artist Howardena Pindell. With a career spanning over five decades, Pindell lends a dynamic materiality to the canons of painting.

Drawing from a profound childhood memory, the circular motif has become one of the most enduring elements in Pindell’s body of work, manifesting in diverse forms such as ellipses, perforations and hole-punched dots. In the late 1960s, the artist pioneered her iconic spray-painting technique, in which the motif is atomised and accrued, resulting in generative stipples of light and colour.

This exhibition marks the inaugural presentation of Pindell’s work since the gallery announced representation of the artist in May 2024.

Preview: 19 November 2024, 5–8pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

Come see “Artwerks”, A Group Exhibition of Hong Kong LGBTQIA+ artists.
Featuring:
Isaac Spellman, Iris Yung, DRTKK, CHANG, Brian Sze Wa-Cho, AMZY, Rachel Smith.

Opening party Nov 22 (Fri) 6 PM to 9 PM

Gallery address: G/F, 82A Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai

Rossi & Rossi is pleased to present “Masterpieces from the Himalayas”, an exhibition of extraordinary bronzes, sculptures and paintings from India, Nepal and Tibet, exemplifying the finest craftsmanship and artistic legacy from this ancient region.

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

Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to present 多維空間 Quaquaversal, an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Awol Erizku. This bold showcase, featuring paintings, neon installations, and a newly unveiled series of bronze sculptures, builds on the artist’s ongoing engagement with the city of Hong Kong, first initiated in his 2018 exhibition 慢慢燃燒 Slow Burn. 多維空間 Quaquaversal continues Erizku’s exploration of materiality, symbolism, and cultural intervention, expanding dialogues around cultural authorship and art history while electrifying African diasporic identity in a powerful act of revival.

Erizku reimagines the visual and linguistic landscapes of music, popular culture, and sports symbolism, deconstructing and reconstructing cultural motifs to create nuanced narratives that favor Afrocentric perspectives. In 多維空間 Quaquaversal, Erizku fuses disparate elements, producing a cultural flip that re-examines the established canons of art history, philosophy, and language. At the heart of his practice is a dissection of the persistent hegemony of Eurocentric ideals, unmasking their quiet colonization of global cultural narratives and intellectual frameworks. This critique examines how these ideals subtly yet powerfully continue to dictate standards of beauty, knowledge, and civilisation, often at the expense of diverse and marginalized worldviews, particularly in art. Erizku’s work defies these dominant frameworks, offering instead an Afrocentric vision he terms Afro-Esotericism.

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

John McAllister, deeply drawn to the enigmatic play of light, immersed himself in its exploration through the medium of painting. His journey from California to New York proved pivotal, especially his encounter with Post-Impressionist masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The works of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse drew him into the tradition of twentieth-century artists who strive to capture the immemorial elements of light.

In his landscapes, instead of sketching specific scenes and points of view in the natural world, McAllister creates imagined vistas inspired by the sense of the sublime experienced in the beauty of nature. The artist engages in an ever-evolving dialogue with his environment; formed as close by as the flowers planted in his garden beyond his studio door, to riding his bike for miles through the wilderness in his surrounding Massachusetts. Back in the studio he creates scenes that possess the kind of harmonious beauty only possible with a considerate understanding of the delicate balance between the oppositional forces in nature and its constant state of flux: the fleetingness of a single ray of light against the ubiquitous being of the sun: the endless cycle of creative growth into hibernation and decay.

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

Ora-Ora is pleased to announce Yi Yi Jeong-eun’s second solo exhibition Being Zen.

Yi Yi’s artistic journey follows a fascinating evolution from representational forms to abstract paintings, embracing new tools and techniques along the way. As she explores the interplay of different brush styles, Yi Yi Jeong-eun transcends traditional boundaries, creating an immersive experience for her audience.

Opening on 21st November, from 5-8pm, join us to discover Yi Yi’s new works and deep affection for the outdoors in a philosophical direction, interpreting landscapes through the prism of Zen thought and principles.

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

Contemporary by Angela Li is proud to present ”The Weight of Stillness,“ a group exhibition that brings together seven young artists whose works capture the complexities of our contemporary world, exploring themes of resilience, transformation and connection. As we approach the end of 2024, we find ourselves in a media-driven era that has significantly shortened our attention spans, conditioning us to seek quick dopamine hits from fast-paced contents. The exhibition provides an opportunity for us to pause and reconnect with our surroundings, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the present moment and appreciate the subtleties of the artwork. Through the works of these seven artists, they encourage a deeper exploration of our experiences and the narratives that shape our lives. Exhibiting artists include Choi Nga Sze Angie , Gordon Chi, Keng Chieh-Sheng Jason, Ling Wai Shan Heidi, Lui Yan Yi Mindy, Joyce Mak and Wong Kit Man Mandy. The exhibition will open on Thursday, 21 November, 2024 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. with six artists present.

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

Studio Lenca’s artistic universe is a harmonious intertwining of his experiences as a professional dancer, his identity as a migrant, and a profound exploration of artistic freedom. In this exhibition, Lenca invites the audience into a world where his deep artistic vision unfolds into ever more intricate and layered narratives, expressed through painting and installation. His work boldly challenges conventional and traditional forms, offering a fresh approach to themes of migration, identity, and self-exploration.

Lenca’s background as a professional dancer profoundly shapes his artistic sensibility. Dance, as a liberating force, transcends the confines of specific places and times, and when this experience is channeled into the creative process, it expands the boundaries of artistic expression. Through dance, Lenca explores the dissolution of bodily boundaries, embracing the freedom of movement while confronting and overcoming the social and cultural borders that once confined him. Dance, an ephemeral art form, embodies intense expression through fleeting moments of movement, and this notion of ‘temporality’ resonates deeply within his painting practice, reflecting the expanded possibilities of existence discovered through the body, space, and movement.

Opening Reception on 22 November (Fri) from 6 to 8 pm

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

"Since ancient times, humanity has gazed at the starry sky. Even now, when I look upon the vast canvas painted with countless stars, the cares of human society seem to fade away, and I am enveloped in an elegant atmosphere." Chiyu Uemae

Chiyu Uemae’s practice transcends conventional artistic production to embody a profound meditation on existence. Through his meticulous pointillist abstractions and later textile works, Uemae articulates a deeply personal cosmology at the intersection of humanity, labour, materiality, and temporal awareness.

In the landscape of post-war Japanese art, Uemae emerges as a singular presence. As one of the few artists who remained with the pioneering Gutai Art Association from its inception until its dissolution, Uemae's oeuvre represents a unique trajectory within the movement's radical experimentations. Cosmology presents sixteen pivotal works from the 1950s to the 2000s, offering a contemplative journey through the accumulated gestures of Uemae’s personal and creative life.

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

Whitestone Gallery is delighted to present Game of Thought, the first solo exhibition of Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi in Hong Kong. The exhibition showcases a curated collection of works, including both new creations and selected pieces from 2020. This exhibition offers a captivating exploration through the fusion of traditional Japanese themes and contemporary artistic expression.

The opening reception will take place on 23 November 2024, from 6 to 8 PM, featuring a live Taiko drum performance with the artist present.

Gallery address: 7-8/F, H Queen’s, Central

Sansiao Gallery HK and the exhibition organizer Chun Poon jointly present “Transcendence,” an exhibition featuring the latest works by contemporary artists Taku Hisamura, Huo Yun, and Damon Tong. Despite their diverse backgrounds, all three artists use everyday materials—such as textiles, paper, and stickers— as their medium. By breathing new life into familiar items, their works prompt a reconsideration of how we understand and engage with society and the physical world around us. By redefining the ordinary, these works prompt us to reconsider what we know and how we perceive. This exploration aligns with Carl Jung’s concept of “The Transcendent Function,” which describes the psychic process that arises from the tension between consciousness and the unconscious, fostering psychological growth through their integration.

Gallery address: 1/F, Room 104 - 5 Wilson House, 19 - 27 Wyndham Street, Central

Tang Contemporary Art is thrilled to present Autumn Leaves, an exploration of nostalgia and fragility through the lens of New York-based artist Nick Farhi's vibrant imagination.

A falling piano chord, an accordion of decommissioned pre-war sinks, still-lifes hung across the walls, a girl dancing in the rain while a Pacino-looking man adopts a puppy. This metamorphosis of subjects, contrasting weights of tropes and dim recollections of vintage New York cinema, center political fragility. The viewers are pulled through the offerings of individual stances; army green glasses versus a rainbow of stemware, a twitter-colored bird juxtaposes with its prey a lonely green fish.

Gallery address: 20/F, Landmark South, Wong Chuk Hang

Novalis Art Design is pleased to present Primitive, Studio Nucleo’s first solo show in Hong Kong showcasing the ‘Primitive’ series. The exhibition is kindly supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and is part of BODW in the city. The artist will be present at the opening reception.

By synthesizing past influences with forward-thinking vision, Studio Nucleo creates objects that are both surprising and deeply grounded. Their Primitive series exemplifies this ethos, transcending conventional boundaries to merge functional design with sculptural art. In these pieces, shape, texture, and colour intertwine to form a dramatic juxtaposition of geometric forms, establishing a dialogue between past and present, tradition and innovation.
In recent years, Studio Nucleo’s work has taken on new urgency in the face of the climate crisis. While their practice has long embedded craftsmanship and local materials, there is now a deeper focus on sustainability, particularly using recycled and recyclable materials. The Primitive series reflects a growing commitment to ecological responsibility, integrating principles of the circular economy into their design process. By rethinking the life cycle of their materials, Nucleo offers a new, more environmentally conscious model for contemporary design and our lifestyle.

Opening 28 Nov 2024, 6 - 9 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 197 Hollywood Road

deTour 2024 will take place from 29 November to 15 December. Curated by Shin Wong and Adonian Chan, this year’s theme, “Having → Being: Designing Inner Worlds,” seeks to explore uncharted possibilities in design, emphasising how design can enrich our inner strength. It invites the public to reflect on two distinct ways of living—“having” and “being”—and to pursue a deeper understanding of “being.”

The curatorial team presents four themed exhibitions, each offering a unique perspective on “Having → Being: Designing Inner Worlds.” A place of Being invites audiences to engage with the delicate balance between “having” and “losing,”as well as “balance” and “imbalance,” encouraging them to find their own equilibrium in life. Air-Scape presents a bonsai crafted by the design team Future, using hydroponic sponges and 3D-printed breathable structures to create fresh geometric expressions that revitalise the traditional art of bonsai. Korean designer Yoojin Chung showcases Capturing Qi, a contemporary feng shui smart installation that captures and releases “Qi.” This work visualises how this invisible force influences the pursuit of success, offering a satirical take on the commodification of feng shui. Passage to the Lake, by Netherlands-based Korean designer Moon Seop Seo, draws inspiration from the calming presence of lakes. In this minimalist installation, droplets of water fall into a pool, constantly rejuvenating its surface. This piece brings a touch of nature indoors, offering a quiet moment of reflection amid the city’s bustle.

Gallery EXIT presents ‘Their Memories’ by Daphné MANDEL, featuring a new series of works by the Hong Kong-based French artist. Positioning herself as an observer, for many years MANDEL has been engaging with her adopted city’s past. Exploring villages in the New Territories and collecting stories from local villagers whose lifestyle is on the brink of disappearing, she explores the themes of pattern and repetition versus singularity and uniqueness through the narratives of rural life and industrial heritage.
 
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer is greeted by a long row of small paintings from the Their Memories series. Seen from a distance, these paintings drawn from formal family portraits, photographs of casual friends and family gatherings and occasions, weekend excursions and travels abroad form a repetitive pattern of shapes, shades of sepia, browns and greys, evoking a cycle of lives of a people who have left their rural village homes and their memories behind. Only when scrutinised up close do the individual stories become discernible. As the artist wanders around abandoned homes in rural villages, she often comes across photo albums that have survived several decades in a decaying and humid structure, the photographs within turned into a palette of browns, sepia, pinks and yellows. Time, material deterioration, the artist’s intervention and act of painting, transform the ephemeral images into the abstraction of memory.

Exhibition opening: 3-5pm, Saturday, 30 November

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

DE SARTHE is pleased to present Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, a solo exhibition by Chongqing-based artist Hou Jianan, featuring a new body of works on canvas that allude to the illusion of fulfilment that manifests in the cross-breeze of consumerist society and digital gratification. Sweet and plump yet empty and fragile, Hou’s imagery reflects upon the changes in perception induced by the falsehoods of artificiality and elucidates the ephemeral environments in which we currently exist. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow opens November 30th and runs through January 25th.

Central to Hou Jianan’s practice is the idea that hedonistic tendencies are amplified in and by the age of accelerationist technology. The desire for material and consumption is exponentially expanded as perceivable reality is made brighter, fuller, and more colorful through digital means. Hou’s manipulation of imagery reflects upon this phenomenon; combining digitally saturated compositions with the dimensionality of layered acrylics, the artist inflates certain objects while flattening others, crafting overtones of artificiality evocative of contemporary visual experiences. 

Gallery address: 26/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road

3812 Gallery is pleased to present “Love Language: Joanne Chan Solo Exhibition", the artist’s inaugural solo exhibition with 3812, endeavors to capture Chan’s delicate sensibilities and profound regard for individual and communal sentiments through her predominantly vibrant and expressive brushstrokes.

Art is a universal medium that articulates emotions and transcends the constraints of spoken words, enabling audiences to immerse themselves in love and expression. For Chan, each work is a heartfelt disclosure of her personal story and intense feelings – a love language that narrates the intricacies of human experience, encompassing both suffering and joy.

Opening Reception: Thursday, 5 December, 6 - 8pm

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

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “Spa & Beauty”, an exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong. The exhibition that runs from 7th through 14th December coincides with two performances by the artist, featuring humanised objects, props, videos and a number of sundries used in daily routines.

Jeong’s body of work ranges from performance, dance, choreography, theatre, video and installation. Since the beginning of her career, she has been investigating the relationship between the human body, the objects that are immediately associated with it, and its artificial counterparts through productions that combine languages and techniques from the fields of contemporary dance, puppet theatre, self-taught programming, and the visual arts. In the course of the physical interaction between her body and the objects, it becomes ambiguous who controls whom, blurring the line between inanimate and animate, the inauthentic and the genuine.

The two scheduled performances on the 7th and 14th of December are effectively a series of

demonstrations, in which the artist, treating her body as a medium par excellence, activates the modern artefacts by using them in particular, even idiosyncratic ways, shedding light on the sprays, bottles, bathtubs, and the pleasure of consuming and touching.

Opening: Sat, 7 Dec, 4 – 6 PM

Performance: 7 Dec, 4 PM, 14 Dec, 4 PM

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

Alisan Fine Arts is proud to announce the opening of Walasse Ting: Joy, Temptation and Magic, a survey exhibition of the artist’s evolution over five decades. While widely recognised for his exuberant and colourful paintings of Dionysiac nudes, luscious flowers and menagerie of animals. Walasse Ting (1928-2010) was a groundbreaking figure who bridged diverse Western movements – including CoBrA, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop art – with Chinese artistic traditions. This exhibition features representative works from each decade, spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, in mediums such as drawing, acrylic on canvas, and ink on paper, paying homage to his liberal meandering across Western and Eastern artistic influences, and unadulterated celebration of life’s abundance and temptations.

This comprehensive exhibition offers a vital exploration of the artist’s legacy, revealing facets of his oeuvre that have often been overshadowed by his well-recognised vibrant paintings of nudes and flowers. By showcasing early and lesser-known works—particularly in gestural abstraction and black-and-white painting—the exhibition reveals the depth and complexity of Ting’s creative spirit throughout his illustrious career. Ting’s long-standing relationship with Alisan Fine Arts dates back to his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986, organised by Alice King, the gallery’s co-founder, just five years into AFA’s operation. Since then, the gallery has mounted 12 solo exhibitions for the artist and has been instrumental in introducing Ting’s signature style to Asian audiences, helping to establish him as a significant figure in the Chinese art diaspora.

Opening Reception: 5PM-7PM, 11 December, Tuesday

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

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.

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

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