Art Intelligence Global, Galerie Patrick Seguin and NOT A HOTEL are pleased to jointly present “Modern Dreamers: Iconic Art, Architecture and Design”, an exhibition opening on March 25 at Art Intelligence Global’s exhibition space in Hong Kong. Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, the exhibition is a collaborative showcase celebrating the intersections and synergies found at the highest level of art, architecture and design.

At the heart of the exhibition is Jean Prouvé’s 1944 6x6 Demountable House, which was purchased by NOT A HOTEL from Galerie Patrick Seguin in a transaction facilitated by Art Intelligence Global. The exhibition marks the unveiling of the Demountable House in Asia; after the exhibition, the Demountable House will be installed in NOT A HOTEL’s Tokyo headquarters. The unique collaboration brings together Art Intelligence Global, leading advisor for fine art; Galerie Patrick Seguin, authoritative advocate of French mid-century design; and NOT A HOTEL, whose groundbreaking business model redefines the concept of home, to bring about a landmark cross-disciplinary exhibition reimagining standards of aesthetic living.

Gallery address: 1/F, TS Tower, Wong Chuk Hang

Art Central, a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week, showcases the next generation of talent from Asia’s most innovative galleries alongside distinguished artists from around the world. Presented in partnership with United Overseas Bank (UOB), Art Central will return to its home on Hong Kong’s iconic Central Harbourfront on 26 – 30 March 2025. The upcoming edition will be staged in an architect-designed, purpose-built structure overlooking Victoria Harbour, conveniently situated in the heart of the city’s business district within walking distance of Art Basel at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and a short ferry ride to M+ and Palace Museum Hong Kong.

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

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

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

Christie’s Hong Kong is delighted to announce its first live auctions of 2025, set to take place on 28 and 29 March at The Henderson. These auctions will showcase an exquisite collection of 20th/21st Century Art, kicking off the year-round sales calendar in 2025. For the first time ever, the Hong Kong Spring Sales will coincide with Hong Kong Art Month, and will certainly convene collectors from around the globe.

The auction series features remarkable works by modern and contemporary art masters. The 20th/21st Evening Sale will highlight remarkable works by legendary surrealist René Magritte and renowned contemporary artist Liu Ye, following an exclusive exhibition co-hosted by Christie’s at High Peak last April. This exhibition brought together iconic works by Liu Ye alongside several significant pieces by Magritte, aligning with the centennial celebration of Surrealism. This dynamic intersection of art not only celebrates the transformative power of their visions and contributions to the art world, but also reflects Christie’s ongoing commitment to empowering collectors by providing access to extraordinary works.

Viewing
25–28 March
10:30am – 5:30pm
By appointment only

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

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

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

Opening reception: 5pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening reception: 25 March 6-9pm

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

Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is honored to present Sacred Nexus, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Japanese artist Miwa Komatsu. Until now, Miwa Komatsu has presented works under the theme of “Sense of Sacredness,” aiming to evoke our inner spirituality. Now, as embarking on a new venture, the “Sacred Nexus” exhibition unveils over 20 new works by the artist.

A “Sacred Nexus” is a confluence of sacred resonance — a place or moment where we can have spiritual interaction and dialogue with divine spirits and the natural world. Historical sites of worship, lands imbued with earnest prayers, and nature itself are the inspirations of Komatsu’s practice; she envisions the “invisible energy”, and creates the intersection of the material and immaterial realms. By amplifying the resonance between her works and the viewers, the audience is reminded of the sacredness deep within themselves, prompting their connection to divinity in this new chapter of “Sacred Nexus”.

Opening reception: 4 - 7 pm, 25 March (Tuesday)
*Artist will be present.

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

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

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

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

HR Giger, best known as Hans Ruedi Giger, born on February 5, 1940, and passing away on May 12, 2014, was a highly influential Swiss artist and designer. Giger's art, which he famously described as "biomechanical," seamlessly merges organic human forms with mechanical elements, exploring themes of life, death, and the intersection of man and machine. This distinctive aesthetic gained widespread recognition, particularly through his pivotal role in the visual design for Ridley Scott's groundbreaking film "Alien." Giger's contributions to "Alien" were pivotal, as he designed the xenomorph alien, which would become an iconic figure in science fiction and horror cinema. The creation of this character involved an innovative design process that combined elements of horror, sexuality, and phantasmagoria, captivating audiences and sealing Giger's legacy within the film industry. His work on the film earned him an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, marking a significant recognition of his artistic vision.

To honor H.R. Giger's remarkable contributions to the arts, Mai 36 Galerie is excited to present a comprehensive overview of his career. Join us for the opening on Tuesday, March 25th, at 6 PM

Gallery address: 3 & 5 Sun Street, Wan Chai

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

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

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

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

Gallery address: 7/F Pedder Building, Central

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

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

Opening reception: 25 March | 6 - 8pm

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

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

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

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

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

Art Basel is pleased to announce the participating exhibitors and key details of its 2025 edition in Hong Kong, taking place from March 28–30, 2025, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). This edition will feature 242 galleries from 42 countries and territories, showcasing a diverse range of artistic practices that reflect the fair’s commitment to global diversity and regional representation. More than half of the participating galleries are from the Asia-Pacific, highlighting Art Basel’s vital role as a platform for the region’s dynamic art scene.

The fair’s core sectors include Galleries, the main sector for established and blue-chip galleries; Discoveries, which spotlights solo projects by emerging artists; and Insights, offering curated projects from artists across Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery address: 49 Tung Street, Sheung Wan 

The Museum Summit 2025, presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, in association with the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet in France, will take place in Hong Kong on 28 and 29 March this year.

Under the theme "Going Beyond", it will bring together renowned speakers and moderators from around the world to explore four pivotal topics: "Museum + Tourism", "Museum + Technology", "Museum + Sustainability", and "Museum + Wellness". Other than the two-day summit discussion, there will also be a number of fringe activities and post-summit visits.

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

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

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

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

The Oneness Gallery, a UK-based gallery, returns to Hong Kong for its second exhibition, presenting the debut solo show of featured artist Marigpa. In line with the gallery’s vision of "art without boundaries," this exhibition marks a significant collaboration with the Parhelion Group in Hong Kong.

London-based artist Marigpa translates their extensive global travels into a compelling artistic language. Their work, primarily oil and mixed media on canvas, is a vibrant celebration of metallic hues – gold, silver, and copper – universally recognized symbols of luxury, warmth, and spiritual enlightenment.

Marigpa’s canvases offer a visual feast, a rich tapestry of metallic tones interwoven with diverse artistic elements. This creates an atmosphere of both opulence and tranquility, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in a realm of pure imagination. Bold strokes and meticulous detail bring the artwork to life, producing a mesmerizing interplay of light and shadow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road, Central

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

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

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

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

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

Environments are artworks in which viewers play an active role, stimulated by objects, light, moving image, and sound as they move through and around the work. They have been a major feature in international art since the mid-twentieth century, laying the groundwork for the immersive experiences that dazzle museum audiences today. However, the important history of this art form is only partially understood, as so many of these groundbreaking works were destroyed after display, and the focus to date has been almost exclusively on male artists.

Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now presents the works of trailblazing women artists whose environments made a lasting impact on the history of visual art, illuminating artworks of the present and offering glimpses into the future. It spans several generations of artists from Asia, Europe, and North and South America, presenting full-scale reproductions of each work. These reconstructions are as close to the originals as possible, developed through research and collaboration with experts and the artists themselves.

This exhibition brings together a selection of major works produced by Rauschenberg during and in response to his time in Asia. It traces the conceptual, formal and material influences on his practice, such as sourcing textiles and collaborating with paper makers and ceramicists in China, India, and Japan. The exhibition also considers the history and legacy of his Asian Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) projects, which included exhibitions in Beijing (1985), Lhasa (1985), Tokyo (1986), and Kuala Lumpur (1990), and their lasting impact on local artists. The display will feature works by Rauschenberg and by Asian artists in dialogue with his practice, and marks the centenary of the artist’s birth.

Zao Wou-Ki: Graphic Works (working title) explores the Chinese-French artist’s life, his prints, and his mastery of abstraction. It sheds new light on Zao’s printmaking practice, introducing the unique aesthetics, techniques, and styles of this medium while investigating the connections between oil painting and printmaking as equally significant aspects of his oeuvre. The exhibition explores how Zao’s printmaking catalysed his experiments in abstraction and considers the role of prints as a visual and conceptual vehicle that facilitated the circulation of his works, positioning him as an eminent cross-cultural figure in the post-war art landscapes of Europe, Asia, and the United States.