Home, A Fire: Group Exhibition Examines Identity, Belonging and Place
Cheng-Lan’s Corner’s second exhibition Home, A Fire brings together 10 international artists to explore domestic space as a site of memory, tension and identity.
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The Mihn Machine: An Exhibition of Nightlife Poster Art
How designer Stevie Whisper fashioned a distinct visual identity for underground Hong Kong nightclub 宀, AKA Mihn, in 100 posters.
Lightness of Being: Hong Kong Art Graduates Draw on Life
Contemporary by Angela Li’s Lightness of Being brings together eight fine arts graduates from across Hong Kong institutions, showcasing their artworks that exploring on human existence, ranging from ceramics to charcoal drawing.
Cities, Illustrated: Revisiting Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Visions of Place
Explore Miroslav Šašek’s illustrated cities, from Hong Kong to across Europe, tracing mid-century travel, memory and visual storytelling.
Southside Saturdays are Back: Here’s What You Need to Know
A slew of exhibition openings, plus talks and workshops, hosted over three weekends at galleries across the artsy neighbourhoods Wong Chuk Hang and Tin Wan.
Chinese Artist Gu Yue Explores Boundaries and Spaces
Renowned artist and scholar Gu Yue’s Boundaries explores divisions as dynamic spaces for connection across cultures, media and histories.
Hong Kong Arts Centre’s Flagship Exhibition Returns
As the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s flagship exhibition, Collaboration in Collision brings together seven artists and collectives to transform the conventional gallery into an interactive space for dialogue.
Can Humans Learn to be AI Bots? Inside Lau Wai’s Video Game Art Show
In After ‘Intelligence,’ Hong Kong artist Lau Wai uses motion-captured avatars and a video game to ask who decides our role as the human race when AI learns to imitate us.
Augmented Reality: Isaac Cordal and Sculptures of Isolation
The Spanish sculptor’s Hong Kong gallery debut uses everyday objects as literal cages to probe technology, surveillance and the erosion of the real.
Form: Seven Artists Create the Tangible and Intangible
Across disciplines including painting and ceramics, Form gathers seven artists to explore the tangible and intangible — from matter to imagination.
Joyful Encounters: The Ink Rhapsody of Wong Kwan Shut
HKPM’s Joyful Encounters traces Wong Kwan Shut’s life as a scholar-artist, revealing how connoisseurship shaped his ink practice.
Beyond the Ordinary: Contemporary Book Art Exhibition
Print Art Contemporary’s exhibition shares the career stories of eight retired master printers and artist works, exploring the concept of the book in contemporary art.
A Modern Literati’s Lair Reimagined at Ora-Ora exhibition
Ora-Ora’s new multi-disciplinary group exhibition imagines a fictional modern literati’s studio, where historical objects and contemporary creations coexist.
David Boring’s Lead Singer is Hosting a Sound Installation
David Boring lead singer Laujan further invades our interior world with her first gallery piece, Memory & Punishment, an installation and durational performance interrogating trauma and loss through collective immersion.
How Keith Macgregor Remembers Hong Kong’s Neon Heritage
Through an exhibition and talk, photographer Keith Macgregor documents Hong Kong’s fading neon era in City of Lights, a vivid archive of signage, stories and cultural memory.
Creative Cross-Pollination Exhibition Returns to Crafts on Peel
At the re-showcase of the Creative Cross-Pollination: The Future of Crafts, Crafts on Peel presents seven craftworks by local and international artists with the debut of two exquisite artworks.
Precious Corals: 120 Treasures from Global Institutions
L’ÉCOLE Hong Kong’s Precious Coral traces the material’s biology, craftsmanship and global cultural history through 120 rare works.
Zheng Jing: Exploring Spatial Ecology and Poetics
Celebrated artist Zheng Jing constructs different ecologies using non-solid elemental media at Oi!, reimagining and recontextualising familiar Hong Kong spaces.
Wesley Tongson’s Meditative Ink Landscapes Dance Between Self and Spirituality
The first comprehensive exhibition in over a decade, Asia Society’s Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink retrospective revisits Wesley Tongson’s experimental ink through spirituality, identity and Hong Kong’s modern ink history.
Exhibition: Reimagining Birdwood Block in History
Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre’s Incising the Matrix: If Birdwood Block exhibition showcases artist Jay Lau’s prints and installations, reimagining a parallel reality where Birdwood Block still exists.
The Met’s Global Jewellery Treasures at HKPM
Featuring 200 masterpieces from the Met, Hong Kong Palace Museum’s latest exhibition traces global jewellery across cultures and time.
Inside Eric Lai’s Tranquil State at Gallery 3812
Contemporary artist Eric Lai Wai-lam’s first Hong Kong solo exhibition invites visitors into his world of “Tranquil State” to search for peace and enjoyment.
The Power of Play: CityU Exhibition Explores the History of Games
Curated by Espen Aarseth, one of the world’s foremost experts in game studies and chair professor of game studies at CityU, The Power of Play exhibition at the university explores the essence and impact of gaming.
Weave and Shout: Release Stress Through Touch and Play at CHAT
Fresh from curating the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, CHAT chief curator Takahashi Mizuki presents a playful summer show.
Buddhist Pilgrimage: Treasures from the Tsui Art Foundation
Discover 70 Tibetan Buddhist treasures from the Tsui Art Foundation, including thangka paintings and sculptures, alongside a multimedia display on Xuanzang’s pilgrimage and Buddhism’s impact on Chinese culture.
‘What Were You Doing at 25?’ Asks Asia Art Archive Exhibition
Following its first chapter in May and June, At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II revisits artists’ formative years through archives, early works and new commissions.
Art and Milk Toast? A New Take on Hong Kong’s 3:15pm Tea Time
Celebrating art and gastronomy, Tai On Coffee & Tea Shop collaborates with food illustrator Kai collaborates and luxury hotel Cortis to present Tea Time Stories, an edible exhibition complemented by a collection of creative delicacies.
Soh Souen’s Tender Search for Life On View in Hong Kong
Held at WKM Gallery, Japanese artist Soh Souen’s first Hong Kong solo exhibition offers a wide-ranging look at the artist’s exploration of life through multimedia works spanning painting, video and installation.
Stanley Whitney: Jazz, Grids and His First Asian Solo Show
Stanley Whitney’s first solo show in Asia, Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing, surveys jazz-inflected paintings built on his signature colour grids.
Weaving New Perspectives on Borders at Blindspot Gallery
This tactile group show collects works by artists across different geographies and material practices to examine how borders are stretched, untethered and reimagined.
Tradition Renewed: Four Masters and the Possibilities of Ink Art
As part of its 45th-anniversary “Then and Now” programme, Alisan Fine Arts’ Tradition Renewed highlights four Chinese literati masters whose practices have redefined the possibilities of ink painting since the 1980s.
Nocturnal: A Group Exhibition on the Creative Power of Night
Organised by gallerist Matthew Brown, Nocturnal convenes 14 artists whose practices unfold in the hours of darkness, exploring night’s creative and introspective energies.
Wayfarer of Fire: A Promethean Group Show
Contrasting urban Hong Kong with brutal war imagery, Ellen Pau’s jolting Blue (1989–90) sits at the heart of this firy blockbuster mediation on creativity and resistance.
12 Years On, Seminal Female Ink Artists Return to Alisan
Revisiting the Jade Terrace brings together the artists from Alisan Fine Arts’ 2014 exhibition Beyond the Jade Terrace, showcasing the work of these now-major figures in contemporary ink.
Peng Kanglong: A Modern Master’s Continuous Exploration of Ink
Ink master Peng Kanglong’s latest solo show, Losing My Way to Watch the Flowers Bloom, features nearly 40 works that trace his practice from landscape to flower painting.
Lucio Fontana: Piercing Canvases of Contemporary Art, Literally
Lucio Fontana’s Spatialist revolution — from the seminal buchi (holes) to the iconic tagli (cuts) — showcases how he redefined the canvas as a dynamic field of light, gesture and infinite space.
Making It Matters: Art, Craft and Their Lasting Impact
M+’s Making It Matters explores the creative process, blending art, design and societal reflection through historic and contemporary works.
Design Ah! A Family-Friendly Exploration of the Everyday at M+
From chopsticks to toothbrushes, M+ museum’s Design Ah! exhibition encourages viewers of all ages to consider how everyday objects shape our lives.
What Does Modern Hong Kong Have in Common with Beijing’s Forbidden City?
HKPM’s new group exhibition is big on Instagram-friendly installations, while drawing thought-provoking parallels between then and now.
Heavenly Horses: 100 Masterpieces Across Time
Heavenly Horses brings together nearly 100 masterpieces to trace the evolution of Chinese classical horse painting from the 14th to the 20th centuries.