It’s Complicated: French Artist Claire Tabouret Paints Conflicted Couples
Borrowing art-historical icons and internet snapshots, Claire Tabouret visualises love in all its ambiguity, complexity and volatility in her first Hong Kong solo exhibition.
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Dreamscape: An Artistic Escape from Reality
Four artists from Hong Kong and China seek different means to escape from reality through evocative works across media.
West Lake in All Its Glory: A Thousand Years of Woodblock Printing
HKU University Museum’s West Lake Panorama exhibition features the awe-inspiring scenery of Hangzhou’s West Lake area as immortalised in ancient and contemporary woodblock prints.
See Works By Some of the World’s Best Photographers at ‘Beyond Fashion’
Photography and video exhibition Beyond Fashion brings together more than 100 of the finest works made by over 40 important fashion photographers.
Gilded Glory: A Comprehensive Display of Chaozhou Woodcarving’s Splendour
120 sets of exquisite gilded wood furniture pieces borrowed from Guangdong province, the Mecca of this ancient craft, will be on display at the Hong Kong Museum of History.
How do Artists from Inner Mongolia See Hong Kong?
See Hong Kong’s cityscape through the eyes of artists from Inner Mongolia, and the Inner Mongolian deserts and meadows from Hong Kong artists’ points of view at this special exhibition.
Ink and Wood: Modern Chinese Paintings in the Scholar’s Studio
This exhibition juxtaposes two distinct Chinese art disciplines—modern ink painting and antique furniture—within recreated classic Chinese scholar’s studios.
Hong Kong’s Newly Declared Monuments in Pictures
Curated by Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, this photography exhibition documents and introduces three newly declared monuments in Hong Kong.
Who Is Alan Chan?
Hong Kong creative Alan Chan‘s first retrospective exhibition offers a chronological overview of his best personal works across advertising, design and branding, created between the 1960s and today.
Someone Lived Here: An Exhibition of @des.lo’s Cyberpunk Hong Kong Renderings
Inspired by the cyberpunk aesthetic of movies such as Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Akira, Desmond Lo‘s creations show a Hong Kong that is at once familiar yet distant.
Borrowed Landscapes: Chinese Post-Pop Art Painter Nan Qi’s First Hong Kong Exhibition
The artist, who is famed for his three-dimensional ink art created with dots and reinterpretation of Chinese cultural icons, exhibits his innovative oeuvre in Hong Kong.
Burma at a Glance: ‘Bespoke’ and ‘Skirting the Issue’
Acclaimed Burmese artist Htein Lin’s (b. 1966) first solo exhibition in Hong Kong will showcase both the modern and traditional sides of his multifaceted home country.
Meet Liu Jipiao, the Father of Chinese Art Deco
Jennifer Wong, the granddaughter of the first Chinese architect to create a modern design with a distinctive Chinese aesthetic, will speak about her grandfather’s life and career.
Irving Penn, The Man Who Reinvented Fashion Photography
The first solo exhibition in Hong Kong dedicated to Vogue photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) brings together a selection of his most iconic works in fashion photography, portraiture, nudes, and still life, as well as platinum prints and paintings.
Tick Tock: Sam Cheng’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’-like Ink Paintings
Emerging local ink painting artist Sam Cheng capture life’s tiny details in her innovative, surreal ink artworks that fuse tradition with modernisation.
A Milestone Exhibition for One of Hong Kong’s Most Important Ink Art Groups
Hong Kong’s longest-running contemporary art gallery pays homage to local ink art pioneers One Art Group in an exhibition encompassing iconic works by 10 artists of different styles.
Shek-O Sublime: A Multi-Perspective Exhibition on Hong Kong’s Popular Beachside Village
24 artists—young and old, emerging and established—share their views on the quaint beachside village in a new exhibition at Gallery EXIT.
Crossing The Line: Marcel Dzama’s Hong Kong-Inspired Imagery
Horse-racing leaflets, 1960s and 70s dance magazines and lyrics from Hong Kong singer Margaret Lee’s 1960s album covers found their way into works by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama.
Hong Kong Artist Isaac Chong Wai Asks “Is the World Your Friend?”
Inspired by the personal experience of being attacked by a stranger, this exhibition by Berlin-based Hong Kong artist Isaac Chong (b. 1990), address themes of incarceration, victimisation, border, migration, oppression and politics of space.
Sanctuary: The Esoteric and Eclectic World of Photographer Roe Ethridge
Bringing together the divergent subjects and styles within Roe Ethridge’s practice—such as commercial photography, fine art and stock imagery—this photography exhibition underscores a mixing of categories that is to be embraced and protected.
We Travel In Our Minds: The Real Meets the Imaginary at Duddell’s
Duddell’s library is transformed into a stage for 2000-year-old sculptural objects, which are juxtaposed with surreal, site-specific wall drawings by American artist Ethan Murrow (b. 1975).
FROM ABBA TO ZAPPA: 1970s Rock Legends Captured by Gijsbert Hanekroot
Curated by Blue Lotus Gallery, this is the first Hong Kong exhibition for Dutch rock photographer Gijsbert Hanekroot, who captured legends such as David Bowie, Patti Smith, Mick Jagger, and John Lennon—to name but a few—in their prime.
Rhythm and Senses: An Exploration of ‘Being’ in the Digital Age
Chinese artist Tao Hui explores how we live and relate to each other in light of increased digitisation through video and installation art.
The Garden of Winter Light: Art on the Interface Between Nature and Culture
This eclectic exhibition brings together artworks spanning decades and diverse geographies, from early 1990s Taiwan to present-day Hong Kong, Mongolia, Ghana and elsewhere.
Night and Day: Matthew Wong’s ‘Imagined Landscapes’
Chinese painter Matthew Wong captures imagined landscapes by day and their night counterparts in intuitive large-scale oil paintings, which fuse Chinese and Western art traditions.
Gilbert & George’s ‘The Beard Pictures’
Famed art duo Gilbert & George provoke thoughts on modern society with their satirical, in-your-face ‘beard pictures’.
Up Close and Personal: Ellen Altfest’s Art of the Senses
New York-born artist Ellen Altfest magnifies minute and inconspicuous details of greenery, fabrics and the male body to create sensuous art.
T’ang Boogie: Film D’Artiste and Featured Rare Paintings
The second Hong Kong solo exhibition for T’ang Haywen (1927-1991), one of the three most important Chinese post-war artists from the French diaspora, features his avant-garde film and rare paintings used in this work.
Between Spirit and Magic: A Celebration of Feminist Art
Between Spirit and Magic brings together sculptures and two-dimensional works by six US-based artists who trace their origins to India, Pakistan and Iran.
British Painter Jack Penny’s Fun and Evocative ‘Mental Impressions’
Emerging artist Jack Penny’s second solo exhibition features exuberant, often tongue-in-cheek observations inspired by his travels and latest personal experiences.
+852: Hong Kong Through the Eyes of Seven Artists
Bringing together distinctive, accessible artworks in a variety of media by seven artists from different countries, +852 is a visual love letter to Hong Kong.
A Look Inside Hong Kong’s Ceramic History
Discover Hong Kong’s rich porcelain-making history in the 20th century through a showcase of exquisite porcelain designs, historical photos, manuscripts, hand-drawn designs, pigments and tools.
Hong Kong Artist Ng Lung Wai Folds Paint
Acclaimed local artist Ng Lung Wai creates visually stunning and culturally rich works that feature miniature boats folded out of paint.
Nature in Ink and Brush: The Art of Ou Da Wei
Stunning black-and-white landscape paintings, calligraphy works, seal carvings and classical poetry by renowned contemporary ink artist Ou Da-wei are on show at the Sun Museum.
Media in Motion: A Group Show of Nam June Paik and Other Contemporary Artists
Seven works by artists from China, Thailand, Korea, and Argentina are brought together to showcase the practical uses and creative potentials of new media in the digital age.
Treasures of Time: The Science, History and Art behind 400 Years of Timekeeping
Offering insight into the history of timekeeping, 120 historical timepieces from China and Europe are exhibited alongside ancient Chinese instruments and contemporary time measuring tools at the Hong Kong Science Museum.
When The Eagle Met the Dragon: The History of Early Sino-American Trade
Coinciding with today’s Sino-U.S. trade war, Hong Kong Maritime Museum’s new special exhibition offers visitors a comprehensive look at the commercial and political ties from 1784 to 1900 between these two superpowers.
Douce d’Ivry’s Colourful and Quirky Hong Kong
In her first solo exhibition, French fashion and street photographer Douce d’Ivry offers a dreamy and colourful facet of Hong Kong.
Contagious Cities: ‘Far away, Too Close’ Explores Hong Kong’s Pandemics History
Local arts, culture and heritage organisations tell stimulating stories of the city’s history of epidemics and its social impact, tracing back from the 19th century plague to the SARS outbreak in 2003.
When Two Great Sculptors Meet to Explore Historical Consciousness – Noguchi for Danh Vo
Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint explores new art and design possibilities as Danh Vo offers a new reading on celebrated modern sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s works.
