Hong Kong Book Fair Returns with Great Reads and Performances
The 30th edition features more than 680 exhibitors from 40 countries and regions, showcasing a diverse selection of books and more.
exhibition Events
AUDREY by Bob Willoughby
90 photos by American photographer Bob Willoughby (1927 – 2009) will be on show to offer an intimate look into the life and career of Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993).
Marc Newson’s Sculptural Limited Edition Furniture Puts A Fresh Spin on Chinese Cloisonné
Gagosian presents renowned Australian industrial designer Marc Newson first exhibition of limited-edition furniture in Hong Kong.
Highlights of 20th-Century Art at Hauser & Wirth
Around 200 works by some 112 artists—including Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Andy Warhol—are on show in A Luta Continua, an exhibition of the Sylvio Perlstein Collection.
Searching for the Spirit of Yau Ma Tei and North Point
The local life and historical transformations of North Point and Yau Ma Tei are documented not through the eyes of curators but students, residents and local creatives – people deeply rooted in the two old neighbourhoods.
Art of the Iron Brush: Bamboo Carvings from the Ming and Ching Dynasties
Appreciate up-close the ancient art of bamboo carving which produced brush pots, wrist rests, miniature landscapes, figurines created with the ‘iron brush’ ’—a term for knives and other carving tools used by literati to transfer their brushwork aesthetic to media such as boxwood, rhinoceros’ horns and ivory.
City Poetry: Photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze Plays With Hong Kong’s Characters
French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze set himself the task of documenting visually striking street signs, and put these photos together to create visual and linguistic poems with the help of his Hong Kong-born wife.
Pop Up Co-Art Exhibition across 4 Floors of Art Space
Appreciate art pieces by The Hong Kong Arts Collective, HKwalls & The Collective across 4 floors of the Nate Studio.
China’s Underground Nightclub Life Through the Lens of Sergey Melnitchenko
Featuring 88 photos by young Ukrainian photographer Sergey Melnitchenko, this exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into the world of nightclub employees and the everyday lives of common people in China.
24 Historic Buildings Open Their Doors to the Public
This is a unique opportunity to take a peek inside 24 declared monuments and graded historic buildings that were previously, or are still, used as living quarters.
Remnants and Requiem: A Phantasmagoria of War Memories
The exhibition by Nobel Peace Prize-commissioned photographer Sim Chi Yin – featuring ethereal landscapes of an undeclared war – takes viewers on a cinematic journey through traces of hidden histories, evoked by long-buried memories of the twelve-year conflict between the British colonial government and the resistance led by the Malayan leftists (from 1948 to 1960).
Singing the Body Electric: The Art of Body and Desire
Inspired by Walt Whitman’s ecstatic and politically nuanced poem “I Sing the Body Electric” from Leaves of Grass (1855), the group exhibition showcases works from across various media that celebrate and complicate the themes of the body and desire, while exploring physicality and identity in the context of the synthetic and alienating nature of a highly digitised world.
A Centenary Celebration for Post-War Abstraction Master Pierre Soulages
This is a unique opportunity to see six masterworks by “the painter of black” and sculptor Pierre Soulages, one of France’s most important artists whose career spans over seven decades.
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: The Art of Ornamentation in Japan and China
Featuring over 180 Japanese objects and more than 50 objects from the museum’s classical Ming and Qing dynasties furniture collection, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into two Asian superpowers’ differing yet equally lavish arts and crafts movements during the 17th to 19th century.
Madsaki: Mad for Warhol, Cinema and Cartoon
Japanese artist Madsaki’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong showcases his iconic Warhol, Movie and Character series depicting popular cartoons.
Dispersal: An Exhibition That Makes Sense of Global Information Saturation
London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh’s (b. 1985, Malaysia) new paintings, sculpture, and installation offer insight into her assessment of the systems—from global finance and media, to more organic and aesthetic frameworks—by which the world makes meaning, assign worth, and construct personal identity and culture.
Harland Miller: Letters as Paintings
Featuring new paintings, drawings and prints, the Yorkshire artist and writer’s (b. 1964) first exhibition in Hong Kong foregrounds the exploration of text, image and the language of painting within his work.
From Paris to Venice: A Photographic Journey with Willy Ronis
Willy Ronis (1910 – 2009), one of the most internationally renowned French photographers, is honoured with an exhibition that brings together his famous masterworks and lesser-known shots.
TECH-iNK Garden: Victor Wong x A.I. Gemini
The world’s first TECH-iNK artist A.I. Gemini – programmed with artificial intelligence – paints unique Chinese landscapes.
McArthur Binion in Hong Kong
Appreciate up-close new works by the 72-year-old American artist whose deceptively simple practice incorporates interwoven personal memories with historical recollections of America.
Influential Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami Takes over Tai Kwun
Step into the wondrous world of Japanese star artist Takashi Murakami at MURAKAMI vs MURAKAMI, a comprehensive and immersive survey exhibition featuring over 60 paintings and sculptures, video works, costume designs, and much more.
Bicycle Thieves: An Artistic Look at Social Structures
Paying tribute to the eponymous Italian neorealist film the group exhibition extends the film’s concern to a contemporary context and highlights individuals’ precarious status within increasingly tricky relations to various institutions and systems.
Vanni Cuoghi: The Eye of the Storm
Italian artist Vanni Cuoghi’s (b. 1966) semi-autobiographical exhibition features a series of dioramas inspired by the devastation he witnessed in Hong Kong, when Typhoon Hato struck during a visit in 2017.
Out for Summer: A Painting Excursion
The concise exploration of the practice of painting is presented through the lens of nostalgia, a celebration of the quotidian, and of the fleeting by artists Qian Jiahua (b. 1987, Shanghai), Guo Hongwei (b. 1982, Beijing), and Lin Yi-Hsuan (b. 1985, Taiwan).
de Sarthe Artist Turns Gallery Into Excavation Site
The art gallery is transformed into an excavation site as de Sarthe residence artist Wing Po So (b. 1985, Hong Kong) engages human senses through textures and smells.
Hidden Forest Sparks Up This Summer with An Array of Local Ecology Programmes
The summer arts and culture project offers a line-up of events, programs and experiences for all ages – all centring on the diverse local ecology to be explored this summer.
100 British Museum Treasures Are Now in Hong Kong
history - art - ceramic - classic - conservation - contemporary dance - craft - exhibition - family - fine art - lecture - talk
Following BBC’s smash radio/podcast program A History of the World in 100 Objects, the British Museum is lending Hong Kong the featured rare treasures that traces human power, belief, art, trading and technology from 2 million years ago to the present.
Beijing Art District Icon Debuts A Painting Exhibition in Hong Kong
The daughter of established Cantonese painter and sculptor Lin Yu Hao showcases her recent works that defy the rigidity of realistic paintings and traditional paradigms.
Form Colour Action: Sketching Lee Wen’s Life of Art
Form Colour Action pays tribute to pioneering Singaporean performance artist Lee Wen, who passed away in March this year, through a show of his never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and notes dating from 1978 to 2014.
Reconstruct: Reassembling Photographs through Analogues and the Digital
Over 20 works from Alexis Ip’s ‘3D Neon Fantasies’ (further crafted from the original works of Keith Macgregor) and Stefan Irvine’s “The Last Tong Lau” (made in collaboration with digital artist Jörg Dietrich) are showcased in a unique Hong Kong-centric duo exhibition.
Tai Kwun 101: Behind the Gates of Hong Kong’s Central Police Station
history - architecture - conservation - exhibition - installation - lecture - talk - video - workshop
101 objects used by prisoners, judges, the police force and many more police station stakeholders are displayed in this thematic exhibition that chronicles a variety of stories about work and life in this historic compound over time.
Becoming Jane Goodall: Inspiring a Shared Planet
Learn about leading environmentalist and primatologist Dr Jane Goodall’s conservation work, her scientific discoveries, the challenges that threaten the survival of wildlife, and how you contribute to nature conservation at this special exhibition.
Para Site Kickstarts the Summer with an Array of Exciting Programmes
The pioneering art space‘s summer events spotlight young talent from across the region with a series of initiatives, ranging from exhibitions and workshops to symposiums.
Gathering Delights: Weaving Art and Politics into Textile by N S Harsha
Contemporary Indian artist N S Harsha’s (b. 1969, Mysuru) 20 works, spanning over 20 years of his career, showcase his expansive artistic practice of paintings and sculptures that explore how nature stimulates creative thinking and artistic forms.
What Happened Inside Hong Kong’s Spinning Factory?
Featuring historic photos, vintage cotton products, as well as archival documents and objects, this exhibition unravels the rich history of Hong Kong’s textile industry.
Curious Crosses from the Church of the East
This exhibit offers a curious window into the religious iconography of the Church of the East, showcasing ancient Nestorian crosses ( 12th-13th centuries) found in north-west China.
