Hong Kong Artist Ng Lung Wai Folds Paint
Acclaimed local artist Ng Lung Wai creates visually arresting and culturally rich works that feature miniature boats folded out of paint.
exhibition Events
Art Gallery Night 2019
32 galleries around town will open their doors for a fun evening of special exhibitions and events.
Photographer Robert I. Ferguson Turns His Lens on Hong Kong’s Wildlife
Featuring 90 arresting pictures of around 85 different local species, this exhibition is an opportunity to discover some of the many animals in the city.
Celebrate All Things Art on South Island Art Day
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Attend exhibition openings and art talks, meet local and international artists, discover interactive installations, and more at this immersive and inclusive event.
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.
Between Waiting And Resisting: A Video Installation on Nostalgia and Novelty
In this thought-provoking video installation, artist Au Man Kit explores the tension between nostalgia and novelty in Hong Kong, as well as a personal, conflicting longing for both comfort and adventure.
Rare Works by Contemporary Taiwan-born Minimalist Artist Richard Lin
30 landscape paintings by Richard Lin (1933-2011), the first Chinese artist ever to feature at the leading documenta show, are on show at Bonhams’ Hong Kong Gallery.
The HKDI Honours Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s Oscar-Winning Art Director Tim Yip
Oscar-winning Hong Kong art director and designer Tim Yip’s multidisciplinary works and his collaborations with some of the world’s best filmmakers are brought to life in an exhibition organised by the Hong Kong Design Institute.
Art Central 2019, Where There’s Art for All
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107 leading galleries from 22 countries will touch down in Hong Kong for a five-day programme that includes performance art, experimental film, large scale installations and engaging talks.
Art Basel Hong Kong 2019
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Art Basel, the biggest event in Hong Kong’s increasingly rich art calendar, with 242 leading galleries from across continents coming together, plays host to talks and installations.
Cuts in Synchronicity: Paintings by Magical Realism Artist Yeung Tong Lung
This is a 2018 retrospective exhibition of artist Yeung Tong Lung, who cleverly dissects and reassembles daily life in Hong Kong through oil paintings.
A One-Day Art Journey at the Hong Kong Arts Centre
Enjoy 24 hours of visual art exhibitions, film screenings, music and theatre performances, tarot readings, workshops, guided tours, games, chance meetings and relaxing chats at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
Street Art Festival HKwalls Goes to Wan Chai
The 6th edition of HKwalls sees local and international artist painting street murals in Wan Chai, as well as fun workshops, parties and pop-up shows.
Exit Strategies: An Artistic Escape from the City’s Confinements
Ranging from installation, video, sculpture, photography and sound, Exit Strategies is a site-specific art experience that explores notions of psychological escapism experienced in response to the hustle and bustle of our city.
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.
Yoichiro Nishimura’s Camera-less Photography
Curated by Nishimura himself, this exhibition will see luminous images of flowers created through a pioneering technique called ‘scangram’, as well as film photos that capture the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
Pictures of Persuasion: An Exhibition of Vintage Hong Kong Travel Posters
A comprehensive collection of vintage Hong Kong travel posters, featuring more than 100 posters printed between 1930s and 1982, is on display at the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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.
Photographer Chan Dick Takes Us On A Mesmerising Journey Through Our Body
Following the success of his Chai Wan Fire Station series, Hong Kong photographer Chan Dick returns with a new project in which he explores beauty and the wonder of life.
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.
Public Private Art: 5th Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration
Explore the active and diverse approaches to contemporary art and collections in China through the distinctive characteristics of collections, archives and collectors in this activity-packed exhibition.
From Fake News to Violence: Adel Abdessemed’s ‘Unlock’
Adel Abdessemed, considered as one of the most emblematic artists of his generation, addresses themes of fake news, the violence of men, privacy and more in his first Hong Kong exhibition.
Following the Imagined: Tung Wing Hong’s Kinetic Sculptures
Consisting of 5 sets of artworks combining elements of performances, moving image and mechanical motions, Following the Imaged is a poetic journey composed of seamless loops of videos and delicate motion of kinetic structures.
Performing Society: The Violence of Gender
Through a rich array of works by artists across media, the exhibition The Violence of Gender contests the symbolic castration of women and reclaims the abilities fundamentally denied them.
Artist Duo Elmgreen & Dragset Turns a Gallery Into an Abandoned Boiler Room
Continuing their practice of altering art spaces into other kinds of environments, Elmgreen & Dragset once again turn the white cube into a location not normally frequented by fine art audiences, this time engaging with the context of Hong Kong.
Late Legendary Photographer Fan Ho’s ‘Portrait of Hong Kong’
40 works by renowned and beloved photographer Fan Ho — including some rare vintage pieces — depicting the rugged street scenes of old Hong Kong will be on show at Blue Lotus Gallery.
‘Digital Zoo’ by Spanish Street Artist Okuda San Miguel
Celebrated artist Okuda San Miguel’s upcoming solo exhibition will depict a wide variety of animals — including Asian wildlife as a tribute to his first exhibition in the region — in his signature geometric, colourful style.
Visions in Motion: Dialogues Across Media and Generations
Op and Kinetic works by 95-year-old Franco-Venezuelan master Carlos Cruz-Diez are exhibited alongside fluid paintings and sculptures by the next generation of contemporary artists.
Edge of Sea and Sky: Yeh Shih-Chiang’s Ethereal Art
Hanart TZ Gallery honours late Taiwanese master artist Yeh Shih-Chiang (1926-2012) with a retrospective of over 30 oil paintings and a performance of a musical production inspired by one of his calligraphy pieces.
Cityscape in Sight and Sound: A Cinematic Journey Through Old Hong Kong
Offering a window into a Hong Kong long vanished or forgotten, this special exhibition features several hundred scenes—spanning the late 19th Century to the 1960s—that were filmed around town.
Sign City: A Fresh Take on Hong Kong’s Disappearing Signscape
Created by architects and @streetsignhk co-founders Ken Fung and Kevin Mak, PLAY to Proliferate: Sign City is an interactive and multifaceted exhibition that highlights the significance of Hong Kong’s signboards.
My Own Voice Wakes Me Up: A Retrospective For Louise Bourgeois
Fabric sculptures, red gouaches, rarely exhibited holograms and other works will be featured in the first Hong Kong exhibition for Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Multimedia Artist XU ZHEN® Presents ‘The Glorious’
Chinese artist XU ZHEN® juxtaposes classical elements of civilisation throughout human history to show a host of issues—the value of art, clashes of culture, geopolitics—in a different light.
Saan Dung Gei: A Hong Kong Artist’s Allegorical Train Ride
An anxiety-inducing train ride from Hong Kong to Beijing inspired local artist Lam Tung-pang to put together a three-dimensional medley of paintings, installations, video sculptures, kinetic projection, and found objects.
A Celebration For New Ink Art PIoneer Lui Shou Kwan
In honour of what would have been Guangzhou-born Hong Kong artist Lui Shou Kwan’s hundredth birthday, 22 of his paintings—many of which have never been published—are on show at Alisan Fine Arts.
Uncanny Valley: David Altmejd’s “Vibrating Man” Solo Exhibition
Canadian artist David Altmejd redefines beauty through his grotesque, uncanny and thought-provoking sculpted heads made from mundane objects.
In Relation: Renowned Artist Bernar Venet’s Art Performance and Exhibition
Celebrated French artist and sculptor Bernar Venet examines and redefines the relationships between performance, sculpture and painting; each work presented will be created on-site at a series of special performances in the de Sarthe space.
