Hong Kong Art Month 2026: What Not To Miss

It’s hard to decide what to do in March — after all, it’s Hong Kong’s Art Month, when the city transforms into a buzzing hive of creative energy. There are local and international art fairs, exhibitions and special events drawing artists, collectors and audiences from around the world. While marquee fairs like Art Basel and Art Central draw much of the spotlight, the month’s cultural energy extends far beyond, into nearly every corner of the city.

From Hong Kong artists spotlighting local creative communities — such as the career stories of eight local retired master printers and writers including Zolima contributor Eva Wong Yi — to internationally renowned photographer Greg Girard’s evocative works of modern Hong Kong and Tokyo and Serakai Studio’s CERTAINLY group exhibition exploring the beauty of uncertainty through multidisciplinary artworks, we’ve narrowed things down for you. 

Contemplative visions

Three years after her last exhibition at Grotto Fine Art, local painter Bouie Choi returns with Those warm and unwavering existences, a new series of paintings on wood curated by Joyce Wong Hei‑ting. Drawing on fragments of biography, dreams and everyday life, the works explore kinship, safety and comfort through open‑ended narratives shaped by wood grain and washes of colour, where surreal scenes of refuge sit alongside moments of quiet uncertainty (14 March to 25 April at Grotto Fine Art). 

Don’t miss the inaugural exhibition at Serakai Studio’s new space, Gold. Curated by studio co‑founder and curatorial director Tobias Berger (formerly of Tai Kwun), CERTAINLY takes inspiration from artist-composer La Monte Young’s 1960 instruction piece “Composition 1960 #10.” Featuring artists such as Lousy, Santiago Sierra and Shinro Ohtake, the show reflects on uncertainty in artistic practice and everyday life, exploring how creative possibilities emerge when systems and expectations begin to fracture (20 March to 3 May at Gold). 

During Art Basel Hong Kong, the gallery will extend its hours, opening daily from now until 29 March, from 10:00 to 18:00.

With creativity permeating the city, the exchange of ideas is palpable. At Current Plans, it takes on a playful edge. The group exhibition Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant explores play as a shared language across Italy and Hong Kong, inspired by artist Roberto Fassone’s poetic installation of imagined scenarios — ranging from absurd to poignant and suspended throughout the space.

Through games, algorithms and social structures, artists probe how to articulate what cannot be said. Highlights include visual artist Adele Dipasquale’s Lose Voice Toolkit, which reclaims non-verbal communication as an act of rebellion and Tap Chan’s fragile sculptural systems that unravel ideas of order and navigation, among others. The exhibition is part of curator and PhD researcher Giulia Pollicita’s Italy–Hong Kong Express research project (21 March to 23 May at Current Plans).

Discovering local heritage

CHAT’s Artefacts of ‘Blue’ revives indanthrene blue — the world’s first synthetic vat dye, immortalised by Miss Happiness in iconic 1930s ads. Its colour captured China’s rush toward progress, dyeing school uniforms and institutional wear during the 1930s and 1940s. More than pigment, it also embodied speed and modernity — pioneering a new aesthetic that still resonates (21 March to 28 June at CHAT). 

Following their exhibition last year, Print Art Contemporary returns with Beyond the Ordinary – Contemporary Book Art at PMQ, celebrating the creative voices behind Hong Kong’s movable type printing tradition. Through recorded oral histories, eight retired master printers share the four essential processes of the craft — typesetting, printing, trimming and binding — recognised as part of the city’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Contemporary artists and writers like Zolima CityMag contributor Eva Wong Yi respond with experimental works that expand the idea of the book beyond paper and binding (21 March to 30 September at PMQ).

A guided tour and letterpress printing workshop, conducted in Cantonese, will take place on 28 March at 15:00.

Greg Girard’s HKG–TYO 1974–2023 explores the parallel evolution of Hong Kong and Tokyo through atmospheric photographs spanning nearly five decades. Drawn to often overlooked corners of urban life, Girard captures the vulnerability, grit and wonder of two cities undergoing profound transformation during their post‑industrial boom years. 

The exhibition moves between neon‑lit Tokyo streets and Hong Kong’s dense urban fabric, with highlights including his iconic documentation of Kowloon Walled City and cinematic moments such as a Cathay Pacific jet skimming above the city against Lion Rock. (21 March to 23 May at WKM Gallery).

In conjunction with Art Basel Hong Kong, special opening hours will run from now until 28 March, between 11:00 and 19:00.

Spotlighting Hong Kong artists

Apart from Art Basel and Art Central, there’s an upcoming crop of art fairs including Pavilion and Collect Hong Kong. This year’s edition of Collect Hong Kong returns with a record number of over 450 artworks, selected from 1,257 submissions submitted by 530 local artists. 

Organised by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and curated by acclaimed art consultant Gary Mok Wai‑hong, it brings together emerging talents and established figures across four thematic zones: Collectors’ Choice, Esteemed Circle, Jury’s Choice and Collective Horizons. Featured esteemed artists include Mok Yat-san, Au Yeung Nai-chim, Freeman Lau and more, alongside treasured masterpieces by legendary figures such as Luis Chan and Irene Chou (21 to 29 March at Hong Kong Arts Centre).