This Week

Did you know there were Scottish taipans in 19th‑century Hong Kong? In his upcoming talk, multidisciplinary planner Alan Macdonald charts how these traders transformed the city from a restricted outpost into a mercantile society.

NYC jazz stalwart Ari Hoenig has been hailed as a pioneer of “melodic drumming” — find out what that means for yourself. 

The creative team behind HKB’s smash Butterfly Lovers adaptation turn to the mystery of the Silk Road with their latest homegrown production, a world premiere that opens the company’s 2026/27 season.

CUHK Art Museum’s The Qianlong Emperor reconstructs Qing court art through the Huaihaitang Collection and rare imperial workshop archives.

In an age where AI technology never ceases to advance, M+ Cinema fittingly probes the idea of human consciousness and the soul, with film screenings of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.

This year, Macau’s Lion Dance Festival returns with a highlight exhibition bringing together four lion dance inheritors from different regions and five contemporary cross-media artists.

Discover The Little Prince and the Pilot, an intimate journey on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s life, imagination and legacy.

Chung Yeung Festival falls on 18 October this year. On this day, many Hong Kong people take the chance to customarily hike and visit the cemeteries to clean the graves of their ancestors.

Featuring 200 masterpieces from the Met, Hong Kong Palace Museum’s latest exhibition traces global jewellery across cultures and time.

Two BBC New Generation Artists winners unite to present a bold programme of music for voice and guitar, inspired by Virginnia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece.

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.

What does post-rock music, Ennio Morricone soundtracks, the films of Gabriel Axel, and the canvases of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin have in common? They all fed this artist’s vision.

After taking a year off in 2025, Hong Kong Arts Centre’s IFVA returns with a bumper edition of short films to mark its 30th anniversary.

Fresh from curating the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, CHAT chief curator Takahashi Mizuki presents a playful summer show.

Artist, illustator and printmaker June Hon finds serenity and nonchalence amid the bustle in her soothing, whimiscal Hong Kong illustrations.

Design to Bridge uses the bridge as metaphor to connect heritage with innovation through immersive, multi-sensory works by various design studios like Noodo Lab and Mososisi.

Celebrating Kat O’s once-in-a-decade Jiao Festival, an art festival welcomes villagers and visitors with a series of events, from art installations and documentary screening to guided tours around the island.

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.

Nobody is truly free from regret. An interactive group exhibition and performance series at Heath in Tsim Sha Shui offers a chance to share, mourn, rebuild, and move on.

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.

Canton porcelain master Cheung Kam-ping joins hand with disciples to present an exhibition celebrating the exquisite artistry of this intangible cultural heritage.

The first Iraqi movie to win an award at Cannes Film Festival, The President’s Cake is an intimate portrait of a young girl’s efforts to bake Saddam Hussein a birthday cake amid the horrors of the Gulf War.

Chiu Wei-hsiang’s debut solo exhibition Toil and Soil draws on his childhood memories of labour and caregiving, reflecting on the essence of life.

Japanese pop artist Jamstyle Jaro brings his beloved cartoon children, known for their mischievous expressions and large eyes, to town.

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.

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.

Artist Packy Lai uses dark humour to confront Taoist gods for the life that has seemingly been decided for us.

This tactile group show collects works by artists across different geographies and material practices to examine how borders are stretched, untethered and reimagined.

Stanley Whitney’s first solo show in Asia, Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing, surveys jazz-inflected paintings built on his signature colour grids.

Step aside from the concrete jungle and you’ll quickly see another side to Hong Kong: a dedicated community of growers and food artisans. Taste of Terroir explores the connection between the land, heritage and food.

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. 

Celebrated gallery Ora-Ora celebrates its 20th anniversary by collaborating with curator Cyrus Lamprecht — an artistic leap of faith that resonates with this group show’s ambiguous themes.

Organised by gallerist Matthew Brown, Nocturnal convenes 14 artists whose practices unfold in the hours of darkness, exploring night’s creative and introspective energies.

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.

The Central gallery presents What Remains to Be Seen, a solo exhibition by Myonghi Kang featuring a selection of the South Korean artist’s recent significant works.

At DX design hub, two exhibitions explore how Hong Kong’s cultural heritage is remembered, reimagined and experienced through design, food and everyday life.

The world around us can greatly inspire us. Kwong Wing-kwan uses shifting clouds, sunsets and psychological landscapes to create her latest oil painting series.

This compelling exhibition traces the recent art history of Vietnam, from École des Beaux-Arts pioneers to lacquer and silk masters, plus ancient Cham sculpture.

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.

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.

The arthouse king is back with what is shaping up to be another late-career, meditative masterpiece; any similarity to actual events is strictly a misfortune.

The Hong Kong Design Institute’s new exhibition, Kwan Kwa: Chinese Wedding Costume Reimagined, celebrates the iconic traditional Chinese wedding costume through historic and innovative works.

Curated by Mankit Lai and featuring 13 Asian artists, award-winning group show Garden Whisperers reimagines Hong Kong as a night garden of coexistence.

Renaud Capuçon, Jan Lisiecki and Bomsori lead a raft of superstar soloists coming to Hong Kong for the Great Music 2026 classical music concert series.

Hong Kong’s beloved arthouse cinema Broadway Cinematheque celebrates its 30th anniversary with a commemorative programme spotlighting 30 old favourites, 10 recent festival hits, and the premieres of three notable new Hong Kong movies

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.

JCCAC’s monthly Saturday Film series continues its theme on “life,” inviting viewers into a dialogue about family, human bonds and self-reconstruction.

HKDC’s Great Design Lives Here campaign explores Sham Shui Po through an eclectic mix of showcases, installations and community design.

M+’s Making It Matters explores the creative process, blending art, design and societal reflection through historic and contemporary works.

M+ marks its fifth anniversary with Herzog & de Meuron: In Focus, a showcase of the world-renowned firm’s donated architectural materials and China projects.

Anne Imhof’s first major solo exhibition in Asia, House of Swans, stages a heroine’s struggle toward love through evocative installation, sound and live performances.

From chopsticks to toothbrushes, M+ museum’s Design Ah! exhibition encourages viewers of all ages to consider how everyday objects shape our lives.

Featuring 40 art pieces, Sin Sin Man’s solo exhibition celebrates her 70th birthday and the 23rd anniversary of Sin Sin Fine Art, the first gallery in Hong Kong dedicated to contemporary Indonesian art.

CHAT’s family exhibition Snuggle and Stitch explores how textiles shape childhood in Hong Kong, weaving together memory, play and material care.

HKPM’s new group exhibition is big on Instagram-friendly installations, while drawing thought-provoking parallels between then and now.

The Korean craze isn’t going away any time soon. In its 16th edition, Festive Korea 2026 returns with over 30 programmes spanning visual art, film, performance and food across Hong Kong.

Heavenly Horses brings together nearly 100 masterpieces to trace the evolution of Chinese classical horse painting from the 14th to the 20th centuries.

The Hong Kong Film Archive turns 25 with a blockbuster exhibition celebrating the city’s rich movie heritage.

Echoes of Time traces Hong Kong’s transformation through historic photographs, interactive exhibits and visions for a sustainable future.

WoW! Hong Kong Design Series II – East‑West Design Reflections traces Ming furniture’s legacy and its dialogue with modern design.

Leslie Cheung would’ve turned 70 this year. Celebrate Gor-gor’s legacy through over 300 exhibits and free screenings, honouring the global icon’s impact in music, fashion and film.

A new show drawn from the M+ Sigg Collection traces emotional landscapes in contemporary Chinese art, reflecting how artists navigated rapid transformation between the 1990s and 2010s.

Liang Yi Museum’s Furnishing the Forbidden: Throne, Study and Bedchamber highlights Qing imperial life through 90 treasures highlighting the private worlds of the emperor, scholar and sonsort.

Mini-figures in Paintings spotlights tiny figures in traditional Chinese landscape paintings from the Chih Lo Lou Collection, revealing how they embody the painter’s intent and animate vast natural scenes.

Discover master painter Wu Guanzhong’s lifelong journey from Jiangnan to the wider world through sketches, ink and oil paintings that reveal his path toward modern abstraction.

Discover over 150 exquisite Chinese folding fans from the HKMoA’s Jingguanlou Collection, complemented by Chinese paintings from the museum’s holdings in the Fantastic Breeze exhibition.

The Kowloon Walled City: A Cinematic Journey exhibition brings the 1980s Walled City back to life through immersive movie sets from the award-winning 2024 film Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.

Discover 600 years of global exchange through Forbidden City treasures, from Zheng He’s voyages to Qing court European clocks.

Discover Hong Kong’s textile legacy through archival imagery, vintage cotton artefacts and hands-on spinning experiences inside a former factory space.

Sound artist Janet Cardiff’s acclaimed The Forty Part Motet reworks a 16th-century choral composition, Spem in Alium, via 40 individually recorded Salisbury Cathedral Choir voices.

Trace Hong Kong’s layered past through immersive scenes and over 2,800 artefacts, from ancient roots to its rise as a global city.

A new heritage exhibition at Tai Kwun’s F Hall reveals untold stories of Vietnamese boat people and migrants through rare photos and a powerful mural designed by artist Eric Okdeh.