Beethoven’s “Pastoral” symphony offers a heart-warming walk in the park, while a Strauss suite mines depths of despair and obsession.

Cathay Pacific captain Mawgan Grace drove a 1957 Land Rover from the United Kingdom to South Africa via 18 countries, raising awareness for African wildlife conservation.

Don’t miss this rare, intimate performance by one of the UK underground’s most compelling voices.

Renowned artist and scholar Gu Yue’s Boundaries explores divisions as dynamic spaces for connection across cultures, media and histories.

A slew of exhibition openings, plus talks and workshops, hosted over three weekends at galleries across the artsy neighbourhoods Wong Chuk Hang and Tin Wan.

Aboard the iconic Star Ferry, four Hong Kong artists use light- and moving-image works to reframe the daily harbour crossing as a space for collective memory and reflection.

Better Together traces Hong Kong film through the ethos of “partnering up,” where teamwork shapes cinematic spectacle and cultural identity.

As the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s flagship exhibition, Collaboration in Collision brings together seven artists and collectives to transform the conventional gallery into an interactive space for dialogue.

The 37th Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival presents its largest programme yet, with 37 queer feature movies and 38 shorts exploring LGBTQ+ diverse narratives.

This September, Tai Kwun’s Chilled Steps joins forces with First Half Arts in Concept to present Boundless Soundscapes, a three-day mini music festival bringing American jazz together with global musical traditions, from Gypsy swing to Latin rhythms.

The M+ Cinema Summer Edition spotlights Hollywood classics from Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg alongside Andy Warhol’s experimental “slow cinema.”

The International Booker-winning author talks about creativity and inspiration at an intimate fireside chat.

Did you know that Hong Kong has over 200 spider species? In his talk, ecologist Marco Chan reveals his thrilling field encounters and the different behaviours of Hong Kong’s remarkable arachnids.

Bored of eating mooncakes at home for Mid-Autumn Festival? Gear up for Clockenflap’s Poly*Technic 003, transforming 宀 Club with live acoustic‑electronic crossovers, modular hardware and vinyl.

This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 25 September, bringing the inaugural International Lantern Spectacular to Victoria Park alongside traditional celebrations and festive mall displays across the city.

In After ‘Intelligence,’ Hong Kong artist Lau Wai uses motion-captured avatars and a video game to ask who decides our role as the human race when AI learns to imitate us.

Witness the annual Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance: a 67-metre straw dragon adorned with thousands of burning incense sticks, paraded through the quaint neighbourhood by up to 300 performers.

Alongside the exhibition, At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II, at Asia Art Archive’s library, writer Clementine Cheung leads a workshop exploring the heartbreaks of being 25.

From 25 to 27 September, the Monkey King Festival honours Sun Wukong with lively rituals at temples across Hong Kong, especially Tai Shing Temple in Sau Mau Ping.

To mark PPHK’s 20th anniversary, piano virtuoso Kirill Gerstein returns with an all-Liszt recital, from the Three Petrarch Sonnets to the monumental Sonata in B minor.

The Spanish sculptor’s Hong Kong gallery debut uses everyday objects as literal cages to probe technology, surveillance and the erosion of the real.

Cult UK indie brother-trio The Cribs have built up a loyal Hong Kong following over three earlier visits — winning over important fans like Lucid Express — after an eight-year wait, don’t miss this glorious return.

HKPM’s Joyful Encounters traces Wong Kwan Shut’s life as a scholar-artist, revealing how connoisseurship shaped his ink practice.

Seen Piazzolla’s works performed in a concert hall, think you know nuevo tango? Think again— Quinteto Astor Piazzolla bring the fire of the mastero’s own small-group performances to the stage.

Presenting more than 280 events over four months, to an audience of over 900,000, the third Chinese Culture Festival offers a chance to discover the region’s rich artistic traditions.

Print Art Contemporary’s exhibition shares the career stories of eight retired master printers and artist works, exploring the concept of the book in contemporary art.

Hong Kong Museum of Art’s Art of Gifting: The Fuyun Xuan Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles presents the renowned collection of the late Christopher Sin, with 490 finely crafted Chinese snuff bottles.

The incredibly influential Scottish indie-pop troupe perform their best-loved album in full — and singing along is mandatory. 

Cho Wing-ki’s solo exhibition, Dazzled in the Loop, at Gallery Exit brings together her prints and oil paintings depicting urban landscapes and scenes from everyday life. 

Ora-Ora’s new multi-disciplinary group exhibition imagines a fictional modern literati’s studio, where historical objects and contemporary creations coexist.

David Boring lead singer Laujan further invades our interior world with her first gallery piece, Memory & Punishment, an installation and durational performance interrogating trauma and loss through collective immersion.

Hong Kong’s largest spotlight of German-language presents 10 brand new diverse features, an all-time classic, and a special eight-film programme spotlighting two icons of global Queer cinema.

When the World Is Your Enemy – Epic Edition is an immersive, participant-driven game-theatre work where “humans” build civilisations while “gods” steer fate via a live web app.

Through an exhibition and talk, photographer Keith Macgregor documents Hong Kong’s fading neon era in City of Lights, a vivid archive of signage, stories and cultural memory.

Ahead of the city’s second HKPAX, a series of free al fresco performances will be hosted against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline.

At the re-showcase of the Creative Cross-Pollination: The Future of Crafts, Crafts on Peel presents seven craftworks by local and international artists with the debut of two exquisite artworks.

Across disciplines including painting and ceramics, Form gathers seven artists to explore the tangible and intangible — from matter to imagination.

The first comprehensive exhibition in over a decade, Asia Society’s Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink retrospective revisits Wesley Tongson’s experimental ink through spirituality, identity and Hong Kong’s modern ink history.

L’ÉCOLE Hong Kong’s Precious Coral traces the material’s biology, craftsmanship and global cultural history through 120 rare works.

Celebrated artist Zheng Jing constructs different ecologies using non-solid elemental media at Oi!, reimagining and recontextualising familiar Hong Kong spaces.

Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre’s Incising the Matrix: If Birdwood Block exhibition showcases artist Jay Lau’s prints and installations, reimagining a parallel reality where Birdwood Block still exists. 

You don’t need accreditation to experience world-class dance, drama and music at Hong Kong’s performing arts expo — as our handy guide proves. 

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Curated by Espen Aarseth, one of the world’s foremost experts in game studies and chair professor of game studies at CityU, The Power of Play exhibition at the university explores the essence and impact of gaming.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.