Wu Jiaru: Apollo Center

Flowers Gallery   49 Tung Street Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

WHAT The Hong Kong-based artist presents a monumental painting installation and a series of new works. Inspired by Apollo's mythology, his curses, and his tragic loves, the colourful paintings are made through automatic drawing, consistent with her practice of layering in personal history with narrative. It explores themes of alienation, individuality, the impact of modernisation…

Lynne Drexler: The Seventies

White Cube 50 Connaught Road, Central

WHAT The late American abstract and representational artist (1928–1999) was known for her artistic practice as a painter and photographer. On view are works from the 1970s that are conjured via the overall patterning typical of Colour Field painters of her generation, often in dense passages of primary or complementary colour. WHY For the artist,…

Louise Bourgeous. Soft Landscape

Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, Central

WHAT The exhibition by the celebrated late French-American artist (1911-2010) explores the dynamic relationship between landscape and the human body. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, this is her 2nd show at the gallery's Hong Kong location, and coincides with the ongoing tour of a major survey exhibition organised by the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). The exhibition…

Emma Webster: Vapors

Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, Kowloon

WHAT The exhibition is a presentation of paintings by the British-American artist (b.1989), marking her solo debut in Hong Kong. The 11 canvases, painted during the Los Angeles fires this January, show ethereal, empty landscapes imbued with an unsettling, atmospheric calm. Some paintings suggest the arrival of unfathomable calamity, while others impart the cool surrender…

Sarah Sze

Gagosian 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central

WHAT This is the NY-based Chinese-American artist's (b.1969) first solo exhibition in Asia, and her 6th with the gallery. Known for her exploration of the role of technology, information, and memory with objects in contemporary life utilising everyday materials, the exhibition features new large-scale mixed-media paintings alongside a new series of hanging sculptures. WHY The…

Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives

Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, the presentation features latest video works: 'The Time of Our Lives' (2024), 'The Fortress' (2024), and 'Asleep' (2024). These are shown alongside face wipes imprinted with the make-up of Sin’s characters featured in the films. This marks the final stop of a touring solo exhibition that…

Stephen Thorpe: The Last Word Always Belongs to the Mountain

Ora-Ora 105-107 Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central

WHAT The US-based British artist's new paintings explore our fractured relationship with mountains - culturally significant landscapes - through contrasts of tone and texture. Challenging our assumptions of what is marginal and what is teeming with life and meaning, he prompts his audience to look closer, look around, and to look inward. WHY Throughout history…

Dominique Fung: Beneath the Golden Canopy

MASSIMODECARLO 203-205A Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central

WHAT The exhibition is the NY-based Chinese-Canadian artist's first Hong Kong solo show. With her distinctive blend of historical reference and symbolism, she paints a world of contradictions, where grandeur is laced with disquiet, authority is performative, and where the artifacts of the past resurface. The Empress Dowager Cixi is a lingering presence, woven into…

TSANG Kin-Wah: T REE O  GO  D EVIL

Galerie du Monde (gdm) 108 Ruttonjee House, 11 Duddell Street, Central

WHAT The exhibition by the local Hong Kong artist is a site-specific installation, featuring a central column and ceiling adorned with text that mimics a tree, while a sloped platform supports screens displaying black-and-white footage of human brutality. The exhibition explores the complex tapestry of evil intertwining with the notions of the Tree of Knowledge,…