Between Shapes & Forms

Galerie KOO 7/F, 67 Wyndham Street, Central

WHAT Belgian artist, Jean Philippe Duboscq’s textured works and American artist, Jon Poblador’s minimalistic paintings make up an exhibition where experimentation, the bold mastery of know-how and the power of the medium converge. While Duboscq expresses art through materiality, volumetry, abstraction, and lyrical abstraction; Poblador focuses on conceptual pieces and repetition by adding colours in…

Auspicious Dream

Soluna Fine Art G/F, 52 Sai Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, AZ

WHAT An exhibition that covers two gallery floors, the presentation consists of nine of the Korean artist’s newest works. In the new series, the artist meticulously renders the nocturnal landscapes infused with sublime qualities: the vast universe, cosmic spirals, and lights. He uses a variety of different materials that pertain to traditional Eastern Asian heritage…

New Song We Wrest! Who Throng Heat Yet? Tone Got Flower Work.

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

WHAT The American artist’s (b. 1986) second solo exhibition at the gallery premiers his renowned text works alongside a new series of shorthand writings. Focusing his practice on the relationship between semiotics and language to confront social and political topics such as race, power, communication, and labour, the artist creates drawings using graphite, pencil and…

Here, No Balloon

wamono art 10A Derrick Industrial Building, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT Having been based in Paris for the past three decades, the internationally renowned Japanese artist’s (b. 1962) works are shown in Hong Kong for the first time. Known for her singular experimental pieces in the medium of photography, she also employs large canvases of varying sizes and drip painting techniques to convey her message.…

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Para Site 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, North Point & Quarry Bay

WHAT The Hong Kong artist (b. 1987) has cultivated an artistic practice galvanised by his keen, unperturbed sense of observation. His work examines everyday objects and their inherent forms, while exposing varying nuances in the relationship between the object and the context where it is found. In January 2023, Para Site invited the artist to…

Jeux Thèmes Variations (II)

Alisan Fine Arts (Aberdeen) 1904 Hing Wai Industrial Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen

WHAT Trained as a classical musician, the artist used to be a viola player with Hong Kong Philharmonic before devoting herself to painting in 2011. Using her music background, her first solo exhibition with the gallery incorporates musical elements and allows audiences to experience a new way of appreciating music and art. Her ‘Mist’ series…

Along the Way

THE SHOPHOUSE 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang, Causeway Bay

WHAT The group exhibition featuring 7 Hong Kong artists showcases the process behind each artist's practice, with a focus on city landscapes made of man-made objects and nature. While landscape paintings today may be seen as picturesque and sublime, they were once considered a lesser genre, often relegated to the peripheral background in biblical and…

Hortus Conclusus

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

WHAT The world-renowned German artist (b.1945) is known for works that explore the themes of German history, mythology, and the human condition. Throughout his career, he has created a diverse range of artworks that include large-scale paintings, sculptures, installations, and photographs. This exhibition surveys 4 decades of the artist’s landscape paintings. Capping a year of…

Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass

University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG)  90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

WHAT In the mid-1950s, the workshops of Roger Malherbe-Navarre expanded on the light boxes of French painter, Jean Crotti, by layering pieces of glass into pictorial depictions (gemmail, French for ‘enamel gem’) of several of Picasso’s paintings. Impressed by the gemmistes’ masterful assembling and fusing of carefully selected glass, Picasso quickly became a fan and…

Inner Vision

Alisan Fine Arts (Central) 21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central

WHAT Celebrating the 30th anniversary of French May, the gallery’s presentation is a first solo exhibition by the French-Chinese author since being awarded the Commander of the Legion of Honour for the second time. The exhibition features works focused on landscape paintings; however, instead of portraying the reality and perspective of the scene, he pursues…

Anselm Kiefer: Golden Age

Villepin 53-55 Hollywood Road, Central

WHAT In the renowned German artist’s newest exhibition, he depicts and celebrates the stories of mythology that surround the Golden Age. In time with Hong Kong’s reopening of its borders, the gallery hopes to usher in a ‘Golden Age’ of its own through this beacon of restarting. Created between 2020 to 2022, a large-scale installation…

Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2023

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai

WHAT The 10th Edition of the Affordable Art Fair returns at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. With a wide range of artworks from over 90 local and international galleries, the fun-filled event promises to delight novice and seasoned collectors alike. Get your tickets here. VIP Preview (by invitation only) Thursday 18 May, 1pm -…

shivering glow, I shiver and glow

Contemporary by Angela Li G/F, 248 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan

WHAT The Hong Kong artist (b.1987) grew up in the New Territories, where he spent the majority of his childhood in the greenery of nature, away from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Surrounded by the woods, he was always alone and enjoyed observing the movements of trees as well as taking care of…

Shimmer of Memory

Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery G03-G05 Headquarters Block, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central

WHAT Born in Syria and based in Paris for the past 40 years, Dalloul is known as one of the most accomplished artists from the Arab world. In his debut Hong Kong solo exhibition, he presents a number of almost life-sized paintings that depict the interactions between humans and nature. He captures the essence of…

Petits Rats

Rossi & Rossi 11/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT WHAT In her second solo exhibition, the Italian artist (b. 1968) showcases her photographs of Edgar Degas’s works presented in the 2020 exhibition ‘Degas’ at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Degas was largely inspired by ‘les petits rats,’ which were the ballerinas-in-training at the Paris Opera Ballet company. In the ‘Degas’…

Contraflow

Kiang Malingue (Aberdeen) 12 & 13/F Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen

WHAT The Badung based artist collective presents paintings, lenticular prints, performative sculptures, installations, and videos in this exhibition, exploring the significance of the digital economy and the intersection of play and labour. Many of the multi-media pieces include depictions of Twitter hashtags in various forms, while other works depict the relationship between leisure and labour…

Past-Future Tense

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

WHAT His third solo exhibition at the gallery as a continuation of his research of the history of Hong Kong across time, the specific exhibition focuses on Hong Kong’s colonial history, set in the year 1982, when the Chinese and British governments started negotiations on the Handover. Included in the exhibition are handwritten notes by…

HOPE

Tai Kwun Contemporary Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central

WHAT Sculptural, photographic, and filmic works are presented in this immersive exhibition by the renowned Australian artist (b. 1965). Known for her hyper-realistic sculptures featuring distinctive-looking anthropomorphic animals, the presentation taps into our hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity. Piccinini’s surreal and often grotesque works, which are rooted in historical art…