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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…

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Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Aberdeen

WHAT The Hong Kong-based English artist is an urbanist and architectural photographer who spent two years in New York to further develop his approach, which aims to create vibrant, sustainable, and democratic urban environments. His distinctive style of using pre-visualisation and camera-only manipulations creates subjective yet recognisable records of our time. The exhibition is part…

New Moroism

White Cube 50 Connaught Road, Central

WHAT This exhibition features the works of an emerging generation of artists whose roots are in Asia - Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, and Su Yu-Xin. The title of this exhibition was inspired by the Japanese morotai style, with ‘moro’ meaning vague or indistinct. This idea is used to explore the personal…

The Sea Remembers

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

WHAT The Puerto Rico-born American artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia since he joined the gallery in 2022 consists of 9 new paintings. Known for his signature approach to visual storytelling, synthesising magical realism and abstraction, the observed and the imagined, and the past and the present, the show contains large-scale canvases that are vibrant…

Henderson Land Realising Your Imagination Interactive Exhibition

H Queen's G/F G/F H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road, Central

WHAT With the goal of connecting the community and innovating for the future, Henderson Land’s selection of winning digital artworks was collected from submissions from hundreds of individuals. Showcasing young talent, the interactive presentation is split up into 4 zones, each with their own purpose, and are enhanced by digital innovations for the viewing pleasure…

Space Walk

Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT Based in Germany, the artist is known for creating suspended, seemingly floating sculptures. In this way, the artist calls for interaction and dialogue with the works, which can only be experienced through examination, approach, repositioning, and a changed perspective. The artist’s creations oscillate between presence and absence, the seen and the unseen, suggesting both…

The Shape of Time

Pearl Lam Galleries Shanghai 203, 2/F, 117 Xianggang Road, Jingan

WHAT​​ The group exhibition, featuring artists who have all lived or studied abroad, explores how time becomes an important factor during an artist’s creative process. It explores the progressive utopian ideal that has been prevalent in the West since the 1970s and 80s. Using rhetorical means from their life experiences after being exposed to both…

HKAS HDFA Student Show 2023

Hong Kong Art School   10/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

WHAT The exhibition showcases the learning journey of the Higher Diploma in Fine Art programme at Hong Kong Art School in the past academic year. Under the interaction of teaching and learning, this exhibition presents a selection of learning achievements from a group of passionate art lovers and creators, showcasing their initial exploration results of…

Joel Shapiro

Pace Gallery   12/F H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road, Central

WHAT The well-respected American sculptor (b. 1941) is known for creating works ranging in material, scale, and form, and which embrace an investigation of process and a vocabulary of recti-linear shapes. Throughout his career, he has always focused on ways that sculpture can engage architecture and landscape. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation…

Lauren O –The Greatest Levitator in the Polyhedric Cosmos of Time

M+ 38 Museum Drive, West Kowloon Cultural District, West Kowloon

WHY Showcased at the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022), the exhibition is now open to audiences at M+ with an adapted and site-responsive presentation. The exhibition stages Su’s research about Lauren O, an enigmatic figure with the power of levitation who played an instrumental role…

Double Ducks

Victoria Harbour Central

WHAT The Dutch artist was first inspired by a world map and a rubber duck to create his giant inflatable Rubber Duck installation, which he then took on a world tour in 2007. Starting from the Netherlands, his Rubber Duck travelled to twelve locations across four continents before making its way to Hong Kong in…

signals…folds and splits

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

WHAT The exhibition is the second chapter in the gallery’s exhibition series, ‘signals…瞬息’. Presenting score-based interventions and time-based mediums, it explores the ways that artists challenge the norms of time in an unstable climate. This second chapter considers the concept of time as a series of folds and spits. The folds imply a malleable connection…

ANN CARRINGTON

3812 Gallery 26/F Wyndham Place, 40-44 Wyndham Street, Central

WHAT The exhibition is a comprehensive selection of the British artist’s oeuvres from the past three years, and is her first solo show in Hong Kong. Known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore themes of identity, history, and cultural iconography, Carrington has gained widespread recognition for her intricate and often playful sculptures made…

Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank You

Blue Lotus Gallery G/F, 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan

WHAT The exhibition of photographs by the Canadian photographer (Girard) and the Hong Kong photojournalist (Chu) is a collection of images showcasing a unique perspective of the history of Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport. As it became one of the busiest airports in Asia, Kai Tak also became known for its challenging approach by…

Art Personalised: Masterpieces from the HKMoA

Hong Kong Museum of Art 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

WHAT ‘Everyone’s personality is unique, and so are the characteristics of different artworks.’ For this exhibition, the museum handpicked almost 100 pieces from their four core collections, categorising them into four different personality traits. Additionally, Hong Kong artist, Joey Leung, presents corresponding hand-painted custom characters for the pieces. Each exhibition zone also has its own…

Strange Strangers

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

WHAT Taking place at the non-profit’s new 10th floor annex, the exhibition features works by the New York-based Chinese artist (Cao) and the Hong Kong artist (Chan). While Cao’s works consist of stoneware, glass, and resin, Chan creates sculptures that transform urban debris, ancient artefacts, as well as natural and industrial materials. Though the artists…

To Paint the Written World

Hanart TZ Gallery 2/F, Mai On Industrial Building, 19 Kung Yip Street, Kwai Chung, New Territories

WHAT While Schwarzwald is interested in the writing of words as an act of drawing which, as a system of gestural practice, draws forth specific realities, Chan approaches the written word from the perspective of Chinese ideographs. The former has produced many ‘sets’ of gestural techniques, such as alphabetic languages, using a schematic vocabulary to…

Yuan Fang, Yirui Jia, Liu Yin, Homer Shew Group Show

Kiang Malingue (Wan Chai) 10 Sik On Street, Wan Chai

WHAT New paintings and works on paper by four artists - Yuan Fang, Yirui Jia, Liu Yin, and Homer Shew - are presented in this group exhibition. Yuan Fang showcases multi-layered paintings that abstractly depict curling whirlwinds of colour as well as charcoal drawings; Yirui Jia presents caricatures depicting an anti-heroine killer character; Liu Yin’s…