WHAT Art Basel Hong Kong presented its first Asian edition in 2013 to complement Art Basel Basel and Art Basel Miami. As the main anchor event during Hong Kong Art Week, the fair’s Hong Kong edition features 130 international galleries in 3 sections: Galleries, Insights, and Discoveries (scaled down due to the pandemic). Highlighting modern…
WHAT The Geneva-born, LA-based artist’s first exhibition in Asia follows her inclusion in ‘The Milk of Dreams’ at the current 59th Venice Biennale. With a career that initially focused on illustration and design, Bonnet’s evolving interest in different art styles - from Surrealism to underground comix - is witnessed by more unsavoury or off-putting parts…
WHAT The latest presentation of NFTs to take place at the Q9 Crypto Hub, the show is a collaboration between Q9 Capital and Artdott, a digital art streaming platform. Examining topics that relate to nature, society and imagination, the presentation is in three parts, respectively titled ‘Fragile Balance’, ‘Symbolic Unity’, and ‘Alternative Me’. Alluding to…
WHAT How have artists used the human face to reflect the truths behind the visage of humanity? The exhibition features twenty works, highlighting masterpieces by Francis Bacon in dialogue with contemporary artists Adrian Ghenie, Zeng Fanzhi, George Condo, and Yukimasa Ida. Igniting a conversation between the past and the present, the exhibition explores the significance…
WHAT The exhibition showcases the celebrated Japanese artist’s life (born in 1940) in post-war era Japan. Through the use of photography, traditional Japanese woodblock painting, and eclectic methods such as silkscreen printing, Noda presents the ideological, social, economic, and artistic changes of the time while also depicting his everyday life from his friends and family…
WHAT Born in 1921 in Beijing into a scholarly family, Zao Wou-ki (1921-1913) studied under Lin Fengmian (1900-1991), the pioneer of modern Chinese painting. In 1948, he left for Paris where he spent most of his artistic career. Discovering the works of Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, and Jackson Pollock, he turned to abstraction.…
WHAT In collaboration with the Hong Kong-based printmaking studio MablePrintClay, the exhibition shines a light on 21 up-and-coming Hong Kong printmakers. Offering a panoramic view of the ongoing renascence of the Hong Kong printmaking scene with over 80 artworks, it highlights the unique qualities of different printmaking styles, including relief, intaglio and stencil. About MarblePrintClay:…
WHAT>Brian Rochefort’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong is inspired by his 2018 trip to East Africa, specifically to Tanzania and Zanzibar. During this trip, the artist saw Freddie Mercury displays and discovered that Mercury had a unique background and diverse history, which started with his birth in Tanzania. Inspired by Freddie Mercury not only…
WHAT Presenting her new ‘Gold’ series for the first time in a gallery exhibition, the Beijing-based artist’s new body of works is created using gold leaf on canvas, while still remaining focussed on the same themes and motifs: animals and nature. It signals a new approach for the artist, who had previously primarily used ink…
WHAT In his newest exhibition, New York-based Swiss artist, Nicolas Party, focuses his choice medium of figurative painting on the five elements of the material world: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The show takes these five elements and crafts the connection between the complexities of nature and its inextricable ties to humanity. WHY Crowd-favourite…
WHAT A group exhibition showcasing a range of works by seven different artists with all different backgrounds and experiences, each of the artists has a different way of going about their artistic method. The presentation is about the artists’ ideal art style and medium so viewers can see Chinese calligraphy and abstract paintings paired opposite…
WHAT This group exhibition focusing on Japanese contemporary art highlights the works of some of the most significant artists within the genre. A majority of the works are considered part of the pioneering art that came about the era of liberation and the post-war era. After World War II, many artists began to question conventional…
WHAT The exhibition is the latest presentation from the popular Japanese painter, illustrator, sci-fi writer, and manga artist, who has made many artistic shifts in her career, starting out with imagery that evoked eroticism and impertinence, but which has now evolved to be guided by science, nature, and a respect for human life. In this…
WHAT Organised by the museum in collaboration with the Capodimonte Museum in Italy, the exhibition features around forty late Renaissance works from northern and central Italy, as well as Neapolitan Baroque masterpieces never before shown in Hong Kong. Drawn from the museum’s two major nuclei - the Farnese Collection and the Bourbon Collection - these…
WHAT The current exhibition is the latest in a series of group presentations that showcase the expansiveness of the gallery’s international talent. Each of the artists has his/her own history and background that allows him/her to cultivate a unique individual dialogue. The name of the exhibition stems from the ideas of the world, which are…
WHAT Internationally renowned Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist is known for her colourful palette. From her early music-video-style works to her later immersive projection environments, Rist’s unique artistic vocabulary is rooted in popular culture, technology, human body, nature and historical feminist video art. This major exhibition brings together Rist’s iconic works from the past three…
WHAT The 9th Edition of the Affordable Art Fair returns at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. With a wide range of artworks from over 65 local and international galleries, the fun-filled event promises to delight novice and seasoned collectors alike. VIP Preview (by invitation only) Thursday 4 August, 1pm - 4pm (Opening Night) Thursday…
WHAT William Lim’s newest exhibition is a response to his previous ‘Willows Dark Flowers Bright’ exhibition at HQueen’s from a few months earlier. Inspired by the poem, ‘Flower Shadow’, from the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127 AD), the flowers in Lim’s paintings are passive objects, exemplifying the artistic wisdom of the poem from ten centuries ago.…
