WHAT The French May Art Festival was founded in 1993, and is one of the largest art and cultural events in Asia, hosting over 120 events from May to June each year: from traditional to contemporary art, painting to design, and classical music to hip-hop. It aims to present the best creative experiences for their…
WHAT The exhibition is a joint show to present the works of French artists, Clément Denis and Fabien Verschaere, and Japanese artist Karen Shiozawa. Clément Denis investigates the barriers of communication, deploying plural works including mosaic and painting, bringing the art of an artistic practice at the crossroads of human condition. Fabien Verschaere follows the…
WHAT An art NFT exhibition at the Q9 Crypto Hub in collaboration with Voxoglass, the show is a physical showcase of Non-Fungible Tokens (‘NFTs’) featuring Voxoglass’s roster of Hong Kong and Asia-based artists, such as Wong Sing Hoi and Nicholas MF. Other works by Thai artists, IPUTSA and Jeff Aphisit, are also presented. Using a…
WHAT This is the first presentation of New York-based artist, Sanford Biggers, at the gallery’s Hong Kong space. The exhibition’s title is inspired by one of the artist’s favourite musical albums, by hip-hop duo Organized Konfusion. The artist's artworks travel across history and place, compressing time and geography by drawing together disparate aesthetics, humanities, and…
WHAT Presenting the works of 31 different artists, the show pays homage to the 1943 exhibition titled the ‘31 Women Exhibition’, which was organised by the late American art collector, dealer, and socialite, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). Guggenheim’s exhibition was one of the first in history to showcase the works of solely women, and this initiative…
WHAT Tsang Tsou Choi (aka ‘King of Kowloon’) was born in Guangzhou in 1921, and travelled to Hong Kong as a poor, barely literate teenager. After discovering some important ancestral documents, Tsang claimed that the land of Kowloon belonged to his family, thereby adopting the title ‘King of Kowloon’. Over the years, Tsang has created…
WHAT Marking the artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the presentation features nine sculptures with combinations of geometric and organic forms, including both large- and small-scale works. The exhibition’s title, 'Moon in the Morning', reflects Shechet’s longstanding interest in unions of seemingly disparate, incongruous materials and forms. Beautiful and disorienting, a moon in the morning…
WHAT Hong Kong-born and French-educated, the presentation of Chun Wai’s works is a series of photographs the artist took in France between the 1980s and 1990s. The artist’s main focus was on the finite quality of time and the effect it has, and this quality is visible in his photos. After being stored in a…
WHAT Most people know William Lim as an award-winning architect, as well as a renowned Hong Kong collector; However, Lim is also an artist, whose talents have become well-known during the pandemic. In fact, Lim likes to introduce himself as ‘architect, artist and collector, not necessary in that order’. Focusing on large scale installations, and…
WHAT At the Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auction preview, you're spoilt for choice with fourteen different sales exhibitions (from Wine and Watches, to Modern Art and Chinese paintings). The art auctions typically take place towards the end, which allows more time for viewing. At the previews for the 20th and 21st century art departments, a…
WHAT Firmly anchored by the Modern and Contemporary Art Department, the preview at Bonhams also includes works from the upcoming auctions of Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Fine Chinese Paintings, as well as a private collection of bronze arrow vases from the Brian Harkins Collection. Viewing is…
WHAT The exhibition is the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the celebrated Irish-born artist, Sean Scully (b.1945), featuring seven new paintings from the artist’s studio. Raised in London and subsequently based in New York, Scully formulated his own abstract language and inimitable style, based on the grid and infused with a spirituality and reverence for…
WHAT The fourth exhibition at the gallery from Cambodian artist, Leang Seckon, the exhibition highlights the changes that Cambodia has experienced due to colonisation and imperialism while integrating Khmer folklore elements. Born during Cambodia’s civil war, Seckon lived through the reign of the Khmer Rouge as well as Vietnamese occupation, and ghosts from the past…
WHAT The current exhibition displays the artistic development of Japanese artist, Tsuyoshi Maekawa (b.1936), spanning from his entire career, and most significantly from his time as a member of the Gutai Art Association, which was Japan's most significant avant-garde collective of the post-war era. The works presented trace the artist’s development pre-Gutai until his exploration…
WHAT The artist’s first exhibition in Hong Kong is characterised by the blurred lines between landscapes and memories. He explores both photography and painting to understand their difference between what exists and what we remember about the existence. The artist takes inspiration from history and explores new photographic techniques using historical materials, such as silver-coated…
WHAT ‘Sofabilder / Sofa Pictures’ is the newest exhibition at the gallery by one of Germany’s most celebrated artists, Georg Baselitz. In this exhibition, the artist presents recent paintings and drawings that focus on the central motif of the nude female form, which is loosely based on his wife, Elke. For these works, the artist…
WHAT The artist’s exhibition at the gallery encapsulates the visual journal of the restless wanderer-painter in Iceland and Hong Kong. Despite the strong juxtaposition between the two places, Cheng uses atmospheric light, thick textures of oil, vibrant blocks of colours, and strokes of falling snow and rising vapour to evoke a sense of familiarity between…
WHAT Founded in 2015, Art Central plays host to over 100 different innovative art galleries from around the world to showcase the forefront of contemporary art, through a variety of mediums ranging from paintings, sculptures to digital media. As the major satellite art fair taking place alongside Art Basel Hong Kong, there are also educational…
