Liu Guofu: Requiem

Sothebys Hong Kong 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty

WHAT The selling collection of 26 works (some never seen before) were created over a period during the renowned abstract artist’s larger creative journey. They are concrete manifestations of the artist's understanding of art or his understanding of the value of art. Alongside his signature series of paintings, the exhibition also unveils new works exclusively…

Between Emptiness and Form: Exploring Emotion and Essence

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

WHAT The three exhibiting artists are from different countries and generations. Italian Marco Tirelli plays with light and shadow due to his training as a set designer. His paintings are open to the audience’s interpretation and invite mental participation. Belgian Renato Nicolodi presents sculpture and painting works that offer platforms for the viewer’s contemplation, as…

Erasing News: Backwards and Forwards

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

WHAT Using newspaper ink on erasers as her medium, the artworks of the Hong Kong-based artist’s second solo show with the gallery evolve into markers of time and reminders of the past. She recreates feelings she felt in her adolescence, such as sensations of distress that lead her to seek refuge on a park bench…

Recent Paintings

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

WHAT The Italian artist (b. 1970) presents his latest creations from 2023 for his debut solo show in Asia. The artist weaves together intricate symbols and draws inspiration from literature, cinema, philosophy, and humanity’s collective imagination. As a result, his works are a complex dialogue containing personal iconography. The exhibition reveals the artist’s poetic practice…

Late to the Party

DE SARTHE 26/F M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT For DE SARTHE’s 7th annual de Sarthe Artist Residency (deSAR), its resident artist, Chan Ka Kiu (b. 1995) has created new artworks using the gallery as her studio. She has transformed the gallery space into a captivating dialogue centred around the enigmatic ‘27 Club’ - a group of influential artists and celebrities who tragically…

Twice II: Of Seeing

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

WHAT This is the second joint exhibition of the artists since 1995, featuring recent oil paintings from Yeung, and charcoal work and oil paintings done by Sze. Yeung’s large-scale figurative paintings are brightly-coloured with vivid contrasts, and are reminiscent of collages. These works connect different spaces, characters, and narratives all at once. Sze’s works are…

The Inner Light or the Expression of Color

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

WHAT Curated by Philipp Bollmann, the group exhibition features works by six artists from different generations and origins: Miriam Cahn, Helen Frankenthaler, Leiko Ikemura, Martha Jungwirth, Michael Müller, and Maximilian Rödel. The artworks on display delve into the exploration of light and colour in painting, highlighting the transition from gestural abstraction to colour field painting…

Soglia

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

WHAT The exhibition is the first solo presentation of the Italian contemporary painter with the gallery. The exhibition features nuanced monochromatic oil painting works completed in 2023 from the artist's signature oeuvre, ‘Soglia’, which he has been developing for over half a decade. Soglia, meaning ‘threshold’, represents the visual spaces that Cioffi has been exploring…

Bitter Apples

White Cube 50 Connaught Road, Central

WHAT Known for her figurative style focusing on the relationship between nature and culture, the French-born US-based artist’s first exhibition in Greater China features paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and her first film. This film is a Surrealist narrative that incorporates props the artist sculpted herself. New works feature motifs of birds, insects, and tropical…

Abundance

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

WHAT New still-life and landscape paintings are presented in the British artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery’s Hong Kong space. The works were produced ‘en plein air’ in a new studio in Malibu, California. The works’ titles and expressive imagery evoke ocean waves and the flora of Malibu at sunrise and sunset, with suns,…

Gangcai Encounter – The Art of Hong Kong Porcelain Painting

Artspace K G105-106 The Repulse Bay, 109 Repulse Bay Road, Repulse Bay

WHAT The group show is a showcase of 90 pieces of Gangcai artworks containing both traditional and contemporary elements, presented by 8 Hong Kong Gangcai artists. The diverse cultural medium of porcelain painting came out of Guangzhou as ‘Guangcai’ and was developed into the Hong Kong artform ‘Gangcai’. The local artists strive to spark interest…

Entangled Energies

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

WHAT The immersive exhibition marks a defining moment in the eminent artist’s practice and opens doors to a greater public understanding of Chinese calligraphy. The range of works presented include a monumental ‘Entangled Script’, 2 ‘Tea Poems by Su Shi’ measuring 5 m. long, and a set of calligraphies written on transparent coloured acrylic. In…

Old Master Q

Lucie Chang Fine Arts 12C Gee Chang Hong Centre, 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT The retrospective exhibition is a celebration of over 60 years of the iconic Hong Kong ‘Old Master Q’ (OMQ) art comics. Started in 1960, the series was first created by the artist’s father, Alfonso Wong, who used the pseudonym of Wong Chak. The artist is thus the second generation author of the (present) comic…

Beacon in the Storm: The Art of Pang Jiun

Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

WHAT Born into an artistic family in Shanghai in 1936, the respected artist is a master of ‘Eastern Expressionism’ and steadily continues to create art well into his 90s. In this retrospective, 48 of his works are showcased; the exhibition consists of nine sketches from the 1970s, as well as 39 paintings from recent years.…

Interview the Interviewer

SC Gallery Unit 2, 19/F Sungib Industrial Centre, 53 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

WHAT While Chow is a well-known local visual artist, Cheung is not only the owner of the gallery but also a veteran Hong Kong journalist who started her career with the SCMP in the 1990’s. Over the span of one year, the artist interviewed the journalist about her past journalistic experiences - gaining first hand…

Phillips HK Autumn Auction Preview 2023

Phillips G/F WKCDA Tower, 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon

WHAT With spectacular new headquarters in the WKCDA Tower in the West Kowloon Cultural District, the Phillips Asia premises features over 50,000 sq. feet on 6 floors. The auction preview takes place the week before Fine Art Asia and Ink Asia opens, and concurrently with the Sotheby's HK Autumn Auction Preview. - The Hong Kong…