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…

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…

Contact

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…