Hauser & Wirth
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GLENN LIGON
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHO Glenn Ligon WHAT Best known for his text-based paintings, the New York-based American conceptual artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong features his renowned ‘Stranger’ paintings, a new abstract series called ‘Static’, and untitled drawings on Kozo paper. Ligon's use of excerpts from James Baldwin's influential essay 'Stranger in the Village' explores the politics…
The Sea Remembers
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT 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…
Nudiustertian
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT Known for both his unusual artistic productions and for his process of combining various aspects of science with black history, the NY-based American artist (b.1977) is among an influential cadre of contemporary artists whose work employs a wide range of media to explore the themes of art history, cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy,…
Subharmonic Tangerine Abyss
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT The late LA-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Greater China showcases works from one of his later significant series, 'Kandors'. Beyond these works, the exhibition also includes unique videos from 2007, when 'Kandors' was first released; these videos document a multitude of things including crystal growth, animation, and a bottle projection. The 'Kandor' works…
Red Forest
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT 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…
Weigh All Tears
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT An exhibition organised in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, this is Johannesburg-based William Kentridge’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The exhibition takes its title from a new 6-metre-wide triptych with collages African maps and archival documents. Featuring hand-woven mohair tapestries that Marguerite Stephens’s weaving studio translated from the artist’s designs, the presentation weaves together…
Annie Leibovitz
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT Annie Leibovitz bought her first camera after her freshman year at the San Francisco Art Institute, and while still a student, she approached ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine – just three years after its inception – with a few of her photographs. She soon embarked on what would develop into a symbiotic relationship between the young…
Henry Moore: Tapestries
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT WE KNOW A series of five large-scale and rarely-seen tapestries by Henry Moore is presented in Asia for the first time, courtesy of the Henry Moore Family Collection. Known mainly for his sculptures (many of which are seen in public spaces in Hong Kong), the artist was one of few sculptors and artists to…
Takesada Matsutani
Hauser & Wirth G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central, CentralWHAT WE KNOW Takesada Matsutani was born in Osaka, Japan in 1937 and has lived in Paris since 1966. During the war, Matsutani suffered from tuberculosis, followed by 8 years of isolation in bed. Those difficult times shaped Matsutani’s persistence and optimism, guiding him to become one of the youngest artists in Japan’s post-war collective…
