Art month 2026: all the art exhibitions to see in Hong Kong outside Art Basel

When: March 24 to May 21
Where: Massimodecarlo, Tai Kwun, Central
What: Taking its title from eighth-century Buddhist master Shitou Xiqian’s poem, which says “though the hut is small, it includes the entire world”, Stockman presents six new canvases that dissolve distinctions between interior refuge and expanse. Working in blues and greens with fine badger-hair brushes used in Chinese calligraphy, her trembling lines create permeability between self and spaciousness. Drawing on Tang Dynasty poetry, Yuan landscapes, Mogao cave frescoes, and Chinese garden design’s influence on Western painting, proposing what she terms “provisional architecture” through paint.

When: March 25 to May 7
Where: Villepin, Central
What: Ted Gahl’s first Hong Kong solo presentation, merging abstraction and figuration through layered paintings that reconstruct fleeting memories of travel and singular moments of beauty. Working with acrylic, casein, graphite and coloured pencil, he employs colour as a mnemonic device—ultramarine fish pulled onto Kenyan shores, ochre sunsets over Connecticut’s post-industrial landscapes, dense foliage framed by architectural pillars referencing Henry Ossawa Tanner’s early 1900s Tangier studies.

When: March 25 to April 12
Where: Villepin, K11 Musea, Kowloon
What: Yukimasa Ida’s first Hong Kong presentation explores fluidity, intuition, and transformation through paintings that resist fixed images. Born in Tottori, Japan, he embodies ichi-go ichi-e—“one time, one meeting”—capturing unrepeatable moments through rich impasto and vibrant colours. The exhibition spans portraiture, figuration, and abstract sculpture, including works like Where the Wild Things Are (2024). His practice, shaped by his seaside hometown, travels through India, and personal loss, finds natural resonance in Hong Kong’s intensity and perpetual reinvention—inviting viewers to recognise the beauty of what is passing.

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When: March 20, 2026 to March 17, 2027
Where: Hong Kong Palace Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District
What: Hong Kong’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to Chinese classical horse paintings marks the Year of the Horse with nearly 100 masterpieces by more than 60 renowned artists spanning the Yuan dynasty to the 20th century. The exhibition features 76 exquisite paintings from the Palace Museum, including 15 grade-one national treasures. Highlights include the Yuan dynasty grade-one treasure Three Horses by Jiufeng Daoren, Giuseppe Castiglione’s The Qianlong Emperor Holding an Arrow and Prince Aisin-Gioro Zaiying’s Horse, making its first appearance outside the Palace Museum in Beijing. 

When: March 24 to May 9
Where: David Zwirner, H Queen’s, Central
What: New York–based artist Walter Price unveils Pearl Lines, his first solo exhibition in Asia. Known for vibrantly abstract compositions, Price’s paintings blur the boundaries between representation and imagination. The works offer shifting perspectives and psychological depth, inviting viewers to linger within fluid narratives of colour and form.

When: March 25 to May 9
Where: White Cube, 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang
What: Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui presents his first exhibition with White Cube, spanning Hong Kong and Seoul. Known for transforming everyday materials into monumental works, Anatsui unveils new sculptures crafted from thousands of salvaged metal bottle caps, meticulously sutured into shimmering compositions. For the first time, he gives equal attention to both sides of each piece, allowing them to be viewed from multiple angles. Produced in his Accra studio, these intricately woven metal sheets—elegant in their restraint—explore material transformation, global circulation and cultural narrative. The exhibition reaffirms Anatsui’s mastery of the “non-fixed form”, a concept that continues to reshape contemporary sculpture.

When: March 21 to May 10
Where: Otherthings by The Shophouse, 31 Sun Chun Street, Tai Hang
What: Japan-based artist Alia Sugawara presents Konketsu, her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, in collaboration with designer Jun Takahashi, art director Tetsuya Nagato and ceramist Kenta Anzai. Meaning “mixed blood,” the title reflects Sugawara’s poetic inquiry into duality and transformation through a newly conceived series of works on paper. Each piece examines how contrasting elements—cultural, spiritual and emotional—coexist within a single form. By investigating interwoven identities and the tension between purity and hybridity, Konketsu becomes a meditation on the inherent beauty of multiplicity and the fragile equilibrium of being.

When: March 21 to May 30
Where: Podium, Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang
What: Amour Aquatique is a group exhibition exploring water as a metaphor for emotional and ecological continuity. Responding to a broader shift from Earth to Fire in classical astrology, the show restores water as a counterbalance—a symbol of healing and adaptability. It features works by Fran Chang, Omyo Cho, Soyoung Chung, Minouk Lim and Luis Xertu. Through pieces evoking flow, erosion and renewal, the exhibition navigates the fluid yet fragile boundaries between memory, love and loss, revealing the quiet power of reflection in uncertain times.

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When: March 21 to May 24
Where: Axel Vervoordt, 21/F, Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road
What: Jaffa Lam’s Asteroid J‑734, her third solo exhibition with Axel Vervoordt Gallery, extends her exploration of material, community and storytelling. Created across ceramics, metals and recycled umbrella fabric, the works combine personal memories with broader social histories. Many pieces emerged during her residency in Longquan in East China, forming an interconnected constellation of textures and ideas. Through these assemblages, Lam transforms everyday materials into poetic markers of migration and belonging, blurring the lines between the monumental and the intimate. The exhibition offers viewers a reflective journey, both outward into the cosmos and inward towards the self.

When: March 20 to May 5
Where: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
What: Part of “Art March,” Live: Hong Kong Art Exhibition gathers 19 artists shaping Hong Kong’s dynamic contemporary scene. The exhibition spans painting, ink art, sculpture, video, and mixed media, spotlighting both established masters and emerging voices. Through this expansive selection, the show captures the city’s artistic vitality and stylistic diversity, offering visitors a vivid cross-section of modern Hong Kong creativity. It is both a reflection of the region’s evolving identity and a statement of confidence in its ever-expanding art ecosystem.

When: March 14 to June 14
Where: Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay
Marking its thirtieth anniversary, Para Site revisits its 1996 landmark exhibition with Site-seeing, re‑examining how urban memory and art intersect amid ongoing redevelopment. Bringing together nine artists from the Asia‑Pacific and beyond, including Heman Chong, Ko Sin Tung and Stella Zhong, the show expands the dialogue between city, space and self. Through installations, moving images and sculptures, Site-seeing reflects on alienation within the modern metropolis while uncovering beauty, humour and hope in its cracks. By placing Hong Kong in conversation with global cities, it traces shared struggles and fleeting wonders that define contemporary urban life.

When: March 14 to May 2
Where: Hanart TZ Gallery, 2/F, Mai On Industrial Building, 17–21 Kung Yip Street, Kwai Chung
What: Bingyi’s solo exhibition Formation of the Cosmos, presented in collaboration with Inkstudio, reveals the artist’s monumental 24‑metre masterpiece All Things. Rooted in ancient Chinese cosmology, the show explores Xuanji, an astronomical concept linking celestial order with universal rhythm. Through her techniques of “lightning painting” and visual talismans, Bingyi merges philosophy, energy and abstraction into a meditative vision of space and time. The works reinterpret ancient wisdom as contemporary art, mapping the unseen structures that govern both the cosmos and human consciousness.

When: March 16 to May 16
Where: Alisan Fine Arts, 21/F, Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central
What: Alisan Fine Arts commemorates its 45th anniversary with a solo exhibition of Fang Zhaoling (1914–2006), showcasing over twenty works from the 1960s to 1990s. Trained under Zhang Daqian and Zhao Shao‑ang, Fang’s paintings blend a modernist spontaneity with literati tradition. Her landscapes, calligraphies and bird‑and‑flower scenes express resilience and devotion to her homeland through sweeping brushwork and emblematic figures. In Pursuit of Naïveté traces Fang’s distinctive synthesis of abstraction and sentiment, reaffirming her position as one of China’s most pioneering twentieth‑century female artists.

When: February 24 to May 2
Where: Blindspot Gallery, 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road
What: In his fourth solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery, Trevor Yeung transforms introspection into installation. Using aquariums, light sculptures, rocks and photographs, Yeung constructs contemplative environments reflecting solitude, desire and the quiet logic of natural systems. Swallowing Rumination, Gracefully examines the emotional currents shaping personal belief and adaptation. With its tender balance between fragility and persistence, the exhibition invites audiences into a gentle meditation on care, change and the trace of memory held within everyday objects.

When: March 21 to May 9
Where: De Sarthe, 2/F, Block A, Vita Tower, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang
What: This historic survey marks the first major retrospective in Asia of American painter Jack Tworkov. Featuring works from 1951 to 1982, the show traces his evolution from gestural abstraction to structured compositions influenced by mathematics and myth. A founding member of the New York School alongside Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Tworkov balanced freedom and geometry in a lifelong search for order within chaos. Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism offers an incisive look at an artist whose disciplined spontaneity helped define post‑war American painting.

When: March 24 to May 2
Where: Gagosian, 7/F, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central
What: Mary Weatherford’s Asia debut, Persephone, transforms Greek mythology into luminous abstraction. Painted in vinyl emulsion on linen and accented with neon and shells, the works reinterpret Persephone’s descent into the underworld and return to the earth’s surface. Designed by Johnston Marklee, each gallery space unfolds like chapters in a mythic journey. Weatherford’s radiant compositions bridge classical narrative and contemporary materiality, revisiting her long‑standing fascination with light, time and transformation.

When: March 20 to April 18
Where: JPS Gallery, G/F, 88–90 Staunton Street, Central
What: Japanese artist Marino Funahashi presents her first overseas solo show Filter: Reconstructing the Unseen, which examines how memory and perception shift through time. Her paintings act as meditations on recollection: layers of colour and texture that reassemble fleeting sensations into new visual narratives. By filtering moments between the natural world and human consciousness, Funahashi exposes the delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. Quiet yet immersive, the exhibition invites viewers to experience time as a continuum of emotion and light.

When: March 27 to April 12
Where: St John’s Building, Central
What: Curated by Design Trust’s Marisa Yiu and Zheng Zhou, this exhibition traces Hong Kong’s evolution through architecture, art and landscape from the 1980s to today. Showcasing works by Henry Steiner, Wilson Shieh, Ma Yansong, William Lim and many others, it celebrates the city’s creative legacy across disciplines. Highlights include site‑specific installations by OrangeTerry and Didi Ng, archival photography by Eason Tsang, Michael Wolf and Ian Lambot, and new commissions by Kevin Mak and Gary Ng. Blending design, memory and urban form, the exhibition offers a sensory portrait of Hong Kong as a city in perpetual transformation.

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