Cover ‘Sinnwild’ (2024) by Jonas Burgert (Image: courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art and the artist)
‘Sinnwild’ (2024) by Jonas Burgert (Image: courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art and the artist)
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In tandem with Art Basel and art month, several international art galleries are hosting major exhibitions across Hong Kong. Here are 12 that art aficionados just can’t miss
Hong Kong’s art scene is in full swing as art month approaches. While international galleries are coming into town to present their artists’ work at the booths at Art Basel and Art Central, many of them are also doing their separate exhibitions in their own gallery space. Many overseas galleries are also hosting pop-up exhibitions in town.
From solo shows by major names such as “spider sculpture” artist Louise Bourgeois and pop art vanguard Robert Indiana to group shows that highlight universal themes, Tatler has put together a list of exhibitions coinciding with art month that are hosted by galleries with a global presence.
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1. Gagosian: Sarah Sze
Above ‘Forever Now’ (2025) by Sarah Sze (Image: courtesy of Gagosian and the artist)
‘Forever Now’ (2025) by Sarah Sze (Image: courtesy of Gagosian and the artist)
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When: March 25 to May 3, 2025
Where: Gagosian, 7/F, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central
What: Known for using everyday materials in her art pieces that explore technology, information and memory in contemporary life, American visual artist and Colombia University’s professor of visual art Sarah Sze will have her first solo exhibition in Asia, presented by Gagosian gallery.
This exhibition features new large-scale mixed-media paintings alongside a new series of hanging sculptures, through which she interprets the complexities of contemporary life. She uses past paintings as a starting point and layers them with gestural brushstrokes, coloured tape and torn paper with printed images to create new works that encourage meditations on time, memory and perception.
2. White Cube: ‘The Seventies’
Above ‘Burst Blossom’ (1971) by Lynne Drexler (Image: courtesy of The Lynne Drexler Archive, White Cube and Frankie Tyska)
‘Burst Blossom’ (1971) by Lynne Drexler (Image: courtesy of The Lynne Drexler Archive, White Cube and Frankie Tyska)
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When: March 26 to May 17, 2025
Where: White Cube, 50 Connaught Road Central, Central
What: White Cube will present the first Asian show of American artist Lynne Drexler (1928-99), an abstract expressionist artist who—like many other female artists of her time—was overshadowed by their male counterparts and is now being reintegrated into the annals of art history.
She is best known for the innovative way in which she combines the art theories of renowned painters Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell, who also happened to be her mentors. She also infuses these paintings with personal reflections on nature and influences from art movements such as Impressionism, Post-impressionism and Fauvism.
This Hong Kong exhibition comprises boldly coloured paintings and works on paper made between 1970 and 1978.
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3. Hauser & Wirth: Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Soft Landscape’
Above ‘Untitled’ (2004) by Louise Bourgeois (Image: courtesy of Christopher Burke and The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY)
‘Untitled’ (2004) by Louise Bourgeois (Image: courtesy of Christopher Burke and The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY)
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When: 25 March to 21 June 2025
Where: Hauser & Wirth, G/F, 8 Queen’s Road Central, Central
What: The second solo show of “spider sculpture” artist Louise Bourgeois, one of the most influential artists in the past century, features a selection of works from the 1960s till her death in 2010.
Selected by Philip Larratt-Smith, the art curator of Bourgeois’s non-profit The Easton Foundation, the works on display revolve around an iconography of nests, holes, cavities, mounds, breasts, spirals, snakes and water. These images correspond to the themes and preoccupations that Bourgeois explored throughout her career: fecundity and growth, retreat and protection, vulnerability and dependency, and the passage of time.
4. Ben Brown Fine Arts: ‘Mixed Feelings’
Above ‘Isla (Galerna)’ (2024) by Yoan Capote (Image: courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts and the artist)
‘Isla (Galerna)’ (2024) by Yoan Capote (Image: courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts and the artist)
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When: March 22 to June 21, 2025
Where: Ben Brown, 201, The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang
What: New works by Cuban sculptor Yoan Capote, who received the Unesco prize during the Havana Biennial in 1991, is on view at Ben Brown. As suggested by the show’s title, his artworks explore duality: while the pieces present the sublime beauty of the Cuban landscape, they also point to the weight of its turbulent socio-political history. As he explores themes of love and disillusionment, belonging and estrangement, hope and despair, these paradoxes further speak to the universality of the experience of migration and political turbulence.
5. Flowers Gallery: Wu Jiaru’s ‘Apollo Center’
Above ‘Docile_body_xl_iii’ (2025) by Wu Jiaru (Image: courtesy of Flowers Gallery and the artist)
‘Docile_body_xl_iii’ (2025) by Wu Jiaru (Image: courtesy of Flowers Gallery and the artist)
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When: March 27 to April 26, 2025
Where: Flowers Gallery, 49 Tung Street, Sheung Wan
What: Hong Kong-based artist Wu Jiaru recontextualises the Greco-Roman mythology of Apollo and weaves in her personal narratives in the series of new works—along with a monumental painting installation—shown at the exhibition. The show’s title takes its name from the Apollo Shopping Centre in Sham Shui Po, where the faded signs and retail stores evoke personal and social memories for the artist. In his paintings, he explores themes of consumerism, alienation, individuality and the impact of modernisation in a fragmented society today.
6. David Zwirner: Emma McIntyre’s ‘Among My Swan’
Above ‘White chalk south against time’ (detail) (2024) by Emma McIntyre (Image: courtesy of David Zwirner and the artist)
‘White chalk south against time’ (detail) (2024) by Emma McIntyre (Image: courtesy of David Zwirner and the artist)
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When: March 25 to May 10, 2025
Where: 5-6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
What: Among My Swan is New Zealand-born and Los Angeles-based artist Emma McIntyre’s first solo show in Asia, which follows her solo presentation at the gallery’s East 69th Street location in New York. Her present paintings seek to create a connection with her past creations, enacting a transformative system of creative generation. In this Hong Kong show, her artworks are made with oils and unconventional substances like oxidised iron. Her practice explores the alchemical possibilities of the painted medium.
7. Pace Gallery: Robert Indiana’s ‘The Shape of the World’
Above ‘Love (Red Outside Gold Inside)’ (1966–1999) by Robert Indiana (Image: courtesy of Pace Gallery and the artist)
‘Love (Red Outside Gold Inside)’ (1966–1999) by Robert Indiana (Image: courtesy of Pace Gallery and the artist)
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When: Mar 25 to May 9, 2025
Where: Pace Gallery, H Queen’s, 80, 12/F Queen’s Road Central
What: Pace Gallery will present sculptures, paintings and prints by celebrated American artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018), a vanguard of the Pop art movement. The artworks, created throughout his career, demonstrate his deep interest in numerology, literature, geometry, colour and form. He once referred to himself as an “American painter of signs” and dedicated his work to developing a visual vocabulary imbued with literary, political and spiritual depth.
8. Tang Contemporary Art: ‘Ritual, Trauma, and Allegory’
Above ‘Standstark Still’ (2024) by Jonas Burgert (Image: courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art and the artist)
‘Standstark Still’ (2024) by Jonas Burgert (Image: courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art and the artist)
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When: March 25 to May 10, 2025
Where: 10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road, Central
What: Tang Contemporary Art’s group exhibition this month, Ritual, Trauma, and Allegory, features eight artists: Anouk Lamm Anouk, Jonas Burgert, Jigger Cruz, Guillermo Lorca, Leng Guangmin, Edgar Plans, Rodel Tapaya and Woo Kukwon. The artists belong to different cultural backgrounds, but they all are drawn by how contemporary painting can be used to negotiate cultural identity and existential dilemmas—be that through deconstructing cultural symbols, reassembling fragmented elements or even tearing through the canvas.
9. Saatchi Yates: Sujin Lee’s ‘I Became You’
Above ‘Circle’ (2023) by Sujin Lee (Image: courtesy of Saatchi Yates and the artist)
‘Circle’ (2023) by Sujin Lee (Image: courtesy of Saatchi Yates and the artist)
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When: March 25 to April 9, 2025
Where: H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road, Central
What: London-based gallery Saatchi Yates will have a pop-up exhibition at H Queen’s as part of the building’s art month programme. In I Became You, Korean artist Sujin Lee presents 14 new paintings, which delve into her exploration of the self and her relationship with other women. Commenting on sisterhood, her paintings capture the vulnerability, anxiety and inner turmoil of these female figures. “Looking at the people around me, I thought about what makes me who I am. I thought of you surrounding me, feeling me through you, understanding you through me,” she says of the show.
10. De Sarthe: Wang Xin’s ‘Soul Light Legacy Plan’
Above A still from ‘Mnemosyne: In the Sea of Forgetting’ (2025) by Wang Xin (Image: courtesy of De Sarthe and the artist)
A still from ‘Mnemosyne: In the Sea of Forgetting’ (2025) by Wang Xin (Image: courtesy of De Sarthe and the artist)
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When: March 22, 2025 to May 17, 2025
Where: De Sarthe, 26/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Wong Chuk Hang
What: Soul Light Legacy Plan is the fourth solo exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Wang Xin. The show posits itself as a fictional service agency that provides immortality to humans. Unveiling a new body of sculptural, multimedia and interactive installations, the exhibition takes the format of a showroom of unusual artefacts imagined to preserve spiritual consciousness via the technological avant-garde.
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11. Rossi & Rossi: Tenzing Rigdol’s ‘Chitra-Kala (चित्रकला): Weaving Awareness through Time’
Above ‘Geometry of Emotions 1’ (2020) by Tenzing Rigdol (Image: courtesy of Rossi & Rossi and the artist)
‘Geometry of Emotions 1’ (2020) by Tenzing Rigdol (Image: courtesy of Rossi & Rossi and the artist)
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When: March 22 to May 10, 2025
Where: Rossi & Rossi, 11/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang
What: Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol presents a new body of paintings and drawings in his solo exhibition Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness through Time. Derived from the Sanskrit words chitra (“light or awareness”) and kala (“time or emptiness”), the exhibition’s title Chitra-Kala connotes the meaning of “art”. The show reflects the artist’s deep philosophical framework rooted in eastern thought and speaks to the interplay between awareness and the passage of time.
12. Tang Contemporary Art: Gongkan’s ‘Asynchronous Affinities’
Above 'Private Hot Springs' (2025) by Gongkan (Photo: courtesy of Gongkan)
'Private Hot Springs' (2025) by Gongkan (Photo: courtesy of Gongkan)
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When: March 22 to May 14, 2025
Where: Unit 2003-08, 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang
What: Presented with Tang Contemporary Art, Thai artist Gongkan debuts his first solo exhibition in the city. First garnering acclaim for his introspective Teleport Art, Gongkan’s diverse artworks reflect on themes of emotions, personal growth as well as clashes between generations, cultures and belief systems.
Grounded in the notion of “right person, wrong time”, the rising artist’s upcoming Hong Kong exhibition will showcase 20 artworks spanning paintings, sculptures and a film.
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