Cover ‘Crossing towards Openness of Nature’ (2024) by Dony Cheng Hung, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Gallery Exit)
‘Crossing towards Openness of Nature’ (2024) by Dony Cheng Hung, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Gallery Exit)
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Para Site’s Annual Gala and Benefit Auction returns on November 20 to St Regis. Check out nine highlights from this year’s offerings, which range from Vietnam’s modern art to Japanese prints.
Para Site’s much-anticipated Annual Gala & Benefit Auction returns to St. Regis Hong Kong on November 20, 2025, celebrating artistic excellence and supporting the city’s longest-running independent art space.
A preview exhibition will be held at H Queen’s from November 13 to 16, showcasing over 70 works by acclaimed artists from across the globe. As always, proceeds from the gala sustain Para Site’s year-round programmes and free exhibitions.
Among this year’s offerings, nine exceptional lots stand out; each reflecting the richness of artistic practices shaping today’s contemporary art landscape.
Read on to find out more about the artists and their pieces.
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1. ‘Immortality’ (1999) by Feng Guodong
Above ‘Immortality’ (1999) by Feng Guodong, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of Feng Xi and Spurs Gallery)
‘Immortality’ (1999) by Feng Guodong, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of Feng Xi and Spurs Gallery)
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Feng Guodong, a self-taught painter, was once considered an outsider from professional Chinese artistic circles before he became an established name in post-Cultural Revolution contemporary visual art and the Beijing Abstractionist movement. He is best known for resisting the ideals of official state-approved art during the Cultural Revolution and experimenting with various media, such as oil painting, drawings, sculpture and readymades.
The piece featured at the auction is from his series of figurative wood sculptures he created based on the form of the human body in the 1990s.
2. ‘Untitled’ (2025) by Ser Serpas
Above ‘Untitled’ (2025) by Ser Serpas, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and LC Queisser)
‘Untitled’ (2025) by Ser Serpas, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and LC Queisser)
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Los Angeles-born and New York–based artist Ser Serpas spins ephemera into elegance. Known for her site-responsive installations composed of found objects, her practice examines the fleeting traces of personal histories, urban decay and queer materialism.
At Para Site, she presents a piece from Of My Life, her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel this year, where she turned to painting as a site of fragility and transformation. The canvas presents a blurry, reconfigured torso, as if caught between emergence and disappearance to evoke a sense of uncertainty, erasure and fleeting presence.
3. ‘Thousand Splendid Suns’ (Ngàn mảnh lung linh)’ (2024) by Tia-Thủy Nguyễn
Above ‘Thousand splendid suns (Ngàn mảnh lung linh)’ (2024) by Tia-Thủy Nguyễn, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech)
‘Thousand splendid suns (Ngàn mảnh lung linh)’ (2024) by Tia-Thủy Nguyễn, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech)
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Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist Tia-Thủy Nguyễn is celebrated for her meditative canvases that bridge painting, fashion and performance. Founder of The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen has been instrumental in shaping Vietnam’s modern art scene.
Her work in this auction, which is from her Burdening Dream series, showcases a unique inner landscape. Named after Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel, the piece, which combines quartz and recycled glass that symbolise love, healing and rebirth, celebrates strength, resilience and hope. Combining hand technique with conceptual clarity, it exemplifies Nguyen’s commitment to fusing Vietnamese heritage with and modern sensibility.
4. ‘Tungus 3’ (2020) by Wang Tuo
Above ‘Tungus 3’ (2020) by Wang Tuo, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and White Space Beijing)
‘Tungus 3’ (2020) by Wang Tuo, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and White Space Beijing)
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A prominent voice in Chinese contemporary art, Wang Tuo operates at the intersection of fiction, history and myth. His video and painting installations weave together collective memory, folklore and political commentary.
He was the recipient of the Sigg Prize from M+, Hong Kong in 2023, the K21 Global Art Award from K21 Düsseldorf in 2024 and the OCAT × KADIST Media Artist Prize in 2020.
The painting offered at this year’s Para Site auction is part of Tuo’s Northeast China Tetralogy. Here, he challenges the boundary between past and present, reminding viewers of how personal stories echo within greater national rhythms.
5. ‘Indigo Forest 13’ (2015) by Shinro Ohtake
Above ‘Indigo Forest 13’ (2015) by Shinro Ohtake, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and STPI)
‘Indigo Forest 13’ (2015) by Shinro Ohtake, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and STPI)
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Japanese artist Shinro Ohtake has spent decades developing a monumental visual language blending painting, collage, sound and installation. A key figure of Japan’s postmodern art movement, Ohtake is famed for his obsessive archival sensibility, transforming accumulated materials into dynamic assemblages.
His piece for Para Site’s auction is part of the lithograph series Indigo Forest, which is inspired by his memories of the forests in Kassel, Germany, where he exhibited at Documenta 13 in 2012. Overflowing with textures, it manifests Ohtake’s enduring fascination with memory and sensory overload—an explosive microcosm of his career-long inquiries.
6. ‘Solace in the Bench’ (2024) by Ruofan Chen
Above ‘Solace in the Bench’ (2024) by Ruofan Chen, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
‘Solace in the Bench’ (2024) by Ruofan Chen, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
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Chinese artist Chen Ruofan examines slow, pervasive forms of harm embedded in the systems that shape daily life, focusing on how endurance and exhaustion manifest within bodies and environments. Developed through sensory encounters and research-driven studio processes, her works translate ordinary materials into poetic critique.
Created during a residency in Wuhan, this piece reconstructs stacked wooden stools from roadside eateries, their worn, greasy surfaces and traces of hair evoking labour, heat and care. By merging rest and toil, Chen questions who receives comfort within economies of utility.
7. ‘Kerbau Ditangkap Harimau’ (2025) by Marcos Kueh
Above ‘Kerbau Ditangkap Harimau’ (2025) by Marcos Kueh, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
‘Kerbau Ditangkap Harimau’ (2025) by Marcos Kueh, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
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Marcos Kueh explores shifting cultural meanings through textile-based storytelling rooted in Borneo’s weaving traditions. Once viewing the buffalo as a symbol of diligence, he later discovered its portrayal in Malay literature as foolish and obstinate—an irony that sparked questions about labour, identity and perception in developing nations. Trained in graphic design and advertising, Kueh now reimagines “myth weaving” for the present, preserving collective memory while urging Southeast Asians to revalue their cultural strength.
8. ‘Bullish 07’ (2025) by Stella Zhong
Above ‘Bullish 07’ (2025) by Stella Zhong, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space)
‘Bullish 07’ (2025) by Stella Zhong, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space)
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New York–based artist Stella Zhong constructs spatial studies that merge sculpture, architecture and conceptual design. Known for her minimalist aesthetic and complex material sensibility, Zhong’s works challenge how we occupy and perceive space.
Her contribution to the Para Site auction plays with scale and intimacy—a hand-fabricated installation of slanted surfaces and understated tonal shifts. Poised between tension and calm, the piece encapsulates her reflective approach to structure and presence, quietly transforming engineering logic into poetic form.
9. ‘Down the Eye of Polyphemos’ (2024) by Liao Wen
Above ‘Down the Eye of Polyphemos’ (2024) by Liao Wen, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
‘Down the Eye of Polyphemos’ (2024) by Liao Wen, which will be part of Para Site’s benefit auction 2025 (Image: courtesy of the artist)
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Liao Wen’s video, inspired by the blinded Cyclops in The Odyssey, weaves industrial imagery, natural forces and anatomical violence to probe humanity’s complicity in technological brutality. Her multidisciplinary practice—spanning sculpture, installation, video and performance—examines how power and machinery condition the body through states of trauma and care. Exhibited internationally from Beijing to Venice and Hong Kong, Liao’s work has earned major recognition including the Frieze New York Stand Prize in 2023. Selected for Pro Helvetia’s 2025 residency, she continues redefining sculptural and performative language.
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Zabrina is the Senior Editor, Arts and Culture of Tatler Hong Kong. She specialises in performing arts, visual art and film. Her wanderlust was first fuelled by the Mighty Rovers Antarctica Expedition 2010. Over the years, she has interviewed A-list artists and filmmakers, including Oscar winners Chlóe Zhao and Tim Yip, Golden Horse winner Sylvia Chang, In the Mood for Love cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Pachinko author Min Jin Lee, and Coachella’s first Chinese solo singer Jackson Wang. She won gold at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her 2021 feature on the waves of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
