Cover Inside The Peninsula’s event to honour Art Week in Hong Kong (Photo: courtesy of The Peninsula)
Inside The Peninsula’s event to honour Art Week in Hong Kong (Photo: courtesy of The Peninsula)
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Art Week in Hong Kong got off to a flying start on March 23 at The Peninsula's annual art week party
The Peninsula Hong Kong opened its 2026 edition of Art in Resonance, the hotel group’s annual commission-based programme that has, since 2019, championed emerging and mid-career artists by giving them the funding, curatorial support and exhibition space to create significant new public work.
This year’s edition brought together three Hong Kong and internationally based artists, each with a distinctly different practice, across The Peninsula's iconic spaces. Hong Kong artist Angel Hui, recently selected to represent Hong Kong at the 61st Venice Biennale, transformed the hotel’s façade, awnings and signature Rolls-Royces with Swimming in Light, a work rooted in the traditional Chinese gongbi painting style, defined by meticulous, detailed brushwork. Embroidered goldfish drifted across the building’s exterior and turned the first-floor Verandah windows into shimmering, light-catching pools visible from both inside and out.
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Albert Setyawan, Angel Hui, Benjamin Vuchot and William Lim
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Inside The Lobby, Jakarta-born, Tokyo-based ceramicist Albert Yonathan Setyawan presented Metamorphic Modulation, developed in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Working in unglazed red terracotta—what Setyawan calls “baked earth”—the installation centred on two forms drawn from nature, a leaf and a flower, housed within a purpose-built structure that drew viewers into a quietly contemplative space.
Rounding out the programme, at The Peninsula's Verandah Café, was Hong Kong architect-artist and Tatler’s Most Influential honouree William Lim, who collaborated with Tai Ping Carpets to turn his oil painting A Bright Future into a fully immersive environment. A hand-tufted wall tapestry and a checkered floor carpet made visitors feel as though they’d stepped directly into the canvas.
The opening was presided over by Benjamin Vuchot, CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, as guests spilled across the ground floor amid a sprawling spread of food from the hotel’s kitchens, free-flowing champagne and music. The crowd arrived in fine form, dressed in their colourful finest—very much in the spirit of the works on show.
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Photography: Courtesy of The Peninsula
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