ARTOMITY 藝源

Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin /Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2025 / The first thing you encounter upon entering Charmaine Poh’s exhibition Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take is a glowing hand-written phrase on the floor, ending with “how we breathe”. Projected in soft blue light, the words hover just above eye level, pulsing gently, as if taking air....

Yim Sui Fong 嚴瑞芳

Between the personal and the political lies Hong Kong-based artist Yim Sui Fong’s long-standing enquiry into how we come to know and relate to the world – an enquiry shaped by playful, embodied, socially engaged practices. Her work often explores how individual agency can generate new ways of seeing and being within power structures embedded in everyday life. Through participatory listening, performative archiving and...

Hilarie Hon 韓幸霖

Shaping Surface into Light /Gallery EXIT /Hong Kong /Aug 30 – Sep 17, 2025 / There is, first of all, an immediate shock. On either side of the space, the pure colours of Hilarie Hon’s paintings vibrate and strike with dazzling intensity. In her new solo exhibition at Gallery Exit, the same motif recurs everywhere: an immense sun slipping into the sea at sunset....

GayBird 梁基爵

For most people who were at GayBird’s Fragile! Human Inside performance at Tai Kwun in April 2025, it was impossible to anticipate the many twists and turns that would take place. The 70-minute performance started at the Laundry Steps, with an animation projected next to an installation that resembled a human head, constructed using cardboard boxes as building blocks and screens for eyes, with...

Trevor Yeung 楊沛鏗

Courtyard of Attachments /M+ /Jun 14 – Oct 12, 2025 /Caroline Ha Thuc / Courtyard of Attachments, Trevor Yeung’s exhibition at M+, constitutes the Hong Kong iteration of the artist’s presentation for the 2025 Venice Biennale. Distributed across three rooms, one of which is devoted to video documentation, the exhibition has been reconfigured to suit the institutional context of the museum. The original installation...

Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Tetsuo Mizù, Julie & Jesse, Kohei Kyomori 前川強、水島哲雄、Julie & Jesse、京森康平

Contours of Expression /Whitestone Gallery /Hong Kong /Aug 9 – Sep 20, 2025 /Ilaria Maria Sala / The Hong Kong branch of the Japanese-owned Whitestone Gallery has inaugurated its new Hong Kong space in Wong Chuk Hang with a group show, Contours of Expression. It features four artists: Tsuyoshi Maekawa, a member of the avant-garde Gutai Art Association group, which was active from 1954...

Nai-Jen Yang 楊乃臻

xi xi su su /Mother’s Tankstation /London /Mar 14 – Apr 17, 2025 / Nai-Jen Yang’s paintings unfold like whispered secrets, resisting immediate comprehension. In her first solo exhibition in London, at Mother’s Tankstation, surfaces made of gentle, meticulous brushstrokes evoke both lightness and weight, demanding time not as an aesthetic luxury but as a fundamental requirement for their visual effects to register. Looking...

Salvatore Emblema 薩爾瓦托雷・恩布勒馬

Born in Terzigno, near Naples, Salvatore Emblema (1929-2006) initially pursued a rather traditional artistic education, going to art school, training as a cameo jewellery carver (a practice that has a distinct Neapolitan declension, in the Torre del Greco school, which specialised in corals) and then enrolling in a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Naples. He didn’t finish university but instead dedicated...

Oscar Chan Yik Long 陳翊朗

To Sleep and Wake Unafraid /PF25 cultural projects /Basel, Switzerland /Jun 14–22, 2025 / For his solo exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, Oscar Chan Yik Long created an environment of ink drawings.  Entering the space feels like entering a body, the inner skin of which is covered with images. They are wild and tender, haunting and peaceful, bleeding from memories and experiences, as bodies always...

Ha Bik Chuen 夏碧泉

Reframing Strangeness /Para Site /Hong Kong /May 10 – August 10, 2025 / Typhoon season in Hong Kong is brutal. Tree limbs snap and fall. Ships are damaged or even run aground. Roads flood or, worse yet, cave in. But the rain gave Ha Bik Chuen inspiration. Specifically, he saw how the shoes of pedestrians left imprints on newsprint that lay stuck to the...