Month: May 2025

On Kawara at Tai Kwun Contemporary

On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules /Curated by Hou Hanru and Ying Kwok, with Jill Angel Chun /May 23 – Aug 17, 2025 / JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present the work of pioneering conceptual artist On Kawara, in the first major retrospective in the world conceived after his passing in 2014. On Kawara revolutionised how art can be constructed and experienced, building a lifelong artistic practice defined by a deeply human approach. Consisting of profound gestures that transform the mundane act of marking time into a meditation on human consciousness, each piece from the artist is remarkably personal and yet speaks to universal human experiences. Tai Kwun’s exhibition presents the artist’s most iconic series and features an episodic section dedicated to the artist’s visit to Hong Kong in 1978. On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules will be on view from 23 May to 17 August 2025 in the 1st Floor gallery space of the JC Contemporary and the …

Robert Ryman at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Robert Ryman /May 28 – Aug 1, 2025 /Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 28, 5pm – 7pm /Walkthrough led by Susan Dunne, Senior Director at David Zwirner, starting at 6pm / David Zwirner5-6/F, H Queen’s 80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm+852 21195900 davidzwirner.com David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Robert Ryman (1930–2019) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Marking Ryman’s first solo presentation in Greater China, this exhibition will feature a range of works from the early 1960s through the 2000s, offering a concise survey of the materials, supports, painterly treatments, and ways of engaging with the wall that Ryman utilized over the course of his six-decade-long career. Ryman is widely celebrated for his tactile works using white paint in all its many permutations, which he executed using a range of painterly mediums on various supports including paper, canvas, linen, aluminum, vinyl, and newsprint. Emerging in the 1960s, Ryman eschewed self-contained representational and abstract imagery, instead giving precedence to the physical gesture of applying paint to a support. His works …

Tsang Kin-Wah 曾建華

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T REE O GO D EVIL /gdm /Hong Kong /Mar 19 – May 24, 2025 / Tsang Kin-Wah’s latest solo exhibition, T REE O GO D EVIL, is conceived as a total installation – an immersive visual and auditory environment that blends the artist’s characteristic use of textual quotations with edited video excerpts, including films or online clips depicting scenes of violence. The work revisits the artist’s enduring thematic concerns, drawing inspiration from the Bible, prophetic imagery of the apocalypse and current events to interrogate the contemporary meaning of moral values such as good and evil, the human capacity for judgement and humanity’s place within what Tsang frequently describes as an illusory world. Visitors enter the gallery through a narrow corridor, crossing metal grilles almost imperceptibly before arriving in the main exhibition space. At its centre stands a large pillar, a massive tree whose trunk is covered in letters and phrases. Its branches extend across the ceiling, made of coiled and uncoiled text, as well as suspended words and letters. While the formal language is …

Salvatore Emblema at White Cube Hong Kong

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Salvatore Emblema /May 28 – Jul 5, 2025 /Opening: Tuesday, May 27, 6pm – 8pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Italian artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006). Marking the first ever presentation of the artist’s works in Asia, the exhibition follows a solo show at White Cube Paris in 2024. Spanning a 30-year period of works made between the 1960s and 1990s, the Hong Kong exhibition includes Emblema’s signature paintings made with raw pigments on jute canvas, as well as Untitled / Ricerca sul paesaggio (1972), a suspended sculpture comprising a metal net hung across the gallery’s walls. Born in 1929 in Terzigno, Naples, Emblema’s practice, with its singular focus on the qualities of light, space and transparency, diverged from that of his contemporaries in Italy’s post-war avant-garde. Inspired by the landscape of his upbringing – a volcanic red zone on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius – Emblema worked predominantly with natural materials, utilising soils, …

Hong Kong Sinfonietta 香港小交響樂團

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Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall /Hong Kong / May 17, 2025 /Ernest Wan / Among the offerings of this year’s French May Arts Festival was a concert from the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Trio Wanderer Plays Beethoven Triple Concerto. It was memorable, however, neither for the acclaimed chamber ensemble from France nor for the great German composer’s work but for the Czech guest conductor Tomáš Netopil’s rendition of the other, equally buoyant works on the programme, both written by his countrymen. Like the Beethoven work it preceded, Bohuslav Martinů’s seven-minute Overture H 345 (1953) is in bright C major and is sometimes redolent of a baroque concerto grosso. Under Netopil’s assured baton, the orchestra filled the auditorium with a warm glow of sound from the first bars, and the music, with its insistent succession of 16th notes and chains of syncopated string figures, chugged its way at a healthy clip to a firm conclusion. The Sinfonietta was joined in the Beethoven concerto (1804) by Trio Wanderer, whose members, says the official bio, are known for …

Lynne Drexler 琳恩‧德雷克斯勒

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The Seventies /White Cube /Hong Kong /Mar 26 – May 17, 2025 / Few things can prepare you for what a chromatic explosion on canvas is really like. You might have seen pictures of Lynne Drexler works on a screen and thought that she uses colour in an extraordinary way, but her work is one of the many demonstrations that nothing compares to being able to stand in front of a painting and stare into it for as long as possible. Drexler (1928-1999) is often described as an abstract expressionist and, later, a representational landscape and still life painter, who kept on applying her distinctive way with colour to render backgrounds – walls, skies, mountains or seas – creating something between abstraction and representation. Drexler herself used to say that she was a “colourist”, something she started developing during her years in college, in New York, where she was taught by Hans Hofmann – who had already developed his “push and pull” theory of colour, in which he would put together contrasting blocks of colour to …

Digital Art Awards Exhibition at Phillips London

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32 Pioneers of Digital Art /Digital Art Awards Exhibition /May 16 – 22, 2025 / Phillips30 Berkeley Square /London W1J 6EX /Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm /Sunday, 12am – 6pm / digitalartawards.io HOFA Gallery, in partnership with PhillipsX and Hivemind Capital Partners, presents a landmark new group exhibition spotlighting 32 of the world’s leading digital artists. Running from 16–22 May 2025 at Phillips London, the exhibition showcases the winners and finalists of the inaugural Digital Art Awards and follows the awards ceremony on 15 May. Curated across four categories — Still Image, Moving Image, Experiential and Innovation — the public show features 32 artworks exploring the full spectrum of contemporary digital practice, from generative systems and AI to immersive installations, robotics and data-led works, representing a bold, genre-defying snapshot of digital art at its most visionary. A collaboration between internationally acclaimed media artist Refik Anadol and the Yawanawá Indigenous community of Brazil, Winds of Yawanawá, is a standout highlight of the exhibition. The experiential category work draws on environmental data from the Amazon rainforest, transformed through AI into a digital artwork shaped by …

Xu Bing’s Hong Kong Square Words 徐冰在香港：英文方塊字書法

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After he was appointed as Hong Kong’s Ambassador for Cultural Promotion in 2024 for a term of five years, renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing’s first commissioned art initiative, Xu Bing in Hong Kong: Square Word Calligraphy, can be seen at locations around Hong Kong. His exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA), Eying East, Wondering West – Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, has converted the museum’s ground-floor annex into a classroom where the audience can learn about and practise Square Word Calligraphy, a unique form of writing he developed that transforms English into a visual style strongly resembling Chinese characters. Newly emblazoned on the museum’s exterior glass canopy using Xu’s Square Words are the museum name and the text: “Connect Art to People”. Expressing both the museum’s mission and Xu’s belief “in making art accessible to everyone”, this new display demonstrates the contrast between traditional Chinese calligraphic forms and the English alphabet to become an old-new, east-west, cross-cultural blend. Taking Xu’s art outside the museum to the public, his calligraphy is now exhibited to …