Month: September 2025

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 to 1972; abstract painter Tetsuo Mizu, who passed away this January, at 80 years of age; Kohei Kyomori, born in 1985; and the Hong Kong and Jingdezhen-based ceramic artist duo Julie & Jesse – Swiss designer Julie Progin and American artist Jesse Mc Lin. Maekawa’s works date from the early 1960s to 2015 and are all variations of his signature jute/burlap cloth on canvas: using adhesive and paint, he shapes the cloth on the canvas so as to create a three-dimensional element. He adds paint either before shaping the cloth or after, creating abstract works that immediately recall the Gutai approach, with its bright colours and devotion to a process that …

Rick Lowe at Gagosian Hong Kong

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Rick LoweHarbour FragmentsSep 11 – Nov 1, 2025 Gagosian Hong Kong7th Floor, Pedder Building12 Pedder Street, Central+852 2151 0555Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm gagosian.com Gagosian is pleased to announce Harbour Fragments, an exhibition of new paintings by Rick Lowe. These works abstract from aerial views of Hong Kong that feature sections of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon Peninsula, interpreting the dynamic metropolis. On view at the gallery’s location in Hong Kong’s Central district from September 11 through November 1, this is Lowe’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Taking an exploratory approach to geography and abstraction, Lowe’s practice encompasses both studio work and community-based projects that address urban transformation. His vibrant canvases employ the visual languages of painting, collage, and cartography. These paintings emerge from an improvisational approach derived in part from games of dominoes that Lowe plays with residents worldwide, adapting their intricate patterns and juxtapositions to foreground aspects of urban structures and civic relationships.

Lui Shou-kwan at Alisan Fine Arts

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Lui Shou-kwanLui Shou-kwan: Artist Teacher ScholarSep 25 – Dec 6, 2025Opening: Thursday, Sep 25, 5pm – 7pm RSVP assistant@alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present Lui Shou-kwan: Artist Teacher Scholar, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lui’s passing. This exhibition gathers around two dozen exemplary works across the key decades of the artist’s career from 1951 to 1972. A selection of archive materials on his teachings and writings will also be on display. Together with the publication of a book of the same title, this landmark exhibition aims to re-examine the discursive and wide-ranging influences of Lui through his three distinct, yet interconnected, identities: bold innovator, tireless educator and fierce scholar. Fifty years later, Lui remains one of the most influential artists in Hong Kong’s history, whose groundbreaking approach to art and education continues to inspire generations of artists in the city and beyond. Born in 1919 to a scholarly family in Guangzhou, Lui grew up immersed in the study of ancient masters. His …

Fabien Verschaere at Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong

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Fabien Verschaere50/50Sep 27 – Nov 15, 2025Opening: Saturday, Sep 27, 4pm–7pm Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong7/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang RoadWong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong+852 2523 8001Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitestone-gallery.com Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong proudly announces the grand opening of its new space in Wong Chuk Hang with the exhibition 50/50, celebrating the 50th anniversary of renowned French artist Fabien Verschaere (1975—). This landmark exhibition showcases a comprehensive selection of works that span his illustrious career, from childhood creations to pivotal pieces displayed in major international exhibitions. The event marks a significant milestone for the artist’s achievements, highlighting a vibrant new start for the gallery. Verschaere’s philosophy revolves around pushing the boundaries of his artistic practice, creating a dreamlike world that balances humor and depth. His works challenge traditional artistic genres, weaving together complex narratives that invite interpretation. The exhibition will showcase a diverse selection of Fabien Verschaere’s works, tracing his artistic journey from 1975 to the present. As a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2000, Verschaere quickly gained …

DE SARTHE’s New 10,000 sqft Space in Hong Kong

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DE SARTHE is pleased to unveil its new and expanded space in the Southside art district, officially opening on September 20th, 2025. Encompassing over 10,000sqft, the gallery’s new home is composed of different exhibition spaces, which will be inaugurated by a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Lazarus Chan, as well as an exhibition of Post-war and Modern works. The vision for the new space is to showcase the emerging movement of art and technology alongside historically significant artworks to remind of the importance of context in understanding art, whether classic or contemporary. In the same way that master artworks are considered in relation to their era, the gallery maintains that the essence of contemporary art is its relevance to today’s world. desarthe.com Lazarus ChanPoetics PolicySep 20 – Nov 15, 2025Opening: Saturday, Sep 20, 3–7pm Poetics Policy is the gallery’s first solo exhibition for Hong Kong-based artist Lazarus Chan. Featuring an interconnected body of multimedia and interactive artworks, the immersive exhibition explores the nature of policy-making and the intricate ways in which it manifests in art, machine …

Border(line) at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Border(line) /Sep 13 – Oct 25, 2025 /Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 13, 3pm – 7pm / 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 present a group exhibition at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Border(line) centers on the inescapable thresholds—literal and abstract—that demarcate nations, spaces, and contemporary life, and considers borders as conceptual and psychological states of being. Bringing together a diverse group of artists from the gallery’s program alongside voices from across Asia, this presentation offers an opportunity for global connection and exchange around the existence and possibilities of such partitions. The exhibition will feature works by Josef Albers, Francis Alÿs, Chen Wei, Raoul De Keyser, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hu Xiaoyuan, James Prapaithong, Prae Pupityastaporn, Wong Ping and Xie Nanxing. Together, these artists present a multifaceted, cross-generational, and transcultural vision of twenty-first-century life, one that is shaped and reshaped by constantly changing borders, both real and imagined.

Isaac Chong Wai at Blindspot Gallery

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Isaac Chong WaicarefullySep 16 – Nov 1, 2025 Opening: Saturday, Sep 13, 3pm – 6pmIsaac Chong Wai in conversation with Tobias Berger: Saturday, Sep 13, 4pm The talk will be conducted in English. Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2517 6238 Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm blindspotgallery.com Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Isaac Chong Wai’s second solo exhibition, “carefully”. Chong explores the human condition through the lens of movement, time, and the traces they bear. He delves into the performative qualities of materials, showing their relationship with the body and their potential for world-making. “carefully” acknowledges precarity while embodying a gesture of care. It proposes solidarity as a way to heal and to move forward from traumas. The new works featured in the exhibition continue themes Chong explored in his video installation and performance, Falling Reversely (2021/2024), presented at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting upon the fragility and resistance of the body in the face of systemic violence. In “carefully”, Chong probes our attentiveness to the past by drawing from his …

Isamu Noguchi at White Cube Hong Kong

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Isamu Noguchi A Feeling Sep 12 – Oct 18, 2025Preview: Thursday, Sep 11; exhibition tour at 5pm followed by Champagne Reception until 8pm White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube presents the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), exploring the profound influence that Chinese master painter Qi Baishi (1864–1957) had on his artistic development. Noguchi first encountered the work of Qi Baishi during a visit to Beijing in the early 1930s. At the time, Qi was renowned as a pioneering artist who was bringing Chinese ink painting to a global audience. The two struck up a friendship, and, following Qi’s guidance, Noguchi created the ‘Peking Brush Drawings’ – expressive, figurative ink-and-brush works. A selection of these early large-scale drawings from the collection of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, will be exhibited at White Cube alongside original works on paper by Qi himself. The exhibition also traces the lasting impact of calligraphic forms on Noguchi’s sculptural practice, culminating in a selection of constructed bronze …

Nai-Jen Yang 楊乃臻

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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 at works like Bon Iver, Bon Iver and white noise (2024), the eye initially finds little to grasp. Yang’s process involves months of sustained engagement with individual canvases, listening to the same musical pieces while building up surfaces through thousands of repetitive marks. Working with oil paint and rabbit skin glue on fabrics such as calico, muslin and canvas, she creates surfaces that shift between opacity and translucence depending on angle and light. Applied without traditional gesso, the rabbit skin glue creates microscopic crystalline formations that catch and refract light throughout the day. From certain angles, these appear as tiny prisms embedded in the surface. The fabric remains partially transparent, revealing …