Felix Gonzalez-Torres /
Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place /
Nov 19, 2025 – Feb 14, 2026 /
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Nov 19, 5pm – 7pm /
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
Central, Hong Kong
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
+852 21195900
David Zwirner is pleased to announce Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place, the first exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s (1957–1996) work in Hong Kong. Gonzalez-Torres was one of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In its reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials, his work resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political.
Featuring examples from key bodies of work by the artist, this presentation will also extend beyond the gallery into the city, and will seek to draw out the deep resonances between Gonzalez-Torres’s practice and the city’s complex urban fabric, historical trajectory, and evolving identity. Hong Kong—a place shaped by histories of passage and transformation—mirrors many of the complexities the artist explored throughout his work, which sought to question and collapse dualities such as belonging and estrangement, the particular and the universal, the individual and the collective, and the fixed and the fleeting.
Simultaneous manifestations of candy and stack works in the show will be displayed at significant sites around the city, exploring the complex relationships and negotiations between private and public space, and intimacy and anonymity, that informed Gonzalez-Torres’s practice. By embedding the artist’s work within Hong Kong’s urban environment and daily rhythms, this project brings into question notions of access, who constitutes the public, and what defines public versus private space. The synchronous installations moreover speak to the continued mutability and openness of Gonzalez-Torres’s work: responsive to different contexts, it welcomes the possibility of holding multiple, evolving meanings at once.
Images: “Untitled” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1989/1990. Installed in Felix Gonzalez-Torres: This Place. Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. October 30, 2015 – January 24, 2016. Curated by Eoin Dara. Courtesy of Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast.
“Untitled” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1987 (detail). © Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres/courtesy Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and David Zwirner.
“Untitled” (Couple) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1993 (detail). © Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres/courtesy Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and David Zwirner.
