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‘Nocturnal’ at David Zwirner Hong Kong

Uri Aran, Patricia Ayres, Julie Beaufils, Sedrick Chisom, Carroll Dunham, Nat Faulkner, Sasha Gordon, Kenji Ide, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Jack O’Brien, Kent O’Connor, Trevor Shimizu, Michelle Uckotter Sep 23 – Nov 14, 2026Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sep 23, 5pm – 7pmArtist talk led by Matthew Brown begins promptly at 5pm 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 a group exhibition organized and conceived by gallerist Matthew Brown that brings together a group of artists who work primarily in the hours of darkness. Nocturnal presents work by Uri Aran, Patricia Ayres, Julie Beaufils, Sedrick Chisom, Carroll Dunham, Nat Faulkner, Sasha Gordon, Kenji Ide, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Jack O’Brien, Kent O’Connor, Trevor Shimizu, and Michelle Uckotter. Across painting and sculpture, these artists draw upon what fellow nocturnal creative Joan Mitchell called “electric light,” harnessing this visual and temporal state to make works that thrum with the particular energies of darkness and offer an alternative to waking life. For some of the artists on view, nighttime …

Tesfaye Urgessa at White Cube Hong Kong

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Tesfaye Urgessa /The Lingering Departure /Sep 9 – Oct 20, 2026 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com The figurative paintings of Ethiopian-born artist Tesfaye Urgessa suspend compressed and fragmented bodies within spaces that resist ordinary logic, drawing the viewer into oneiric scenarios in which distinctions of place and time appear to fold into one another. Bringing together the artist’s most recent paintings, drawings and watercolours, The Lingering Departure extends this indeterminacy into matters of movement and migration, taking the apparent contradiction between ‘lingering’ and ‘departure’ to evoke the liminality of transit. Having spent over a decade moving between Addis Ababa and Germany, Urgessa regards departure as an ongoing condition: one that begins, as he describes it, in the anticipation of where one is going and persists through the memory of a place left behind.

“Soft Borders” at Blindspot Gallery

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Igshaan Adams, Bi Rongrong, Kazuko Miyamoto, Angela Su, Aiko Tezuka, Yee I-Lann /Soft Borders /Sep 15 – Nov 7, 2026 /Opening: Saturday, Sep 12, 3pm – 6pm /Exhibition guided tour: Saturday, Sep 12, 4pm (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 – 6.30pmBy invitation and appointment only blindspotgallery.com Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Soft Borders, opening on September 12, and on view from September 15 to November 7, 2026, featuring works by Igshaan Adams, Bi Rongrong, Kazuko Miyamoto, Angela Su, Aiko Tezuka, and Yee I-Lann. Bringing together artists across diverse geographies and material approaches, the exhibition examines how borders — social, cultural, historical, and geographical — are stretched, untethered, and reimagined. Themes of community, labor, technology, and globalization come into focus. While the artists engage with the logic of weaving, embroidery, and interlacing, their material vocabularies extend beyond the thread to encompass beads, wire, bamboo, hair, metal, and enamel. Textile and fiber are approached not as singular mediums, but as sites of …

Final Weeks of Wesley Tongson at Asia Society Hong Kong: Tours, Piano Recital, Catalogue & More

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Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson /Jul 15 – Oct 11, 2026 /Piano Recital : Sunday, Oct 11, 4pm – 5pm /Miller Theater, The Imagined Pianist: Christina Petrowska Quilico / Chantal Miller GalleryAsia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice DriveAdmiraltyTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm +852 2103 9511 asiasociety.org Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson, the final installation of Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s Celebration of Ink exhibition series, runs through 11 October at ASHK’s Chantal Miller Gallery. Representing the first major institutional exhibition of Wesley Tongson (Tang Jiawei 唐家偉, 1957–2012) in his home city in over a decade, the show highlights his mastery of classical subjects and the innovative “ink play” techniques through which he transformed daily struggles into rich artistic visions of landscapes, expressive finger-painting, and transcendent splashed ink works. Upcoming programs include a lecture on post-’80s Hong Kong ink painting by academic experts from the Greater Bay Area (late September), and a performance of Alice Ping Yi Ho’s Pictures from an Imagined Exhibition, inspired by Tongson’s dynamic works, performed by celebrated Canadian pianist …

Wesley Tongson at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

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Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson /Jul 15 – Oct 11, 2026 /Conversation: Thursday, Jul 16, 6.30pm – 8pm /Tradition, Innovation, and Transcendence: Understanding Wesley Tongson’s Ink PlayCurators, Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo and Julia M. White, and the late artist’s sister, Cynthia Tongson. Free admission, registration required. Chantal Miller GalleryAsia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice DriveAdmiraltyTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm +852 2103 9511 asiasociety.org This exhibition presents the works of Hong Kong experimental ink artist Wesley Tongson (Tang Jiawei 唐家偉, 1957-2012), demonstrating how the artist’s lifelong exploration of ink and different spiritual philosophies all interweaved to ultimately serve as outlets for his struggles with mental health and questions of gender identity. The title of the exhibition, Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink, originates from one of Tongson’s seals used to sign his works. The idiom captures the artist’s deft, dynamic handling of the brush and playful approach to ink. Tongson’s life and works emerge in the five sections of the gallery, unpacking specific themes of his career. Rare early works highlight the …

Shigeo Otake at White Cube Hong Kong

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Shigeo Otake /Agoraphilia /Jul 10 – Aug 29, 2026 /Opening: Thursday, Jul 9, 5pm – 8pm /Artist tour: 5pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube presents new fresco and tempera paintings by Shigeo Otake (b.1955, Kobe, Japan) in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Informed by his interest in Early Italian Renaissance techniques, Otake’s painting practice spans more than four decades. In 1985, a chance encounter with a giant wild mushroom in Kyoto, Japan, sparked his interest in mycology; since the late 1980s he has pursued meticulous studies of parasites and the transformative morphology of Cordyceps, a genus of parasitic fungi. Titled Agoraphilia the exhibition centres on the agora, an Ancient Greek word meaning ‘assembly’, as both a site of action and a conceptual framework. Otake takes this as a departure point for his marketplace paintings, in which he engages with systems of circulation, the logic of consumerism and the dynamics of reciprocity. In these new paintings, densely populated scenes of anthropomorphic figures and botanical forms appear …

Wallace Chan: Vessels of Other Worlds – A Dual-Site Exhibition in Venice and Shanghai

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Wallace Chan /Vessels of Other Worlds / ShanghaiLong Museum West BundJul 18 – Oct 25, 2026 VeniceSanta Maria Della PietàMay 8 – Oct 18, 2026 wallace-chan.com This July, Wallace Chan: Vessels of Other Worlds arrives at Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai after opening in Venice at the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà on 8 May 2026. Curated by James Putnam, the dual-site exhibition unfolds in the year of Chan’s 70th birthday. The Shanghai presentation gives the project its largest form. Three titanium vessels, rising to approximately seven, eight and ten metres, will occupy the galleries of Long Museum West Bund. Their scale changes the conditions of viewing. What appeared in Venice within the charged intimacy of a sacred space becomes, in Shanghai, a set of environments large enough to enter, circle and inhabit. The vessels are organised around birth, growth and rebirth, and take inspiration from Olea Sancta, or sacred oil. In religious tradition, sacred oil is associated with purification, protection, consecration and spiritual continuity. Chan does not illustrate these associations directly. Instead, he treats …

Wang Xiaoqu at Kiang Malingue Hong Kong

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Wang Xiaoqu /Dwelling in Mirrors /Jun 26 – Aug 22, 2026 /Opening: Thursday, Jun 25, 6pm – 8pm / Kiang Malingue 10 Sik On StreetWan Chai, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 12am – 6pm +852 2810 0317 Kiang Malingue is pleased to present Dwelling in Mirrors, a solo exhibition by Wang Xiaoqu at its Hong Kong location, featuring over a dozen oil paintings created over the past year. The series expands upon the artist’s recent artistic trajectory—a transition at once poised and intense. As the artist turns her gaze inward, she recalibrates the relationship between the self and the other, utilizing her captivating canvases to reimagine social milieus, friendships, temporal existence, and the ruptured link between the ego and its projected ideals—the self dwelling in mirrors. This is Wang Xiaoqu’s first solo exhibition with Kiang Malingue. Over the past decade, Wang has woven complex visual narratives through technically exquisite and unexpectedly composed paintings. She favours depicting startling, confounding tableaus, where recurring imagery of middle-aged men and sophisticated social situations elicit a subtle sense of unease while accentuating power dynamics and emotional conflicts. A palette alternating …

Submissions are now open for the inaugural .ART Award 2026

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award.art Founded by the .ART Registry to mark its 10th anniversary, the .ART Award is a new annual prize for artists working today. Applications are accepted through 1 November 2026. Semi-finalists are announced on 6 November, finalists on 20 November, and winners revealed on 3 December 2026 at Art Basel Miami. Prizes: USD 50,000+ in total. How the submission works. Each artist submits a URL: a .ART domain pointing to content online that holds the bio, the work, and the story behind the practice. The submission can be a personal site, a profile on an artist platform (HUG.art, ID.art, OpenSea, Foundation, and others), or any destination the artist already maintains. The jury reads each practice in the artist’s own context. The 2026 jury: Eligibility. Artists worldwide, working in any medium, are invited to apply. The submission requires an active .ART domain. .ART is the registry of choice for over 310,000 artists, galleries, museums, and cultural institutions. Submit and learn more at award.art.

Liste Art Fair Basel

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Jun 15 – 21, 2026 / Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 /Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113 /4058 Basel / liste.ch From 15 to 21 June, Liste Art Fair Basel returns to Messe Basel with its largest edition to date. As a key platform for new discoveries in contemporary art, the fair brings together over 100 international galleries presenting a new generation of artists alongside more established positions. Across solo and group presentations, the focus remains on ambitious, often newly produced work that reflects the urgency and diversity of current artistic practices. Alongside the galleries’ presentations, the curated programme continues to expand. Throughout the week a series of performances, talks, guided tours, film screenings, the Spine Book Forum, and children’s workshops invite visitors to experience Liste as a place for dialogue, encounter, and engagement with relevant questions in contemporary art. Liste functions as a platform for exchange, mutual support, and networking—an environment in which artists, galleries, and audiences share space and where long-lasting connections can be fostered in response to current artistic and socio-political contexts. With its longstanding commitment to supporting emerging …