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Wesley Tongson at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

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 …

Dan Flavin at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Dan Flavin /Grids /May 28 – Aug 8, 2026 /Opening Reception: Thursday, May 28, 5pm – 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 announce an exhibition of works by Dan Flavin featuring the artist’s grids, a key body of work that he began in 1976. The first focused examination of this form, this presentation will include several re-creations of the way Flavin installed the grids in significant exhibitions during his lifetime, and will feature loans from important public collections as well as the Estate of Dan Flavin. A version of this exhibition was on view at David Zwirner New York in January–February 2026, and the presentation in Hong Kong is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Greater China. From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a wall, until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available …

Alia Ahmad at White Cube Hong Kong

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Alia Ahmad /In Time, A Bloom / مع الوقت، تزهرMay 20 – Jun 27, 2026 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com Traversing the cycles of transformation shaping the desert landscape of Riyadh and its surrounds, Alia Ahmad’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, In Time, A Bloom / مع الوقت، تزهر explores the emotional, cultural and historical complexity of her homeland. In thick accretions of oil and gauzy ink washes, Ahmad conjures scenes of elegiac reverie, casting the desert plane as a witness to the aspirations of civilisations across time. As Ahmad notes, this is a ‘territory shaped by ambition throughout the ages – from traversing Bedouins, religious pilgrimage, and resource-driven exploration to modern-day conflict. The arid expanses became the theatre of many ambitions. It has witnessed such enterprises evolve, transform, fade, and re-emerge with new faces and newer tools. And through all of this, the flower still blooms.’ In the accompanying essay, ‘A Total Flower’, writer Mirene Arsanios explores how Ahmad’s unique gestural language captures the mutability of the land …

Zheng Bo 鄭波

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Recently, Zheng Bo has been using the lagoon in the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia as a temporary studio and daily research site. Drawn there by its exceptionally clean air and status as one of the world’s largest, most biodiverse lagoons, he works through direct, low-tech immersion – swimming, observing, filming. Reflecting on what he refers to as “eco-sensibility”, the Hong Kong artist is evolving his long-standing concerns with queer ecology and social imagination into a more modest but radical aim: “learning to live on Earth” through pleasure, beauty and care. Moving between humour, anarchist thought and close observation, he asks what art can do – not to fix the ecological crisis and save nature but to transform how we perceive and relate to it. Caroline Ha Thuc: You’ve already spent several months this year in New Caledonia and now you’re back there to work. Is this a new temporary studio? What drew you there? Zheng Bo: It was quite accidental. Some time ago, I read a report by a Swiss company that …

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

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Wallace ChanVessels of Other Worlds VeniceSanta Maria Della PietàMay 8 – Oct 18, 2026 ShanghaiLong Museum West BundJul 18 – Oct 25, 2026 wallace-chan.com Coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Wallace Chan presents Vessels of Other Worlds, a dual-site exhibition unfolding between Venice and Shanghai. Opening on 8 May 2026 at the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà in Venice, and continuing from 18 July 2026 at the Long Museum in Shanghai, the project is curated by James Putnam and establishes a transcontinental dialogue between two cities historically defined by water, reflection, and exchange. At the core of the exhibition is oil, or Olea Sancta, a substance that, across cultures and religions, has long functioned as a medium of purification, protection, and consecration. Used in rituals in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam, oil embodies a shared understanding of transformation and spiritual continuity. Chan reimagines this material not as substance alone, but as a conceptual thread linking different systems of belief. In Venice, three titanium vessels are installed within the Chapel’s …