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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 …

Classical Salon X at Ping Pong Gintonería

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Lau Kei Lung Dragon, Yeung Ming, Ling Chun Yu Martin, Wong Long Chit Long, Zhong Kejun, Wong Chi Ho Harry, Pang Sze Wai Olivia, Nurlybek AbylayClassical Salon X in partnership with HKBU Academy of MusicThursday, Apr 23, 20268.30pm – 10.30pm  Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Monday – Sunday, 6pm till late pingpong129.commus.hkbu.edu.hk Ping Pong Gintonería continues its collaboration with HKBU Academy of Music (HKBUMUS), presenting a recital that highlights the technical command and interpretive depth of the Academy’s emerging artists. The repertoire spans diverse musical traditions, from the structural precision of Beethoven and Mozart to the virtuosic Romanticism of Liszt, complemented by lyrical arrangements of Gershwin. BeethovenPiano Sonata in C major Waldstein (Op. 53), Adagio molto, Allegretto moderato Liszt Fantasia Quasi Sonata, Dante Sonata  Mozart Piano Trio in C major, KV548, movement 1 Gershwin Estrellita, It Ain’t Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)

Wesley Tongson at gdm Taipei 

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Wesley Tongson Whispers of Myriad ValleysApr 16 – Jun 27, 2026Opening: Apr 16, 4pm – 7pm 1/F, 390 Ruiguang RoadNeihu, Taipei+886 2 7713 6696Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm galeriedumonde.com Wesley Tongson (1957–2012) transformed ink painting into a fearless act of experimentation and expression. From his early splash-ink works—pigments cascading in ecstatic rhythms—to his radical abandonment of the brush, painting instead with fingers, fingernails, and hands, Tongson made the body itself the brush. Each gesture was a performative outpouring of emotion, each mark a whisper that swelled into powerful resonance. His artistic journey unfolds as a restless search for transcendence. Radiant splash-ink landscapes dissolve boundaries between tradition and innovation, while monumental finger paintings collapse the distance between artist and medium. At the exhibition’s center, the monochrome Spiritual Mountains are set within a mirrored chamber, immersing viewers in a space of contemplation. In later years, Tongson reintroduced color into these mountains, conjuring imaginary worlds where dreams and his inner voice could be revealed. The path culminates in finger-painted plants, placed in dialogue with the living garden beyond the gallery walls. These works embody resilience, purity, and renewal, …

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

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Wallace Chan /Vessels of Other Worlds / Venice /Santa Maria Della PietàMay 8 – Oct 18, 2026 Shanghai /Long Museum West BundJul 18 – Oct 25, 2026 wallace-chan.com To coincide with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Wallace Chan presents Vessels of Other Worlds, a dual-site exhibition unfolding between Venice and Shanghai. The project marks the artist’s 70th birthday and introduces a new body of monumental titanium sculpture. Curated by James Putnam, the exhibition extends Chan’s longstanding investigation into material innovation, metaphysics, and scale. At the Pietà Chapel, three titanium vessels reference the Olea Sancta — the sacred oils used in Catholic rites — and are structured around the triad of birth, growth, and death/rebirth. Their biomorphic and architectonic forms evoke the layered cosmologies of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, while remaining grounded in Chan’s sculptural language. Installed within the Chapel’s altar space, a triptych of video screens operates as a live conduit to Shanghai, collapsing geographical distance and situating the exhibition within a transcontinental framework. At the Long Museum, the …

Hong Kong Arts Development Council SHOWCASE Presents The Lurking Void  

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Phoebe Hui /The Lurking Void /Mar 21 – Apr 19, 2026 / SHOWCASE / UG/F, Landmark South 39 Yip Kan StreetWong Chuk HangClosed on Mondays except 6 AprilSaturday – Wednesday, 12pm – 7pm Thursday – Friday, 12pm – 8.30pm hkadc-islandsouth.hk The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) presents its latest exhibition, The Lurking Void, at its distinctive multi-functional space, the SHOWCASE. Harnessing the full scale of the venue, the exhibition envelops audiences in colossal, site-specific installations, brought to life through unsettling sound and motion. Office equipment – printers, desks, cables, and scanners – transform into creature-like entities and landscapes, portraying a white‑collar world where AI does not replace humans but alters the nature of work, leaving people neither erased nor in control, but instead deeply entangled.  The Lurking Void is a psychological portrait of contemporary office labour shaped by the growing presence of artificial intelligence. Rather than framing AI as a force that simply replaces human workers, the project reflects on how work, identity and value are being reconfigured as humans and machines increasingly operate together. In this environment, the boundary between human …

Ping Pong Gintonería and Sunway Express present Jan Agha: Furr Yeah!!! 

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Jan Agha /Furr Yeah!!! /Mar 26 – Jul 26, 2026 / Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Monday – Sunday, 6pm till late pingpongt129art.com Ping Pong Gintoneria and Sunway Express are proud to present Furr Yeah!!!, a solo exhibition by British-Pakistani artist Jan Agha. Opening 26th March 2026 during the week of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, the exhibition will be on view until 26th July, 2026. Known for his raw, humorous, and deeply personal visual language, Agha’s work fuses echoes of Persian academic traditions with a contemporary irreverence that feels both devotional and defiant. Jan Agha’s universe of iconography is a canon mythology of our time. His figures, painted in thick oils and raw mixed media, oscillate between the sacred and the comic, the mystical and the absurd. Drawing on Persian traditions yet refusing cultural conformity, Agha carves out a hybrid pantheon of deities that are at once fleshly and spiritual, humorous and tragic.   His gestures are devotional in their intensity but rebellious in their refusal to conform. …

Lap-See Lam at Blindspot Gallery

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Lap-See Lam /Bamboo Palace, Revisited /Mar 23 – May 2, 2026 / 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 debut Lap-See Lam’s solo exhibition at the gallery and in Asia, Bamboo Palace, Revisited, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong. The exhibition presents Lam’s expansive video installation Floating Sea Palace (2024), alongside her latest glass and neon installations. Lam probes the experience of the Hong Kong Chinese diaspora, migrational movement, generation loss, and the mistranslation of cultural symbols, orientalized through the spectacle of exoticization. Through speculative fiction and mythology, she explores the slippery notions of home and belonging, drawing from her personal experiences growing up in a Hong Kong-immigrant family that owned and ran a Chinese restaurant in Stockholm until 2014. Lam’s work further integrates reinterpretations of traditional forms of storytelling, including shadow play and Cantonese opera, and 3D scanning technology. The scans glitch and deform, a quality embodied in the term “generation loss”, which for Lam conveys a …

Qiu AnXiong at Pearl Lam Projects

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Qiu AnXiongBearing the UnseenMar 24 – May 30, 2026 Pearl Lam ProjectsG–3/F, W Place52 Wyndham StreetCentral, Hong Kong Monday – Saturday, 10am – 7pm+852 2522 1428 pearllam.com Guided by the aesthetics of Chinese ink painting and deeply rooted in classical Chinese philosophy, Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong, for more than two decades, has developed a singular artistic language that moves fluidly between painting, animation, installation, and time-based media. In his work, he articulates a condition he describes as “modernity in flux” that is marked by instability, mutation, and profound moral ambiguity. To him, modern civilisation is an unsettled terrain haunted by spiritual dissonance.  At a time when the use of artificial intelligence increasingly blurs what is real, Qiu reexamines our relationship with nature and the desire to dominate and control it. He does not abandon tradition in the face of modernity. Instead, he uses classical sources, Western anthropology, ancient Chinese mythological texts such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and Zhuangzi’s notion of equality of all things to rescript the chaotic phenomena of the contemporary world.  Bearing the …

Alisan Fine Arts at Art Basel Hong Kong

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Chao Chung-hsiang, Cheuk Ka-wai, Cherie, Fang Zhaoling, Ming Fay, Fong Chung-ray, Fu Xiaotong, Lee Chin-fai, Danny, Man Fung-yi, Walasse Ting, Wang Tiande, Wong Lai-ching, Fiona, Zhang Xiaoli /Art Basel Hong Kong  /Booth 3E08 /Kabinett Sector: Chao Chung-hsiang /Mar 25 – 29, 2026 / Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre1 Expo Drive Wan Chai alisan.com.hk Then and Now — 45 Years of Pioneering Spirit, Innovation, and the Global Chinese Imagination Marking its 45th anniversary, Alisan Fine Arts returns to Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with a presentation that traces Chinese contemporary art’s dialogue between tradition and innovation in the global context. The booth brings together diaspora pioneers, leading women artists, and contemporary material innovators, alongside a Kabinett Sector presentation devoted to Chao Chung-hsiang—reflecting the gallery’s long-standing commitment to Chinese ink and its evolving global language. 20th Century PioneersOur presentation honours artists who redefined Chinese art on the international stage:  US based diaspora artists Walasse Ting’s chromatic verve, Ming Fay’s sculptural ecologies, Fong Chung-ray’s abstract explorations, and Hong Kong-based Fang Zhaoling’s modern literati brushwork. Highlights include Ting’s vivid pink horse …