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LALIQUE and Contemporary Artist Fang Lijun Unveil ‘Yawning Man 2.0’ in Hong Kong

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LALIQUE and Fang Lijun /Yawning Man 2.0 /Nov 2 – 8, 2026 / Tournament Village /Victoria Park /Causeway Bay /Hong Kong / laliquehk.com Renowned French crystal brand LALIQUE has collaborated with Chinese contemporary artist Fang Lijun to present Yawning Man 2.0, a crystal artwork making its Hong Kong debut during this year’s Hong Kong Tennis Open. Also on display at the Tournament Village is a distinctive eco-friendly artwork 2025-2026 by Fang Lijun, reflecting the importance and future in the cross-disciplinary fusion of sports and art. After a decade of exploration and refinement, Yawning Man 2.0 brings together Fang Lijun’s artistic vision and LALIQUE’s century-old savoir-faire of crystal. Transcending the boundaries of traditional artistic media, Fang reimagines his iconic painting Series 2, (No. 2), combining its signature bald, yawning figure with the luminous clarity of crystal. The Yawning Man 2.0 crystal artworks are crafted entirely by hand at the LALIQUE workshops in Alsace, France. Using the precise traditional lost-wax casting technique, LALIQUE’s artisans translate the distinctive contours of Fang’s bald figure into a radiant, three-dimensional crystal form. From the original sculpture, a silicone mould is created and filled with molten wax to form a precise wax model, which is then …

HERMÈSTORIES: AN ADVENTURE TAKES THE STAGE AT FREESPACE IN HONG KONG

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HERMÈSTORIES: AN ADVENTURE TAKES THE STAGE /Oct 24 – Nov 8, 2026 / Play & Exhibition /4.30pm and 7.30pm (Weekdays) 2.30pm and 5.30pm (Weekends) No play on 26 October and 2 November Register Exhibition OnlySessions every 30 minutes 11am to 7pm (Weekdays) 10.30am to 5pm (Weekends)Register Freespace West Kowloon Cultural District Hong Kong hermes.com EXPERIENCE A PLAYFUL AND POETIC THEATRICAL CREATION IN HONG KONG INSPIRED BY THE STORIES OF HERMÈS Hermès invites the public to discover its story and its iconic objects in a show with surrealist touches, written by Pauline Bayle and directed by Joe Hufton. Accompanying the play, an original exhibition offers insights into the house’s spirit through a journey that combines bold staging with a new twist on oral tradition. On set, stage props transform into ingenious tools to illustrate some of the house’s major events and surprising moments that symbolize the continuous momentum of Hermès. The diversity of the house’s sixteen métiers is showcased. The exhibition invites the audience to wander through an installation designed like a theatre storeroom. It offers an opportunity to see these iconic …

Classical Salon Halloween Edition X at Ping Pong Gintonería

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Abylay Nurlybek / Violin, Arsen Omarbayev / Violin, Azarin Mustafazade / Piano, Dragon Lau Kei Lung / Piano, Jason Lam Ching Yin / Piano, Matthew Yu Shing Fung / Cajon, Satkozy Mukhtar / Kobyz, Shaikos / Bass, Yiwen Miao / Voice Classical Salon Halloween Edition X in partnership with HKBU Academy of MusicThursday, Oct 29, 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. ProgrammeProkofiev Sarcasms (Sarkazmy), Op. 17Schubert Der Tod und das MädchenShchedrin In the Style of AlbénizJ. S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: III SarabandeBeethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C, 1st mvt.

‘UNARCHIVED: Techno & Impermanent Flux’ at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

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Wesley Tongson, Wai Pongyu /UNARCHIVED: Techno & Impermanent Flux /Friday, Oct 30 /6pm – Begin /7.30pm – Soundscape shifts /10pm – The End / Register Chantal Miller GalleryAsia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice DriveAdmiraltyTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm +852 2103 9511 asiasociety.org Inspired by Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s exhibition Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson and the Wesley Tongson Archive at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong artist Wai Pongyu and the ASHK Curatorial Team proudly present UNARCHIVED: Techno & Impermanent Flux. UNARCHIVED treats performance as an act of raw honesty — a method of reanimating memory not on paper, but through moving bodies. Wai Pongyu approaches the archive as material to be reenacted and rave as an art form, celebrating the dance floor as a source of resilience, freedom, and joy. Expect shifting soundscapes from atmospheric, nostalgic pop to heavy-hitting techno, paired with dynamic visual projections in an environment built on proximity, sweat, and intensity.  Join us for a one-night-only, after-hours activation at Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s Chantal Miller Gallery, translating visual and textual …

Zhang Yunyao

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When the Surface Thinks / Oct 30 – Dec 18, 2026 /Opening: Thursday, Oct 29, 5pm – 8pm /Exhibition tour: Thursday, Oct 29, 5pm / White Cube Hong Kong presents When the Surface Thinks, a solo exhibition by Paris-based Chinese artist Zhang Yunyao (b. 1985, Shanghai). With this new body of work, the artist contends that meaning can reside within a surface – proposing painting as a sentient field that registers, reflects and thinks. The exhibition presents large-scale, illusionistic abstractions from Zhang’s ‘Connector’ series (2022–present), tight close-ups of carved heads from the ‘Time’ series (2021–present), and studies of classical statuary. These works subvert the traditions of Soviet Realism and the French Beaux-Arts that informed Zhang’s early academic training. Central to the artist’s practice is his use of graphite on felt, a material that is both light-absorbent and resistant to revision. Unlike oil on canvas, which allows for overpainting and correction, graphite becomes embedded into the textured plane. Through a sustained and highly physical process, Zhang builds tonal depth across the textile’s flatness, creating images that appear at once …

Mitchell F. Chan at DE SARTHE

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Mitchell F. Chan /Workers’ Playtime /Oct 10 – Nov 21, 2026 /Opening: Saturday, Oct 10, 3pm – 7pm /Artist-guided tour led by Mitchell F. Chan starts at 5pm / DE SARTHE2/F, Block A, Vita Tower 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong+852 2167 8896Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm desarthe.com DE SARTHE is pleased to present Workers’ Playtime, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Toronto-based conceptual digital media artist Mitchell F. Chan. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a game center, inviting viewers to interact with a new body of work consisting of interactive sculptures and video games. These new pieces extend Chan’s ongoing practice of using the rules and mechanics of games as a medium for social critique. These works are more than just entertainment; they are also traps. They invite viewers to engage as players, but ultimately lock them into roles as ineffectual laborers. Their rigged mechanisms deny the user’s agency and instead demand relentless work, exposing the inescapable loop of late capitalist labor. These are not metaphors so much as working demonstrations of a system functioning …

‘Anne Imhof: House of Swans’ at Tai Kwun

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Anne Imhof /Anne Imhof: House of Swans /Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 / JC Contemporary /Tai Kwun /10 Hollywood Road /Central, Hong Kong /Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm / taikwun.hk Tai Kwun Contemporary presents Anne Imhof: House of Swans (25 Sep 2026 to 3 Jan 2027), on view across three floors of the JC Contemporary and F Hall galleries. Curated by Ying Kwok and Tiffany Leung, House of Swans marks the Asian solo exhibition debut of the 2017 Venice Biennale Golden Lion recipient Anne Imhof. Presenting a substantial body of new work conceived specifically for Tai Kwun, the exhibition juxtaposes her multidisciplinary artworks with sculptural elements and a soundscape of original music. Within this striking scenography, visitors explore an environment filled with suspense yet poised for action. The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s deepening connection to classical ballet, revisiting and expanding upon her previous performance work, DOOM: House of Hope (2025). With a newly produced soundtrack incorporating classical and electronic music, House of Swans takes audiences through imposing and intimate architectural spaces to create a powerful choreography. During the exhibition’s run, performances by dancers from …

apexart NYC Open Call for group exhibitions

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Open call apexart  Accepting proposals: Oct 1 – 31, 2026 apexart 291 Church St. New York NY 10013, United States opencalls@apexart.org apexart.org/opencalls.php apexart invites 500 word idea-based group exhibition proposals for our 2027-28 NYC Open Call from October 1 – October 31, 2026. Five winning proposals will each receive a $10k exhibition budget to become “apexart exhibitions” as part of our 2027-28  exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level or location, are invited to submit a proposal online. The submission processProposals should describe a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition of 3 or more artists. No biographical info, CVs, links, or images will be accepted. The curator/organizer can be included as an additional artist. Submissions cannot exceed 500 words and must be submitted in English. Jurors from approximately 85 countries then review the proposals based on their personal interest, cultural assessment, content and communication of the idea. See examples of winning proposals here. The selection processRather than a typical 5-person local panel to review hundreds of ideas, apexart’s crowd-sourced system involves hundreds of jurors from 85 …

‘Nocturnal’ at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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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.