El Anatsui

Mar 25 – May 9, 2026 Hong Kong 
Mar 18 – Apr 18, 2026 Seoul 
Hong Kong Opening: Tue, Mar 24, 5pm – 8pm 
Exhibition tour: 5pm 

White Cube is delighted to present two concurrent exhibitions in Asia by renowned sculptor El Anatsui (b. 1944, Anyako, Ghana), marking his first collaboration with the gallery. Following his major presentation After the Red Moon at the Museum of Art Pudong in 2024—adapted from Behind the Red Moon for Tate Modern’s Hyundai Commission—a new body of work will be unveiled across White Cube’s galleries in Hong Kong and Seoul.

Since the late 1990s, Anatsui has transformed discarded bottle caps into monumental sculptural forms. Presented across both exhibitions, the new metal works expand this practice and, for the first time, are conceived as double-sided sculptures with no single front or back.

Suspended freely in space, the works reveal their intricate construction—thousands of caps cut, flattened and joined with copper wire—while contrasting shimmering silver surfaces with the earthy tones of the original branded metal.

White Cube at Art Basel Hong Kong Booth 1C23
White Cube will present a work by El Anatsui from his new series at its stand for the 2026 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. The presentation will also feature works by Antony Gormley, Cai Guo-Qiang, Beatriz Milhazes and Emmi Whitehorse, among others.

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Articles

Salvatore Emblema 薩爾瓦托雷・恩布勒馬 / Feature / August 22, 2025
Lynne Drexler 琳恩‧德雷克斯勒 / Review / May 12, 2025
Jessica Rankin 傑西卡‧蘭金 / Feature / November 4, 2024
Lee Jin Woo 李鎮雨 / Review / August 22, 2024
Julie Curtiss 朱莉·柯蒂斯 / Feature / October 30, 2023
Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, Su Yu-Xin / Review / September 13, 2023
Haim Steinbach / Review / October 4, 2022
Cerith Wyn Evans 凱裡斯·懷恩·埃文斯 / Feature / January 20, 2022 
Bruce Nauman 布魯斯·瑙曼 / Feature / May 2, 2021 
Virginia Overton 弗吉尼亞·奧弗頓 / Feature / October 9, 2020 
Park Seo-Bo / Review / December 27, 2018
Sarah Morris / Feature / June 15, 2018
Rachel Kneebone / Feature / August 7, 2017
Danh Vō / Review / February 1, 2017

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The first of White Cube’s galleries to be located outside of the UK, White Cube Hong Kong is situated at 50 Connaught Road, in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district. Since its inception in March 2012, the gallery has hosted a varied programme of exhibitions including Gilbert & George, Anselm Kiefer, Damien Hirst and Cerith Wyn Evans. The gallery provides an interior exhibition space of 550 m2 (6000 sq ft) which is set over two floors and has a ceiling height of over 4.5 metres. The building was designed by London based architects Maybank and Matthews.