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Alisan Fine Arts at Art Basel Hong Kong

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 …

Lui Shou-kwan at Alisan Fine Arts

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Lui Shou-kwanLui Shou-kwan: Artist Teacher ScholarSep 25 – Dec 6, 2025Opening: Thursday, Sep 25, 5pm – 7pm RSVP assistant@alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present Lui Shou-kwan: Artist Teacher Scholar, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lui’s passing. This exhibition gathers around two dozen exemplary works across the key decades of the artist’s career from 1951 to 1972. A selection of archive materials on his teachings and writings will also be on display. Together with the publication of a book of the same title, this landmark exhibition aims to re-examine the discursive and wide-ranging influences of Lui through his three distinct, yet interconnected, identities: bold innovator, tireless educator and fierce scholar. Fifty years later, Lui remains one of the most influential artists in Hong Kong’s history, whose groundbreaking approach to art and education continues to inspire generations of artists in the city and beyond. Born in 1919 to a scholarly family in Guangzhou, Lui grew up immersed in the study of ancient masters. His …

Lin Guocheng 林國成

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A Dance of Landscapes and Civilisation / Alisan Fine Arts (Central) / Hong Kong / Sep 19 – Dec 9, 2023 / The first solo presentation of Lin Guocheng’s work at Alisan Fine Arts showcased two series by the Hong Kong-based, mainland Chinese artist. Having studied at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, the artist merges a foundation in Chinese art with his knowledge of Renaissance art and modern technology, playing with perspectives, proportions and compositional elements. Examining the relationship between nature, humans and the evolving world, the resulting presentation celebrates a shared history and pays homage to cultural heritage. Lin’s first monochromatic Landscape series echoes the spirit of Renaissance etchings and drawings, with volume and depth masterfully captured by his clever application and manipulation of lines. The influences of masters such as Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo can be seen in the rendering of movement and fluidity, except that Lin’s subject matter of landscapes could not be more different. His portrayals of Chinese shanshui appear to take on lives of their own, flourishing organically and rhizomatically …

Lin Guocheng in conversation with Dr. Susan L. Beningson

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Ink in Our Modern TimesTalk will be bilingual in English and Chinese Wednesday, Sep 27, 20236pm – 7pmRSVP assistant@alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm Also live-streamed on Instagram @alisanfinearts alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts is excited to announce two prominent figures in the contemporary art scene: contemporary ink artist Lin Guocheng and Dr. Susan L. Beningson, curator and professor, will engage in a face-to-face conversation at the Central gallery, discussing the topic “Ink in Our Modern Times” on how popular culture, such as ukiyo-e prints, cinema and novels, transforms landscape paintings and their meanings, and on the inspiration Lin draws from ancient totem in his works. This event is as part of the current exhibition Lin Guocheng: A Dance of Landscapes and Civilisation. Notably, Dr. Beningson has travelled from New York to participate in this special event. Dr. Susan L. Beningson is an independent curator and Professor of Asian Art history at New York University. Her forthcoming exhibition, the retrospective Xu Bing: Word Alchemy, will open at Asia Society Texas (AST) …

Chu Chu 儲楚

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Awakening / Alisan Fine Arts, Central / Hong Kong /Feb 1 – Mar 16, 2023 / Chu Chu’s second solo exhibition at Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong was an overview of the emerging artist’s works from 2007 to the present. It was curated mainly to provide viewers with background knowledge of her practice, featuring some of her best-known earlier works, as well as showcasing her latest multimedia experiments. Highlighting her roots in photography and Chinese calligraphy, Awakening not only traces Chu’s development over the past decade and a half, but also serves as an affirmation of her talent at reinterpreting and reconciling vastly different genres. The presentation started with her iconic Material Immaterial series from over a decade ago, featuring five monochromatic works depicting dried fruits, gardenias and twigs. You could easily be forgiven for dismissing the photographic renderings of such objects as banal or commonplace. However, understatement is the key here. Embedded in the photographs among the nuanced shadows are calligraphic scrolls so subtle and delicate that they could easily be mistaken for …

Ming Fay’s Artistic Journey
A Panel Discussion

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Ming Fay’s Artistic JourneyA Panel DiscussionTuesday, Nov 15, 20226pm – 7pm RSVP Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst TerraceCentral, Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm alisan.com.hk Panelists includeParker Fay, Director of Ming Fay Art StudioLau Kin Wai, Art CriticMichelle Wong, Researcher and curatorModerated by Daphne King, Director of Alisan Fine Arts Talk will be bilingual in English and Chinese. Also live-stream on Instagram @alisanfinearts In celebration of the launch of Ming Fay’s monograph Journey into Nature, we are happy to present a panel discussion on Fay’s artistic journey. Ming Fay, internationally renowned Chinese diaspora sculptor, installation artist, and professor. He was born in Shanghai, raised up in Hong Kong and has since settled in New York to develop his artistic career. Fay’s work, which draws on his extensive knowledge of both Eastern and Western horticulture and mythologies, primarily comments upon the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, such as his iconic large fruit sculptures and hanging Money Tree installations. Currently his work is on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA until June 2023. Exhibition Journey into Nature continues until 24 December 2022.

Lui Shou-kwan at Alisan Fine Arts

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Lui Shou-kwan Hong Kong LandscapesDec 2 – Mar 12, 2022 Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst TerraceCentral, Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm http://www.alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present Hong Kong Landscapes, its sixth solo exhibition for ink master Lui Shou-kwan (1919-1975). With a focus on Lui’s modern landscape paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, the paintings on display literally follow Lui’s footsteps while he visits the various sites around Hong Kong Island. They include iconic landmarks such as Victoria Harbour, Victoria Peak, Lion Rock, Happy Valley, and the beautiful beaches of Repulse Bay and Shek O, as well as the various hills and valleys in the country parks. Through these works one can trace the extra-ordinary techniques that Lui developed to meticulously depict the changing seasons, weather, and the various times of day while maintaining the literati spirit of traditional ink painting. Liu was painting these landscapes all the while when he was working on his iconic Zen paintings. This exhibition is the third in a series of important shows …

Tai Xiangzhou, Zhang Yirong

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Sep 13 – Oct 21 Opening: Wednesday, Sep 13, 6 – 8pm Alisan Fine Arts (Central) The gallery is proud to showcase a joint exhibition of the two celebrated young ink artists. The show features Tai’s ethereal landscape paintings and Zhang’s larger than life meticulous paintings of flowers and butterflies in painstaking detail. While Zhang’s works were featured in Beyond the Jade Terrace, a group exhibition organized by the gallery in 2014 for four young women Chinese ink artists, this is the first time we will be exhibiting Tai’s paintings. 21/F Lyndhurst Tower 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central T (852) 2526 1091 Email Web Mo-Sa 10:30 am to 5:30 pm Alisan Fine Arts was founded in 1981. Over the years it has organised more than 100 exhibitions for Chinese artists living around the world. Through these exhibitions and other events, Alisan has brought to Hong Kong and other parts of Asia established international Chinese Artists including Zao Wouki, Chu Teh Chun, Gao Xingjian, Chao Chung Hsiang, John Way and Fay Ming, Walasse Ting and Hsiao Chin. …