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Mitchell F. Chan at DE SARTHE

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 …

Jack Tworkov at DE SARTHE

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Jack Tworkov /Jack Tworkov: 1900-1982: Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism – A Survey /Mar 21 – May 9, 2026 /Opening: Tuesday, Mar 24, 8pm – 10pm / 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 announce Jack Tworkov 1900-1982: Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism – A Survey, an exhibition of key works by the influential American painter from 1951 to 1982, organized with the support of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, Van Doren Waxter, and major US and Asian collectors. Marking this historically significant artist’s first major retrospective in Asia, the exhibition follows the evolution of his practice, characterized by the artist’s disposition toward creative fluidity and shifting identities, with a focus on the years in which he played a pioneering role in the Abstract Expressionist movement alongside peers including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. On view from March 21st to May 9th, the exhibition offers a journey through history made via the eyes and hands of its maker. Born in …

Marc Chagall: Dreaming in Color at DE SARTHE

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Marc Chagall /Marc Chagall: Dreaming in Color /Nov 6 – Dec 13, 2025 /Opening: Thursday, Nov 6, 5pm – 8pm / DE SARTHE /2/F, Block A, Vita Tower /29 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong /+852 2167 8896 /Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / desarthe.com DE SARTHE is pleased to announce Marc Chagall: Dreaming in Color, a captivating exhibition of paintings and vibrant original works on paper by the legendary modernist Marc Chagall (1887-1985). The exhibition offers a rare and intimate look into the artist’s poetic and dreamlike universe. Marc Chagall: Dreaming in Color brings together a curated selection of works that showcase Chagall’s unique visual language, where memory, folklore, and fantasy coalesce. This exhibition highlights the artist’s masterful use of color and line with works dated from 1950 to 1984. The collection features a range of paintings and original works on paper, where Chagall’s signature motifs, floating lovers, whimsical animals and nostalgic village scenes, come to life in a symphony of exuberant color. “Chagall’s ability to convey profound emotion and narrative through color is unparalleled,” said Pascal …

DE SARTHE’s New 10,000 sqft Space in Hong Kong

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DE SARTHE is pleased to unveil its new and expanded space in the Southside art district, officially opening on September 20th, 2025. Encompassing over 10,000sqft, the gallery’s new home is composed of different exhibition spaces, which will be inaugurated by a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Lazarus Chan, as well as an exhibition of Post-war and Modern works. The vision for the new space is to showcase the emerging movement of art and technology alongside historically significant artworks to remind of the importance of context in understanding art, whether classic or contemporary. In the same way that master artworks are considered in relation to their era, the gallery maintains that the essence of contemporary art is its relevance to today’s world. desarthe.com Lazarus ChanPoetics PolicySep 20 – Nov 15, 2025Opening: Saturday, Sep 20, 3–7pm Poetics Policy is the gallery’s first solo exhibition for Hong Kong-based artist Lazarus Chan. Featuring an interconnected body of multimedia and interactive artworks, the immersive exhibition explores the nature of policy-making and the intricate ways in which it manifests in art, machine …

DE SARTHE at Art Basel Hong Kong

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Galleries 3C08 /Chan Ka Kiu, Hou Jianan, Lov-Lov, Ma Sibo, Mak2, Caison Wang, Wang Jiajia, Wang Xin, Zhong Wei / Encounters EN9 /Lu Yang / Art Basel Hong KongConvention and Exhibition CentreMar 26 – 30, 2025 desarthe.com DE SARTHE returns to Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 with a curated presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong’s Galleries sector, an interactive installation by Lu Yang at the fair’s Encounters sector. In Galleries, the gallery will be participating with a nine-artist presentation, featuring a selection of works on canvas and paper, video, and multimedia artworks by the gallery’s roster of represented and collaborating artists, including Chan Ka Kiu, Hou Jianan, Lov-Lov, Ma Sibo, Mak2, Caison Wang, Wang Jiajia, Wang Xin, and Zhong Wei. Of particular note is a newly created interactive video game by Hong Kong-based artist Mak2 that visitors can play at the booth. Under the new cultural narrative forming amongst contemporary artists from Asia, cultivated by the emerging phenomenon of digital diaspora, the presented artists investigate the agents of identity in the post-technological era. Following Mak2’s large-scale installation Copy of …

Hou Jianan at DE SARTHE

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Hou Jianan /Here Today, Gone Tomorrow /Nov 30, 2024 – Jan 25, 2025 / DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong+852 2167 8896Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm desarthe.com Here Today, Gone Tomorrow by Chongqing-based artistHou Jianan is now open at DE SARTHE Hong Kong. The exhibition features a new body of works on canvas that allude to the illusion of fulfillment that manifests in the cross-breeze of consumerist society and digital gratification. Sweet and plump yet empty and fragile, Hou Jianan’s manipulation of imagery alludes to the way in which our perception of goods is enhanced by technology, resulting in the expanded desire to consume and indulge in materialism. As we are constantly distracted, or arguably numbed, by temptations and entertainment, we fall into a false sense of security as Hou suggests through his portrayal of home environments and domestic objects. With an emphasis on artificiality, the imagery speaks to the illusion of fulfillment constructed and exacerbated by instant digital gratifications.

Mak2 at DE SARTHE

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Mak2Art SurvivorsMay 4 – Jun 22, 2024 DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong+852 2167 8896Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm desarthe.com Do you experience art world fatigue? Are you looking to reignite that spark? A little over one month following a harrowing art week, Mak2 presents solo exhibition Art Survivors at DE SARTHE, featuring a first-person zombie shooting game set in an imaginary art fair as well as a new body of works on canvas titled Home From Home. The exhibition hints facetiously at the undercurrents of the art world system, offering a chance for escape, where players of the art world may decompress via a detachment from tangible reality and a self-deprecating laugh. Beyond a humorous critique of the art market, the exhibition is also a congratulatory nod toward those who have been able to survive thus far. Art Survivors is on view until June 22. All visitors are invited to play the game.

Wang Jiajia at DE SARTHE

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A/S/LMar 18 – Apr 29, 2023 / DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong+852 2167 8896Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm desarthe.com DE SARTHE is pleased to present A/S/L, its second solo exhibition for Beijing-based artist Wang Jiajia featuring a new body of mixed media works on canvas. Utilizing a recurring motif of vivid, large, and beast-like pupils throughout the exhibition, A/S/L contemplates the displacement of one’s vision from the physical body, caused by the contemporary and digital modes of seeing. A/S/L opens 18 March and runs through 29 April. An abbreviation of the phrase “Age/Sex/Location,” the question “A/S/L?” was briefly used early 2000s chatrooms and instant messaging platforms. In a time before profile pictures existed, this simple three-letter exchange provided a direct understanding of the person on the other side of the computer, traversing countries via cyberspace, enabling human connection in an unprecedented way. However, as social technology developed under the guise of global communication, virtual interactions have developed complete dissociation from real-life circumstances. Untethered by the obstacles and severities of physical reality, the human consciousness is …

DE SARTHE announces its new location with inaugural group show On-Going

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Double Fly Art Center, Liang Ban, Lu Xinjian, Ma Sibo, Mak2, Richard Streimatter-Tran, Xin Yunpeng, Zhong Wei, Zhou Wendou, Lin JingjingOn-GoingOct 15 – Nov 5, 2022 Grand Opening of new gallery spaceSaturday Oct 15, 20222pm – 7pm DE SARTHE26/F, M Place54 Wong Chuk Hang RoadHong Kong+ 852 2167 8896Tu-Sa 11am – 7pm desarthe.com@desarthegallery DE SARTHE is pleased to announce its new location with an inaugural group show On-Going featuring 12 selected works of its represented artists. Occupying the 26th floor of M Place, Wong Chuk Hang, DE SARTHE is determined to continue its boundary pushing practice at the new location, through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and cutting-edge programmes, supporting emerging Asian artists. The inaugural show On-Going brings the audience on re-exploration of our featured artists’ significant evolvement through their artistic practices in the past 6 years.

Andrew Luk 陸浩明 & Samuel Swope

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More than a decade ago, futurists and techno-hobbyists started to pronounce with unalloyed confidence that drones would upend the way we live. Aside from widely publicised use cases for the military, law enforcement and surveillance, the proposition was that they could also provide entertainment through photography or as general playthings, while others could automate tasks for us, like robotic cleaners or all-seeing autonomous security guards that watch over homes from above. As social and cultural developments iterate and unfold, technological advancements that ostensibly make our lives easier come with strings attached. Yet the overarching concern is velocity – prosperity and power await the first to switch zero to one. The cultural theorist and philosopher Paul Virilio described this condition as “dromology”, likening the evolution of society and culture to a race. Hong Kong-based artists Andrew Luk and Samuel Swope have teamed up for a project that unpacks Virillo’s observation. To make their point, the duo built a racetrack for drones in de Sarthe’s gallery space. Luk and Swope sound like architects when they describe what …