All posts tagged: White Cube Hong Kong

El Anatsui at White Cube Hong Kong

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 Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com 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 …

Shaqúelle Whyte at White Cube Hong Kong

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Shaqúelle Whyte /Inside the White Cube | Shaqúelle Whyte; Nine nights; Strange fruit /Feb 6 – Mar 14, 2026 /Opening: Thursday, Feb 5 /Exhibition Tour: 5pm /Preview: 5pm – 8pm /No RSVP required / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia by London-based artist Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton, UK), featuring new large-scale paintings. Exploring time, space and the subconscious, Whyte’s imagined environments evoke a sense of mystery and introspection, using loose brushstrokes and expansive compositions. Through a non-linear narrative, his recurring motifs and staged figures lend a theatrical quality, as if his canvases were scenes from an unfolding play. Though devoid of self-portraiture, Whyte’s paintings reflect his inner life, inviting viewers to interpret his surreal, dreamlike worlds as reflections of their own. Visit the exhibition page.

Thresholds – A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Artists connected to Indonesia at White Cube Hong Kong

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Galuh Anindita, Arahmaiani, Christine Ay Tjoe, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Kei Imazu, Ines Katamso, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Citra Sasmita, Jennifer Tee / Thresholds at White Cube Hong KongOct 31, 2025 – Jan 10, 2026White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm Thresholds at the HariUntil Mar 31, 2026The Hari Hong Kong31 October 2025 – 31 March 2026330 Lockhart Rd, Wan Chai whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present Thresholds, a group exhibition featuring the work of nine contemporary artists whose practices are rooted in or connected to Indonesia. Through a diverse range of mediums, the exhibition explores the interwoven cycles of life, death and transformation, with a focus on themes of ritual, spirituality, and reincarnation. Curated by Galuh Sukardi, an independent curator based in Bali, Indonesia, Thresholds brings together painting, sculpture, textile, drawing and silverware by multigenerational artists: Galuh Anindita, Arahmaiani, Christine Ay Tjoe, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Kei Imazu, Ines Katamso, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Citra Sasmita and Jennifer Tee. Each artist charts their own individual journey of transformation: spiritual, political, …

Isamu Noguchi at White Cube Hong Kong

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Isamu Noguchi A Feeling Sep 12 – Oct 18, 2025Preview: Thursday, Sep 11; exhibition tour at 5pm followed by Champagne Reception until 8pm White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube presents the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), exploring the profound influence that Chinese master painter Qi Baishi (1864–1957) had on his artistic development. Noguchi first encountered the work of Qi Baishi during a visit to Beijing in the early 1930s. At the time, Qi was renowned as a pioneering artist who was bringing Chinese ink painting to a global audience. The two struck up a friendship, and, following Qi’s guidance, Noguchi created the ‘Peking Brush Drawings’ – expressive, figurative ink-and-brush works. A selection of these early large-scale drawings from the collection of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, will be exhibited at White Cube alongside original works on paper by Qi himself. The exhibition also traces the lasting impact of calligraphic forms on Noguchi’s sculptural practice, culminating in a selection of constructed bronze …

Salvatore Emblema at White Cube Hong Kong

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Salvatore Emblema /May 28 – Jul 5, 2025 /Opening: Tuesday, May 27, 6pm – 8pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Italian artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006). Marking the first ever presentation of the artist’s works in Asia, the exhibition follows a solo show at White Cube Paris in 2024. Spanning a 30-year period of works made between the 1960s and 1990s, the Hong Kong exhibition includes Emblema’s signature paintings made with raw pigments on jute canvas, as well as Untitled / Ricerca sul paesaggio (1972), a suspended sculpture comprising a metal net hung across the gallery’s walls. Born in 1929 in Terzigno, Naples, Emblema’s practice, with its singular focus on the qualities of light, space and transparency, diverged from that of his contemporaries in Italy’s post-war avant-garde. Inspired by the landscape of his upbringing – a volcanic red zone on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius – Emblema worked predominantly with natural materials, utilising soils, …

Lynne Drexler 琳恩‧德雷克斯勒

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The Seventies /White Cube /Hong Kong /Mar 26 – May 17, 2025 / Few things can prepare you for what a chromatic explosion on canvas is really like. You might have seen pictures of Lynne Drexler works on a screen and thought that she uses colour in an extraordinary way, but her work is one of the many demonstrations that nothing compares to being able to stand in front of a painting and stare into it for as long as possible. Drexler (1928-1999) is often described as an abstract expressionist and, later, a representational landscape and still life painter, who kept on applying her distinctive way with colour to render backgrounds – walls, skies, mountains or seas – creating something between abstraction and representation. Drexler herself used to say that she was a “colourist”, something she started developing during her years in college, in New York, where she was taught by Hans Hofmann – who had already developed his “push and pull” theory of colour, in which he would put together contrasting blocks of colour to …

Lynne Drexler at White Cube Hong Kong

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Lynne Drexler /The Seventies /Mar 26 – May 17, 2025 / White Cube Hong Kong /50 Connaught Road, Central /Hong Kong /+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia of paintings by American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99). Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, ‘Lynne Drexler: The Seventies’ will debut never-before-seen works created during a pivotal decade in the artist’s practice. Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist’s vivid chromatic compositions reflect a breadth of stylistic influences, drawing from Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism, as well as classical music and the natural landscape. Executed through tessellated rectangles of paint, Drexler’s colour fields emanate an organic, kinetic dynamism. The exhibition follows White Cube’s first solo presentation of her work at Mason’s Yard, London, in November 2024, and the gallery’s announcement of the representation of The Lynne Drexler Archive in 2023. Click here for more information on the artist and the exhibition.

Howardena Pindell at White Cube Hong Kong

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Howardena Pindell /Deep Sea, Deep Space /Until Jan 8, 2025 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong presents Howardena Pindell’s first solo exhibition in Asia, showcasing the multidisciplinary American artist’s recent paintings that draw inspiration from the visual splendours of the ocean and outer space, alongside the ongoing series ‘Tesseract’ which emerges out of her early work. Multilayered, illusory and tactile, these works further Pindell’s fascination with the macro and the micro, from the tensions between surface and depth to the relationship between the cosmic and the cellular. Howardena Pindell’s profoundly personal and politically charged work delivers a dynamic materiality to the canons of painting – serving as much as a diaristic account of her own biography as a means to interrogate broader issues of social justice. With a practice spanning over five decades and encompassing a diverse range of mediums – including painting, collage, drawing and film – Pindell lends visceral form to a rigorous intellectual inquiry of the given subject. Click here …

Jessica Rankin 傑西卡‧蘭金

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Australia-born, New York-based artist Jessica Rankin recently opened her first Hong Kong solo exhibition, Sky Sound at White Cube, which was two years in the making. It comprises 26 works of acrylic and embroidery on linen, and of acrylic, graphite, watercolour and thread on paper; coils of floating colour and shapes swirl and shift across the surface of her intimate and monumental works, intersecting with rigid lines of embroidered thread, a signature element of her work. Rankin builds on the creative innovations of 1970s feminists like Judy Chicago and Margaret Harrison, who upended the traditional hierarchy and distinction between art and craft, bringing “women’s craft” and needlework into the contemporary art space, while at the same time developing her own distinct visual vocabulary. Embracing a fluid approach to media, Rankin uses brushstrokes and embroidery interchangeably, fusing the two with “masculine” fields like cartography, and incorporating geometric forms, astronomical signs and the written word to create an abstracted language. The written word, in fact, has come to be as much a defining element in Rankin’s work …

Lee Jin Woo at White Cube Hong Kong

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Lee Jin Woo /Inside the White Cube: Lee Jin Woo /Jun 1 – Sep 7, 2024 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Korean artist Lee Jin Woo, featuring new paintings and works on paper. Born in Korea in 1959, this Paris-based artist creates work in which the method of its making is integral to its comprehension. The process commences with the burning of wood to create charcoal and ash, which is then overlaid with hanji – a handmade Korean paper from mulberry tree bark. The surface is then pounded and scraped repeatedly with wire brushes to create abstract compositions of undulating light and shadow.  Referencing the legacy of Korean Dansaekhwa painting, Lee’s paintings share with the movement the emphasis on materiality and ‘repeatability’, whilst also defining a new visual language. His deep respect for traditional Korean materials, as well as the space this opens up for a new wave of Korean art, unites him with the leading father …