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Shigeo Otake 大竹茂夫

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Agoraphilia /White Cube Hong Kong /Jul 10 – Aug 29, 2026 / A bird-man; one-eyed faces sprouting petal-like rays; life-size mushrooms that function as umbrellas – Shigeo Otake’s surreal paintings feature a curious cast of recurring hybrid characters and motifs. One in particular, a girl in a red dress, appears in almost all the works on view for Agoraphilia at White Cube Hong Kong. At times she’s peering from a doorway in a corner, placed at the entrance of a market in a public square, in front of a gate or between two tentacled creatures – always poised at a threshold, traversing the invisible porosity between two entities. With Agoraphilia, Otake creates and explores the possibilities that arise when human and otherworldly realms blur, describing its imagined population as “inhabitants of another world who have somehow slipped into our own, and ordinary people who find themselves in the other world”. To forge this perspective, the artist needed a figure who represented an ordinary person – the viewer – and conceived the girl in red, whose …

Shigeo Otake at White Cube Hong Kong

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Shigeo Otake /Agoraphilia /Jul 10 – Aug 29, 2026 /Opening: Thursday, Jul 9, 5pm – 8pm /Artist tour: 5pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube presents new fresco and tempera paintings by Shigeo Otake (b.1955, Kobe, Japan) in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Informed by his interest in Early Italian Renaissance techniques, Otake’s painting practice spans more than four decades. In 1985, a chance encounter with a giant wild mushroom in Kyoto, Japan, sparked his interest in mycology; since the late 1980s he has pursued meticulous studies of parasites and the transformative morphology of Cordyceps, a genus of parasitic fungi. Titled Agoraphilia the exhibition centres on the agora, an Ancient Greek word meaning ‘assembly’, as both a site of action and a conceptual framework. Otake takes this as a departure point for his marketplace paintings, in which he engages with systems of circulation, the logic of consumerism and the dynamics of reciprocity. In these new paintings, densely populated scenes of anthropomorphic figures and botanical forms appear …

Alia Ahmad at White Cube Hong Kong

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Alia Ahmad /In Time, A Bloom / مع الوقت، تزهرMay 20 – Jun 27, 2026 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com Traversing the cycles of transformation shaping the desert landscape of Riyadh and its surrounds, Alia Ahmad’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, In Time, A Bloom / مع الوقت، تزهر explores the emotional, cultural and historical complexity of her homeland. In thick accretions of oil and gauzy ink washes, Ahmad conjures scenes of elegiac reverie, casting the desert plane as a witness to the aspirations of civilisations across time. As Ahmad notes, this is a ‘territory shaped by ambition throughout the ages – from traversing Bedouins, religious pilgrimage, and resource-driven exploration to modern-day conflict. The arid expanses became the theatre of many ambitions. It has witnessed such enterprises evolve, transform, fade, and re-emerge with new faces and newer tools. And through all of this, the flower still blooms.’ In the accompanying essay, ‘A Total Flower’, writer Mirene Arsanios explores how Ahmad’s unique gestural language captures the mutability of the land …

El Anatsui at White Cube Hong Kong

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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

Published by Ilaria Maria Sala

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.