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Shaqúelle Whyte at White Cube Hong Kong

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.

White Cube at Art SG

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Michael Armitage, Cai Guo-Qiang, Enrico David, Theaster Gates, Mona Hatoum, Marguerite Humeau, Richard Hunt, Danica Lundy, Ibrahim Mahama, Park Seo-Bo, Shao Fan, Raqib Shaw White Cube at Art SGBooth BC05Jan 22 – 25, 2026 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore whitecube.com White Cube returns to the 2026 edition of ART SG (Booth BC05), presenting works by artists including Michael Armitage, Cai Guo-Qiang, Enrico David, Theaster Gates, Mona Hatoum, Marguerite Humeau, Richard Hunt, Danica Lundy, Ibrahim Mahama, Park Seo-Bo, Shao Fan and Raqib Shaw, among others. The Pragmatic Pessimist (2024) by Raqib Shaw will be featuring in the TVS Initiative for Indian and South Asian Contemporary Art at Art SG, a significant initiative that places a robust spotlight on contemporary art practices from India and South Asia. Highlights from the booth include: Park Seo-Bo’s Ecriture No.090711 (2009), from the artist’s ‘Colour Ecriture’ series, which he began in the 2000s. Inspired by the exuberant autumn colours around Mount Bandai near Fukushima, the artist’s use of vivid tones marks a sharp transition from the neutral palette of earlier paintings. Michael Armitage’s bronze sculpture 1: The Trial (2025) marks the …

Thresholds 閥限

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Galuh Anindita, Arahmaiani, Christine Ay Tjoe, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Kei Imazu, Ines Katamso, I Gusti Ayu Kadek, Murniasih, Citra Sasmita, Jennifer Tee / White Cube / Hong Kong / Oct 31, 2025 – Jan 24, 2026 Chequered poleng cloths are ubiquitous in Bali. Often found wrapped around shrines, trees, statues or objects with spiritual and mystical connotations, these black and white textiles have a protective function and symbolise the coexistence of paradoxes: good and evil, order and chaos, light and dark – it’s literally woven into their materiality. For Galuh Sukardi, this coexistence of these polarised forces sparked the conceptual basis for Thresholds, an exhibition rooted in ideas of spiritual, political, physical and mythological means of transformation, largely informed by ancestral knowledge. “Opposites don’t always have to be resolved; sometimes they are simply lived,” says Sukardi, emphasising that to allow for this co-existence, a kind of equilibrium is required. “They’re all held in a delicate balance and, within that balance, I sense a maternal energy, a presence that nurtures and guides.” The exploration of this balance …

Salvatore Emblema 薩爾瓦托雷・恩布勒馬

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Born in Terzigno, near Naples, Salvatore Emblema (1929-2006) initially pursued a rather traditional artistic education, going to art school, training as a cameo jewellery carver (a practice that has a distinct Neapolitan declension, in the Torre del Greco school, which specialised in corals) and then enrolling in a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Naples. He didn’t finish university but instead dedicated time to travelling – going to France, the UK, and the Netherlands, and to New York for a year – after which he returned to Italy and started his career as an artist. In the 1950s, he worked for the Cinecittà movie studios in Rome, the largest in Europe, where he collaborated with Federico Fellini on films like La Strada (The Road, 1953-54), making the sets. His artistic practice bears little resemblance to old-school academic training involving even meticulous jewellery-making skills: the modernity of his approach to painting and sculpture is striking even more than half a century later. In his hands, the unprimed jute and sackcloth canvases he uses have …

Jessica Rankin at White Cube Hong Kong

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Jessica Rankin /Sky Sound /Until Nov 9, 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 the first solo exhibition in Asia by New York-based artist Jessica Rankin (b.1971, Sydney, Australia). Working with gestural painting and embroidery, Rankin’s practice fuses personal experiences and memories with broader references to politics, history, literature and poetry. The artist’s latest exhibition takes its title from her major painting, Sky Sound (2024), which references the poem ‘Earth web’, written by the artist’s mother, the renowned Australian poet and playwright Jennifer Rankin. The new canvases and double-sided works on paper featured in the show combine paint with delicate embroidered passages drawn from a variety of poems, including those by her mother. Combining geometric and organic forms, the compositions feature vibrant interactions between paint splashes, trails, gestures, and the sewn line – elements which coalesce to create topographical and constellatory patterns, evocative of vast landscapes and cosmic realms. Jessica Rankin: Sky Sound is open until 9 November 2024. The artist’s …

Julie Curtiss 朱莉·柯蒂斯

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Hair, both beautiful and abject, ornamental and beastly, is a semiotic system that holds a powerful attraction for French-born, Florida-based artist Julie Curtiss. Born and raised in Paris, Curtiss studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts and then at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden before making her way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Arguably, the Chicago imagists of her alma mater, like Christina Ramberg – to whose work Curtiss’ is often compared – and her years working as a studio assistant to both Jeff Koons and Brian Donnelly (aka KAWS) have informed Curtiss’ aesthetic, with its vibrant colours, cartoonish figuration and smooth, skilfully rendered lines. It’s a highly stylised visual language that helped her work get noticed on Instagram and reach stratospheric heights of success in the art world. But unlike Kaws’ Happy Meal cartoons and figurines, Curtiss’ work is personal, a deep dive into the female psyche and femininity through Jungian archetypes. Bitter Apples, Curtiss’ first exhibition at White Cube Hong Kong, brings together works across varied media, including …

Julie Curtiss at White Cube Hong Kong

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Bitter Apples /Sep 21 – Nov 11, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present Julie Curtiss’ first exhibition in Greater China, opening in September. The presentation features painting, sculpture and works on paper, as well as Curtiss’ first film work, a Surrealist narrative incorporating sculptural props made by the artist. The new works feature birds, insects and lush, tropical plants influenced by Curtiss’ new studio location in Florida. Sparking parallels with art-historical depictions of Eden and Paradise, the motifs serve as fertile ground for the artist’s slyly humorous take on temptation, gender and sexuality. A new edition, made by traditional Japanese woodblock printing, has been created on the occasion of this show.

Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, Su Yu-Xin

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Inside the White Cube: New Moroism / White Cube / Hong Kong / May 31 – Sep 9, 2023 / By Christina Ko / Blurred lines are very much the theme at White Cube’s summer exhibition, Inside the White Cube: New Moroism. In the literal sense, it refers to the Moroism movement, which emerged in Japan in the 19th century and saw stark outlines replaced by vague or hazy delineations of spatial boundaries. In a more abstract sense, these blurred lines are cultural ones: the four artists contributing to the show are of Asian descent, but no longer live or have never lived in their respective ethnic homelands, and pay homage to their heritage through their work. As such, the painting-dominant show is both romantic and restrained, filled with imagination and longing through an exploration of the concept of home, as embodied in each artist’s practice. The gallery’s lower floor features three works by London-based Michael Ho, who was raised in a small town in the Netherlands, a so-called third-culture kid whose childhood was and …

New Moroism at White Cube Hong Kong

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Inside the White Cube: New Moroism /May 31 – 9 Sep, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong /50 Connaught Road, Central /Hong Kong /+852 2592 2000 /Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present New Moroism, a group exhibition which brings together four artists who seek to expand the parameters and ideation of figuration in painting. Part of an emerging generation of artists whose roots are in Asia, Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai and Su Yu-Xin reflect a new approach and sensibility, responsive to trans-regional shifts and migration. Embracing the concept of ambiguity within their paintings, the artists each explore Moroism, an aesthetic paradigm which is derived from the ‘mōrōtai’ style (mōrō literally translated as ‘vague’ or ‘indistinct’) that emerged in Japan of the late Meiji era (1868–1912), also found as a pictorial intention originating in traditional Chinese painting theory. Determined by the artists’ shared East Asian heritage, the works in this exhibition are grounded in personal narrative. Chris Huen Sin Kan’s large-scale oil paintings feature a recurring cast of characters including his wife, son, daughter and dogs. …

Haim Steinbach at White Cube Hong Kong

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Haim Steinbachtin drumSep 14 – Nov 12, 2022 White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present ‘tin drum’, an exhibition of new and recent work by Haim Steinbach. Featuring works made in the past two decades, the selection reflects the artist’s engagement with the everyday object and the aesthetic and cultural implications of methods of selection and display. Since the mid 1970s, Steinbach has made structures and devices for presenting various found objects, in particular employing a wedge-shaped shelf based on 40, 50 and 90 degree angles, constructed in several parts and finished with a coloured, plastic laminate. Working within the methodologies of presentation rather than representation, his art sets in train a nexus of associations, enabling multiple potential themes to emerge from the arrangement of these common objects. ‘I [see] my works as an engagement with the here and now, with the archaeology of what exists and what we all participate in,’ Steinbach states. In the ground floor gallery, a group of …