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Art Week in Hong Kong is not just about art fairs and blockbuster international shows.
It is also a great time to get acquainted with the city’s art scene and art history, and to seek out works by Hong Kong artists and curators that are being championed by smaller galleries and non-profit art spaces.
Here is a list – by no means exhaustive – of shows that we think are worth checking out.
Dreamchasers: Stories of Hong Kong Art
Hong Kong Museum of Art
The city’s oldest museum of art is launching a survey of 60 years of Hong Kong art history, starting from around the time the museum’s predecessor, the City Hall Art Gallery & Museum, first opened.
Featured artists include Tong King-sum, Ha Bik-chuen, Gaylord Chan and Rosanna Li Wei-han, and there will be projections and interactive elements that focus on memorable moments and stories.
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mon-Wed, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat, Sun and public holidays, 10am-9pm. From March 21.

Douglas Bland: Reflections
Ping Pong 129 Gintonería
The art crowd’s favourite gin joint is presenting the first major Hong Kong exhibition of work by Douglas Bland since 1979.
This retrospective aims to introduce a younger generation to one of Hong Kong’s most high-profile artists in the decades after the second world war.
Born in the UK, Bland moved to Hong Kong in 1948 and died in the city in 1975. He was considered a pioneer in the fusion of Chinese and Western art traditions and exhibited widely in the 1950s and 1960s while also having a successful career as a manager at the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company.
On show is a collection of his paintings, including works from his important “Reflections” series and rarely seen archival material.
Ping Pong 129 Gintonería, L/G Nam Cheong House, 129 Second Street, Sai Ying Pung, Tue to Sun, 6pm-10pm (and by appointment). Free entry. Until July 15.

So Wing-Po: Take Turns
10B Para Site
So Wing-po’s art practice is deeply influenced by her family’s Chinese medicine shop. For this newly commissioned exhibition in non-profit contemporary art centre Para Site’s more intimate 10B space, So uses salvaged Chinese medicine drawers as a symbol for transformative healing.
The site-specific exhibition presents works across three “islands” that are anchored by a central wooden structure. They form an immersive installation where Chinese herbs, rocks, kinetic sculptures, 3D-printed objects and sounds form an ecosystem where the boundaries between the organic and inorganic dissolve. The show is curated by Yuanyu Li.
10B, Para Site, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Wed-Sun, 12pm-7pm, Until May 25.

OrangeTerry: Over-Resourced
Karin Weber Gallery
The artist known as OrangeTerry has spent the past decade making “post-industrial” designs – namely, turning surplus materials into new forms that challenge our understanding of aesthetics and function.
In his first solo exhibition, OrangeTerry will present works made using upcycled materials and hybrid objects that reject traditional classification and urge us to question our everyday relationship with material goods.
Rapper and DJ Fotan Laiki will perform a special set in the gallery on March 27 at 9pm.
Karin Weber Gallery, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central, 11am-7pm, Tue-Sat. Until April 12.

Memory Smuggler
To Art House
This is the opening exhibition of To Art House, an exciting independent art space in Fo Tan in the New Territories with studios and exhibition space aimed at incubating more experimental art in a neighbourhood that has long been a hotbed of creativity.
To Art House’s founders invited four Hong Kong artists to get involved in the construction phase of the new space and to help articulate its vision. The four – Natalie Chu Lok-ting, Ho Siu-kee, Jay Lau Ka-chun and Li Ning – will be showing projects based on their time in Fo Tan.
Visits are by registration only. For details, go to the Art House website. Until July 26.

Tap Chan: Fabric of Belonging
Mou Projects
Tap Chan’s second solo exhibition with the gallery will feature nine bodies of newly created work in various media, including sculptures, installations, photographs and a double-channel video.
Exploring existential bewilderment and the resilience of nature, Chan’s works explore the tension between human longing and the vastness of the cosmos.
MOU Projects, 13/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen, March 23-29, 10am-7pm.

Tsang Kin-Wah: T REE O GO D EVIL
Galerie du Monde
Tsang Kin-wah, who represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale in 2015, has been pretty low key in the past few years. His new solo exhibition at Galerie du Monde, opening on March 19, will reveal what he has been working on.
The gallery will be transformed into a representation of the Garden of Eden with videos and site-specific text installations to produce an immersive experience that draws upon philosophy, religion and politics.
Galerie du Monde, 108, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Tue-Sat, 10am-7pm. March 19-May 24.

Zheng Tianyi: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
A graduate of 2024’s Hong Kong Arts Development Council Young Arts Tech Talents residency scheme, Zheng is recreating the former antique shop in The Hague in the Netherlands where she spent her residency, and allowing ghosts of the past a presence through video, installation and performance.
Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 135 Junction Road, Kowloon City, Daily, 1pm-7pm. Until March 29.
With Love from Hong Kong: Adrian Wong
Oi!
This unusual exhibition at Oi! is ex-Hong Kong resident Adrian Wong’s tribute to his grandmother and 1980s and 1990s television soap operas produced in Hong Kong and America. Wong, who lived for years in Hong Kong, is now teaching back in his home city, Chicago.
In 1986, during the golden age of the televised melodrama, Wong’s grandmother moved there from Hong Kong and spent the last decades of her life “immersed in the fantasy worlds of American soaps”, the artist writes.
The exhibition will dramatise her life and other stories produced with a team of scriptwriters, production crew and actors experienced in Hong Kong television dramas.
Oi! Warehouse 1, 12 Oil Street, North Point, Mon, 2pm-8pm, Tue-Sun, 10am-8pm. March 22-August 31.
The Garden of Resemblances: Phoebe Hui
Oi!
Phoebe Hui is a Hong Kong-based artist who draws from the philosophy of science, language, and machine learning to create artworks using robotics, generative art, sound and drawing.
This other new exhibition at Oi! will feature a series of interactive installations inspired by a 16th century Western medical concept called the “Doctrine of Signatures”, a belief that the physical appearances of plants suggested which human ailments they could treat.
Hui’s works combine organic elements with artificial mechanisms to create a nebulous state between reality and illusion, inviting viewers to explore the connections between natural objects and the human body.
Oi!, Warehouse 2, 12 Oil Street, North Point, Mon, 2pm-8pm, Tue-Sun, 10am-8pm. March 22-August 31.
In addition to these show openings, a number of Hong Kong exhibitions already open will continue during Art Week:

“One • Square • Water • Soil” is a group show by seven Hong Kong-based artists at the ADC Art Space, in Wong Chuk Hang;


“Footnotes to Lingering” at Pointsman Artspace, in Sai Ying Pun, is a debut exhibition by artist duo Noisy Plaster (Man Mei-to and Wong Chun-hoi); and


“From Dust to Light” is an exhibition by Colbie Fung and Jess Lau at Videotage in To Kwa Wan.





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Hong Kong Art Week shows by artists working or who worked in the city that you should see

Ariel (1972) by Douglas Bland at Ping Pong 129 Gintonería in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, part of a retrospective of the late painter and one of several shows of work by artists in Hong Kong on during Hong Kong Art Week. Photo: Studio8ight

“Green and Yellow Relief” by Douglas Bland hangs in Ping Pong 129 Gintonería. Photo: Studio8ight

A still from Hand Pounding (2025), a new video by So Wing-po that will be shown in her solo exhibition “Take Turns” at Para Site’s 10B space. Photo: So Wing-po

Popular DJ Fotan Laiki will be a special guest at OrangeTerry’s solo show at Karin Weber Gallery on March 27. Photo: Karin Weber Gallery

To Art Space in Fo Tan. Photo: courtesy of To Art Space

Pearls Magnifier (2025), Tap Chan, part of Chan’s multimedia exhibition “Fabric of Belonging”. Photo: courtesy of MOU Projects

Detail from Burnt Text on Wall (2025), by Tsang Kin-wah, that will debut in Tsang’s solo exhibition “T REE O GO D EVIL” at Galerie du Monde. Photo: Tsang Kin-wah

A photo taken during a rehearsal for the opening performance of artist Zheng Tianyi’s exhibition Smoke Gets in Your Eyes at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. Photo: courtesy of Zheng Tianyi

Who was Lui Shou-kwan? Hong Kong artist fused traditional Chinese ink and abstract art

Lui Shou-kwan (pictured painting) moved from China to Hong Kong, where his exposure to Western art movements led him to fuse his Chinese ink art with abstract art and launch the New Ink Movement. 

Lui Shou-kwan sketching outdoors. Photo: M+

Zen by Lui Shou-kwan (1974). Photo: CUHK and AAHK

Chan Painting by Lui Shou-kwan (1969). Photo: CUHK and AAHK

Zhuangzi (1974) by Lui Shou-kwan. This is one of his best-known paintings. Photo: courtesy of the Hong Kong Museum of Art

Post cartoonist’s Year of the Snake collection goes up for auction

Consumer Confidence by Harry Harrison. Photo: Harry Harrison

Temptation in Paradise is part of Post cartoonist Harry Harrison’s “2025 … S-S-Snakes Alive!” collection. Photo: Harry Harrison

Obstacles to Recovery is inspired by the classic board game snakes and ladders. Photo: Harry Harrison

Impervious to Charm stars the ginger cat, a regular Harry Harrison character. Photo: Harry Harrison

Market Stimulus, shows a panda trying to distract the snake with a rat. Photo: Harry Harrison

Unprepared pokes fun at Hong Kong’s amateur snake catchers. Photo: Harry Harrison

Political cartoonist Harry Harrison in 2022. Photo: Dickson Lee

Dog Lovers embraces dark humour. Photo: Harry Harrison

Temptation in Paradise is a nod to the Garden of Eden, with a durian instead of an apple. Photo: Harry Harrison

Eternity is inspired by the shape of an auspicious Chinese knot. Photo: Harry Harrison

Contemporary Chinese ink artist tips hat to Anita Mui, Cantopop diva, in Hong Kong show

Artist Hong Wai at her show “No Way To Be Good”. Photo: Elson Li

Artist Hong Wai poses with paintings inspired by late Hong Kong singer Anita Mui’s heavily made up eyes, part of her exhibition at Soho House in the city’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood. Photo: Elson Li

A work titled Alternative Landscape Fragrant mountain II by Artist Hong Wai in her exhibition “No Way To Be Good”. Photo: Elson Li

Sunset by Artist Hong Wai in her exhibition “No Way To Be Good”. Photo: Elson Li

Hong Wai at the Soho House exhibition, which runs until March 21, 2025. Photo: Elson Li

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Our favourite shows of work by Hong Kong artists that are on during Hong Kong Art Week, which runs from March 24 to 31


Our favourite shows of work by Hong Kong artists that are on during Hong Kong Art Week, which runs from March 24 to 31.


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