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The must-sees in Hong Kong Art Week, from Art Basel and Art Central fairs, to exhibitions and events

Train (1986), Xiyadie. Photo: Xiyadie

From Art Basel to Art Central, here is our extensive list of all the major events at Hong Kong Art Week, including exhibitions, art fairs and screenings. Above: attendees on the last day of Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. Photo: Dickson Lee

The Supper Club team (from left): Willem Molesworth (PHD Group), Alex Chan (The Shophouse), Anqi Li (independent curator), Ysabelle Cheung (PHD Group), Guoying Stacy Zhang (adviser to Supper Club and Fringe Club). Photo: Felix SC Wong/ Supper Club

Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the 1-54 art fair, is launching its first Asian project in Hong Kong. Photo: Jim Winslet

TXJSQE (2024), Sarah Morris and Scott King. Photo: Kitmin Lee

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos’ solo exhibition Enchanted Forest is running at ArtisTree. Photo: Pedro Jafuno

À trois centimètres de la terre (1962), by Wifredo Lam. Photo: courtesy of Rosaline Wong and HomeArt

Window Left Open (2023), Wolfgang Tillmans. Photo: Wolfgang Tillmans

Stranger #98 (2023) by Glenn Ligon; oil stick, silk screen, coal dust, acrylic and pencil on canvas. Photo: Hauser & Wirth

From Art Basel and Art Central to smaller fairs, exhibitions and screenings, these are the must-sees in Hong Kong Art Week. If they look like a lot, don’t worry – some of them run all month and beyond.


‘We bring culture to your city’: gallerist on his Hong Kong woes, private equity, and an eyebrow-raising costume

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: Emmanuel Perrotin and Takashi Murakami attend the Opening of the 40th Edition of the FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair at Grand Palais on October 23, 2013 in Paris, France Photo: Getty Images

French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami attend the FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair at Grand Palais, Paris, France, on October 23, 2013. Perrotin has galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Los Angeles.  Photo: Getty Images

Perrotin at his gallery in New York. Photo: Perrotin

Perrotin in 2018. Photo: Tanguy Beurdeley

Alice Lung is a partner at Galerie Perrotin. Photo: Double M Workshop

People visit an exhibition of Kaikai Kiki artists at Perrotin Shanghai on March 18, 2021. Photo: Getty Images

A view of French photographer and artist JR’s exhibition “Pattern” at Perrotin Hong Kong in 2012. Photo: Perrotin / Laurent Segretier

Perrotin and Murakami at the opening of the exhibition “Murakami Versailles” at the Palace of Versailles in 2010. Photo: Getty Images

Perrotin with Tornado (2017), a work by Jean-Michel Othoniel. Picture: Guillaume Ziccarelli

A view of the exhibition “Perrotin Presents at K11 Musea: ‘Servitudes’ by Jesper Just” at the K11 Art and Cultural Centre in Hong Kong. Photo: Perrotin / Ringo Cheung

French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin explains how helping artists realise their dreams once saw him dress up as male genitalia and why Hong Kong should make more effort to accommodate foreign galleries.


‘Great art films can be shot in Hong Kong’: Chinese artist on M+ movie and the beauty of black and white

Please note that the images are for editorial use only. Reproduction, distribution, or cropping of the photos for any other use is only permissible subject to prior written approval from the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and M+.&#xA;&#xA;Yang Fudong - Sparrow on the Sea, 2024 Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, presented by UBS, 2024. Photo: Yang Fudong

A still from Sparrow on the Sea, by Chinese filmmaker and painter Yang Fudong. The new art film is currently showing on the big screen on the M+ facade in Hong Kong. Photo: Yang Fudong

Artist Yang Fudong. Photo: Yang Fudong

A scene from Sparrow on the Sea shows the spiral staircase at M+. Photo: Yang Fudong

A scene from Sparrow on the Sea. Photo: Yang Fudong

A scene from Sparrow on the Sea shows Repulse Bay’s Longevity Bridge. Photo: Yang Fudong

Chinese filmmaker and painter Yang Fudong explains the premise of his latest film, showing on the giant M+ facade, and why ‘abundant’ Hong Kong makes it the ideal city in which to shoot artistic movies.


She knits wearable art from magazine shreds – Hong Kong artist Movana Chen on using paper to ‘make love’

Movana Chen at her Knitting Conversations exhibition ongoing at M+. The Hong Kong artist, best known for her clothes knitted from shredded magazines, reveals how her work has helped her forge friendships all around the world. Photo: Edmond So

Movana Chen at her Knitting Conversations exhibition at M+. The Hong Kong artist, best known for her clothes knitted from shredded magazines, reveals how her work has helped her forge friendships all around the world. Photo: Edmond So

Chen at home in Shenzhen in 1985. Photo: Movana Chen

Chen poses with her artwork Knitting Conversations, exhibited at Hong Kong’s M+ museum. Photo: Edmond So

One of Chen’s early projects, Analysis yourself, in which she measured herself with books, and from which her interest in the relationship between books and the body started. Photo: Movana Chen

Chen’s first overseas collaboration, titled You Make Me, took place in 2005 at the OXO Tower Wharf in London. Photo: Movana Chen

Chen in her first wearable art piece, ID magazine dress, in 2004. Photo: Movana Chen

Chen’s Body Container – VOGUE in Chai Wan, Hong Kong. Photo: Michael Wolf

The Hong Kong artist known for using shredded magazine paper to knit clothes tells Kate Whitehead how her unusual medium has helped her make a world of friends, and why she still writes love letters.


Cuban-born Wifredo Lam’s art, seen in solo show in Hong Kong for first time, reflects his varied influences

Detail from Damballah, 1947, oil on canvas, by Wifredo Lam, from the collection of Daniel Boulakia. Cuban-born Lam’s works are well known outside Asia, but a newly opened solo exhibition in Hong Kong is the first in the city. Photo: Asia Society, Hong Kong

Wifredo Lam’s youngest son, Stephane Lam, co-curator of Wifredo Lam: Homecoming at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Photo: Lisa Cam

Wifredo Lam’s À trois centimètres de la terre, 1962, oil on canvas. Photo: Asia Society, Hong Kong

Wifredo Lam’s Apostroph Apocalypse, Plate XIV, etching and aquatint in colours. Photo: Asia Society, Hong Kong

Wifredo Lam: Homecoming runs at the Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center until June 2. Photo: Lisa Cam

Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam spent time in France and Spain in the 1920s and 30s, and his surreal paintings, given a solo show in Hong Kong for the first time, reflect his multicultural influences.


‘It’s not revenge’: how Europe’s largest museum of Asian art sees restitution and repatriation, and the importance of East-West dialogue

Musée Guimet’s collection is easily one of the largest Asian art collections in Europe, with the only notable competitors in size being the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, both in London. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts


Yannick Lintz, president of Paris’ Musée Guimet - Europe’s largest museum of Asian art - says “we have to be clever together” when it comes to restitution and repatriation. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts

A courtyard of Khmer sculptures from Angkor, Cambodia, at the entrance to the Guimet. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts

Pieces in Musée Guimet’s Asian art collection at the museum. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts 

The Guimet in Paris. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts

The museum houses works from across Asia, from Afghanistan to Japan. Photo: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts

The president of Europe’s largest museum of Asian art, Paris’ Guimet, talks about restitution and repatriation, and the importance of collaboration, ahead of her panel discussion at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.


Art is part of the furniture in this Hong Kong family home, a remote hilltop house with unmatched views and rooms that inspire creativity

photographic mosaic Khmer Reamker, by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê, in the living room of the Sai Kung home of Katie de Tilly of Hong Kong art gallery 10 Chancery Lane. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits


In the dining room of the de Tilly family’s hilltop home in Sai Kung, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, the back wall is filled with an untitled painting by American artist Julian Schnabel. The house is full of art wherever one turns. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits



The hilltop Sai Kung home has a deck that offers stunning views. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits

De Tilly sits on a large wooden bench on the deck, made by Thai artist Tawatchai Puntusawasdi, that is both art and functional furniture. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits

The sitting and casual dining area in the Sai Kung home of Katie de Tilly. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits 

These witty ceramic bras were made in 2004 by Hong Kong artist Irene Lau Kwai-ying. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits

Every corner has an artistic story – such as in the living room with photographic mosaic Khmer Reamker, by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê. The “woman” and “person” Chinese characters on either side are by Huang Rui. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits 

The floor of the main bedroom is made from oak grown in Georges de Tilly’s family’s forests in France. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits 

The main en suite originally had a black tub but the de Tillys gutted the space and brightened it. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits 

A piece by Indian artist Atul Dodiya from his Shutter series inspired by Mumbai’s shopfronts. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits

A Hong Kong art gallery owner’s hilltop family home in the New Territories is a kaleidoscope of vibrant, fun artworks – every room inspires creativity and tells a different story.


When British sculptor Henry Moore was celebrated in a Hong Kong exhibition opened by royalty

British sculptor Henry Moore’s life was celebrated in an exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986, opened by the Duchess of Kent (above), and an extensive catalogue, published in Chinese and English in 1987. Photo: SCMP

The Duchess of Kent looks at some of Henry Moore’s sculptures on display in Hong Kong City Hall as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival in 1986. Photo: SCMP.

British sculptor Henry Moore’s life and work was celebrated in an exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986, opened by the Duchess of Kent, and an extensive catalogue published in Chinese and English in 1987.


Dazzling ceiling art: 10 of the best examples, from The Louvre to the Charminar in Hyderabad, India

Some of the finest art in the world is above our heads, so next time you are in the lavish Apollo Gallery at The Louvre in Paris (above), do look up. The same goes for other dazzling examples of ceiling art around the world we’ve picked out. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque is decorated by a splendid dome. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The Oculus Transportation Hub in New York has a ceiling decorated by dozens of rafters. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The citadel’s ceilings in the Mandarins’ Building are covered in murals. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The domed ceiling of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin was built by Italian architect Guarino Guarini. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The Bongeunsa Temple in Seoul is drenched in colour. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The brilliant blue ceiling of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

Charminar in Hyderabad has an ornate ceiling ringed by a beautiful mezzanine gallery. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

A mesmerising ceiling inside Gaudi’s Guell Palace in Barcelona. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

The Kopan Monastery sits on a hill near Kathmandu. Photo: Ronan O’Connell

Yes, there’s the Sistine Chapel at The Vatican, but there’s more dazzling ceiling art to admire elsewhere, from Edinburgh to Kathmandu, in churches, a temple, a monastery, a mosque, a mansion and a museum.


The Hong Kong prisoners of war for whom creating art was a diversion, and one who made it as an artist

Detail from a drawing by A.V. Skvorzov depicting life in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp. Skvorzov, a White Russian architect, was one of several POWs who produced art while in captivity, only to put away their pencils and brushes in peacetime. Photo: A.V. Skvorzov

A portrait painted by Alfonso Barretto after the war. Photo: D’Almada Barretto Collection

Alfonso Barretto works on a canvas in 1957 as two of his sisters look on. Photo: D’Almada Barretto Collection

For many Hong Kong POWs, the abundance of time the Japanese occupation afforded allowed latent artistic talents to blossom.


After decades in ‘cultural desert’ Hong Kong, my UK home is a gallery of art from the city and China

An interpretation of Van Gogh’s chair, by Cliff Buddle’s son. Photo: SCMP

Cliff Buddle had been lived in Hong Kong from the 1990s, before recently returning to Britain. He shares his collection of paintings gathered during his time in the city. Above: a work bought in Guilin, on Cliff Buddle’s first trip to mainland China in 1995. Photo: SCMP

This painting, dated 1971, perhaps of the Duke of Wellington, has been with Cliff Buddle since he was a kid. Photo: SCMP

A painting of eight almost identical red rice bowls, bought by Buddle in a little antiques shop in Mui Wo, Lantau Island. Photo: SCMP

Having lived in Hong Kong from the 1990s until recently, our columnist shares his collection of paintings gathered during his time in a city often derisively referred to as a cultural desert.


Asian artists make Tai Kwun Artists’ Night in Hong Kong a feast for the senses with a mix of sonic and visual experiences

Indonesian duo Senyawa will present a live music installation at this year’s Tai Kwun Artists’ Night. Photo: Tai Kwun

Lhola Amira is a South African-born artist who will have a special “appearance” at a small and intimate session at the Artists’ Night. Photo: Tai Kwun

Hong Kong-based artist Vaevae Chan will present a set of artificial rocks as art and seating installations at Tai Kwun for Artists’ Night. Photo: Tai Kwun

Guiyang-born, Berlin-based musical artist Pan Daijing will have a video installation showing at Tai Kwun’s Artists’ Night. Photo: Dzhovani Gospodinov/Tai Kwun

Java-based experimental duo Senyawa will present a live installation and music performance at Artists’ Night. Photo: Tai Kwun/Arnold Simanjuntak

Artist’s Night at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun heritage arts centre spotlights three Asian artists, as well as one South African, in an eclectic programme featuring sonic and visual installations.


The 5-star hotels with the best art collections: Dali, Botero and Murakami thrown in for the price of a night’s stay, or African contemporary art if you prefer

Detail from Fernando Botero’s sculpture Woman With Fruit (1996) at The Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Penthouse Study at Cape Town’s The Silo, which benefits from sitting above the Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa). Five-star hotels around the world use art to stand out from the competition.

A rendering of Kingsley Ng’s Esmerelda installation on the facade of The Peninsula Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

The Benesse House Museum in Naoshima, Japan, is a hotel noted for its art. Photo: Handout

Hotel Éclat Beijing has more than 100 artworks on display, including original sculptures and paintings by Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Fan Xiaoyan, Liu Ruowang, Gao Xiaowu, Shen Jingdong and Chen Wenling. Photo: Handout

Indian artist’s Bharti Kher’s elephant sculpture The Skin Speaks A Language Not Its Own in the lobby of the Rosewood Hong Kong hotel. Photo: Handout

Fernando Botero’s sculpture Woman With Fruit (1996) at The Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Dolder Grand’s Saltz restaurant was designed as “a reflection of Switzerland; the neon light running along a red wall is meant to evoke the Alps”, ARTnews reports. Photo: Handout

Luxury hotels vie to stand out from the pack through their art collections and programmes. Experts rate properties in Beijing, Hong Kong and Japan, but seem to agree two hotels are a cut above the rest.


10 favourite Asian films about artists, from Vincent van Gogh in Dreams to Gong Li-led Zhou Yu’s Train

Choi Min-sik in a still from Chihwaseon (2002).

A still from Terrorizers (1986), one of our 10 favourite films made in Asia about artists and their art, by directors including Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano and Peter Greenaway.

From Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, to Kenji Sawada-led Yumeji and The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway, 10 of the best films made in Asia about artists and their art.


Before burnt paper offerings, Chinese buried ceramic figures with their dead for use in the afterlife

A “sancai” ceramic horse from eighth-century China that would have been buried in the tomb of its master. Such objects are valued today as household ornaments. Photo: Getty Images

These figures of horses pulling a carriage were among more than 10,000 funerary objects unearthed in 1968 from the tomb of the first emperor of China’s Western Han dynasty. Photo: Getty Images

Pottery figurines excavated from The Hanyang Mausoleum, where the fourth emperor of the Western Han dynasty, Liu Qi, and his empress, are buried. Photo: Getty Images

Skeletons and pottery buried together in an ancient tomb at Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery, in China’s Qinghai province. Photo: Getty Images

The practice of burying the dead with funerary objects began in China over 3,000 years ago. At first of bronze or clay, they were superseded by ceramic ‘sancai’ wares. Today these are coveted as ornaments.


This Post Magazine series coincides with the annual Art Basel art fair in Hong Kong, with an interview with the gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, the artist Yang Fudong, the director of Guimet Museum, Yannick Lintz, and of course, a list of must-see exhibitions around the city.


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