50/50: Fabien Verschaere, Whitestone Gallery
Relocated to a new space, Whitestone Gallery celebrates the 50th birthday of French artist Fabien Verschaere with 50/50. Verschaere infuses humour into complex narratives, creating surreal dreamscapes of mutating beings such as fairies and imps. He plays with a wide range of media, including drawings and large-scale murals, and his most recent creations are acrylic and watercolour on canvas. 50/50 encompasses a comprehensive selection of works from childhood creations to pivotal pieces displayed in major international exhibitions.
Where: Wong Chuk Hang, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, M Place, 7/F
When: September 27-November 15, 2025
Min-Jia: World of Interiors, PODIUM
Urumqi-born, Berlin-based artist Min-Jia showcases rich shadow puppetry writhing with life at her debut exhibition in her career. Min-Jia completed their Shaanxi Huaxian shadow puppetry apprenticeship under Master Wang Tianwen in Xi’an, China. Armed with these lessons, Min-Jia turns vellum-chemically treated oxhide into pliable material—puncturing, cutting, and assembling them into imposing puppets that bend and change in response to head and humidity. Their references are rich and wide, ranging from Chinese folk art to Boys’ Love and Girls’ Love anime, as well as orientalist kitsch and Art Nouveau works by queer and women artists.
Where: Unit 9D, E. Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang
When: September 20-November 15, 2025
In drawing, in remembrance, Para Site
Shahana Rajani’s solo exhibition meditates on how communities in coastal Pakistan use drawing as a practice to confront displacement and infrastructural violence. Four Acts of Recovery (2025) is a documentary that follows a displaced fisher family as they attempt to reconnect to their disappearing homeland. Meanwhile, Lines That World a River (2025) is a video essay that gathers activists and elders’ critique of the construction of the Malir Expressway in Karachi.
Where: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Rd, Quarry Bay
When: October 11, 2025- February 1, 2026
Thresholds, White Cube
Thresholds forms a chorus of unique experiences of nine contemporary artists from or connected to Indonesia, whose journeys are shaped by the crossing of a ‘threshold’. A highlight includes artist Arahmaiani’s I love you (2009), a soft-sculpture installation showing Jawi (Arab Pegon) script slipping into form, reflecting adaptability and cultural plurality. Christine Ay Tjoe turns inwards with her practice, exploring the limits of her body and soul with abstract paintings. Meanwhile, Jennifer Tee draws on Sumatran ceremonial textiles using dried tulip petails to build imagery of seas and ships.
Where: 50 Connaught Rd Central, Central
When: October 31, 2025-January 10, 2026
The Darkest Hour at 3am, Current Plans
Slowly, Curator Alberta Leung’s personal research into her decade-long insomnia evolved into a curatorial project that matured as The Darkest Hour at 3am. Developed with spatial designer Angela Pang, the exhibition space comprises 3 rooms that trace the journey from the “detrimental effects of techno-capitalism on sleep toward the restorative potential of mindful relaxation and sleep hygiene”. The immersive multi-sensory exhibition recreates the psychological landscape of insomnia, posing the question of whether rest can be reclaimed. A series of live performances, screenings, and workshops is scheduled throughout November.
Where: 3F, Remex Centre, 12 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang
When: November 1-December 20, 2025
Marc Chagall: Dreaming in Colour, De Sarthe
Legendary modernist Marc Chagall was a master of colour, creating a unique visual language that blends memory, folklore, and fantasy into a dreamlike fantasy. De Sarthe’s exhibition brings together a selection of works from 1950 to 1984, including paintings and original works on paper. “This exhibition focuses on the works where his imagination was most immediate and unbridled,” said Pascal de Sarthe, founder of DE SARTHE.
Where: 2/F, Block A, Vita Tower, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Wong Chuk Hang
When: November 6-December 13, 2025
Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place, David Zwirner
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Couple), 1993 © Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres/courtesy Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
Photo: Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and David Zwirner
David Zwirner presents key bodies of work by one of the most significant artists who emerged from New York in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Felix Gonzalez-Torres provoked questions about identity, mortality, and acceptance through a reduced formal vocabulary. With simple everyday materials, he created evocative conceptual art. Gonzalez-Torres’ art will soon trickle into the urban landscape of Hong Kong, negotiating relationships between private and public space, and exploring the ideas of belonging and estrangement, as well as the fixed and the fleeting.
Where: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
When: November 19, 2025–February 14, 2026
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Lead Image: 'Repos du clown avec le bouc vert' (1971) by Marc Chagall
