New Zealand-born and Los Angeles-based artist Emma McIntyre works with the element of chance. She paints by pouring pigments from above, followed by layers of spontaneous mark-making, creating works that are partially up to the artist and partially up to the organic proclivity of her chosen material. For Among my swan, McIntyre’s first solo exhibition in Asia, the artist presents vivid and abstract landscape paintings made with oils and unconventional substances like oxidised iron. “Painting, like a stage set, is worldbuilding in a contained space. I’ve long been interested in painting’s connection to theatre,” McIntyre says in a press release, “Theatre also relates to my interest in truth and deception in painting. Suspension of disbelief, a “higher being” as guide, painting as a kind of magic—which in turn relates to alchemy.

When: until May 10, 2025
Where: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central

Soft Landscape by Louise Bourgeois, Hauser & Wirth 

Hailed as one of the most important artists of the past century, Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and worked in New York from 1938 until her death in 2010. During those decades of creation, the creative process was her form of catharsis. According to Hauser & Wirth, she “reconstructed memories and emotions in order to free herself from their grasp.” On March 25, works by Bourgeois will be displayed in her second solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, including a selection of sculptures and works on paper that have never been exhibited before. Additionally, a three-meter-long fountain installation titled ‘Mamelles (fountain)’ (1991), and a steel and marble sculpture titled ‘Spider’ (2000), will be shown in Asia for the first time.

When: until June 21, 2025
Where: G/F, 8 Queen’s Road Central, Central

Yoan Capote: Mixed Feelings by Yoan Capote, Ben Brown Fine Arts

Cuban artist Yoan Capote intertwines the Cuban landscape with the country’s turbulent socio-political history in his evocative new works. The exhibition explores dualities of “love and disillusionment, belonging and estrangement, hope and despair”. Capote’s meditations on living on the threshold of self-governance possess a universal resonance as tensions of contested identities and political uncertainty grow evermore serious in the world today. 

When: until June 31, 2025
Where: 201, The Factory, 1 Yip Fat St, Wong Chuk Hang

Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand by Lee Mingwei, M+

Internationally recognised artist Lee Mingwei brings Guernica in Sand to Hong Kong, a massive recreation of Pablo Picasso’s iconic Cubist work Guernica (1937) using sand as the material. Sand paintings often embody impermanence and change, Lee uses this unexpected material to echo the painting’s theme of violence and tragedy brought by the Spanish Civil War which Picasso experienced. On June 28, towards the end of the display, Lee will stage a live performance where he and other performers will complete the final part of the work while visitors walk on the sand. The performers will then sweep away the sand once the visitors have blurred the image completely. “Through the participatory act of walking on and sweeping away the sand painting, I hope to create a shared experience that transforms our understanding of loss and renewal, revealing how transformation can emerge from the ruins of history,” Lee says.

When: until July 13, 2025
Where: West Gallery, M+, 38 Museum Dr, West Kowloon