Central & Western District
At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part I, Asia Art Archive
Zhang Xiaogang, 1985
Photo: Zhao Xiaogang Archive, AAA Collections
For Asia Art Archive’s 25th anniversary, the non-profit dedicates a two-chapter exhibition to a seemingly simple question: What were you like at 25? Part I offers a rare glimpse into the becoming of 4 of Asia’s most prominent contemporary artists by presenting their artwork alongside rare archival materials. Asia Art Archives probes further and asks, “Where did they live and work? What were they reading and listening to? What influenced them? What were their daily lives like? What were their loves and frustrations?” At this particular junction of life, youth, ambition, and uncertainty muddle to seed the roots of artistic origins. How did these artists transfer their concerns into art against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Asia at the age of 25? The exhibition highlights the significance of archiving, as these personal timelines reveal an interconnected cultural and historical mosaic.
When: March 17 – June 27, 2026
Where: 11/F, 233 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan
Luca Sára Rózsa: Last Trip to the Amazon, Double Q
Hungarian painter Luca Sára Rózsa stages her second solo exhibition at Double Q, presenting a new body of work inspired by her travels to the Amazon. In addition to paintings, she has explored the limits of painting by creating ceramic objects and embroidery installations. Since the beginning of her career, Rózsa has been interested in Western philosophy and religion. The figures in her paintings derive from the Bible and mythology, and they are usually stripped bare in dreamlike nature settings, recalling a primal state uncontaminated by technological development or pollution. With thick and intuitive brushstrokes, she constructs vivid worlds underscored by anxiety. As the artist describes it, “[The figures in my paintings] are fully exposed to their fate, facing it either with resignation or hope.”
When: March 18 – May 9, 2026
Where: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Double Blue: An Altered Fairy Tale of Hong Kong (I), Hart Haus
Hong Kong artist and animation director Florence Yuki-kee Lee continues her exploration of “sense of place” through experimental animation. She breaks the rigidity of Hong Kong with an “Altered Fairy Tale”, transforming the cityscape into two paths of blue: ocean and sky. According to the exhibition note, “the ocean chronicles the history of urban time, while the sky articulates emotional states.” These fairy tale structures manifest as drifting schools of fish and disappearing coastlines. Through an AI-assisted process, Lee maps the urban narratives of Hong Kong.
When: March 14 – April 7, 2026
Where: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
Pearl Lines, David Zwirner
New York-based artist Walter Price used to be intimidated by large-scale paintings, but Pearl Lines has proved his limitlessness. Rich colours leap off of these large-scale works, fluidly moving between representational and abstract modes. In fact, the exhibition title itself is a refusal of confines, as Price has given most of his solo presentations the same name since 2016. He suggests that each exhibition is part of a larger body of work rather than isolated within its own time and place.
In a previous interview with curator Rosario Güiraldes at the Walker Art Center, Price explains that his use of both representational and abstract modes is about achieving balance. The abstract opens up to more interpretations, while figurative elements allow viewers with less of an art background to “enter” the painting in an easier way. In his previous artworks, figures emerge and push through patches of colour, stars descend upon the canvas, and minimal lines meet rapid and intuitive strokes, culminating in a body of works that shifts perspectives.
When: March 24 – May 9, 2026
Where: 5-6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Central
Roam, Villepin
Ted Gahl moves between abstraction and figuration in his arresting paintings inspired by travel. References to different locations emerge in his works. Notably, Beached (Blue Fish) draws inspiration from Lamu, Kenya, while Untitled (Petanque) immortalises French landscapes. In Sister, two figures in brick red blister an atmospheric yellow plane dappled with green and brown. As Lydia Enriquez, Gahl’s wife, describes, “Colour plays an important role in the preservation of a moment, employed by Gahl like a mnemonic device to transport the viewer through time and space.”
When: March 25 – May 7, 2026
Where: 53 Hollywood Road, Central
Solaris, No Idea Gallery
Through Tibetan Buddhist Thangka art and Jungian psychology, Chantal Fok has nurtured an introspective world of inner awareness and self-awakening. The Hong Kong artist graduated with a Master of Buddhist Studios in The Hong Kong University, and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. To her, “truth” is not fact but the projection of one’s consciousness, and nature encapsulates that bridge between reality and illusion. Her paintings feature natural landscapes such as the forest and ocean, which represent her subconscious, and a lone fawn in a field of vibrant blooms. The audience is invited to find their own ‘truth’ through Fok’s interplay of reality and illusion.
When: March 3 – March 27, 2026
Where: Suite 1703, Chinachem Hollywood Centre, 1 Hollywood Rd, Central, Hong Kong
Persephone, Gagosian Hong Kong
Mary Weatherford’s first solo exhibition in Asia reexamines the narrative around the Greek goddess Persephone. Unfolding in a sequence of three spaces designed by acclaimed architectural firm Johnston Marklee, the exhibition is themed around transformation and rebirth. The particular story of how flowers bloom when Persephone returns from the underworld highlights Persephone’s achievement of abundant new life. Weatherford uses neon lights, a symbol of modernism when it debuted in the 1910s, to echo its nostalgic relationship with Hong Kong.
When: March 24 – May 2, 2026
Where: 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central
Southside
Trevor Yeung: swallowing rumination, gracefully, Blindspot Gallery
Trevour Yeung hoards and creates, projecting his perception of the world onto aquariums, horticulture, and found objects. The Hong Kong artist’s latest solo exhibition is a space of introspection underscored by sentimentality, desire, and vulnerability. The tank installation, Soft and milky, but don’t smell it (Fish tank) (2020), is filled with milky white water and emits a rhythmic noise of air bubbles, Inspired by his failed plan to breed guppies, the installation emanates a sense of loss. But its loneliness is offset by the companionship found on the ceiling— a cluster of bioluminescent mushrooms and synthetic ferns that gradually changes its colour. Placed beyond reach, it speaks to a quiet resilience that thrives even in the darkest places.
When: February 24 – May 2, 2026
Where: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Bamboo Palace, Revisited, Blindspot Gallery
A mandarin sits atop a milky bamboo raft made of glass; a glass vessel bulges out of a stalk of bamboo, cutting open its belly. Lap-See Lam’s solo exhibition encompasses these latest hand-blown glass sculptures, neon installations, and her expansive video installation Floating Sea Palace (2024). Growing up in a Hong Kong-immigrant family in Stockholm, Lam’s personal experiences inform her artistic practice. She probes the experience of the Hong Kong Chinese diaspora, migrational movement, generation loss, and the mistranslation of cultural symbols, orientalised through the spectacle of exoticisation. In her practice, she reinterprets traditional forms of storytelling, such as shadow play and Cantonese opera, and 3D scanning technology.
When: March 23 – May 2, 2026
Where: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Wandering Mindscape, Alisan Fine Arts
Zhang Xiaoli’s debut Hong Kong solo exhibition inaugurates Alisan Fine Arts’ 45th anniversary. Her gongbi compositions of surreal and imagined spaces incorporate playful modern motifs, juxtaposing the traditional art form. This includes mountains pieced together from LEGO blocks, which are housed within LEGO boxes. By bringing in light-hearted motifs, she reframes the classical literati idea of “wandering in the mind” (心遊)—a meditative practice of pursuing spiritual freedom by viewing shanshui paintings, or poetry and art. As the artist noted, “Through ‘wandering,’ I aspire to explore the connection between reality and illusion, and within it, discover emotions of playfulness and significance.”
When: Feb 28 – May 16, 2026
Where: 1904, Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen
Quarry Bay
Site-seeing, Para Site
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Para Site celebrates 30 years! Founded by seven Hong Kong artists, this contemporary art non-profit has continually championed originality. At first an artist-run space, it has since developed into a curator-run organisation that cultivates new talents (hosted over 80 international residents) and furthers emergent themes in the contemporary art scene. ‘Para Site: 30 Years’ will be a year-long series of exhibitions, performances, public programmes, and residences.
To kickstart, ‘Site-seeing’ is an on-site exhibition that responds to an exhibition of the same name presented in the first year of the institution’s operation. This new iteration showcases the works of artists born between 1970-1990, which respond to the incessant redevelopment of contemporary urban life in Hong Kong and beyond. Across these shifting environments, Hong Kong appears to be shaped by regulation and alienation, yet many of these works show moments of humour and wonder. Site-seeing shows how urban space, memory, and art-making have evolved as we continue to navigate its terrains.
When: March 14 – June 14, 2026
Where: 22/F, 677 King’s Rd, Quarry Bay
Tsuen Wan
Threading Inwards, CHAT
Threading Inwards uncovers how textiles and spiritual life are deeply interwoven. What the acts of weaving, dyeing, and stitching reveal are personal and collective memory, emotion, belief and imagination. Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at CHAT, Wang Weiwei, and three rising voices in the Asia-Pacific art scene, namely Eugene Hannah Park (Seoul), Kurosawa Seiha (Tokyo) and Wang Huan (Beijing), each explore different dimensions of spirituality. Notably, a 10-meter high site-specific installation by textile artist Marcos Kueh will hang at The Hall of The Mills (March 20-April 19, 2026). It will feature three tapestries that pay tribute to the resilience of workers of the textile industry.
When: March 21- June 28, 2026
Where: 2/F, The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par St, Tsuen Wan
West Kowloon
Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now, M+
M+ surveys the career of South Korean contemporary artist Lee Bul by featuring major works from the artist’s studio and collections in Asia and beyond. The exhibition is presented in three sections, beginning with an iconic architectural installation from Lee’s Mon grand récit series (2005–ongoing), to a selection of two-dimensional works from the Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable—Velvet) and Perdu series (2016–ongoing), and finally a section that reveals how Lee conceptualises and realises her artworks. The interdisciplinary artist’s works are concerned with gender, beauty, and utopian ideals pertinent to our increasingly technological world. First exhibited at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, this travelling exhibition will be housed in Hong Kong for its second stop, until it tours Europe and North America.
When: March 14 – Aug 9, 2026
Where: West Gallery, L2, M+, 38 Museum Drive, West Kowloon Cultural District, Kowloon
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Lead Image: 'It has to rain before you can see where all the leaks are at' (2025) by Walter Price
