{"id":1842020,"date":"2026-03-23T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1842020"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:32:34","slug":"galleries-and-museums-to-visit-during-art-basel-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1842020","title":{"rendered":"Galleries and Museums to Visit During Art Basel Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tIn 2025,\u00a0nearly\u00a0100,000\u00a0people\u2014collectors, curators, and the merely curious\u2014descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for\u00a0Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the\u00a0Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre:\u00a0Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust in equal measure,\u00a0Art Basel anchors a constellation of exhibitions\u00a0and events\u00a0during\u00a0Hong Kong\u00a0Art Week. <\/p>\n
\n\tSome venues have partnered with the fair: Pacific Place, a\u00a0central\u00a0shopping mall, is\u00a0exhibiting\u00a0Christine Sun Kim\u2019s large-scale video cube,\u00a0A String of Echo Traps\u00a0<\/em>(2022-2023).\u00a0Tai Kwun, a former police station\u00a0turned\u00a0premier arts space, has a host of programming planned, with a\u00a0noted\u00a0focus on performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBelow are a handful of standout offerings from independent galleries, museums, and multidisciplinary spaces. Check back with ARTnews <\/em>throughout the week for on-the-ground coverage of Hong Kong\u2019s 2026 art and culture calendar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Lee Bul, Rauschenberg, and Ryuichi Sakamoto at M+<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of Leeum Museum of Art \n\u00a9 Lee Bul. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol Courtesy of the artist \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis week, a day at M+ would\u00a0be\u00a0well spent. The museum of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture has a can\u2019t-miss exhibition lineup, including a deep dive into\u00a0Robert Rauschenberg\u2019s long under-examined relationship with South and East Asian art. Aptly titled\u00a0\u201cRobert Rauschenberg and Asia,\u201d the show brings together major works produced during\u2014and in response to\u2014his travels in the region, encompassing textiles and collaborations with papermakers and ceramicists in China, India, and Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tElsewhere in the museum,\u00a0\u201cLee Bul: From 1998 to Now\u201d\u00a0offers the most comprehensive survey to date of\u00a0Lee Bul, one of the most formidable artists to\u00a0emerge\u00a0from the region in recent decades. The exhibition opens with an immersive, open landscape featuring architectural installations from her\u00a0Mon grand\u00a0r\u00e9cit<\/em>\u00a0series (2005\u2013ongoing), alongside her landmark\u00a0Cyborg<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Anagram<\/em>\u00a0works from the late 1990s and early 2000s, which first brought her international recognition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThere is more to hear here, too:\u00a0\u201cSeeing Sound, Hearing Time,\u201d a tribute to the legacy of composer, producer, and artist\u00a0Ryuichi Sakamoto. The exhibition features installations developed in dialogue with his sonic practice, including collaborations with artist\u00a0Shiro\u00a0Takatani\u2014what the pair described as \u201cinstallation music.\u201d Among its core is Sakamoto\u2019s 2017 album\u00a0async<\/em>, reimagined\u00a0as\u00a0async\u2013immersion<\/em>\u00a0(2023), a large-scale installation conceived as the music\u2019s three-dimensional body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u2018Site-Seeing\u2019 at Para Site<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo: Felix SC Wong\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tPara Site, Hong Kong\u2019s contemporary-meets-cutting-edge mainstay, marks its thirtieth year with\u00a0\u201cSite-seeing,\u201d an institutional retrospective revisiting its 1996 exhibition of the same name. According to the show\u2019s website, it aims to \u201cre-engage\u201d with its central preoccupation: the symbiotic relationship between art, the metropolis, and collective memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tTo that end, Para Site has brought together nine artists and artist groups from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Among them is Singaporean artist\u00a0Heman Chong, whose two-decade practice examines how policy shapes the ways people enact their will on public space; Hong Kong\u2013based\u00a0Ko Sin Tung, who turns an investigative eye toward subjects such as the high-speed railway linking the city to mainland China; and Bangkok-born artist and curator\u00a0Nawin Nuthong, whose work probes the myths and messaging that undergird history and media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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A First Look at Hong Kong\u2019s 2026 Venice Collateral Event\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe 61st\u00a0Venice Biennale\u00a0opens on May 9, but visitors to the\u00a0Hong Kong Museum of Art\u00a0can get an early glimpse with\u00a0\u201cFermata,\u201d a serene, site-specific exhibition by Hong Kong artists\u00a0Kingsley Ng\u00a0and\u00a0Angel Hui. Jointly organized by the museum and the\u00a0Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the presentation will travel to Venice as Hong Kong\u2019s first contribution to the Biennale Arte\u2019s Collateral Events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tAtmospheric and quietly enigmatic,\u00a0\u201cFermata\u201d\u00a0positions itself as an invitation to slow down \u201camidst the hectic flow of life\u201d and attune to the subtle rhythms between substance\u2014body, building, nature\u2014and spirit. Light, sound, and movement are orchestrated toward this\u00a0end,\u00a0all calibrated to Hong Kong\u2019s particular social frequency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Asia Art Archive Marks its 25th Anniversary<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Zhao Xiaogang Archive, AAA Collections.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tFor its 25th anniversary, the\u00a0Asia Art Archive\u00a0has conceived a retrospective exhibition around a deceptively simple question: What were you like at 25? For individuals and institutions alike, the quarter-life milestone invites\u2014or, depending on one\u2019s disposition, unsettles with\u2014reflection: Would you recognize the desires of that earlier self? Would you choose to be that person again? As the exhibition notes, for many artists, 25 marks a watershed: a quiet epoch when a visual vocabulary begins to cohere, and idle wonders metabolize into matters of artmaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tCurated in successive chapters, the exhibition\u2019s first installment brings together some of Asia\u2019s most influential contemporary artists, including Singaporean multidisciplinary artist\u00a0Ho Tzu Nyen; Taiwanese artist and performer\u00a0Tehching\u00a0Hsieh; Thai filmmaker\u00a0Araya\u00a0Rasdjarmrearnsook; and Chinese painter\u00a0Zhang Xiaogang.\u00a0Their recent work will be shown alongside rare archival materials to trace how changes in both the broader world and their immediate communities informed the artists they have become.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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CHAT (Centre for Heritage,\u00a0Arts\u00a0and Textile)<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Image courtesy: CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tCHAT (Centre for Heritage,\u00a0Arts\u00a0and Textile)\u00a0is a textile culture museum\u00a0located\u00a0at The Mills, a former cotton-spinning complex of Nan Fung Textiles in Tsuen Wan. Its programming traces the past into the present through explorations of color,\u00a0texture, and technique\u2014and their interweaving with Hong Kong\u2019s social fabric.\u00a0This week, stop by for\u00a0\u201cArtefacts of \u2018Blue\u2019\u201d,\u00a0a historical excavation of\u00a0Indanthrene Blue, the world\u2019s first synthetic vat dye, advertised into cultural immortality by the \u201cMiss Happiness\u201d persona in 1930s China: \u201cDiscover a shade of blue that is not melancholic and trace its journey through time,\u201d reads the show\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tCHAT has two more notable exhibitions on view, including \u201cThreading Inwards\u201d, a group show centering concerns of collective care within this paradoxical age of globalization and emotional alienation. Fourteen artists from across Asia have answered this question through a range of material manipulations, touching on themes of sorrow and parting, reunion and recycle. Elsewhere is \u201cSnuggle and Stitch: Childhood Textiles,\u201d a visual history of local childhood textiles from the 1930s to the 2020s, told through artisanal dolls, ready-to-wear fashion, mass-produced items, and other household artifacts. The show\u2019s curators invite visitors to consider these objects in the context of the seismic shifts in human connection. \u201cIn 1950s Hong Kong, nearly one in every two people you\u2019d meet was a teenager or child\u2014swaddled in a baby sling, dressed in home-sewn clothes, or clutching a toy worn from love,\u201d reads the exhibition description, charged with an implicit meaning: the old state of play has worn away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Antenna Space Inaugurates Hong Kong Branch<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a0Courtesy: Antenna Space\u00a0\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u00a0After 13 years in Shanghai, Simon Wang\u2019s\u00a0Antenna Space\u00a0has branched out to Hong Kong\u2014and\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0invited to the housewarming. Perched on the 19th floor of Leader Centre in Wong Chuk Hang, a former light-industrial building, the space opens on March 21 with\u00a0\u201cHorizons: South,\u201d so named for the event horizon\u2014and the magnetic oblivion that lies just beyond. The assembled artists, however, refuse to claim real estate in the void.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBy\u00a0my reading\u00a0of its statement, this exhibition is a rallying cry against connectivity in its most coercive, spiritually annihilating form: empire. \u201cWe see our technical networks breaking into closed circuits, China building and exporting a global alternative, Europe planning its own civic social networks, the United States a chaotic morass held together by the thin glue of fascism and artificial intelligence,\u201d it reads.\u00a0The show\u2019s first iteration,\u00a0\u201cHorizons,\u201d was staged amid the post-COVID disorientation of 2023. Its follow-up arrives as the artists have learned to \u201csit with the finitude of dislocation and disconnection.\u201d The result is a two-room exhibition excavating the motives of popular media, the gallery-object relationship, and the contemporary purpose of punk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u2018Le\u00a0nid, La coquille\u2019 at Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo by K. Y. CHENG\/South China Morning Post via Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tJockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC),\u00a0a 2026\u00a0Art Basel\u00a0cultural\u00a0partner,\u00a0will host\u00a0a\u00a0parallel exhibition\u00a0to the fair\u00a0at\u00a0its\u00a0L1 Gallery\u00a0throughout\u00a0the month. The\u00a0show, titled\u00a0\u201cLe\u00a0nid, La coquille\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0populated by\u00a0\u201cnests\u201d and \u201cshells\u201d\u2014symbols of\u00a0the\u00a0spiritual dwelling\u00a0tucked in an artist\u2019s heart.\u00a011 JCCAC resident artists\u00a0are represented here\u2014CHAN King Long, Ken, CHENG Ting\u00a0Ting, HUI Tin Wan, Ashton, HUI Wan Yu, Cami, LAM Yau Sum, LAU Ching Yee, Cathleen, LAW Ka Nam, Bosco, LI Ning, NGAI Wing Lam, Ant, TSE Chun Sing, and YIU Tung Wing, Wenda\u2014working\u00a0across\u00a0painting, ink, illustration, printmaking, installation, mixed media, and new media, have\u00a0taken\u00a0on the theme.\u00a0Expressive\u00a0or\u00a0restrained, their\u00a0distinct\u00a0styles\u00a0map\u00a0the\u00a0inexhaustible terrain\u00a0of the inner world.\u00a0<\/strong>Currently on view in the Central Courtyard,\u00a0\u201cArchives in the Nests and Shells\u201d\u00a0showcases JCCAC artists\u2019 personal collections, adding a compelling biographical layer to the main exhibition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Joshua Serafin at Tomorrow Maybe<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Tomorrow Maybe\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u201cThese works, they are wounds. But they are wounds that have healed, wounds that have been encapsulated in time,\u201d writes multimedia artist\u00a0Joshua Serafin\u00a0of his new exhibition,\u00a0\u201cGRIEVE THE DEPARTED WOUND,\u201d on view at Tomorrow Maybe, a contemporary art space tucked on the fourth floor of Eaton HK. A participant in the 60th\u00a0Venice Biennale, Serafin here reimagines two earlier projects\u2014Cosmological Gangbang<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Lost Ancestors<\/em>\u2014as a conversation unfolding across painting, installation, video, and scenography.\u00a0The focus, he adds, is the \u201crhythmic relationship\u201d between the two\u00a0works\u2019 built\u00a0environments.\u00a0Joshua Serafin\u2019s practice draws on the mythology of his native Philippines and the condition of liminality to imagine spaces free of social and physical binaries\u2014states of mind, with bodies as optional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Italy Meets Hong Kong at Current Plans<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Current Plans, Hong Kong\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tExperimental art finds a natural home at\u00a0Current Plans, an alternative space founded in 2020 by curator\u00a0Eunice Tsang. Initially housed in a former mahjong school in Sham Shui Po, the project has since shifted to a roving curatorial model. Its latest exhibition,\u00a0Imagine\u00a0a \u201cDead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant,\u201d is on view through May at the Remex Centre.\u00a0Conceived between Italy and Hong Kong\u2014contexts divided by language, landscape, and, on the surface, values\u2014the exhibition posits play as a universal cultural translator.\u00a0Visitors, however, may be unfamiliar with this game. Where communication based on social conventions fails, irreverence reigns: alien alphabets, glitching gadgets, and spontaneous rituals are pressed into service.\u00a0Accordingly, the exhibiting artists hail from both regions. Newly commissioned works are shown alongside pieces\u00a0never before\u00a0exhibited, in Asia or elsewhere. Together, they form part of\u00a0Giulia\u00a0Pollicita\u2019s\u00a0research project,\u00a0\u201cItaly\u2013Hong Kong Express,\u201d supported by the Italian Council program in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_CHAT_7572.jpg?w=1024″] In 2025,\u00a0nearly\u00a0100,000\u00a0people\u2014collectors, curators, and the merely curious\u2014descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for\u00a0Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the\u00a0Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre:\u00a0Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1842020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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