As the sole host of Art Basel in Asia, Hong Kong has solidified its position as among the most significant art trading and cultural arts hubs emerging in the art world. As such, overseas artists often hold art exhibitions in the city, along with the local art scene also budding. Here are the best art exhibits in Hong Kong we recommend you visit, ranging from virtual reality and interactive to thematic and graffiti displays.
Current exhibitions
A Path to Glory — Jin Yong’s Centennial Memorial
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jin Yong (Dr Louis Cha), a literary giant in Chinese literature. This memorial event pays tribute to the master of martial arts fiction. Apart from the exhibition at Edinburgh Place, ‘Sculpted by Ren Zhe’ will present 22 sculptures of Jin Yong’s iconic characters created by Ren Zhe, as well as the artist’s sculpture manuscripts, from March 16 onwards at Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
When: March 15-July 2, 2024
Where: Edinburgh Place, Central
Tickets: Free admission
People Mountain People Sea by Gary Card
British artist Gary Card has transformed the century-old Oi! Warehouses into a contemporary multimedia art space, using animation and sound to draw the audience into an immersive visual and sensory experience. This is Card’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, which also includes the large-scale outdoor sculpture, ‘The Dream of Mr. Somebody’ on display at Oi! Lawn.
When: March 20-July 28, 2024
Where: Oi! Warehouse 1 & 2, 12 Oil Street, North Point
Tickets: Free admission
encounters: oi! oi! oi!
This exhibition is a collaboration between renowned composer Fung Lam and four artists — Louis Siu, Chan Wai-lap, Cam Wong, and Simo Tse — and explores possibilities in shaping soundscapes. Drawing inspirations from often-overlooked sounds and objects, they combined disassembled parts of percussion instruments and mechanical devices to create sound art works that produce echoes, guiding visitors to rediscover the forgotten sounds from their daily lives and embark on a multisensory journey within the bustling city.
When: March 20-August 11, 2024
Where: Oi! Glassie, 12 Oil Street, North Point
Tickets: Free admission
YUAN MING YUAN — Art and Culture of an Imperial Garden-Palace
An exhibition that sheds new light on Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) by featuring over 190 paintings, architectural models, and other works associated with this once-magnificent Qing dynasty imperial garden-palace, which served as the principal residence of five Qing emperors.
When: March 20-August 12, 2024
Where: Gallery 8, Hong Kong Palace Museum, 8 Museum Drive West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: From HK$60. Buy tickets on Klook.
Art@Harbour 2024
Victoria Harbour will be transformed into an outdoor art exhibition space thanks to several interactive installations during the two-month-long Art@Harbour. The second edition of the large-scale outdoor art project will feature the teamLab: Continuous exhibition, which will have hundreds of luminous ovoids that will change colours depending on how visitors interact with them. There will also be a Science in Art exhibition that will highlight two interactive art installations called ‘Harbour Cup’ and ‘Schrödinger’s Bed’, as well as outdoor art installations and digital art façades in Tsim Sha Tsui.
When: March 25-June 2, 2024
Where: Tamar Park, Central and Western District Promenade, Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, K11 MUSEA promenade, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, and Empire Centre
Tickets: Free admission
Voyage with Van Gogh
This event, which is part of Art@Harbour 2024, puts the century-old Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui at the centre of a 360-degree multisensory journey into Vincent van Gogh’s artistic world with ‘Cycles’, a large-scale digital art installation created by Spanish new digital art studio VISURA Studio and artist Vritis, as well as enchanting music by local and Mainland Chinese musicians.
When: March 28-May 31, 2024
Where: Clock Tower and Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Tickets: Free admission
The Ancient Civilisation of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in Henan Province
This exhibition showcases cultural relics of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, including over 150 pieces comprising large and complete sets of bronze ware, jade ware, potteries, bone ware and oracle bones, from the collections of the Henan Museum, as well as a dozen other museums and cultural institutions in the province.
When: April 3-July 8, 2024
Where: Hong Kong Museum of History, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: Free admission
Naked Flowers
The renowned Naked Flowers interactive exhibition will be on view in Hong Kong for the first time, giving visitors the chance to participate in a multisensory experience where they can “learn the secrets of flowers”. There will be eight flower-themed digital art rooms, which include a life-size book and a cherry tree-centric room with projection mapping, a flower path with scattered petals, and a kaleidoscope-like space with mirrors.
When: April 27-October 27, 2024
Where: G17B & Basement, 1881 Heritage, 2A, East Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: From HK$120. Buy tickets on Trip.com.
Love in the Light
This light art exhibition takes visitors to the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex on a journey through time. The display will see the historic arched verandahs of the Old Mental Hospital lit up in an array of colours every day, in time to music. Visitors can also stroll under the arches accompanied by cartoon versions of the famed shop cats of Sai Ying Pun, courtesy augmented reality.
When: 6pm-10pm, May 22-May 21, 2025
Where: Sai Ying Pun Community Complex, 2 High Street, Sai Ying Pun
Tickets: Free admission
Joyful Trees
This project re-examines the traditional idea of woods by animating seemingly rigid landscape elements. Renowned American architectural group Diller Scofidio + Renfro has arranged a number of Chinese Junipers on the lawn, while three are planted at a 10-degree bias in rotating turntables, creating rhythmic patterns of shadow and light when the trees rotate.
When: Until January 31, 2025
Where: Oi! Garden Oi!, 12 Oil Street, Causeway Bay
Tickets: Free admission
Upcoming exhibitions
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
This is the first major retrospective of Ieoh Ming Pei that properly appraises the work of one of the greatest architects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Pei’s high-profile projects were realised over seven decades and include the National Gallery of Art East Building in Washington, D.C., the modernisation of the Grand Louvre in Paris, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The exhibition takes an expanded and closer look at Pei’s practice through six themes representing areas of focus and approaches throughout his career.
When: June 29, 2024-January 5, 2025
Where: West Gallery, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Tickets: HK$160. Buy tickets on Klook.
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