Time is a relative concept, not confined to a linear trajectory, but one that encompasses loops and divergences. Video art, emerging in the 1960s and persisting to this day, thrives on the constant innovation of recording and projection equipment, challenging the possibilities of representing objective reality in various forms. “Events” become malleable materials that can be directly appropriated, and the intervals between events can be either disregarded or accentuated through splicing. Reality itself, aided by the artist’s subjective vision, can grow into a new form of reality. The past can endure in the future, and the future can be glimpsed in the present. The emergence of audiovisual media, akin to a fable-teller, echoes the scientific discourse on time.

Participating artists: Bouie Choi, Kitty Yeung, Michelle Tam Man Ching, Mindy Lai

Screenings of <The future is the past of the present>

18.5.2024 Sat, 4-6pm
25.5.2024 Sat, 4-6pm

Venue address: Liquid Dood, B4, 6/F, LandmarkSouth, ADC ArtSpace, Wong Chuk Hang

wamono art is excited to showcase collection objects that were introduced in two Paris exhibitions at Japonismes 2018: les âmes en resonance, a joint project between Japan and France in commemoration of the 160th anniversary of their friendship between the two countries. 

In this exhibition, some of the works and artists from Japon Japonismes. Objets inspirés, 1867-2018 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Fendre l'air, Art du bambou au Japon in Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac will be shown. In addition, these exhibited works illustrate the wide variety of the aesthetic impressions of Japanese art. 

This group exhibition covers bamboo, glass, and urushi artists including Kazutoshi KIZAKI, Yukito NISHINAKA, Kenji TOKI, Jin MORIGAMI, Tokuzo SHONO, Kei HASEGAWA, and Masaya IKE.

Gallery address: Unit A, 10/F, Derrick Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang

Whitestone Gallery is delighted to present a group exhibition featuring Japanese artists Go Yayanagi (b. 1933), Nobuko Watabiki (b. 1958) and Miyako Terakura (b.1994). The exhibition will showcase a diverse range of artworks that highlight the unique talents and artistic expressions of fantasies of these three accomplished artists. Despite their individual styles and cultural backgrounds, one thing that these artists have in common is their embracement of boundaryless imagination. Through their innovative works, they invite viewers to delve into their whimsical narrative and engage with the world in an exceptional way.

Gallery address: 7-8/F, H Queen’s, Central

PODIUM is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘The Last Laugh’, featuring works by contemporary artists Sarah Fripon, Adéla Janská, Min-Jia, Alicja Pakosz, and Rachel Youn. By proposing the notion of the ‘carnivalisation of daily life’, the five artists live and contemplate life as a joker to unleash the power of laughter as an effective means for political subversion, offering an alternative trajectory to comprehend contemporary social milieu dominated by extreme violence and polarisation.

The exhibition opens on 18 May 2024 (Sat) from 2 to 7pm

Gallery address: Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang

f22 foto space is excited to present PARISIAN PASSAGES by Jean–Baptiste Millot, an exquisite photography exhibition featuring the enchanting, glass–covered shopping arcades that made their debut in nineteenth–century Paris. These passages weaved their way gracefully through the bustling city, leaving a lasting imprint on its culture, heritage, art, and architecture.

Millot captures the impressionistic beauty and timeless allure of these covered walkways, with the interplay of light and mirrors. Through his lens, he immortalises the sensual charm and serene tranquillity within these hidden gems. This series is a homage to the architectural marvel that first captivated Paris, before taking the rest of Europe by storm. 

Viewers are invited to experience the emotional journey offered by Millot's evocative imagery. Join us at f22 foto space as we dive into the fascinating history and surreal world of the Parisian Passages.

Gallery address: Shop w16 & w18, The Peninsula Arcade, Salisbury road, Kowloon

Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present the fifth solo exhibition of the world-renowned French-Chinese artist Yang Jiechang, corresponding with Hong Kong M+’s exhibition of Yang's monumental series, Hundred Layers of Ink and Tale of the 11th Day, this year. The gallery’s exhibition, curated by the esteemed Dr. Martina Köppel-Yang, will exhibit Yang’s famous Flower and Bird Paintings, including the ink series: For Bada and the colour-on-silk series: Tale of the 11th Day. 

Yang is considered one of the most outstanding contemporary artists emerging from China after the Cultural Revolution. One of his main goals is to integrate Chinese traditional painting, aesthetics and thought in a contemporary context. In 1989, his iconic Hundred Layers of Ink series was selected for the important exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at Centre Pompidou in Paris, garnering him tremendous attention in the international art scene. Since then, he has lived in Paris and Heidelberg.

Opening Reception: 21 May 2024, Tuesday, 6pm-7:30pm

Gallery address: 21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central

MASSIMODECARLO is delighted to announce a solo exhibition by the Italian Maestro Mimmo Paladino. This momentous occasion marks Paladino’s return to Asia after his inaugural exhibition at Beijing’s National Gallery of Fine Arts in 1994. Exactly three decades later, Paladino presents a selection of his most recent works at our Hong Kong gallery. 

Paladino, a multifaceted artist fascinated by the ancient and the ancestral, finds his muse in what defines Italian culture. Its influence shaped his artistic practice: "I come from an inland culture, a solid culture. Coastal backgrounds are more winding and redundant, full of opposite and different influences. The countryside is rife with legends, cults of the dead, witches and fairies, a sense of the pagan mystery, both religious and spiritual typical of the south."

Ultimately, Paladino blends tradition and personal recollections, past and present times. His creations hover delicately between abstraction and figuration, drawing inspiration from archaic rituals and alchemical practices, coaxing them to unveil the essence of contemporary existence.

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 21, 20245:00 - 8.00PM

Gallery address: Shop 03-205 & 206, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun

3812 Gallery is proud to present "From Eternal Garden to the Bright Side – Hsiao Chin Memorial Exhibition in Hong Kong.” Commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hsiao Chin's passing, this exhibition delves into a transformative period in Hsiao's artistic development from the 1990s to 2000s, which marked the pinnacle of his creative journey. Through a retrospective lens, we bear witness to the master's cathartic transformation from grief and loss to personal salvation and reaching enlightenment.

Through "From Eternal Garden to the Bright Side," we pay homage to Hsiao's enduring artistic legacy and his profound connection to the spiritual realm. This memorial exhibition invites visitors to explore their own spiritual landscapes, reflecting on the nature of life and death, the eternal and the temporal. Hsiao's paintings illuminate the enduring power of the human spirit to transcend suffering and connect with higher realms of existence.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, 22 May, 6 - 8pm

Gallery address: 26/F, Wyndham Place, 40 Wyndham Street, Central

Coffee bubbles having a smiley face? Electrical socket looking astonished? Tree rings appearing like a puppy? All these are examples of the psychological phenomenon known as “Pareidolia”, where the human mind tends to seek familiar patterns and thus often associates random images with faces or animals. Renowned local photography artist David Leung has taken Pareidolia as the theme of his artistic journey and created symmetrical visuals out of his food and landscape photographs, unveiling the hidden surreal faces in the scene.

David’s solo exhibition, titled “見餐不是餐: see food NOT see food”, has drawn inspiration from the ancient Zen saying, “See mountains as mountains; See mountains as no mountains; See mountains remain being mountains (見山是山, 見山不是山, 見山仍是山)”, which illustrates the 3 stages of perceiving reality: First, people see things as they are. Second, people interpret the meanings behind the things they see. Delving into the second stage, David sees and uncovers the lively faces in the most ordinary food with his one-of-a-kind perspective. In this exhibition, apart from his iconic series “BEASTS FROM FEASTS”, David has collaborated with various parties for the first time and created 4 brand-new collections, all presented in unique ways that resonate with the themes of the images.

Gallery address: Shop 207, Level 2, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, TST

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present French artist, Laurent Martin Lo's exhibition, In the Balance, with his series of lyrical mobile sculptures made in bamboo.  

Through years of studying bamboo, Lo has come to understand its multitude of possibilities. His creativity is born out of skill and understanding of the material. His artistic palette is within the physical and sensorial virtues of bamboo – its sophisticated organic structure, energy, and spirituality. Establishing an intimate dialogue with bamboo, Lo experiments with its flexibility, resistance, density, lightness, mathematics, and poetry, a language that allows him to combine both tension and compression, creating sculptures based on movement and balance. Compositions that take over the space and establish a dialogue, where the space around the piece also becomes another defining element of the piece itself.

With his subtle, yet strong gestures, tensions, and counterweights, the artist speaks of a fragile harmony that is achieved using opposites: flexibility and strength, fullness and void, light and shadow, movement and quietness, Lo invites the spectators to begin a personal dialogue with themselves looking for calm, serenity, and the balance in nature. 

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

Anya Paintsil (b. 1993) is a London-based textile artist of Welsh and Ghanaian descent. 

Combining traditional hand rug making techniques with Afro hair styling methods, Paintsil’s practice is largely autobiographical. She takes inspiration from her childhood, family stories, and Welsh and Ghanaian mythologies, while exploring identity and gendered labour. Paintsil seeks to promote artistic practices historically devalued due to their associations with femininity and other marginalised groups.

Gallery address: G/F & B/F, Printing House, 6 Duddell Street, Central

24 May – 1 June: Exhibition Part 02

K-NARF & SHOKO will come back at WKM GALLERY to present all the Hong Kong workers tape-o-graphic portraits created from the March stop-over. It is a unique opportunity to see them all before they will be added to the HATARAKIMONO EXTRA-ORDINARY ARCHIVE together with hundreds of portraits of workers from all around the world.

May and June 2024 : Artist-Guided Docent Tours & Demonstration Workshops

Artist-guided docent tours will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. During these sessions, K-NARF & SHOKO will share the stories behind the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT and demonstrate their unique tape-o-graphic technique through demonstration workshops.

Date: 24, 25 May & 1 June 2024
Time: 10:00, 14:00, 16:00 (1 hour each)
Language: English supplemented with Cantonese

Gallery address: 20/F, Coda Designer Building, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road

This Spring, Christie’s Hong Kong welcomes collectors and enthusiasts from around the world to a magnificent series of art and luxury auctions, hosted from 24 May – 1 June at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Meticulously curated by Christie’s world-class specialists, the auctions will span 20th and 21st century art, Chinese ceramics and works of art, and Chinese paintings, alongside an exquisite array of luxury including jewellery, watches, handbags, and wine.

Ahead of the auctions, Christie’s invites you to preview exhibitions of cross-category highlights held throughout the region and beyond – beginning in Hong Kong, and toured to Taipei, Singapore, Dubai, Beijing (7–8 May), Shanghai (11–12 May), and Geneva (10–15 May).

Venue address: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, No.1 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Rossi & Rossi is pleased to present In my holding, the first solo exhibition in Asia of Bahamian artist Janine Antoni (b. 1964). Known for her groundbreaking performance works, she uses her body as a conduit, a tool and an anchor for meaning. Antoni’s early methods involved transforming unique materials such as chocolate and soap through habitual, everyday processes like bathing, eating and sleeping to create sculptural works that called attention to the meaning of the making. By way of her body of work, Antoni carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the senses. In each piece, no matter the medium or image, a conveyed physicality is meant to speak directly to the viewer’s body. The work on view continues to investigate the expressive capacity of the body as well as what it means to live from an embodied place.

Gallery address: 11/F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

Oscillation: An Artistic Exploration of Texture and Movement presents the latest artworks by Elsa Jeandedieu, a French artist and muralist. Through her unique texturing technique, Jeandedieu captures the essence of oscillation that permeates nature. Her intricate wavy patterns, adorned with earthy palettes and occasional touches of imitation gold leaves, beautifully depict the essence of energy and elements. The compositions effortlessly harmonise with different settings, evoking a deep sense of calm that resonates with both the surroundings and the audience.

Archetypal's collaboration with Elsa Jeandedieu this time, an exceptional exploration of texture and elements, resonates profoundly with the Archetypal's passion for interior design and fine furniture.

Venue address: G/F, 15 Moon Street, Wan Chai

In 1957 when Luis Chan ventured off to explore the pictorial worlds that existed outside the Hong Kong sceneries he was famous for, he definitely did not know how far he had to go before finding shore.

But Luis Chan was well prepared. From his first formal training course in 1927, and his First Prize award from the Hong Kong Art Club in 1934, by 1957 Luis Chan had already presented 14 solo exhibitions and published over a hundred articles on art. The hundreds of Hong Kong sceneries he had painted by then is evidence of how enamoured he was by the views of Hong Kong and the city life enveloping him. This enamoured engagement presents a sense of reality and belonging not often found in pictorial representations, and it anchored the artist’s experimentations till his last.

Professor Jack Lee, eminent historian of Hong Kong art, has recently published a concise anthology of his essays and research on Luis Chan. His anthology will be presented at the exhibition, and Prof Lee will give a talk about his research on 25 May 2024.

2:30pm Talk by Dr. Jack Lee Sai Chong 李世莊
2-6pm Summer Cocktail Reception
Gallery address: 2C Mai On Ind. Building, 17-21 Kung Yip Street, Kwai Chung

This exhibition of impressions from two great world cities examines what is often overlooked in busy lives: what lies beneath our feet. Artist Elizabeth Briel has impressed the characteristic hexagonal and octagonal tiles of Hong Kong and Paris into copper and paper to create urban prints directly from the city itself. This act is an interaction with architecture that will soon be destroyed and remade as part of urban renewal. Accompanying the prints are videos of the two cities' architecture and their interplay with raw materials, a meditation on what we often neglect as foundations of our lives today.

Venue address: Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre L0 Gallery

In Tomoko Nagai’s artworks, various animals, children, colorful trees and mushrooms are depicted in a theatrical arrangement against the backdrop of forests and domestic rooms. Loaded with a multitude of motifs, each of Nagai’s paintings embraces a unique sense of spatiality, wherein a dynamism that encapsulates the worlds of fictional narratives intricately overlaps with layers of images. The colorful matière and brushstrokes form a fantastical rhythm as the artist exercises an expression akin to composing a musical piece. The viewer perceives this melody while standing face-to-face with each painting. This evokes a sense of being inside the painting, as the viewer’s own memories and experiences – nostalgic sensations, recollections and dreams from childhood – connect with the worldview represented in each artwork.

Gallery address: 807, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

In Zhang Yanzi’s work, “Her 24 Solar Terms,” her objective wasn’t to solve any particular issues, but rather to align with her understanding of the “24 Solar Terms” within traditional Chinese culture and their relevance to her own life. Each chapter, from the onset of Spring symbolizing women’s fertility to the subtle changes of weather throughout the year, depicts the life of a woman in a beautifully simple manner.
“Her 24 Solar Terms” has been featured in prominent exhibitions such as “Tradition and Modernity—Representative Works by Modern and Contemporary Chinese Artists” in 2022, the “No Gender” Group Exhibition of Women Artists at SEN Museum, Chongqing in the same year, and “ORIENTAL WISDOM”: Contemporary Art Themed on Chinese Traditional Culture at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou in 2023. This year, the artwork will be showcased for the first time at Ora-Ora, inviting audiences to delve into the fascinating exploration of the “24 Solar Terms’.

Opening reception: 30th May, 5—8pm

Gallery address: 105-107, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, Central

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition by American artist Merrill Wagner (b. 1935) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Nature will bring together a group of works that explore Wagner’s ongoing interest in process, chance, and the transformational effects of time. Working in both abstract and figurative registers, the artist moves seamlessly between these different modes of expression that for her are linked in both form and content to the natural world, each in turn informing the other. Showcasing compositions on a variety of conventional and unconventional supports, ranging from canvas, paper, slate, and stone to Plexiglas and steel, from throughout her career, the exhibition will provide an overview of Wagner’s expansive approach to her practice. This will be the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery since the announcement of her representation in 2021, and her first in Greater China in nearly fifteen years.

Gallery address: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central

In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, post-war Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 –1990) explored the human experience, interrogating the proliferation of mass consumption and the rise of technology. His oeuvre addresses themes of colonialism, racism, social cohesion, and environmental degradation through biomorphic sculptures and assemblages incorporating found materials. Kudo’s first solo exhibition in Greater China, opening 31 May, features a selection of the artist’s signature cages made between 1966 and 1980. The worlds created inside these varied environments are intended to encourage viewers to understand themselves as part of an integrated and intricate cosmos in which nature, technology, and humanity influence each other, a system he dubbed the New Ecology.

Tetsumi Kudo© Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY /ADAGP Paris 2024Courtesy Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth

Opening reception: Friday 31 May 6 – 8 PM

Gallery address: G/F, 8 Queen’s Road Central

White Cube is pleased to present ‘Inside the White Cube: Lee Jin Woo’. Born in Korea in 1959, this Paris-based artist creates work in which the method of its making is integral to its comprehension. The process commences with the burning of wood to create charcoal and ash, which is then overlaid with hanji – a handmade Korean paper from mulberry tree bark. The surface is then pounded and scraped repeatedly with wire brushes to create abstract compositions of undulating light and shadow. 

Referencing the legacy of Korean Dansaekhwa painting, Lee’s paintings share with the movement the emphasis on materiality and ‘repeatability’, whilst also defining a new visual language. His deep respect for traditional Korean materials, as well as the space this opens up for a new wave of Korean art, unites him with the leading father Dansaekhwa painting, Park Seo-Bo.

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

Chihoi is a self-taught artist whose works materialize in paintings, comics, illustrations, and publications. He is known for his comic books Still Life (2003), The Train (2007), Hijacking – Hong Kong Comic Literature (2007), The Library (2013) and Library & I’m with my Saint (2018), and has contributed weekly comic strips Fa Fa World to Hong Kong newspaper The Sun. Chihoi’s painting and comic practices are complementary and reciprocal, the latter being a focus on conceptualization materializing into a storyboard, and the former being a reflection on reality and the act of observing.

Gallery address: 15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road

Freedom, movement, paradox, and energy are the words that best describe Antoinette Rozan and her work. Self-taught multidisciplinary artist for twenty years, creation is for her a vital expression, which she explores in two and three-dimensional formats. Paradox is the source of her strength. She sculpts in volume, yet sees with only one eye. She expresses that life is a perpetual energy in motion, yet her spine has been sealed since childhood. Her work embodies the joy of living overcoming obstacles and hardship. Anything is possible. When we are grounded in ourselves, we can fly. After all, our life force is linked to the heart – the vital source of all possibility. The great success of her first exhibition in France in 2005, along with Sin Sin Fine Art’s trust in Hong Kong, convinced her to devote herself to her art. Over the past fifteen years, her works have been shown in museums (Hong Kong Museum of Medicine and Sciences), fairs (Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong), and public places (Cité Radieuse du Corbusier, Clinique Saint Martin in Marseille, Chateau de la Gaude in Aix en Provence, Pacific Place, and Tai Koo Place in Hong Kong). She continues to carry out numerous public and private commissions in France and China.

Gallery address: 4/F, Kin Teck Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang Road

JPS Gallery is delighted to present a distinctive group exhibition specially curated for French May 2024, The show invites five contemporary artists who were either born or based in France to present their unique experiences and perspectives of the world through a diverse range of mediums, scales, and concepts that reflect of their artistic prowess.  Artists Edmond Li Bellefroid, Kean, Lokz Phoenix, Ricko Leung, and Timm Blandin's artistic oeuvres are each uniquely interwoven with rich cultural influences they have acquired through their relationship with France, and this exhibition aims to offer viewers a glimpse into the diversity of contemporary French art and its impact on the world.

Gallery address: Shops 218-219, 2/F, Landmark Atrium,15 Queen’s Road Central

Presented as part of a new series of focused monographic exhibitions on historically important figures and moments, Henry Steiner: The Art of Graphic Communication features the work of the father of graphic design in Hong Kong. The exhibition celebrates Henry Steiner's (b. 1934) influential graphic language with a selection of some of his most iconic projects tracing the city’s development from the 1960s onwards.

Born in Austria in 1934, Henry Steiner immigrated to the United States where he trained at Yale University under the renowned American graphic designer Paul Rand, learning the art of storytelling through images. After moving to Hong Kong in 1961, he found the city vibrant with a complex culture, a place on the cusp of transformation into an international centre for manufacturing, trade, finance, leisure, and tourism. Organised into two sections, this exhibition will first trace Steiner’s early years and influences that underpin his distinctive style. It will then take visitors through Steiner’s definitive designs, from large infrastructural and industry projects that marked the development of the city to those reflecting Hong Kong’s growth as a destination for travel and leisure. By showing Steiner’s practice through Hong Kong’s flourishing decades, the exhibition elaborates the significance of graphic design in Hong Kong’s distinctive visual culture.

The first major retrospective of Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture properly appraises for the first time the work of one of the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Pei’s high-profile projects were realised over seven decades with an exceptionally wide geographic reach, including the National Gallery of Art East Building in Washington, D.C., modernisation of the Grand Louvre in Paris, Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. These iconic landmarks solidified Pei’s position in architectural history and popular culture. His life and work weave together a tapestry of power dynamics, geopolitical complexities, cultural traditions, and the character of cities around the world, and his transcultural vision laid a foundation for the contemporary world.

The exhibition takes an expanded and closer look at Pei’s practice through six themes representing areas of focus and approaches throughout his career: ‘Transcultural Foundations’, ‘Real Estate and Urban Redevelopment’, ‘Art and Civic Form’, ‘Material and Structural Innovation’, ‘Power, Politics, and Patronage’, and ‘Regenerating Cultural and Historical Archetypes’. The themes place Pei’s practice in close dialogue with social, cultural, and biographical trajectories that show architecture and life to be inseparable.  The exhibition features a rich selection of drawings, sketches, videos, models, photographs, and other archival documentation, many of which will be on view for the first time.

M+ will present Sonic Blossom, a celebrated performative installation by LEE Mingwei (b. 1964), in the Focus Gallery. Sonic Blossom is a live performance which features trained opera singers approaching a visitor in the museum galleries to offer the gift of song. It is inspired by the artist's experience of caring for his mother during her recovery from surgery, when they both took solace in listening to Franz Schubert's Lieder. With five chosen Lieder and a group of Hong Kong-based classical singers, Sonic Blossom transforms these songs into an extraordinary offering that elicits spontaneous moments of joy, sadness, and connection. Taiwan-born LEE Mingwei is an internationally recognised artist with a pioneering practice that foregrounds experience and artistic participation. Educated in Taiwan and the United States, LEE is part of a generation of artists who began to incorporate participatory elements into their art in the 1990s. LEE's work, however, has always taken a different approach, transcending cultural and political boundaries to cut to the core of the human experience and reveal our desire for connectedness.

A.A.Murakami (est. 2011) is a Tokyo- and London-based artist duo formed by Alexander Groves (b. 1983) and Azusa Murakami (b. 1984). Their multidisciplinary practice straddles the spheres of sculpture, installation, cinema, and digital art, creating experiences that augment their science-based inquiries with moments of daring and spectacle.

The exhibition will feature two interlinked immersive installations which offer an otherworldly experience: one traces the journeys of physical fog rings travelling into the digital realm, and the other reveals an environment of floating bubble clouds. With transient materials and the innovative application of custom-built technology, these two large-scale installations inspire visitors to question philosophical ideas about the nature of reality, artifice, and the digital lives that we increasingly embody within today's contemporary landscape. The presentation at M+ further develops the duo’s pioneering concept of ‘Ephemeral Tech’, in which innovative technological research is used to reimagine primordial origins and to speculate possible future scenarios.

This exhibition will present new work by Jessica Rankin, marking her first solo show in Asia. Incorporating both geometric and organic forms, the new compositions seem to explore both interior spaces and cosmic realms.

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central

Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s first couture artist, combines Chinese cultural heritage with international elements and artistic expression. Guo's astonishing runway collections have impressed fashion and art audiences alike for almost 30 years. Presenting the first major exhibition of Guo’s work produced in China, M+ will showcase Guo’s key collections and early designs, highlighting her unique career connecting China and the rest of the world and the cultural symbols created through her sophisticated and visually dazzling practice. Working with the couturier and her studio, the exhibition presents a selection of garments shown to audiences in the region for the first time, creating a layered dialogue with the M+ Collections around visual imagination and workmanship. The exhibition foregrounds Guo Pei's unique artistic style that resonates with imperial Chinese dress etiquette, European royal fashion, architecture, and the botanical world.

Making it Matters is an exhibition exploring different approaches to the topic of making as a process of creative expression and the long-lasting impact this process has on our individual lives, global communities, and ecosystem. The experimental display will feature ideas that innovative makers have adopted to incorporate responsible design, material innovation, and creative reuse strategies into alternative modes of thinking and how these ideas are situated within wider historical, pragmatic, or sociopolitical contexts. The exhibition draws upon the diverse work of artists, designers, and architects currently in the M+ Collections—including John Cage, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Julie & Jesse, Fujimori Terunobu, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, and Rural Urban Framework—to highlight the diverse stories that show us why the act of making continues to matter in society, now more than ever.