PORTALS is the final commissioned work of ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, concluding the exhibition’s dialogue on shifting host-guest dynamics. This site-specific performanceinvites audiences to traverse both material and symbolic portals within the space through collective rituals.

Leading up to the performance, the artist hosted workshops in Hong Kong where participants crafted figurines that form a shared, transcendent presence along her own embodiment, Vera Maningning, whose name means ‘the light of truth.’ Clad in white lace—a motif resonant in both Filipino households and Western rituals—she inhabits this figure to embody a spectrum of fluid identities. At the performance, through singing, shapeshifting, and healing practices inspired by pre- and postcolonial Filipino shamanism, she casts the foreign, trans body as a sanctuary of queer struggle and survival, overcomingthe imposed borders of geography and power that continue to shape our world.

Participants are encouraged to bring a personally significant object to join the artist during the performance.

Registration recommended here
(followed by Closing Artist Talk for ‘The Embrace and the Passage’ on 23 Feb 2025)

Venue address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building, Quarry Bay

Para Site is delighted to present ‘How to be Happy Together?’, curated by Zairong Xiang.Departing loosely from Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together (1997), the exhibition enacts a critique of dualism and the questions raised by the dual and its split—between intimate and antagonistic partners, between political entities, between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and even between ‘I’ and ‘me’, transcending the logic of ‘either/or’ central to racial capitalism and colonial modernity. 

The primary setting for Wong Kar Wai’s queer Hong Kong cinema classic is Buenos Aires—the literal opposite side of the world from Hong Kong. Featuring over twenty artists from Hong Kong, its neighbouring localities, and Latin America, the exhibition alludes to Hong’s clichéd status as a para-site ‘between east and west’, and ‘between tradition and modernity’, in order to interrogate encounters both imagined and real between two seemingly distant ends of the world. It engages with a wide range of artistic practices that stay formally within the pas de deux yet promiscuously open up to an unexpected array of couplings and decouplings, spotlighting overlooked historical, social, and cultural connections between Greater China and the world to rethink possibilities of a queer happy-togetherness.  

OPENING RECEPTION: Thu, Dec 12, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road
, Quarry Bay

What does loss feel like on your tongue?

As part of ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, join us for Ghost of Raspberry, a participatory performance by Michele Chu featuring sound artist Lam Yip and food designer Alison Tan, delving into grief, memory, and loss. Drawing from her immersive installation rocking cradles, wet blankets, Chu translates personal anecdotes and the materiality of her work into an embodied, multisensory experience. This journey blends ritual, food, sound, scent and environment to explore communal and gastronomic grief. 

Each 30-minute session (max. 6 participants) offers an intimate space for connection, reflection, and shared experience. The performances will be in English.

Fri, 6 Dec, 6:30–10pm
Sat, 7 Dec, 4–9:30pm
Sun, 8 Dec, 4–9:30pm

Reservation and fully refundable deposit required—please refer to the sign-up links for details. Limited spots available.

Gallery address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building, Quarry Bay

The 2024 Para Site Benefit Auction features over sixty artworks and experiencesgenerously donated by artists, galleries, and friends from all over the world. All proceedswill go directly towards keeping our ambitious, artist-centric exhibitions and programmesfree to the public. 

As Para Site approaches a momentous milestone—almost thirty years of growth andtransformation from a local artist-run space to an internationally renowned organisation—your support has allowed us to continue exploring and forging connections with diversecommunities across the globe through our various initiatives.

This past year we have launched ‘Small Acts / New Flows’, a new educational programmedesigned for emerging arts professionals, educators, and community organisers; hostednewly commissioned projects with Art Labor, Aki Sasamoto, Chan Ting, and TrevorYeung; and for this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, we collaborated with Yeung Siu Fong tochallenge the visibility of the body from non-abled perspectives.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, 13 November, 6-8 pm

Venue address: 9/F, H Queen’s, Central

Para Site is pleased to present ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, an unfolding exhibition ofall-new commissions by Michele Chu, Florence Lam, Monique Yim, and Bunny Cadag,curated by Jessie Kwok.

The exhibition examines the complex relationship between host and guest as a frameworkto explore questions of intimacy and hospitality during times of transition anddisplacement. A host embraces, cares, and remains, while a guest arrives, adapts, anddeparts. In the physical or metaphorical sense—as a body, home or a place—the host-guestdynamic is marked by codependence, negotiation and sometimes conflict.

Opening Reception: Sat, Nov 2, 2–7pm

Gallery address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg.
 677 King’s Road,
Quarry Bay


Para Site is pleased to present ‘Cloud Chamber’, the first institutional exhibition to survey the activities of Art Labor, a Ho Chi Minh City-based collective formed by Thao NguyenPhan, Truong Cong Tung and Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran.

The exhibition ‘Cloud Chamber’ presents Art Labor’s long-term historical research, poetic observations, and decade-long practice of relationship-building with the Jrai community in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Alongside Art Labor’s newly commissioned and existing works, the exhibition features artwork from Jrai artists, with whom the collective has created collaborative projects since 2016, archival material from a missionary-turned-anthropologist in the French colonial period, and works by contemporary artists inspired by the region.

By reframing the region beyond its turbulent past, ‘Cloud Chamber’ looks to engage the audience in an imaginative reflection on the region’s complex history and its ongoing impact, from war, and industrialisation, to the lingering effects of missionary activity. The exhibition title ‘Cloud Chamber’ alludes to the duality of matter and antimatter reacting to one another, a concept echoed by reincarnation beliefs in indigenous cosmologies of the Central Highlands. Expanding on this duality like a gravitational field, the exhibition explores the interplay of opposing forces—regeneration and destruction, modernity and tradition, reality and dream—that continues to shape the complex dynamics and ever-changing landscape of the Central Highlands today.

Opening Reception: Fri, Aug 16, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building
, 677 King’s Road
, Quarry Bay


Para Site presents ‘Sounding Lines’ (16 March–28 July 2024; opening reception on 15 March, 6–8pm), a solo exhibition of the acclaimed New York-based artist Aki Sasamoto. Situated between sculpture and performance, the exhibition marks the first major solo presentation of the artist in Hong Kong and features a newly commissioned installation and performance in conversation with a recent moving-image work.

The exhibition title ‘Sounding Lines’ alludes to the method of measuring the depths of bodies of water with a weighted line. Expanding on this concept, the exhibition explores the boundaries and interrelations among people and their physical surroundings, focusing on how these relationships define a sense of intimacy or distance to the world at large.

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., 677 King’s Road Quarry Bay

Para Site presents 'Soft breath' (16 March–26 May 2024; opening reception on 15 March, 6–8pm), a solo exhibition of Trevor Yeung, co-commissioned in partnership with Gasworks, London; and Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao. Taking queer experiences that have shaped multi-species entanglements as a starting point, 'Soft breath' evokes the fluid interplay between night and day, public and private life, and hidden and visible desires.

Following the project's journey from the first exhibition titled ‘Soft ground’ at Gasworks to its presentation at Para Site, ‘Soft breath’ will see Yeung recast the project by bringing into conversation the rituals of 'wishing trees' native to the New Territories in Hong Kong. Drawing on the convergence of histories and places where personal and collective desires meet, Yeung creates a stage to explore humanity's entanglements with the natural environment.

Venue address: 10/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., 677 King’s Road Quarry Bay

Para Site presents ‘Moss Wonders’ (27 January–8 February 2024), a solo exhibition by Chan Ting, curated by Jessie Kwok, that emerges from the artist’s three-month residency beginning in November 2023 in Para Site’s 10/F annex.

Fifty-year-old wooden furniture, a pair of ceramic chicken feet, a saucer from a formerteahouse—these are but among the range of eclectic objects culled by the artist from Quarry Bay, the neighbourhood of Para Site, during Chan’s residency. Through stagingand collaging, these abandoned and disused objects, accompanied by images, sounds, andstories that were also gathered by the artist during their residency, transform the exhibitionspace into an improvised ‘room of wonders’ of shared memories. 

27 January, 3pm: Chan Ting in Conversation with Lukas Tam Wai Ping
27 January, 4:30–7pm: Opening Reception

Venue address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King's Road, Quarry Bay

The 2023 Para Site Benefit Auction is now live at www.ps2023auction.com! Bid onlinenow for sixty artworks and experiences, generously donated by artists, galleries, andfriends from all over the world. Drop by the opening reception of the auction preview on 15November 2023 at Soho House Hong Kong to check out the artworks in person. Theauction preview will be on view through 20 November 2023.

The 2023 Para Site Benefit Auction consists of live lots and silent lots. Silent lots areavailable for online bidding until 11:30pm HKT on 22 November 2023. Online bids forlive auction items will close at 12pm HKT on 21 November 2023. You may also participate in the live auction on 22 November via absentee or phone bidding by contacting Kelly Ma or Juliana Chan at gala@para-site.art.

All proceeds from the Benefit Auction go towards supporting Para Site exhibitions,programmes, and publications in the coming year.

Opening Reception: Wed, Nov 15, 6–8pm

Venue address: 22/F, Soho House Hong Kong, 33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan

Para Site is delighted to present ‘Offerings for Escalante’, the first major institutional solo exhibition of the artist duo Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien in Asia, curated by Celia Ho. The exhibition features all-new commissions including an hour-long experimental documentary film, large-scale drawings on handmade paper, a site-specific installation, and a 16mm stop motion animated film.

The documentary film, a co-commission by Para Site, CCA Berlin, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, and MoMA PS1, is the result of extensive primary research conducted by the artists on the issues of food sovereignty and land justice in Negros Occidental, Philippines. The artists have been researching the Escalante Massacre of 1985: though an incident that took place during the martial rule of Ferdinand Marcos (1972–1986), it is nonetheless emblematic of the injustices that marginalised groups, such as sugar plantation workers, have faced since colonial times in the Philippines. 

In the suite of mixed media drawings on handmade paper, as well as the 16mm animation, symbols of seeming destruction, such as fire and holes on a leaf, take on undertones of hope and rebirth through the artists’ manipulation of eclectic materials gathered from the flora of Negros. The rotating light installation made from onion skin, on the other hand, seeks to reconnect the ‘white cube’ with the land upon which it’s built, and entices viewers with shifting refractions cast over the exhibition space.

Iterations of the exhibition will travel to CCA Berlin, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, and MoMA PS1 after debuting at Para Site.

Opening reception on 20 Oct 2023, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

Para Site presents final chapter of ‘signals…瞬息’: ‘signals…here and there’

‘signals...here and there’, curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho, marks the culmination of a journey that has unfolded throughout a six-month period and which featured 25 artists and collectives in dialogue with an experimental display structure. 

In the context of this final exhibition chapter, ‘here and there’ evokes migratory movements, both historical and contemporary, within the context of Hong Kong’s transformation as a city. Such movements not only refer to the migrations of individuals, but also encompass the continuous changes that evolve with the concept of ‘home’. As such, the exhibition frames a fluid conception of ‘here’ from ‘there’ to negotiate the divide separating various histories as well as geographical distances.

Continuing to pay homage to the expanded concept of kinetic art that emerged from Signals Gallery (1964–1966, London), ‘signals…here and there’ will feature the work of the Greek artist Panayiotis Vassilak (1925–2019) known as Takis, a pioneer of kinetic art who participated in the original Signals Gallery exhibitions. Connecting the historical origins of kinetic art to our time, this chapter of the exhibition looks to build momentum and generate a collective discussion around today’s most challenging questions.

The participating artists of ‘signals…here and there’ are Doreen Chan, Merv Espina, HASS Lab, Kulagu Tu Buvongan, Billy HC Kwok, Linda Chiu-han Lai, Jaffa Lam, Leung Chi Wo, Ghislaine Leung, Berenice Olmedo, Nibha Sikander, Wing Po So, Takis, Tang Kwok Hin, with atmospheric interventions including a publishing project by Wing Chan featuring photography by South Ho.

Opening reception 11 August 2023, 6–8pm
Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

Para Site is delighted to present ‘Strange Strangers’ as the second exhibition in its newtenth-floor annex. The duo exhibition curated by Cusson Cheng will showcasecommissioned and existing sculptures by New York-based Chinese artist Shuyi Cao andHong Kong artist Leelee Chan.

Taking the concept of ‘strange strangers’, which philosopher and ecologist TimothyMorton defines as ambiguous beings that study and challenge the paradox and fissures ofidentity, the two artists trace the flows and formative processes of matter to envision aqueer ecology where one may relate to a collective of beings in a planetary approach. Cao’sstoneware, glass, and resin works unravel intimacies and kinships across a myriadnetworked life forms, summoning ontologies that wander between substances, residues,and impurities. Meanwhile, Chan’s enigmatic sculptures incorporate and transform urbandetritus, ancient artefacts, as well as natural and industrial material to accentuate the in-becoming nature of materials and to experiment with logic and patterns beyond ananthropocentric worldview. Despite distinct formal presentations and differing approachesto materiality, the artists’ creations, including site-specific spatial interventions, coexist inthe exhibition space as an ecosystem that transcends binaries of organic and inorganic,primordial and advanced.

Opening reception: Jun 30, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg, 677 King's Road, Quarry Bay

The second chapter of 'signals...瞬息' titled 'signals...folds and splits', curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho opens next Friday 9 June. Join us at the opening reception at 6pm!

Through a presentation of score-based interventions and time-based mediums, ‘signals…folds and splits’ will explore the ways artists challenge conventions of time amidst a climate of instability. With the multiple experiments activated in this chapter, the exhibition explores the potential of a small gesture and its ability to slowly accumulate into a wider momentum of change. As a transitional chapter within this exhibition series, ‘signals…folds and splits’ will focus on liminal spaces, the conditions that determine human ability to work and rest, and whether to gather together or diverge towards another reality.

Featuring: Doreen Chan, Sara Flores, HASS Lab, Linda Chiu-han Lai, Jaffa Lam, Carolyn Lazard, Ghislaine Leung, Li Yueyang, Candice Lin & P. Staff, Pratchaya Phinthong, Wing Po So, Mika Tajima, Tang Kwok Hin, with atmospheric interventions including a publishing project by Wing Chan featuring photography by South Ho

Opening 9 June 2023, 6–8pm

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., 677 King's Road, Quarry Bay

Para Site announces the opening of its newly expanded space that focuses on experimental, process-driven projects on the tenth floor of its current Quarry Bay location, designed by COLLECTIVE. To inaugurate the new space, Para Site is proud to present a solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Kong Chun Hei, ‘PS’ (12 May–18 June 2023; opening reception 11 May, 6–8pm), curated by Kobe Ko consisting of a newly commissioned cycle of site-specific works.

‘PS’ refers to the postscript commonly found at the end of written communication, which the artist regards as paratext that not only provides alternative readings, but is able to also open new lines of inquiry in relation to the main text. This attention towards paratext serves to disrupt and provoke new forms of production beyond the status quo. The presentation establishes a tension within the space, and looks to probe at areas of daily life that remain unquestioned to symbolise the connection between Para Site’s newly expanded tenth floor space to the existing space on the 22nd floor.

As the inaugural exhibition of Para Site’s new space, ‘PS’ reflects on the institution’s complex history as an artist-founded alternative space. The exhibition contemplates Para Site’s emergence as a leading contemporary art institution in relation to the struggles of balancing international and local interests amidst a rapidly changing social context.

Opening reception 11 May, 6–8pm

Venue address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘signals…瞬息’ (18 March–29September 2023) curated by Billy Tang and Celia Ho. The exhibition marks the firstchapter of the new direction for Para Site and will feature a series of commissions andexisting works in dialogue with an experimental display structure that will transformthroughout the exhibition.

‘Signals’ in the context of the exhibition are modes of kinetic art, communication, actions,and interventions to create a chain of reactions. As such, the participating artists will makeuse of cues including sound, smell, movement, and smoke to interrogate complex issuesrelated to dispersed communities, migratory flows, and the intersection of technology,science, and architecture. The exhibition will unfold over three phases: ‘signals…stormsand patterns’ (opening 17 March) will focus on self-organisation and the politics of space incontemporary artmaking; ‘signals…folds and splits’ (opening 2 June) will in turn reflect onthe temporality of artworks and alternative economies of time; and finally, ‘signals…hereand there’ (opening 4 August) will explore dispersal as a strategy to think aboutcontemporary global issues through the lens of Hong Kong.

Participating artists of ‘signals…storms and patterns’ (18 March–28 May 2023):

Christine Sun Kim, Linda Chiu-han Lai, Candice Lin & P. Staff, Pratchaya Phinthong, Printhow, James Richards, So Wing Po, Mika Tajima, Tang Kwok Hin, Truong Cong Tung, with atmospheric interventions including a publishing project by Wing Chan and a broadcasting project by Wan Ing Que, Elaine W. Ho, and Kunci Study Forum & Collective with the School of Improper Education

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg, 677 King's Road, Quarry Bay

Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘Fanatic Heart’ from 10 December 2022 to 26 February 2023, opening reception 9 December 2022, 6–8pm. Seemingly an elixir of pop cultural offerings that alleviates us from the hardships of daily life, 'Fanatic Heart' prompts the audience to realise the potent political power behind obsessive, fanatical desires and employ them to make sense of the radical world we live in.
Organised to embrace and expand the definition of fandom culture, the exhibition invites fifteen artists from Hong Kong, Japan, mainland China, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam to materialise the relationship between fandom and socio-political happenings that have taken place in Southeast and East Asia. Making eclectic references to celebrity worship, drag, postcolonial and post-socialist identities, social movements, religion, and technological advances, the artists investigate desire and affect to decipher the cultural unconscious of contemporary social landscapes.

The participating artists are: Haneyl Choi, BuBu de la Madeleine, Guhit Kulay (Maria Christina Castillo Anire, Cristina Balao-as Cayat, Jonalyn Macalalad Molina, and Marilyn Santiago Lopez), Ho Tzu Nyen, Yuree Kensaku, Dew Kim, Lu Yang, Green Mok, Yasumasa Morimura, Diane Severin Nguyen, Yoshiko Shimada, and Sin Wai Kin, seven of whom are presenting all-new commissions. The exhibition is curated by Cusson Cheng.

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Ind. Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

The Para Site 2022 Annual Auction is now live! Bid online now for over sixty artworks andexperiences, generously donated by artists, galleries, and friends from all over the world.

The Para Site 2022 Annual Auction consists of live lots and silent lots. Silent lots areavailable for online bidding until 11:30pm HKT on 23 November 2022. Online bids forlive auction items will close at 12pm HKT on 22 November 2022. You may also participatein the live auction on 23 November via absentee or phone bidding by contacting Kelly Maor Juliana Chan at gala@para-site.art.

Drop by the opening reception of the auction preview on 16 November 2022 at SohoHouse Hong Kong to check out the artworks in person. The auction preview will be on viewthrough 21 November 2022.

Venue address: 22/F, Soho House Hong Kong, 33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan