Stepping into the 4th edition of our successful Art Day at South Island, Hong Kong Art Gallery Association (HKAGA) will establish a new partnership with South Island Cultural District (SICD) to co-organize South Island Art Day. The partnership combining the two events will result in a South Island Art Day of a grander scale and greater success. 13 art spaces will join this big event, giving visitors the opportunity to attend exhibition openings, interact with local and international artists and experience performance art and contemporary dance at the studios. Details of the event are as follow: How to get around - MTR South Island Line (7 minutes from Admiralty) From Admiralty Station to Wong Chuk Hang Station (Exit A & B) - Free Shuttle Bus From Ovol... Read more

Artist Talk 26 Sept Wed 5-6pm Chinese Ink Painting · The Past and The Future: A Study of Humanity (in Putonghua & English) Catalogue available Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present Xu Jianguo’s solo exhibition “Poetic Cityscapes,” offering a new vision of cosmopolitan centres around the world. Painted in Song Dynasty artistic style, these panoramas blend the past with the present, offering a commentary on the future of our culture. Chinese diaspora artist Xu Jianguo has lived in New York for over three decades. Aside from painting, he has devoted his scholarly life to researching Chinese art history, Chinese philosophy and Western art history and has been a champion of East-West intercultural exchange. The 20 paintings on silk canvas featured in this exhibit testify to h... Read more

August 30—October 27, 2018 407 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Hong Kong #marilynminter | @lehmannmaupin Artist Talk: Wednesday, August 29, 6:30-8 PM at Miller Theater, Asia Society Hong Kong Opening Reception: Thursday, August 30, 6-8 PM Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce Marilyn Minter’s first exhibition in Hong Kong. The gallery will exhibit recent paintings and photographs by the New York-based artist. Since the 1980s, Minter has been at the forefront of the ongoing dialogue surrounding depictions of women in art and media with her raw, honest, and at times explicit paintings and photographs of women. By pushing the boundaries of beauty and glamour imagery, Minter exposes the double standards that influence women’s identities and presents brazen alternatives ... Read more

Engku Iman, b. 1990, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Engku Iman is in your face sardonic in taking on local cultural ironies, paradoxes and colloquialisms. At just 4 years old Iman began drawing, only taking art seriously enough to consider herself a professional artist after she completed a Diploma in Architecture at Taylor’s University in 2011. It was then when Iman vowed not to contribute to urbanising her native city by becoming an architect but to be the architect of her own future as an artist. She felt that in the Kuala Lumpur metropolis, there was a distinct need for more art parks and not more high rise buildings. Iman uses her mostly monochromatic illustrations to provoke the viewer to a certain interpretation. Her chosen topic can often be an everyday, household scene, something... Read more

Galerie du Monde is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new conceptual works by Stella Zhang. The title Translution is a portmanteau of ‘transparent evolution’, which allows for the revealing or obscuring of contents held within at will. The exhibition showcases a visual reconciliation of the artist’s flickering memories and thoughts, deliberately and selectively making transparent those glimpses as they dart in and out of her peripheral vision. It is also a representation of Zhang’s progressive journey as an artist. Comprised of a new installation, drawings and 3D works, Translution is an extension of the artist’s renowned 0-Viewpoint series and a broader development in Zhang’s oeuvre. 0-Viewpoint is an outward display of the complex inner landscape mapped by the a... Read more