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From Mundane, Multitudes
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Rusty Tongue
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Vignettes
11 Jul – 16 Aug, 2025
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Wish You Were Here
11 Jul – 25 Oct, 2025
Ben Brown Fine Arts

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"THE HONG KONG ICONICS" Art Basel Hong Kong Review
11 Jul – 31 Oct, 2025
Lucie Chang Fine Arts

WAN CHAI
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Kiang Malingue

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BAFA Graduate Exhibition 2025 – Calling
5 Jul – 21 Jul, 2025
Hong Kong Arts Centre

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Cai Lei: Constructing Void
5 Jul – 16 Aug, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Central)

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Freddy Carrasco: Return to Nothing
5 Jul – 2 Aug, 2025
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Familiar Strangeness: Xu Chenyang Solo Exhibition
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Art of Nature Contemporary (Central)

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Yan Jingzhou Solo Exhibition - Love is Love
3 Jul – 12 Aug, 2025
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HART Haus x r é n: Art Actions | Our Youth Our Future
27 Jun – 13 Sep, 2025
HART HAUS

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MONUMENTS
21 Jun – 26 Jul, 2025
Hanart TZ Gallery

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In Free Flight
19 Jun – 22 Jul, 2025
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19 Jun – 2 Aug, 2025
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Cherie Cheuk: A Wrinkle In Time
18 Jun – 6 Sep, 2025
Alisan Fine Arts

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Wing Po So: Polyglot
17 Jun – 9 Aug, 2025
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MUSE and TOTEM
13 Jun – 20 Aug, 2025
Boogie Woogie Photography

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Dreamscape
12 Jun – 29 Aug, 2025
3812 Gallery

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Doris Chui Solo Exhibition: “We Float, As We Slowly Fall Asleep”
7 Jun – 19 Jul, 2025
SC Gallery

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Kongkee: Future Jataka
30 May – 30 Aug, 2025
gdm (Galerie du Monde)

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Condition I-VI and Blue Room
29 May – 30 Aug, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO

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Ailsa Wong: 1
24 May – 26 Jul, 2025
DE SARTHE

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Zoran Music
24 May – 23 Aug, 2025
Axel Vervoordt Gallery

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Cy Gavin
22 May – 2 Aug, 2025
Gagosian

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Huang Rui: Sea of Silver Sand
22 May – 16 Aug, 2025
10 Chancery Lane Gallery

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Lin Yan: Everlasting Layers
6 May – 16 Aug, 2025
Alisan Atelier

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Through Time—Print Art in Aberdeen Street
22 Feb – 31 Aug, 2025
Print Art Contemporary
OPENING SOON
The Garden of Loved Ones: Richard Hakwins
23 Mar – 24 May, 2025
Empty Gallery
Richard Hawkins, Entropy Palace, version 3, 2025, display boxes, foamcore, lights, table. Courtesy of the artist.
Empty Gallery is pleased to present The Garden of Loved Ones, the first solo exhibition by Los-Angeles based-artist Richard Hawkins in Greater Asia. Since emerging in the early 1990s, Hawkins has developed an idiosyncratic practice centered around the intense pleasure of looking and the dynamics of desire which animate both sexual and art historical expression. Employing collage as an underlying mode structuring his work in painting, sculpture, and various other media, Hawkins intermingles and juxtaposes low culture with high art––operating in that fertile and unobserved intersection between graverobber and archaeologist, fanboy and connoisseur, degenerate and avant-gardist. Treating his varied materials with equal measures of reverence and insouciance, he imbues dusty reproductions of Greco-roman statuary with the lewdness of the teenage gaze whilst subjecting images of male idols to a nearly philological rigor. Inducing us to look at these subjects anew, his work destabilizes received ideas of origin and influence—suggesting a queerer, more generous, and infinitely more promiscuous reading of art history.
For his show in Hong Kong, Hawkins stages a return to his long held obsession with the figure of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986), the enigmatic founder of Butoh dance. Embodying many of the artist’s most cherished fixations––the aesthetic potential of the grotesque, an obsessive regard for the male form, and a certain relationship to the occult––the avatar of Hijikata also comes to represent the concealed syncretism between east and west existing below the surface of modernism, and the ouroboric nature of art history. A suite of new video works are inspired by, and presented alongside, a series of collages in the manner of Hijikata’s scrapbooks. These bizarre and hermetic documents appropriate and disfigure now iconic fragments of the Western canon––Bellmer, Redon, and Picasso, amongst others––in order to translate them into choreographic instructions, contorting history in order to broaden the ways in which we might contort our bodies.
For his show in Hong Kong, Hawkins stages a return to his long held obsession with the figure of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986), the enigmatic founder of Butoh dance. Embodying many of the artist’s most cherished fixations––the aesthetic potential of the grotesque, an obsessive regard for the male form, and a certain relationship to the occult––the avatar of Hijikata also comes to represent the concealed syncretism between east and west existing below the surface of modernism, and the ouroboric nature of art history. A suite of new video works are inspired by, and presented alongside, a series of collages in the manner of Hijikata’s scrapbooks. These bizarre and hermetic documents appropriate and disfigure now iconic fragments of the Western canon––Bellmer, Redon, and Picasso, amongst others––in order to translate them into choreographic instructions, contorting history in order to broaden the ways in which we might contort our bodies.

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