FILTER
BY DISTRICT
BY STATUS
Clear
SOUTHERN
Playful Scramble in Dragon’s Lair - Hayaki Nishigaki Solo Exhibition
22 Feb – 17 May, 2025
wamono art
CENTRAL
Through Time—Print Art in Aberdeen Street
22 Feb – 31 Aug, 2025
Print Art Contemporary
CENTRAL
TSANG Kin-Wah: T REE O GO D EVIL
19 Mar – 24 May, 2025
gdm (Galerie du Monde)
WAN CHAI
Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time
20 Mar – 13 May, 2025
Kiang Malingue
SHEUNG WAN
The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics
20 Mar – 17 May, 2025
Soluna Fine Art
SHEUNG WAN
Secret Garden - Byoungho Kim Solo Exhibition
20 Mar – 20 May, 2025
Leo Gallery
SOUTHERN
GONGKAN: ASYNCHRONOUS AFFINITIES
22 Mar – 14 May, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
SOUTHERN
Soul Light Legacy Plan
22 Mar – 17 May, 2025
DE SARTHE
SOUTHERN
The Garden of Loved Ones: Richard Hakwins
23 Mar – 24 May, 2025
Empty Gallery
SOUTHERN
TRST03: Covey Gong
23 Mar – 24 May, 2025
Empty Gallery
SOUTHERN
Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives
24 Mar – 10 May, 2025
Blindspot Gallery
CENTRAL
NIAO NIAO: A Solo Exhibition by Su Xiaobai
24 Mar – 15 May, 2025
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong
CENTRAL
Beneath the Golden Canopy
24 Mar – 16 May, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO
CENTRAL
Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia
24 Mar – 16 May, 2025
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
CENTRAL
Tradition Transformed
24 Mar – 14 Jun, 2025
Alisan Fine Arts
CENTRAL
Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape
25 Mar – 10 May, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
YAU TSIM MONG
Vapors
25 Mar – 17 May, 2025
PERROTIN
ADMIRALTY
Objects of Play: Hoo Mojong Centennial Retrospective
26 Mar – 6 Jul, 2025
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
SOUTHERN
Group Exhibition: Hon6 hon6 (瀚瀚)
26 Apr – 30 May, 2025
SC Gallery
SOUTHERN
Lin Yan: Everlasting Layers
6 May – 16 Aug, 2025
Alisan Atelier
CENTRAL
A Moveable Feast
8 May – 28 Jun, 2025
Galerie KOO
CENTRAL
MOMENT
9 May – 30 May, 2025
JPS Gallery
CENTRAL
Live Musical Performance by Violinist Kelly Lai
10 May – 10 May, 2025
JPS Gallery
SOUTHERN
South Ho Siu Nam: Wandering Daily
13 May – 7 Jun, 2025
Blindspot Gallery
CENTRAL
Yoon Hyup: Montage
15 May – 5 Jul, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Central)
CENTRAL
Cy Gavin
22 May – 2 Aug, 2025
Gagosian
Lin Yan: Everlasting Layers
6 May – 16 Aug, 2025
Alisan Atelier

Lin Yan, Mizar-site specific installation, 2017-2025, Hand made paper, ink & wires, 225×310×220cm

Alisan Atelier is pleased to present Lin Yan: Everlasting Layers, a landmark exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist – her first comprehensive solo show in Hong Kong – as a centerpiece of the French May Arts Festival 2025. Spanning two decades of Lin Yan’s career, the exhibition traces her evolution from early 2000s experiments to site-specific installations as recent as this year, redefining the poetic potential of paper through the melding of Chinese tradition and global contemporary practice.

Between Beijing, Paris, and New York
Born in Beijing into a storied artistic lineage (her grandfather was modernist pioneer Pang Xunqin; her mother, abstract painter Pang Tao), Lin Yan’s practice is rooted in the rich heritage of Chinese ink on paper yet enriched by her global journey. After formative studies at L’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she spent over two decades in New York, where she exhibited widely and refined her cross-cultural vision. This trilateral influence—Beijing’s legacy, Parisian formal rigour, and New York’s avant-garde energy—fuels her transformation of Xuan paper into intricate and impactful installations. Layering pleated sheets, ink, plaster, and urban detritus, Lin conjures meditations on memory, decay, and renewal. Her work, as noted in a 2023 CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing) Art Museum retrospective, “transcends geography, turning fragile material into a universal language of impermanence.”

Two Decades of Layering Experiences
Curated as a career survey, Everlasting Layers unveils Lin Yan’s pioneering dialogue with paper. Responding to the demolition of Beijing’s historic buildings after her return in 1994, Lin began casting surfaces of old architecture in Xuan paper, preserving vanishing elements like roof tiles and rivets. Originally trained as an oil painter, she shifted to Xuan paper as her primary medium by 2005, creating sculptural works that meditate on tranquility through soft, crumbled layers. Her practice negotiates contrasts—black ink and white paper, hard and soft textures, darkness and light—as seen in early pieces such as those from her 2008 solo exhibition at China Square New York, Remaking. Since the 2010s, Lin has expanded into site-specific installations, responding to architectural spaces with works like Embracing Stillness (2013) at New York’s Flatiron Prow Art Space, Sky (2013) at Beijing’s Yuan Art Museum, Beyond Xuan Paper (2014) at Brussels’ The Associazione Culturale Officina and Sky 2 (2017) at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery. Through layered imagery and lyrical forms, her works invite viewers to contemplate ecological impermanence and inner tranquility—a meditation on humanity’s fragile yet enduring bond with the natural world.

Site-Specific Dialogues
For this exhibition, Lin Yan has conceived immersive installations that interact dynamically with Alisan Atelier’s architecture and surroundings. Suspended paper sculptures, some stained with ink or entangled with cotton threads, evoke ancient scrolls reimagined for the Anthropocene. Her site-specific installations, spanning cities worldwide, confront global warming and environmental fragility while evoking the interconnectedness of nature, humanity, and the cosmos. By embedding fragments of urban rubble or casting shadows through crumpled layers, Lin invites viewers to contemplate transience and renewal. “Lin’s work is a conversation between material and void,” notes Daphne King, Global Director of Alisan Fine Arts. “She transforms Xuan paper—a symbol of China’s artistic heritage—into a living medium that breathes with the space it inhabits.”
Alisan Atelier

Address: 1904, Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen

Opening Hours: Wed–Sat 10am–6pm

Phone: +852 2526 1099

Website: alisan.com.hk