As the sole host of Art Basel in Asia, Hong Kong has solidified its position as among the most significant art trading and cultural arts hubs emerging in the art world. As such, overseas artists often hold art exhibitions in the city, along with the local art scene also budding. Here are the best art exhibits in Hong Kong we recommend you visit, ranging from virtual reality and interactive to thematic and graffiti displays.

Current exhibitions

Supper Club

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The inaugural edition of Supper Club will put the spotlight on more than 20 international and regional galleries. The event will take place across several spaces within the historic Fringe Club, which has played a pivotal role in the city’s experimental art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Supper Club aims to subvert the conventional art fair paradigm and reinvent the art selling and socialising experience.

When: March 25-March 30, 2024
Where: Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central
Tickets: From HK$100. Buy tickets on Eventbrite.

Arte M Digital Art Exhibition

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Korean digital design company d’strict brings its renowned immersive media art exhibition ARTE MUSEUM to Hong Kong with Arte M, a special digital art show. The exhibition features selected highlights from ARTE MUSEUM and takes on the theme of Eternal Nature. It consists of four individual spaces displaying unique media artworks that reinterpret elements and nature. Visitors can expect a surreal immersive experience with a combination of visual effects, sensuous sound, and elegant aromas in each space.

When: Until March 31, 2024
Where: K11 HACC, L2 ATELIER King’s Road, 728 King’s Road, Quarry Bay
Tickets: Weekdays: $128 (Adult) / $98 (Concession); On-Site: $148 (Adult) / $108 (Concession). Buy tickets on Arte M’s website

Why No Hug?

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This solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Humchuk feature his trademark monochrome palette and characters with minimal expressions that capture the human experience within their dialogue. This new series of work sees the artist tackling changing identities within a chaotic time by asking: ‘If everything could be made simpler through a hug, why don’t we try to reshape our world through a simple hug?’

When: Until March 31, 2024
Where: Young Soy Gallery, The Cove, G/F, 40A Upper Lascar Row, Sheung Wan
Tickets: Free admission

HKwalls 2024

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Hong Kong’s biggest street art festival is back, and will see local and international street artists take over alleys, thoroughfares, and lanes across Hong Kong to give them colourful makeovers. The artists confirmed for this year include global names like Rabi from the USA, Aches from Ireland, and Maye from France. Hong Kong will be represented by Lousy, Tom, and Siukins.

When: Until March 31, 2024
Where: Across Hong Kong
Tickets: Free admission

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WestK FunFest

WestK FunFest

The highlight of this new annual family festival will be ‘Ephemeral’ an award-winning, large-scale immersive art installation along the Waterfront Promenade of the Art Park at West Kowloon Cultural District. The experience, created by award-winning Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu, has captivated audiences in over 40 regions worldwide. The centrepiece of the exhibition will be the Hong Kong-specific Colossal, a collection of gigantic rainbow-hued bubbles.

When: Until April 7, 2024
Where: Harbourside Lawn East, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon
Tickets: Free admission

Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion

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This is Ma’s first-ever large-scale solo show in Hong Kong, and is adapted from his exhibition at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning. Visitors can get a look at significant urban projects by architectural collective MAD, which is headed by Ma – including the soon-to-be-completed Shenzhen Bay Cultural Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam.

When: Until April 7, 2024
Where: Hong Kong Design Institute, 3 King Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O
Tickets: Free admission

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

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Hong Kong Palace Museum and the National Gallery, London are offering art enthusiasts the opportunity to explore 400 years of the European art scene through this exhibition. The event will showcase 52 paintings from 50 world-renowned artists such as Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Sandro Botticelli, Titian and many more.

When: Until April 11, 2024
Where: Gallery 9, Hong Kong Palace Museum, 8 Museum Drive West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: HK$150. Buy tickets on Klook.

Sarah Morris: Who is Who

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This solo exhibition of renowned American artist Sarah Morris will comprise the feature-length film ETC and a newly commissioned wall painting, ‘Lippo [Paul Rudolph]’. The exhibition will examines the multitude of interconnections at any given moment in late industrialism.

When: Until April 14, 2024
Where: 3/F JC Contemporary, Old Bailey Street, Tai Kwun, Central
Tickets: Free admission

Ay-O: Hong Hong Hong

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Ay-O’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong will feature 60 works by the famed Rainbow Artist spanning the 1950s to the 2000s. The exhibition also marks the inauguration of the museum’s new Pao-Watari exhibition series, which puts the spotlight on significant yet under-examined moments and figures in the history of Asian art and visual culture.

When: Until May 5, 2024
Where: Cissy Pui-Lai Pao and Shinichiro Watari Galleries, M+, West Kowloon Cultural Art District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Tickets: From HK$120. Buy tickets on Klook.

Edgar Plans Solo Exhibition: Heart of Fearlessness

Edgar Plans Solo Exhibition: Heart of Fearlessness

This thought-provoking solo exhibition by artist Edgar Plans that traverses the intricate pathways of courage, determination, and emotion. This show is a vibrant tapestry, weaving narratives that spark a spectacle of introspection and wonder.

When: Until May 10, 2024
Where: Tang Contemporary Art, 10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queens Road Central, Central
Tickets: Free admission

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Art in Resonance

hong kong art in resonance 2024

The Peninsula’s art programme returns to coincide with this year’s Hong Kong Art Week. Local artist Kingsley Ng’s sculpture ‘Esmeralda’ will float over the hotel’s façade, while a newly commissioned piece of work by Lachlan Turczan named ‘Harmonic Resonance’— a mirrored pool of water that shows patterns created by choreographed infrasonic tones — will also be on view. Other pieces shown during this time will include a large-scale sculpture by Elise Morin made with thousands of pulverised CDs, as well as a multisensory video installation that promotes meditation and contemplation by Saya Woolfalk.

When: Until May 31, 2024
Where: The Peninsula, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: Free admission

Art@Harbour 2024

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Victoria Harbour will be transformed into an outdoor art exhibition space thanks to several interactive installations during the two-month-long Art@Harbour. The second edition of the large-scale outdoor art project will feature the teamLab: Continuous exhibition, which will have hundreds of luminous ovoids that will change colours depending on how visitors interact with them. There will also be a Science in Art exhibition that will highlight two interactive art installations called ‘Harbour Cup’ and ‘Schrödinger’s Bed’, as well as outdoor art installations and digital art façades in Tsim Sha Tsui.

When: Until June 2, 2024
Where: Tamar Park, Central and Western District Promenade, Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, K11 MUSEA promenade, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, and Empire Centre
Tickets: Free admission

A Path to Glory — Jin Yong’s Centennial Memorial

A Path to Glory Jin Yong’s Centennial Memorial central

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jin Yong (Dr Louis Cha), a literary giant in Chinese literature. This memorial event pays tribute to the master of martial arts fiction. Apart from the exhibition at Edinburgh Place, ‘Sculpted by Ren Zhe’ will present 22 sculptures of Jin Yong’s iconic characters created by Ren Zhe, as well as the artist’s sculpture manuscripts, from March 16 onwards at Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

When: Until July 2, 2024
Where: Edinburgh Place, Central
Tickets: Free admission

People Mountain People Sea by Gary Card

People Mountain People Sea by Gary Card hong kong

British artist Gary Card has transformed the century-old Oi! Warehouses into a contemporary multimedia art space, using animation and sound to draw the audience into an immersive visual and sensory experience. This is Card’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, which also includes the large-scale outdoor sculpture, ‘The Dream of Mr. Somebody’ on display at Oi! Lawn.

When: Until July 28, 2024
Where: Oi! Warehouse 1 & 2, 12 Oil Street, North Point
Tickets: Free admission

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This exhibition is a collaboration between renowned composer Fung Lam and four artists — Louis Siu, Chan Wai-lap, Cam Wong, and Simo Tse — and explores possibilities in shaping soundscapes. Drawing inspirations from often-overlooked sounds and objects, they combined disassembled parts of percussion instruments and mechanical devices to create sound art works that produce echoes, guiding visitors to rediscover the forgotten sounds from their daily lives and embark on a multisensory journey within the bustling city.

When: Until August 11, 2024
Where: Oi! Glassie, 12 Oil Street, North Point
Tickets: Free admission

YUAN MING YUAN — Art and Culture of an Imperial Garden-Palace

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An exhibition that sheds new light on Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) by featuring over 190 paintings, architectural models, and other works associated with this once-magnificent Qing dynasty imperial garden-palace, which served as the principal residence of five Qing emperors.

When: Until August 12, 2024
Where: Gallery 8, Hong Kong Palace Museum, 8 Museum Drive West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: From HK$60. Buy tickets on Klook.

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Joyful Trees

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This project re-examines the traditional idea of woods by animating seemingly rigid landscape elements. Renowned American architectural group Diller Scofidio + Renfro has arranged a number of Chinese Junipers on the lawn, while three are planted at a 10-degree bias in rotating turntables, creating rhythmic patterns of shadow and light when the trees rotate.

When: Until January 31, 2025
Where: Oi! Garden Oi!, 12 Oil Street, Causeway Bay
Tickets: Free admission

Upcoming exhibitions

Art Basel

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The Hong Kong edition of Art Basel features premier galleries from Asia and across the world, and provides an in-depth overview of Asia-Pacific’s astonishing diversity, as well as global artistic perspectives through modern and contemporary works. The upcoming 2024 edition of the fair will feature 243 renowned international galleries from 40 countries and territories, with 24 of them being new exhibitors.

When: March 28-30, 2024
Where: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai
Tickets: TBA

Art Central 2024

art central hong kong

The forthcoming edition of Art Central will return to Central Harbourfront this year to put the spotlight on works by cutting-edge galleries from Hong Kong, Asia, and beyond. The highlights of this year’s edition of the event will be a new zone called ‘Neo’ that will feature first-time exhibitors who will showcase artists that have never participated in the event before. The fair will run until 9pm on Day 1 as part of Night Central, and this year will see the return of the Art Central dining terrace, where visitors can check enjoy the festivities over food and drink.

When: March 28-31, 2024
Where: Central Harbourfront, 9 Lung Wo Road, Central
Tickets: From HK$175. Buy tickets on HK Ticketing.

illuminate! Run Beyond

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Italian artist Angelo Bonello is bringing his renowned Run Beyond light art exhibition to the city for the first time, where it will adorn the Hong Kong side of Victoria Harbour. The 65-metre-long light installation will create a recurring, vivacious imagery of large light silhouettes running and leaping in dreamlike surrealism.

When: March 29-April 28, 2024
Where: Wan Chai Harbourside Event Space, 3 Hung Hing Road, Wan Chai
Tickets: Free admission

Affordable Art Fair 2024

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This year’s edition of the Affordable Art Fair will continue the event’s tradition of showcasing thousands of artworks under one roof, all priced under HK$100,000. The four-day event will highlight the works of 95 galleries from around the world. Details of the participating galleries and artists will be released shortly.

When: May 16-19, 2024
Where: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, wan Chai
Tickets: Early-bird tickets go on sale from March 14.

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