Courtsey of Sin Sin Fine Art
FVTVRIST Guide To Art Galleries
In Wong Chuk Hang & Aberdeen
FVTVRIST Magazine // 2 March 2026
Text by Anna S.
Once a mere industrial district, Wong Chuk Hang has emerged as one of Hong Kong's most vibrant cultural hotspots. What were once unassuming concrete warehouses now house dynamic exhibition spaces, international galleries, and fiercely independent art venues that pulse with intellectual energy.
The area has shifted from the periphery to the forefront of the art scene. Freight elevators now transport collectors rather than cargo, and entire floors are dedicated to museum-quality displays. Conversations spark in the hallways and resonate long after events conclude. Alongside neighboring Aberdeen, Wong Chuk Hang has become a concentrated art ecosystem.
If you're eager to immerse yourself in the authentic spirit of Hong Kong during Art Week, look beyond the convention center. Venture into the industrial towers of Wong Chuk Hang, where exciting openings will commence on March 19.
Lap-See Lam, Phantom Banquet Ghost, 2019. Photo by Carl Henrik Tillberg. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Nordenhake, and Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong.
Blindspot Gallery
Lap-See Lam: Bamboo Palace, Revisited
23 March — 2 May 2026
Opening reception 21 March 2026, 3 — 6 pm
Artist conversation with Trevor Yeung, moderated by Olivia Chow, 21 March 2026, 4 pm
Blindspot Gallery presents Bamboo Palace, Revisited, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Lap-See Lam. Anchored by the three channel video installation Floating Sea Palace 2024, developed from The Altersea Opera shown at the Nordic Pavilion of the 60th Venice Biennale, the exhibition unfolds as a layered meditation on diaspora, myth, and generational memory. Drawing from her experience growing up in a Hong Kong immigrant family in Stockholm, Lam explores migratory movement, cultural mistranslation, and the fragile construction of belonging. The narrative centers on the mythic figure Lo Ting, a hybrid human fish often invoked in Hong Kong’s cultural discourse, drifting across time aboard a resurrected Dragon Ship inspired by the real Floating Restaurant Sea Palace that once traveled from Shanghai to Sweden before falling into abandonment. Alongside the film, new hand blown glass sculptures and neon works developed during her residency in Marseille extend the exhibition’s visual language, merging bamboo motifs, shadow play, Cantonese opera, and 3D scanning technologies whose glitches embody the idea of generation loss.
15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong l www.blindspotgallery.com
Leaping Through Light by Jay Khan. Courtesy of Sin Sin Fine Art.
Sin Sin Fine Art
Pouring Shadow: Contrast & Balance
20 March — 20 May 2026
Opening: 20 March, 6–9pm
During Hong Kong Art Week 2026, Sin Sin Fine Art presents Pouring Shadow: Contrast & Balance, a solo exhibition of black and white photography by Jay Khan, known to many as the co founder and Head Mixologist of COA, one of Asia’s most celebrated bars. Inspired by the geometric clarity of Fan Ho and the atmospheric depth of Brassaï, Khan captures Hong Kong in rare moments of stillness, finding quiet poetry within its intensity.
Unit A, 4/f., Kin Teck Industrial Building, 26 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong | www.sinsinfineart.com
Still from force (2020), Courtesy of Simon and Jennie MaryTai Liu.
Current Plans
Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant
By Giulia Pollicita and Eunice Tsang
21 March — 22 May 2026
Current Plans presents Imagine a Dead Blue Whale Inside the Pocket of a Giant, a cross regional exhibition unfolding between Hong Kong and Italy. Conceived by Giulia Pollicita and Eunice Tsang, the project brings together artists based in Italy and Hong Kong whose practices move between research, fiction, and embodied narrative. The exhibition forms part of the broader research platform How to Play with a Tamed Body, supported by the Italian Council program of the Italian Ministry of Culture, positioning the initiative within an international cultural framework. Timed to coincide with the VIP days of Art Basel Hong Kong, the presentation gathers works by Adele Dipasquale, Roberto Fassone, Adam Harrison, Simon Liu, Ocean Leung, Michela de Mattei, Sara Ravelli, and Tap Chan, many of whom will develop site specific materials for the Hong Kong chapter. Within Wong Chuk Hang’s dense Art Week rhythm, the project introduces a speculative and poetic counterpoint, exploring scale, vulnerability, and the body as a site of negotiation across geographies.
Unit 601, 6/F, 17 Hing Wong Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong | www.current-plans.com
Santiago Sierra, 250 cm Line Tattooed on Six Remunerated People, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba, December 1999. Image courtesy of Estudio Santiago Sierra and GOLD.
GOLD by Serakai Studio
CERTAINLY
20 March — 3 May 2026
Opening 20 March 2026
GOLD by Serakai Studio inaugurates its Wong Chuk Hang space with CERTAINLY, a group exhibition curated by Tobias Berger. Inspired by La Monte Young’s 1960 instruction to draw a straight line and follow it, the exhibition reflects on how apparent certainty inevitably bends into instability. Bringing together artists including Tozer Pak Sheung Chuen, Lousy, Santiago Sierra, Shinro Ohtake, Peter Robinson, Weng Io Wong, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the presentation explores deviation, improvisation, and fractured systems as generative forces rather than failures of control. Conceived as a contemporary salon and cultural laboratory, GOLD positions itself at the intersection of visual art, performance, design, and music, establishing uncertainty as a necessary condition for cultural evolution.
G/F Remex Centre, 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong l www.serakai.studio
Omyo Cho (2026), Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Podium Gallery
Amour Aquatique
21 March — 30 May 2026
Opening 21 March, 2 to 7 pm
Podium Gallery presents Amour Aquatique, a group exhibition featuring Fran Chang, Omyo Cho, Soyoung Chung, Minouk Lim, and Luis Xertu. Responding to a symbolic cosmological shift from Earth to Fire, the exhibition foregrounds water as a vital counterbalance, proposing it as a metaphor for care, adaptability, and emotional resilience. Through gestures that loop, evaporate, pool, and erode, the participating artists explore love, grief, nostalgia, and memory as fluid conditions shaped by both personal and collective forces. Set within the heightened energy of Hong Kong Arts Month, the exhibition invites viewers into a contemplative yet sensorial space where intimacy and broader political undercurrents quietly converge.
Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong | www.podiumgallery.com
Slavs and Tatars, Triangulations (Not Bahamas Not Baghdad), from 胡 (هو / who) are you?, 21 March to 9 May 2026. Courtesy of Rossi & Rossi.
Rossi & Rossi
Slavs and Tatars: 胡 (هو / who) are you?
21 March — 9 May 2026
For over two decades, Slavs and Tatars have mapped a vast and often misunderstood territory they describe as east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China. Their work resists simplified narratives of identity, proposing instead a space where languages, alphabets, religions, and histories intersect with humor and irreverence. In their first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, 胡 (هو / who) are you?, the collective gathers sculptures, panels, and installations that orbit around the question of being and belonging without attempting to resolve it. New works from the Love Me Love Me Not series present concrete sign-like sculptures such as Not Berlin Not Bukhara and Not Bahamas Not Baghdad, refusing fixed destinations and binary choices between sacred and secular worlds. Vacuum-formed panels including Samovar and This Not That reimagine the imperial eagle as the Simurgh, a mythic, gender-fluid bird from Turkic-Persian traditions, shifting the conversation from nationalism and power to transformation and multiplicity. Publishing, hospitality, and performative knowledge production remain central to their practice, where books and installations converge into a hybrid language that treats intellectual inquiry as both nourishment and collective experience.
11/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong l https://www.rossirossi.com/
Dony CHENG Hung, Time Objects, 21 March to 25 April 2026. Courtesy of Gallery EXIT.
Gallery EXIT
Dony CHENG Hung: Time Objects
21 March — 25 April 2026
Opening 21 March 2026, 2 — 5 pm
Gallery EXIT presents Time Objects, a solo exhibition by Dony CHENG Hung that deepens her ongoing investigation into urban existence and the shifting perception of time. Drawing on the writings of Mircea Eliade and Paul Virilio, Cheng reflects on the transition from cyclical and ritual based temporalities to a contemporary condition defined by acceleration and measurement. Inspired by astronomical diagrams and moon phase charts, she translates celestial rhythms into grounded spherical forms, spatializing time within architectural environments. Works such as Stretched Duration and Time Without Sequence articulate the tension between natural cycles and fragmented modern temporality, while the use of Musou Black introduces a visual pause that absorbs light and suggests suspension. Through airbrushed acrylics and textured surfaces that retain visible traces of the hand, Cheng resists the smooth detachment of screen culture, inviting viewers to inhabit time as an experiential field rather than a system to manage.
13/F 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong l www.galleryexit.com
Omyo Cho (2026), Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Podium Gallery
Amour Aquatique
21 March — 30 May 2026
Opening 21 March, 2 to 7 pm
Podium Gallery presents Amour Aquatique, a group exhibition featuring Fran Chang, Omyo Cho, Soyoung Chung, Minouk Lim, and Luis Xertu. Responding to a symbolic cosmological shift from Earth to Fire, the exhibition foregrounds water as a vital counterbalance, proposing it as a metaphor for care, adaptability, and emotional resilience. Through gestures that loop, evaporate, pool, and erode, the participating artists explore love, grief, nostalgia, and memory as fluid conditions shaped by both personal and collective forces. Set within the heightened energy of Hong Kong Arts Month, the exhibition invites viewers into a contemplative yet sensorial space where intimacy and broader political undercurrents quietly converge.
Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building, 4 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong | www.podiumgallery.com
