The Realm Of Vision Group Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art
The Realm Of Vision unite the works by artists Zhao Peizhi, Zhang Jian, and Yafeng Duan, who each explore representations of the external world while turning their gaze inwards. Zhao focuses on the “emotional sedimentation” of individual memory and social concerns through figurative paintings of bold colours. Zhang depicts natural and urban landscapes, which become witnesses of time and vessels of emotion and memory. Meanwhile, Duan is deeply influenced by the Chinese philosophical concept of ‘qi’ or vital energy, creating paintings that capture a ‘spiritual breath’.
When: Until June 28, 2025
Where: 10/F HQueens, 80 Queen’s Road, Central
Salvatore Emblema Solo Exhibition, White Cube
Born in a small town on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, the late Salvatore Emblema was extremely familiar with the volcanic terrain of southern Italy. His solo exhibition at White Cube explores how landscape has influenced the material composition and concepts of his work, and the artist’s engagement with site, matter, and surface. From the beginning of his career, Emblema has worked with pictorial surfaces with an innate textural quality and organic pigments composed of lapillus stones and agricultural residue. Spanning four decades of Emblema’s career, the exhibition showcases his expansive colour fields and his acute sensibilities to the boundaries of painting.
When: Until July 5, 2025
Where: White Cube Hong Kong, 50 Connaught Road Central
Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs, Para Site
On the occasion of Ha Bik Chuen’s 100th birth anniversary, Para Site presents an exhibition that refocuses Ha’s printmaking practice. The Hong Kong-based artist coined the term ‘motherboard’ for his collagraph plates, which was a way for Ha to explore a “unique modernist visual vocabulary” and his passion for “obsessive record-keeping of all kinds”. Over his life, the artist created over 100 motherboards to produce over 3,000 editioned collographs. Curated by Michelle Wun Ting Wong, the exhibition brings to view a selection of Ha’s motherboards, which were kept from public view, alongside collagraphs and gouache drawings, offering a re-reading of Ha’s art practice.
When: Until August 10, 2025
Where: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay
On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules, Tai Kwun
Spanning five decades of work, On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules marks the first institutional solo presentation of Kawara’s works since his passing a decade ago. At the heart of this iconic conceptual artist’s distinct systematic approach is the meditation on time, presence and meditation, fuelled by a constant negotiation between “self-imposed creative rules” and “lived experiences”. This major retrospective examines Kawara as both a global citizen and artist-philosopher and how his works “find stability within perpetual movement”.
When: Until August 17, 2025
Where: JC Contemporary, 10 Hollywood Rd, Central
Cy Gavin Solo Exhibition, Gagosian
Gagosian presents a series of new paintings by American artist Cy Gavin, marking his first exhibition in Asia. Gavin describes this exhibition as a “reunion of paintings”, as he draws new conclusions from a fresh arrangement. He interprets natural spaces and phenomena, including depictions of plants, spiderwebs, and cosmic structures, through vivid hues on mainly unprimed wooden (birch) panels. With spaces left unpainted, visible wood grain becomes a feature in the composition of paintings. With Gavin being an artist and a devoted gardener, he observes his surroundings and commits them to paint. Themes of disintegration and regeneration echo through a painting of a dead tree broken by the wind, while his largest painting on show depicts life-size flowering plants which are heliotropic, following the sun’s motion.
When: Until August 22, 2025
Where: 7/F, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder St, Central
Zoran Music Solo Exhibition, Axel Vervoordt
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong presents Zoran Music’s debut exhibition, showcasing paintings from the 1960s-1980s. A respected Slovene painter, Music’s works capture harsh personal realities, including his captivity in the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War II. Of muted hues and minimal material, Music’s works are coarse with pain but don’t lose hope of survival, exploring themes of landscapes, nude figures, vegetal motifs, cathedrals, and self-portraits. Separated into three rooms in a chronological order, the exhibition first confronts visitors with a lonely figure, striking melancholy. The first room focuses on landscapes, while the second vegetal motifs, and the last Venice, his favourite city, where he found freedom.
When: Until August 23, 2025
Where: 21F, Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Tongues of Flare by Li Hei Di, Pace Gallery
Pace presents a collection of riveting new works by emerging Chinese artist Li Hei Di. This exhibition spotlights 11 new and never-before-exhibited paintings and a new wood sculpture, culminating in “the most vulnerable and diaristic works that Li has created to date”. Their luminous and dreamlike paintings are embedded with repressed and fulfilled desire, flowing with emotions and latent narratives about gender. Ruminating about selfhood, Li uses the flow of water as a metaphor for the process of becoming one’s self. As with past paintings, literature is a source of inspiration, and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a particularly stimulating in the artist’s ideas about sexuality, monstrosity, and transfiguration.
When: Until August 29, 2025
Where: 12/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road, Central
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Lead Image: 'Shapes' (2023) by Zhao Peizhi via Tang Contemporary Art
