As Hong Kong gears up for the upcoming art week—with Art Basel Hong Kong (Mar 28–30) launching its 2025 edition at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, and Art Central (Mar 26–30) returning for its 10th edition at the Central Harbourfront—various art institutions and galleries across the city are rolling out their most ambitious programs to coincide with the highly anticipated fairs.

From major exhibitions at M+ and CHAT to notable presentations at both nonprofit and commercial galleries, here are our editors’ picks for shows to see this month in Hong Kong. 

Mar 22–May 24
Sopheap Pich
Cambodian Metal
Axel Vervoordt Gallery

For his first solo exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, entitled “Cambodian Metal,” Phnom Penh-based artist Sopheaph Pich debuts a range of sculptures and wall reliefs made of metal alloys, rattan, and bamboo—manufacturing materials commonly used in Cambodia. His new works explore the interplay between organic and industrial matter, as shown in Silent Restraint (2025)—a mixed-media sculpture featuring a set of glass-blown lungs.  

Mar 22-May 3
Tap Chan
Fabric of Belonging
Mou Projects

For her second solo show with Mou Projects, Hong Kong-based Tap Chan presents nine new works that center on the diasporic experience. Featuring sculptures, installations, photographs, and a double-channel video work, the exhibition invites viewers to speculate on themes of migration and displacement, time and space—evoking the desire for escape as well as new beginnings.

Mar 22–May 10
Tenzing Rigdol
Chitra-kala: Weaving Awareness through Time
Rossi & Rossi

Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol returns to Rossi & Rossi for his fifth solo exhibition, which features a new series of paintings and drawings probing the interconnected realms of thought, emotion, and consciousness. Building on the Buddhist notion that “life is an ocean of suffering,” Rigdol prompts viewers to seek mental equilibrium, and to reflect on the transient nature of human existence.

Mar 22–May 17
Wang Xin
Soul Light Legacy Plan
De Sarthe

Shanghai-based artist Wang Xin’s fourth solo show at De Sarthe, titled “Soul Light Legacy Plan,” posits itself as a fictional service agency offering immortality. Showcasing a new range of interrelated sculptural, multimedia, and interactive installations, the exhibition resembles a showroom of strange artifacts that propose ways to transcend physical existence through the convergence of technology and spirituality. 

Jan 24–Apr 13
Hu Xiaoyuan
Veering
Tai Kwun Contemporary

For her debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Beijing-based artist Hu Xiaoyuan presents 12 newly commissioned works from seven series that span installation, sound, painting, and video. Her mesmerizing sheer drapes and lighting designs—made out of aerospace-grade aluminum, seashells, organza silk, and corn fiber—navigate the spatiotemporal boundary between day and night, prompting reflections on time, materiality, existence, and consciousness.

Mar 24-May 16
Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia
10 Chancery Lane Gallery

The group exhibition “Beauty Will Save the World” at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery presents a series of iconic projects and newly commissioned works by eight notable artists from Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Cambodia. From video and sculptural installations to paintings and photography, the works on show examine the role of beauty amid sociopolitical turmoil, offering a poetic glimmer of hope in our conflict-ridden world.

Mar 20–May 13
Ho Tzu Nyen
Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time
Kiang Malingue

Emulating a trailokya—the Buddhist division of reality into three realms—Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s exhibition at Kiang Malingue transforms the gallery’s three floors into a journey from the netherworld to heaven, where monsters and opium become vessels for exploring mythology, time, and colonial histories. Works on view include video installations from Ho’s ongoing project Night March of Hundred Monsters (2021– ), merging Japanese yokai folklore with the country’s history of imperialism, as well as the multichannel moving-image work Timepieces (2023) that questions our temporal experiences as rooted in European concepts of linear progression.

Mar 25–May 10
Louise Bourgeois
Soft Landscape
Hauser & Wirth

Marking Louise Bourgeois’s second solo presentation with Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, “Soft Landscape” brings together a selection of the late artist’s works from the 1960s to 2008. Along with sculptural projects and works on paper that have never been exhibited before, her three-meter installation Mamelles (fountain) (1991) and steel-and-marble sculpture Spider (2000) will be shown in Asia for the very first time.

Mar 24–May 10
Sin Wai Kin
The Time of Our Lives
Blindspot Gallery

For their second solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery, Canadian visual artist Sin Wai Kin presents three recent video projects—The Time of Our Lives, The Fortress, and Asleep (all 2024)—alongside face wipes imprinted with the colorful makeup of each film’s characters. Inspired by science fiction, metaphysics, cinema, drag performance, history, theater, and architecture, Sin’s works defy our binary perceptions of time, objectivity, and identity.

Mar 5–Jul 13
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation
M+ Museum

In a new special exhibition, M+ unveils more than 60 masterpieces by the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso—on loan from the Musée national Picasso-Paris—alongside 130 works by 30 Asian and Asian diasporic artists from the M+ collection, including Isamu Noguchi, Gu Dexin, Haegue Yang, and Luis Chan. As the first major exhibition of Picasso in Hong Kong in over a decade, “Picasso for Asia—A Conversation” investigates the cross-cultural and intergenerational resonances between Picasso and artists in Asia.

Mar 15–May 25
Wing Po So
Take Turns
Para Site

In “Take Turns,” Para Site presents a series of newly commissioned works by Hong Kong artist Wing Po So. Characterized by the synthesis of conceptual art with her knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, So’s practice investigates the shifting dynamics between nature, the human body, and materiality. Salvaged medicine drawers from traditional Chinese pharmacies around Hong Kong are a central component of So’s installations, in which an array of Chinese herbs, rocks, kinetic sculptures, 3D-printed objects, and sound form metaphors for cycles of preservation, decay, and regeneration.

Mar 22–May 24
Aftershock
Podium Gallery

Podium Gallery’s “Aftershock” brings together a group of multidisciplinary artists—Ivana Bašić, Sihan Guo, Ittah Yoda, Yein Lee, and Diane Severin Nguyen. The show draws parallels between geological aftershocks and personal renewal, exploring the reverberations of trauma and its transformative potential. Through sculptures, digital media works, and biomorphic installations, the artists navigate the threshold between ruin and reconstruction, framing transmutation as a process of reckoning and rebirth.

Mar 23–May 24
Richard Hawkins
The Garden of Loved Ones
Empty Gallery

Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins’s long-held fascination with Tatsumi Hijikata—the founder of Japanese butoh dance—comes to the fore in his first solo exhibition in Asia, “The Garden of Loved Ones,” presented by Empty Gallery. A new series of video works by Hawkins will be showcased alongside collages emulating Hijikata’s archival scrapbooks. Hawkins’s idiosyncratic multidisciplinary practice, filled with surreal juxtapositions and fragmented imagery, constructs narratives that activate a queerer reading of art history.

Mar 25–May 3
Sarah Sze
Gagosian

For her debut solo exhibition in Asia, American artist Sarah Sze presents new large-scale mixed-media paintings and suspended sculptures at Gagosian. Layered with gestural brushstrokes, colored tape, and torn printed images, her paintings feature motifs of birds, wolves, hands, and vivid sunsets. These dense, immersive works—drawing from Asian and Western pictorial traditions—are complemented by Sze’s Fractured Image series (2025), in which ripped photographs dangle from silver chains, set against Hong Kong’s harbor views outside the gallery windows.

Mar 15–Jul 13
Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision
Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile

At Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile, the group presentation “Lining Revealed” examines the interactions between folk craft and contemporary art. From beadwork and embroidery to nomadic quilts and island-themed silkscreens, the show explores how traditional handicraft techniques continue to inspire contemporary artists. Through artworks, handmade objects, and archival documents, the exhibition also reveals how these practices share the fundamental human desire for creation, expression, and exchange while pondering conventional perspectives on cultural heritage. 

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