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Editors’ Picks: Institutional Shows to See in Hong Kong, March 2026

Editors’ Picks: Institutional Shows to See in Hong Kong, March 2026
Installation view of MUSQUIQUI CHIHYING’s The Link, 2024, three-channel video installation: 30 min; and The Smart City, 2024, alloy coins, magnifying glass, dimensions variable, at “Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe,” Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2026. Courtesy Tai Kwun Contemporary.

Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe
Tai Kwun Contemporary
Feb 28–May 31, 2026

The second chapter of Tai Kwun’s sprawling survey of art addressing contemporary social realities in China features over 70 works by more than 40 artists. While the first leg focused on the digital realm, this one examines China’s position as a hub for manufacturing and logistics, tracing how globalization filters down into micronarratives, encompassing labor, ecological impact, systems of exchange, and shifting configurations driven by cross-border movements of people, resources, and ideas.

Participating artists: Xyza Cruz Bacani, Chen Ronghui, Chen Ruofan, Chen Wei, Chen Xiaoyi, Gordon Cheung, Chu Yun, Mark Chung, Cui Jie, Dong Jinling, Foreign Investment, Han Qian, Joyce Ho, Ho Rui An, Hu Qingtai, Hu Yinping, Kwan Sheung Chi, Jaffa Lam, Lap-See Lam, Law Yuk Mui, Ocean Leung, Li Binyuan, Li Jinghu, Li Liao, Li Ming, Li Nu, Li Ran, Li Shuang, Li Yifan, Liao Guohe, Liu Sheng, Long Pan, Andrew Luk, Ma Qiusha, Musquiqui Chihying, Shi Qing, Sim Chi Yin, Samuel Swope, Tong Wenmin, Yang Guangnan, Zhang Ruyi, and Zheng Yuan.

Installation view of AZIZA KADYRI’s HER STAGE (II), 2024, at “The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies,” KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2024–25. Courtesy the artist.

Threading Inwards
Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile
Mar 21–Jun 28, 2026

Gathering 14 artists from across Asia, “Threading Inwards” slows the tempo of a hectic art week to the measured pace of weaving, stitching, and piecing fragments together. Through textile, moving image, and installation, the exhibition rehearses forms of care with quiet, layered works that probe what modes of attention are required to live through wounded pasts and an equally fractured present.

Participating artists: IV Chan, Zhe Chen, Sang A Han, Yinping Hu, ikkibawiKrrr, Aziza Kadyri, Sajik Kim, Marcos Kueh, Xuan Liu, Milay Mavaliw, Mooni Perry, Citra Samsita, Himali Singh Soin, and Shiori Watanabe.

Installation view of “Site-seeing” at Para Site, Hong Kong, 2026. Photo by Felix SC Wong. Courtesy Para Site. 

Site-seeing
Para Site
Mar 14–Jun 14, 2026

Marking Para Site’s 30th anniversary, “Site-seeing” restages and expands on the homegrown, originally artist-run institution’s 1996 exhibition of the same title, convening a generation of artists born between the 1970s and ’90s. Their mixed-media works probe how near-constant redevelopment in Hong Kong and the wider Greater Bay Area is reshaping urban space, as well as the intertwined memories, desires, and anxieties it holds.

Participating artists: Tolia Astakhishvili, Heman Chong, Covey Gong, Ko Sin Tung, Nawin Nuthong, Anna Sew Hoy, Bo Wang and Lu Pan, Tianyi Zheng, and Stella Zhong.

Installation view of ZHANG XIAOGANG’s Self-Portrait, 1983, oil on canvas, 45.8 x 34.8 cm, at “At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part I: Zhang Xiaogang, Tehching Hsieh, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Ho Tzu Nyen,” Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Photo by South Ho. Courtesy the artist.

At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part I: Zhang Xiaogang, Tehching Hsieh, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Ho Tzu Nyen
Asia Art Archive
Mar 17–Jun 27, 2026

Asia Art Archive’s 25th anniversary show takes a disarmingly simple yet poignant question as a prompt: what were you doing at 25? Reflecting on how artistic lives take shape, the presentation gathers archival materials, early works, and commissioned responses from four acclaimed artists with whom the archive has had longstanding relationships.

HUNG HSIEN, Landscape, 1968, ink and color on paper. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

Hung Hsien: Between Worlds
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Mar 25–Jun 21, 2026

In the first chapter of the two-part exhibition, “Celebration of Ink,” Asia Society spotlights Hung Hsien, a pioneering yet long underrecognized modern ink painter whose career has moved between Taiwan, the US, and Hong Kong. Bringing together works from across seven decades, the survey traces how her shifts in tonality, scale, and use of negative space quietly unsettle entrenched assumptions about the possibilities—and audiences—of Chinese painting.

Installation view of CHAN WAI LAP’s LEVO LOVE, 2026, ceramic tiles, mirrors, readymade objects and haze effect, size variable, at “Oi! Spotlight – Jeremy’s Bathhouse,” Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, 2026. Courtesy Oil Street Art Space.

Oi! Spotlight – Jeremy’s Bathhouse
Oil Street Art Space
Mar 19–Aug 30, 2026

Hong Kong artist Chan Wai Lap extends his long-running Swimming series into an immersive bathhouse installation at Oil Street, using the tiled, semi-public architecture of the bathhouse to consider how bodies, intimacy, and leisure are organized, blurred, and occasionally allowed to drift into fantasy.

SHAHZIA SIKANDER3 to 12 Nautical Miles (still), 2026. Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, presented by UBS, 2026. Photo by and courtesy the artist.

Shahzia Sikander: 3 to 12 Nautical Miles
M+ Facade
Mar 23–Jun 21, 2026

Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, Shahzia Sikander’s handpainted animation stretches the visual language of South and Central Asian miniature art across the M+ facade. Overlaying ships, ports, and currents, the presentation reflects on how imperial trade, migration, and maritime law still contour the waters around Hong Kong.

Installation view of ANOTHERMOUNTAINMAN (WONG PING-PUI, STANLEY)’s i see mountains. they are mountains., 2025, four-channel video: 17 min 40 sec, at “Live: Hong Kong Art Exhibition,” Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2026–27. Courtesy Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Live: Hong Kong Art Exhibition
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Mar 20, 2026–May 5, 2027 

“Live” features four thematic sections that bring together 19 Hong Kong artists, from established figures to younger practitioners, to show how they are responding to the city today. The exhibition focuses on how changes in urban conditions—material, technological, and institutional—shape the ways these artists make, display, and think about their work.

Participating artists: Joseph Chan, Kwan-lok Chan, Wai-lap Chan, Hing-wah Chu, Raymond Fung, Fai Hung, Hoi Hung, Hung Keung, Inkgo Lam, Yuk-mui Law, Jess Leung, Mee-ping Leung, Chun-hei Wong, Chung-yu Wong, Hau-kwei Wong, Lai-ching Wong, Fiona, anothermountainman (Ping-pui Wong, Stanley), Ross Yau, and Angela Yuen.