These ten must-see shows in Hong Kong reveal the power of visual culture in shaping ideas on body, spaces, ecology, and the cosmos Ranked as 2024’s most unaffordable city on earth, Hong Kong is a city of superlatives that boasts of an energetic and electrifying art scene wherein international, regional, and local artists present compelling and stimulating works of diverse mediums, processes, subject matters, aesthetic and cultural sensibilities, and conceptual persuasions. Beneath the glitz, grit, and dynamism of Asia’s city that never sleeps lies a nuanced and complex urban soul with a penchant for visual poetry, conceptual discipline, and lighthearted humor. From exploring the awe-inspiring M+ Museum, Asia’s first museum of contemporary visual culture in West Kowloon; the thriving creative community that is Tai Kwun along Hollywood Road; the exciting selection of international galleries in H Queen’s located in the heart of Central; and the hole-in-the-wall gallery that is Odds and Ends in Sheung Wan, there are exhibits that bear poignant, poetic, humorous, and experimental themes that zero in on the human body, mankind’s relationship with nature, the parallels between architecture and human life, the inextricable relationship between materiality and mutability, the mystery of the cosmos, and the “schizophrenia of modern life.
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Pei, “I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture” at M+ Museum “The first full-scale retrospective of Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), I.
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