Every spring, Hong Kong’s art scene reaches a crescendo. This year, galleries across the city are spotlighting talent from Cambodia, Singapore, and Tibet as well as Asian diasporic names. From immersive exhibitions in the industrial neighborhood of Wong Chuk Hang to a historic presentation in Central, here are seven shows that are not to be missed.

Sin Wai Kin
‘The Time of Our Lives’
Blindspot Gallery
From March 24 to May 10, 2025

London-based multimedia artist Sin Wai Kin creates works that are at once universally resonant and intensely personal. From the voluptuous blond drag queen, V Sin, to the hypermasculine redhead, Wai King, this show is populated with a colorful cast of characters – all played by the artist. Sin uses these personas as vehicles to unpack issues of identity, desire, and gender binaries. On view will be three recent video works, The Time of Our Lives, The Fortress, and Asleep (all 2024), alongside a series of ‘face wipes’ with Sin’s makeup presented in acrylic cases – ethereal relics of their various characters.

Sopheap Pich
‘Cambodian Metal’
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
From March 22 to May 24, 2025

Sopheap Pich grew up in a small village in rural Cambodia under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge. As a child, he remembers scavenging for scraps to make toy slingshots, arrows, and traps for fishing. These early experiences continue to shape his oeuvre. In his recent work, Pich uses materials he found around his Phnom Penh studio. Working with pieces of recycled aluminum, found rice pots, bamboo, enamel, and soot, he has created a striking series of abstract wall reliefs. Alongside these works, he will show his latest rattan sculptures which incorporate blown glass, aluminum, and copper.

Louise Bourgeois
‘Soft Landscape’
Hauser & Wirth
From March 25 to June 21, 2025

From monumental marble sculptures to intimate ink drawings, this exhibition plunges viewers into the visceral world of Louise Bourgeois. At the heart of the legendary French-born American artist’s oeuvre is her raw, sensuous exploration of the human body, motherhood, and trauma. As Bourgeois once said, ‘The subject of pain is the business I am in. To give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering.’ On view will be a selection of works from the 1960s to 2008, including Mamelles (fountain) (1991), a three-meter-long installation shown for the first time in the region.

Emma McIntyre
‘Among my swan’
David Zwirner
From March 25 to May 10, 2025

Los Angeles-based artist Emma McIntyre creates spontaneous abstract paintings flooded with color. She begins by laying a canvas on the floor, then pours and splashes viscous pigment across the surface. Layering diaphanous veils of paint, she also uses oxidized iron and incorporates energetic marks using oil sticks. ‘As these paintings develop, each is suggestive of a distinct environment or weather system, like little worlds within a larger ecosystem. They move through atmospheric space, cloud formations, watery environments, dirt, dust, domestic realms, wallpaper, through to earthly and almost hellish scenes,’ explains McIntyre.

Tenzing Rigdol
‘Chitra-Kala: Weaving Awareness Through Time’
Rossi & Rossi
From March 22 to May 10, 2025

Tibetan-American artist Tenzing Rigdol’s new paintings and drawings explore the Buddhist notion of life as an ‘ocean of suffering.’ Rigdol reflects on how we unwittingly allow our minds to be subsumed by thoughts, words, and emotions. Through vivid paintings, he contrasts turbulence in the mind with ideals of spiritual awareness, harmony, and inner peace. Drawing on traditional Tibetan iconography of clouds and waves – which often appear in otherworldly thangka paintings – he creates meditative works that catapult you into another reality. The show invites us to observe our minds without being caught up with thoughts and to enter a state of tranquillity.

Dominique Fung
‘Beneath the Golden Canopy’
Massimodecarlo
From March 24 to May 16, 2025

Canadian artist Dominique Fung has long been fascinated by Empress Dowager Cixi, a concubine who rose through the ranks to rule China for almost five decades from 1861 until she died in 1908. Cixi was often demonized in the West, while Chinese accounts of her rule vary. Through surreal, dreamlike paintings, Fung excavates the past, grappling with historical omissions and biases, and chooses to feature other overlooked women, such as unnamed concubines, within her narratives. Fung will also be showing an original carpet from Cixi’s court and 20th-century antique jewelry boxes with intimate paintings tucked inside.

Richard Hawkins
Empty Gallery
From March 23 to May 24, 2025

Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins’s first solo show in Asia stems from his long-standing engagement with Japan. Featuring new films, collages, and sculptures, the exhibition explores ideas of cultural exchange, desire, sexuality, and the grotesque. Highlights include video collages projected in dark corners of the gallery which were inspired by the Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata’s scrapbooks and butoh, the avant-garde dance form that he pioneered. In tandem with the show will be a presentation of New York-based sculptor Covey Gong’s latest work – a faux national monument inspired by I.M. Pei’s Louvre entrance and theme parks in Changsha and Shenzhen.

Ho Tzu Nyen
‘3 Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time’
Kiang Malingue
From March 20 to May 13, 2025

Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen once said his primary material is time. His evocative work stems from a deep curiosity about the way in which histories are constructed and interpreted. This exhibition brings together recent films and video installations that explore the opium trade, the phenomena of yōkai (supernatural monsters and spirits in Japanese folklore), Japanese Imperialism, and beliefs about time. The show will be spread across the three stories of the gallery, with each floor signifying a different domain: the netherworld, earth, and heaven, inspired by the religious concept of trailokya or the three realms.