Design Trust Exhibition 2026: The Art of Movement

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Championed by a distinguished roster of visionary partners and supporters, Design Trust Exhibition 2026, themed The Art of Movement, will open to the public from Friday, 27 March to Sunday, 12 April 2026 to welcome visitors from Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and internationally. Curated, led and envisioned by Marisa Yiu along with Zheng Zhou, Head of Programmes / Associate Curator of the Design Trust, the exhibition delves into architecture, art and natural landscapes of the city through time from the 1980s to the present.

It features thematic artworks and exquisite design works donated by Henry Steiner, Wilson Shieh and JPS Gallery, Emily Allchurch and Karin Weber Gallery, Ma Yansong, William Lim, Xinjian Lu and DE SARTHE, Dony Cheng and Gallery EXIT, Agnese Guido and Song Hyeong-Noh. Designers OrangeTerry and Didi Ng originally from Hong Kong will produce unique site-specific works, alongside special architectural photography donations from Eason Tsang, Michael Wolf and Flowers Gallery; Design Trust with Austin Bell’s unique photos of the Peak, Ian Lambot’s HSBC photograph, and Walter Koditek supported by Blue Lotus Gallery; with Avant Garde Horn artist collaboration speakers by Frog King and Pongyu Wai as an extension of The Peninsula Hotels’ Art in Resonance programme. Award-winning Hong Kong photographers Kevin Mak and Gary Ng will produce unique pieces for the exhibition.

Envisioned in dialogues with Lead Curator Marisa Yiu, Design Trust Architectural Archive Research Prototype 2026 is presented as a focal point of The Art of Movement exhibition with the support from The Peak Tramway Company, Foster + Partners, HSBC Archive, Penelope Seidler and Harry Seidler & Associates, Henry Steiner & Margaret Steiner, Nora Leung, Rocco Yim, John Wu, Hongkong Land Corporate Archives and Zaha Hadid Foundation to loan and provide their archive materials to empower the research process. The exhibition and programme will also activate “Voices of Central Architecture” that Design Trust hopes will kick-off longer-term research and partnership with many stakeholders, with a Design Trust Sketchalogues 2026 programme on 10 April 2026.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Design Trust was established in 2014 by Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity in Hong Kong since 2007, as a grant funding and community platform. Design Trust supports creative projects that develop expertise, build research initiatives and content related to Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Working across a multiplicity of design disciplines from graphics, media, architecture to the built environment, Design Trust aims to actively accelerate creative research, design and development of meaningful projects that advocate for the positive role of design.