Major Exhibitions and Festivals this Autumn
There is already a Festive Season flavour in town, with the holding of major art exhibitions and festivals.
From Hong Kong French Film Festival, deTour, Hong International Photo Festival, to the first Diane Arbus retrospective in the region, or Gender & Space at Tai Kwun, from Yayoi Kusama retrospective at M+ to the Masterpieces collected by the Princes of Liechtenstein at Hong Kong Palace Museum, there will be treats for everyone.
SELECTION OF EVENTS
Hong Kong’s largest design festival has connected the public with local and international design communities since 2004. With the theme of Design as One, deTour will transform PMQ into a fun-filled experiment ground for participatory design, welcoming visitors to participate in various design ideas and activities physically and virtually.
18 Nov-4 Dec – PMQ
51ST HONG KONG FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
More than 150 screenings will be shown across six cinemas in town, presenting a great selection of 56 French films including 37 new films, 10 programmes dedicated to Claire Denis, and 9 retrospective films in praise of late French artists Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Luc Godard and Gaspard Ulliel.
23 Nov-13 Dec – Various locations
Tim Yip, Anita Mui, Rouge, 1987
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL 2022
The Festival brings together local and overseas photographers to discuss manifold issues and perspectives. Through a wide range of public programmes, the Festival promotes creative practices as means to deepen our connection to the environments we live in and the people we live with.
Until 27 Nov – Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre
The exhibition adopts a gender lens to revisit the history of Tai Kwun heritage site over its first hundred years from 1841 to 1941. It seeks to redress the underrepresentation of women in the gendered spaces of the Central Police Station compound by sharing the stories and experiences of those often overlooked to fill a gap in its history.
Until 15 Jan 2023 – Tai Kwun
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), About 1601–1602
ODYSSEYS OF ART: MASTERPIECES COLLECTED BY THE PRINCES OF LIECHTENSTEIN
This is the first time the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein are displayed in Hong Kong, showcasing over 120 priceless treasures from the Collections. Amongst the highlights are masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, two of the most distinguished seventeenth-century European painters of the Baroque period.
Until 20 Feb 2023 – Hong Kong Palace Museum
Yayoi Kusama, Self-Obliteration, 1966–1974, M+, Hong Kong © YAYOI KUSAMA
This is the largest retrospective of renowned artist Yayoi Kusama in Asia outside Japan, featuring more than 200 works from major collections from museums and private collections worldwide, as well as from the artist’s own collection, introducing a new interpretative approach to Kusama’s over seven-decade career.
Until 14 May 2023 – M+ Museum
Diane Arbus
This exhibition features a range of photographs spanning Arbus’ brief but phenomenally influential fifteen-year career, featuring couples, children, female impersonators, nudists, New York City pedestrians, circus performers, and celebrities, among others, reflecting the breadth of the artist’s singularly compelling portrait of humanity.
17 Nov-21 Dec – David Zwirner, H Queen’s