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Ten Asian Art Exhibitions Explore Gender, Urban Life, and Historical Memory

exhibition · 2026-04-20

The exhibition Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture at M+ Pavilion delves into themes of androgyny and gender fluidity through Cantopop, fashion, and film, showcasing pieces by Wong Kar-Wai, Stanley Wong, along with costumes from Roman Tam and Anita Mui, until 21 May. Nguan's solo exhibition How Loneliness Goes at FOST Gallery in Singapore features urban isolation photographs and is available until 12 April. He An's text-based artwork, Do You Think That You Can Help Her Brother? (2008–9), is on view at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 23 April. Other notable exhibitions include Vikram Divecha's Minor Works in Dubai until 11 May, and Agung Prabowo's exploration of molasses at Mizuma Gallery in Singapore until 26 March. Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto showcases 23 artists until 4 June, while RIVERRUN at Taipei Fine Arts Museum reflects on the White Terror period until 4 June. Võ Trân Châu's Lingering at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi is open until 13 May, and Line of Times at Mill 6 Foundation in Hong Kong features works by Aziz + Cucher, Yin-Ju Chen, and Morgan Wong until 2 April. Fiona Tan's Geography of Time at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art focuses on memory until 24 June.

Key facts

  • Ambiguously Yours features over 90 exhibits including a clip from Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express (1994).
  • Nguan's How Loneliness Goes includes photographs first published in a 2014 book.
  • He An's work uses Mandarin characters removed from specific urban sites.
  • Vikram Divecha's Warehouse Project involved bartering exhibition space for storage of Chinese-made toys.
  • Agung Prabowo's exhibition examines molasses, which he first tasted as a fever treatment.
  • Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet includes Farhad Moshiri's Flying Carpet (2007) with Persian rugs cut in jet fighter shapes.
  • RIVERRUN references James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and examines Taiwan's White Terror period.
  • Võ Trân Châu's exhibition remakes a Nguyen emperor's ritual garment from fabric gathered from descendants.

Entities

Artists

  • Wong Kar-Wai
  • Stanley Wong
  • Another Mountain Man
  • Roman Tam
  • Anita Mui
  • Denise Ho
  • Ming Wong
  • Nguan
  • He An
  • Vikram Divecha
  • Agung Prabowo
  • Agugn
  • Shirazeh Houshiary
  • Y.Z. Kami
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Farhad Moshiri
  • Shirin Neshat
  • Aziz + Cucher
  • Yin-Ju Chen
  • Morgan Wong
  • Fiona Tan
  • Võ Trân Châu
  • Mohammed Afkhami
  • Corinne Diserens
  • Sam Hui
  • Miho Yoshioka
  • Ye Chang-gui
  • Bao Đai

Institutions

  • M+ Pavilion
  • ArtReview Asia
  • FOST Gallery
  • Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
  • Alserkal Avenue
  • Mizuma Gallery
  • Aga Khan Museum
  • Andy Warhol Museum
  • Taipei Fine Arts Museum
  • San Art
  • Manzi Art Space
  • San Art Laboratory
  • Mill 6 Foundation
  • Nan Fung Textile Mills
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Hong Kong Convention Centre
  • Art Basel Hong Kong
  • Sharjah Art Museum
  • Kuomintang

Locations

  • Hong Kong
  • China
  • Kowloon
  • Singapore
  • Melbourne
  • Australia
  • Beijing
  • Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Beirut
  • Lebanon
  • Mumbai
  • India
  • Bandung
  • Indonesia
  • Toronto
  • Canada
  • Pittsburgh
  • United States
  • Taipei
  • Taiwan
  • Hanoi
  • Vietnam
  • Hue
  • Brooklyn
  • Gateshead
  • United Kingdom
  • Oslo
  • Norway
  • Frankfurt
  • Germany
  • Amsterdam
  • Netherlands
  • Brighton
  • Tel Aviv
  • Israel

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