Hong Kong Art Week is back, with Art Basel running alongside a range of satellite fairs, art auctions, museum exhibitions, and high-profile gallery shows. Below, five key solo exhibitions at galleries throughout the city that spotlight Hong Kong artists, or artists of Asian heritage, selected by the editors of Artnet Pro’s The Asia Pivot newsletter.
“Remembrance: A Tribute to the Work of Dinh Q. Lê”
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, through May 16
This exhibition is a tribute to the legacy the artist Dinh Q. Lê (1968–2024), a key figure in shaping how the Vietnam War has been understood through art. Born in southern Vietnam in 1965, he fled the country as a child and grew up in the United States. This experience of displacement continued to inform his work. Returning to Ho Chi Minh City in the 1990s, he began to look closely at how history is constructed—through images and through storytelling, with a focus on what is left out. Lê is best known for his photo-weaving technique, in which he cut and interlaced photographic fragments into dense, textile-like surfaces. Drawing on sources from personal archives to Hollywood films, these works collapse different image worlds into one. The result is often disorienting: It becomes hard to separate fact from fiction, or personal memory from collective narrative. Beyond his own practice, Lê also played an important role in shaping Vietnam’s contemporary art scene, co-founding Sàn Art as a space for younger artists and exchange. —Cathy Fan