Art Basel Hong Kong has become a vital stop in the international art fair circuit, drawing top galleries, artists, and collectors from around the world. As a key platform for cross-cultural exchange, it reflects the growing influence of the Asia-Pacific region in the global market. Despite the cancellation of the Digital Art Fair, this year sees a strong presence of digital art activations at the main fair, highlighting its important role in shaping conversations around the digital medium and innovation.

To guide you through Hong Kong vibrant art scene, we’ve curated a must-see agenda of exhibitions, digital art showcases, and contemporary art events happening alongside the fair.

DIGITAL ART EVENTS

M+ Facade Co-commission by Art Basel

SAT MAR 22 - JUNE | Nighttime |M+ Museum

Art Basel collaborated with the M+ museum to activate the institution’s striking facade with a tribute to the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, titled Night Charades by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. Imagined as a simulation chamber from the future, Night Charades is recomposed by AI and continuously edited in real time by an algorithm. M+ will screen five seminal films from the artist’s twenty-year long career throughout the month of March. 

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Art Basel Exhibition Sector: ENCOUNTERS

WED, MAR 26 - SUN, MAR 30 | hk convention & exhibition centre

Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong will showcase 18 large-scale installations, with a strong focus on digital art and its intersection with design, architecture, and human interaction. Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor under the theme As the World Turns, the sector features works exploring digital-physical connections, abstraction, and storytelling, including an immersive Installation by Tokyo-based artist Lu Yang, presented by DE SARTHE in collaboration with COMA in Sydney.

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Art Basel Conversations: What Are Artists Learning from Tech and AI Today?

SAT, MAR 29 | 11AM - 12PM | hk convention & exhibition centre

Artists have long engaged with technology, and today, AI is reshaping creative practice. Panelists Shu Lea Cheang and Tishan Hsu join moderator Lawrence Lek to discuss how tech influences their work and what it reveals about the future of art. Open to all with RSVP.

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Art Basel Conversations: Generative Choreography Performance-Lecture by Operator

SAT, MARCH 29 | 2-3PM | Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

Artist duo Operator presents their Generative Choreography Method that makes performance collectable as an art object. As they diagram their process on a blackboard, three performers bring the method to life, demonstrating how algorithmic choreography becomes both a container and prompt for visceral human expression. Operator live generates choreographic sequences while illustrating the technical backbone of their seminal work Human Unreadable. Audiences venture into the conversion between physical expression and digital ownership, hinting towards a transformed future of performance. Open to all with RSVP.

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Art Basel Films: “Cyborg Within”

SUN, MAR 30 | 5:30 - 6:30PM | HK Convention & Exhibition Centre

Poised at the intersection of humanity and technology, “Cyborg Within” unveils the profound ways in which machines are reshaping our very essence – our capacity to remember, perceive, communicate, labor, and even exist. A kaleidoscope of imagery unfolds, weaving together speculative fiction, unearthed archives, propagandist parody, and documentary realism interwoven with digital artistry.

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ART FAIRS & FESTIVALS

COMPLEXCON 2025

fri, MAR 21 - SUN, MAR 23 | asiaworld - expo

The largest pop culture festival in the U.S. returns to Hong Kong. ComplexCon is a global festival and exhibition that brings together music, sneakers, pop culture, art, food and innovation. Its Global Art Director, Daniel Arsham, known for his "Future Relics" aesthetic, will curate the event's artistic vision, including exclusive merchandise and installations.

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HKwalls Street Art Festival

SAT, MAR 22 - SUN, MAR 30 | [PMQ]

HKWALLS Street Art Festival returns for its 10th edition. International and local artists will paint murals across the Central and Western District, as well as display their digital artworks on LED screens all over Hong Kong. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, March 22, from 5 to 10pm.

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

WED, MAR 26 - SUN, MAR 30 / HK CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTRE

This year’s edition will feature 240 galleries from 42 countries, including 23 newcomers, with a strong focus on Asia-Pacific artists. Key highlights include large-scale installations in the Encounters sector, the debut of the MGM Discoveries Art Prize, and a special collaboration with M+ showcasing Ho Tzu Nyen’s Night Charades on the museum facade.

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Art Central 2025

WED, MAR 26 - SUN, MAR 30 | CENTRAL HARBOURFRONT

Celebrating its 10th edition, the fair showcases a dynamic mix of established and emerging artists represented by cutting-edge galleries from Hong Kong, Asia, and beyond. Featuring interactive installations, large-scale sculptures, and experimental digital works, the fair continues to solidify its reputation as a leading platform for discovering new talent and progressive artistic expressions.

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Collect Hong Kong 2025

SAT, MAR 22 - FRI, APR 4 | [Hong Kong Arts Centre]

Organized by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Collect Hong Kong 2025 will be held at the Pao Galleries and Jockey Club Atrium. This biennial event showcases innovative art in diverse media, highlighting the creative breadth of students and alumni from invited art institutions, and provides a platform for artists, galleries, and art enthusiasts to connect and collaborate. 

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Weekenders tiny little art fair

SUN, MAR 23 - TUE, MAR 25 | Sansiao Gallery

It is a three-day art fair at Sansiao Gallery that aims at fostering cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and Japan. Featuring seven galleries and art dealers from both places, the fair offers a curated selection of contemporary artworks in an intimate setting. Hong Kong performance artist Sonia Wong will stage a show while Mezzanine Makers will provide beverages. 

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MUST-SEE CONTEMPORARY ART SHOWS

Raqs Media Collective

15 MARCH - 3 MAY | [HANART TZ GALLERY]

Based in New Delhi, Raqs Media Collective are artists, curators, and thinkers. Founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, the collective’s practice spans the making of installations, films, events and publications, in addition to collaborations across architecture, literature, science, and theatre. The exhibition features over 60 pieces of mixed and multi-media works, in the form of scenarios, diagrams, landscapes and characters.

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Lee Mingwei

8 MAR - 13 JULY | [M+]

Lee Mingwei recreates Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) on a massive scale using an unexpected material—sand. In indigenous and religious traditions around the world, sand painting often embodies impermanence and change.

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M+ Sigg Collection

THROUGH 26 JUN | [M+]

M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story  takes a visual approach to examine the styles and practices of contemporary Chinese art from the 1990s to the present. It offers a different perspective on understanding contemporary Chinese art and foregrounds its unique visual language through the lens of artists who strive for self-presence.

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Asmr

14 MAR - 13 JULY | [GATE33 GALLERY]

The exhibition explores ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) – a physical sensation of deep calm and euphoria, often described as a "tingling" in the body. Across the internet, innumerable and ever-evolving works of ASMR garner billions of views. This cultural movement has grown into a global phenomenon that is, uniquely, rooted in kindness, empathy, and self-care. This award-winning experience features over 40 works by ASMRtists, contemporary artists, and designers from around the world.

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Lynne Drexler 

26 MAR - 17 MAY | [WHITE CUBE]

 ‘Lynne Drexler: The Seventies’ will debut never-before-seen works created during a pivotal decade in the artist’s practice. Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist’s vivid chromatic compositions reflect a breadth of stylistic influences, drawing from Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism, as well as classical music and the natural landscape. 

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Sara Sze

25 MAR - 3 MAY | [GAGOSIAN]

Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works that shift scale between microscopic observation and macroscopic perspective on the infinite. In her latest exhibition, Sze explores how we make meaning from the never-ending stream of images that saturate contemporary life.

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Dreamchasers

FROM 21 MAR | [HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART]

On 2 March 1962, the City Hall Art Gallery & Museum (the predecessor of today’s Hong Kong Museum of Art) was officially established, marking the birth of Hong Kong’s first public art museum and signifying the beginning of a journey in which the Museum and artists have grown together, hand in hand, in pursuit of their collective dreams. This exhibition offers a retrospective view through projection and interactive elements, retracing the footsteps of generations of artists in the pursuit of their dreams.

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Perceptual and Intellectual - Exploration Into Everything And Oneself

FROM 21 MAR | [HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART] 

This exhibition features installations and interactive new media creations by Hong Kong artists Joseph Chan, Chris Cheung, Tung Wing-hong, Kenny Wong and the duo Samuel Yip and Janice To. It illustrates the evolution of technology—from mechanics and electronics to digitalisation and artificial intelligence—alongside its application in creative endeavours. 

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Tai Kwun Art Week

MAR 24-30 | [TAI KWUN CONTEMPORARY] 

Throughout Art Week, Tai Kwun Contemporary will offer extended hours for its ongoing exhibitions, as well as a performance program. The three solo exhibitions currently on view showcases a trio of female artists exploring materials and storytelling through diverse approaches: Alicja Kwade: Pretopia reflects on our perception of time and proposes new perspectives for understanding reality; Hu Xiaoyuan: Veering examines the complex relationship between human destiny and natural evolution, addressing questions of survival and the meaning of life. Lastly, Maeve Brennan: Records explores the legacy of human impact on the environment and unearths hidden narratives within society’s dominant narratives. On March 28, Lighting up F Hall Studio presents a dynamic digital dance party space that invites attendees to dance alongside their own digital avatars. Created by affect lab, a women-led creative studio and research practice based in Amsterdam. 

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Chen Wei

18 FEB - 12 APR | [BLINDSPOT GALLERY] 

Breath of Silence, presents the Chinese artist recent body of works encompassing photography, LED light sculptures and videosChen is known for his staged photography capturing cinematic scenes suspended in a fragmented time space, these scenes are meticulously constructed in his studio. Muted and often vacant, these charged compositions are allegorical of the psyche of contemporary milieu.

On 22 March at 4 pm, Chen Wei will do an artist-led tour of his exhibition, conducted in Chinese and accompanied by English translations.

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