The exhibition Wetware, curated by Spine (Aidan Chisholm and Laura Audrey Brown), opens on July 9, and runs through August 7, 2026. Participating artists include Alison Knowles, Aviva Silverman, Bettina, Early Shinada, Faith Icecold, Khia Hong, Patty Chang, Rafael Sánchez and Tishan Hsu. The exhibition is hosted by RAINRAIN Gallery in New York.
The exhibition Cosmological Critique showcases the complex work of Catherine Christer Hennix (1948, Stockholm – 2023, Istanbul), whose five decades of artistic activity involved the amalgamation of music, mathematics, language and spirituality into a singular space of thought. Hennix conceived her works as ‘semiotical objects’ – such as signs, diagrams and texts, as well as sound and light compositions – through which she sought to investigate and to transform perception and the processes of meaning generation.
Beginning in the late 1960s, and with points of departure in the experimental music scenes of Stockholm and New York, Hennix developed an approach that shifted between minimalist composition, mathematical research and metaphysical speculation. Formative for her development were encounters with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Pandit Pran Nath, whose ideas about time, sound and continuity had a lasting influence. In parallel, she was intensively preoccupied with the philosophical, logical and linguistic bases of mathematics, and was, among other things, a guest professor at the first lab for artificial intelligence at MIT.
Cosmological Critique is the most extensive presentation of this artist to date, and ranges from early graphic scores and immersive installations to abstract Nō dramas, paintings and sculptures, as well as questions of transfeminist aesthetics and politics. Recurring concepts drawn from mathematics and psychoanalysis function here less as references, and instead actually structure the works themselves. These are interpretable as manifestations of a radical conceptual and critical project that interweaves poetic, mathematical, musical and artistic forms of knowing to transcend Western categories of thought and medial boundaries in pursuit of cosmic perspectives.
Curated by Anja Casser, Lawrence Kumpf and Moritz Nebenführ
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Malmö Konsthall, The Etymon Foundation (New York) and Empty Gallery (Hong Kong) as well as Marcus Pal as artistic advisor.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
This year’s Springboard exhibition, Dark Adaptation, is curated by Abirami Logendran. Bringing together works by Jack Whitten, Doris Guo, Glenn Ligon, Solveig Lønseth, Lorna Simpson, and Wolfgang Tillmans, the exhibition explores visibility, perception, and opacity. Through painting, photography, video, printmaking, and installation, the artists investigate how meaning emerges in the encounter between artwork and viewer.
Participating artists include Jack Whitten, Doris Guo, Glenn Ligon, Solveig Lønseth, Lorna Simpson, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The exhibition will be on view until September 20th, 2026.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and James T. Hong are amongst the 43 artists and collectives participating in the upcoming 16th Gwangju Biennale. Titled You Must Change Your Life. This edition is led by Ho Tzu Nyen with curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee and Brian Kuan Wood and will run from September 5 to November 15. The biennale takes its title from the famous final line of a 1908 poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, in which a viewer confronts a broken ancient statue and suddenly finds their way of seeing overturned. Perspectives and positions shift, and you realize that we can’t go on as before. I must change.
Taro Masushio’s second solo exhibition, Goldfish, at Ulrik; New York will be on view from May 9 through June 12. The gallery will host an opening reception from on Friday, May 15, 6-9pm. For further details, visit the gallery’s Instagram at the link below.
Doris Guo will open her first solo exhibition at 15 Orient in New York City on Friday, May 8, from 6 through 9pm:
15 Orient presents “Still Human”, a solo-exhibition by Doris Guo. Centered on a large slideshow video projection, the show features a constellation of new opaque projector sculptures, cast foam supports, imploded metal compositions, and photographs of an elusive mountain.
Empty Gallery was recently featured in the April 2026 issue of The Art Journal in a feature on art initiatives in the Southern district of Hong Kong island, written by Rachel Yang.
The Kestner Gesellschaft is pleased to present Potentialities, a major survey of works by Richard Hawkins. Since the early 1990s, the Los Angeles–based artist has developed a singular practice centered nerdy research, the dynamics of fandom and desire, and on the intense pleasure of looking. Comprising more than 100 works across eight bodies of work, the exhibition offers the first major institutional overview of Hawkins’s oeuvre in more than a decade. Potentialities focuses on works produced over the past twenty years, spanning painting, sculpture, ceramic reliefs, and AI-generated videos that draw on online subcultures and shared memes.
Empty Gallery has been featured in the Australian publication “Broadsheet” exploring Hong Kong’s spaces for art.
On view from April 16–August 17, 2026, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on its staff to organize the show. The exhibition’s curatorial team includes director Connie Butler, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs Ruba Katrib, associate curators Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen, assistant curator Kari Rittenbach, curatorial assistant Sheldon Gooch, and curatorial coordinator Andrea Sánchez.
Taro Masushio and Cici Wu are amongst the participating artists of this year’s exhibition. Please see the link below for further information.
Empty Gallery榮幸呈獻《靈時小屋》。小屋位於畫廊入口大廳左側的獨立房間內, 不定期展示來自不同時空和背景的創作,讓觀者對單件作品進行深度思考。該計畫有別於我們的恆常展覽,旨在從常規項目的邏輯、思維及壓力中開闢新的空間。展覽穿越遙遠距離,在無限微觀細節中爬梳,並每次委託文字工作者撰寫論文,以動態的視角從多層面討論作品,從而照看我城獨特的歷史與社會環境。
《靈時小屋》的名稱靈感來自精神時光屋:在漫畫家鳥山明筆下,精神時光屋是一個時空膠囊式的異次元自我修煉空間。項目藉此探索一種植根於非西方哲學的思辨性認識論,用於在懸崖峭壁般的全球化文化中漫步。
《靈時小屋》原為2018年至2021年間於皇后博物館開展的合作項目。博物館憑著共襄盛舉的精神,將其名稱及概念無限期交付Empty Gallery使用。
在第二個展覽中,小屋將聯手三藩市灣區最具影響力的藝術家和電影製作人之一Jordan Belson,展示他的一系列繪畫作品。Belson作為Harry Smith、Oskar Fischinger和John Cage的同代人,致力探索宇宙結構,並視擴展人類意識為終生任務,而他的創作亦源於這些抱負。Belson受到神秘主義和科學的深刻影響,發展出一套獨特的視覺語言,包括振動模式、幾何圖案和放射狀線條,表達他對超越主義運動的願景。
Belson的《孔雀之書》(Peacock Book)繪畫創作於1950年代初期,當時他正處於創作醞釀期,開始逐漸形成他後來最為知名的抽象電影風格。他運用墨水和粉彩,在中國紙上以書法般的筆觸完成作品,充滿活力和幻像般的動感——紙上彷彿上演著整部Belson電影,畫面似乎來自天外並轉瞬即逝,通通被濃縮進某個時刻的視覺密度之中。
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Jordan Belson(1926-2011)是二十世紀前衛電影的重要人物。他年輕時學習繪畫,1946年獲得加州大學伯克利分校的藝術學位。他最初以畫家身分取得成功,在1940年代末於三藩市現代藝術博物館和紐約古根海姆博物館(當時稱為非具象繪畫博物館)展出作品。然而,1950年之後,他定居在三藩市的北灘區,主要專注於電影製作。儘管他在餘生仍繼續創作繪畫和素描,但他再也沒有公開展出過這部分作品。