Screened at a special pavilion in the lobby of SMBC East Tower in the Marunouchi district, AWT Video (November 4–8, 2026) presents a selection of single-channel moving image works by Japanese and international artists drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries. Overseen by X Zhu-Nowell, the executive director and chief curator of the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, this year’s program, “Your Travel Guide To . . . ,” features works by 10 Japanese and international artists. Cici Wu will be screening her work Belonging and Difference (2023).
This program of artist films and videos is presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York in conjunction with The Drawing Center’s current exhibition “Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong”, opening on October 23, 2026 and on view until January 2027. The screening, which will take place on Wednesday, November 4 at 7PM, showcases a selection of artist pieces that extend the exhibition’s visual essay on shared historical, poetic, and philosophical concerns, with Hong Kong and New York as twin points of reference and Eastern thought and Western philosophy as its guiding frameworks.
“Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong” is organized by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection & TOY Meets Art Curator.
Cici Wu UNFINISHED RETURN OF YU MAN HON 2019, 19 min, 16mm-to-DCP Tang Kwok Hin GRANDPA TANG 2017, 13 min, DCP Chan Hau Chun THE MEMORY OF A CICADA IS LONGER THAN ITS LIFE 2024, 12 min, DCP. Music and sound: Chui Chi Yin. Simon Liu PROCEDURES 2026, 17 min, 16mm-to-DCP
Misako and ROHsen is pleased to share a collaborative presentation in Tokyo, 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩. The exhibition connects artists who approach trash as form and medium, with a recognition that looking closely at the discarded is another means of looking at everything else. The exhibition will be on view from November 3–13, 2026, and will take place at Rose Gallery, Park Nova Jingumae, 2-33-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
Artists: Aracha Cholitgul, Bagus Pandega, Barry Beagen, Calvin Miceli-Nelson, CFGNY, C&K, dpgp78, Dusadee Huntrakul, Faisal Habibi, Felix Tao, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Hikari Ono, ikkibawiKrrr, Ken Kagami, Ken Sasaki, Lawrence Leaman, Lydo Le, Maruto Ardi, Maxime Cavajani, Motoyuki Daifu, MW, Nanami Hori, Nicole Coson, Phung-Tien Phan, Pimlico Arts JAPAN, RAB, Reina Sugihara, Richard Aldrich, Rose Rei Warner, Ryohei Usui, SIDE CORE, Sollee Kim, Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi, Taeyoon Kim, Tith Kanitha, Tsuji Takafumi, Vunkwan Tam, and Yuyan Wang.
Opening November 4 through December 6, 2026. XYZ Collective will host a collaborative exhibition during Art Week Tokyo, inviting Olivier Mignon as curator. The project takes the form of a two-person exhibition by Taro Masushio and Sophie Nys. New York–based, Japanese-born photographer Taro Masushio addresses themes of queer embodiment and the politics of the gaze, while Brussels-based sculptor Sophie Nys investigates the relationship between language and objects.
Published October 15, 2026, in The New York Times, by Keridwen Cornelius: “In addition, Empty Gallery of Hong Kong is presenting camera-less photographs by the artist Taro Masushio, who lives and works in New York City.
Masushio explained in a video interview that his work explored the question, “What is a queer image?” Masushio was inspired by screentones — transparent adhesive sheets covered with dots, lines, clouds or other patterns that lend shading and atmosphere to comic books in his native Japan.
He scanned several screentones into his computer, then superimposed and manipulated the images. Next, he turned the digital files into negatives and used special chemicals in the darkroom that give the resulting photos the silvery, sepia-toned sheen of a daguerreotype.
The abstract images, printed with text such as “homo” or the Japanese character for sexuality, are so reflective that they have an ever-shifting fluidity. And they are streaked with iridescent colors from the haphazard flow of darkroom chemicals.”
A group exhibition organised by Fondation Tschuess featuring Pia Rosa Dobrowitz, James T. Hong, Monika Schwitte, Alex Winterstein opens at 6pm on October 3 at Halmet, Zurich. The exhbition will run until November 1, 2026.
Published October 13, 2026, in The New York Times, by Dennis Zhou, a compilation of films from Hong Kong curators, artists and writers. Selected by: Ellen Pau, 65, video artist 32+4, Chan Hau Chun (2014) This documentary isn’t exactly a detective story, but it’s about the filmmaker uncovering the trauma between her parents, and also between her and her stepfather. Watching it, it’s easy to tell it was filmed in public housing, but you can’t tell which complex – it’s kind of a nonplace. They’re all in this one tiny apartment, fighting for space, survival, status and love. There’s a lot of very deep emotion involved, but Hau Chun can capture that without using much dialogue — it’s in how she plays with her camera, what visuals she captures, how she pauses. One scene is very memorable for me: Hau Chun’s’s father is crossing the street, and she’s filming from the other side of the road. And then printed on the screen is something like “How come I can’t cross that road to him, to stand beside him?” The gap between them becomes visible through this road. The things that you can see in the film are only one-tenth of the story, but through them, you can feel the whole story in your heart.
47 Canal announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new Chelsea location: Auld Lang Syne (prelude), a solo presentation of new work by New York–based artist Cici Wu (b. 1989, Beijing; raised in Hong Kong). This is Wu’s third solo show with the gallery, following her previous exhibitions Lantern Strike (2021) and Upon Leaving the White Dust (2018). Across sculptures, drawings, film, and installations, she attends to migratory aesthetics and to individual and collective memories that refract across space and time. Auld Lang Syne (prelude) extends Wu’s inquiries into the social, cultural, and political through the ephemeral medium of light. This new body of work suggests that the act of returning can intimately contour and shape unfinished histories and elucidate relations between past and present generations, between the material and the ephemeral. The exhibition is on view until November 7, 2026.
Doris Guo is participating in the 2026 Wuhan Biennale at Wuhan Art Museum, from October 1, 2026 through May 30, 2027. Curated by Paul Frèches, the biennale theme is Temporary Ferry, which takes inspiration from Wuhan’s unique cultural identity and historical significance as a major transit city.
Chan Hau Chun is participating in “I, etcetera” at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany, organised by Gloria Hasnay. Other participating artists include Julie Becker, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, Danae Io; Alex Kitnick, Doreen Mende and Fiona Vilmer. The exhibition will be on view from September 19, 2026 until January 17, 2027.
At the center of the group exhibition I, etcetera is an engagement with artistic subjectivity as always processual and relational. From this premise, the exhibition also turns its attention to the host institution itself, considering the ways in which it assumes and articulates a subjectivity of its own. It asks how narrative strategies and speculative propositions, operating across artistic practices and institutional(ized) processes alike, participate in producing the relations through which the self takes form.
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。