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【AF26 Highlights | Textile-Based Works】
Last day to bid tomorrow! For our last highlight, we focus on how artists Jakkai Siributr and Chen Qingqing use materials like upcycled garments and hemp to explore themes of social justice, historical memory, and female resilience.
Visit aaa2026auction.com to secure your bids by 6 November, 10:30pm HKT.
📌 Jakkai Siributr, “Your History Is Not Ours”
Jakkai Siributr is one of Southeast Asia’s leading contemporary textile artists. This work is part of the ”Phayao-a-Porter“ project, which Siributr initiated during the pandemic to support artisans in the Thai province of Phayao. Siributr invited participating seamstresses and dressmakers to embellish and embroider found and pre-used garments with figurative designs and messages about social issues. The series sheds light on the challenges faced by marginalised communities while also spotlighting their voices and craft.
📌 Chen Qingqing, “Early Autumn Cloth II”
Chen Qingqing creates garment installations that explore the inner lives of women through historical and feminist perspectives. In this work, Chen suspends a hemp dress adorned with dried flowers inside a transparent acrylic box frame. Seemingly weightless and preserved like a relic, the garment evokes China’s imperial past and honours the generations of women who lived through those times. Chen chooses hemp for its immense strength yet delicate appearance, using the material to symbolise female resilience and tenacity. Part of the artist’s “Women” series, the work imaginatively brings together ancient traditions with women’s perspectives on history.
04 Nov 2026
【Talk & Tour | From Archive to City: Finding Cheung Yee】
Join us for a talk featuring Ho Siu Kee and Kurt Chan Yuk Keung that examines the life and work of Hong Kong sculptor Cheung Yee (1936–2019). The programme is hosted on the occasion of the launch of the Cheung Yee Archive and will end with a tour that traces the artist’s public artworks across the city.
The talk begins with an introduction to the archive, highlighting its extensive documentation of Cheung’s works, creative process, and exhibition history. Next, drawing from his time as the artist’s pupil in the early 1990s, Ho explores tropes and methodologies of materiality in the artist’s sculptural practice. The session concludes with a panel discussion between Ho and Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, moderated by Asia Art Archive.
Following the talk, Ho will lead a tour of Cheung Yee’s public sculptures and murals across the city to explore his signature motifs, materials, and forms.
The programme will be conducted in Cantonese on 21 November 2026 at AAA. Register now via the link in our bio!
【講座及導賞｜從檔案到城市：尋找張義的足跡】
為配合張義檔案發布，文獻庫推出由何兆基與陳育強對談的講座，探討香港雕塑家張義（1936–2019）的生平與創作。講座後設有一場導賞，帶領參加者走訪張義遍布香港各處的公共藝術作品。
講座首先介紹張義檔案，其中收錄大量有關藝術家作品、創作過程及展覽歷史的文獻紀錄。隨後，何兆基將分享他1990年代初擔任張義學生兼助手的經歷，探討其雕塑實踐在物料運用上的慣常手法與邏輯。最後由何兆基與陳育強進行對談。
講座過後，何兆基將帶領參加者走訪張義散布香港各處的公共雕塑與壁畫作品，讓公眾更深入了解張義在意象、材料與形式上的探索。
活動將於2026年11月21日在亞洲藝術文獻庫以廣東話進行。歡迎點擊帳戶簡介連結報名參加！
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Image 1–3: Cheung Yee Archive. Courtesy of the Cheung Family and Asia Art Archive.
Image 4: (above) Portrait of Ho Siu Kee. Courtesy of the artist; (below) Portrait of Kurt Chan Yuk Keung. Courtesy of the artist.
圖一至三：張義檔案，由張義家人及亞洲藝術文獻庫提供。
圖四：（上）何兆基肖像，由何兆基提供；（下）陳育強肖像，由陳育強提供。
03 Nov 2026
【AF26 Highlights | Fantastic Creatures】
AAA’s 2026 Annual Fundraiser brings together a selection of works featuring creatures both familiar and fantastical. From beloved pet cats and dogs to silkworms and imaginary characters, discover how artists Taewon Ahn, Gade, Candice Lin, Cynthia Talmadge, and Takashi Murakami use non-human subjects to explore technology, nature, power, and pop culture.
Only two days until our Annual Fundraiser ends! Visit aaa2026auction.com to bid online for these works until 6 November, 10:30pm HKT.
📌 Taewon Ahn, “Hiro in Cyberpunk”
Taewon Ahn’s practice explores systems of contemporary technology and the shifting relationship between the virtual world and reality. This work features Hiro, Ahn’s pet cat and a recurring subject in his practice. Ahn treats photographs of Hiro like memes, distorting and manipulating the images before airbrushing them onto three-dimensional resin surfaces. The work retains the flat quality of imagery and painting while embodying the volume of sculpture, exemplifying Ahn’s skilful translation of image to object.
📌 Gade, “Eclipse”
Gade draws from thangka, a type of traditional Tibetan Buddhist painting, to portray Western-influenced iconography, media, and everyday objects. In “Eclipse,” a weathered thangka fragment depicting arhats (enlightened figures) appears to be slowly devoured by silkworms. An expansive void opens around the meticulously painted figures and silkworm bodies, revealing a golden ground that suggests possibilities for new forms to emerge. The work reflects on nature as an indifferent cycle of change, and on time as an active force that regenerates, unravels, and transforms.
📌 Candice Lin, “Cat-demon bell”
Candice Lin’s research-based practice examines the intertwined histories of humans, animals, and materials, as well as queer ecologies. Featuring a bell with a cat’s face, this work highlights Lin’s sustained exploration of how animals have been used to project human values, identities, and systems of power. As intimate companions and symbols associated with mystery, autonomy, and femininity, cats serve as entry points to examine the porous boundaries between human
03 Nov 2026
【AF26 | Studio Visit with Jeremy Ip】
Jeremy Ip reflects on his introspective artistic practice at WURE AREA, the art space he founded. He shares how the intuitive act of painting slows the pace of communication and attunes his senses to the subtleties of everyday life.
His work “Warm Up with Spread,” featured in AAA’s 2026 Annual Fundraiser, draws its title from the simple act of preparing a meal and placing a spread onto food—a quiet routine that involves care and attentiveness. Ip begins with a black colour block on the canvas and then develops the composition, shapes, and colours around this starting point. He builds the surface through countless layers of paint, each thin yet still visible to the eye. For Ip, this technique reveals oil paint’s opacity and blending potential while also highlighting the accumulative process of painting, where each action informs what comes next in unexpected ways.
Online bidding is now live! Place your bids on this piece and works by other artists at aaa2026auction.com before 6 November, 10:30pm HKT.
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Jeremy Ip, “Warm Up with Spread,” 2025, oil on linen, 54.8 × 54.8 × 5.1 cm. Unique. Generously donated by the artist.
02 Nov 2026
【AF26 | YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES】
Last week to bid online to support our 2026 Annual Fundraiser! Check out one of our auction highlights, “Is That All There Is? (Emily Version),” generously donated by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is a collaborative duo comprising artist Young-Hae Chang and poet Marc Voge, whose text-based animations have been central to the development of internet and digital art since the mid-1990s. Often combining moving text with original jazz music, their works utilise the immediacy of the screen to address sociopolitical issues, globalisation, and cultural identity.
This video work is a standalone iteration of “CRUCIFIED TVS–NOT A PRAYER IN HEAVEN,” commissioned by M+ for the museum’s inauguration in 2021. It brings together the duo’s distinctive combination of animation, text, and jazz music within a local context. Traditional Chinese and English texts, rendered in the duo’s signature Monaco font, unfold rapidly alongside an avatar and a Cantonese voice recording of a former M+ curatorial assistant. Weaving fictionalised news broadcasts into a series of vignettes, the work reflects on how stories are told and experienced, offering a playful meditation on resilience and the enduring human capacity to find meaning.
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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, “Is That All There Is? (Emily Version),” 2021, 4K video, 4 min 24 sec. Edition 3 of 3 + 2 AP. Generously donated by the artists.
01 Nov 2026
【November New Arrivals】
Discover our latest selection of new acquisitions, featuring temporary urban architecture in Singapore, Taiwanese art publishing, the legacy of Japanese women artists, Australian critical writing, and more.
📓 Feranda Chua’s zine, “Shaping communities shape building,” examines the temporary architecture within Singapore’s People’s Park Pearl’s Market. It offers a thoughtful look at how community and care naturally emerge when people are allowed to claim space and stay in place.
📒 Bread and Butter Paper (BBP) is a collaborative project launched in 2025 by pon ding and fotobookdummiesday. Its seasonal print edition, “Butter Knife,” expands on original interviews and gathers supplementary materials to sketch out the evolving landscape of Taiwanese art publishing practices.
📙 “After Archive: Lee Ku-yeol’s Records” was produced on the occasion of a two-day forum and archive exhibition centred on the Leeum Museum of Art Archives’s Lee Ku-yeol Collection. Lee Ku-yeol (19322020) was the first professional art journalist and critic to emerge in Korea after the Korean War.
📔 “Think Like Clouds” collects for the first time the drawings, notes, and diagrams of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the past twenty-two years, Obrist has curated exhibitions worldwide and has interviewed personalities in nearly every field of endeavour. Taken as a whole, the book maps the intellectual and historical terrain of one of the most active and curious minds in contemporary art today.
📘 “Bali Island: Art and the World beyond the Rainforest” is the official catalogue for the titular 2026 Guangzhou exhibition. “Bali Island” seeks to dismantle the stereotypical “tropical rainforest” imagery of Bali, exploring the evolving representation of its natural and social landscapes, and thereby unpacking the cultural significance underpinning perceptions of Southeast Asia across different historical eras.
📒 “Anti-Action” is the companion catalogue to an exhibition re-examining the output of Japanese artist-women in those decades. Based on the gender-studies perspectives put forward by art historian Nakajima Izumi in “Anti-Action” (2019), the book presents
01 Nov 2026
【AF26 | Patrons’ Pick】
For our 2026 Annual Fundraiser, three of our dedicated patrons—Yuri van der Leest, Fabiana Sonder, and Jason Zhai—selected artworks that spoke to them from our auction lineup, offering a personal glimpse into the talent showcased this year.
Swipe to see their picks. Find your new favourite works and support our mission by placing your bids online at aaa2026auction.com before 6 November 2026.
30 Oct 2026
【Library Closure Notice】
AAA’s library will close next Monday, 2 November for exhibition de-installation. Please kindly take note and schedule your visit accordingly.
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Image: Installation view of “At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II,” Asia Art Archive, 2026. Photo: South Ho.
29 Oct 2026
【Job Opening for Singapore-based Project Manager】
Asia Art Archive is seeking a full-time Project Manager for the AAA – Koh Nguang How Archive Project, a three-year initiative and pioneering collaboration between Koh Nguang How and AAA Hong Kong.
Based in Singapore, the successful candidate will be engaged as an independent contractor by AAA Hong Kong to manage the project on site at the designated Project Space at Goodman Arts Centre.
Reporting directly to and under the supervision of the Head of Research & Archives (AAA Hong Kong), the successful candidate will provide day-to-day operational support, assist in preparing project proposals and facilitate cross-departmental coordination to address the organisation’s ongoing strategic goals.
Learn more about the role and apply via the link in our bio. Candidates must be legally authorised to work in Singapore. Please note that we do not provide work visa sponsorship for this position.
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Image: Archival collection of Koh Nguang How, 2025. Photo: Lynn Wong.
29 Oct 2026
【AF26 Highlights | Fresh Perspectives in Painting】
AAA’s 2026 Annual Fundraiser brings together distinctive voices in painting. Through shifts in scale, expressive gestures, intimate details, and symbolic forms, Ticko Liu, Xie Chengxuan, Xue Ruozhe, and Shuling Guo transform familiar subjects, inviting us to look beyond what first meets the eye.
Visit aaa2026auction.com to bid online for these works until 6 November, 10:30pm HKT.
📌 Ticko Liu, “From stardust to pollen 03”
Ticko Liu uses painting to explore delicate structures and overlooked moments in the world around us. In “From stardust to pollen 03,” Liu transforms natural scenery into a fantasy-like space where familiar details shift playfully in scale. The work moves between the microscopic details of a beetle’s back to the vastness of the night sky, shifting our sense of distance from the world around us. This surreal scene hovers between fiction and reality, expressing Liu’s deep appreciation for the enchantments of everyday life.
📌 Xie Chengxuan, “Drinker”
Xie Chengxuan approaches art-making and painting as an organic process of exploration and self-reflection. “Drinker” captures a moment of intoxication with loose lines and bold gestures. The figure’s face and bottle are interrupted by a splash of charcoal, suggesting the blurred perception that can accompany drinking. Xie combines the spontaneity of abstract expressionism with the fluidity of Chinese ink brushwork, using a restrained palette and swift marks to convey both self-awareness and indulgence.
📌 Xue Ruozhe, “CS-001”
Xue Ruozhe explores the boundaries of reality and the line between painting and imagery. The title of this work, “CS-001,” refers to the close shot, a camera technique that frames a subject tightly at short range. Here, Xue focuses on the subject’s hand, drawing attention to the tension between the creases of the dress and the fingers clutching the fabric. The cropped composition heightens the sense of intimacy and ambiguity, while the dark tones and delicate brushwork create a quiet, suspended atmosphere. Based on the visual aesthetics of photography and film and translated through the slower process of p
28 Oct 2026
【AF26 | Oscar Ho Hing Kay】
Generously donated by Oscar Ho Hing Kay to AAA’s 2026 Annual Fundraiser, “Art Paradise” offers a playful reflection on Hong Kong’s cultural life and everyday creativity against the city’s evolving arts and cultural landscape.
Oscar Ho Hing Kay is an artist, curator, art critic, and educator who examines visual culture, public access to art, and Hong Kong’s cultural identities. Ho’s recent publication, “Hong Kong Art: A Curator’s History (1987–2004),” is the first illustrated study of this critical period in Hong Kong’s art history. Focusing on the diverse cultural life of the city, the book builds on AAA’s Research Collections and was launched at AAA’s booth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.
In “Art Paradise,” Ho depicts a scene of ordinary Hong Kong people enjoying art through dance, song, and chalk painting on the ground. The Chinese text translates: “At night the streets are full of people, no matter whether they’re artists or not, everyone is dancing and singing…turns out Hong Kong people are so artistic,” which Ho observes with a playful nod to the developments of the West Kowloon Cultural District at the time. The work is part of Ho’s “Stories Around Town” series of illustrated journal entries, which combine social and political events, legends, myths, and other stories that captured the public’s attention. Rarely exhibited, the series reflects Ho’s intimate observations of the everyday and his practice of integrating art into life.
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Oscar Ho Hing Kay, “Art Paradise,” 2017, mixed-media on paper, 25 × 18 cm. Generously donated by the artist.
27 Oct 2026
【AF26 | Studio Visit with Wong Sze Wai】
Wong Sze Wai shares how her work bridges memory and imagination, and how the flaking surfaces and cracks of the Dunhuang murals inspire her textured paintings.
Featured in AAA’s 2026 Annual Fundraiser, “Saturday bedtime story” takes the form of a zhenping, a traditional Chinese screen used to divide a sleeping space and protect against the wind. Wong transforms the folding structure into a gateway for the imagination, where a bird travels between dreams and myth. For the artist, Saturday is a space between wakefulness and dreaming, where one can be free from the demands of the week.
Online bidding for this work is available on aaa2026auction.com until 6 November, 10:30pm HKT.
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Wong Sze Wai, “Saturday bedtime story,” 2026, ink, water-based pigment, clay, and sand on canvas, diptych, 60 × 80 cm. Generously donated by the artist.
26 Oct 2026
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