Axel Vervoordt Gallery Gallery in Hong Kong

Wong Chuk Hang · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Axel Vervoordt Gallery operates in contemporary art in Hong Kong as an extension of a broader, transnational program that originates from its base in Belgium. Situated in Wong Chuk Hang, an industrial district that has become a key node for galleries in Hong Kong, the space reflects a curatorial approach that resists conventional categorizations of medium or period. Rather than focusing exclusively on contemporary production, the gallery is structured around dialogues between historical and contemporary works, often juxtaposing zero and gutai artists, postwar European practices, and living artists within carefully staged environments. This approach positions the gallery less as a commercial venue in the traditional sense and more as a site of spatial and philosophical inquiry, where exhibition-making draws on principles of balance, emptiness, and material resonance.

The program consistently foregrounds artists whose practices engage with process, materiality, and perception, including figures such as Bosco Sodi, Kimsooja, and Tatsuo Miyajima, alongside historical presentations that reinforce longer art historical trajectories. Exhibitions tend to unfold as immersive installations rather than discrete displays, emphasizing relationships between artworks, architecture, and the viewer’s movement through space. Within the Hong Kong context, this positions the gallery as a distinctive presence, diverging from faster-paced, market-driven exhibition cycles by privileging slower, contemplative formats. Its participation in international fairs and its sustained presence across multiple locations reinforce its global reach, while the Hong Kong space functions as a critical interface between Asian and European artistic networks.

Selected Artists

El Anatsui

Ghanaian

SculptureMixed MediaTextile Art
About

Working primarily in Nigeria, Anatsui transforms thousands of discarded liquor bottle caps and found materials into large, tapestry-like metal sculptures that explore migration, material history, and the fluid transmission of cultural identity.

Kimsooja

South Korean

InstallationPerformanceFilm
About

A multidisciplinary conceptual artist working across installation, performance, and film, Kimsooja investigates themes of migration, memory, and materiality through the performative gestures of wrapping, folding, and spatial intervention rooted in textile practice.

Sopheap Pich

Cambodian

Sculpture
About

Using bamboo, rattan, and aluminium harvested and processed by hand, Pich constructs minimalist sculptures and wall reliefs that channel collective trauma, personal memory, and the social histories embedded in the ordinary materials of Cambodian life.

Jaffa Lam

Chinese

InstallationMixed MediaSite-Specific
About

A Hong Kong-based artist working with recycled and discarded materials including crate wood, abandoned metal, and umbrella fabric to create large-scale, site-specific installations that reflect on local culture, urban transformation, and collective voice.

Waqas Khan

Pakistani

Drawing
About

Through the painstaking accumulation of minute dots, dashes, and lines on large-scale surfaces, Khan builds dense, meditative compositions that evoke scriptural forms, cosmic vastness, and a deeply sensorial engagement with space and mark-making.

Bosco Sodi

Mexican

PaintingSculpture
About

Known for richly textured large-scale paintings and raw clay objects made from earthy organic materials, Sodi embraces process, chance, and material spontaneity as driving forces, prioritizing the spiritual encounter between the artist, medium, and viewer.

Yun Hyong-keun

South Korean

Painting
About

A central figure of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement, Yun built his entire practice around a reduced palette of ultramarine blue and burnt umber applied in diluted layers onto linen, evoking natural processes of absorption, time, and dissolution.

Selected Exhibitions

Jaffa Lam, Asteroid J-734

Solo show2026

Jaffa Lam

About

Lam's third solo at the gallery presents new works in celadon ceramics, umbrella fabric, and metal made during a Longquan residency, mapping a personal journey of loss, displacement, and homecoming through assembled materials and community-rooted storytelling.

InstallationCeramicsMixed Media

Kimsooja, Topography of Body

Solo show2023

Kimsooja

About

Kimsooja's first Hong Kong solo brings together video performance, Indian block prints, clay works, and rice paper pieces to trace the body as both archive and landscape, weaving textile, migration, and participatory gesture into a single spatial experience.

InstallationVideo ArtMixed Media

Sopheap Pich, Cambodian Metal

Solo show2025

Sopheap Pich

About

Departing from his signature bamboo and rattan, Pich's Hong Kong debut with the gallery presents large-scale works in repurposed aluminum, steel, and scrap metal as evolving portraits of Cambodia's rapidly urbanizing present, blending industrial surfaces with poetic landscape references.

SculptureMixed Media

Bosco Sodi, A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains

Solo show2020

Bosco Sodi

About

Sodi's first Hong Kong solo drew on the Song Dynasty landscape painting by Wang Ximeng as inspiration for a new series of richly textured turquoise canvases, shown alongside elemental clay sculptures fired in Oaxaca using traditional processes.

PaintingSculpture

Renato Nicolodi, Concealment and Disclosure

Solo show2024

Renato Nicolodi

About

Nicolodi's second Hong Kong solo introduced works on paper and a debut video piece alongside acrylic paintings and monumental concrete sculptures, all staging archetypal architectural voids as spaces for contemplation, memory, and psychological reflection.

SculpturePaintingVideo Art

Vessel of Emptiness

Group show2025

Kwon Dae-Sup, Shi Zhiying, Shen Chen, Otto Boll, Norio Imai, Yuko Nasaka

About

Anchored by five moon jars by Korean ceramic master Kwon Dae-Sup, this group exhibition explores the philosophical interplay of form and void across painting, sculpture, and ceramics, drawing on Zen aesthetics, Gutai practice, and Eastern concepts of emptiness.

CeramicsPaintingSculpture

Angel Vergara, Acts & Paintings, Hong Kong

Solo show2023

Angel Vergara

About

Vergara's Hong Kong presentation brought together large-scale paintings and performative actions in which the act of painting itself becomes a live event, exploring the border between spontaneous gesture and formal composition through oil on canvas.

PaintingPerformance

Gallery Overview

Axel Vervoordt Gallery
City
Hong Kong
Area
Wong Chuk Hang
Address
21F, Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Type
Gallery
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