Gallop's picks for Hong Kong galleries, October 31–November 6, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 1 last chance, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Four women ink artists work across photography paired with calligraphy, reimagined figures, contemplative landscapes and meticulous gongbi. The title recalls the Jade Terrace, the chambers where upper-class women lived in isolation, which gave the scholar-poet Xu Ling's love-poetry anthology its name.
Chen Jialing's bird-and-flower paintings hang with Jiang Baolin's line-drawn mountainscapes, Lu Fusheng's landscapes and Peng Xiancheng's Tang dynasty figures and horses. Lu's early A White Horse is a Subset of a Horse borrows its title from the philosopher Gongsun Long.
Oil paintings from North Korea, a tradition rooted in Russian realism and known for soft colour and quiet scenes of women and children, fill this charity show. Part of the proceeds from works sold goes to the host venue.
Landscapes and portraits by Schierenberg are built up in layers of colour and gesture. The paintings draw on his Malaysian-Chinese and German family and a childhood split between Malaysia, the Black Forest and London.
Paintings by Chiu depict the Taoyuan farming community where he grew up, since cleared for the Aerotropolis project, and the elderly people he cares for in his full-time job at a nursing institution. He works from memory, without sketches or photographs.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in Hong Kong.
Gallop's picks for the week of October 31: Chu Chu, Wang Mengsha, Zhang Yirong, Zhang Ying at Alisan Fine Arts (Southside); Chen Jialing, Jiang Baolin, Lu Fusheng, Peng Xiancheng at Alisan Fine Arts (Central); A Charitable Art Exhibition – “Reframing North Korea” at Hong Kong Arts Centre (Central); Tai Shan Schierenberg at Flowers Gallery (Central). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Last chance the week of October 31: Chiu Wei-Hsiang at gdm (Galerie du Monde), until Saturday Oct 31.
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in Hong Kong each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for Hong Kong, every Thursday.
