Asia Art Weekly News Bulletin – ISSUE 89 Week of 2 November 2026
(1) Outstanding Hong Kong arts programmes and exhibitions featured in the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival
The 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival, jointly organised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, and the Hong Kong and Macao SAR Governments, opened on 31 October 2026 and will run for about six weeks across the Greater Bay Area. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is presenting 23 local and visiting programmes and exhibitions.
(2) Musical Yu Lin collaborates with Pan Yuliang art exhibition through immersive flash performances in the gallery
Actors’ Family’s Cantonese musical Yu Lin, which depicts the life of China’s first female Western-style painter Pan Yuliang, has been paired with the exhibition “Painted Visage, Spirited Line – The Art Exhibition of Pan Yuliang” through immersive flash theatre performances inside the gallery space in Shenzhen.
(3) M+ Charity Gala Celebrated 5th Anniversary with Cultural and Performing Arts Celebrities
Contemporary visual culture museum M+ held its 2026 charity gala in the museum’s ground-floor lobby on the eve of its fifth anniversary, raising funds and gathering more than 450 guests from Hong Kong and around the world.
(4) Simon Yam’s Self-Taught Paintings Debut at ART TAIPEI after Five Years of Practice
Hong Kong actor Simon Yam, a multiple Best Actor award winner known for films such as PTU, Election and Echoes of the Rainbow, is presenting his first works at ART TAIPEI. After teaching himself painting for nearly five years, he is showing three oil paintings and ten prints under the title “3025.”
(1) Outstanding Hong Kong arts programmes and exhibitions featured in the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival
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Under Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Raistlin Lau Chun (劉震) delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival (粵港澳大灣區文化藝術節) in Shenzhen. He noted that Hong Kong’s first Five-Year Plan emphasises deepening Greater Bay Area cooperation and leveraging its “internal connectivity and external outreach (內聯外通)” advantages, with cultural and arts exchanges serving as a key pathway.
LCSD is co-presenting three flagship programmes with Greater Bay Area cultural institutions, two of which are supported by the China National Arts Fund (國家藝術基金). These include ChoreoMusica Soiree (樂動．舞界) in Guangzhou, directed by multimedia artist Tsang Man-tung (曾文通); Actors’ Family’s musical Yu Lin (玉良) in Shenzhen, which portrays the life of pioneering Chinese female Western-style painter Pan Yulin (潘玉良); and Stephen Tang (鄧樹榮) Theatre Studio’s one-person play The Unfettered Hour (自在的一小時) in Shenzhen.
In addition, LCSD is supporting Hong Kong ensembles such as the Hong Kong String Orchestra (香港弦樂團) and Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble (香港天籟敦煌樂團) for regional tours. The “75 Years of Cinematic Glamour — An Exhibition of Sil-Metropole Film Stills and Posters (Qianhai Station) (75載銀光萃影——銀都電影劇照及海報展（前海站）)” is also on view. In Hong Kong itself, visiting programmes include Taksu – The Spirit of Gamelan (銅話鼓事)by Malaysian and Indonesian percussion ensembles, the Vietnamese contemporary circus Teh Dar (圓), and the Italian multimedia dance work Sál (靈魂), alongside free large-scale events such as Cantonese Opera Day 2026 (粵劇日2026) and Muse Fest HK 2026 (香港博物館節2026).
News Source: https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202610/31/AP6ae603dce4b0fa89498b4508.html
(2) Musical Yu Lin collaborates with Pan Yuliang art exhibition through immersive flash performances in the gallery
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Actors from Actors’ Family (演戲家族), including Angela Lam (林可嘉) and Chloe Wong (黃溥然), performed short monologues and scenes among the original artworks at the exhibition “Painted Visage, Spirited Line – The Art Exhibition of Pan Yuliang (畫如面・魂入線——潘玉良藝術展)”. The activity forms part of a cross-media programme that links the static exhibition with live performance, creative talks and selected musical numbers.
The exhibition, jointly organised by the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (深圳市當代藝術與城市規劃館) and the Anhui Museum (安徽博物院), displays 90 original works including oil paintings, colour-ink pieces, line drawings and prints. Structured around the question “Who am I? (我是誰)”, it traces Pan’s journey of departure, search, longing for home and artistic transcendence through four chapters, incorporating naked-eye 3D, immersive settings and AI cross-temporal dialogues.
Yu Lin (玉良), supported by the China National Arts Fund (國家藝術基金) and presented as part of the Hong Kong Chinese Culture Festival (中華文化節) and the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival (粵港澳大灣區文化藝術節), will be staged on 7 and 8 November 2026 at the Multi-function Hall of the Shenzhen Bay Area Arts Centre (深圳濱海藝術中心). The production blends drama, music, dance, visual art and multimedia to portray Pan’s determination to fuse Chinese and Western artistic languages.
Both the exhibition (running until 29 November) and the musical respond to the same underlying message: in turbulent times, art can serve as a path for continuous self-recognition and self-preservation (在動盪的環境裡，以藝術為路，持續認識、守護自己).
(3) M+ Charity Gala Celebrated 5th Anniversary with Cultural and Performing Arts Celebrities
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International art figures present at the M+ Gala Fundraising Event (M+慈善晚宴) included Beijing artist Cao Fei (曹斐), MoMA David Rockefeller Chief Curator Christophe Cherix (克里斯托夫．謝里克斯), Kunsthaus Zürich director Ann Demeester, Power Station of Art director Gong Yan (龔彥), MoMA board chair Marie-Josée Kravis (瑪麗─喬西．克拉維斯), Centre Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon (洛朗．勒邦), and Swiss collector and M+ board member Dr. Uli Sigg (烏利．希克博).
Local cultural and entertainment personalities included film directors Sylvia Chang (張艾嘉) and Ann Hui (許鞍華), actors Carina Lau (劉嘉玲) and Chow Yun-fat (周潤發), socialite and actress Laurinda Ho (何超蓮), and artist Lynus Woo (胡智同), alongside cultural leaders, business figures, patrons and long-term supporters of M+.
Guests arrived on a red carpet inspired by the special exhibition “Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia (神話與怪獸：亞洲的奇幻異境),” supported by HSBC. An immersive installation in the lobby incorporated the bank’s iconic bronze lions. The evening also marked the launch of the “M+ Restored Film Festival 2026 (M+修復電影節2026),” supported by Chanel, which will screen nine restored classic Hong Kong feature films on selected weekends in November and December.
The programme opened with a performance by pianist Gina Alice Redlinger (吉娜．愛麗絲．雷德林), followed by violinist and DJ Olivia Mok (莫曉霖). Auctioneer Elaine Kwok (郭心怡) conducted a live charity auction featuring works by Asian artists including Dominique Fung (馮藹文), Firenze Lai (黎清妍), Duan Jianyu (段建宇), Anna Liu (劉栗溧) and Shao Fan (邵帆), Lee Bul (李昢) and Takashi Murakami (村上隆), as well as special lots such as wines donated by Henry Tang (唐英年) and a MEGA ROYAL MOLLY art figure designed by Kenny Wong (王信明) for Pop Mart. Proceeds also support M+’s “Creative Ageing Programme: Wondrous Age (創意樂齡計劃：好耆同學會)” programme for seniors.
(4) Simon Yam’s Self-Taught Paintings Debut at ART TAIPEI after Five Years of Practice
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Simon Yam (任達華), who has long practised photography and previously published photo books and held exhibitions, set up a studio in 2020 to explore painting techniques. He admits he had never formally studied painting and kept many imaginative ideas stored in his “3025” until recent years allowed him to realise them on canvas. Eyes frequently appear in his works, which he describes as “windows of the soul (心靈的視窗)” enabling spiritual communication with viewers.
His paintings combine new-media techniques with oil paint and traditional ink, creating unpredictable visual effects through the collision of media. The number “3025” in the exhibition title can represent the future, parallel worlds or outer space with all possibilities filled with the unknown. Yam learned to paint on an iPad from his daughter, 22-year-old Ella Yam (任晴佳), expanding his creative tools.
Although film commitments prevented him from attending the fair in person, he sent a greeting to Taipei audiences. He continues to balance acting (three to four projects a year), family and painting, describing painting as “a sponge of time that needs to be squeezed.” His wife Qi Qi (琦琦) and daughter are his first viewers and important sources of feedback and inspiration. He creates while imagining natural landscapes and listening to ambient music, later returning to reality with a cup of coffee.
