Galerie du Monde

11/06/2026

11/06/2026

Step into Tang Chang: Into the Heart-Mind

From over 8,800 works across four decades, Tang Chang’s prismatic landscapes of memory reveal how fields, alleyways, and riverscapes become mirror‑images of the inner world.

At the heart lies the Chinese xin (心) — the heart‑mind — a still lens reflecting the myriad things of existence. For Tang Chang, painting was never mere representation. It was a way of being.

Tang Chang: Into the Heart-Mind
Curated by Sheryl Gwee
gdm Hong Kong
4 June – 29 August 2026

《心鏡之景》凝視中泰詩人兼畫家陳壯斑斕幻彩的「在世」視野——田野、小巷、河景，不僅是地景，更是心境的鏡像。

在心鏡之中，世界萬象皆得以映照。對陳壯而言，繪畫從來不只是再現，而是一種存在方式。

陳壯《心鏡之景》現正於 gdm 爍樂畫廊香港空間展出，展期至 2026 年 8 月 29 日。

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02/06/2026

#美術館典藏 #張逸斌

爍樂畫廊欣然宣布藝術家張逸斌的重要作品《Trembling Sunrise》（中譯：顫抖的日出）被香港 M+ 視覺文化博物館納入館藏。

《顫抖的日出》以金融報紙的股票行情為畫面基底，將資本主義的語言直接嵌入自然景觀之中，揭示了人類文明與自然環境之間的緊密糾纏。作品中的日出本是更新與希望的象徵，卻因文明賴以維繫的體系充滿不確定性而顯得顫抖不安。張逸斌透過這種視覺隱喻，批判性地呈現了資本邏輯如何深刻塑造並威脅著自然與人類進程的平衡。

張逸斌（1975 年生於倫敦，現居香港）畢業於中央聖馬丁藝術與設計學院，他的創作以跨媒介的實驗性著稱，涵蓋繪畫、版畫與多媒體，常將傳統山水畫的美學與數位工藝和當代材料結合，形成獨特的視覺語言。自 2000 年代初期嶄露頭角以來，他的作品持續探討全球化、科技與金融體系對文明與自然的深遠影響。

02/06/2026

gdm is delighted to announce Gordon Cheung’s “Trembling Sunrise” has been acquired by M+ Museum, Hong Kong.




Gordon Cheung’s “Trembling Sunrise” is a vision of nature and human civilization locked in a fragile embrace. The rising sun, a symbol of renewal, is rendered unstable; trembling, the systems that sustain our civilization are themselves precarious. Cheung makes this instability visible by embedding the language of capitalism directly into the landscape: financial newspaper stock listings form the ground of the image, reminding us that the natural world and human progress are now inseparably bound to the logic of markets.

Gordon Cheung (b. 1975, London; based in Hong Kong) is a British-born Chinese artist known for his innovative fusion of traditional landscape painting with contemporary materials and digital processes. Educated at Central Saint Martins, he emerged in the early 2000s as part of a generation interrogating globalization, technology, and finance. His practice spans painting, printmaking, and multimedia.

31/05/2026

Opening 4 June

Tang Chang: Into the Heart-Mind — the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong — brings together a rare constellation of works where landscape becomes language, and the natural world becomes a site of inner transformation. Curated by Sheryl Gwee, former head researcher of The Tang Chang Private Museum.

Across his practice, Tang Chang (1934–1990) reimagined landscape not as scenery but as movement, breath, and consciousness. Born in Bangkok to a Chinese immigrant family, he drew deeply from Daoist and Buddhist thought, translating rivers, mountains, and cosmic rhythms into gestural fields of ink, color, and fingertip marks. His landscapes are not observed; they are felt — unfolding from the body outward.

The exhibition traces four pathways through his evolving vision:

• True Forms: ink works that distill riverscapes into flowing, calligraphic currents.
• Writing the Cosmos: landscapes of the sky — expanding, multiplying, vibrating with cosmic order.
• Wilderness Colors: vivid terrains built from fluorescent washes and dragged fingerprints, where color becomes terrain.
• Living Traces: landscapes of the heart-mind, where gesture becomes a record of presence.

Through these works, Chang dissolves the boundary between inner and outer worlds. Landscape becomes a mirror — a way of seeing the self, the cosmos, and the pulse that connects them.

📍 11 Duddell St, Central, Hong Kong
🗓 4 June – 29 August 2026
Curated by Sheryl Gwee


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29/05/2026

Irene Chou (1924–2011) — a pioneering voice in Hong Kong’s New Ink Painting movement. She redefined modern ink art with her explosive splash ink and meditative one-stroke techniques, blending centuries-old traditions with the bold energy of modern abstraction.

On view now in a specially curated booth “Archipelago of Art Histories” at ARCOlisboa 2026, curated by Cosmin Costinas, at booth I05 from 28-31 May — Irene Chou’s art stands as a vital chapter in the history of contemporary ink painting.

28/05/2026

The stillness of a sage’s mind is a looking glass for heaven and earth, a mirror for the ten thousand things. — Zhuangzi

Tang Chang: Into the Heart-Mind
Curated by Sheryl Gwee
4 June – 29 August 2026
gdm Hong Kong

Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese painting were cornerstones in Tang Chang’s worldview—he translated classics such as the Daodejing and Sh*tao’s Treatise on Painting into Thai. At the heart of his practice lies the heart-mind as a mirror, reflecting in its stillness the myriad things of the cosmos. To achieve the clarity of a sage is to attune one’s heart-mind to the Dao—the universal structure and flow that underpins everything in existence.

Revisiting Tang Chang’s works through this lens reveals how he saw painting as a transformative practice of mental, spiritual, and ethical cultivation. Beyond scenic representations of an exterior reality, could we consider Tang Chang’s paintings mirror images of his own interiority—his heart and mind?

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25/05/2026

25/05/2026

#張逸斌


Gordon Cheung’s triptych “New Territories” (2025) is featured in Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, the second chapter of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s landmark exhibition Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008. Running from 28 February to 31 May 2026, this chapter shifts focus from the digital to the material world, exploring China’s role as a global centre of production and logistics.

A lonesome baroque archway stands upright in an empty sea. A ship of the line sails towards it, flying a Union Jack. A cowboy rides a defiant bull, raising a fist above his head in triumph. A tulip blooms out of plastic. Weaving threads between these motifs, Cheung narrates a history hidden in the details — tracing, like an archaeologist, centuries of colonial cartographies and diasporic movement, bearing witness to civilisations obscured by the sands of time.

A multimedia artist whose practice blurs the virtual and the actual, Gordon Cheung interrogates the workings of global capitalism and the structures of power that shape how we understand identity, territory, and belonging. Filtered through culture, mythology, religion, and politics, these concerns surface as dreamlike, surreal urban landscapes — rooted in the in-between condition of his own identity, and asking what it means to be human in civilisations whose histories are written by the victors.

Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe is on view at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, through 31 May 2026.
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Curators: Dr. Pi Li, Ying Kwok
Associate Curators: Jill Angel Chun, Shuman Wang

Exhibition view of Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe,
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2026.

Courtesy of Tai Kwun Contemporary.
Photo by Kwan Sheung Chi.

23/05/2026

#陳壯

gdm presents the first solo exhibition of Tang Chang’s landscape works in Hong Kong, from 4 June to 29 August 2026.

Curated by art historian Sheryl Gwee, “Into the Heart-Mind 心鏡之景” highlights Tang Chang’s works on paper spanning the 1960s to the 1980s.

📅 Opening Reception: 4 June 2026, 4-7pm
📍 gdm Hong Kong (1/F, 11 Duddell St, Central)

Join us in celebrating Tang Chang’s legacy!

Tang Chang (1934–1990), also known as Chang Sae‑tang (จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง), was a self‑taught Thai‑Chinese artist and poet who shattered the conventions of Thai modernism. Born into Bangkok’s Chinese diaspora, his education was cut short by war, yet this rupture became the ground for radical independence. Without institutional training, he forged a practice that fused calligraphy, abstraction, and poetry into a language of defiance and reflection, painting with his body—fingers, hands, and gestures pressed directly into canvas—to transform ink into rhythm, urgency, and spiritual search.

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