Art Collector is proud to announce its media partnership with Art Central Hong Kong 2026

Art Central returns to Hong Kong’s iconic Central Harbourfront for its eleventh edition, running from 25 to 29 March 2026, with a VIP Preview on 24 March. Presenting over 100 galleries and 500 artists from across Hong Kong, Asia and beyond, the fair continues its mandate as the region’s foremost platform for emerging voices and new collecting possibilities, with Lead Partner UOB.

This year’s edition is shaped by two curatorial programmes operating in productive dialogue. Enoch Cheng oversees the gallery programme and the newly launched Central Stage feature, which spotlights six artists with significant institutional recognition: Iranian-American textile artist Elnaz Javani, Lithuanian installation artist Marta Frėjutė, Japanese collective SIDE CORE, Indonesian performance and installation artist Arahmaiani, South African painter Esther Mahlangu, and Finnish photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen. The Central Stage presentations are drawn from galleries participating across the fair.

The creative programme is curated by Zoie Yung, whose thematic framework examines the frictions between digital culture and lived experience. At its centre is a major new Hong Kong commission: new media artist Kaitlyn Hau (b. 1999) will present Recursive Feedback Ritual 0.01 (2026), a large-scale installation and motion-capture performance that transforms her compulsive self-regulation into a real-time computational sculpture. The work represents one of the most ambitious commissions in the fair’s history.

The performance programme, Endless Night and Midnight Sun, features four commissioned works presented daily in the Central Theatre, examining how the compressed temporalities of digital life reshape social instinct and emotional endurance. Participating artists include Jiaming Liao, Chaklam Ng, Isabella Isabella, and Susie Au.

The video art programme, Reading the Room, brings together moving-image works that probe the gap between human intuition and algorithmic reasoning, with contributions from Liang-Jung Chen, Yifan Jiang, Jon Rafman, and Adrian Wong.

The fair’s Neo sector — a dedicated launchpad for galleries in their early years — welcomes ten participants for 2026, including Areté Space (Beijing), Astra Art (Shanghai), BOUNDED SPACE (Beijing), Kimreeaa Gallery (Seoul), Meno Parkas Gallery (Kaunas), MJK Gallery (Tokyo), NoSugar Gallery (Wuhan), The Gallery by SOIL (Hong Kong), V&E Art (Taipei), and Wolf & Nomad (Miami).

The Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation Projects returns with five ambitious large-scale works, including projects by Hong Kong artists Silvester Mok and OrangeTerry, alongside presentations by Javani and Alexis Wong.

Art Central 2026 runs 25–29 March at Central Harbourfront Hong Kong, 9 Lung Wo Road. Tickets are available at artcentralhongkong.com.

Image: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Kallavesi, Kuopio, Finland, 1991. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist and see+ Gallery.