Shigeo Otake (b. 1955, Kobe, Japan) is a painter of otherworldly creatures and ‘fungal grotesqueries’, whose recent work has been informed, in part, by his personal studies of parasitic life and the morphology of Cordyceps. The artist’s fascination with the social organisation of non-human life has inspired a distinctive approach to figuration – the scenes he conjures feature all manner of seen and unseen creatures, from the terrestrial to the supernatural.
Upcoming Hong Kong Exhibitions
Tesfaye Urgessa
The Lingering Departure
9 September – 20 October 2026
Tesfaye Urgessa presents ‘The Lingering Departure’, his first exhibition with the gallery since joining in August 2026. Bringing together paintings and works on paper created over the past year in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Stuttgart, Germany, the exhibition reflects on themes of migration, familial relationships and community, as reflections on an increasingly unsettled socio-political world.
Yunyao Zhang
When the Surface Thinks
30 October – 19 December 2026
White Cube Hong Kong presents ‘When the Surface Thinks’, a solo exhibition by Paris-based Chinese artist Yunyao Zhang (b. 1985, Shanghai). With this new body of work, the artist contends that meaning can reside within a surface – proposing painting as a sentient field that registers, reflects and thinks.
