The Hong Kong gallery marks its first chapter outside its home city with a debut in Singapore
Just months into 2026, Kwai Fung Hin has quietly ignited a buzz in the local art collecting community. The Hong Kong gallery, long regarded for its cross-cultural lens and scholarly approach, recently opened its first overseas space in Singapore this January, choosing South Beach as its abode in the city-state.
Visitors to the gallery will be treated to its inaugural exhibition, Worlds Beyond Reality: Monet’s Legacy II, which is now underway and runs through late March. At its centre is Pivoines (1887), a rarely seen painting by Claude Monet, completed during the early years of his life in Giverny. Rather than treating the work as a singular trophy, the exhibition positions it as a point of departure, tracing how ideas of landscape, cultivation, and place continue to echo across modern and contemporary practices.
Around Monet’s canvas, works by artists including Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Lalan, Li Huayi, Teo Eng Seng, Xue Song, Ziad Dalloul, and Shara Hughes are exhibited as parallel meditations on nature, memory, and perception.
“Kwai Fung Hin will continue its long-standing mission in Singapore, introducing international talents and bringing fresh perspective through our diverse programs. We wish to contribute to the art development in Singapore while expanding the gallery’s international outreach,” says Catherine Kwai, founder and CEO of Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, in a press statement.
Having spent recent years observing Singapore’s collecting community and institutional landscape, Kwai Fung Hin appears intent on contributing to the ecosystem through sustained programming, research, and dialogue, instead of quick-turn exhibitions. This year also marks the gallery’s 35th anniversary, lending the Singapore opening a sense of continuity, and demonstrating a long-held commitment to bridging cultures and histories.
