Kiang Malingue Plants First Flag in Lower Manhattan
From Wanchai to Chinatown: the gallery’s founders said they look forward to ‘meeting new friends and greeting old ones in New York’. Save to My Ocula
Hong Kong gallery Kiang Malingue is opening its first outpost in New York this May, with a 3,500-square-foot space on the Lower East Side.
Gallery co-founders Lorraine Kiang and Edouard Malingue said the move ‘came through years of discussion about the vision of the gallery, and about our hope for the future’.
The new Chinatown-adjacent space will be christened with the debut New York solo exhibition of Japanese artist Hiroka Yamashita, who first showed her landscape paintings at Kiang Malingue in 2022.
The gallery, whose primary space is located in a former 1960s tenement house in the business commercial district of Wanchai in Hong Kong, maintains a strong focus on emerging talents and artists from Asia, with more than half of its growing roster based in the region.
That list includes Zheng Bo, Cho Yong-Ik, and Tromarama—alongside Tao Hui, Phillip Lai, and Samson Young, who have exhibited with the gallery since its early years.
‘The gallery’s programme has developed persistence over the years, and has become the way in which we see the world and a glimpse of its possibilities through our artists’ unique perception,’ Kiang and Malingue wrote on social media.
The gallery has also commanded acclaim for showing video art at a time when the medium had a relatively small market in Asia. The gallery presented Sun Xun‘s work at Art Stage Singapore in 2012, followed by the artist’s solo exhibition in its Hong Kong space in 2014, and dedicated their booth to Wong Ping‘s video works at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2016.
In an interview with Ocula Magazine in 2018, Kiang expressed a personal interest in the moving image medium. —[O]
Main image: Exhibition view: Ho Tzu Nyen, Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (20 March–13 May 2025). Courtesy Kiang Malingue. Photo: Kwan Sheung Chi.
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