20th March 2026, 6.30pm - 9pm
2F, Soho House Hong Kong
33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan
During Hong Kong Art Week, Artbridger and Artbridger MENA presents two exhibitions at Soho House that span the modern and contemporary, the meditative and the exploratory.
The Unit and Its Variations offers a focused encounter with the late Lebanese modernist Hussein Madi, whose language of form and repetition shaped a distinctive place in Arab and international art. Often called the “Lebanese Picasso”, Madi, through painting, print, and sculpture, distilled life into essential shapes - a bird, a curve, a figure - allowing endless variation within structure. His clarity and discipline transformed repetition into poetry, revealing how devotion to a single form can yield infinite discoveries.
In dialogue with this modern inheritance,
What Takes Shape gathers five contemporary voices; Ghanem Hassan, Catherine Karam, Raya Matta, Haytham Sharrouf, and Georges Yammine, whose practices unfold from material and movement. Each artist pursues transformation: Hassan through gestures of identity and resilience; Karam through weaving traditions reimagined as spiritual geometry; Matta through the layered tensions of fabric and human form; Sharrouf through luminous traces of maritime exchange; and Yammine through playful archeologies of memory. Together, they chart new ways of understanding how materials can think, speak, and connect.
Across both exhibitions, a shared sensibility emerges; an attention to rhythm, structure, and the quiet energy that gives form its life. From Madi’s disciplined variations to the contemporary artists’ intuitive transformations, the act of making becomes a reflection on constancy and change. In this encounter between generations and sensibilities, Soho House Hong Kong becomes a site where cultural memory, creativity, and renewal take shape anew.