Jordan Yotels | Hong Kong Yotel March Presents Art Month - Tomorrow Maybe Gallery Partners with Art Basel Hong Kong Again

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This March, Hong Kong Yotel will present a series of cross-disciplinary arts events themed 'Resonance from the Heart' from 20 March to 10 May, focusing on concepts such as embodied experiences, human vulnerability, and collective metamorphosis. Upholding the hotel's commitment to community-centric, emerging, and experimental art practices, the programme aims to inspire art enthusiasts and the general public, underscoring the hotel's role as a vibrant cultural hub in Kowloon.

For the second consecutive year, the Tomorrow Maybe Gallery at Hong Kong Yotel has been selected as a cultural partner for Art Basel Hong Kong. During Art Month, the gallery will present a range of cross-disciplinary exhibitions, performances, and workshops at both the Yotel and Art Basel, exploring the relationship between the body and memory, healing and anxiety, and the conventional and the spectacular.

Filipino-Indian artist Sharu B. Sikdar, who grew up and is based in Hong Kong, will represent Tomorrow Maybe Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with a solo exhibition titled 'Stepping Stones Won't Break My Bones'. Sharu's work combines organic materials with sensory experiences, guiding viewers through artistic practices to confront human vulnerability, observe subtle human interactions, and understand how exploring consciousness leads to growth.

The exhibition's focal point is an interactive floor installation inspired by foot massages and the concept of 'walking on thin ice'. As viewers move across the installation made of stone pebbles and eggshells, they are invited to focus on the physical sensations of pain and discomfort, metaphorically emphasizing emotions, resilience, and care. It suggests that growth often begins with facing challenges head-on rather than avoiding them.

Complementing the floor installation are wall-mounted artworks composed of meticulously sewn-together broken eggshells and the artist's own hair. These pieces reflect Sharu's personal exploration of interpersonal relationships and emotions, delving into intimate connections, pressures, and invisible boundaries within oneself in relation to others. The intricate mending and assemblage in the works convey that unlearning and self-protection can also be a healing process when approached with determination and care.

The exhibition further extends to the themes of mindfulness and focus, featuring a dedicated activity booth and workshop area. On Saturday, 28 March, from 12:30 pm to 2 pm, Sharu will host a 'Sewing Eggshells' workshop, where participants will carefully sew fragile materials together, requiring patience and attention, echoing the sensitive emotions explored in the installation. The workshop offers an intimate space for reflection, encouraging participants to contemplate gently and patiently perceive how to shape their creative and interpersonal interactions.

At the Tomorrow Maybe Gallery in Hong Kong Yotel, Belgian-based Filipino performance artist and choreographer Joshua Serafin (She/They) presents 'Grieve the Departed Wound', an exhibition rooted in Filipino indigenous cultural heritage and intergenerational knowledge transmission. Joshua's practice spans dance, performance art, visual art, and imagery, using post-colonial Philippines as a backdrop to explore spirituality, ecology, queer identity, and various ways of inhabiting bodies through the creation of avatars, myth-making, and world-building.

Joshua's performance exhibition transforms Tomorrow Maybe from a white cube gallery into a black box stage, encapsulating movement within objects. Visitors are invited to navigate through the remnants of previous performances, both material and conceptual, following Joshua's instructions to perceive and interpret the rhythmic relationship between their bodies and the artworks. By reconstructing past performance scenes as installations, videos, and paintings, the gallery becomes a vessel for mourning, reconfiguring the relationships between trauma and healing, relics and propositions, objects and time in performance and exhibition contexts.

The exhibition opening will be held on 20 March from 6 pm to 9 pm, where Joshua will be present to interact with guests, offering insights into the stories behind the works. Joshua will also be in residence at Hong Kong Yotel from 15 to 28 March 2026, engaging in cultural exchanges with the local art and performance communities, creating commissioned works for Hong Kong audiences.

On Thursday, 26 March, Hong Kong Yotel will host the annual Art Month party, 'Ancestral Frequencies', at Terrible Baby and Tomorrow Maybe Gallery. The event aims to rewrite erased female and queer genealogies through nightlife, repositioning the spaces as sites of community, care, and transformation. Joshua will perform live, sharing the stage with an impressive lineup of performance artists and DJs, including Abyss X, a musician and performance artist from Crete, Greece; Zoë Marden and Sonia Wong, a UK-Hong Kong artist duo; Dis Fig, a Berlin-based DJ and musician; and Fotan Laiki, a local rapper and DJ.

The evening will feature a transformative performance themed around club culture, with three acts by Joshua, Abyss X, and Zoë Marden and Sonia Wong, presenting feminist and queer performances that cast ethereal figures against the vibrant backdrop of nightlife. Moving between ritual, sound, and spectacle, participants will experience the purifying and transcendent music of Dis Fig and Fotan Laiki through distinct yet interconnected chapters. It promises a collective dance floor experience, transforming performance and electronic music into a shared space through a queer nightlife and independent lens, harnessing energy, release, and a sense of communal presence.

'We have always viewed Yotel as more than just a hotel, but a place that holds life, especially the life stories that often hover at the margins,' says Cultural Director of Hong Kong Yotel, Justin Chen. 'Here, art and performance are not merely for viewing but for feeling, resonating, and sharing. By transforming our spaces into intimate and creative intersections, we reaffirm our core belief that true progress begins with the courage to embrace our vulnerabilities and turn them into a metamorphosis of shared belonging.'

Venue: Art Basel Hong Kong, 1/F Lobby, Institution Booth 04
Exhibition
Dates: 27 - 29 March 2026 (VIP: 25 - 26 March)
Workshop
Date: 28 March 2026
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Joshua Serafin: Grieve the Departed Wound

Venue: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F, Hong Kong Yotel
Exhibition
Dates: 21 March - 10 May 2026
Opening
Date: 20 March 2026
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Artist Residency
Dates: 15 - 28 March 2026

Yotel Art Month Party: Ancestral Frequencies

Venue: Terrible Baby, 4/F, Hong Kong Yotel
Date: 26 March
Time: From 9:00 pm
Artists: Joshua Serafin, Abyss X, Zoë Marden and Sonia Wong, Dis Fig, Fotan Laiki

Terrible Baby Art March Special Cocktail

To celebrate Art March, Terrible Baby, the rooftop bar at Hong Kong Yotel, presents a special cocktail, Silver-Doser (HK$110), inspired by Joshua Serafin's performance. Extending the Art Month experience beyond the gallery, Silver-Doser is crafted with London dry gin infused with bamboo charcoal, blended with tangy pomegranate foam and citrus, resulting in a refreshing and rich cocktail that invigorates the palate. The jet-black cocktail echoes Joshua's visual imagery of dancing under neon lights in black liquid, transforming mixology into an artistic presentation, offering a sensory experience where sight and taste converge.