ArtisTree Presents Acclaimed Spanish Artist Coco Capitán’s Hong Kong Debut ArtisTree Selects: Imagination Investments

As Hong Kong’s cultural calendar gathers momentum during Art Month, Swire Properties presents a major artistic highlight with “ArtisTree Selects: Imagination Investments”, a new exhibition by globally celebrated artist Coco Capitán. Running from 19 March to 26 April 2026, the exhibition unfolds at ArtisTree and across Taikoo Place as part of Swire Properties Arts Month, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong.

Conceived as a three-part installation, the exhibition explores themes of memory, longing and connection, creating an evocative dialogue between contemporary art and the rhythms of urban life. Through photography, painting, poetry and participatory installations, Capitán transforms Taikoo Place into an immersive artistic journey that moves seamlessly between architecture, public space and storytelling.

Born in Seville and currently based in London, Coco Capitán has emerged as one of the most distinctive creative voices of her generation. Working across photography, fashion and contemporary art, she is internationally recognised for her analogue photographic style and her handwritten texts, which often blend humour with quiet melancholy. Over the past decade, her work has gained global recognition through exhibitions and collaborations with leading cultural institutions and major fashion houses.

For her large-scale Hong Kong debut, “Imagination Investments” expands across multiple venues at Taikoo Place, bringing together photographs, canvas works, paintings on sails, poetic texts, an in-situ installation and public interventions. The exhibition begins at ArtisTree, extends through a public text installation within the district’s walkways and culminates on the 67th floor of One Island East. The month-long experience invites visitors to reflect on how memories and personal meanings evolve through time, images and human connection.

Winsze Chung, General Manager of Taikoo Place at Swire Properties, describes the exhibition as more than a traditional art presentation. He notes that the project reflects the vision of Taikoo Place as an aspirational urban destination where creativity and culture form an integral part of everyday life. By integrating contemporary art across multiple spaces—from ArtisTree to the upper floors of One Island East and even the district’s pedestrian walkways—the exhibition creates a fully immersive cultural experience for tenants and the wider community.

For Capitán, Hong Kong itself served as an important inspiration. She explains that she has always been drawn to places defined by movement and the stories created by people passing through them. Hong Kong, with its constant rhythm of transit and change, embodies this idea perfectly. Through the exhibition, she hopes visitors can slow down, inhabit the present moment and perhaps recognise fragments of their own memories within the works.

The exhibition unfolds as a three-part narrative, each chapter exploring different aspects of memory and place.

The first chapter, “Naïvy,” located inside ArtisTree, reflects Capitán’s long-standing fascination with the ocean. Featuring more than 50 photographs, paintings and text works, the collection treats the sea both as a physical landscape and a metaphorical space for freedom and introspection. A recurring motif throughout the works is the figure of the sailor—symbolising autonomy, anonymity and the tension between belonging and the desire to drift. Visitors entering the exhibition are given a personal invitation letter that assigns them the role of a “lost memory collector,” guiding them toward the next stage of the journey.

The second chapter, “I Read While I Walk,” connects the venues through a striking public artwork. Stretching nearly half a kilometre through Taikoo Place, the installation presents thirteen of Capitán’s handwritten aphorisms and poems across the neighbourhood’s walkways. These poetic fragments transform the everyday pedestrian route into a living narrative, subtly inviting passers-by to reconsider the stories hidden within the rhythms of daily city life.

The final chapter, “Memory Adoption Bureau,” is accessed through the invitation letter visitors receive earlier in the exhibition. Located within a 10,000-square-foot office space on the 67th floor of One Island East, this participatory installation transforms the space into a poetic archive dedicated to lost memories. Drawing from more than 10,000 vernacular photographs, visitors are invited to select and “adopt” a forgotten image, becoming custodians of anonymous personal histories. Through this ritual of emotional inheritance, the act of viewing becomes an intimate gesture of connection, remembrance and stewardship.

Visitors can also take home a piece of the artist’s creative world from the exclusive gift shop at ArtisTree, which offers a curated selection of Capitán’s signature works and related items.

The project marks the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between Coco Capitán and the ArtisTree Selects flagship programme. A second chapter of the exhibition will return later in the year, presenting new works inspired by the artist’s time in Hong Kong. This upcoming phase will see Capitán documenting the city’s unique rhythms and everyday choreography through her distinctive artistic lens. Further details will be announced through Taikoo Place’s official channels.

Coco Capitan Portrait

ArtisTree Selects: Imagination Investments
In Tenant Partnership with Julius Baer

Public Viewing: 19 March – 26 April 2026

Venues:
ArtisTree, 1/F Cambridge House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay
Memory Adoption Bureau, 67/F One Island East, 18 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay
I Read While I Walk, Taikoo Place walkways between the venues

Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday: 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 11am – 8pm

Admission: Free. Visitors are encouraged to begin the experience at ArtisTree.

More information is available at https://www.taikooplace.com/en or on Instagram @taikooplace_hk.