Art Statements and Gaffer are pretty proud that four of their own artists will be exhibited at the 2013 Venice Biennale—one of the world's most prestigious art fairs—and want to celebrate by displaying their work this month in Hong Kong. Featured are the Russian collective AES+F, Japanese anime and video game guru Yoshitaka Amano, Aussie canvas dripper Dale Frank and Chinese oil painter Chen Ping. If variety is your chosen life-spice, you'll get it here.

Photographer Alison Cahill left her graphic design desk job in 2010 and bought a one-way ticket to Thailand, bouncing between NGO work at a bear sanctuary in Cambodia and conservation work with elephants and simians in Borneo. After two years and thousands of shutter snaps, her first exhibition in Hong Kong turns the camera away from the animals and focuses on the people she met in her travels, specifically those in Tibet, India, Burma and Cambodia. Prepare for backpacker's jealousy,...

In Xie Lei's second solo exhibition in Hong Kong, he presents a group of paintings that obscure reality in a manner so as to document things that are not easily visually represented. Using vivid color and eerie, dream-like imagery, there is an intensity to his work that draws the viewer in but remains ambiguous; a puzzle, but an always compelling one. It's like if "Pan's Labyrinth" crawled onto canvas.

Mark your calendar. It's been 50 years since the French poet, painter, filmmaker and actor Jean Cocteau passed away, and still his legacy in the art world looms large. This major exhibition includes 230 distinct works by the man himself and those he called friends, associates, or who were just inspired by his output: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Andy Warhol, to name a few. The works on display should impress both admirers and newcomers to Cocteau, including...

Photographer Dominique Laugé takes gorgeous photographs of stunning landscapes the world over, with a special interest in the way that meteor impacts have shaped some of Earth's most surreal terrain. Shots from a trip he made in 2012 to the dry, shifty Taklamakan Desert in Northwestern China are a notable highlight here, as are his still life works that play with the different effects of natural light.