Art Basel Hong Kong preview
Art Basel Hong Kong (previews Mar.25–26; fair Mar.27–29) expanded to 240 exhibitors and added two new sectors, positioning itself as the centerpiece of Hong Kong Art Week (scmp.com). The fair highlights include a solo survey of El Anatsui and Jeremy’s contemplative “Mimimomo Pool” installation—an invite to slow down amid the fair’s frenzy—and curators framed the Encounters section around water, fire, earth and ether (nytimes.com) (nytimes.com).
Encounters will be curated by a four-person Asia-based team led by Mami Kataoka alongside Isabella Tam, Alia Swastika and Hirokazu Tokuyama, and the sector will present 12 large-scale projects mapped to the Five Elements across the convention halls. (artbasel.com) Kukje Gallery is presenting a new multimedia textile landscape by Suki Seokyeong Kang for the space/ether slot, while Mumbai-based Parag Tandel’s yarn-based installation — titled Anthems of Archipelago — appears in Encounters with TARQ as his gallery partner. (artbasel.com) Masaomi Yasunaga’s glazed-ceramic shapes will represent the element of fire for Lisson Gallery and Geraldine Javier’s eco-printed fabric columns will represent earth for Silverlens, and Christine Sun Kim’s site-specific digital animation A String of Echo Traps will be shown offsite at Pacific Place’s Park Court. (artbasel.com) Art Basel has introduced a new sector called Echoes, which will spotlight recent work created within the past five years in focused presentations of up to three artists per showing. (artbasel.com) Art Basel’s Zero 10 program — the fair’s initiative for art of the digital era — will make its Asia debut in Hong Kong following its launch at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2025. (artbasel.com) White Cube’s Hong Kong presentation runs concurrently with a solo exhibition of El Anatsui in the city from March 25 to May 9, 2026, and the gallery says Untitled 1 (2025) figures in a new series that foregrounds both the recto and verso of his bottle-cap sculptures. (whitecube.com) UBS commissioned Chan Wai Lap’s Mimimomo Pool as the highlight of the UBS Art Studio at the fair, a pool-inspired immersive work named after a Cantonese phrase meaning “slowly, slowly” that the artist intends as a deliberate pause amid the fair’s pace. (ubs.com) (zolimacitymag.com)
