The artwork truthful Artwork Basel Hong Kong (ABHK) has introduced a brand new part debuting at its subsequent version (25 to 29 March 2026) and its full checklist of curators—all of them Asia-based for the primary time.
The brand new part, Echoes, will present works made throughout the final 5 years. Its inaugural presentation will function 10 cubicles by 13 galleries, together with an area by the Hong Kong- and London-based Flowers Gallery—that includes works by Movana Chen, Jakkai Siributr and Luka Yuanyuan Yang—and a joint sales space by Capsule Shanghai and Klemm’s from Berlin, exhibiting sculptures by Leelee Chan, Elizabeth Jaeger and Yan Xinyue.
In the meantime, it has been revealed that the truthful’s Encounters part will probably be organised by a collective headed by Mami Kataoka, the director of Tokyo’s Mori Artwork Museum, and in addition together with Isabella Tam, the curator of visible artwork at M+ in Hong Kong; Alia Swastika, a Jakarta-based author and a curator of the 2025 Sharjah Biennale; and Hirokazu Tokuyama, a senior curator on the Mori Artwork Museum. ABHK’s movie programme will probably be curated by the celebrated Hong Kong video artist Ellen Pau. ABHK’s Conversations collection of talks will probably be organized by Venus Lau, the director of Jakarta’s Museum Macan.
The curators of Artwork Basel Hong Kong 2026‘s Encounters part, from left: Isabella Tam, Mami Katoaka, Alia Swastika and Hirokazu Tokuyama
Photograph: Ben Marans Images Ltd
The truthful additionally introduced right now that Artwork Basel and M+’s fifth annual fee for the M+ façade will probably be by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander. The artist will current a hand-painted animation titled 3 to 12 Nautical Miles.
“The appointments replicate our perception in curators who mix native perception with world perspective,” says ABHK’s director Angelle Siyang-Le. “Ellen Pau’s function is especially important: for the primary time, an artist will curate Artwork Basel’s movie programme. Pau is a visionary whose work has formed Hong Kong’s cultural panorama and Asia’s media artwork scene. [In 1986] she co-founded Videotage, a pioneering platform for media artwork, and [in 1996] launched the Microwave Worldwide New Media Arts Competition, which stays a number one discussion board for artwork and expertise. Her imaginative and prescient reinforces our dedication to transferring picture and time-based media, positioning Hong Kong on the forefront of world artwork and innovation.”
Siyang-Lee says the truth that ABHK’s curatorial group will probably be fully Asia-based for the primary time “displays Artwork Basel’s dedication to curatorial excellence and innovation, in addition to our imaginative and prescient for the area. We imagine this group brings various views rooted within the area whereas partaking in world conversations about up to date artwork.”
In whole, ABHK 2026 is anticipated to function 240 galleries from 41 nations and territories, with greater than half having areas in Asia and 29 in Hong Kong. There are resulting from be 32 newcomers, together with Tokyo’s A Lighthouse referred to as Kanata, Istanbul’s Pilevneli, Sydney’s The Business and Madrid’s Galería Casado Santapau.
