In advance of the upcoming Hong Kong show, Angelle Siyang-Le has been appointed to the position of Director Art Basel Hong Kong, effective November 2022. Building on her 10 years of experience with Art Basel in Hong Kong as Regional Head of Gallery Relations, Asia and Head of Development, Greater China, Siyang-Le will be responsible for leading the direction of Art Basel’s flagship show in Asia and will drive its future development.

Adeline Ooi, Director Asia, will focus on steering the strategic development of Art Basel’s initiatives in Asia. She will continue to guide the fair’s broader engagement in the region, such as Art Basel’s recent collaboration with Art Week Tokyo and expand Art Basel’s activities to support the development of the cultural scene in Hong Kong and across Asia.

Angelle Siyang-Le, Director, Art Basel Hong Kong, said: ‘I am truly honored to be appointed to lead Art Basel's show in Hong Kong. Together with my colleagues and the broader Art Basel community, I look forward to further strengthening the show's position as Asia's premier fair. Likewise, I am excited to work closely with the city's vibrant cultural community to reinforce Hong Kong's position as a leading cultural hub. We are delighted to welcome back our international exhibitors and patrons to our show this March and to shine a global spotlight on the city.'

Adeline Ooi, Director Asia, Art Basel said: ‘I am delighted that Angelle will be steering the show's next chapter. Having worked very closely with her for ten years, I am confident that the show will continue to go from strength to strength under her leadership. In parallel, I am delighted to continue leading our broader endeavors in the region, aligned with our mission to strengthen and nurture Asia's diverse and growing art scenes, which we see as complementary to our core focus of staging our show in Hong Kong.'

Galleries

The main sector of the show features 129 of the world’s leading galleries presenting the highest quality of artworks from their program. Galleries will once again stage a unique overview of the diverse art scenes across Asia and beyond. Highlights include:

the first solo art fair presentation of Peter Saul’s work in East Asia at newcomer Venus Over Manhattan; a new body of works by Rao Fu at Mind Set Art Center, on the artist’s perpetual survey of interculturalism, including wall-bound paintings, works on paper, and ceramic sculptures being shown publicly for the first time; a survey of Rasheed Araeen at Rossi & Rossi, examining the artist’s complex practice from his early portraiture drawings to the minimalistic sculptures for which he is known; an installation by Danh Võ at Vitamin Creative Space, which is inspired by the artist’s practices at Güldenhof, a farm garden established with a small group of collaborators in the countryside north of Berlin; and Shibunkaku’s group presentation of leading artists from the Japanese post-war avant-garde calligraphy movement, including Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Hidai Nankoku, and Shinoda Tōkō.

For the full gallery list for Galleries, please visit artbasel.com/hongkong/galleries.

Insights

Dedicated to artists from Asia and the Asia-Pacific, Insights will feature 19 galleries this year. Highlights include: the signature elliptical relief works made in the 1970s by Yoshishige Saito, a seminal figure in the pre-war avant-garde movement in Japan, presented by Takuro Someya Contemporary Art; Gallery Vazieux’s booth with ten works produced from the 1960s to the present by Chuang Che, a pioneer of Chinese abstraction; four new paintings and a mural by Amir H. Fallah at newcomer Denny Dimin Gallery, on how the artist’s Iranian heritage and cultural history intersect with China, referencing a long cultural partnership between the two nations; a selection of works by Wu Jian'an at Pifo Gallery; a suite of sculptures by the prominent Mono-ha artist Susumu Koshimizu at newcomer YOD Gallery; and Flowers Gallery’s presentation of an installation by Jakkai Siributr that consists of 21 imagined flags, coarsely embroidered with shells and beads gathered in Sittwe, the city in Myanmar’s Rakhine state from which many Rohingya, the country’s ethnic Muslim minority, have fled persecution.

For the full gallery list for Insights, please visit artbasel.com/hongkong/insights.

Discoveries

Gallery List I November 2022 | 画廊名单 2023