11 must-see exhibitions during Hong Kong’s Art Basel week, from Resilience: Voices of Ukraine to HKwalls’ Street Art and Mural Festival
- With so many art shows opening this week to coincide with Art Basel, Hong Kong’s largest contemporary art fair, we list our11 top picks (plus 5 bonus events)
- Resilience: Voices of Ukraine features the works of two artists displaced by Russia’s war, Rashid Johnson makes his Asia debut and HKwalls celebrates street art
Overwhelmed by all the new art shows opening this week? Here are our top picks (in no particular order). Admission is free unless indicated.
1. Signals … storms and patterns, Para Site
This group show signals a new chapter for the non-profit art space. Co-curated by Celia Ho and Para Site’s director, Billy Tang, “Signals” is a series of three exhibitions that launches during Art Basel week, and promises to be a new way of exhibition-making that represents strategies to reconnect with the global community in a post-pandemic world.
Taking inspiration from the art salon Signals London of the 1960s, the first chapter, titled “Signals … storms and patterns”, will feature artworks in dialogue with an experimental display structure that will transform throughout the exhibition.
Participating artists include Christine Sun Kim, Linda Lai Chiu-han, Candice Lin & P. Staff, Pratchaya Phinthong, Printhow, James Richards, So Wing Po, Mika Tajima, Tang Kwok-hin and Truong Cong Tung. There will be “atmospheric interventions” from a host of contributors that include Indonesia’s KUNCI Study Forum & Collective and its School of Improper Education.
22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay. Until May 28.
2. Boloho Presents: Surviving and Chilling 03, Hanart TZ Gallery
The third of these performative chat shows – to be held during Art Basel – is extra special because the guests are Ruangrupa, the Indonesian art collective who were the curators of Documenta 15.
