The event is expanding beyond its traditional showcase of galleries and artwork in a number of ways. The winner of the inaugural MGM Discoveries Art Prize, which aims to shine a spotlight on the talent of emerging artists from around the globe, will be announced on March 28 at the MGM Lounge inside the fair. Local institution Para Site is curating the film section for the first time, and new cultural partners include Tomorrow Maybe, Hass Lab and Design Trust.
The Encounters sector is arguably the most eye-catching part of this year’s event. Dedicated to presenting large-scale sculptures, installations and performance works by leading artists from around the world, of the fair’s 18 works in this section, more than half have been created specifically for Art Basel Hong Kong.
These presentations of work “transcend the traditional art fair booth” and are organised into four categories. Works in the Passage section foreground themes of cultural resonance, resilience and storytelling; Alteration examines the subversion of abstraction and materiality; The Return focuses on mythology, spirituality and “the cyclical nature of existence”; and Charge looks at the intersection of the digital and physical realms.
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