巴塞尔艺术展香港展会 2026
Ora-Ora’s diverse line-up of nine artists includes digital art, installation, sculpture, ink and mixed media. Two of the artists will be showing for the first time at Art Basel Hong Kong.
Artists selected are as follows: Halley Cheng, Henry Chu, Huang Dan, Huang Yulong, Peng Jian, Krista Kim, Juri Markkula, Nina Pryde and Xiao Xu.
Underlining Ora-Ora’s commitment to innovation in digital art, Canadian-Korean multi-media contemporary artist Krista Kim, in her inaugural showing with the gallery, unveils HeartSpace, an immersive wall screen which will transform visitors’ heartbeats into vivid waves of colour, frequency and light. HeartSpace is the visualization of humanity and a key means of asserting our humanity in a world of technology.
Additionally, Hong Kong-based tech artist Henry Chu will be presenting a newly created installation titledA(bsurd) and D(istortion) (2026), combining his famous flair for insightful data and music with the sinuously evocative form of the guitar. In this artwork, the topical flow of geopolitical events wreaks havoc on the harmonies of Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, with added screens and microphones hinting at our powerlessness in the face of negative news and international discord.
Juri Markkula navigates the earthly and the spiritual, the industrial and the primeval in his return to the fair. His amplified adaptations of nature contrast with Huang Yulong, whose sculptures are born of the streets. A graduate of Jingdezhen in China, his sculpture titled On My Way (2023) merges human and horse into a bronze centaur, marrying the exuberance of the contemporary street experience with the power and majesty of the horse.
Ora-Ora prizes the vision of contemporary ink artists who employ classical materials for astonishing innovations and dazzlingly new viewpoints. An exponent of the medium for several decades, this will be the first Art Basel appearance of Hong Kong-born ink artist and photographer Nina Pryde. Her blending of the eternal and the contemporary creates a twist in the viewer’s perception, whilst her “five colours of black” convey the expansiveness and magnificence of nature.
Beijing-based ink artist Huang Dan’s horses, landscapes in miniature, are imbued with serenity, calmness and a sense of wistful emptiness. Her aesthetic of ultra minimalism is uniquely Asian in style.
Peng Jian, based in Hangzhou, works both in ink and acrylic, across the jiehua Chinese architectural style and curved natural form. Meanwhile, Chongqing-born Xiao Xu’s icy ink landscape flows through slow, dark spaces, tracing flickers of enlightenment in the gloom.
Finally, Halley Cheng, a Hong Kong artist who first showed at Art Basel Hong Kong with Ora-Ora in 2013, re-imagines his Kapok series: hitherto luscious, fleshy, floral reds and oranges against metallic paint. 2026 marks the Kapok’s debut against a radiant gold background.
2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Ora-Ora, which was founded in Hong Kong in 2006. Its Art Basel Hong Kong presence this year is titled HalluciNation. HalluciNation is the destination for unlimited imagination, vivacious energy and limitless potential. Visitors to Ora-Ora’s booth will become temporary citizens of the HalluciNation, navigating the world around them with openness and curiosity.
Throughout the Art Basel Hong Kong period, Ora-Ora’s Tai Kwun gallery in Hong Kong’s Central district will present Time After Time, a solo show by Hong Kong artist William Lim, composed of 23 paintings, executed at the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou.
