Art Basel Hong Kong 2026
Ora-Ora's exciting and varied presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 brings together a diverse line-up of nine artists spanning digital art, installation, sculpture, ink and mixed media, with two artists making their Art Basel Hong Kong debut. Featured artists include 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 multimedia artist Krista Kim, in her inaugural showing with the gallery, unveils HeartSpace, an immersive wall screen that transforms 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. Hong Kong-based tech artist Henry Chu presents a newly created installation titled A(bsurd) and D(istortion) (2026), in which 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 contrasting with Huang Yulong, whose sculptures are born of the streets. A graduate of Jingdezhen, Huang's 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. Halley Cheng, who first showed at Art Basel Hong Kong with Ora-Ora in 2013, re-imagines his Kapok series, with 2026 marking the Kapok's debut against a radiant gold background.
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, whose "five colours of black" convey the expansiveness and magnificence of nature. Beijing-based Huang Dan's horses, landscapes in miniature, are imbued with serenity, calmness and a sense of wistful emptiness, her aesthetic of ultra-minimalism uniquely Asian in style. Hangzhou-based Peng Jian works across the jiehua Chinese architectural style and curved natural form, while Chongqing-born Xiao Xu's icy ink landscapes flow through slow, dark spaces, tracing flickers of enlightenment in the gloom.
