Fairs in focus

Art Basel Hong Kong 27–29 May

HKCEC

Delayed from March, Art Basel’s Hong Kong fair this year features 130 galleries from 28 countries – up from 104 last year, and now just over half of the figure the fair boasted in 2019, before the pandemic struck.

As ever, there is a strong showing of work from across the Asia-Pacific region; the main section includes new works by Zheng Guogo and Pak Sheung Cheun on show at Vitamin Creative Space, and among the 16 newcomers are Jason Haam from Seoul, Vin Gallery from Ho Chi Minh City and local gallery Lucie Chang Fine Arts. Look out, too, for Rossi & Rossi’s presentation of works by Tsherin Sherpa.

Highlights of the fair’s curated section, ‘Insights’, include the broad survey of works by Wang Chuan, brought by A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, tracing his career from his role in the Scar Painting movement which arose in the late 1970s, in response to the Cultural Revolution, to recent paintings the artist has made during lockdown in New York. Finally, Axel Vervoordt’s survey of Norio Imai is not to be missed.