16 bold and thoughtful installations by Asia Pacific artists at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024

Curated by Sydney Artspace Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor, the 'Encounters' series includes 11 new works by Australian and Asian artists.
Naminapu Maymuru-White, ‘Larrakitj Forest’, 2024, presented by Sullivan+Strumpf as part of Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong 2024. Photo: ArtsHub. A dozen organic wood poles with black and white dotted paintings inside the convention centre.

Art Basel Hong Kong has commenced its 2024 iteration at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, returning in full scale and flair for the first time post-pandemic with over 200 exhibitors from across the globe.

Art Basel Hong Kong’s dedicated large-scale installations program, Encounters, is once again led by Alexie Glass-Kantor, curator and Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney. The overarching theme for Encounters is ‘I am part of all that I have met’.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_