Art Basel’s Conversations and Salon program returns to Hong Kong with a wide range of panels featuring prominent figures within the international art world, from leading artists, gallerists and collectors, to museum directors, curators and critics. Artists will include Brook Andrew, Charles Avery, Heman Chong, David Diao, Bao Dong, Tracey Emin, Aikaterini Gegisian, Waqas Khan, Bose Krishnamachari, Tiffany Chung, Tatsuo Miyajima, Oscar Murillo, Shahzia Sikander, Sun Xun, Wu Tsang, Tintin Wulia, Lantian Xie, Wang Yuyang, Samson Young, Yu Honglei, Yu Youhan and Zhao Zhao.
Art Basel’s Conversations series will open on Wednesday, March 23. The first of four conversations, the Premiere Artist Talk will feature Chinese American artist David Diao. The New York-based artist will be in conversation with Pauline J. Yao, Curator, M+, Hong Kong. Wednesday afternoon’s Conversation will see Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima, whose light installation will be displayed on the ICC during Art Basel, in conversation with Hong Kong artist Samson Young, the winner of the inaugural BMW Art Journey. On Thursday, March 24, Anne Pasternak, Director, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Defne Ayas, Director, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; N’Goné Fall, Independent Curator and Co-Founder of the Dakar based collective GawLab, Paris; and Thomas J. Berghuis, Director, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta will join a discussion titled ‘Building Platforms’, moderated by András Szántó, Author and Cultural Consultant, New York, exploring the various ways in which independent institutions might flourish as contemporary platforms. The final Conversations event will take place on Friday, March 25, and will consider ‘Collecting as a Radical Practice’, featuring Aaron Cezar, Founding Director, Delfina Foundation, London; Hideaki Fukutake, Vice-President, Fukutake Foundation, Naoshima; Phillip Keir, Co-founder, Keir Foundation, Sydney; Sara Puig, patron of the arts and trustee, Prado Museum Foundation and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and Roobina Karode, Director & Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi. The Conversation will be moderated by Alan Lau, Co-Chair, Tate’s Asia Pacific Acquisition Committee and Para Site Art Space, Board Member, M+, Hong Kong.
The afternoon Salon program this year consists of 18 shorter and often more informal presentations beginning on Wednesday, March 23. The program features talks and panel discussions led by artists, curators, museum directors, leading academics, researchers and media professionals and will cover a broad range of topics, from arts education to cultural journalism, from the influence of empire on artistic practice to the differing roles of public and private art institutions and the nuances of what lies between. As part of Salon, British artist Tracey Emin will join Tim Marlow, Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts, London and David Tang, Entrepreneur, Hong Kong in discussion. Cosmin Costinas, Curator and Executive Director, Para Site, Hong Kong; Rupert Myer, Chair, Australia Council for the Arts, Surry Hills; and Merve Caglar, Director, SAHA, Istanbul will examine the different ways in which institutions might be able to survive through funding and how they might navigate the changing landscape of funding bodies. The Salon will be moderated by Art Basel’s Encounters Curator and Director, Artspace, Sydney, Alexie Glass-Kantor, who will the same day moderate a Salon featuring Encounters artists

Brook Andrew, Melbourne; Tintin Wulia, Brisbane and Charles Avery, London as they discuss this edition’s focus on materiality.
On Friday, Heman Chong, artist, Singapore; Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator, M+, Hong Kong; Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Mimi Brown, Founder of Spring Workshop, Hong Kong; and Johnson Chang, Director, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, will discuss ‘Museums: Public, Private, and the Space in Between’, moderated by Charles Guarino, Publisher, Artforum, New York.
On Saturday, Salon continues with a discussion entitled ‘Mapping Time(s) and Space(s)’ featuring Tiffany Chung, Artist, Saigon; Aikaterini Gegisian, Artist, London; Morgan Wong, Artist, Hong Kong, moderated by Su Wei, Independent Art Critic and Curator, Beijing.
Another panel discussion will see Pakistani artist Waqas Khan and Indian artist Bose Krishnamachari discuss art in South Asia with Roobina Karode, Director & Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, and New York and Lahore based Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander, moderated by Sneha Ragavan, Researcher, Asia Art Archive, New Delhi
Conversations will take place daily between Wednesday, March 23 and Friday, March 25 from 10am to 11.30am, with a second artist talk scheduled on Wednesday from 12noon to 1pm.
Salon talks are held daily in the afternoon from Thursday, March 24 to Saturday, March 26, with an additional Salon talk scheduled on Wednesday from 5pm to 6pm.
Both programs take place in the auditorium on Level 1, at the entrance of Hall 1A of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Talks from the Conversations program are free to the public. Art Basel VIP card or ticket includes admission to all Salon talks. The talks will be accessible in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
DETAILED SALON PROGRAM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
5pm to 6pm | Discussion | Hack Space
Simon Denny, Artist, Berlin, New York; Amira Gad, Exhibitions Curator, Serpentine Galleries, London
Moderator: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Galleries, London
Thursday, March 24, 2016
2pm to 3pm | Real Talk | Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, Artist, London in conversation with Tim Marlow, Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts, London and David Tang, Entrepreneur, Hong Kong
3pm to 4pm | Discussion | Copyleft: Appropriation
Lisa Movius, China Bureau Chief, The Art Newspaper, London; Yu Honglei, Artist, Beijing; Xiang Liping, Head of Exhibitions, Power Station of Art and Chief Coordinator of Shanghai Biennale Office, Shanghai
Moderator: Gu Ling, Head of Communication, Shekou Design Museum, Shenzhen
4pm to 5pm | Teaching Art in the 21st Century: On Educating
Philippe Pirotte, Director, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule and Curator of 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, Frankfurt am Main; Dorothee Richter, Head of MAS Curating, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, ZHdK and Director of PHD in Practice in Curating, University of Reading, Zurich; Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Moderators: Chris Moore, Publisher, Randian, Berlin and Thomas Eller, Artist and Editor, Randian, Beijing
5pm to 6pm | Discussion | Funding and Its (Dis)Contents
Cosmin Costinas, Curator and Executive Director, Para Site, Hong Kong; Rupert Myer, Chair, Australia Council for the Arts, Surry Hills; Merve Caglar, Director, SAHA, Istanbul
Moderator: Alexie Glass-Kantor, Curator of Art Basel’s Encounters sector, Director, Artspace, Sydney
6pm to 7pm | Encounters: New Materialities
Brook Andrew, Artist, Melbourne; Tintin Wulia, Artist, Brisbane; Charles Avery, Artist, London
Moderator: Alexie Glass-Kantor, Curator of Art Basel’s Encounters sector, Director, Artspace, Sydney
7pm to 8pm | The Post Human Condition
Wang Yuyang, Artist, Beijing; Bao Dong, Critic and Independent Curator, Beijing; David Joselit, Critic and Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Moderator: Zhang Ga, Artistic Director, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, Distinguished Professor, School of Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Friday, March 25, 2016
2pm to 3pm | Collaborative network: Curating in the 21st Century
Dr. Isaac Leung, Artist, Curator and Chairperson, Videotage, Hong Kong; Jamie Wyld, Director, videoclub, Brighton; David Elliott, Curator, Writer and Teacher, Berlin; Menene Gras Balaguer, Director for Culture and Exhibitions, CASA ASIA, Barcelona, Madrid
Moderator: Adrian George, Deputy Director & Senior Curator UK Government Art Collection and author of The Curator’s Handbook, 2015, London
3pm to 4pm | Where are the Art Critics? Cultural Journalism in Today’s Media Landscape
John Batten, President, International Association of Art Critics Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Tinny Cheng, Principal Reporter, Culture, Apple Daily, Hong Kong; Ho Siu-bun, Feature Editor & Art Editor, LifeStyle Journal, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong; Samwai Lam, Editor, City Magazine, Hong Kong; David Elliott, Curator, Writer and Teacher, Berlin
Moderator: Vivienne Chow, Founding Director, Cultural Journalism Campus, Hong Kong
4pm to 5pm | What Do Galleries Do?
Selma Feriani, Director, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, Sidi Bou Said; Pei-Yu Lin, Director, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei; Mihai Pop, Director, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, Berlin; Billy Tang, Curatorial Director, Magician Space, Beijing
Moderator: Umer Butt, Founder and Director, Grey Noise, Dubai
5pm to 6pm | Hybridize or Disappear: A Case Study
Venus Lau, Director, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal and consulting curator, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Shenzhen, Beijing; Cécile B. Evans, Artist, London, Berlin; Nadim Abbas, Artist, Hong Kong
Moderator: Joao Laia, Writer and Curator, London
6pm to 7pm | Museums: Public, Private, and the Space in Between
Heman Chong, Artist, Singapore; Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator, M+, Hong Kong;
Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Mimi Brown, Founder of Spring Workshop, Hong Kong; Johnson Chang, Director, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Moderator: Charles Guarino, Publisher, Artforum, New York
7pm to 8pm | A Design for Life: Art and Infrastructure
Winnie Ho, Deputy Head, Development Bureau Energizing Kowloon East Office, Hong Kong; Ryan Gravel, founder of Sixpitch and originator of the Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta; Cassius Taylor-Smith, Managing Director, Giant and curator of Event Horizon, Hong Kong; Inge Goudsmit, Associate, OMA*AMO Asia, Hong Kong
Moderator: Victoria Camblin, Editor and Artistic Director, ART PAPERS, Atlanta
Saturday, March 26, 2016
12noon to 1pm | Artist Talk | The Desert of the Real
Li Zhenhua, Curator, Art Basel Film sector, and Director and Founder, Beijing Art Lab, Beijing, Zurich in conversation with Sun Xun, Artist, Beijing and Zhao Zhao, Artist, Beijing
1pm to 2pm | Artist Talk | Mao, Warhol, and Yu Youhan: The Legacy
Yu Youhan, Artist, Shanghai, Paul Gladston, Professor in Culture, Film and Media, Faculty of Arts, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham
Moderator: Chiu Ti-Jansen, TV Presenter, Publisher, Writer and founder CHINA HAPPENINGS, New York
2pm to 3pm | Mapping Time and Space
Tiffany Chung, Artist, Ho Chi Minh City; Aikaterini Gegisian, Artist, London; Morgan Wong, Artist, Hong Kong
Moderator: Su Wei, Independent Art Critic and Curator, Beijing
3pm to 4pm | A Regional Perspective: South Asia
Roobina Karode, Director & Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Waqas Khan, Artist, Lahore; Bose Krishnamachari, Artist, Mumbai; Shahzia Sikander, Artist, New York, Lahore
Moderator: Sneha Ragavan, Researcher, Asia Art Archive, New Delhi
4pm to 5pm | Fluid Futures: Children of Empire
Lantian Xie, Artist, Dubai; Wu Tsang, Artist, Los Angeles; Robin Peckham, Deputy Editor, LEAP, Beijing; Oscar Murillo, Artist, London, La Paila
Moderators: Stephanie Bailey, Writer and Editor, Hong Kong, London
The Conversations and Salon talks are programmed by Stephanie Bailey, Writer and Editor, London, Hong Kong.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the globe, each show’s singular exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas and new inspiration.
Partners
UBS, global Lead Partner of Art Basel, has supported the organization for more than 20 years. As Art Basel’s global network has expanded, so too has UBS’s commitment and lead partnership, which includes all three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. In addition to its support of Art Basel, UBS has a long and substantial record of engagement in contemporary art: as a holder of one of the world’s most distinguished corporate art collections, as an active partner in global contemporary art projects such as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and as a source of information and insights through the UBS Art Competence Center, UBS Arts Forum and its new contemporary art news-focused app, ‘Planet Art’.
Art Basel’s Associate Partners, supporting all three shows, are Davidoff Art Initiative which encompasses residencies, art dialogs and grants; Audemars Piguet – the independent high-end watch manufacturer, whose expanding activities in contemporary art include the Audemars Piguet Art Commission; and NetJets – the world leader in

private aviation. BMW, the renowned car manufacturer, has co-developed with Art Basel the BMW Art Journey, enabling the winning artist to design a journey of creative discovery. Additionally, Art Basel is supported globally by Ruinart as Official Champagne Partner, and Sennheiser as Official Audio Partner.
Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong has partnerships with Swire Properties, LE FREEPORT and H Queen’s; supported by Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, Quintessentially Lifestyle and Swiss International Air Lines. Art Basel’s global Media Partner is The Financial Times. For further information about partnerships, please visit artbasel.com/partners.
Private View (by invitation only)
Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 3pm to 8pm Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 1pm to 5pm
Vernissage (by invitation only)
Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 5pm to 9pm
Public Days
Thursday, March 24, 2016, 1pm to 9pm Friday, March 25, 2016, 1pm to 8pm Saturday, March 26, 2016, 11am to 6pm
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