Hong Kong

Encounters 2026

Dedicated to presenting large-scale sculpture, installation, and performance works by artists from around the world, Encounters presents artworks that transcend the traditional art fair booth.
This year, Encounters takes the Five Elements, from traditional Asian cosmology, as its starting point, organizing sections along four aisles, each dedicated to one element&mdash;Ether, Water, Fire, and Earth&mdash;to spark conversations of diverse value and contemporary realities.
Curated by a Curatorial Group of four Asia-based curators. Led and advised by Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, alongside Isabella Tam, Curator of Visual Art at M+, Alia Swastika, a curator, researcher, and writer based in Jakarta; Hirokazu Tokuyama, Senior Curator of the Mori Art Museum.
Scroll down to learn more about each aisle and project.

<h2>Ether</h2>
In the Ether section, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Nobuya Hoki, and Steph Huang through their distinct approaches reveal a cultural ether connecting tradition and contemporaneity, body and time, memory and the present. These artists share a common practice of giving form to the invisible relationships that emerge between binary oppositions, resonating with the East Asian notion of the relational space of &lsquo;in-between&rsquo; is an active zone for connection.

Kukje

Suki Seokyeong Kang

Taka Ishii

Nobuya Hoki

Perrotin

Steph Huang

<h2>Water</h2>
The Water section features Parag Tandel, Ari Bayuaji, and Yeoh Choo Kuan, who engage water as cultural archive, ecological witness, and metaphysical threshold. Using protective talismans, regenerative textiles, and reimagined shan shui landscapes, these artists reveal water's capacity to hold memory, sustain communities, and embody the flux between dualities.

Tarq

Parag Tandel

Mizuma

Ari Bayuaji

Richard Koh

Yeoh Choo Kuan

<h2>Fire</h2>
In the Fire section, Kongkee, Masaomi Yasunaga and Apichatpong Weerasethakul employ fire as a transformative force that illuminates the hidden and reshapes the material. Through the hypnotic glow of neon, the alchemical heat of the kiln, and fleeting flashes of fireworks, the three expose suppressed political memories, contemporary digital greed, and time spans beyond human comprehension&mdash;revealing fire as both destroyer and creator, beyond human control.

Kongkee

Lisson, Nonaka Hill

Masaomi Yasunaga

Kiang Malingue, SCAI The Bathhouse, ShanghART

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

<h2>Earth</h2>
In the Earth section, Geraldine Javier, Hu Yinping, and Suzann Victor ground their practices in specific places&mdash;natural environments, agricultural communities, and urban landscapes. By way of eco-printed fabrics, crocheted grains, and rotating cityscapes, the artists reveal Earth as a living archive that witnesses climate change, reconnects labor to land, and exposes colonial histories, transforming soil into a repository of memory and future possibility.

Silverlens

Geraldine Javier

Magician Space

Hu Yinping

Gajah

Suzann Victor

<h2>Offsite Encounters</h2>
Encounters will extend beyond HKCEC, where Christine Sun Kim&rsquo;s site-specific digital animation installation, A String of Echo Traps (2022-2026) will be on view at Pacific Place Park Court. Reflecting on echo and translation and accompanied by a sound composition, A String of Echo Traps will be presented by White Space, and supported by Swire Properties, the Official Partner of offsite Encounters.

White Space

Christine Sun Kim

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Intro

Ether

Water

Fire

Earth

Offsite Encounters

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