Art Basel in Hong Kong 2026, March 25

Conversations | Premiere artist talk: Shahzia Sikander

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Shahzia Sikander, Artist, New York 
Doryun Chong, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong 
Artist Shahzia Sikander explored her distinctive approach to power, trade, and global exchange in conversation with Doryun Chong, the artistic director and chief curator of M+ in Hong Kong. Known for subverting classical Indo-Persian miniature painting, Sikander’s work is characterized by fluidity and fragmentation, resonating with our postmodern global world. Spanning several decades, her iconoclastic practice now extends from drawing and painting to include mosaics, sculpture, and video. Timed to coincide with the unveiling of 3 to 12 Nautical Miles – her latest hand-painted animation co-commissioned by Art Basel and M+, and presented by UBS on the M+ Facade – this discussion provided a deeper insight into her interdisciplinary work. 
Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for her pioneering work in bringing Central and South Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices, launching the form known today as ‘neo-miniature’. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through fluid and surreal permutations, Sikander’s work resonates with a postmodern world and a contemporary feminist perspective. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including painting, animation, mosaics, and sculpture. 
Doryun Chong is Artistic Director and Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong. Chong oversees all curatorial activities and programs at M+ across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. He has curated critically acclaimed exhibitions for M+, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Chong helped organize the five editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024. 
Stage furniture by Porro and B&B Italia, courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano

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