Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Bian Kai, Bingyi, Keiko Arai, Kang Chunhui, Li Huasheng, Li Qing, Ren Light Pan, Wang Shaoqiang, and Wei Ligang

VIP Days (by invitation only):
First Choice | Wednesday, March 25, 12 noon to 8pm
First Choice and Preview | Wednesday, March 25, 3pm to 8pm
First Choice and Preview | Thursday, March 26, 12 noon to 4pm
First Choice and Preview | Friday, March 27, 12 noon to 2pm
First Choice and Preview | Saturday, March 28, 12 noon to 2pm
First Choice and Preview | Sunday, March 29, 11am to 12 noon

Vernissage
Thursday, March 26, 4pm to 8pm

Public Days
Friday, March 27, 2pm to 8pm 
Saturday, March 28, 2pm to 8pm 
Sunday, March 29, 12 noon to 6pm

For Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, INKstudio presents a group exhibition of eight artists: Bian Kai, Bingyi, Keiko Arai, Li Huasheng, Li Qing, Ren Light Pan, Wang Shaoqiang, and Wei Ligang. All of them use the historical East Asian artistic practice of brush and ink painting and calligraphy to create global contemporary art.

Contemporary INK has steadily grown as a recognized, international contemporary art practice in regions such as China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. As a result, Modern and contemporary art institutions such as M+ in Hong Kong, LACMA in Los Angeles, TATE Modern in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris are all actively collecting and programming post-war and contemporary INK art.

LI Huasheng is recognized as one of modern China’s greatest traditional landscape painters and one of its most important conceptual minimalist ink artists. INKstudio will exhibit works from Li’s late practice of process-based grid paintings newly released by the Li Huasheng Art Foundation.

WANG Shaoqiang has developed an extensive, research-based practice of landscape painting, sculpture and calligraphy. INKstudio will present his latest text-based, calligraphic works based on his research into religious scriptures translated from Chinese characters into different language scripts.

WEI Ligang is one of the leading figures in the Beijing-based Modern Calligraphy movement of the 1980’s and 90’s. INKstudio will present Wei Ligang’s latest paintings based on his novel, calligraphic approach to brushwork, materials, abstraction and traditional forms.

BIAN Kai explores the use of vernacular figure painting to re-interpret folk mythology, religious scriptures, philosophical texts and literary classics for contemporary audiences. INKstudio will present his thangka-inspired interpretations of themes from the early Chinese descriptio mundi the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

LI Qing is an engineer and self-trained artist who uses ink pen and brush to obsessively render classical landscapes and literary-poetic themes using surreal and fantastical, industrial and urban forms. INKstudio will exhibit works from Li Qing’s technical pen landscape series.

ARAI Keiko a longtime student Zen Buddhist philosophy and approaches ink painting with a profound embodied understanding nature and her materials — ink, water, nikawa glue and washi paper. INKstudio will present a selection Arai’s meditative, material-process, abstract ink paintings.

Bingyi is a land-and-weather artist, painter, writer, filmmaker and trained archaeologist who speculatively reconstructs China’s patriarchal, Confucian and anthropocentric political philosophy, literature and art history from a feminist, Taoist, post-human perspective. INKstudio will exhibit new works from Bingyi’s latest series of indexical, land-and-weather ink paintings.

Unlike other artists who purchase their mineral pigments already compounded, Kang Chunhui researches and compounds her own mineral pigments from the same local sources used by the Central Asian artisans working in and around the Kizil Grottos. Using her compounded pigments, she then renders polysemous subjects simultaneously mundane and religious using the chromatic intensity and range made possible by this process.

Ren Light PAN is a Chinese-American transgender multi-media visual artist who uses ink against modes of contemporary art making — namely readymade and anti-gestures, deconstruction as well as techniques influenced by photographic, filmic and printmaking processes. INKstudio will present Ren Light Pan’s latest work from her “Sleep” series of body-heat ink paintings.