Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK) has announced that 240 galleries from across 41 countries and territories will participate in the 2026 edition of the fair. This is the same number of galleries that participated in ABHK 2025. The fair returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from March 27th to 29th with preview days on the 25th and 26th. 32 galleries will present at ABHK for the first time. Over half of the participants have outposts in the Asia-Pacific region, and 29 galleries are based in Hong Kong.
The fair has announced that Encounters, the sector dedicated to large-scale installations, sculptures, and performances, will feature 11 artworks circling the theme of the five elements—space/ether, water, fire, wind, and earth. This year’s offsite presentation, once again located at Pacific Place Park Court, will feature a new digital work by American artist Christine Sun Kim. Kim, who works across drawing, performance, sound, installation, and video, interrogates the politics of sound using her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English. ABHK will also present the second edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s new platform for digital-era art, following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 this past December. It will feature 14 participants, including Art of This Millenium (AOTM), Art Blocks, Asprey Studio, bitforms gallery, Botto, Fellowship x ARTXCODE, √K Contemporary, Nguyen Wahed, Office Impart, Onkaos, Plan X, Silk Art House, SOLOS, and TAEX.
This year’s Film Program, titled “In Between Magic and Reality,” will bring together a selection of films that encourage the use of imagination as a means of resistance and survival. Hong Kong-based artist, curator, and researcher Ellen Pau makes her debut as curator of the section. Pau is a pioneering figure in Hong Kong’s art and technology landscape and the co-founder of Videotage, a non-profit platform dedicated to media art in Asia.
This edition of the fair will also mark the launch of Friends of Art Basel Hong Kong, a new initiative intended to strengthen ties with regional museums across Asia. Institutions from mainland China, including the Bai'etan Greater Bay Area Art Center in Guangzhou, China, and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China, will participate.
