Art Basel Hong Kong has announced 240 galleries for its 2026 edition, the same number as this year’s fair.
The 13th edition of the fair will once again take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will run from March 27th to 29th, 2026, with VIP preview days on March 25th and 26th.
“The 2026 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong is a celebration of the city’s status as Asia’s global hub for culture. Hong Kong’s unique strengths—its tax-free status, free-port heritage, logistical ease, multilingual accessibility, and unrivalled connectivity—continue to underpin its position as a gateway to the region’s rich cultural diversity and dynamic art market,” said Angelle Siyang-Le, director of the fair, in a statement.
Some 32 galleries will make their debut at Art Basel Hong Kong, including Tokyo’s A Lighthouse called Kanata, Seoul’s Sun Gallery, and Madrid’s 1 Mira Madrid / 2 Mira Archiv, and some 14 galleries are returning to the fair after a hiatus, including carlier | gebauer and Waddington Custot. The fair’s main Galleries sector will include 182 galleries. More than half of the participants operate a gallery space in the Asia-Pacific region. This consists of 29 galleries with spaces in Hong Kong, including Flowers and Pearl Lam Galleries.
On the other hand, many exhibitors that have participated in the Galleries sector will not be returning. Some galleries have closed since the last edition, including Blum, Clearing, Peres Projects, and Venus Over Manhattan. Other galleries not returning include Bortolami and Michael Werner Gallery.
In addition to the Galleries sector are Discoveries, focused on emerging artists and galleries, and Insights, focused on 20 curated projects by artists from the Asia and Asia-Pacific regions. New this year is Echoes, a sector that will spotlight works created within the past five years in presentations featuring up to three artists. Some participants include Hong Kong–based Double Q Gallery, bringing Polish artist Natalia Załuska, and Madrid’s Max Estrella, presenting Vietnamese American artist Tiffany Chung.
Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikande was also tapped for the fifth Art Basel and M+ commission. The public artwork, titled 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, will feature an animation on the exterior of the museum’s facade in the West Kowloon Cultural District.
Chinese multimedia artist Ellen Pau will spearhead the fair’s film program—the first time an artist has curated this section. The fair’s Encounters sector, dedicated to large-scale installation, will be curated by four Asia-based curators for the first time. This team will be led by the director of Mori Art Museum, Mami Kataoka, who will work alongside Isabella Tam, curator at M+; Alia Swastika, Jakarta-based curator and writer; and Hirokazu Tokuyama, a senior curator at the Mori Art Museum.
