PRESS INFORMATION HONG KONG | MARCH 5 I 2019 Conversations Free to the public and programmed by writer and editor Stephanie Bailey, this year's Conversations program features 22 panels, bringing together leading artists, gallerists, collectors, art historians, curators, museum directors and critics from across the world. This year, Art Basel in Hong Kong collaborates with ArtAsiaPacific, in honour of their 25th anniversary, with a series of panels that revisit and examine contemporary art in Asia from curatorial, institutional, technological and commercial perspectives, during the magazine’s founding decade in the 1990s. Conversations is held daily from 11am from Thursday, March 28 to Sunday, March 31 in the Auditorium on Level 1, Room N101B, HKCEC; free public access. DETAILED CONVERSATIONS PROGRAM Thursday, March 28, 2019 11am to 12:30pm | ArtAsiaPacific at 25 | Early Days: The Chinese Art Market in the 1990s Chang Tsong-zung, Founder, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; Dr. Claire Roberts, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Associate Professor Art History, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Uli Sigg, Leading collector of Chinese contemporary art, former Swiss ambassador to China North Korea and Mongolia, Member of M+ board, International councils of Tate and MoMA, Mauensee; Karen Smith, Curator and Art Historian, and Director, OCAT Xi'an, Shanghai Moderated by Antony Dapiran, Writer and Contributing Editor, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong 12:30pm to 2pm | A Contemporary Assessment: The Art Market Now Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder, Arts Economics, Dublin; Adrian Zuercher, Managing Director, Head Asset Allocation APAC, UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office, Hong Kong; Bhavna Kakar, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, TAKE, and Founding Director, Latitude 28, New Delhi ; Leng Lin, Asia Partner, Pace, and President, Pace Beijing and Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Zhang Wei, Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou Moderated by Elaine W. Ng, Editor & Publisher, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong 2pm to 3:30pm | 21st Century Collectors: Next Generation Approaches Dee Poon, Managing Director (Brands and Distribution), Esquel Group, Hong Kong; Lu Xun, Collector, and Founder & Director, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Princess Alia Al- Senussi, Patron, London; Tarini Jindal Handa, Creative Director, JSW Realty, Mumbai Moderated by Aaron Cezar, Founding Director, Delfina Foundation, London 3:30pm to 5pm | Cultural Capital: The Political Economies of Art Basel Abbas, Artist, New York; Pedro Barbosa, Collector, São Paulo; Corrado Gugliotta, Founder, Laveronica Arte Contemporanea, Modica; Tayeba Begum Lipi, Visual Artist, Dhaka; Kacey Wong, Visual Artist, Hong Kong Moderated by Rose Lejeune, Curator, London 5pm to 6:30pm | Institutional Practice Is Creative Work: A Roundtable Yana Peel, CEO, Serpentine Galleries, London; Claire Hsu, Co-founder and Executive Director, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Antonia Carver, Director, Art Jameel, Dubai; Pawit Mahasarinand, Director, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok; Doreen Sibanda, Director, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London 6:30pm to 8pm | Premiere Artist Talk: Ellen Pau in conversation with Isaac Leung Ellen Pau, Artist, Hong Kong in conversation with Isaac Leung, Chairman, Videotage, and Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Friday, March 29, 2019 11am to 12:30pm | ArtAsiaPacific at 25 | Alternatives to What? A History of Emergent Art Spaces Mella Jaarsma, Artist and Co-Founder, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta; Judy Freya Sibayan, Museum and Curator, Museum of Mental Objects, Manila; Jin Suk Suh, Director, Nam June Paik Art Center, and Former Director and Founder, Loop, Seoul; Kith Tsang, Co-Founder, School of Everyday Life, Hong Kong Moderated by Elaine W. Ng, Editor & Publisher, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong 12:30pm to 2pm | Spaces of Interaction: Developing Platforms and Making Communities Qudsia Rahim, Executive Director, Lahore Biennale Foundation, and Director, Lahore Biennale, Lahore; Lu Peng, Artistic Director and Curator, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan; Sangeeta Thapa, Founder and Director, Siddhartha Arts Foundation/Gallery, Kathmandu; Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives, St Ives Moderated by Natalie King, Curator, Writer, and Enterprise Professor, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 2pm to 3:30pm | A Common Place? Artists in Art Fairs Hai-Hsin Huang, Artist, New York; Elmgreen & Dragset, Artists, Berlin; Paco Barragán, Independent Curator and Writer, Madrid; Iván Navarro, Artist, Santiago Moderated by Özge Ersoy, Public Programmes Lead, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong 3:30pm to 5pm | Body Work: Performance and Practice Victoria Sin, Artist, London; Juliana Huxtable, Artist, New York; Melati Suryodarmo, Artist, Surakarta; Sonia Khurana, Artist, New Delhi Moderated by Wu Tsang, Artist, New York 5pm to 6:30pm | Encounters in Encounters: Still We Rise Latifa Echakhch, Artist, Paris/Martigny; Joël Andrianomearisoa, Artist, Paris; Gerasimos Floratos, Artist, New York; Zhao Zhao, Artist, Beijing; Tony Albert, Artist, Brisbane/Sydney; Simon Starling, Artist, Copenhagen Moderated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Curator, Art Basel in Hong Kong Encounters Sector, and Executive Director, Artspace, Sydney 6:30pm to 8pm | Geographies of the Imagination | Exhibition Making and Research Methods Raphael Chikukwa, Chief Curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Antonia Alampi, Artistic co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Natasha Ginwala, Associate Curator, Gropius Bau, and Artistic Director, Colomboscope, Berlin; Christina Li, Curator, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Hong Kong/Amsterdam Moderated by Mi You, Curator, Researcher, and Academic Staff, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cologne Saturday, March 30, 2019 11am to 12:30pm | ArtAsiaPacific at 25 | Micro to Macro: Curating in the 1990s Li Xianting, Independent Art Critic and Curator, Beijing; Mit Jai Inn, Artist and Co-founder of Chiang Mai Social Installation, Chiang Mai; Suhanya Raffel, Executive Director, M+, Hong Kong Moderated by H.G. Masters, Deputy Editor & Deputy Publisher, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong 12:30pm to 2pm | A Region in Plural: Curating ‘Asia’ Now Joowon Park, Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; Hsieh Feng-Rong, Senior Curator, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Pauline J. Yao, Lead Curator, Visual Art, M+, Hong Kong; Shirley Surya (王蕾), Curator, Design and Architecture, M+, Hong Kong; Natasha Ginwala, Associate Curator, Gropius Bau, and Artistic Director, Colomboscope, Berlin Moderated by Qinyi Lim, Curator, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore 2pm to 3:30pm | Ink and Paint: Uncovering Asian Modernisms Tina Keng, Founder, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei; Hyun-Sook Lee, Founder, Kukje Gallery, Seoul; Chang Tsong-zung, Founder, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; David Teh, Independent Curator, and Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Amna Naqvi, Collector, Philanthropist, and Founder, AAN Foundation and AAN Gandhara Art Space, Hong Kong Moderated by Lesley Ma, Curator, Ink Art, M+, Hong Kong 3:30pm to 5pm | On Isamu Noguchi: Danh Vō and Doryun Chong in conversation Danh Vō, Artist, Copenhagen, in conversation with Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong 5pm to 6:30pm | Telling Stories: Narrative Forms and Strategies Basim Magdy, Screenwriter, Basel; Zac Langdon-Pole, Artist, Berlin; Phi Phi Oanh, Artist, Hanoi; Wong Kit Yi, Artist, New York/Hong Kong Moderated by Freya Chou, Curator, Hong Kong 6:30pm to 8pm | The Art of Conversation: On Forums, Summits, and Symposia Shumon Basar, Writer, and Commissioner, Global Art Forum, Dubai/Berlin; Leeza Ahmady, Independent Curator, and Director, Asia Contemporary Art Week, New York; Mari Spirito, Founding Director, Protocinema, and Curator, Beijing Art Summit, Istanbul/New York; Prateek Raja, Co-Founder, Experimenter, Kolkata Moderated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director, Samdani Art Foundation, and Chief Curator, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka Sunday, March 31, 2019 11am to 12:30pm | ArtAsiaPacific at 25 | Video Art: A Gateway to Film and New Media Barbara London, Curator, Writer and founder of the video art collection at MoMA, New York; Nalini Malani, Artist, Mumbai; Ellen Pau, Artist and Co-founder of Videotage and Microwave, Hong Kong; Zhang Peili, Artist and Director of the Embodied Media Studio, School of Intermedia Art (China Academy of Art), Hangzhou Moderated by Ysabelle Cheung, Managing Editor, ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Digital Emotions: The Hybridisation of Art and Technology Jin Suk Suh, Director, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul; Isaac Leung, Chairman, Videotage, Hong Kong; Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Tao Hui, Artist, Beijing Moderated by Li Zhenhua, Founder and Director, Laboratory Art Beijing, Beijing/Zurich/Berlin 1:30pm to 3pm | Conduits, circuits, and screens: Tishan Hsu and the Institutional Body Tishan Hsu, Artist, New York in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi, Curator, SculptureCenter, New York 3pm to 4:30pm | Comparative Futurisms: Afro-Asian Perspectives on the Future Cyrus Kabiru, Artist, Nairobi; Yang Beichen, Artist and Curator, Beijing; Himali Singh Soin, Artist, London/New Delhi; Malak Helmy, Visual Artist, Cairo Moderated by Lee Garakara, Mwimbi Fine Art, Hong Kong NOTES TO EDITORS About Art Basel Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world's premier