Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

Richard Koh Fine Art is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, presenting a curated selection of works by artists whose practices span painting, installation, textile assemblage, and mixed media. Bringing together voices from Southeast Asia and its diasporas, the booth foregrounds artistic practices shaped by memory, perception, spirituality, and socio-political experience.

The presentation features works by Bao Vuong, Hoang Duong Cam, Htein Lin, Justin Lim, Natee Utarit, Oca Villamiel, Samuel Xun, and Yeoh Choo Kuan.

This year, the gallery’s presentation extends beyond the booth with the inclusion of Yeoh Choo Kuan’s Streaming Mountain (2018) in the fair’s Encounters sector — the curated platform dedicated to large-scale installations, sculptures, and performances. The 2026 edition of Encounters is shaped by a curatorial vision inspired by the Five Elements of Asian cosmology.

Together, the booth reflects Richard Koh Fine Art’s continued commitment to supporting artists whose practices are grounded in personal histories while engaging critically with broader cultural, political, and philosophical questions within contemporary art discourse.

Born in Vietnam in 1978 and raised in France after fleeing the country as an infant, Bao Vuong (b. 1978, Vietnam) presents works from The Crossing, a monochromatic painting series shaped by displacement and remembrance. Working across painting, installation, and performance, Bao reconstructs buried memories through restrained materiality and subtle contrasts of light and darkness, positioning hope within spaces marked by historical trauma and introspection.

Hoang Duong Cam (b. 1974, Vietnam) works across painting, photography, video, installation, and performance. Drawing from references ranging from philosophy and art history to science, his fragmented narratives explore the complex mechanisms connecting the self to its surroundings, embracing ambiguity and contradiction as inherent conditions of human perception.

Htein Lin (b. 1966, Myanmar) presents textile-based works that merge painting with personal, political, and spiritual reflection. Informed by lived experience and Buddhist philosophy, his practice engages themes of suffering, endurance, and impermanence, reflecting both individual resilience and collective histories.

Justin Lim (b. 1983, Malaysia) presents paintings that examine outdoor and semi-private spaces situated between the domestic and the public. Rooted in observation and lived urban experience, his practice sustains a long-term enquiry into painting as a contemplative and spatial medium.

A central component of the booth is a group of new and recent paintings by Natee Utarit (b. 1970, Thailand), whose practice rigorously examines painting through its relationship to photography, light, and perspective. Drawing on the conventions of classical Western art and still life, his compositions employ metaphor to reflect on social and political realities.

Oca Villamiel (b. 1953, Philippines) presents installation and object-based works constructed from found materials sourced from urban and rural environments. His materially layered structures reflect on labour, accumulation, and collective memory, transforming everyday remnants into charged spatial compositions.

Samuel Xun (b. 1994, Singapore) presents textile assemblages that explore identity, self-therapy, and introspection. Through labour-intensive processes and material sensitivity, his works foreground emotional reflection and the negotiation of selfhood within contemporary society.

Yeoh Choo Kuan (b. 1988, Malaysia) presents works at the gallery’s booth that traverse abstraction, painting, and installation, articulating tensions between spirituality, desire, violence, and the flesh. Through textured surfaces, structural interventions, and a pronounced material sensibility, his practice explores the interplay between construction and dissolution, restraint and release.

Extending these concerns into architectural scale, his monumental installation Streaming Mountain (2018) has been selected for the Encounters sector at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. Comprising a 20-metre monochromatic canvas cascading across a custom-engineered scaffolding structure, the work draws from the visual language of traditional Chinese shan shui painting while rooted in abstraction, reimagining landscape as a metaphysical terrain shaped by duality and flux.