Gajah Gallery is delighted to announce its return to Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with Moving Lines: Cartographies of Southeast Asia, a presentation of 17 artists from across Southeast Asia. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the presentation brings together multiple generations of practice to reflect a region shaped by history, experimentation, and ongoing transformation.
Premiering at the fair are several bronze sculptures produced in collaboration with Yogya Art Lab (YAL), including Mark Justiniani’s Vault, Yunizar’s Teko II (Teapot II), Charlie Co’s The Time Walker, and Jemana Murti’s debut bronze Future Relic: Vakrasana. The showcase also features recent sculptures by Filipino National Artist Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera and Indonesian ceramist Dzikra Afifah. Singaporean artist Suzann Victor presents a series of aluminium sculptures engaging with the politicisation of the ordinary eggplant, building on her seminal work Still Life, currently on view at the National Gallery of Singapore.
At the heart of the booth lies a constellation of practices that reflect the region’s evolving cartographies. Artists such as Rodel Tapaya, Leslie de Chavez, Rudi Mantofani and Mangu Putra engage with national and historical memory through visual languages that traverse both the classical and the contemporary. The otherworldly figuration of I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih transforms the flat planes of traditional Balinese painting into bold, vibrant narratives that reclaim the female body as a site of agency and self‑expression.
The presentation continues with Uji ‘Hahan’ Handoko Eko Saputro, Rosit Mulyadi and Kayleigh Goh, whose works draw from pop-cultural, digital and architectural vocabularies to navigate the friction between tradition and speculative futures. Meanwhile, the painterly intensities of Erizal As and Ridho Rizki articulate distinct yet complementary investigations of form and perception — Erizal through gestural abstraction that channels emotional and material force, and Ridho through the optical play of perception and form.
In a significant milestone, Gajah Gallery presents Suzann Victor’s monumental kinetic installation City Lantern in a dedicated Encounters booth, the fair sector showcasing large-scale installations, sculptures, and performances. Supported by the National Arts Council of Singapore, the installation transforms the space into an immersive environment where audiences engage with histories of visibility and invisibility, colonial image-making and their undoing.
Positioned within the global context of Art Basel Hong Kong, Moving Lines proposes an expanded reading of Southeast Asia as a vital site of artistic experimentation and inquiry. The presentation unfurls like a conceptual monsoon: unpredictable, immersive, and charged with the complexity of what Southeast Asia was, is, and could become.
Gajah Gallery’s presentations can be experienced at Booth 1B39 and Booth EN12 at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. The fair will run from 27–29 March 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
