WEEKLY Dose of Art

Every March, the art world collectively loses its mind and flies to Hong Kong.

Not because they love the dim sum 😂

Its for ART.

The best galleries in the world bring their best stuff and thousands of people fly in just to see it.

Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 ran from March 27 to 29, 2026. And in case you missed it…

We picked the 5 that were actually worth the hype this year.

Artist spotlight of the week

So here's something I genuinely had no idea was possible.

He has zero control over how it looks. That's the point.

The result is these incredible textured abstract works, ridges, blobs, drips, that look almost alive. Like the painting is growing out of the fabric.

He's one of the founders of Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome movement, which is basically Korea's answer to Abstract Expressionism. Three different galleries brought his work to Hong Kong this year just to flex on everyone. 

This one genuinely messes with your brain.

When you walk up to it, it looks like fresh clay. Soft, damp, just pulled off the wheel five minutes ago. You would want to poke it.

It's bronze. Painted in multiple layers to look exactly like unfired, still-wet clay.

The weird part is everything in his work looks abandoned. Like someone was mid-process and just walked out. Left it there and never came back.

This year, Art Basel Hong Kong launched Zero 10, a brand new sector dedicated entirely to digital art and named after Malevich's 1915 show

if self-optimization is what success demands of us right now, will there be any self left by the time the algorithm is done with us?

Her piece sold on day one. Of course it did.

High in the mountains of Taiwan, there’s an old story from the Atayal people.

It talks about a place called Temahahoi, a hidden village of only women. They lived without men, talked to bees, survived on smoke and steam, and had children through the wind.

No one knows if this place was ever real.
But Ciwas Tahos has been trying to find it.

She grew up in Taipei. Her mother is Indigenous, but that part of her identity wasn’t disclosed. Her parents had moved to the city just to get by.

Later, she moved to Canada. She came out as queer and started feeling lost, and began asking, where do I come from?

Art Basel Hong Kong was her international art fair debut.

If a collector wants to buy it, they must choose one side.
The moment they choose, Kongkee destroys the other side, right there, in front of everyone.

So the act of buying becomes part of the artwork.

Kongkee often mixes futuristic, cyberpunk style with old Chinese myths.
This piece is inspired by the Taotie, a creature that is basically just a mouth, always hungry, never satisfied.

The idea is simple:

• The art world is always chasing money

• When something gets a price, something else is lost

• And sometimes, the system destroys what it doesn’t choose

People who saw it happen live didn’t forget it.

This Week in Art