Perrotin returns to Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with a presentation that brings together established figures and emerging voices across painting, sculpture, and installation. The gallery is pleased to announce its representation of Mehdi Ghadyanloo in Asia. At Art Basel Hong Kong, he is featured in a dedicated solo corner with new works. Another solo corner presents an immersive installation by Lauren Tsai, marking her first collaboration with the gallery. Additionally, Steph Huang has been selected for the fair's Encounters sector with her installation Grafting. In the Encounters sector at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Steph Huang presents Grafting, which revisits Susan's childhood memories of tatami mats and make-believe adventures in a wooden house; combining images, sculptures, and found objects to explore how cultural forms are transplanted and reassembled. Echoing the washitsu—adapted in Taiwan with a hard wooden floor—the work features shoji screens, handmade mango plants symbolizing the layered tastes of colonization, and rods with hanging glass bubbles that intertwine reality and illusion, forming a "room" where alienation is both constructed and dismantled.

ABOUT ARTISTS : Kelly Beeman,Genesis Belanger,Jason Boyd Kinsella,Maurizio Cattelan,Lynn Chadwick,Chang Ya Chin,Julian Charrière,Chen Fei,Kwang Young Chun,Jean-Philippe Delhomme,Mathilde Denize,Bernard Frize,Rao Fu,Sky Glabush,Nick Goss,Laurent Grasso,Vivian Greven,Thilo Heinzmann,Gregor Hildebrandt,JR,Susumu Kamijo,Izumi Kato,Hun Kyu Kim,Koak,Klara Kristalova,Makiko Kudo,Emi Kuraya,Lee Bae,Nikki Maloof,Georges Mathieu,Shintaro Miyake,Mr.,Mr. X Takashi Murakami,Ryan Mrozowski,Takashi Murakami,Tomoko Nagai,ob,Danielle Orchard,Otani Workshop,Jean-Michel Othoniel,Qi Zhuo,Mark Ryden,Sigrid Sandström,Marty Schnapf,Shim Moon-Seup,Emily Mae Smith,Josh Sperling,Claire Tabouret,AYA TAKANO,Maria Taniguchi,Aryo Toh Djojo,Pieter Vermeersch,Wang Fanseng,Xie Qi,Mehdi Ghadyanloo,Lauren Tsai,Steph Huang

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Mehdi Ghadyanloo, newly represented by Perrotin for Asia, brings a solo presentation featuring hyperrealistic playground scenes. Ghadyanloo’s brightly colored labyrinths of slides, ladders, and rocking horses, staged within empty, box-like interiors lit from above, evoke themes of lost childhood and displacement. Rendered in saturated color, with dramatic chiaroscuro and precise perspectival construction, these works transform familiar objects into enigmatic still lifes. Lauren Tsai (b. 1998, Massachusetts, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and time-based media. Her practice is shaped by the animated films of her childhood, centering on long-form narrative and world-building. Within imaginary liminal spaces, memory takes tangible form: emotions manifest as puppets and recurring characters, existing in environments shaped by psychological rather than narrative logic. Across her work, Tsai explores the persistence of ideas and the tension between remembering and forgetting. In 2025 she presented My Dream: Our Hill, an immersive installation for Landmark Hong Kong, followed by The Dying World, a solo exhibition at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles—an evolving project thus far realized as a short stop-motion film and a large-scale installation. Highlights include: Maurizio Cattelan presents ENVY, a polished brass panel impaled with an iron nail, and Window, a unique watercolor on paper from a series revisiting his iconic Comedian. Drawing freely from the real world of people and objects, Cattelan turns sharp humor and provo- cation against art, its institutions, and the social structures they inhabit. Cattelan is concurrently the subject of major institutional presentations, including Endless Sunday at Centre Pompidou-Metz and a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, opening in September 2026. Mr. and Takashi Murakami present three jointly produced paintings. Mr.'s figures—translated from his recent NFT series into acrylic on canvas—appear amid Murakami's flower fields, their wide-eyed vulnerability set against the flowers' relentless cheer. Mr.'s solo exhibition is currently on view at the Neiwei Arts Center in Kaohsiung through April 26. Also on view is Murakami's new FRP sculpture of a panda parent and cub—rendered in his signature rainbow palette and making its Hong Kong debut—a character that has recurred across his paintings, prints, and sculptures for over two decades. Other artists from the Kaikai Kiki collective continue the dialogue between fine art and popular culture: AYA TAKANO’s life keeps bursting forth peoples an animistic, Eden-like world where fluid figures and living forms coexist in a poetic vision of interconnected life; Emi Kuraya presents two oil paintings of young women at the edge of adulthood, her muted palettes attuned to the textures of uncertainty and self-discovery; ob brings two works in which figures hover between waking and dreaming, her characteristic haze suffusing the boundary between the physical and the imagined; and Otani Workshop presents Crying Tanilla—capturing the artist’s signature monster mid-cry, its raw expression both comic and unsettling—ahead of a forthcoming solo exhibition at Perrotin Paris in June 2026. Emily Mae Smith presents a new painting Drained (Golden Age). Her signature anthropomorphic broomstick figure—simultaneously painter's brush, household implement, and phallus—slips between art-historical guises to probe questions of gender, labour, and power. Meanwhile, Claire Tabouret’s Makeup (green and orange) (2016) treats makeup as both paint and disguise, using the face as a surface where painting and masking overlap. A new painting by Danielle Orchard, titled Seamstress, continues her sustained inquiry into female physicality, filtering modernist precedents—Picasso, Matisse, Balthus—through her own fragmented figuration. Her solo exhibition Borrowed Chord is currently on view at Perrotin Paris through April 18. Vivian Greven’s new painting )( XXI features the “kiss,” a recurring, iconic motif in her work that transforms an originally intimate scene into abstraction. In her practice, body imagery shaped by art history and contemporary digital culture becomes a site where intimacy, distance, and identity are continually redefined. Lee Bae presents two new charcoal ink on paper works from his ongoing Brushstroke series, extending his decades-lvong exploration of charcoal as both material and subject—transforming the residue of burned wood into gestural abstractions; alongside a bronze sculpture that carries these forms into three dimensions. The presentation precedes his upcoming solo exhibition at the He Art Museum in Shunde, Foshan, opening in July 2026. Makiko Kudo, in her first collaboration with the gallery, brings a new painting, Sunlight on the Soles of My Feet. Kudo sets figures, animals, and plants in pastoral landscapes or sunlit interiors, distilling everyday life and childhood memory into vivid, dreamlike vignettes. A solo exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles follows in June 2026. Rao Fu presents two new paintings. Beijing-born and Dresden-trained, Fu draws on Chinese landscape tradition and calligraphy as much as Saxon Neo-Expressionism, fusing spectral figures and saturated color into charged, dreamlike tableaux. Fu's solo exhibition at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing opens on March 20 and runs through June 21. Wang Fanseng presents Dance of Ganesha, concurrent with his first solo exhibition with the gallery, New World, at Perrotin Shanghai, on view through May 23, 2026. Spanning over a decade of practice, Wang's paintings embed unclassifiable forms that hover between landscape, organism, and mineral within the traditions of Chinese shanshui (landscape) and zhiguai (tales of the strange), building self-contained worlds where color, proportion, and spatial interval replace narrative and symbolism as conditions of existence. Steph Huang, based in London, focuses her artistic practice on cultural transplantation and hybridization. She interrogates the cross-cultural narratives of everyday objects, investigating the construction of identity amid cultural amalgamation through the reconfiguration of materials.

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