Women Artists at Art Basel HK 2026

Art Basel Hong Kong returned to the Convention and Exhibition Centre this March, and beneath the usual spectacle of blue-chip booths and opening night crowds, something more interesting was happening. Collectors were slowing down, spending longer in front of work, asking harder questions. The booths that seemed to hold them longest had something in common: a point of view rooted in place, tradition, and the female body as both subject and author.

G Gallery: Woo Hannah and Yang Juhae

*Woo Hannah, Yang Juhae. Courtesy of Art Basel.*

Two Korean women across generations, both thinking through cloth. Yang Juhae layers inherited fabrics with acrylic and a personal dotting system that reads like textile semiotics . Woo Hannah constructs wearable hybrid body forms from locally sourced fabric scraps. Together they make a quietly compelling case for textile art as serious conceptual practice.

Sun Gallery: Chungji Lee

Lee is one of the few women working within post-Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome movement that has dominated international attention for a decade. Her layered, scraped canvases reframe repetition as persistence, resistance even, within a tradition long dominated by men.

Sapar Contemporary: Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu and Aya Shalkar

*Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Aya Shalkar. Courtesy of Art Basel.*

The most geographically expansive booth at the fair. Shalkar mixes archaeology with speculative fiction to conjure female warriors from Kazakh and Islamic traditions. Dagvasambuu works in Mongol zurag, a classical painting tradition, fused with surrealism and Buddhist iconography. A region whose visual culture rarely reaches major art fairs, handled here with full seriousness.

Kabinett

*Janine Antoni, My waters rest. Courtesy of Rossi & Rossi and the artist.*

Antoni's My Waters Rest is the fair's strongest art history anchor. A landmark figure in feminist art, Antoni built her reputation using her own body as material and tool, from gnawing chocolate sculptures with her teeth to mopping gallery floors with her hair. Anything new from her repays attention.

Beijing Commune: Ma Qiusha

*Ma Qiusha, Archaeology of Creation. Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune.*

In Archaeology of Creation, Ma Qiusha excavates personal and cultural memory with an intimacy that feels closer to memoir than exhibition.

nächst St. Stephan: Jiyen Lee

*Jiyen Lee, Stain-Rainbow Forest. Courtesy of the artist and nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder.*

Lee's nature-meets-abstraction canvases were among the fair's most quietly arresting moments, the kind of work that doesn't announce itself and then stays with you on the flight home.

Ones to Watch

*Stephanie Temma Hier*
*Courtesy of Art Basel*

Five emerging women span the Discoveries sector: Stephanie Temma Hier at Bradley Ertaskiran, Roksana Pirouzmand at Spurs Gallery, Ako Goto at Vin Gallery, Tangting Li at YveYang, and Yaerim Ryu at P21. Each worth finding if you're willing to leave the main floor and go looking. In the digital sector, Sougwen Chung at Fellowship x Artxcode, alongside Laurie Simmons and Petra Cortright at SOLOS, and Emi Kusano at √K Contemporary are pushing image-making into generative territory, asking what authorship means when the tool thinks back.

Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, March 27 to 29.