With half of the participating galleries coming from Asia and Asia-Pacific, our show in Hong Kong not only provides a portal to the region's artists, but also offers galleries from around the world a platform for bringing their highest quality work to Asia. A 21st century metropolis, Hong Kong ranks among the world's most dynamic international capitals. During Art Basel, collaborations with local and international partners ensure a diverse range of arts programming, with hundreds of cultural events hosted across the city throughout the week.

A documentary film, produced and directed in collaboration with Dinh Q. Lê, explores the lives and work of artists who were sent into the battle zones during the Vietnamese/American War, to document the war effort from the side of the North Vietnamese. Through rare and intimate interviews with these remaining soldier-artists, the film explores the surreal lives and challenges of making art inside the chaos of war. This film, along with an installation of 102 original drawings by the artists, created by Dinh Q. Lê, was premiered at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in June 2012.

Born in 1968 in Hà Tiên, a Vietnamese town near the Cambodian border, Dinh Q. Lê immigrated with his family to the U.S. at the age of ten to escape the Khmer Rouge. After studying photography and media art, Lê attracted attention with his tapestries made by weaving together strips of photographs, a process inspired by traditional Vietnamese grass mat weaving. Dinh’s interest is to explore history from the stories of individuals who have undergone events whose facts have been overshadowed by “official” national and social histories.

Dinh Q. Lê is one of the most successful artists in Asia today. He participated in dOCUMENTA (2013), and was the first artist from Vietnam to be offered a solo show at the MoMA (NYC) in 2010. The MORI Museum in Tokyo held a retrospective for the artist from July-October 2015.