ART BASEL HONG KONG 2026

Galleries Booth 1D34
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Preview | 25-26 March, 2026
Open to Public | 27-29 March, 2026

 Sponsor | Ministry of Culture, Taiwan | 1 Plus 4 - T-Content Plan

Mind Set Art Center is honored to present the group exhibition The Quotidian Epic at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.The exhibition brings together ten artists from Asia and Europe: Marina CRUZ, Rui Miguel LEITÃO FERREIRA, Shinji OHMAKI, Dani GHERCĂ, Rao FU, Bogdan VLĂDUȚĂ, SHI Jin-Hua, Nona GARCIA, LEE Ming-tse, and TANG Jo-Hung. Rather than foregrounding heroic narratives or a singular perspective, the exhibition situates diverse artistic practices within a shared structural framework, fostering a collective reflection on memory, history, and belief through the intersection of everyday experience. In an era marked by instability, rupture, and accelerated change, The Quotidian Epic approaches daily life as a critical lens for understanding the contemporary condition. Small gestures, repetitive actions, intimate memories, and familiar spaces are no longer treated as mere background, but as sites that carry emotional, cultural, and historical weight. The exhibition examines how personal experience, over time, becomes intertwined with broader social structures and spiritual lineages.
In a world marked by ongoing instability, fragmentation, and accelerated change, The Quotidian Epic approaches daily life as a critical lens through which larger questions of memory, history, and belief may be reconsidered. Ordinary actions, intimate recollections, domestic spaces, and local environments are treated not as peripheral details, but as sites where personal experience and collective narratives quietly intersect. Within these modest gestures and fragments of lived reality, the exhibition traces how meaning is accumulated, transmitted, and negotiated over time.
Conceived as a mirror that blends reality and fiction, the exhibition reflects contemporary life while opening onto deeper historical and philosophical horizons. Across painting, photography, sculpture, video, performance, and mixed media, the participating artists navigate between representation and abstraction, documentation and imagination. Their works move fluidly between objective observation and subjective interpretation, addressing themes such as familial memory, urban transformation, ritualized labor, cultural inheritance, and spiritual faith.
Several works foreground duration, repetition, and accumulation, allowing time itself to function as a structuring force. Elsewhere, fragmented compositions and layered surfaces mirror the instability of perception, oscillating between disintegration and coherence. What initially appears incidental or chaotic gradually reveals underlying rhythms, spatial orders, or symbolic frameworks through sustained attention. Landscape, both physical and psychological, emerges as a record of human presence shaped by labor, memory, and belief, rather than as a static backdrop.
Throughout The Quotidian Epic, spiritual and mythic dimensions surface less as fixed doctrines than as lived practices embedded within everyday routines. Folk belief, religious symbolism, and cultural archetypes coexist with contemporary visual languages, suggesting that faith persists through acts of care, endurance, and vulnerability. In this sense, belief is presented as something continually renegotiated within ordinary life.
Together, the works of the ten artists form a polyphonic field in which distinct geographies and visual languages resonate without collapsing into a single narrative. By amplifying the epic potential of the everyday, The Quotidian Epic invites viewers at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 to reconsider how personal memories, local histories, and small-scale actions quietly shape collective experience and our shared future.

Kabinett Sector | Buen CALUBAYAN: When Breathing Becomes Work
In the Kabinett sector at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Mind Set Art Center will present a solo project by Filipino artist Buen CALUBAYAN, titled When Breathing Becomes Work. This long-term body of work centers on processes of maintenance and repair, and includes paintings, wall diagrams, and works on paper.
Beginning with the immune system, the project considers the body and environment as interdependent fields. Through the rhythms of heat, oxygen, labor, and rest, it examines how life is sustained and distributed across different scales. Breathing, fever, and fatigue are understood not only as physiological responses, but as ongoing forms of bodily labor necessary for survival.
Drawing on the concept of autoimmunity, the work further asks how survival is redefined when care turns into control and protective mechanisms begin to target the self. Through diagrams, painting, and the articulation of embodied perception, the project presents survival as a continuous process of negotiation, adjustment, and repair.