Exhibition
Oscar Chan Yik Long: ‘They always look from an imagined above’
Radvila Palace Museum, The Lithuanian National Museum of Art
VILNIUS
PF25 2025 Programme
Autumn/Winter 2025
Exhibition
VILNIUS
Oscar Chan Yik Long: They always look from an imagined above
Curated by Anders Kreuger
Vernissage: 27 November 2025, 18:00
Workshop & Guided Tour: 29 November
Exhibition until 15 March 2026
Radvila Palace Museum, The Lithuanian National Gallery of Art
24 Vilniaus st, LT-01402, Vilnius, Lithuania
At 6 pm Thursday, 27 November the Radvila Palace Museum of Art, the LNMA, opens an exhibition 'They Always Look from an Imagined Above' by the contemporary artist Oscar Chan Yik Long. In his project designed for Vilnius, the artist presents his recent and earlier work – paintings, drawings, sculpture, textile objects, and a temporary mural painted on a vault of the historic Radvila Palace.
“We are happy for the opportunity to present, in partnership with Finland and Switzerland, a rising figure of the international art scene. Anchored in his formative Chinese culture, Oscar Chan Yik Long explores the intersections of East Asian and Western religious beliefs and art traditions. He fills up the spaces of Ravila Palace with his phantasmagorical images, inviting to discover his art and through it to explore our own emotions,” Justina Augustytė, director of the Radvila Palace Museum of Art invites to see the exhibition.
Coordinator: Nojus Kiznis
Graphic Designer: Domantas Pigulevičius
Architect: Aleksandras Kavaliauskas
Translator: Paulius Balčytis
Organiser: The Radvila Palace Museum of Art
Partners: Kunsthalle Kohta, PF25 Cultural Projects
Sponsor: Finnish Cultural Foundation
Photos 2,4,5 & 6 by Gintarė Grigėnaitė / LNMA
Autumn 2025
Opening Exhibition and Performance
DORNACH
Crossbreeds, Cracks, Currents
Arnold Annen, Tashi Brauen, Violette Fassbaender and Phillip Schaerer
with an Ikebana Performance by Hedy Leung
Curated by Angelika Li
Vernissage
Saturday 18 October 2025
16:00-18:00
Performance 16:15-16:45
Finnissage
Saturday 6 December 2025
14:00-16:00
Burgstrasse 3, 4143 Dornach
Direction - Station Dornach-Arlesheim - Bus 66 Stop Ober-Erli
Registration upon arrival
Free entrance
Exhibition until 6 December 2025
Viewing by appointment only
via connect@PF25.org
Rolling into our eighth year
Angelika Li & Donald Mak
Co-founders, PF25 cultural projects
Founded at Pfeffergässlein 25 in Basel’s Old Town in January 2018, PF25 has grown from a local seed into a cross-current linking Hong Kong and Basel, reaching Zurich, Berlin, Murrhardt, Freiburg, Ishigaki, London, Helsinki, and Vilnius — now extending to Dornach. Our programming is interdisciplinary and community-centred, fostering multigenerational exchange between locals and internationals.
Since our Spring 2024 programme, beginning with the exhibition ‘Inner Alchemy’, our research has evolved toward ‘healing’ — as practice, process and well-being — a direction guided by the times we are living through. We have found a new space on the Dornach hillside that gives this path its conditions: rhythms of time, elemental exposure and a working landscape for small-scale fieldwork and collective making — all within reach of our Basel base. As always, we continue to explore and work across sites in different cities.
Situated where art, nature and reflection meet, the hillside invites new encounters: a meditative ground where material practice meets elemental forces. Warm thanks to the artists and collaborators whose energy and conversations continue to inspire. We invite you to take part — and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming programmes and events!
Click here for the Curator's Notes
Link to the opening performance video of 'Current Situation' by Hedy Leung
Summer 2025
Exhibition
BASEL
Window | Windows
Copa & Sordes + Violette Fassbaender + Arnold Annen
Curated by Angelika Li
Two windows of Atelier K3
Klingelbergstrasse 5, 4056 Basel
29 August - 28 September 2025
Daily from 11:00- 22:00
Presented by PF25 cultural projects
as part of the Kunsttage Basel Programme 29 - 31 August
About the exhibition
Over the past years, the four artists — Copa & Sordes, Violette Fassbaender, and Arnold Annen — as well as curator Angelika Li, have each spent periods working or presenting at ein fenster inmitten der welt (a window in the middle of the world) in Murrhardt, Germany, an art platform founded and run by Copa & Sordes. This shared, though time-separated, experience forms a subtle thread connecting their practices.
In response to the current global climate and the uncertainties that shape our time, they reunite in ‘Window | Windows’ — an exhibition presented across the two street-facing windows of Fassbaender and Annen’s Atelier K3 in Basel. This return to the windows of artist-run spaces signals not only a continuity of shared values, but also an ongoing exchange, as each artist’s work interacts with, balancing with and responding to one another, creating an ensemble that forms the installation.
The exhibition turns toward vulnerability, fragility, and perishability — not as signs of weakness, but as conditions that open space for reflection, tenderness, and the possibility of renewal. Through installations of video and ceramic works with meditative qualities, positioned at the porous boundary between inside and outside, visibility and intimacy, 'Window | Windows' invites a reconsideration of healing — not as a linear act of restoration, but as a quiet process shaped by presence, sensitivity, and care.
Link to the Curator's Notes - available online on 29 August
Link to Press Enquiries
Image above: Courtesy of the Copa & Sordes, Violette Fassbaender & Arnold Annen
Exhibition & Residency
BASEL
as part of the Art Basel VIP Program
Oscar Chan: To Sleep and Wake Unafraid
curated by Angelika Li
Preview
Friday, 13 June 2025 from 17:00 - 20:00
Exhibition Viewing Request Link
Viewing by appointment only until 22 June
Kindly note that your request is not confirmed until you receive a confirmation message from us
Location
Enter Nadelberg 33 into Pfeffergässlein 25, 4051 Basel
Essay 'To Sleep and Wake Unafraid' by Angelika Li
The Asia Pivot, Artnet Pro 4 June 2025
Gerhard Mack's review 'Inside the brain and the stomach', published on Artomity 13 August 2025
Video documentation by Michael Du
Photo documentation by Julian Salinas
Conversations, Art Basel
BASEL
Hong Kong, Basel, and the architecture of cultural exchange
In partnership with Hong Kong Tourism Board
Betty Ng, Founder and Director, COLLECTIVE, Hong Kong
Angelika Li, Cofounder and Director, PF25 cultural projects, Basel
Moderator: Angelle Siyang-Le, Director, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Thursday, 19 June 17:30
Auditorium, Hall 1, ground floor, 10 Messeplatz, Basel
Video and photos: Courtesy of Art Basel
Book Launch & Conversation
BASEL
My Body Is A Reincarnated Population
An artist book by Oscar Chan Yik Long
Published by Bored Wolves
Basel launch and artist conversation with Angelika Li (Co-founder and Director, PF25 cultural projects)
Thursday 22 May, 18:30–20:00
DOMUSHAUS EG, Pfluggässlein 3, Basel
18:30 Doors Open, installation by Oscar Chan Yik Long on view
18:45-19:30 Conversation
19:30-20:00 Q&A + more chats!
Conversation in English. Free admission.
The event will take place at DOMUSHAUS EG, Basel, on Thursday, 22 May 2025 at 18:30, featuring a conversation between the artist and Angelika Li, Co-founder and Director of PF25 cultural projects and curator of his first solo exhibition in Switzerland, 'To Sleep and Wake Unafraid', which opens at PF25 on Friday, 13 June. The discussion will reflect on Oscar’s artistic practice, the journey of the book project, and the conceptual process behind his upcoming solo. Together with the artist, new concepts for a cycle of ink paintings and installations are being developed to transform the PF25 space, continuing the lines of thought and emotional undercurrents traced in the book. As a prelude, Oscar’s earlier painting cycle, 'A Horror to the Eyes of All Men Seeking Faith' (2022)—a previous collaboration with Angelika—will be presented for the first time in Switzerland.
About the book
Heart. Compass, radar detector. Lost and anxious. Parents divorce. Respect the rhythm. Fallen angels, now my stomach is all butterflies.
In his artist’s book 'My Body Is a Reincarnated Population', Helsinki-based, Hong Kong-born artist Oscar CHAN Yik Long gives form to a pantheon of reincarnated souls embedded within him. Through ink paintings and distilled capsule texts, he maps a deeply personal cosmology of memory, trauma, and reconciliation.
His creative process was guided by the roll of a die, used to forge connections between individuals from past lives—parents, siblings, ancestors, friends, enemies, lovers—and parts of his present body. Who formed his throat? Who grew into his tongue? Who paired as lungs? Who became skin, muscle, bone, or blood?
At its heart, the book is a gesture of spiritual atonement, an effort toward physiological harmony for a body burdened by affliction:
'Through my artwork, I wanted to let the people within me know that, regardless of the tragedies or conflicts that divided us in the past, I have come to terms with everything that happened between us. I sincerely apologise, I express gratitude, I forgive and send love.'
