
PF25 cultural projects 2023 Programme
Residency, Community Projects & Exhibitions May - June in Basel

Introducing our resident artist in May & June
Bouie Choi
(b. 1987, Hong Kong, lives & works in Hong Kong)
Bouie Choi grew up in Hong Kong, surrounded by high-rise buildings that shape the city's urban landscape. Through her paintings, she weaves together fragments of memory and collected stories to depict the co-existence of the visible and invisible, light and darkness, and the real and surreal. Bouie uses the force of urban imagery and light to create a manifestation of infinite borrowed space and time, bridging the gap between tangibles and intangibles. Recently, she has focused on using wood to explore the definition of freedom, employing multi-perspective and layers of time to deepen her state of mind.
After receiving her MA at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2012, Choi started participating in community art and cross-media collaborations. Her unwavering commitment to painting is driven by a profound curiosity about how the environment and social values leave lasting impressions on individuals. Her works play with absurdity from different contexts, finding them carriers and bringing new meanings to texts, objects, and two-dimensional art. Choi also participates in community art programs and has formed an art collective with other Hong Kong artists named the "CHT. Art Project".
During Bouie's residency in Basel, we invite you to bring a postcard of your homeland to the community project on 31 May, where you can share your stories with us. This exchange will serve as part of the inspiration for Bouie's upcoming exhibition, entitled 'We stay up late to behold the beauty of the stars,' which opens in Basel on 13 June. Her exhibition seeks to capture the emotional resonance and complexity between the ‘interior and exterior’ worlds, the physical and metaphysical, and the multi-perspectives of ‘far and close’ oscillating between different times and dimensions.
Click here for the PF25 May & June Programme.

Programme
Stories Exchange Community Event
Bring a postcard and share your stories!
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Doors open: 18h
Sharing session by the artist: 19h
Venue: Nonnenweg 45, 4055 Basel
Register: celine@PF25.org
We stay up late to behold the beauty of the stars
a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi
as part of the Homeland in Transit exhibition series and PF25 cultural projects and residency
Time : Tuesday, 13 June 18 -21h
Venue: Pfeffergässlein 25, 4051 Basel, entrance at Nadelberg 33
RSVP: Celine Ngai celine@PF25.org
Viewing by appointment only until 30 June:
The above programme is supported by:
Hong Kong Arts Development Council,
Christoph Merian Stiftung,
mobani GmbH, and Achtsamkeit Basel
Event sponsor: Meow Kong
Programme curator : Angelika Li
Programme coordinator: Celine Ngai
artist portrait by South Ho
The programme is supported by



Random Diaries
Performance - Sogetsu Ikebana 202200080026
by Hedy Leung
Saturday, 10 June 19.00-19.30, kindly arrive by 18.45
St. Jakobstrasse 41, 8004 Zurich

installation photo: Tashi Brauen
PERFORMANCE: SOGETSU IKEBANA
Hedy Leung
202200080026
Event: Saturday, 10 June 19.00-19.30, kindly arrive by 18.45
Venue: St Jakobstrasse 41, 8004 Zurich
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Taking inspiration from other works in this exhibition and primarily based on her recent migration journey from Hong Kong to London, Hedy Leung has created a group of vessels entitled 202200080026 (2023), which embody diasporic sentiments. Adapted from the title format used in both her visual ikebana diary and personal journal, the artwork is aptly named as a record of her move from her homeland to a new destination.
The hand-built vessels are constructed - and protected - using packing materials including the sheer papers Hedy received from a logistics company as the first layer, while newsprint wrapping papers form the second layer. The final layer is strengthened with newspapers collected from an ikebana shop where she ordered materials from Japan. The artist then dyed the newspapers in the iconic colours of the Red-White-Blue bag to further imbue the artwork with the spirit of the journey. The packing materials are transformed into vessels of memories documenting her personal and emotional journeys.
In the Sogetsu Ikebana performance as part of the exhibition, Hedy interacts with the vessels and invites the audience to reflect on the essence of ikebana, which is to live in the moment. The vessels also serve as a reminder to cherish and appreciate the precious items and memories that we carry with us. Each layer of protection used in the construction of the vessels represents the care and importance given to those items that are most precious.
Excerpted from the curatorial essay Random Diaries 2019-2023 by Angelika Li
Random Diaries
a group exhibition of eight Hong Kong and Swiss artists
Zurich May - June

installation photo: Tashi Brauen
RANDOM DIARIES
Tashi Brauen
Oscar Chan Yik Long
Leung Chi Wo
Hedy Leung
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Andreas Marti
Angela Su
Wai Pong Yu
Curated by Angelika Li
Co-presented by Meow Kong and PF25 cultural projects
as part of the 'Homeland in Transit' exhibition series
Vernissage:
Saturday, 13 May 2023, 14-20h
Event:
Saturday, 10 June 2023, 18-21.30h
19-1930 Sogetsu Ikebana Performance by Hedy Leung
kindly arrive by 18.45
Event registration: celine@PF25.org
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Exhibition:
16 May - 18 June
Tue - Sat 11-19h
Two Sundays 11 & 18 June, 11-19h
Closed on public holidays
Venue:
Meow Kong
St Jakobstrasse 41, 8004 Zurich
Press Enquiries:
Click to Press Folder
About the project & this exhibition:
Click here for the 'Homeland in Transit' site
Click here for the curatorial essay

photo: Centrik Isler
Recent Activities
Sogetsu Ikebana Demonstration by Hedy Leung
Kirschblütenfest auf dem Vitra Campus
Sunday, 2 April 2023, 3.30pm
Tadao Ando Conference Pavilion, Vitra Design
Sogetsu Ikebana Spring Workshop by Hedy Leung
March

PF25's first meeting and event in Hong Kong at art space 1983 in Kam Tin
January



We wish you a healthy and energetic Year of the Rabbit! Stay tuned for our upcoming 2023 programme.

