ON HEALING
LONDON - HELSINKI - DORNACH - BASEL
Summer 2026
Exhibition
DORNACH
ON HEALING : Kimsooja | Ellen Pau
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Vernissage: Sunday 14 June 16:00-19:00
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Sunset Gatherings:
Thursday 18 June 2026 6-8PM
Saturday 20 June 2026 5-8PM
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Part of Art Basel VIP Programme
RSVP essential for the vernissage and events
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PF25 cutlural project - Dornach Atelier
Burgstrasse 3, 4143 Dornach​
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PF25 cultural projects is honoured to present recent works by two internationally acclaimed artists Kimsooja and Ellen Pau at its new outpost in Dornach, presented as part of ‘ON HEALING’, an ongoing series curated by Angelika Li.
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In this exhibition, audiences encounter the psychological dimension of gesture and embodied language in Kimsooja’s photographic series ‘Deductive Language’ (2025), alongside PF25's 2023 resident artist Ellen Pau’s new video installation 'Luminosity' (2026), unfolding as a meditation on light, temporality, and transnational consciousness. Together, the works create a space for reflection, care, and attentive presence amidst shifting cultural and geopolitical realities, tracing how creative practices respond to trauma, memory, and recovery within the complexities of contemporary life. Approaching healing as both a personal and collective process, the exhibition positions reflection and spiritual resonance as acts of sociocultural connection and transformation.
On the occasion of the opening week, visitors can interact with 'Adagio in Celadon' (2026) — a participatory outdoor installation by Michael Hoi Ming Du and Hedy Leung that constructs a temporary ecology of receiving through sound, body, and organic material developed between Ikebana and sound practices. Rather than defining healing as outcome or narrative, the installation proposes an environment in which the body can experiment with gravity, rest, and surrender. This work will be on view until 21 June.
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The 'ON HEALING' journey began earlier this year in a collaboration with King's College London, followed by an event at Kunsthalle Kohta in Helsinki, and now continues at PF25 cultural projects’ Dornach Atelier, set within an anthroposophical house on the hills of Dornach, in the vicinity of the Goetheanum, the Dorneck Ruins and the Ermitage — just a 15-minute drive from Basel and approximately 25 minutes from Basel SBB railway station.
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By Public Transport
Train S3 or Tram 10 to ‘Dornach-Arlesheim’ → Bus 66 to ‘Ober-Erli’ → 2 min walk
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Parking
Street parking is available on Burgstrasse; please observe local signage
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Arrival
Please check-in upon arrival.
Kindly note that the indoor exhibition is a shoe-free zone.
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Exhibition runs until 30 August. Viewing is by appointment only via connect@PF25.org.
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Further details and updates will be available from early June on our website.
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Images above:
1. Kimsooja, 'Deductive Language', 2024-2025, Artist’s hand photos, archival pigment print, set of 6 prints, each 41.8 x 41.8 cm. Courtesy of Studio Kimsooja.
2. Ellen Pau, 'Luminosity', 2026. Video still. Size variable. Courtesy of the artist.​​​​​
Summer 2026
Outdoor Participatory Installation
DORNACH
Adagio in Celadon
Michael Hoi Ming Du and Hedy Leung
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Vernissage: Sunday 14 June 16:00-19:00
Sunset Gatherings:
Thursday 18 June 2026 6-8PM
Saturday 20 June 2026 5-8PM
RSVP essential for the vernissage and events
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PF25 cutlural project - Dornach Atelier: Burgstrasse 3, 4143 Dornach
This work will be on view until 21 June
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About the installation
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'Adagio in Celadon' (2026) — a participatory outdoor installation by Michael Hoi Ming Du and Hedy Leung that constructs a temporary ecology of receiving through sound, body, and organic material developed between Ikebana and sound practices. Rather than defining healing as outcome or narrative, the installation proposes an environment in which the body can experiment with gravity, rest, and surrender.
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This work approaches healing as an inquiry rather than a prescription. It offers a space in which the body may attempt something: to be heavy, to fall, to be received. Emerging from a reflection on trust and bodily surrender, the installation draws on the experience of growing up in a place where snow never came, where the sensation of surrendering one’s weight to a soft, receiving ground existed only as a mediated image.
Encountering snow later in life as a sound-absorbing and perception-altering surface became a formative experience. In such environments, movement becomes audible and the body registers its weight differently. Does sensory perception become heightened? How might such a condition be constructed through local materials?
The installation proposes a transposition from snow to leaves: from cold, solitary, and mediated experience to a warm, collective, and seasonal material field. It draws on the idea that the ground is not inert but receptive; to lie down is not passive, but an exchange between body and surface.
Extending principles of Ikebana into spatial and bodily composition, the installation operates through relational placement: leaves, bodies, sound, and space form a shifting environment activated through collective presence. The public becomes participant and co-composer of the work.
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Image: Hexadagio (2026), collage by Hedy Leung
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Spring 2026
Lecture
HELSINKI
​Angelika Li
ON HEALING: artistic practices, collective experience
12.5.2026 · 18:00​​
Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki
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Angelika Li is co-founder of PF25 cultural projects, a platform cultivating exchange through site-specific, community-rooted collaborations bridging Hong Kong, Basel, and beyond.
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Her curatorial research on diaspora, identities, displacement, and their transformative potentials is integral to the ongoing project ‘Homeland in Transit’, which she initiated in 2019 and has developed across exhibitions in multiple international contexts. Over time, a deeper thread has surfaced: the need not only to understand these conditions, but to repair, recalibrate, and reconnect.
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This lecture introduces ‘ON HEALING’, PF25’s current focus programme. Responding to growing experiences of anxiety, disorientation, and emotional strain in contemporary life, it asks how we sustain balance without losing ourselves. Unfolding through a diverse spectrum of practices and expressions, ‘ON HEALING’ approaches healing not as resolution, but as an ongoing, shared process shaped through a diversity of artistic and embodied practices, reflection, and collective experience.​
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Spring 2026
Exhibition, Performance, Conversations
LONDON
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PF25 cultural projects x Department of Film Studies, King’s College London
ON HEALING: London Chapter
With the notion and process of healing at the heart of our programme — first articulated through ‘Inner Alchemy’ in 2024 and continued in ‘To Sleep and Wake Unafraid’ and ‘Crossbreeds, Cracks, Current’ in 2025 — PF25 launches in 2026 a series titled ‘On Healing’, unfolding through performance, moving image and visual arts. The series traces how creative practices respond to trauma, memory and recovery amid the challenging conditions of our contemporary world, creating a space where artistic practice, lived experiences, workshops and attentive exchange converge, bringing together artists, scholars, students, cultural workers and diverse publics across multiple cities.
In partnership with the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London (KCL), and Prof. Victor Fan, the inaugural chapter of ‘On Healing’ takes place on 2 May as a one-day programme across KCL’s Anatomy Museum, the College Chapel, and the Somerset Room. Conceived as an immersive experience, the programme brings together conversations, an Ikebana performance, and a singing bowl sound bath and meditation, shaped through the practices of Hong Kong artists in diaspora — Oscar Chan Yik Long, Hedy Leung, and Kit Hung. The programme also includes a special screening of short videos by Luke Ching, developed during his PF25 residency in Basel, presented for the first time in the United Kingdom.
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Prof. Victor Fan, Dr. Wing-Fai Leung and Angelika Li join the artists in conversation across the programme. Together, these moments engage healing as both a personal and collective process — an articulation of reflection, resonance, and sociocultural connection and renewal.
The programme is organised by PF25 cultural projects in collaboration with the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London (KCL), and curated by Angelika Li as part of the 2026 milestone of the ongoing curatorial platform ‘Homeland in Transit’, initiated in 2019. Further site-specific projects are planned in Dornach, Basel, and Helsinki.
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TICKETING LINK
SATURDAY 2 MAY 2026 PROGRAMME
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1:45 PM
Meet at Strand Building Lobby to start the Day Programme.
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Please note that the last admission for the programme will be 5PM.
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SESSION 1
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oscar Chan Yik Long - Installation and Talk with Angelika Li, Co-founder and Director, PF25 cultural projects
Anatomy Museum, KCL
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The artist shares reflections on his healing process and his journey of confronting ‘Fear’, transforming its energy within his artistic practice, with his installation ‘To Sleep and Wake Unafraid’ (2025) on view, and in conversation with Angelika Li.
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SESSION 2
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Hedy Leung - Ikebana Performance and Conversation with Dr. Wing-Fai Leung
College Chapel, KCL
‘Choreographic Honey, Once Veiled in Time’ (2026), a performance centering on an Ikebana choreography inspired by the waggle dance of bee colonies, the work reflects on communication, interdependence and regeneration. Reclaimed clay vessels by Rescued Clay ground the performance in material renewal. Together, gesture and matter embody healing as it unfolds across material, communal and spiritual life.
A conversation with Dr. Wing-Fai Leung, Reader in Cultural and Media Industries and Pro-Vice Dean (Research Culture) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at KCL will take place after the performance.
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SESSION 3
4:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Kit Hung - Singing Bowl Sound Bath + Meditation and Exchange with Prof. Victor Fan
Anatomy Museum, KCL
‘Healing Resonance’ led by the London-based Hong Kong film director and artist, featuring singing bowl soundbath with a guided meditation, followed by an exchange between the artist and Prof. Victor Fan.
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Session 3 is best experienced with no more than 30 participants. Places will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. As this is a floor-based session, the artist requests that participants bring a yoga mat or two towels. To stay hydrated, kindly bring your water bottle.
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SPECIAL SESSION
6:45 PM - 7:30 PM
Luke Ching - Short Videos Screening and Participant Exchange Session
Nash Lecture Theatre, KCL
Drawing from 'On the Ground', an exhibition developed during Hong Kong artist Luke Ching’s PF25 residency in Basel (2023), the works consider language, folk arts, and urban weeds, as threads that connect us to a place—whether one’s hometown or a city still in the process of becoming familiar. Curator Angelika Li will present a selection of short videos by the artist from this exhibition.
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This special session invites participants, artists, and contributors to reflect on their sense of place and the relationships formed with both immediate and unfamiliar environments, while holding space for collective reflection on the day’s programme.
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Press Enquiries: connect@PF25.org
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Poster Design: D Mak
Scroll down to learn more about the artists and speakers.
IImage 1: Oscar Chan Yik Long. Photo: Gintarė Grigenaite​
Image 2: Angelika Li, PF25 cultural projects. Photo: Maris Mezulis.
Image 3: Hedy Leung, ‘Current Situation’, 2025, PF25 Dornach Atelier opening performance ‘Crossbreeds, Cracks, Currents’. Ikebana performance, sound and olfactory installation, with found objects, local plants, and cables savaged from Hong Kong.
Image 4: Dr. Wing-fai Leung, King's College London
Image 5: Singing bowl group sound bath, led by Kit Hung, organised by ENHK. London, 2025.
Image 6: Prof. Victor Fan, King's College London
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS (IN APPEARANCE ORDER)
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Session I
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Oscar Chan Yik Long (born 1988) is a Hong Kong-born artist with an international practice centering on site-specific painting installations and drawing. Working primarily with ink, he creates immersive painted environments drawing on East Asian mythology, other esoteric traditions and various aspects of popular visual culture and art history. Rather than adhering to the conventions of traditional Chinese painting, Chan forges his own visual language and symbolic world. His choice of medium and subjects is deeply personal and rooted in intellectual inquiry and spiritual reflection.
In recent works, he explores the holistic relationship between body and mind in Chinese thought, particularly the connection between the internal organs and the fundamental emotions: fear, anger, anxiety, sadness and happiness.
Important solo and duo exhibitions: 'They always look from an imagined above' (Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius, 2026) ‘To Sleep and Wake Unafraid’ (PF25 Cultural Projects, Basel, 2025), ‘In the Darkness of Bones’ (St Chads, London, 2024), ‘Certain parties were not pleased’ (Cazul 101, Bucharest, 2023), ‘Don’t Leave the Dark Alone’ (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2021), ‘Soliquid’ (Things That Can Happen, Hong Kong, 2017) and ‘The Devil, Probably’ (Observation Society, Guangzhou, 2015).
The artist currently lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
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Angelika Li, a Hong Kong curator based in Basel, is dedicated to engaging with the essence of place and the connections formed through culture, heritage, and storytelling. As the co-founder of PF25 cultural projects, a Basel-based non-profit arts and cultural organisation bridging Hong Kong and Basel — and extending to other regions in Switzerland, Europe, and beyond — she actively fosters a continuous dialogue between international communities. Her research focus encompasses diaspora, identities, displacement, and the process of healing, integral to the ongoing exhibition series ‘Homeland in Transit’, presented in cities including Basel, Berlin, Hong Kong, Zurich, London, Ishigaki, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Helsinki.
Upcoming exhibitions in 2026 include Dorothee Sauter’s two-part solo, ‘Walking the Unknown’, at PF25 and her first solo presentation in Finland at Kunsthalle Kohta; ‘On Healing: London Chapter’ with Oscar Chan Yik-long, Hedy Leung, Kit Hung, and Victor Fan at King’s College London; and an exhibition ‘On Healing’ with Kimsooja and Ellen Pau at PF25 Dornach Atelier. Recent projects include commissions and programmes at Kunstmuseum Basel, Atelier Mondial, Kunttage Basel and the Radio X X_ARTS Festival, E-WERK Freiburg, and ein fenster in mitten der welt.
She is an active speaker invited by institutions such as the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Asia Society Switzerland, Art Basel, sinokultur, Kunstverein Freiburg, the University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Tübingen.
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Session II​
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Hedy Leung (born 1975) is a London-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the equilibrium between balance between humans and nature through found objects, plants, sound, and Sogetsu Ikebana. She is a member of the Sogetsu Teachers’ Association and Ikebana International (both Basel and London Chapters), and her works have been featured in cultural projects, exhibitions, and residencies across Europe and Asia.
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Hedy uses natural and found materials, including discarded objects, medicinal herbs, and community offerings. In her Ikebana pieces, every element carries memory, meaning, and transformation. Her work invites presence, mindfulness, and collective healing through the visual poetry of plants and space.
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Forthcoming projects include the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (May 2026) and Kunsthalle Kohta (August–October 2026). Her recent works have been presented at Japan House, Ikebana International London; The Rosslyn Hill Chapel Hampstead, Sogetsu London Branch; the Embassy of Japan in Switzerland; St Anne’s Church, Kew; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; PF25 cultural projects, Basel and Dornach; E-WERK Freiburg; Salon Mondial, Basel; Radio X Basel; Galerie Augusta at HIAP Helsinki; and Open Hand Open Space, Reading.
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Dr. Wing-Fai Leung is Reader in Cultural and Media Industries and Pro-Vice Dean (Research Culture) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s, she held academic and research positions at University College Cork (Ireland), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and the University of St Gallen (Switzerland). She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong (2019–2020) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2020).
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Her research focuses on East Asian film and media industries, digital entrepreneurship, cultural and creative labour, and the representation of East and Southeast Asians on screen. She serves on the executive committee of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) and sits on the editorial boards of Media Industry Studies, Creative Industries Journal, Communication, Culture and Critique, and Work, Organization, Labour & Globalisation.
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She is the author of three monographs, including Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema (2023), and her work has been widely published in leading journals in film, media, and cultural studies.
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Session III
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Kit Hung (born 1977) is an award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, educator, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, University of London. Based in London and Switzerland, his interdisciplinary practice spans film, socially engaged pedagogy, and sound-based facilitation.
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Through singing-bowl sound baths and guided meditative sessions, he creates spaces for deep rest, creative reflection, and collective care. Since 2019, Kit has led more than 200 hours of sound-based sessions internationally, including in Hong Kong, Thailand, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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Hung is the founder of the Secure Storyteller Network, a social initiative focused on holistic security for storytellers. The initiative has been recognised by the Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Programme and the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Entrepreneurs.
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Prof. Victor Fan is Professor of Film and Media Philosophy at the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London. He was Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University. Fan graduated with a Ph.D. from the Film Studies Program (now Film and Media Studies Program) and the Comparative Literature Department of Yale University, and an MFA in Film and Television Productions at the School of Cinema-Television (now School of Cinematic Arts), University of Southern California. He is the author of ‘Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory’ (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), ‘Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and ‘Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism’ (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
His articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals including ‘World Picture Journal’, ‘Camera Obscura’, ‘Journal of Chinese Cinemas’, ‘Screen’, ‘Film History: An International Journal’, ‘CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture’, the anthologies ‘A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’ and ‘American and Chinese-Language Cinemas’, and film magazines ‘24 Images: Cinéma’, ‘Dianying yishu [Film art]’, ‘Zihua [Zifaa or Fleurs des lettres]’, and ‘Siyi’.
His film ‘The Well’ was an official selection of the São Paolo International Film Festival; it was also screened at the Anthology Film Archives, the Japan Society, and the George Eastman House (now George Eastman Museum). Besides being a filmmaker and scholar, Fan is also a film festival consultant, composer, and theatre director.
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TICKETING LINK
Please note that Session 3 has a capacity of 30 participants.
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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ON HEALING
Programme Schedule 2026
King’s College London, UK — 2 May
A Day Programme of Conversations, Ikebana Performance and Singing Bowl Sound Bath
Oscar Chan Yik Long, Hedy Leung, and Kit Hung
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Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki - 12 May
PF25 Dornach Atelier, Swtizerland – 14 June - 30 August
Exhibition
Kimsooja | Ellen Pau: On Healing
PF25 Basel x Atelier K3, Switzerland — 27–30 August
Exhibition and Community Projects
Kunsttage 2026
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