ON HEALING
LONDON - DORNACH - BASEL - HELSINKI
Spring 2026
Exhibition, Performance, Conversations
LONDON
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.
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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SATURDAY 2 MAY 2026 PROGRAMME
1:45 PM
Meet at Strand Building Lobby to start the Day Programme.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oscar Chan Yik Long - Installation and Talk at Anatomy Museum, KCL
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.
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Hedy Leung - Ikebana Performance and Converstaion with Dr. Wing-Fai Leung at the College Chapel, KCL
A performance centring 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 from KCL will take place after the performance.
4:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Kit Hung - Singing Bowl Sound Bath + Meditation and Exchange with Prof. Victor Fan at Somerset Room, 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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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
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS (IN APPEARANCE ORDER)
Session I
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.
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.
Session II
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Session III
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki - 14 October - 15 November
Exhibition
Dorothee Sauter: Walking the Unknown
