Spring 2025 Exhibition & Residency
Oscar Chan: To Sleep and Wake Unafraid
BASEL PF25 project space
PF25 2025 Programme
Exhibition & Residency
BASEL
as part of the Art Basel VIP Program
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Oscar Chan: To Sleep and Wake Unafraid
​curated by Angelika Li
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Preview
Friday, 13 June 2025 from 17:00 - 20:00
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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
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Location
Enter Nadelberg 33 into Pfeffergässlein 25, 4051 Basel
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Essay 'To Sleep and Wake Unafraid' by Angelika Li
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The Asia Pivot, Artnet Pro 4 June 2025​
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Conversations, Art Basel
BASEL
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Hong Kong, Basel, and the architecture of cultural exchange
In partnership with Hong Kong Tourism Board
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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​​
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Book your seats on the Art Basel website here.
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Book Launch & Conversation
BASEL
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My Body Is A Reincarnated Population
An artist book by ​Oscar Chan Yik Long
Published by Bored Wolves
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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!
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Conversation in English. Free admission.
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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.
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About the book
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Heart. Compass, radar detector. Lost and anxious. Parents divorce. Respect the rhythm. Fallen angels, now my stomach is all butterflies.
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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.
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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?
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At its heart, the book is a gesture of spiritual atonement, an effort toward physiological harmony for a body burdened by affliction:
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'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.'
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