Summer 2025 Exhibition
Window | Windows: Copa & Sordes + Violette Fassbaender & Arnold Annen
BASEL, as part of Kunsttage Basel 2025
PF25 2025 Programme
Summer 2025
Exhibition
BASEL
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Window | Windows
Copa & Sordes + Violette Fassbaender + Arnold Annen
Curated by Angelika Li
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Link to the Curator's Notes - available online on 29 August
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Link to Press Enquiries​
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Image above: Courtesy of the Copa & Sordes, Violette Fassbaender & Arnold Annen
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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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Gerhard Mack's review 'Inside the brain and the stomach', published on Artomity 13 August 2025
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​Video documentation by Michael Du
Photo documentation by Julian Salinas
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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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Video and photos: Courtesy of Art Basel
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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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