Angelika Li, a Hong Kong curator based in Basel, is dedicated to exploring the essence of places and the connections through culture, heritage, and stories. As the co-founder of PF25 cultural projects, a Kulturverein bridging Basel and Hong Kong, she actively fosters a continuous dialogue between international communities. Her research focus encompasses diaspora, identities, colonial ideologies and displacement, integral to the ongoing exhibition series 'Homeland in Transit'. The series was inaugurated in Basel in 2019 and has expanded to cities including Berlin, Freiburg, Murrhardt, Zurich, Zollikon and Ishigaki, reaching its 11th edition in 2024.

 

Other projects as a curator include Isaac Chong Wai’s performance ‘Difference/Indifference’ (2022) at the Basler Münster; the public programme for 'Brice Marden: Inner Space' at Kunstmuseum Basel (2022); Ellen Pau’s debut in Basel in ‘Speculative Generations of Flora Zero’ (2023); Dorothee Sauter's solo exhibitions 'Tumbling through time' (2024) and 'Geology, Cooking Heart, Curious and other stories’ (2021); Hedy’s Leung’s ‘Menhir Tapestry 1’ (2023) for Radio X X_ARTS Festival opening performance, and ikebana performance with a panel discussion ‘Ethno-Botanic Resonance’ (2024) in collaboration with Chelsea Physic Garden and London Metropolitan University.

 

Angelika is actively engaged as a speaker, receiving invitations from institutions such as Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Asia Society Switzerland, sinokultur, Kunstverein Freiburg, University of Hong Kong, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a BA in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Reading and an MA in Cultural Management from the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Notable among her curatorial projects in Hong Kong are The Mills Heritage Project 'Chim↑Pom – It’s the Wall World' (2015), the urban murals by VHILS on The Mills façade (2015), 'Tracing some places. Leung Chi Wo' (2015), and 'Social Fabric. New works by Kwan Sheung Chi and Mariana Hahn' in collaboration with David Elliott (2016).

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Before moving to Switzerland in 2017, she was the founding director of MILL6 Foundation in Hong Kong bringing it to ICOM museum status and achieving the Award for Arts Promotion by Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2016.  Angelika was on the public art advisory panel of Mass Transit Railway Hong Kong between 2013 and 2017. 

 

Previous curated projects in Hong Kong include The Mills Heritage Project 'Chim↑Pom - It's the Wall World' (2015), the public art by VHILS at The Mills (2015), ‘Tracing some places. Leung Chi Wo’ (2015); ‘Social Fabric. New works by Kwan Sheung Chi and Mariana Hahn’ in collaboration with David Elliott (2016), ‘Old Master Q: What The @#$% Is Going On? Original Works by Alphonso Wong’ (2014); ‘Beyond the Paper Screen - An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from The Uragami Collection’ (2013), ‘NEW INK: an exhibition of ink art by post 1970 artists from The Yiqingzhai Collection (2013)'. 

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