Angelika is committed to engaging with the essence of local culture, heritage and valued stories, and driving a continuous dialogue between local and international communities. In 2018, she co-founded with Donald Mak PF25 cultural projects, a non-profit organisation which aims to build mutual understanding, to develop an intercultural network and to generate creative energies between Basel and Hong Kong.

 

Angelika is the founder and curator of the exhibition series 'Homeland in Transit' (Basel 2019-2022; Berlin 2020-2021; Murrhardt 2021; Zollikon 2022; Hong Kong, Ishigaki, Zurich, Basel, Freiburg 2023) channelling narratives and imaginations of ‘homeland’ from Hong Kong perspectives: boundaries, roots, diaspora, cultural identity, colonial ideologies, displacement and interweaving them with experiences and voices from other parts of the world. Her other curatorial projects include 'Dorothee Sauter: Geology, Cooking Hearts and other stories' (Basel, 2021); 'Hong Kong Video Talks' (Museumsnacht, Münchenstein, 2022); 'Difference / Indifference' by Isaac Chong Wai commissioned by Kunsttage Basel (Basler Münster, 2022) and the public programme for ‘Brice Marden: Inner Space’ (Kunstmuseum Basel, 2022).

Angelika was engaged as an expert for Asia Society Switzerland’s ‘Generation Asia’ programme and was invited as a speaker in the Hong Kong Cultural Leadership Summit, The International Symposium of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum and for institutions including Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany, University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Before moving to Switzerland in 2017, she was the founding director of MILL6 Foundation (now Centre for Heritage, Art and Textile) 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 Cheung 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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