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 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 processes of healing, forming the conceptual foundation of the ongoing exhibition series ‘Homeland in Transit’ (HiT).

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Inaugurated in Basel in 2019, the HiT series has since unfolded across twelve editions through to 2024, reaching cities including Berlin, Freiburg, Murrhardt, Hong Kong, Zurich, Ishigaki, and Helsinki. The current book project, scheduled to be launched in 2027, binds more than twelve chapters together as a space for reflection and continued conversation.

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Recent curatorial work includes Isaac Chong Wai’s performance 'Difference /Indifference' (2022) at the Basler Münster, commissioned by the Kunsttage Basel; the public programme for 'Brice Marden: Inner Space' at Kunstmuseum Basel (2022); Ellen Pau’s Basel debut 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); Radio X X_ARTS Festival opening performance by Hedy Leung’s 'Menhir Tapestry 1' (2023); and the ikebana performance and programme 'Ethno-Botanic Resonance' (2024) in collaboration with Chelsea Physic Garden and London Metropolitan University. As part of her residency at the Helsinki International Artist Programme, she curated 'Assemble: Hong Kong in Helsinki' presenting ten artistic positions from Hong Kong across performance, installation, and video at Galerie Augusta, Suomenlinna Island.

 

She is the curator of Oscar Chan Yik-long's first solo exhibition in Switzerland 'To Sleep and Wake Unafraid' (2025). Artists she has collaborated with include Arnold Annen, Tashi Brauen, Luke Ching, Bouie Choi, Copa & Sordes, Violette Fassbaender, May Fung, Hung Fai, Kong Kee, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, Philipp Schaerer, Kathrin Siegrist, Winnie Soon, Julia Steiner, Angela Su, Wai Pong Yu, Iva Willi, and Yim Sui Fong.

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Angelika is an active speaker and has been invited by institutions including Art Basel, Asia Society Switzerland, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Kunstverein Freiburg, sinokultur, and the University of Hong Kong. She currently serves on the advisory board of Momentum Berlin.

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Before relocating to Switzerland in 2017, Angelika Li served as the inaugural Gallery Director of Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, where she curated a programme that included ‘New Ink: An Exhibition of Ink Art by Post-1970 Artists from the YiQingZhai Collection’ (2013), 'Beyond the Paper Screen - An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from The Uragami Collection' (2013), and ‘Old Master Q: What the @#$% Is Going On? Original Works by Alphonso Wong’ (2014).

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Angelika later became the founding director of MILL6 Foundation in Hong Kong, shaping the institution’s curatorial vision and structural foundation, leading it to ICOM museum status and receiving the Award for Arts Promotion (2016) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. At MILL6, she developed key programmes, including a heritage programme —encompassing ‘Chim↑Pom – It’s the Wall World’, 'Archiving The Mills through the Lens', and VHILS’s permanent mural commission on The Mills façade—as well as an exhibition programme featuring ‘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), alongside Artist-in-Residence and community programmes engaging artists such as Yukihiro Taguchi.

 

Angelika served as a member of the Public Art Advisory Panel of Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway between 2013 and 2017. 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 of Hong Kong (CUHK).

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