Kiang Malingue at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

Kiang Malingue will present at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 paintings, sculptures, installations and videos by 32 artists. Highlights include Yuan Yuan’s Nourishment of the Mortal Realm (2026), a painting that is inspired by the writing of French author André Gide. This large-scale painting of a lively urban scene derives its title from Gide’s Les nourritures terrestres (The Fruits of the Earth), its setting from a photograph of a street corner in Shanghai, and the main architecture from a run-down building on Avenida Malecón the artist encountered when he was travelling in Cuba—the building was poorly maintained, missing windows and doors, but people still lived there, where their daily lives were visible from the outside. Yuan Yuan based the composition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece The Fall of the Rebel Angels, allowing multiple references to function at once in this vigorously eclectic composition. For the artist, the painting delineates that Bruegel and