The artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset will participate in the Encounters sector of this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, which will open from March 29 to 31, 2019. The pair will showcase City in the Sky (2019), a new installation which manifests an imaginary city in a scaled model, installed upside-down. Inspired by the new financial centers of megacities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London, it offers a kaleidoscopic overview of a fictional urban landscape in which illuminated skyscrapers are rendered as post-architectural archetypes. As the competition among global metropolises intensifies, local identities are influenced by events in other parts of the world, resulting in complex layers and aspirations that impact the cityscape. The installation prompts viewers to imagine their own ideal city. City in the Sky explores ideas first dealt with in Magic Mushrooms (2015), the duo’s permanent commission for DOKK1 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Elmgreen & Dragset will also participate in Art Basel Conversations A Common Place? | Artists in Art Fairs on Friday, March 29. The panel will be held from 2pm - 3:30pm at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and will be moderated by moderated by Özge Ersoy, Public Programs Lead at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Other panelists include Hai Hsin Huang, Paco Barragán, and Iván Navarro.