White Cube returns to Art Basel Hong Kong for the 2025 edition, coinciding with the first exhibition in Asia of never-before-seen paintings by American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99).
Artists featured on the booth include Etel Adnan, Enrico David, Lynne Drexler, Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans, Shao Fan, Theaster Gates, Mona Hatoum, Lee Ufan, Liu Wei, Minoru Nomata, Park Seo-Bo, Howardena Pindell, Marina Rheingantz, Danh Vo, Jeff Wall and Zhou Li.
Highlights include:
Lynne Drexler's
Erratic Water (1963), a vivid painting which exemplifies her unique position within the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. A solo exhibition debuting Drexler’s works from the 1970s is on view at White Cube Hong Kong from 26 March – 17 May 2025.
Rabbit 1624 (2024) by Shao Fan, who recently joined White Cube’s roster. Profoundly influenced by traditional Chinese culture whilst also referencing elements of Western art, Shao Fan’s practice explores the intricate relationship between humanity and nature.
A kaleidoscopic abstract painting by Chinese artist Zhou Li,
2025 Metamorphosis No.1 (2025), ahead of the artist’s first exhibition in Korea opening at White Cube Seoul in July 2025.
East Winds (1984), an oil painting by South Korean artist Lee Ufan from his 'From Winds' series. The work will also be presented in the March edition of SALON, White Cube's online secondary market programme.
Ecriture No. 190227 (2022) by the late master of Dansaekhwa, Park Seo-Bo. The painting is part of the artist’s ‘Pencil ecriture’ series in which he turns to art’s potential for collective healing harnessing the therapeutic property of colour, nature and meditation.
Fortress Shadow (2017) by Enrico David, who joined White Cube in February 2025. The sculpture, shown in Italy’s pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, features two suspended bodies on a plinth inspired by the gnomon sundials of the Jantar Mantar observatories in Jaipur and Delhi.
Tracey Emin’s bronze sculpture
There was so much more of me (2019), in which the truncated form of the female body appears both eroticized and vulnerable. Major museum exhibitions by the artist run at Yale Centre for British Art in the US (19 March – 10 August 2025) and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy (16 March – 20 July 2025).
Etel Adnan’s painting
Untitled (2015). Rendered in yellow, orange and green, the work recalls the shadows and light of her childhood in Beirut and the landscapes in California – a reference to the time the artist spent teaching at Dominican College in San Rafael, San Francisco Bay Area.
Prices for works are available on request.
