Pace’s first-day solo booth dedicated to Alicja Kwade—who will open an exhibition of her sculptures in dialogue with works by Agnes Martin at the gallery’s Los Angeles space in May—will highlight new freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures by the artist. Kwade, who joined Pace’s program last year, often engages with scientific and philosophical subjects in her practice, raising questions about the structures and systems that govern and shape our daily lives. Her solo presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong will spotlight works from her Mono Monde series, in which she pairs—and, in some cases, stacks—blue quartzite orbs and lightweight Monobloc chairs. Bearing the weight of worlds rendered in polished stone, these commonplace plastic chairs can be understood as symbols of a flimsy, capitalistic system. Visitors to the booth will navigate around Kwade’s Mono Monde sculptures, which will be displayed in conversation with mixed-media wall-mounted sculptures she created in 2023 and 2024. Later this year, the artist will open her first-ever solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Tai Kwun.

Following the first-day presentation by Kwade, sculptures by several intergenerational artists—including Travel Bar, a 1986 stainless steel work by Jeff Koons, who is presenting a solo exhibition at Art Intelligence Global in Hong Kong through April 26; a  black-painted, wall-mounted wooden work created by Louise Nevelson in 1985; a wedge-shaped urethane composition made by Peter Alexander in the last years of his life; a mixed media work from Yin Xiuzhen’s Surging Waves Chronicles series; an installation from Song Dong’s Da Cheng Ruo Que series; and a brass sculpture forged by Sui Jianguo using the 3D scanning data—will figure prominently on Pace’s booth.

In the way of contemporary painting, the gallery’s booth will feature a 1994 painting, titled Wheels Go Round, by Yoshitomo Nara, who has recently presented solo exhibitions at Pace’s galleries in Seoul and Geneva. A small-scale canvas by William Monk—who is presenting Psychopomp, his first museum solo exhibition in Asia, at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai through March 24—will also be on view, along with new and recent paintings by Jules de Balincourt, Lee Kun-Yong, Robert Mangold, Kylie Manning, Robert Nava, Marina Perez Simão, and Zhang Xiaogang.

Pace will participate in Art Basel Hong Kong’s online viewing room from March 22 to April 1, at artbasel.com/hong-kong, and the gallery will also launch an online exhibition on its own website to complement its in-person presentation at the fair.