Following the success of What’s Up – North East South West in London in October 2018 during Frieze, Lawrence Van Hagen announced the second part of the exhibition in Hong Kong during Art Basel. The exhibition opened on the fifth floor of the historical Pedder Building, presenting works from the 1930’s (up) to today, exploring the various relationships between artists hailing from different parts of Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and carrying different background, cultural heritage and artistic influence; hence creating a space for dialogue on an international scale. All artists presented in What’s Up - North East South West, have enjoyed recent exhibitions in institutions or biennials, or can currently be seen in museum displays around the world. Among them, Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum of Art, Sean Scully at the Hirshhorn Museum and sculpture garden, Lee Ufan at the Centre Pompidou Metz, and Alexander Calder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jonas Wood at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Peter Halley at The Lever House Art Collection in New York, Katharina Grosse at the National Gallery in Prague, are particularly of note. As in all of our shows, visitors are invited to witness the ongoing series of dialogues between more established names and their younger counterparts.