WHAT The M+ Sigg collection surveys the cultural dynamism of contemporary China from the early 1970s to the present. China’s open-door policy of 1978 began an era of profound social and economic change. Cities across the country grew into global commercial centres affecting the everyday lives of millions of people. Amidst China’s rise on the world…
WHAT M+’s anchor exhibition contains over 500 pieces, covering a multitude of different creative genres encompassing furniture design, architecture, and graphic design. The purpose is to showcase the variety of objects within these genres that have been impactful in Asia and around the world over the past century. Curatered by Ikko Yokoyama and Shirley Surya,…
WHAT This is the first exhibition in Hong Kong that explores the history of royal and aristocratic patronage in the East and West, from the Museum's permanent collection of nearly 200 outstanding artefacts and a selection of traditional decorative objects. The presentation celebrates the apex of craftsmanship, encouraged and guided by imperial cultural ambition, with…
WHAT From the generous donations by Betty Lo and Kenneth Chu comes the Mengdiexuan Collection. Containing over 200 sets of ancient golds, this exhibition is not to be missed. These precious objects from the Eurasian Steppe, Tubo Kingdom, and Central Plains, with the oldest dating back to the 18th century BCE, highlight the artistic and…
WHAT As one of the most renowned Spanish artists of the 20th century, Joan Miró (1893-1983)’s love for all kinds of everyday objects and their intrinsic poetic qualities is apparent throughout his long and fruitful career. Linking art to life was one of his greatest aspirations, which was realised by his unique ability to perceive…
WHAT The Italian artist was commissioned to create prestigious mural projects in Hong Kong during the 1960s and 70s. This exhibition features a selection of works completed by the artist in Hong Kong, including a photo-essay by Hong Kong photographer, William Furniss, about Casadei’s public art installations in Statue Square and Mei Foo Sun Chuen.…
WHAT In collaboration with the Arkad Foundation in Italy, the unique collaborative sculpture exhibition showcases the works of 10 talented young artists from around the world who have come together to explore the concept of ‘fusion’. The project involves combining and integrating the mediums of marble and wood in the sculptures, with the Italian sculptors…
WHO Michele Chu WHAT The Hong Kong-born artist (b. 1994) has gained recognition for her thought-provoking works that explore the themes of intimacy and the body, and she further mines rituals of intimacy and vulnerability in her debut solo exhibition. With a cross-disciplinary approach that combines painting, installation, and sound, Chu's multi-media presentation aims to…
WHAT At its outdoor space, the museum presents two local Hong Kong artists as they reimagine the harbour through two sets of large-scale public art installations. Harnessing their different practices, both approach the project using different mediums and with different outcomes, with Chan using mosaic tiles, wood, steel, and fibreglass; and Tsoi using stainless steel,…
WHAT A joint venture between the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Cartier, the special exhibition focuses on the role of women throughout Cartier’s history. The unique presentation showcases Cartier as an international brand known for their beautiful jewelry and timepieces, and zooms in on the role women have played by displaying a number of historic…
WHAT Established in 1993, French May is one of the largest cultural events in Asia. With over 200,000 visitors each year, it has become an iconic part of Hong Kong's cultural scene, presenting more than 100 programmes over three months. The festival showcases the most diversified art forms by bringing exhibitions and performances to various…
WHAT An exhibition that covers two gallery floors, the presentation consists of nine of the Korean artist’s newest works. In the new series, the artist meticulously renders the nocturnal landscapes infused with sublime qualities: the vast universe, cosmic spirals, and lights. He uses a variety of different materials that pertain to traditional Eastern Asian heritage…
WHAT The American artist’s (b. 1986) second solo exhibition at the gallery premiers his renowned text works alongside a new series of shorthand writings. Focusing his practice on the relationship between semiotics and language to confront social and political topics such as race, power, communication, and labour, the artist creates drawings using graphite, pencil and…
WHAT Trained as a classical musician, the artist used to be a viola player with Hong Kong Philharmonic before devoting herself to painting in 2011. Using her music background, her first solo exhibition with the gallery incorporates musical elements and allows audiences to experience a new way of appreciating music and art. Her ‘Mist’ series…
WHAT The world-renowned German artist (b.1945) is known for works that explore the themes of German history, mythology, and the human condition. Throughout his career, he has created a diverse range of artworks that include large-scale paintings, sculptures, installations, and photographs. This exhibition surveys 4 decades of the artist’s landscape paintings. Capping a year of…
WHAT In the mid-1950s, the workshops of Roger Malherbe-Navarre expanded on the light boxes of French painter, Jean Crotti, by layering pieces of glass into pictorial depictions (gemmail, French for ‘enamel gem’) of several of Picasso’s paintings. Impressed by the gemmistes’ masterful assembling and fusing of carefully selected glass, Picasso quickly became a fan and…
WHAT Celebrating the 30th anniversary of French May, the gallery’s presentation is a first solo exhibition by the French-Chinese author since being awarded the Commander of the Legion of Honour for the second time. The exhibition features works focused on landscape paintings; however, instead of portraying the reality and perspective of the scene, he pursues…
WHAT In the renowned German artist’s newest exhibition, he depicts and celebrates the stories of mythology that surround the Golden Age. In time with Hong Kong’s reopening of its borders, the gallery hopes to usher in a ‘Golden Age’ of its own through this beacon of restarting. Created between 2020 to 2022, a large-scale installation…
WHAT Born in Syria and based in Paris for the past 40 years, Dalloul is known as one of the most accomplished artists from the Arab world. In his debut Hong Kong solo exhibition, he presents a number of almost life-sized paintings that depict the interactions between humans and nature. He captures the essence of…
WHAT New paintings from the American artist are presented in her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, where she explores the contemporary pop phenomena of Japanese media franchise, ‘Pokémon’. The artist first started exploring Pokémon when she debuted the character ‘Ditto’ in her 2022 exhibition at the gallery’s London location. In the current exhibition, each…
WHAT WHAT In her second solo exhibition, the Italian artist (b. 1968) showcases her photographs of Edgar Degas’s works presented in the 2020 exhibition ‘Degas’ at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Degas was largely inspired by ‘les petits rats,’ which were the ballerinas-in-training at the Paris Opera Ballet company. In the ‘Degas’…
WHAT The Badung based artist collective presents paintings, lenticular prints, performative sculptures, installations, and videos in this exhibition, exploring the significance of the digital economy and the intersection of play and labour. Many of the multi-media pieces include depictions of Twitter hashtags in various forms, while other works depict the relationship between leisure and labour…
WHAT His third solo exhibition at the gallery as a continuation of his research of the history of Hong Kong across time, the specific exhibition focuses on Hong Kong’s colonial history, set in the year 1982, when the Chinese and British governments started negotiations on the Handover. Included in the exhibition are handwritten notes by…
WHAT Sculptural, photographic, and filmic works are presented in this immersive exhibition by the renowned Australian artist (b. 1965). Known for her hyper-realistic sculptures featuring distinctive-looking anthropomorphic animals, the presentation taps into our hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity. Piccinini’s surreal and often grotesque works, which are rooted in historical art…
WHAT The Hong Kong-based English artist is an urbanist and architectural photographer who spent two years in New York to further develop his approach, which aims to create vibrant, sustainable, and democratic urban environments. His distinctive style of using pre-visualisation and camera-only manipulations creates subjective yet recognisable records of our time. The exhibition is part…
WHAT This exhibition features the works of an emerging generation of artists whose roots are in Asia - Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, and Su Yu-Xin. The title of this exhibition was inspired by the Japanese morotai style, with ‘moro’ meaning vague or indistinct. This idea is used to explore the personal…
WHAT The Puerto Rico-born American artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia since he joined the gallery in 2022 consists of 9 new paintings. Known for his signature approach to visual storytelling, synthesising magical realism and abstraction, the observed and the imagined, and the past and the present, the show contains large-scale canvases that are vibrant…
WHAT The exhibition features photographs from the iconic war photographer (1944 - 2022), who left England at age 17 to travel across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Nepal, eventually moving to Saigon where he covered the Vietnam war. His images are the visual inspiration for many films about this controversial war. In the following…
WHAT Based in Germany, the artist is known for creating suspended, seemingly floating sculptures. In this way, the artist calls for interaction and dialogue with the works, which can only be experienced through examination, approach, repositioning, and a changed perspective. The artist’s creations oscillate between presence and absence, the seen and the unseen, suggesting both…
WHAT As the Chicago-based Chinese artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the presentation features works from multiple series. Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and shaped by a conservative familial upbringing in China, his practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom…
WHAT The Japanese artist’s first exhibition in Hong Kong is a new series of intertextually-linked photographs and paintings, which explores the changing nature of family relationships, especially the complexities of motherhood and daughterhood, while questioning the meaning of face-to-face meeting in contemporary society. The title implies that parents expect their children to mimic their behaviour,…
WHAT The group exhibition, featuring artists who have all lived or studied abroad, explores how time becomes an important factor during an artist’s creative process. It explores the progressive utopian ideal that has been prevalent in the West since the 1970s and 80s. Using rhetorical means from their life experiences after being exposed to both…
WHAT The exhibition showcases the learning journey of the Higher Diploma in Fine Art programme at Hong Kong Art School in the past academic year. Under the interaction of teaching and learning, this exhibition presents a selection of learning achievements from a group of passionate art lovers and creators, showcasing their initial exploration results of…
WHAT The well-respected American sculptor (b. 1941) is known for creating works ranging in material, scale, and form, and which embrace an investigation of process and a vocabulary of recti-linear shapes. Throughout his career, he has always focused on ways that sculpture can engage architecture and landscape. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation…
WHY Showcased at the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022), the exhibition is now open to audiences at M+ with an adapted and site-responsive presentation. The exhibition stages Su’s research about Lauren O, an enigmatic figure with the power of levitation who played an instrumental role…
WHAT The exhibition is the second chapter in the gallery’s exhibition series, ‘signals…瞬息’. Presenting score-based interventions and time-based mediums, it explores the ways that artists challenge the norms of time in an unstable climate. This second chapter considers the concept of time as a series of folds and spits. The folds imply a malleable connection…
WHAT The Chinese contemporary artist's (b.1985) first solo show in Hong Kong showcases a comprehensive selection of his oeuvres from the past decade. Partially inspired by the Surrealist master, René Magritte, yet remaining true to his own unique style, the artist specialises in organising pictorial elements in a surrealist manner of wild fantasy worlds, creating…
WHAT The exhibition is a comprehensive selection of the British artist’s oeuvres from the past three years, and is her first solo show in Hong Kong. Known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore themes of identity, history, and cultural iconography, Carrington has gained widespread recognition for her intricate and often playful sculptures made…
