M+ Matters and M+ International: Archigram Cities

12.02.2020 to 15.02.2020

Due to unforeseen circumstances, ‘Archigram Cities’ will be postponed and rescheduled. We will announce a new date for the event as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience caused

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Community Engagement at the Core: Rethinking Museums for the Twenty-First Century

13.12.2019, Hotel Stage

In this talk, Kelly McKinley explores the ways in which museums are evolving in order to remain relevant and sustainable community resources in an increasingly divided and technology-driven world

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Global Museums in Shifting Times

07.12.2019, JC Cube Auditorium, Tai Kwun

In this M+ Matters | Keynote, Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate, discusses the significance of these projects and the institution’s overall strategy in the context of a global sociopolitical climate that is shifting more rapidly than ever

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Conversations on Women, Architecture, and the City

23.11.2019, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

The discussions examine the life and work of nine women and their roles in shaping the built environment in Asia, prompting the reappraisal of criteria and methods used to assess architecture

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Wikipedia Asian Month 2019: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories

23.11.2019, Asia Art Archive A Space

Co-presented by Asia Art Archive and M+, this event is part of an ongoing effort to contribute to discussions about the representation of art and visual culture in Asia on open-source knowledge platforms. It brings together participants to discuss, create, improve, and share Wikipedia articles about exhibitions in and about Asia

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Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice

11.05.2019 to 19.11.2019, Venice, Italy

The Venice exhibition is a culmination of Tse’s career-long interest in plasticity and in the various meanings and possible interpretations of materials and things

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Five Artists: Sites Encountered

07.06.2019 to 20.10.2019, M+ Pavilion, Art Park

Five Artists: Sites Encountered brings together an international group of artists whose varied approaches offer ways to rethink ideas of site and place

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M+ Screenings: Restored Images from Taiwan

04.10.2019 to 06.10.2019

M+ Screenings: Restored Images from Taiwan is co-presented by M+ and Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center, bringing together a selection of moving image works, including feature films, shorts, and newsreels

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M+ International × Mori Art Museum: What Do Collections Mean to Museums?

26.09.2019, Academyhills, Tokyo, Japan

Reflecting on the ideas raised during the two-day symposium, this public event takes museums of different regional, historical, and financial backgrounds, and with various administrative structures, as a starting point for discussion

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Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice｜Hong Kong Talk Series

30.08.2019 to 31.08.2019

In conjunction with ‘Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice’, and in anticipation of the response exhibition at the M+ Pavilion in May 2020, M+ is hosting two panel discussions in Hong Kong this summer

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M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship

The M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship programme supports original research projects investigating issues relating to design and architecture in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia through a transnational lens

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The Hidden Pulse at Vivid LIVE 2019

29.05.2019 to 02.06.2019, Sydney Opera House, Australia

From 29 May to 2 June, M+ and the Sydney Opera House co-present The Hidden Pulse as part of Vivid LIVE. This is a five-day programme of artists’ videos and films that explores the capacity of music and performance

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Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint

16.11.2018 to 22.04.2019, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

The exhibition presents art and design works by the celebrated modern sculptor Isamu Noguchi in dialogue with newly created work by Danh Vo, one of the most critically acclaimed conceptual artists active today

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M+ Screenings: In the World, Of the World

12.04.2019 to 14.04.2019, Broadway Cinematheque

This weekend-long screening programme explores artistic community in an alternately turbulent and exhilarating era defined by transnational mobility and displacement

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M+ at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

27.03.2019 to 31.03.2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

M+ presents its own human library at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 to create dialogue and deepen understanding between M+ and the public

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M+ Live Art: Miraculous Trajectories

29.03.2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Co-presented with Art Basel Hong Kong, M+ Live Art: Miraculous Trajectories is a live cinema event featuring a seventy-minute film written and directed by artist Cheng Ran, with an original soundtrack composed and performed by electronic musician Shao Yanpeng

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M+ Hackathon

16.03.2019 to 17.03.2019, Eaton House

During this two-day event, we invite designers, artists, technologists, and cultural enthusiasts to use M+ Collections open data as raw material for creative and artistic projects

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Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art in Asia

09.03.2019, Asia Art Archive A Space

Want to help improve representation of women artists and makers on Wikipedia? Join our Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Saturday 9 March—the day after International Women’s Day

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2018 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship Public Talks

02.03.2019, Hotel Stage

In these public talks, the 2018 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows, Hugh Davies and the team of Fan Lok Yi and Sampson Wong, present their research

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From Plastic to Plasticity; Multiplicities to Negotiation

28.02.2019, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

In this talk, Tse discusses central concepts in her practice from the past twenty years. She is then joined in conversation by Christina Li, offering the audience a first glimpse of the Venice exhibition

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Contributing to an Open Society through Digitised Museum Collections

15.02.2019, Hotel Stage

In this talk, the speaker discusses efforts to embrace the digital era’s potential to improve access to museum collections for creative reuse and public engagement

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Visitors Making Meaning – Constructivist Learning in Museums

31.01.2019, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker introduces the idea of constructivist pedagogy and how it can be applied in museums to the creation of all kinds of interpretation materials

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M+ Screenings: The Film Life of Ann Hui

08.12.2018 to 16.12.2018, KITEC & Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: The Film Life of Ann Huiaddresses the work of the acclaimed director, who has been quietly contributing to Hong Kong cinema for four decades

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Building Louvre Abu Dhabi

07.12.2018, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

In this M+ Matters | Keynote talk, Manuel Rabaté, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi and a key figure in the development of the project, discusses this twenty-first-century encyclopedic museum as ‘a museum of experimentation, and a museum of meeting points’

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Negotiating Access and Preservation in the Contemporary Museum

06.12.2018, Hotel Stage

In this talk, the speaker examines the relationship between the notions of access and preservation in museums

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Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories

24.11.2018, Asia Art Archive A Space

The event brings together participants to discuss, create, share, and improve articles and information about exhibition history in and about Asia on Wikipedia. Register now

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Haunting Images: Live Cinema by Lim Giong

26.10.2018 to 27.10.2018, MOViE MOViE Cityplaza

Lim Giong performs in a live cinema event that rethinks the relationship between sound and image, featuring live scoring along with the projection of moving image

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In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections

22.06.2018 to 30.09.2018, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Encompassing visual art, design and architecture, and moving image works from, and about, Southeast Asia, the exhibition highlights how M+ is developing a unique perspective on the region as a place that is defined by multiple narratives, histories, and identities

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M+ Screenings: Southeast Asia Moving Image Mixtape

18.09.2018 to 23.09.2018, Tai Kwun & Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: Southeast Asia Moving Image Mixtape provides a composite, contemporary perspective on moving image works made around and about Southeast Asia in recent years

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M+ Matters: Art and Design in the Digital Realm

01.09.2018, Tai Kwun

‘M+ Matters: Art and Design in the Digital Realm’ features a full day of artist talks, exploring how data collection, artificial intelligence, simulations, social media, and creative programming are all being leveraged by contemporary practitioners working online

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M+ Data Design Hackathon

31.08.2018 to 01.09.2018, A Hall Studio, Tai Kwun

During this two-day ’M+ Data Design Hackathon’, participants are invited to examine how content from the M+ Collections might meaningfully add to open-source knowledge bases and be activated through new research and creative projects

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ART AFTER HOURS: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS ‘THE ARTIST TALK TO END ALL ARTIST TALKS — OR, THE STRUGGLE SESSION CONTINUES!’

31.08.2018, Tai Kwun

Don’t miss the FINAL-EVER public performance by the pioneering Seoul-based digital artist duo YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. There will also be a discussion after the performance

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M+ Summer Camp 2018: far out

12.08.2018 to 15.08.2018

With the theme of ‘far out’, M+ Summer camp 2018 invites practitioners in the fields of visual art, design, architecture, illustration, and moving image to inspire young people to use ordinary details as sources of creativity. Sign up now

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Envisioning the Museum in the Age of Participation

03.08.2018, Hotel Stage

The talk invites the audience to consider the roles a museum plays in society, as well as the forms of participation that can both emerge from and shape a contemporary museum of visual culture

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Post-1949 Visual and Material Culture in China

05.07.2018, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

The talk considers critical issues in the first decades of the socialist state in China through a multidisciplinary lens, examining design and visual art

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M+ Live Art: Audience as Performer

01.06.2018 to 03.06.2018

Spread over three days, M+ Live Art: Audience as Performer features live performances by five artists from across Asia who engage directly with the viewer, shifting the role of the audience from passive witness to active participant

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M+ Screenings: Beneath the Pavement

11.05.2018 to 13.05.2018, Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: Beneath the Pavement builds cinematic dialogue between works produced in the years around May 1968 in France and Hong Kong, with screenings of short films, feature films, television pieces and experimental moving image works

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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour

09.02.2018 to 06.05.2018, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Conceived originally for the 57th Venice Biennale, the Hong Kong edition of the Songs for Disaster Relief exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Samson Young re-examines the concept of charity singles and offers a unique audiovisual experience through a series of sculptures, objects, videos, sound installations and site-specific pieces

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Interpretation – Between Audiences and Meaning

28.04.2018, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker will start with the definition of interpretation, followed by an introduction to recent research and case studies demonstrating the importance of interpretation in creating an engaging and creative learning experience, underpinned by relevance, connection and communication

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Visual Thinking Strategies: From Sharing Information to Sharing Ways of Thinking

13.04.2018 to 14.04.2018, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker will draw on the concepts and methodologies of VTS and look at how the approach has been used with primary and secondary school students and adults across various disciplines, stressing on the importance of thinking, listening, observing and communicating when interpreting exhibits

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M+ at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018

29.03.2018 to 31.03.2018, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Learn more about M+ at our specially designed M+ booth at Art Basel Hong Kong. The booth offers information about the museum building and programmes, and visitors will have the chance to meet and engage with M+ curators and conservators. Art Basel entry ticket not required

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art

Asia Art Archive in collaboration with M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, presents a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on women in art in Asia on 30 March 2018. Join us on 24 February 2018 for a tutorial to learn about wiki-editing! Free and open to public with registration

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ICA, with M+ and Hong Kong Arts Centre present: Films by Trinh T Minh-ha

28.03.2018 to 29.03.2018, Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema

In this free screening series, Vietnamese-born filmmaker, writer, theorist, and composer Trinh T Minh-ha presents and discusses three of her works –The Fourth Dimension (2001), Forgetting Vietnam (2015) and Reassemblage (1982). Advance registration required

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Thomas Daniell: Unbuilt Macau
M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship Public Talk

03.03.2018, Dom Pedro V Theatre

In this talk, M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow Thomas Daniell presents the results of his 2017 fellowship, examining visionary, unbuilt proposals for reclaimed land in Macau that provide an instructive comparison with the built reality today, as well as possible future directions

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Opening up the Museum to All – On Accessibility Awareness

24.02.2018, Hotel Stage

By introducing concepts and ideas about equality for people with different abilities, the speaker will illustrate MoMA’s approach to accessibility and also discuss the development and outcomes of their Access Programs in order to demonstrate how such initiatives benefit both the museum and its audience

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The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+

13.10.2017 to 14.01.2018, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Featuring work by more than forty artists from across Asia and beyond, The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art looks at the diverse explorations that have taken place over the past sixty years

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Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium

14.12.2017 to 15.12.2017, The University of Hong Kong

This symposium seeks to reexamine Pei in the context of the architect’s 100th birthday year. The event aims to resituate the architect from the intersecting vantage points of the two regional poles with which he’s most closely linked—Hong Kong/China and Boston/the United States

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Studying the Experience of Museum Visitors in Hong Kong

13.12.2017, Hotel Stage

In this session, we examine concepts by scholars in the field of museum visitor studies, and introduce different types of museum visitors in Hong Kong, as summarised in the speaker’s field research

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Miracle of The Benesse Art Site Naoshima

08.12.2017, The University of Hong Kong

Soichiro Fukutake and Akiko Miki of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima and celebrated architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA discuss the transformative effect of a project combining contemporary art, architecture and landscape

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REORIENT: Conversations on South and Southeast Asia

30.11.2017 to 02.12.2017, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

REORIENT is a three-day event designed as a platform to explore views across geographies (from Bangalore to Bangladesh, Yogyakarta to Ho Chi Minh City), disciplines (from visual art, design and architecture, and moving image) and initiatives (from bottom-up to institutionally-driven practices)

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Experiments in Museum Learning

29.11.2017, Hotel Stage

Riding on M+’s core beliefs about learning, this session introduces a variety of experimental art projects and exhibitions that focus on educational models and pedagogical practices, thereby exploring how curating and creative approaches can bring forth new ideas and possibilities to a museum’s learning programme

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M+ Screenings: Stillness in Motion

24.11.2017 to 26.11.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: Stillness in Motion explores contemporary cinema’s relationship to Asian philosophy and ink art

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Roles of a Museum in the 21st Century

16.11.2017, Hotel Stage

This session looks at how the role of museums has evolved from their conventional counterparts, and how they in turn reflect and inform various aspects of contemporary society

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‘We Are One?’ Screenings & Conversations

16.10.2017 to 23.10.2017, Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema

To accompany Hong Kong’s collateral event at the Venice Biennale 2017, Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief, M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Centre are co-presenting a programme of film screenings and conversations on the theme of charity efforts

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Canton Express

23.06.2017 to 10.09.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Canton Express is the new iteration of the Canton Express project that was part of the exhibition Zone of Urgency curated by Hou Hanru for the 2003 Venice Biennale

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Between Past and Future: Art of the Pearl River Delta

07.09.2017, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

This edition of M+ Matters will survey the circumstances and evolution of curatorial strategies and art research in the region from the late 1990s to the present

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M+ Summer Camp 2017: Nerve

13.08.2017 to 16.08.2017

M+ Summer Camp is a youth-targeted initiative organised by M+. Over the past two summers, the camps have each attracted one hundred students from different schools and backgrounds but with the same interests and passions

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Made in Myanmar / In Time to Come

06.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

This double bill considers the influence of global economic forces on daily life in Asia, as well as the changing symbolic power of cultural artefacts. Korean artist Lee Wan’s video details the three weeks he worked at a Chinese-owned goldmine in northern Myanmar, while In Time to Come (Asian Premiere) follows the exhuming and compilation of the official time capsule in Singapore. Includes a post-screening discussion with the director, Tan Pin Pin M+ Screenings

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Walker / Threshold / Diamond Island

06.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Moving beyond China, this triple bill presents Tsai Ming-Liang’s elastic short-film that follows a meditating monk through the chaotic streets of Hong Kong, together with Joao Vasco Paiva’s short homage to Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, focusing on the contours and textures of Hong Kong’s urban topographies. Davy Chou’s feature-length story of a Cambodian teenager’s initiation into Phnom Penh’s newly-privileged urban spaces considers the impact of Chinese investment beyond its borders M+ Screenings

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M+ Screenings: City Limits

04.08.2017 to 06.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: City Limits explores urbanisation on screen, presenting a weekend-long programme of artist videos, narrative films, documentaries and animations depicting different Asian cities in transition

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Living Elsewhere / The Chinese Mayor

05.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Presenting two hard-hitting documentaries, this double bill looks at the harsh realities of life in China’s lesser-known provincial cities. Wang Jianwei’s intimate insights into the lives of destitute migrant labourers living in an empty villa complex outside Sichuan, is followed by Zhou Hao’s fascinating portrait of the controversial former mayor of Datong, Geng Yanbo, and his radical plans to reshape and rebrand his city for the global age M+ Screenings

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Lunar Dial / Still Life

05.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Exploring the human effects of overdevelopment on China’s urban and rural spaces, Gao Yuan’s soulful animation of alienating urban landscapes is followed by Jia Zhangke’s lyrical melodrama set around the Three Gorges Dam project, the world’s largest power station M+ Screenings

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San Yuan Li

05.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Featuring Ou Ning, Cao Fei and U-thèque’s highly experimental documentary about San Yuan Li, a village famous for its revolt against the British during the Opium War, now a ‘village in the city’ being swallowed up by the ever-expanding Guangzhou. Includes a post-screening discussion with co-director Ou Ning M+ Screenings

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Concert Hall of Zheng Daoxing / Post, Pause / Ink City / Whose Utopia / One Day (Guangzhou)

04.08.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Featuring the unique visions and realities of five artists from China’s Pearl River Delta region, this screening includes Xu Tan’s performance-biography of an ageing charismatic singer and migrant worker; Jiang Zhi’s fantastical vignettes of Shenzhen street life; Chen Shaoxiong’s ink-drawing animations of city skylines;, Cao Fei’s poignant and surreal portraits of factory workers; and Zhou Tao’s quirky performance-documentary of a day lived in a Guangzhou supermarket. M+ Screenings

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M+ Rover 2017

M+ Rover: Travelling Creative Studio is the first major free school outreach programme organised annually by M+. The 8 metre-long tailor-made trailer is a pop-up creative studio that will tour to secondary schools and community spaces during the academic year from February to June 2017

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Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture

17.03.2017 to 21.05.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture offers new insights into Hong Kong popular culture through representations of androgyny and gender fluidity in Cantopop, fashion, film, photography, and graphic design

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Inextinguishable Fire / Lover, Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

09.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

A double bill that explores the performative self, identity politics and trauma, featuring a performance video by transgender artist and stunt person Cassils, and an experimental documentary by Barbara Hammer profiling the Surrealist artists, Nazi Resisters and lovers, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore M+ Screenings

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Sérgio e Simone #2 / Love Man, Love Woman

09.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Exploring how indigenous religions can offer a safe haven for transgressive gender identities, this double bill features Virginia de Medeiros’s documentary portrait of Simone, a transvestite prostitute who assumes a double identity as Sergio, an evangelical preacher, and Nguyen Trinh Thi’s profile of master Luu Ngoc Duc, a flamboyant spirit medium of the Vietnamese Dao Mau religion M+ Screenings

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M+ Screenings: Genderfluid

07.04.2017 to 09.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: Genderfluid looks at how contemporary moving-image artists, across different generations and geographies, have created transgressive and transformative representations of gender on screen

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Angst Essen/Eat Fear / Uterus Man / Ex Nilalang

08.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Presenting works that challenge cultural and gender stereotypes, this triple bill features Ming Wong’s re-enactment of a seminal Fassbinder film, an anime short of an androgynous superhero by Lu Yang, and a series of four performance videos by Club Ate that transform Filipino urban myths and traditional folklore into stories of queer resistance M+ Screenings

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Duilian / Orlando

08.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Two sumptuous stories of historical fiction that cross the boundaries of time, country and gender: Wu Tsang’s dreamlike martial-arts love story about a revolutionary poet set in present-day Hong Kong, and Sally Potter’s daring adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a playful story of a young man who, mid-way through a life that spans four centuries, wakes one morning as a woman M+ Screenings

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There Are No Others / Bight of the Twin

07.04.2017, Broadway Cinematheque

Opening the Genderfluid series, this double bill takes a personal look at the body, the self and the other, pairing Amy Amos Gebhardt’s slow-motion short of falling naked bodies shot against a changing cloudscape with Hazel Hill McCarthy III’s documentary on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s journey to the Vodoun Twin Festival in BeninM+ Screenings

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M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2016 Public Talk

04.03.2017, MakerHive

In this public talk, the 2016 recipients of the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship—Joseph Grima and the team of Juliana Kei and Daniel Cooper—will present the results of their research, illustrating the diversity of topics supported by the fellowship programme

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Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection

30.11.2016 to 05.02.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

M+’s debut design exhibition – Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection – explores the many concepts and frameworks that have shaped and broadened our understanding of design

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0116643225059 / La Ciénaga

04.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Pairing an experimental short by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with a full-length feature by Lucrecia Martel, this double bill looks at homesickness and family ties, dysfunctional relations and family tragediesM+ Screenings

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A Magical Substance Flows into Me / The Stuart Hall Project

04.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

The last screening in the series pairs two films, documentaries by award-winning filmmaker John Akomfrah and video artist Jumana Manna, that look at the concept of home and identity from social or historical perspectives, depicting the influence of nationalism and historical narratives on individual identity through intimate portraits of two diverse cultural figuresM+ Screenings

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Shape of a Right Statement / Stateless Things

04.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Featuring a filmed re-staging of a YouTube manifesto by Wu Tsang and a feature film by Kim Kyung-mook, this double bill looks at individuals and groups on the fringes of society, exploring how the concept of home can be extended beyond the family to include the physical community of a city or virtual communities onlineM+ Screenings

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M+ Screenings: Home Movies

02.12.2016 to 04.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

M+ Screenings: Home Movies looks at how filmmakers and artists draw on personal memories and imagination to explore individual and collective histories

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Belated Punctum: La Jetée 2 / Meteorites / Dogtooth

03.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

This triple bill, including award-winning Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos, looks at the relationship between family and society. Whether through fiction, the use of personal stories to reflect upon national history, or the pairing of historical and family footage with surreal narrative sequences, these films explore life and its absurditiesM+ Screenings

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Minsan Isang Panahon (Once Upon a Time) / Class Picture / Start from Zero / Bundled

03.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Is memory true or invented? This screening brings together a collection of works by Asian directors, including Flora Lau and Singing Chen, which explore memory and identity through the re-appropriation of found images, the re-creation of memories and the re-shaping of collective historyM+ Screenings

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Embracing / Is There Anything Specific You Want Me to Tell You About? / Video Letters 1-2 / May You Live in Interesting Times

02.12.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

This screening presents a quadruple bill of artists’ videos and documentaries, including early experimental work by Naomi Kawase and Hong Kong artist Yau Ching’s letters home, that address notions of culture and belonging, reconstructing personal histories to explore the influence of family on personal identityM+ Screenings

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Tsang Kin-Wah: Nothing

09.09.2016 to 06.11.2016, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District

The inaugural exhibition at the M+ Pavilion, Tsang Kin-Wah: Nothing, is an immersive experience that takes inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and explores the essence of life and our inability to escape fate

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M+ Rover 2016

M+ Rover: Travelling Creative Studio is the first major school outreach programme organised by M+. The tailor-made trailer is a pop-up space for exhibitions and workshops that tours to schools and communities in Hong Kong during the academic year from March to July 2016

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Before and After Science

09.07.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Grayson Perry, Anna Thew, and Steven Chivers conjure strange, new, lo-fi worlds with the help of close friends and collaborators, resisting both modern Christian patriarchy and the conventions of traditional movie-makingM+ Screenings

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Just Images

09.07.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

The moral, political, and symbolic integrity of the image itself is interrogated and overturned in these richly textured films. One of the singularly most stunning and ambitious Super 8 works of the era: the existential gender bending Court of Miracles directed by John MayburyM+ Screenings

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Home Taping

08.07.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

The mainstream media was treated like a giant library to be plundered for provocative play and subversion in the early 1980s. Artists grabbed and juxtaposed disparate material to disrupt the dominant ideologies of the age and create new visual musicM+ Screenings

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Copies without Borders: Imitation as Innovation

14.04.2016, Atelier Clerici, Milan, Italy

As part of the programme at Atelier Clerici, the leading hub of critical thinking during the annual Salone del Mobile in Milan, Copies without Borders: Imitation as Innovation brings M+ and its M+ Matters format to an international stage, enriching the global discourse about copying as a methodology in contemporary design practice

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M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art

23.02.2016 to 05.04.2016, ArtisTree

M+ presents the first-ever chronological exhibition on the emergence and development of Chinese contemporary art – M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art – at ArtisTree, Hong Kong

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Confronting Activist Art and Design from a Museological Perspective

21.03.2016, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

M+ Matters: Confronting Activist Art and Design from a Museological Perspective examines creative practices arising from acts of civil disobedience and movements for social change, and the questions, challenges, opportunities, and obligations they present for collections-based museums of visual culture

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An Estranged Paradise

13.03.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

An early seminal work by Yang Fudong. As artist Zhuzi’s wedding day approaches, a growing sense of malaise leads to three encounters with three different women: a rendezvous, a chance meeting, and a reunionM+ Screenings

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Artists of Yuanmingyuan / Post-Sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies & Delusion / Art for Sale / The Dusk of Teheran

13.03.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

This quadruple bill features three documentaries on artist communities and exhibitions in China in the 1990s, plus an artist video that transcends borders to connect Teheran with Hong Kong via its female protagonistM+ Screenings

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Frozen

12.03.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, the film tells the story of a young artist staging a four-part performance on death that culminates in an attempt to use his own body heat to melt a massive block of iceM+ Screenings

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Chung Kuo – Cina

11.03.2016, Broadway Cinematheque

Filmed in 1972, Antonioni’s three-and-a-half hour documentary offers a non-official perspective on everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution – a time when few outsiders had access to the countryM+ Screenings

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Visiting Artist Programme “Taiwanese Moving Image in the 1960s and 1970s: Chen Yao-chi and Chang Chao-Tang”

02.03.2016, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center

The making of these groundbreaking works informed and galvanised the practices of moving image, visual art, and experimental theatre in Taiwan, connecting strongly with the rising awareness of cultural identity within its social spheres

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Mobile M+: Live Art

04.12.2015 to 20.12.2015

This ninth edition of the ongoing Mobile M+ exhibition series takes performance art as its thematic subject and area of inquiry and presents works that explore various aspects of ‘liveness’. This show comprises three elements—Stage, Outdoor, and Exhibition—and will take place in multiple venues across the city during the first three weeks of December

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Expanding the 1980s: The Landscape of Art in China and East Asia

13.01.2015, Hong Kong Arts Centre

‘Expanding the 1980s: The Landscape of Art in China and East Asia’ returns the focus to the development of contemporary Asian art during the strategic period surrounding the 1980’s.

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Global Museums’ Collection and Display Strategies Today

18.11.2014, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Key decision-makers from MoMA, Tate Modern, and Art Gallery of New South Wales share their main concerns and questions, ambitions and plans for their museums as well as for the international art world at large in this symposiumVideos available

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Theorising Art Histories Globally

18.10.2014, The University of Hong Kong

This special forum gathers leading art historians to contemplate the rapidly transforming landscape of contemporary art, a brave new world where M+ will be a crucial player

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Import/Export: Postwar Design and Industry in East Asia

12.09.2014 to 13.09.2014

A symposium placing mass-produced consumer objects at the centre of East Asia’s post-WWII economic and industrial narrative—mapping and tracing the key phenomena, products, manufacturers and design influences that moved throughout the region

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Postwar Abstraction in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

28.06.2014, Hong Kong Arts Centre

The symposium will highlight the various artistic concerns and explorations in the painting medium through abstraction and to consider new strategies of collecting and display using a comparative art history framework

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'You.' - Lee Kit

06.03.2014 to 13.04.2014, Cattle Depot Artist Village

‘You.’ is an expanded adaptation of Lee Kit’s ‘You (you).’ at the 55th Venice Biennale. The exhibition juxtaposes new commissions with installations from Venice.

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Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection

10.01.2014 to 09.02.2014, ArtisTree

The first M+ architecture exhibition showcasing the future M+ building winning design & the museum's growing architecture collection

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Building M+ Talk: Collecting Architecture: Process, Challenges and Effects

25.01.2014, ArtisTree

Inviting architects, and specialists from research institutions and universities, this talk and panel discussion aims to look at the challenges and implications of building an architecture collection

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Building M+ Talk: Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron, M+ Building Architect

09.01.2014, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building

Jacques Herzog talks about Herzog & de Meuron’s practice, approach and winning proposal for M+

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ARTWORKDOCUMENTATION: Rethinking the Categories of Art and Documentation

25.11.2013, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

A panel discussion organised by M+ that look at the ways in which current conceptions about "artworks" are in flux, and how these shifts can engender new ways of thinking about collections, exhibitions and display.

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ARTWORKDOCUMENTATION: Photographing China

22.11.2013, British Council

An evening panel discussion organised by M+ on documentary photography in China in the decades following the publication China after Mao.

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Mobile M+: Inflation!

25.04.2013 to 09.06.2013, West Kowloon Cultural District

Occupying the site next to the future building of M+, the large-scale inflatable sculptures presented here pose questions about the nature of public art and the ways in which audiences might engage with it.

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Of the Moment: China’s Museum Boom in Context

18.03.2013, Fringe Club

As the third in the M+ Matters series, the symposium will present the initial findings of research, now underway by Columbia University's China Megacities Lab, into the architectural and urbanistic implications surrounding China's new contemporary art museums.

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Ink Art in the Framework of a Contemporary Museum

15.12.2012, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

"Histories and Individual Practices of Contemporary Ink Art" is a public symposium that explores the discourse of ink art in artistic experimentation from the '85 Art New Wave period to the present.

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Asian Design: Histories, Collecting, Curating

03.12.2012, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

"Asian Design: Histories, Collecting, Curating" is an evening of talks and discussion that brings together leading international scholars and curators to explore the shifting parameters of historicising, collecting and curating Asian design.

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Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei

15.05.2012 to 10.06.2012, Yau Ma Tei

“Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei” marks the beginning of the museum’s venture to engage the public without the presence of a building, with a multi-site exhibition of six large-scale installations on the reconstruction of the city’s histories.

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