What's On
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M+ Hackathon—City of Objects
22.02.2020 to 23.02.2020, Eaton House
M+ Hackathon—City of Objects on 22-23 February 2020 (Saturday-Sunday) will be rescheduled. Details will be announced on the West Kowloon Cultural District website www.westkowloon.hk in due course
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2019 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship Public Talks
29.02.2020, St. Stephen’s College
Due to unforeseen circumstances, 2019 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship Public Talks will be postponed and rescheduled
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thomas Daniell: Unbuilt Macau
M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship Public Talk03.03.2018, 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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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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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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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+ / 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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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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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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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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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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