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Architectural drawing of complex with a U-shaped high-rise building and adjacent large glass-domed structure, set around a central plaza.
Architectural drawing of complex with a U-shaped high-rise building and adjacent large glass-domed structure, set around a central plaza.
Unearthing I. M. Pei’s Unbuilt Projects
Photograph of a glittering rainbow on the right and snowy mountains on the left against a deep blue sky. The silhouettes of the mountains are in the foreground.
Rainbow of Desires
Stylised illustration of a Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker displayed against a colourful geometric background. On the left, large bilingual text in fuchsia reads ‘RICE COOKER.’ On the right, smaller bilingual text in green says ‘Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker, model RC-10K (1955).’
Toshiba RC-10K: The Rice Cooker That Changed Japan
Architectural drawing of complex with a U-shaped high-rise building and adjacent large glass-domed structure, set around a central plaza.
Unearthing I. M. Pei’s Unbuilt Projects
Photograph of a glittering rainbow on the right and snowy mountains on the left against a deep blue sky. The silhouettes of the mountains are in the foreground.
Rainbow of Desires
Stylised illustration of a Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker displayed against a colourful geometric background. On the left, large bilingual text in fuchsia reads ‘RICE COOKER.’ On the right, smaller bilingual text in green says ‘Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker, model RC-10K (1955).’
Toshiba RC-10K: The Rice Cooker That Changed Japan
Architectural drawing of complex with a U-shaped high-rise building and adjacent large glass-domed structure, set around a central plaza.
Unearthing I. M. Pei’s Unbuilt Projects
Photograph of a glittering rainbow on the right and snowy mountains on the left against a deep blue sky. The silhouettes of the mountains are in the foreground.
Rainbow of Desires
Stylised illustration of a Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker displayed against a colourful geometric background. On the left, large bilingual text in fuchsia reads ‘RICE COOKER.’ On the right, smaller bilingual text in green says ‘Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker, model RC-10K (1955).’
Toshiba RC-10K: The Rice Cooker That Changed Japan
Architectural drawing of complex with a U-shaped high-rise building and adjacent large glass-domed structure, set around a central plaza.
Unearthing I. M. Pei’s Unbuilt Projects
Photograph of a glittering rainbow on the right and snowy mountains on the left against a deep blue sky. The silhouettes of the mountains are in the foreground.
Rainbow of Desires
Stylised illustration of a Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker displayed against a colourful geometric background. On the left, large bilingual text in fuchsia reads ‘RICE COOKER.’ On the right, smaller bilingual text in green says ‘Toshiba Automatic Rice Cooker, model RC-10K (1955).’
Toshiba RC-10K: The Rice Cooker That Changed Japan
A bookcase compartmentalised into rectangular spaces brims with books and folders. In the central space, an air conditioning unit is accompanied by two African sculptures and family photographs. In the foreground, stacked boxes are visible.
A bookcase compartmentalised into rectangular spaces brims with books and folders. In the central space, an air conditioning unit is accompanied by two African sculptures and family photographs. In the foreground, stacked boxes are visible.

Past Present Past: Images and Insights from Ha Bik Chuen’s Kaleidoscopic Archive

Explore the rich visual research materials, photographic documentation, and modified books from the archive of Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen.
10 mins: 
Visual Art  / Design and Architecture  / Visual Culture  /  Article
Close-up of water flowing through stacked, transparent glass tanks framed by metallic borders.
Close-up of water flowing through stacked, transparent glass tanks framed by metallic borders.

Communicating Memory: Hong Kong in Venice

How are lived experiences communicated in visual art? Artist Trevor Yeung draws upon the rich communicative memory of Hong Kong to create an evocative exhibition in Venice for both Hong Kong and international audiences.
4 mins: 
Visual Art  / M+ Exhibitions  /  Article
A person wearing a light brown jacket walking through the entrance of a traditional Chinese structure with brick walls, with his back facing the camera.
A person wearing a light brown jacket walking through the entrance of a traditional Chinese structure with brick walls, with his back facing the camera.

Heritage and Home in Hong Kong’s Hidden Places: Perspectives from Wing Lung Wai

Tang Kwok-hin’s art captures the cultural heritage and rhythms of life in Wing Lung Wai, a walled village in Hong Kong’s New Territories.
5 mins: 
Visual Art  / Design and Architecture  / Visual Culture  /  Video
Photograph of silhouetted shadows of two people on the ground. The two people are standing close together.
Photograph of silhouetted shadows of two people on the ground. The two people are standing close together.

The Lives of Others: The Art and Friendship of Movana Chen and Michael Wolf

Curator Tina Pang delves into how Movana Chen and the late Michael Wolf share empathic connections with others through their unique practices.
7 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
Two people stand in front of a dark green door of an old building, facing away from the camera. The person on the left is wearing a black coat and a blue beanie, holding a bright red tote bag. The other person wears a yellow jacket, green trousers, and a light grey beanie. The walls beside them are covered in graffiti.
Two people stand in front of a dark green door of an old building, facing away from the camera. The person on the left is wearing a black coat and a blue beanie, holding a bright red tote bag. The other person wears a yellow jacket, green trousers, and a light grey beanie. The walls beside them are covered in graffiti.

Tides of Connections: Behind Trevor Yeung’s ‘Courtyard of Attachments’

Unfold the compelling journey from 138 days before the opening to the debut of ‘Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice.’
18 mins: 
Visual Art  / Visual Culture  / M+ Exhibitions  /  Video

Artist’s Lens

Standing in a train station in Hong Kong, a man wearing a green shirt adorned with orange spots and a party hat stares into the camera.
Standing in a train station in Hong Kong, a man wearing a green shirt adorned with orange spots and a party hat stares into the camera.

Luke Ching Chin Wai: Community as Canvas

Meet Luke Ching, an artist who has spent the last twenty years using his creative practice to bring attention to social issues in Hong Kong
13 mins: 
Visual Art  / Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A waist-up photo of a person standing in brightly lit studio space looking straight into the camera.
A waist-up photo of a person standing in brightly lit studio space looking straight into the camera.

Jes Fan: Beyond Appearances

Jes Fan’s sculptures fuse human-made and organic elements, inviting visceral responses that question binary thinking
8 mins: 
Visual Art  / Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A person standing in a studio space, facing the camera, with wooden sculptural artworks in the background.
A person standing in a studio space, facing the camera, with wooden sculptural artworks in the background.

Miao Ying: Pixelated Pasts

Miao Ying explores Chinese internet culture through installations and simulations that challenge our perceptions
7 mins: 
Visual Art  / Moving Image  / Digital  /  Video
A person standing in front of a cloth artwork featuring three 'no U-turn' symbols on a black background.
A person standing in front of a cloth artwork featuring three 'no U-turn' symbols on a black background.

Wang Tuo: Time Refracted

Wang Tuo’s films blend interviews, reality shows, and theatre, exposing society’s absurdities and intertwining histories
9 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Video
A waist-up photograph of a man looking directing into the camera. Artworks lean against the wall in the background.
A waist-up photograph of a man looking directing into the camera. Artworks lean against the wall in the background.

Xie Nanxing: The Painted Struggle

Xie Nanxing’s radical paintings challenge tradition, using humour and absurdity to reflect on isolation and environmental neglect
7 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video
A waist-up portrait of a man standing on a rooftop in Hong Kong. The background features green mountains.
A waist-up portrait of a man standing on a rooftop in Hong Kong. The background features green mountains.

Trevor Yeung: Hanging in Limbo

Trevor Yeung’s mixed media works delve into human relations, artificial nature, and emotional scenarios
7 mins: 
Visual Art  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a dark baseball cap, taken outdoors as she gazes directly into the camera.
A waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a dark baseball cap, taken outdoors as she gazes directly into the camera.

Yu Ji: Materials in Motion

Yu Ji’s sculptures and installations evoke eerie disengagement, exploring complex relationships between people and things
8 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video

Hong Kong Sign Language Videos

Video interviews with artists and makers from the M+ Collections accompanied by Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) interpretation
Man viewing artworks on a large workbench in a studio.
Man viewing artworks on a large workbench in a studio.

Leung Kui Ting: Inkscapes

Discover the unique artistic practice of Leung Kui Ting, whose ink paintings blend traditional and abstract elements to explore transience and beauty in the natural world
6 mins: 
Visual Art  / Visual Culture  /  Video
Two performers, wrapped in bubble wrap, dance inside a large white-walled freight lift, covered in plastic sheeting.
Two performers, wrapped in bubble wrap, dance inside a large white-walled freight lift, covered in plastic sheeting.

Hidden Frames: Behind the Scenes of ‘Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène’

Behind-the-scenes interviews with five Hong Kong artists who created short films for M+’s ‘Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène’ video commission project
4 mins: 
Moving Image  / Digital  / Visual Culture  /  Article

From Park Chan-wook

A film still captures a man seated beside a bed, drying his hair with a hairdryer. He gazes wistfully off-screen, his attention seemingly captured by something or someone beyond the frame.
A film still captures a man seated beside a bed, drying his hair with a hairdryer. He gazes wistfully off-screen, his attention seemingly captured by something or someone beyond the frame.

A Mystery Train Bound for Somewhere Stranger than Hong Kong - ‘Days of Being Wild’

Renowned film director Park Chan-wook reviews the Hong Kong classic, ‘Days of Being Wild’
4 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Article
A close-up film still captures a man and a woman standing together, both pointing a single gun towards an off-screen target.
A close-up film still captures a man and a woman standing together, both pointing a single gun towards an off-screen target.

The Purple Rose of Saigon - ‘A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon’

Renowned film director Park Chan-wook reviews ‘A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon’
5 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Article

Issues and Currents

Ecology and Sustainability

How are artists and makers shaping how we live in response to the climate emergency?

Ecology and Sustainability

How are artists and makers shaping how we live in response to the climate emergency?

Digital Connections

An examination of digital culture’s diverse roles within society through the works of artists, designers, architects and thinkers.

Digital Connections

An examination of digital culture’s diverse roles within society through the works of artists, designers, architects and thinkers.

Non-Mainstream: An Exploration of Understudied Topics

An exploration of understudied topics by unfamiliar makers, telling untold stories and offering fluid, expanded perspectives on visual culture.

Non-Mainstream: An Exploration of Understudied Topics

An exploration of understudied topics by unfamiliar makers, telling untold stories and offering fluid, expanded perspectives on visual culture.

Networks: Remapping the South

An examination of the networked nature of the region around Hong Kong in relation to the global south.

Networks: Remapping the South

An examination of the networked nature of the region around Hong Kong in relation to the global south.

Ecology and Sustainability

How are artists and makers shaping how we live in response to the climate emergency?

Ecology and Sustainability

How are artists and makers shaping how we live in response to the climate emergency?

Digital Connections

An examination of digital culture’s diverse roles within society through the works of artists, designers, architects and thinkers.

Digital Connections

An examination of digital culture’s diverse roles within society through the works of artists, designers, architects and thinkers.

Non-Mainstream: An Exploration of Understudied Topics

An exploration of understudied topics by unfamiliar makers, telling untold stories and offering fluid, expanded perspectives on visual culture.

Non-Mainstream: An Exploration of Understudied Topics

An exploration of understudied topics by unfamiliar makers, telling untold stories and offering fluid, expanded perspectives on visual culture.

Networks: Remapping the South

An examination of the networked nature of the region around Hong Kong in relation to the global south.

Networks: Remapping the South

An examination of the networked nature of the region around Hong Kong in relation to the global south.

Poetry on Film

Four performers dance in the shallows of the ocean. In the background, waves roll into shore. The sky is overcast.
Four performers dance in the shallows of the ocean. In the background, waves roll into shore. The sky is overcast.

Introducing ‘Poetry on Film’

Uncover the synergy of poetry and cinema in ‘Poetry on Film’ – an M+ initiative empowering young filmmakers in Hong Kong
2 mins: 
Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Article
Four performers dance in the shallows of the ocean. In the background, waves roll into shore. The sky is overcast.
Four performers dance in the shallows of the ocean. In the background, waves roll into shore. The sky is overcast.

‘Daily Life’ - a Short Film by Chu Hoi Ying

Chu Hoi Ying collaborated with dancers and choreographers to explore the nightmarish experience of falling seriously ill in response to Yam Gong’s poem ‘Daily Life’
9 mins: 
Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A man sits inside a passenger ferry. The Hong Kong skyline is visible through the windows behind him.
A man sits inside a passenger ferry. The Hong Kong skyline is visible through the windows behind him.

‘Afar’ - a Short Film by Lee Wai Shing

Lee Wai Shing’s short film focuses on family in response to Huang Canran’s poem ‘So Close’, narrating a son’s journey to visit his mother in North Point
9 mins: 
Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A monochrome image of a sparrow perched on the ledge of a wooden log.
A monochrome image of a sparrow perched on the ledge of a wooden log.

‘an inimitable place called home’ - a Short Film by Jolene Mok

Artist Jolene Mok contrasts the movements of Hong Kong’s sparrows with different forms of local transport in response to Hong Fu’s poem ‘Suppose a Few Birds Fly By’
8 mins: 
Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
Still frame from an animated short film: A female figure cradles a small human-like figure resembling a matchstick, which is engulfed in flames.
Still frame from an animated short film: A female figure cradles a small human-like figure resembling a matchstick, which is engulfed in flames.

‘Snails in a Telephone Booth’ - a Short Film by STEP C.

A short film by STEP C., inspired by Eric Lui’s poem ‘A Snail in a Phone Box,’ evokes a poignant atmosphere of urban loneliness and longing
7 mins: 
Moving Image  / Visual Culture  /  Video
A monochrome still image from a film that depicts a bridge extending across the ocean and vanishing beneath the water. In the foreground, there is a hillside covered in trees. The image is marked by dust and scratches.
A monochrome still image from a film that depicts a bridge extending across the ocean and vanishing beneath the water. In the foreground, there is a hillside covered in trees. The image is marked by dust and scratches.

Sightlines

Koel Chu explores how artists have drawn from arresting film scenes, navigating the dynamic relationship between poetry and cinema.
7 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Article

Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène

Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène

‘Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène’ is a video commission initiative by M+ featuring five short films by five emerging local artists

Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène

‘Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène’ is a video commission initiative by M+ featuring five short films by five emerging local artists

Imaging Cantopop

Jacket and inner page of Anita Mui’s vinyl album ‘Bad Girl’. The singer stands off-centre to the left against a black background, wearing a purple satin dress and sparkly jewellery. She is framed by a cut-out silhouette of a figure in an overcoat.
Jacket and inner page of Anita Mui’s vinyl album ‘Bad Girl’. The singer stands off-centre to the left against a black background, wearing a purple satin dress and sparkly jewellery. She is framed by a cut-out silhouette of a figure in an overcoat.

Imaging Cantopop: Design and Performativity A-side

Designers crafted larger-than-life personalities of Cantopop stars using photography, illustration, fashion, and typography. We explore their stories
9 mins: 
Design and Architecture  / Visual Culture  /  Article
Cover of Tat Ming Pair’s vinyl album I Am Waiting for Your Return, which has a pixelated treatment. Anthony Wong, in a white outfit, sits on a white chair on the left side and looks into the camera. Sitting on a black chair, Tats Lau is in a black outfit and looks downward. Both of them are wearing sunglasses.
Cover of Tat Ming Pair’s vinyl album I Am Waiting for Your Return, which has a pixelated treatment. Anthony Wong, in a white outfit, sits on a white chair on the left side and looks into the camera. Sitting on a black chair, Tats Lau is in a black outfit and looks downward. Both of them are wearing sunglasses.

Imaging Cantopop: Design and Performativity B-side

Cantopop grew out of Hong Kong’s cultural production at its most interdisciplinary, experimental, and diverse, expanding what graphic design could be
11 mins: 
Design and Architecture  / Visual Culture  /  Article

Inside M+

Dusk view of buildings across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, which stretches across the frame at the bottom. A campus of buildings stands on the viewer's right, including a rectangular block illuminated with the words 'M+'.

Behind the Screen: The M+ Facade

6 mins: 
Moving Image / Behind the Scenes / Article

Behind the Screen: The M+ Facade

Dusk view of buildings across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, which stretches across the frame at the bottom. A campus of buildings stands on the viewer's right, including a rectangular block illuminated with the words 'M+'.

Building M+

38 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Building M+

Monochrome animation still of the West Kowloon Cultural District.

How to Build a Museum: SUPERCUT

11 mins: 
Moving Image / Video

How to Build a Museum: SUPERCUT

A lady in a blue coat walks in a covered outdoor space. Lights hang from the ceiling above her.

Inside M+

17 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Inside M+

Dusk view of buildings across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, which stretches across the frame at the bottom. A campus of buildings stands on the viewer's right, including a rectangular block illuminated with the words 'M+'.

Behind the Screen: The M+ Facade

6 mins: 
Moving Image / Behind the Scenes / Article

Behind the Screen: The M+ Facade

Dusk view of buildings across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, which stretches across the frame at the bottom. A campus of buildings stands on the viewer's right, including a rectangular block illuminated with the words 'M+'.

Building M+

38 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Building M+

Monochrome animation still of the West Kowloon Cultural District.

How to Build a Museum: SUPERCUT

11 mins: 
Moving Image / Video

How to Build a Museum: SUPERCUT

A lady in a blue coat walks in a covered outdoor space. Lights hang from the ceiling above her.

Inside M+

17 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Inside M+

From the Vault

Red typewriter resting on a picnic blanket placed on lush green grass.
Red typewriter resting on a picnic blanket placed on lush green grass.

My Dear Valentine: How Olivetti’s Artful Advertising Imbued Machines with Desire

The Olivetti Valentine’s innovative design and ads made it the Apple of its time, portraying it as a stylish, emotional companion
6 mins: 
Design and Architecture  /  Article
A still of a single-channel video artwork featuring an opaque blue screen through which we can see a man standing in what appears to be a study. The work’s title is emblazoned across it in English and Chinese.
A still of a single-channel video artwork featuring an opaque blue screen through which we can see a man standing in what appears to be a study. The work’s title is emblazoned across it in English and Chinese.

From Alien Enslavement to Information Overload: Lin Ke on Digital Experience

Lin Ke’s ‘Like Me’ examines information overload, short attention spans, and the risks of entrancing society in endless digital experiences
4 mins: 
Visual Art  / Moving Image  /  Article

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