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Frontal, close-up view of Antony Gormley's Asian Field installation. Dozens of clay figurines in various sizes and forms, all figurines have two eyes looking forward. One of the figurines is much taller than the rest where its body is full of pinch marks.

Antony Gormley: Asian Field

10 mins:

Visual Art / Video

Frontal, close-up view of Antony Gormley's Asian Field installation. Dozens of clay figurines in various sizes and forms, all figurines have two eyes looking forward. One of the figurines is much taller than the rest where its body is full of pinch marks.

Frontal, close-up view of Antony Gormley's Asian Field installation. Dozens of clay figurines in various sizes and forms, all figurines have two eyes looking forward. One of the figurines is much taller than the rest where its body is full of pinch marks.

Antony Gormley: Asian Field

Photograph showing a room with walls covered in posters that feature big Chinese characters in shades of black, red, and white. Four extra-large characters in white against a red background lie on a red carpeted floor.

Diffused Religion and the Origins of Chinese Avant-Garde Art

Three light fixtures hang in front of a white wall. Two of the fixtures consist of translucent blades arranged vertically around cylindrical centres. The third fixture consists of plastic crystal-like ornaments resembling a traditional chandelier lamp fixture.

Hong Kong Plastic Pioneers

Rocking lounge chair made out of Brazilian pau ferro wood and cane. The cane is set in a wooden frame to form the seat and back, appearing as a long flowing line from the side. The centre of the chair’s seat is connected to a base made of curved wood, resembling an upside-down arch. Attached below the seat’s head and foot are two smaller curved pieces of wood, which form an asymmetrical arc shapes from the side.

Unravelling the Enigma of Chairs

Monochrome photograph showing a wall covered in vertical lines of Chinese text. The characters are written in black ink. The characters for ‘King’ are especially large. The lines on some characters have slightly faded. In the right foreground, a person is passing the wall, appearing blurry to the camera. At the top of the frame, the edge of a rippled canopy is visible.

Moments in Time with the King of Kowloon

Frontal, close-up view of Antony Gormley's Asian Field installation. Dozens of clay figurines in various sizes and forms, all figurines have two eyes looking forward. One of the figurines is much taller than the rest where its body is full of pinch marks.

Antony Gormley: Asian Field

Photograph showing a room with walls covered in posters that feature big Chinese characters in shades of black, red, and white. Four extra-large characters in white against a red background lie on a red carpeted floor.

Diffused Religion and the Origins of Chinese Avant-Garde Art

Three light fixtures hang in front of a white wall. Two of the fixtures consist of translucent blades arranged vertically around cylindrical centres. The third fixture consists of plastic crystal-like ornaments resembling a traditional chandelier lamp fixture.

Hong Kong Plastic Pioneers

Rocking lounge chair made out of Brazilian pau ferro wood and cane. The cane is set in a wooden frame to form the seat and back, appearing as a long flowing line from the side. The centre of the chair’s seat is connected to a base made of curved wood, resembling an upside-down arch. Attached below the seat’s head and foot are two smaller curved pieces of wood, which form an asymmetrical arc shapes from the side.

Unravelling the Enigma of Chairs

Monochrome photograph showing a wall covered in vertical lines of Chinese text. The characters are written in black ink. The characters for ‘King’ are especially large. The lines on some characters have slightly faded. In the right foreground, a person is passing the wall, appearing blurry to the camera. At the top of the frame, the edge of a rippled canopy is visible.

Moments in Time with the King of Kowloon

Video still showing a woman dressed in black shirt and trousers in mid-speech standing before a colourful, kaleidoscopic video projection.

Video still showing a woman dressed in black shirt and trousers in mid-speech standing before a colourful, kaleidoscopic video projection.

Inside ‘Hong Kong: Here and Beyond’

Join curators Tina Pang, Shirley Surya, and Chanel Kong on a virtual tour of the exhibition ‘Hong Kong: Here and Beyond’

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

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

Inside M+

As M+ opens its doors to the public, Suhanya Raffel and Doryun Chong lead a virtual tour of the museum’s opening exhibitions and many sprawling spaces

Film still showing a man in a suit standing before a row of large paintings. The oil painting in the foreground depicts men and women on snow-covered ground, smiling and flushed as they lean forward to move a section of an aqueduct. A figure on the viewer's right holds up a green flag. The partially completed aqueduct forms the backdrop in the upper half.

Film still showing a man in a suit standing before a row of large paintings. The oil painting in the foreground depicts men and women on snow-covered ground, smiling and flushed as they lean forward to move a section of an aqueduct. A figure on the viewer's right holds up a green flag. The partially completed aqueduct forms the backdrop in the upper half.

Inside ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’

Join curators Pi Li, Wu Mo, and Isabella Tam on a virtual tour of the exhibition ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’

A photograph of a man's hand holding a piece of clay rolled up into a ball.

A photograph of a man's hand holding a piece of clay rolled up into a ball.

The Beauty and Craft of Terracotta Manufacturing

An inside look at the beauty and craft behind the manufacturing process of the M+ building’s facade tiles in Florence, Italy

The concrete tower of a large building reaches skyward, surrounded on two sides by cranes. Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island are visible beyond the tower.

The concrete tower of a large building reaches skyward, surrounded on two sides by cranes. Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island are visible beyond the tower.

Building M+

What does it mean to establish an institution while constructing its physical building? 'Building M+' charts M+'s journey from vision on paper to concrete museum.

Ongoing Series

Commissioned stories exploring the diverse historical moments, geographic locations, and intellectual constellations of cultural production.

Visual Culture Questionnaire

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Visual Culture Questionnaire

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Performance Art

A man in white shirt and shorts runs between three rows of cars stopped in traffic. HIs arms are raised above his head in a 'V' shape.

A man in white shirt and shorts runs between three rows of cars stopped in traffic. HIs arms are raised above his head in a 'V' shape.

Expression Beyond Documentation

Isabella Tam examines how photographers documented performance art and site-specific works in post-war Japan

Lin Yilin: Art, My Way

Artist Lin Yilin discusses his performance piece 'Typhoon', in which he walks slowly on stilts through the colonial arcades of Guangzhou

Chromogenic colour prints. A man with a shaved head stares at us with names and stories written on his face in black ink. In subsequent photos additional writing is added until his face is entirely black.

Chromogenic colour prints. A man with a shaved head stares at us with names and stories written on his face in black ink. In subsequent photos additional writing is added until his face is entirely black.

From Earth to Ink: How Performance Artists Use Their Bodies

Learn about how Ana Mendieta used her body in her performances, alongside other examples of body performance art from the M+ Collections.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Condition for Experience

Rirkrit Tiravanija is discusses his practice of ‘relational aesthetics’, the tendency of participatory artmaking

A man in a blue shirt stands in a blue-tiled MTR station in Hong Kong.

A man in a blue shirt stands in a blue-tiled MTR station in Hong Kong.

Pak Sheung Chuen: Measuring Time

Artist Pak Sheung Chuen takes us to two locations of his previous performances: the Kowloon Tong MTR station and a Hong Kong apartment building

A woman dressed in a cream-coloured, shapeless garment holds four long-stemmed white flowers in her hands. She is captured in the middle of blowing a mouthful of white petals from the flowers into the air in front of her. She is standing in a park during sunset.

A woman dressed in a cream-coloured, shapeless garment holds four long-stemmed white flowers in her hands. She is captured in the middle of blowing a mouthful of white petals from the flowers into the air in front of her. She is standing in a park during sunset.

A Brief Introduction to Performance Art and Its History in Asia

What exactly is performance art, and what does it look like in Hong Kong and Asia?

Making Hong Kong

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Visual Art / Video

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Visual Art / Video

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Visual Art / Video

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Visual Art / Video

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Behind the Scenes

A woman wearing a face mask and gloves bends over and looks intently at a large photograph on a table. Both hands are on the photograph, as if she is adjusting its positioning.

A woman wearing a face mask and gloves bends over and looks intently at a large photograph on a table. Both hands are on the photograph, as if she is adjusting its positioning.

Anatomy of a Photograph

Conservator Marta García Celma zooms in on the the challenges and thrills of photo conservation at M+

Photograph of two men handling a sculpture in a gallery space. The visible part of the sculpture has a weathered, patina finish and features a man's head attached to a body with angel wings; in the place of arms is a circular device with 10 holes. One man is handling the sculpture's wings with gloved hands; the other is screwing something into the platform.

Photograph of two men handling a sculpture in a gallery space. The visible part of the sculpture has a weathered, patina finish and features a man's head attached to a body with angel wings; in the place of arms is a circular device with 10 holes. One man is handling the sculpture's wings with gloved hands; the other is screwing something into the platform.

From Forklifts to Finishing Touches

Kieran Champion, Senior Manager of Installation and Displays at M+, speaks about the art of installing precious objects and artworks

Two women with blue medical gloves work on an artwork laid out on a white table. The artwork consisting of German words printed on a large gold-covered vellum sheet. The sheet is rolled into a scroll with part of it flat on the table. One of the women is kneeling by the word and touching it, while the other woman leans over and observes her actions.

Two women with blue medical gloves work on an artwork laid out on a white table. The artwork consisting of German words printed on a large gold-covered vellum sheet. The sheet is rolled into a scroll with part of it flat on the table. One of the women is kneeling by the word and touching it, while the other woman leans over and observes her actions.

How Conservators Protect Objects against Sweat, Floor Paint, and Weather

Albrecht Gumlich explains how conservators protect artworks when they're exhibited in a museum space

A woman leans over a rolled up section of a large ink artwork on paper. She places a white strip onto the middle of the artwork where it’s been unrolled, next to other white strips weighted down by small weights.

A woman leans over a rolled up section of a large ink artwork on paper. She places a white strip onto the middle of the artwork where it’s been unrolled, next to other white strips weighted down by small weights.

Back to the Past to Conserve a Work of Contemporary Calligraphy

M+ Paper Conservator Jo-Fan Huang explains how the team worked on one of the largest works in the M+ Collections, using both modern and historical tools

Construction workers on a yellow elevated stand working on a neon sign in a street under a blue sky. The neon sign is in the shape of a cow. The words ‘Sammy’s Kitchen Ltd.’ in green English and red Chinese lettering are displayed inside the cow.

Construction workers on a yellow elevated stand working on a neon sign in a street under a blue sky. The neon sign is in the shape of a cow. The words ‘Sammy’s Kitchen Ltd.’ in green English and red Chinese lettering are displayed inside the cow.

Collecting Neon Signs from Hong Kong’s Streets

Two M+ team members discuss their challenging but exciting experiences collecting neon signs from Hong Kong’s streets

Two people stand in front of a large flat artwork consisting of thousands of used teabags sewn together. The person on the left is brandishing a small paintbrush, hovering it over the work.

Two people stand in front of a large flat artwork consisting of thousands of used teabags sewn together. The person on the left is brandishing a small paintbrush, hovering it over the work.

How Do You Conserve an Artwork Made Out of Teabags?

Three M+ conservators discuss how they conserved a work made out of thousands of used teabags stitched together

Editor's Picks

Monochrome video depicting a medium-sized dog in motion, running across a lawn next to a person’s legs.

Monochrome video depicting a medium-sized dog in motion, running across a lawn next to a person’s legs.

Conversing with Corpses and Dogs

Ulanda Blair takes a timely look at the video works of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook—their meditations on death and focus on marginalised narratives

Five slivers of the works and objects in the post below have been put together to form a banner. From left to right is a robot dog, an oil painting on canvas of a woman breastfeeding next to a small dog, a colour print of a dog staring pensively upwards, and an oil painting on canvas with a small dog against a bright yellow background, and a monochrome video still of a dog running on a lawn.

Five slivers of the works and objects in the post below have been put together to form a banner. From left to right is a robot dog, an oil painting on canvas of a woman breastfeeding next to a small dog, a colour print of a dog staring pensively upwards, and an oil painting on canvas with a small dog against a bright yellow background, and a monochrome video still of a dog running on a lawn.

5 Lovable Dogs in the M+ Collections

Need a puppy pick-me-up? Check out these five loveable dogs from our collections

Ink Art

A man in a black t-shirt paints practices calligraphy vigorously.

Yangjiang Group: Subverting Calligraphy

Visual Art / Video

Yangjiang Group: Subverting Calligraphy

Artist's Lens

Still from a digital video. A slender young woman in a long white dress stands in a warehouse flanked by rows of shrink-wrapped pallets, looking at us with her bare arms crossed.

Still from a digital video. A slender young woman in a long white dress stands in a warehouse flanked by rows of shrink-wrapped pallets, looking at us with her bare arms crossed.

Cao Fei: Constructing ‘Whose Utopia’

Multimedia artist Cao Fei reflects on her 2006 work, ‘Whose Utopia’, and its poignant portrayal of factory workers in China

Shirley Tse: An Exercise in Negotiation

Hong Kong artist Shirley Tse discusses her installations ‘Negotiated Differences’ and ‘Playcourt’, as part of her exhibition ‘Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders’

Lim Chong Keat: Building Singapore and Malaysia

Architect Lim Chong Keat talks about some of his most important projects as co-founder of Architects Team 3

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’

Artist Kiri Dalena discusses the activism behind her work 'Erased Slogans', based on digitally altered archival images of protests in 1970s Manila

Samson Young: Unheard Sounds

Artist Samson Young explains the origins of his 'Muted Sounds' series, in which musicians are instructed to perform without music

A man sits works inside a studio space. Dozens of hardware tools hang on a wall.

A man sits works inside a studio space. Dozens of hardware tools hang on a wall.

Zhang Wei: Inside ‘Fusuijing Building’

Zhang Wei reveals the story behind his 1975 work ‘Fusuijing Building’, painted from inside a building ‘designed to control the minds of its inhabitants’

Digital Commissions

'The Earth Is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital / Interactives

'The Earth Is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital graphic still of green and blue mountains

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Digital / Interactives

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Close-up of the back of a young couple holding hands while walking towards the sea, with Cantonese lyrics on it.

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital / Interactives

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital animation still of several clusters of computer servers sitting on a flat grass lawn. They are cloaked with a piece of fabric with logos of various technology companies printed on it. There is a line of trees and spiral unicorn horns nearby.

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

Digital / Interactives

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

'The Earth Is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital / Interactives

'The Earth Is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital graphic still of green and blue mountains

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Digital / Interactives

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Close-up of the back of a young couple holding hands while walking towards the sea, with Cantonese lyrics on it.

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital / Interactives

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital animation still of several clusters of computer servers sitting on a flat grass lawn. They are cloaked with a piece of fabric with logos of various technology companies printed on it. There is a line of trees and spiral unicorn horns nearby.

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

Digital / Interactives

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

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