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M+

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  • West Kowloon
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Located within the West Kowloon Cultural District, the 65,000sq m venue is designed by renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron – the brilliant minds behind famous structures such as the Beijing National Stadium (aka the Bird's Nest) and Prada's flagship store in Tokyo – in partnership with architecture firms TFP Farrells and Arup.

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Photograph: Courtesy M+

Clad with a large LED system on its harbour-facing facade to display collections, special commissions, and other museum-related content, the waterfront museum is a striking addition to the city’s skyline. Inside, the building features 17,000sq m of exhibition space across 33 galleries, and houses various facilities and public spaces, including a rooftop garden, research centre, multimedia library, restaurants, cinemas, and the Found Space, which caters to major installations.

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Photograph: Courtesy M+

Exhibitions at the museum will cover themes of architecture and design, post-war art, conceptual art, installation art and much more. Click here for more information about upcoming exhibitions held at M+.

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Photograph: Courtesy M+

Aside from exhibitions, visitors can also enjoy a programme of live performances, talks, tours, workshops, screenings, and online events for three weekends following the museum opening. Alternatively, head to the Curator Creative Cafe for drinks and nibbles and The Other Shop for a vast selection of art prints, stationery, hand-crafted items by local artists, books, and more.

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What’s on

Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination

This exhibition features more than 40 haute couture pieces from the fashion artist Guo Pei, including Rihanna’s show-stopping yellow gown that she wore to the 2015 Met Gala. It marks the first major exhibition dedicated to this celebrated Chinese couture artist in East Asia. With a practice that has spanned almost four decades, Guo is among China’s first generation of contemporary fashion designers, with work reflecting Asian and global trends over the past century. You’ll often see traditional Chinese embroidery in her pieces, and this exhibition shows works inspired by fantasy dreamscapes, Eastern folklore, architecture, and space-time. The designer herself will hold a talk on September 21, and M+ will also host two screenings of Yellow Is Forbidden, which documents Guo’s journey in a predominantly Western field as she prepares a show for Paris Haute Couture Week.

Making It Matters

This latest exhibition in the M+ Open Gallery examines the process of making things as a creative expression, and how this has a lasting impact on individuals, communities, and our ecosystems. Drawing from the works of the M+ Collections, visitors are invited into the inspirations and techniques behind the processing of conceptualising, research, design, and fabrication that go into the objects and architecture we see around us. Split into four sections, it covers the broad themes of ceramics with its layered history; innovative uses of materials like neon, resin, and bamboo, including a restored Hong Kong neon sign; how computing, machine learning, and AI have impacted the making process; and the effects of consumerism and mass production on contemporary society. Tickets for ‘Making It Matters’ cost $120, and allow same-day entry to the other paid exhibitions in M+.

Shanshui: Echoes and Signals

M+ Museum’s new thematic exhibition aims to explore the connection between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Literally translating to ‘mountain and water’, shanshui is a Chinese cultural concept that has inspired Asian ink paintings across millennia. Almost 130 works split into nine thematic sections will reimagine landscape through art, moving images, sound, design, architecture, and other large-scale mediums from a range of international artists, architects, and creators.
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Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades

M+ will bring together the works of two photography artists who are vastly different people but both create staged photographs that explore the same concepts. This marks the first exhibition presenting the Japanese Yasumasa Morimura and the American Cindy Sherman, showing how they rethink identity across disparate times, places, and culture. Since the 70s and 80s, both Morimura and Sherman have been drawing inspiration from female archetypes and iconic figures in art and pop culture, then reconstructing these contextual identities through staged photographs. Gathered into four series, see works where the artist masquerades as celebrities and historical figures, images shot to resemble erotic magazine spreads from the mid-twentieth century, and satires of gendered tropes found in movie culture. While it can be fun to simply spot the references in these works, this exhibition nudges viewers to think about the relationship between identity, mass media, and history. What sort of roles do we embody in life, and what are the influences that have shaped us into who we are now? Look through Morimura and Sherman’s lenses to see what they have to say. Opening on December 14, tickets for the Masquerades exhibition will cost $120 – this also allows entry to other exhibitions like Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story, Making It Matters, and more. Tickets to the special exhibitions currently at M+ (I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture and Guo Pei: Fashioning...
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