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Art Week Calendar
20 March 2023 (Monday)

M+ International Open House

Time Venue Description How to Join?
10:00am–4:00pm M+ M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will host M+ International Open House, as part of the West Kowloon Cultural District Art Week. The international event will welcome the international museum community, including museum directors and curators from leading museums, architects, designers, collectors, art critics to view the M+ building and its programme of exhibitions. Curator-led tours for selected exhibitions will be available.  The event is by invitation only. Please email to openhouse@mplus.org.hk for enquiries. 

 

M+ International Media Event

Time Venue Description How to Join?
2:00pm–4:00pm M+ M+ will invite international media to join a stage programme for important press announcements and provide curator-led tours for media. The event is by invitation only. Please email to media@mplus.org.hk for enquiries.

 

The Party at M+

Time Venue Description How to Join?
8:30pm–12:00am M+ M+ will host a party for international stakeholders from the arts and culture community.  The event is by invitation only. Please email to party@mplus.org.hk for enquiries.

 

Special arrangement – Circular Route Bus for M+ International Open House and The Party at M+ on 20 March 2023
This complimentary bus service is a circular route that operates on Monday, 20 March 2023 at 15-minute intervals between Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui and M+.

Time Arrangements
10:00am–5:15pm 
(Bus departing from Hankow Road will end at 3:00pm)
(Bus departing from M+ will end at 5:15pm)		 Circulate between Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (between The Salisbury YMCA of Hong Kong and The Peninsula Hong Kong) and M+
8:15pm–12:15am
(Bus departing from Hankow Road will end at 11:00pm)
(Bus departing from M+ will end at 12:15am)
 		 Circulate between Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (between The Salisbury YMCA of Hong Kong and The Peninsula Hong Kong) and M+
21 March 2023 (Tuesday)

M+ architectural tour by Herzog & de Meuron

Time Venue Description How to Join?
3:30pm–4:30pm M+

Designed by a global team of the world-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup, the M+ building is a new addition to the global arts and cultural landscape and a new international architectural icon.

 

Herzog & de Meuron will provide local and international media with an architecture tour to the M+ building from the practice’s perspective. 

 The event is by invitation only. Please email to media@mplus.org.hk for enquiries.

 

Prada Frames at M+ 
M+ joins Prada to host the Asia premiere of Prada Frames, a yearly symposium that investigates the complex and nuanced relationship between the environment and design. The original Frames concept was established by Italian design studio Formafantasma.

 

In this 2023 edition curated by M+, Prada Frames will respond to the overarching Frame of Materials in Flux. Spanning over two days through a lecture and two panels, we will examine this topic within the ecology of place. Bringing together architects, artists, designers, and thinkers from Hong Kong, the wider Asia Pacific, and beyond, the panels will focus on the global ambition of sustainability from their practices and places. M+ will serve as a platform and a catalyst to bridge conversations from across Asia within an international context.

Time Venue Description How to Join?
5:00pm–6:30pm Grand Stair, M+

Museums act as containers and circuits for the flow of ideas from the past and look to the future, activated by people. In addition, the architecture of a museum plays a significant role in shaping and cultivating fundamental and imaginative ideas for a sustainable society.

 

Bringing together people and visual culture, M+ is a platform for ongoing exchange between creative practitioners and the public. The M+ building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a new addition to the international arts and culture landscape. What were the main forces in shaping the architecture of the M+ building? How do its public spaces respond to these forces?

 

Lecture by Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron
Introduction: Keri Ryan
Speaker: Jacques Herzog
Interlocutors: Suhanya Raffel and Ikko Yokoyama

 M+ website
22 March (Wednesday) to 2 April 2023 (Sunday)

Prada Frames at M+

Date and Time Venue Description How to Join?
22 March 2023 (Wed) 11:00am-12:30pm Grand Stair, M+

Hong Kong comprises more than 200 Islands and the peninsula of Kowloon, surrounded by the South China Sea on all three sides. As we confront the current climate crisis, the value and role of this water body become increasingly important. This panel brings together cross-disciplinary perspectives on the role of oceans and seas across the globe through the lenses of artists, designers, and scientists.

 

Panel 1: Sea States
Introduction: Simone Farresin and Keri Ryan
Speakers: Christian J. Lange, Charles Lim Yi Yong, CT Low, and Lisa Reihana
Moderator: Ute Meta Bauer

 M+ website
22 March 2023 (Wed) 5:00pm-6:30pm Grand Stair, M+

In the modern economy, we take materials to create products and discard what we do not use as waste into the peripheries of our globe, oceans, and even outer space. Within the global ecosystem, waste becomes part of the circulation of goods. In the face of such intolerable consequences, we will discuss this topic from the vantage point of Hong Kong as a hub of circulation. The panel will give us an opportunity to reconsider the potential of waste and its circulation.

 

Panel 2: Reconceiving Material Circulation
Introduction: Simone Farresin and Ikko Yokoyama
Speakers: Edward Burtynsky, Yung Ho Chang, Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin), LAAB Architects (Otto Ng and Yip Chun Hang), and Marisa Yiu
Interlocutors: Charmaine Chan, Shirley Surya and Ikko Yokoyama

 M+ website

 

 

Public lecture at Hong Kong Palace Museum – Stories of China Lecture: Different Facets of the Palace Museum

Date and Time Venue Description How to Join?
22 March 2023 (Wed) 4:00pm–5:15pm The Hong Kong Jockey Club Auditorium, LG/F, Hong Kong Palace Museum Mr Lou Wei, Executive Deputy Director of the Palace Museum will share at this lecture the Palace Museum’s approach in recent years to innovate and explore its own cultural values, including humanistic spirit and values, for promoting and enhancing Chinese traditional culture from diverse perspectives, and give insights on the unique charm and diverse aspects of the Palace Museum as a world cultural heritage, museum, and tourist destination. The lecture will be followed by a dialogue with Dr Louis Ng, Museum Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Members of public could register online on Hong Kong Palace Museum official website.

 

Limited quota will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

HKT x WESTK POPFEST

Date and Time Venue Description How to Join?
22 March (Wed)–2 April 2023 (Sun) Freespace, Art Park, Wonderland and M+
West Kowloon Cultural District		 Hong Kong’s largest pop music festival, HKT x WESTK POPFEST, with HKT being the title sponsor and WKCDA Performing Arts team as curator and producer, features more than 70 ticketed and free daily performances of different genres and styles over 10 music-packed days. Exciting performances by over 200 singers, bands and musicians will span across the indoor and outdoor venues of the West Kowloon Cultural District (the District or WKCD), including Freespace, Art Park, Wonderland and M+.

During POPFEST starting from 22 March, visitors can enjoy free live music every night at Lau Bak Livehouse from 9:00pm to 11:00pm. 

 Tickets available on online ticketing system Cityline from 24 February 2023. For more details please visit West Kowloon Cultural District website.

For details of free programmes, please visit West Kowloon Cultural District website.
Special arrangement – Circular Route Bus for M+ x CHAT from 23–26 March 2023

This complimentary bus service is a circular route that operates from Thursday, 23 March 2023 to Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 25-minute intervals between HKCEC, CHAT and M+.

Time Arrangements
9:30am–6:30pm 
(Bus departing from M+ will end at 5:10pm, CHAT will end at 5:50pm)		 Circulate between HKCEC, CHAT and M+

 

 

This complimentary bus service is a circular route that operates on Sunday, 26 March 2023 at 15-minute intervals between CHAT and M+.

Time Arrangements
12:50pm–5:10pm 
(Bus departing from M+ and CHAT will end at 4:50pm)		 Circulate between CHAT and M+
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