Hong Kong’s M+ museum to showcase collections in Paris under 5-year deal
Partnership with Paris-based Centre Pompidou also covers research and talent exchange
Collections from Hong Kong’s M+ museum will be exhibited in Paris alongside works from the Centre Pompidou in France under a five-year deal signed by the two institutions, which also covers research and talent exchanges.
The memorandum of understanding for the multi-year partnership was signed on Friday at the M+ by its director Suhanya Raffel and Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Centre Pompidou. French Consul General Christile Drulhe witnessed the ceremony.
“This is the first time for Hong Kong collections to go out to Paris like this,” Raffel said.
“But it takes time … to build what that exhibition will be from the two collections. What we want to be able to do is to do something that we couldn’t do without the other.”
The major exhibition featuring collections from both institutions will be staged first in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, after its five-year renovation, around 2029 or 2030, before being hosted at the M+ with a focus on visual culture in France and China.
“Centre Pompidou was one of the key institutions that we looked to that helped us guide the principles around building an institution like this for Asia,” Raffel said, highlighting that M+ was now only five years old.