"Making it Matters" at M+, Hong Kong
Making it Matters
Making it Matters follows the process of making from concept and research to design and fabrication, as well as the social networks that link each step. By delving into the inspirations, techniques, and impacts behind the selected works, the exhibition helps us understand our own roles in processes of making and their relation to our daily lives.
This exhibition mostly draws upon the diverse works of the M+ Collections. The artists, designers, and architects featured include John Cage, Harold Cohen, Julie & Jesse, John Maeda, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Ki Saigon, Fujimori Terunobu, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Stanley Wong, and Võ Trọng Nghĩa Architects. It follows the process of making from concept and research to design and fabrication, as well as the social networks that link each step. By delving into the inspirations, techniques, and impacts behind the selected works, the exhibition helps us understand our own roles in processes of making and their relation to our daily lives.
The exhibition also looks at responsible design, material innovation, and creative reuse strategies adopted by innovative makers exploring alternative modes of thinking. These ideas are situated within wider historical and sociopolitical contexts across four thematic sections.
‘Ceramics: A Story of Shifting Values’ explores the complex and layered history of ceramics and focuses on how one material can shift greatly in value and perception over time. ‘Material Potential’ highlights how makers experiment with a variety of materials, including neon, resin, and bamboo, discovering new processes, methods, and forms along the way. ‘The Hand and the Machine’ examines how the development of computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning revolutionised the making process. ‘Actions and Consequences’ traces how consumerism came to shape contemporary society by demanding mass production, synthetic materials and low-paid labour.
Opening
02 November 2024
Fragment(s) showing in "Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination" exhibition at M+, Hong Kong
Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination
Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s leading couture artist, combines Chinese cultural heritage with international elements and artistic expression. Guo’s astonishing runway collections have impressed fashion and art audiences alike for almost 30 years. Presenting the first major exhibition of Guo’s work produced in China, M+ will showcase Guo’s key collections and early designs, highlighting her unique career connecting China and the rest of the world and the cultural symbols created through her sophisticated and visually dazzling practice. Working with the couturier and her studio, the exhibition presents a selection of garments shown to audiences in the region for the first time, creating a layered dialogue with the M+ Collections around visual imagination and workmanship. The exhibition foregrounds Guo Pei’s unique artistic style that resonates with imperial Chinese dress etiquette, European royal fashion, architecture, and the botanical world.
Exhibition details
21 September 2024 – 6 April 2025
M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Main Hall Gallery
Photo courtesy of M+
Forthcoming exhibition for the Swiss Month, Hong Kong
Swiss Month
On the occasion of the Swiss Month, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong presents the work of six Swiss artists living and working in Hong Kong.
Artists: Nicolas Jeanbourquin, Julie & Jesse, Marc Progin, Miriam Reichmuth, David Stein, Sophie Tunik
Exhibition dates and opening hours
19 – 20 October 2024, 11am – 7pm
Location
Illuminati Fine Art, 31 – 33 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Julie & Jesse in "The third shuitu-water and clay around the world" book
The third shuitu-water and clay around the world exhibition catalogue
Julie & Jesse featured in the exhibition catalogue of “The third shuitu-water and clay around the world” exhibition published by the Qingdao Creation and Exhibition Center and the International Academy of Ceramics.
Julie & Jesse in "M+ Collections: Highlights" book
Julie & Jesse in M+ Collections Highlights
M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of contemporary visual culture, opened in 2021. Its varied collections include more than 6,000 works and objects from the worlds of visual art, moving image, and design and architecture; more than 1,500 works of contemporary Chinese art from the M+ Sigg Collection; the M+ Collection Archives, comprising some 45,000 items; and the M+ Library Special Collection.
M+ Collections: Highlights presents the work of more than 300 artists, designers, film-makers, photographers, and architects, specially selected to represent the collections as a whole, from Zhang Peili and Charlotte Perriand, to Nam June Paik, Zaha Hadid, and Shigeru Ban. Each chapter encompasses a different decade of the collections’ span, from the 1950s to the present. The book consists of individual entries on featured makers, each paired with an insightful analysis by an M+ curator. Interspersed among these entries are twenty-four thematic essays that illuminate some of the ideas around which the collections have grown, including modernism in Asian art and the future of painting in a digital world. Full of unexpected connections and new perspectives, M+ Collections: Highlights serves as an invaluable—and beautiful—introduction to this innovative new museum’s world-class collections of modern and contemporary visual culture.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Size: 28 x 23 cm
Extent: 432 pp
Illustrations: 725
Publication date: 12 November 2021
ISBN: 9780500024362
Doryun Chong is Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator at M+. Lesley Ma is Curator, Ink Art, at M+. Pauline J. Yao is Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+. Ikko Yokoyama is Lead Curator, Design and Architecture, at M+.
Upcoming exhibition at the Qingdao Sculpture Museum
Qingdao International Public and Environmental Ceramic Art Exhibition 2022
Curated by Wan Liya
Hosted by the Academy of Sculpture, the Chinese National Academy of Arts, the Qingdao Center for Promoting Art in Public Space, the International Academy of Ceramics.
Organized by the Qingdao Creation and Exhibition Center of the Chinese Urban Sculptor Artists Association and the Qingdao Daqian Culture and Art Design Company.
We are extremely excited to share that Fragment(s) | The unlimited edition, is exhibiting for the occasion.
Date
November 5 – December 4 2022
Location
Qingdao Sculpture Museum