First in Asia, M+ Museum and Architecture Collection Previews in Hong Kong’s ArtisTree

2014-02-12T05:51:47-05:00

The M+ Museum, the main cultural anchor of the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), is slated to open in 2017. However, prior to its launch, the museum and its curatorial teams have been busy spending the last several months giving form to its vision as a “museum of visual culture” via a continuous effort on the building of its works – local, regional, and global. Prior to the unveiling of the museum’s Architecture Collection at ArtisTree last week, the museum so far has had a jump start with the news of its Sigg Collection thanks to a sizeable donation of over 1,500 pieces by Swiss collector, Uli Sigg, the world’s largest universally recognised private collector of Chinese contemporary art from the 1970’s to present.

Excluding the Sigg Collection, M+ has since recently acquired around 800 works to date, of which 80 per cent are by local artists and designers. A percentage of this is of course the Architecture collection, the first and only one of its kind in Asia, consisting of mo...

2013 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM \ ARCHITECTURE IN HONG KONG

2014-02-11T22:22:37-05:00

The Kwun Tong area in Hong Kong is currently undergoing a kind of development renaissance since the government will be putting in place an MTR connection here, in part to serve the newly opened Kai Tak Cruise Terminal designed by Foster + Partners on a strip of site that was once the Kai Tak Airport, which is parallel to the Kwun Tong Promenade… the site of the 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture (UABB).

Of course with any development, controversy always follows, and the UABB, a bi-annual event that seeks to question the urbanistic growth between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, was a target for activists who wanted to focus on the Government’s pro-development schemes in the Kwun Tong neighbourhood. Even some of the event organisers and partners were not allowed into the programme’s opening day of which Chief Executive, CY Leung was in attendance.

VISIT 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture will run until 28 February 2014.

JJ.

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First in Asia, M+ Museum and Architecture Collection Previews in Hong Kong’s ArtisTree

2013 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM \ ARCHITECTURE IN HONG KONG