February 25, 2021
A digital rendering of M+ Museum. Image: Herzog & de Meuron and the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority.
Following William and Lavina Lim's donation
of nearly 100 artworks to M+, the museum has received another significant
donation—this time by Hallam Chow, a prominent Hong Kong collector and
long-time supporter of the museum. The pieces date from the 1990s to the 2010s,
and will help shape the institution’s collection of contemporary Asian art. Among
the works in the donation are works by seven Japanese artists and collectives,
including Aida Makoto, Chim↑Pom, Konoike Tomoko, Odani Motohiko, and Shioyasu
Tomoko. Other artists represented in the group of gifted works are Montien
Boonma, Lee Bul, Liang Yuanwei, Liu Wei, and Adrian Wong.
"My hope for M+ is for it to become an
international art institution that respects, nurtures and cultivates
inter-collaboration and exchange between and among the Asian countries
including regions that may have been overlooked and under-represented in the
global art scene including South East Asia and Japan (beyond Gutai artists,
Murakami, Nara and Kusama)," says Chow.
Doryun Chong, deputy director of M+’s
curatorial department and chief curator at the museum, said in a statement that
the gift “greatly enhances the museum’s ability to create even more inventive
and thought-provoking narratives about how contemporary art has made critical
contributions to visual culture in Asia, which now has global resonances.”
Chow’s donation is not the only significant
gift that the M+ Museum has received in recent months. In December, the
institution announced that it had been given key artworks from Hong Kong–based
collectors William and Lavina Lim. The Lims donated 90 pieces from their
holdings, which they call the Living Collection, to M+, the contemporary art
and design museum scheduled to open in late 2021 at the West Kowloon Cultural
District. Measuring in at nearly 700,000 sq ft, the Herzog & de
Meuron-designed M+ will be one of the largest art museums in the world and is
already being compared to London’s Tate Modern and New York’s Museum of Modern
Art. “I really hope M+ will be a place to put children and the general public
in closer touch with art,” says William. “I love it when you’re in a museum
that feels welcoming and not intimidating, when people are sitting on the
ground, people are sketching, people are talking about art. That’s what we hope
M+ will be.”
M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting,
exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image,
and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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