Update | 12 Hong Kong art exhibitions coming in 2025, including Picasso, Renoir and Cézanne shows
Hong Kong art lovers have an exciting year in store, to judge by a slew of recently announced exhibitions. Here are 12 to look forward to
As we wrap up 2024, Hong Kong’s art scene is already buzzing with excitement about a number of events next year.
Including shows of paintings by Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso, here are some highly anticipated art exhibitions in 2025 that have just been announced.
1. Picasso for Asia: A Conversation
A major talking point is the Picasso exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture that will be unveiled just before Art Basel Hong Kong.
“Picasso for Asia: A Conversation” will feature more than 60 works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential artists, who was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer.
Co-curated by M+ and the Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP) in France, the special exhibition in the West Kowloon Cultural District will mark the first time that masterpieces from the Paris museum have been shown together with works from a museum collection in Asia. It is co-presented with the French May Arts Festival.
Among the major works that are being shipped to Hong Kong for the show are The Acrobat (1930), Figures by the Sea (1931), Large Still Life with Pedestal Table (1931), Portrait of Dora Maar (1937) and Massacre in Korea (1951).
