M+ replaced on 2026 Hong Kong Venice Biennale exhibition

Hong Kong Removes M+ From Venice Biennale Role

Despite being credited with raising visitor numbers to Hong Kong's pavilion in Venice, the museum has been replaced in its role as organiser.

M+ Out as Organizer of Hong Kong Pavilion at 2026 Venice Biennale

The government-appointed Hong Kong Arts Development Council has removed Hong Kong’s M+ contemporary art museum as the organizer of the city’s pavilion at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The institution had overseen the exhibition since 2013. The pavilion will instead be organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art […]

M+ replaced on 2026 Hong Kong Venice Biennale exhibition

Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2008 © CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Photo: Baycrest M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture located in West Kowloon, will no longer oversee the city’s exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Instead, the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMOA) will lead preparations for the presentation. The decision to replace M+ after a thirteen-year tenure with the HKMOA was made by the government-appointed Hong Kong Arts Development…