M+ Announces 2025 Exhibition Programme

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M+ has announced its 2025 exhibition programme—including commissions that will appear on its giant TV-screen facade, which can be viewed from across Victoria Harbour.

Zhou Tao‘s Jade Jadeite (2024), a montage of the waterways that connect communities on the Pearl River and in Hong Kong, will play on the screen over the winter. The work M+ is commissioning with Art Basel for the spring is yet to be announced, but autumn will see Ayoung Kim respond to retail environments in M+‘s inaugural co-commission with Sydney‘s Powerhouse Museum.

Kicking off the museum’s special exhibitions in March 2025 is Picasso for Asia: A Conversation. The exhibition will place 60 works borrowed from the Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP) in dialogue with around 80 works by Asian artists held by M+. Coinciding with the exhibition, Lee Mingwei will recreate Picasso’s Guernica in sand as a giant installation.

The third presentation of the Uli Sigg Collection, M+ Sigg Collection: Inner Worlds, will focus on Chinese art from 1990 to 2012. Featuring works by artists including Duan Jianyu, Fang Lijun, and Hu Xiaoyuan, it opens in August 2025.

The exhibition Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now builds on a 2023 show by the Haus der Kunst München that featured full-scale reproductions of works by artists including Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, and Faith Wilding. The M+ iteration, opening in September 2025, will add more environments by Asian women artists.

An exhibition celebrating the centennial of American artist Robert Rauschenberg‘s birth will open in November 2025. Robert Rauschenberg and Asia will bring together works produced by the artist in response to his time in Asia, including an extended engagement with Japan beginning in the mid-1960s, a residency in India in 1975, and a trip to China in 1982.

A Lee Bul survey co-curated by M+ and the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul will open at the Leeum in September 2025, when Frieze Seoul takes place. The exhibition will travel to M+ in spring 2026.

Also in September next year, the six nominees for the 2025 Sigg Prize will present works in an exhibition at M+. The nominees are: Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, Heidi Lau, Pan Daijing, and Wong Ping.

Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director of M+, said the museum ‘has reached significant milestones in its third year as we established important collaborations with leading museums around the world and opened institution-defining exhibitions, which were years in the making.’

‘Our 2025 lineup of exhibitions and programmes will continue to foreground iconic contemporary visionaries around the world, amplifying the museum’s presence on the international stage and further strengthening M+‘s position as Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture,’ she said.

Rounding out 2024, Danh Vo will transform the museum’s Found Space, a concrete atrium, through a series of events and displays opening this month and continuing over the next few years.

And in December, the exhibition Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades will bring together photographs by the two artists. —[O]

Main image: Aleksandra Kasuba, Spectral Passage (1975). Installation view of Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976, Haus der Kunst München 2023. Photo: Agostino Osio – Alto Piano. Image courtesy of Haus der Kunst München.