While so many of us are practicing social distancing, it is the perfect time to explore some of the creative content M+ has available online for free:
The Sigg Prize: Explore the ideas and conversations shaping China’s contemporary artworld
While the M+ Pavilion remains closed, online audience can find lots of online content about the Sigg Prize 2019 exhibition. A series of interviews with the six shortlisted artists, Hu Xiaoyuan, Liang Shuo, Lin Yilin, Shen Xin, Tao Hui, and Samson Young, are now available on M+ Stories to allow viewers understand their inspiration and learn more about the contemporary art world of Greater China and its diasporas.
Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator, Visual Art, M+, will take online audience on a tour of the gallery to explore the works of the six shortlisted artists, each representing the diversity of artistic practices in the tumultuous era of globalisation.
Viewers can also find the latest Sigg Prize 2019 catalogue online. This richly illustrated catalogue features in-depth conversations between curators at M+ and the six artists shortlisted for the prize. They address pressing questions that resonate across many different contexts.
M+ will announce the inaugural Sigg Prize winning artist and the selected fellow for the inaugural Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research on Wednesday, 13 May 2020.
M+ Sigg Collection: Discover the most comprehensive record of Chinese contemporary art
The Sigg Collection is universally recognised as the largest, most comprehensive and most important collection in the world of Chinese contemporary art from the 1970s to the present. Online audience can now enjoy the Sigg Collection at ‘Mapping Chinese Art, 1972-2012: Selections from the M+ Sigg Collection’, which features a selection of 271 works that can be explored chronologically or seen in context with major artistic and political events.
‘NEONSIGNS.HK’: See the city’s neon landscape
Neon signs are among the most recognisable identifiers of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. For the past several years, the government has been flagging Hong Kong’s neon signs for removal due to safety concerns. Since 2013, M+ has been collecting some of these neon signs. More than just advertisements, they are objects of craftsmanship, graphic design, illustration, and architecture.
Presented by M+, ‘NEONSIGNS.HK’ is an online exhibition that celebrates a key feature of the city’s streetscapes by exploring, mapping and documenting its neon signs. Alongside curatorially-produced essays, videos, slideshows and artist commissions, online audience can view photos submitted by the public which collectively create a unique neon map of Hong Kong.
‘hong kong artists, women’: Celebrate Hong Kong’s female artists
Shirley Wu, an award-winning data-driven creative, combines her love of art, math and code into colourful, compelling narratives that push the boundaries of the web and raise important questions about the reliability of user-generated content and the authenticity of data.
She invites the online audience to examine a mesmerising visualisation of data drawn from Wikipedia. As viewers scroll through the mountainscape landscape of ‘hong kong artists, women’, the nuances of the online underrepresentation of Hong Kong women artists are gradually revealed.
‘Back to the Past to Conserve a Work of Contemporary Calligraphy’: Take a fascinating museum behind-the-scenes tour
When restoring and preserving one of the largest ink paintings in the M+ Collections, M+’s conservation team had to get inventive, using both modern tools and ancient techniques from the Asian scroll mounting tradition. From ‘Back to the Past to Conserve a Work of Contemporary Calligraphy’, the online audience can discover how the team applies traditional techniques to solve very contemporary problems.
Further highlights
Visit M+’s online storytelling platform M+ Stories, the museum’s bilingual online storytelling platform, where online audience can find blog posts about everything related to the museum, videos featuring artists and objects from the M+ Collections, interactive online exhibitions and digital commissions, and a journal devoted to contemporary visual culture.
For online audience who want to know more about the growing M+ Collections, travel within the walls virtually and access M+ Collections Beta with over 5,000 objects of visual culture.
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