M+ and Centre Pompidou Join Forces

Hong Kong's M+ and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have signed a strategic partnership, which was formalized by the institutions' respective leaders, Suhanya Raffel and Laurent Le Bon, at an event on May 15.

The wide-ranging collaboration includes joint exhibitions and curatorial research, co-commissioning new media works, and collection exchanges.

Planned projects include a major exhibition co-organised and presented at both institutions, which will focus on the visual culture of France and Greater China.

Also starting in 2027 will be a co-commission of moving image works for display on the M+ Facade and the rooftop Belvedere of Centre Pompidou Francilien, a new, state-of-the-art storage and conservation facility in Massy, south of Paris.

The agreement deepens the French institution's longstanding links with China, which resulted in the launch in Shanghai in 2019 of the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project.

Le Bon called it a "landmark partnership between a national cultural institution in France and the first global museum of contemporary visual culture in Asia", while Raffel welcomed a partnership that "strengthens the cultural dialogue between Asia and Europe".