Opening in March 2025, Picasso for Asia: A Conversation features an intergenerational dialogue between more than 60 of Picasso’s masterpieces from Musée national Picasso-Paris  and around 80 works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. This special exhibition is one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions in M+, and is the first major exhibition of Picasso’s works in Hong Kong in more than a decade.

This exhibition adopts a new and unique perspective to interpret the legacy of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), while exploring complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, and the West and non-Western world.

In conjunction with Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, M+ is also presenting Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand, a large-scale installation and performance to be staged in The Studio. Pablo Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece Guernica was painted in response to the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Lee Mingwei, who was born in Taiwan and works in Paris and New York, recreates this painting in sand, a material that connotes impermanence and instability and makes reference to the transcultural traditions of sand paintings and mandalas. Towards the end of the display, a live performance will take place in which visitors are invited to walk on the sand painting, before the sand is swept away in movements that simultaneously destroy and recreate the image anew.

Learn more about these exhibitions on the M+ website.