In the Mood for Art broadcast on 3Sat TV
On 14 October at 10.15 pm, the current documentary by Michael Schindhelm will be broadcast on 3Sat.
The Museum M+ in Hong Kong is one of the most important museum buildings of the 21st century and home to the world’s most important collection of Chinese contemporary art.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Schindhelm not only shows the building by Herzog & de Meuron and the collection of Swiss art collector and patron Uli Sigg, but also portrays the young art scene that has emerged around the museum.
“We are overcoming the immediate trauma, we are now looking forward,” says the intrepid cultural journalist Enid Tsui about the current situation in Hong Kong. In conversations and encounters with journalists, curators, gallery owners and artists, filmmaker Michael Schindhelm reveals the debate about Hong Kong’s future and identity.
He portrays a very young generation of Hong Kong women artists who do not let security laws and bureaucracy get them down and who claim an independent voice for themselves in the subcultural underground.
Although many artists and curators have left the city, there is a spirit of optimism in the air. This is mainly thanks to the Museum of Visual Art M+, which will open in 2021 and make Hong Kong a magnet for the international art scene. Also thanks to Swiss participation: The building by Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron is groundbreaking for museum architecture. The world’s most important collection of Chinese contemporary art was assembled by Uli Sigg, who donated a substantial part of it to the museum.
