ZHdK Lectures on Global Culture: M+ – About Creating “The Museum Asia Doesn’t Have”
Lars Nittve, born in Stockholm in 1953, known as founding director of the Tate Modern, is appointed director of the M+ museum in Hong Kong, Asia’s first museum on visual culture. The museum – which is dedicated to art, design, architecture and movie and was designed by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron – has recently stirred intense international attention: Not only because M+ has a particular programme which comprises all branches of visual culture of Asia’s past, present and future. Furthermore, Swiss collector Uli Sigg has announced to assign the major part of his collection of contemporary Chinese art to “the museum Asia doesn’t have”.