M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, proudly announces Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, a groundbreaking Special Exhibition featuring more than sixty masterpieces from the late 1890s to the early 1970s by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) alongside works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists selected from the M+ Collections.

Co-curated by M+ and Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), the exhibition will be co-presented with the French May Arts Festival. Picasso for Asia: A Conversation will be held at M+ from 15 March to 13 July 2025. This exhibition is a significant milestone, as it marks the first instance in which masterpieces from the Musée national Picasso-Paris are being shown together with works from a museum collection in Asia. It will showcase Picasso’s enduring influence and relevance by putting the master artist’s works in dialogue with Asian contemporary artworks.

Picasso for Asia: A Conversation is co-curated by Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator, M+, and François Dareau, Research Fellow, Musée national Picasso-Paris, supported by Hester Chan, Curator, Collections, M+. The exhibition adopts a new, unique perspective to interpret Picasso’s legacy, exploring complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, and West and non-West. More than sixty masterpieces by Picasso will be on loan from MnPP, which holds the largest and most significant repository of Picasso’s works in the world. These will be in dialogue with around eighty works from the M+ Collections by more than twenty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the early twentieth century to the present.