EXHIBITIONS
MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS AT PALACE MUSEUM
THE ADORNED BODY: FRENCH FASHION AND JEWELLERY 1770–1910 FROM THE MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS, PARIS
June 25 2024 - October 14 2024
The inaugural partnership between the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris is being supported by the Foundation for Art and Culture. This groundbreaking endeavor will present a remarkable exhibition centered around the evolution of fashion in France from the late 18th to the early 20th century. With more than 300 stunning pieces of men and women’s costume, jewellery, and accessory, illustrating how fashion transformed the body in France during that period of time. Moreover, visitors will be enlightened on the interconnectedness of French fashion on a global scale, as evidenced by the incorporation of designs and textiles, including Chinese silk.
ZHI ART MUSEUM
Augmented Paris: The New International Art Scene
JUNE 27 - NOVEMBER 30 2024
From June to September 2024, the Foundation brings to the Zhi Art Museum in Chengdu the latest exhibition Poush and currently showcased at Collection Lambert, which will assemble the works of 25 rising artists from Paris. Organized through the prism of a contemporary art center and a collective artistic creation space, Revenir du Présent is intended as an observation tool, an echo chamber in which works created by a multitude of artists and gestures would resonate, bearing witness to the art being created in France nowadays.
ChangSha Museum
Starry Dream:
A Collection of Treasured Art from the16th to 20th Century
JUNE 1 - October 10 2024
“Starry Dream: A Collection of Treasured Art from the 16th to the 20th Century” is supported by the FAC and showcases a series of jewelry pieces, including 10 loaned to the museum through the Foundation. An aesthetic feast of Eastern and Western styles, over 200 timeless treasures converge in Changsha, touching the soul of epochal transformation and artistic interpretation. A tribute that transcends time and space, the “Stardust Journey” in Changsha takes you on a brilliant journey, retracing the integration and collision between the East and the West.
The exhibition is divided into three sections: “Unveiling: From Stardust to Artifacts”, “Transition : The Waltz of Ages”, and “Searching for Dreams: A Dialogue Between East and West”. These showcase the craftsmanship of the treasures, the evolution of fashion, and the fusion of aesthetics. The beauty of materials, the precision of craftsmanship, and the depth of emotion offer a triple aesthetic experience through the antique artifacts. Although most are only the size of a square inch, they present a complex interplay of material and form, natural and artificial, production and consumption, East and West. This leads the audience away from the narrow perspectives of the present to a broader vista of life.
ZAO WOU-KI RETROSPECTIVE AT THE CHINA ART ACADEMY
THE WAY IS INFINITE: CENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE OF ZAO WOU-KI
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ZAO WOU-KI FOUNDATION | SEPTEMBER 20 2023 - FebRUARY 20 2024
TOTAL NUMBER OF VISITORS
170,000
REACHED COUNTRIES
54
HIGH LEVEL VISITS
>130
COMMUNICATED WITH ART EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
290
The Foundation co-curated the centennial retrospective exhibition of Zao Wou-ki, in collaboration with the China Academy of Art and the Zao Wou-ki Foundation. Officially opened on September 19th 2023, this major exhibition showcases over 200 pieces of Zao’s important oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs and porcelains and can be considered a salute to his Chinese roots as well as a presentation of the outcome of China-France culture exchange.