Hong Kong, Asia’s glittering cultural powerhouse, is setting the spring art world ablaze with a thrilling lineup of creative spectacles—and the crown jewel is M+’s “Picasso for Asia: A Conversation”, a dazzling exhibition that’s redefining artistic dialogue. Open until July 13, 2025, this showstopper is a fiery collision of Picasso’s genius and Asia’s contemporary pulse, promising to captivate art lovers and history buffs alike.                                                                 

Co-curated by M+ and Paris’s legendary Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), the exhibition is a visual feast: over 60 iconic Picasso works—many never before seen in Asia—are paired with 80+ cutting-edge pieces from M+’s own trove. This bold mashup sparks a cross-continental tango, tracing how Picasso’s revolutionary spirit echoes through modern Asian art.                                                          

History in the making? You bet. This marks the first-ever collaboration between MnPP and an Asian museum, and it’s Hong Kong’s grandest Picasso showcase in over a decade. Forget dusty retrospectives—this is a vibrant time machine, blending 20th-century genius with today’s avant-garde voices to explore what it truly means to be an artist.                   

Dive into Picasso’s myth through four electrifying personas: The Genius, The Outsider, The Magician, and The Apprentice. Witness masterpieces like the haunting Portrait of a Man (1902–1903), the surreal The Acrobat (1930), the politically charged Massacre in Korea (1951), and the playful Bathers sculptures (1956). Each piece crackles with the raw energy that made Picasso a titan of modern art.                                                

But the magic doesn’t stop there. M+ amplifies the conversation with showstoppers by Isamu Noguchi, Luis Chan, Gu Dexin, and Haegue Yang, plus new commissions that scream “Picasso would love this.” From surrealist paintings to immersive installations, the exhibition proves Picasso’s DNA still pulses through today’s art—and Asia is writing the next chapter.