Hong Kong’s premier art museum M+ has announced a new multi-year strategic partnership with Centre Pompidou, a major cultural institution in Paris.

The partnership will cover four areas: joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing, co-commissions and artwork displays, and collection exchange, according to the M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture nestled in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District.

They will co-curate a major exhibition to be presented at both venues, M+ said in a press release.

President of the Centre Pompidou Laurent Le Bon and Museum Director of M+ Suhanya Raffel signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the partnership on Friday in Hong Kong.

Continuing Centre Pompidou’s history of international cultural exchanges in Asia, M+ will be another major institutional partner to build a new kind of relationship between the two collecting museums, said M+.

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A series of jointly developed exhibitions will be staged at M+ from 2027 onwards, featuring works from the Centre Pompidou collection and the M+ Collections, it added.

The two museums will also launch joint research initiatives to foster deep dialogue and exchange among curators, researchers, and museum professionals. The collaborations will enable research-led curatorial approaches and projects that reflect shared inquiry and contemporary artistic discourse.

The strategic partnership marks a significant milestone in M+’s commitment to advancing long-term, research-led collaborations on a global scale. As a museum rooted in Asia, M+ is dedicated to enriching scholarly discourse and transnational curatorial exchange, reinforcing its role as a major platform for sustained institutional exchange, said Raffel.

“Through shared knowledge, the co-curated exhibitions will be developed in close dialogue with Centre Pompidou’s distinguished curatorial team and research program. This partnership strengthens the cultural dialogue between Asia and Europe and supports the development of new narratives about the interconnected histories and contemporary realities of global visual culture,” she said.

Le Bon said, “We are proud to announce this ambitious collaboration with M+, which will benefit both the Asian and European publics, particularly young people, through programs on both continents, all while advancing intercultural dialogue for years to come.”