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To celebrate the annual Art March Hong Kong, West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) is pleased to present WestK Art March Celebrations from now to 30 April 2025, offering a rich and diverse array of cultural experiences, including a large-scale outdoor coffee festival organised by COFFEE HK in collaboration with Tokyo Coffee Festival; as well as exclusive shopping rewards and offers to visitors of WestK.
This Easter holiday, a large-scale outdoor coffee festival COFFEE HK x Tokyo Coffee Festival @WestK organised by COFFEE HK in collaboration with Tokyo Coffee Festival will be held from Friday, 18 April to Monday, 21 April 2025 at Great Lawn of WestK for the first time, with WestK as the venue partner. More than 50 renowned coffee, liquor, and cultural brands from Hong Kong, other places of Greater Bay Area, Japan and beyond will gather at the Great Lawn in the Art Park. The festival will also feature various workshops, providing an exchange platform that combines a rich variety of coffee, fine wine, food, lifestyle and music.
During Art March Hong Kong, visitors are also invited to experience a variety of exhibitions, programmes and events at WestK. This includes the second edition of WestK FunFest from Friday, 21 March to Sunday, 27 April 2025 at various WestK venues. The festival will present to the audience close to 100 enchanting free and ticketed multimedia art programmes, including large-scale installation Pollinator, a live artist residency with experimental performances devised by U.S. artist duo Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley at Harbourside East Lawn, as well as a wide array of free pop-up performances and interactive artist-led workshops at Art Park.
In addition, the WestK FunFest will be complemented with the FunFest Market 2025. During the five consecutive weekends from Friday, 21 March to Sunday, 27 April 2025, themed food stalls will be available in the Art Park, featuring a variety of delicious food and beverages, providing a unique experience for families while fostering community engagement in a fun-filled environment.
The highlight of M+ during Art March Hong Kong is The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation, co-organised by M+ and Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), co-presented with the French May Arts Festival as its opening programme, and supported by the Title Sponsor, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The exhibition, the largest ever in Hong Kong showcasing Picasso’s works, will open to the public from Saturday, 15 March 2025 at West Gallery of M+, bringing together more than sixty works by Spanish master Pablo Picasso from MnPP, which holds the largest collection of works by Picasso in the world, and around 130 works by thirty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. This exhibition is a significant milestone for M+ in which masterpieces from MnPP are being shown alongside works from a museum collection in Asia for the first time.
Running in parallel with Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, M+ presents Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand, a large-scale installation and performance at The Studio. Taking Picasso’s iconic masterpiece Guernica (1937), painted in response to the violence of the Spanish Civil War, as its departure point, Lee Mingwei recreates this painting in sand—a material that connotes impermanence and instability.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) will present during Art March the new special exhibition A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink in China, from 19 March to 18 June 2025, inviting visitors to enjoy a multi-course feast spanning 5,000 years of Chinese history. The exhibition presents over 110 artworks, including eight grade-one national treasures from The Palace Museum. Jointly organised by the HKPM and The Palace Museum, A Movable Feast showcases the prestigious collections of the two museums, along with important loans from renowned museums such as the British Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware.
In addition, the Skechers Friendship Walk Hong Kong 2025 will return to the Art Park for its second year on Sunday, 13 April 2025, featuring a family and pet walk where each participant will receive an event walk kit tailored to different categories. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to local charities, including the Hong Kong Federation of Handicapped Youth and Home for Homeless Dog, to support those in need. There will also be a carnival with interactive programmes such as game booths, a pet activity area, photo spots and stage performances, offering everyone a meaningful and active weekend at WestK.
