Associate Curator, M+ Museum

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Located in Hong Kong’s WestK, we are one of the leading museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. The museum reflects our unique time and place, building on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century. 

Reporting to the Curator, Hong Kong Visual Culture

You will be responsible for:

• researching M+ Collections, encompassing modern and contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong, particularly in the fields of design and/or moving image, and positioning them within a regional and global context;
• preparing and proposing acquisitions for the M+ Collection, in consultation with Curator, Hong Kong Visual Culture, and Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, and working closely with other curatorial teams, assisting with research, communications, and coordinating of potential acquisitions with various external parties;
• participating in curatorial workshops, contributing ideas and generating content relating to modern and contemporary art and visual culture for online platforms, public programs, and other museum outlets;
• coordinating and managing curatorial projects, such as exhibitions, collection displays, workshops, talks and conferences as assigned;
• contributing to the general curatorial development of M+, including building the collection; and

• Performing any other duties from time to time as reasonably assigned by M+.

You should:

• possess a recognised university degree relevant to Design History, Visual Culture, Film Studies, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Art History, Museum Studies or other related disciplines;
• have at least 6 years of relevant research or curatorial experience in the fields of visual culture discourse and knowledge production;
• showcase an excellent knowledge of visual culture in Hong Kong, preferably in the design and/or moving image fields in Hong Kong, and China;
• possess solid experience of working in a museum setting or a large-scale arts organisation with international scope; and
• have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Chinese;
• have strong organisational skills, able to work collaboratively and with tight timeframes and competing priorities.

(Candidate with less experience may be considered for the post of Assistant Curator)

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before following date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

23-03-2026

Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.

All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.

For more information, please visit https://www.westk.hk or contact:

Catrina Mok /+852 22000006