Museum Talks: Doryun ChongConversation

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Museum Talks is a series of talks where MUNCH invites key practitioners in the field, who are rethinking the role of the museum, to bring their unique perspectives to Oslo. 

M+, located in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, is Asia’s global museum of contemporary art. With a collection spanning visual art and design to architecture and film and boasting one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Chinese contemporary art, the museum has established itself as a leading art institution since its opening in 2021.

In this conversation, Tone Hansen and Doryun Chong come together to reflect on what it means to lead large, ambitious art institutions today. With different backgrounds, contexts and audiences, theynevertheless share many of the same questions about the social role of art museums and what it means to create institutions that are relevant today. 

Doryun Chong is Artistic Director and Chief Curator at M+ in Hong Kong, where he oversees all curatorial activities across design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. He has curated several acclaimedexhibitions for M+, including Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now (2022) and Picasso for Asia—A Conversation (2025), and has organised Hong Kong's participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024. Prior to joiningM+, he worked at MoMA in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. 

Tone Hansen has been director of MUNCH since 2022. Under her leadership, the museum has presented exhibitions ranging from Edvard Munch’s art and modernism to contemporary art, including Alice Neel. Every Person Is a New Universe, Goya and Munch. Modern Prophecies and Corpus Infinitum featuring Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva. From 2011 to 2022, she was director of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, and she has also served as chair of the Arts Council Norway. Hansen trained at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.