One of the world’s premier art and design museums, London’s Victoria and Albert, is teaming up with a luxury hotel chain to launch a series of contemporary art installations featuring work by emerging and mid-career artists.
The Peninsula hotel group, which has already made a point of opening its lobbies and other spaces under its ‘Art in Resonance’ program, is part of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels.
The first iteration of the collaborative endeavor will debut in late March 2025, with a new ‘Art in Resonance’ installation at The Peninsula’s flagship Hong Kong property. For this exhibit, which will coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, The Peninsula and the V&A will present a newly commissioned work, curated by Dr Xiaoxin Li, the V&A’s Curator, Asia Department, which will be prominently displayed in the hotel’s grand Lobby, and complemented by two other new commissions by ‘Art in Resonance’ creators, in a new exhibition that will present the hotel’s heritage façade and classic interiors in dazzling new light, directly accessible for guests and the public to enjoy.
Through their multi-year agreement, The Peninsula and the V&A aim to collaboratively broaden public exposure to works of innovative contemporary art, with the V&A lending their curatorial knowledge to the hotel group’s acclaimed ‘Art in Resonance’ program, bringing in a fresh perspective and point of view, as well as truly global access to emerging and mid-career artists, who will directly benefit from the program. The collaboration will commission specially created works for the V&A and various Peninsula locations, allowing the ‘Art in Resonance’ commissions to reach new audiences.
Photo: Esmeralada, kinetic installation by Kingsley Ng, at Peninsula Hong Kong (Peninsula Hotels)
