Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are pivotal figures in the Impressionist movement of the late 19th to early 20th centuries. A selection of masterpieces by these two iconic French Impressionists will be showcased in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition. Solely sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, it marks Hong Kong’s first large-scale exhibition of the work of these two masters and is one of the Club’s celebratory activities for its 140th anniversary. The exhibition will run from 17 January to 7 May at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
The exhibition’s opening ceremony was held today (16 January). Officials in attendance included HKSAR Government Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law; Chairman of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Michael Lee; Head of International Exhibition Projects of the Musée d'Orsay Stephanie De Brabander; Chairman of the Museum Advisory Committee Professor Douglas So; HKSAR Government Director of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) Manda Chan; and Museum Director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art Dr Maria Mok.
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Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Officiating at the opening ceremony of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition were HKSAR Government Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law (3rd left); Chairman of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Michael Lee (3rd right); Head of International Exhibition Projects of the Musée d'Orsay Stephanie De Brabander (2nd left); Chairman of the Museum Advisory Committee Professor Douglas So (2nd right); HKSAR Government Director of Leisure and Cultural Services Manda Chan (1st left); and Museum Director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art Dr Maria Mok (1st right).
Club Chairman Michael Lee delivers a speech at the opening of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée del’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Highlights from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World— Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Highlights from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World— Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Officiating at the opening ceremony of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition were HKSAR Government Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law (3rd left); Chairman of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Michael Lee (3rd right); Head of International Exhibition Projects of the Musée d'Orsay Stephanie De Brabander (2nd left); Chairman of the Museum Advisory Committee Professor Douglas So (2nd right); HKSAR Government Director of Leisure and Cultural Services Manda Chan (1st left); and Museum Director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art Dr Maria Mok (1st right).
Sports and Culture is one of the priority areas for the Club’s Charities Trust. Speaking at the ceremony, Club Chairman Michael Lee noted that the Club has partnered the Government to bring world-class exhibitions to Hong Kong for over 20 years and has collaborated with the LCSD to present masterpieces under the HKJC Series since 2012. The Club is dedicated to supporting arts and cultural projects with the aim of contributing to Hong Kong’s development as an East-meets West centre for international cultural exchange, in line with the National 14th Five-Year Plan.
Club Chairman Michael Lee delivers a speech at the opening of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée del’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
The exhibition will showcase 52 masterpieces from the renowned Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay, including 49 paintings by Cézanne and Renoir, two paintings by Pablo Picasso and a portrait of the art collector Paul Guillaume, who collected many of the pieces in the exhibition. The collection gives visitors insights into how these two masters reinvented the art of their time and became influential figures for the new generations of painters, including the Spanish master Picasso.
Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
There will be an education corner, where visitors can step onto a French train platform built for the exhibition and embark on a journey into the artistic careers of Cézanne and Renoir. The exhibition in Hong Kong also features exclusive content such as simulated conversations between the two masters, allowing visitors to enter their inner worlds and offering new insights into their lives and friendship.
Guests tour The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World — Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
Complementing the exhibition, two local artists will present their own creative artwork inspired by the works of the two French masters, providing a uniquely Hong Kong perspective and leading viewers on an artistic journey across different eras and cultures. The Club supports a variety of educational programmes for the public including lectures and guided tours to enrich understanding and holistic appreciation of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. For further details, please visit The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World—Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay | HKMoA
Highlights from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World— Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series is the result of a partnership between the Club and the LCSD. Launched in 2012, this series has brought world-class exhibitions to Hong Kong, enabling visitors to appreciate masterpieces from different places, times and cultures. The exhibitions are complemented by various education and outreach activities. Recent exhibitions include The Ancient Civilisation of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in Henan Province and Fragrance of Time — In Search of Chinese Art of Scent.
Highlights from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World— Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition.
The Club has come a long way since its founding as a racing and members club. Over the past 140 years, its partnership with the community has thrived thanks to a unique integrated business model through which racing and wagering generate tax contributions, charity support and employment opportunities for Hong Kong. The Club – under the banner “With You. Then. Now. Always.” –has organised a series of celebratory initiatives to mark this milestone and recognise Hong Kong people’s contribution to its mission to act continuously for the betterment of society. For more information, please visit https://campaign.hkjc.com/140/en/.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (“The Club”) Charities Trust and the Institute of Philanthropy (“IoP”) co-hosted a regional health and development conference in Bangkok, Thailand, from 28 January to 2 February with 18 United Nations agencies and philanthropic foundations.
The week-long Prince Mahidol Award Conference (“PMAC”) 2025 was held under the theme “Harnessing Technologies in an Age of AI to Build a Healthier World”. Participants explored how to leverage the latest technologies to facilitate equitable, affordable and comprehensive health-care access for all. Conference co-hosts included Club’s Charities Trust and IoP, the World Health Organization (“WHO”), United Nations Development Programme (“UNDP”), Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation and The World Bank, etc.
Posing for a photo with panellists of the side-programme “Towards Universal Health Coverage: Innovative Technologies for Early Screening and Management of Diabetes” are Imelda Chan, Head of Charities (Positive Ageing & Elderly Care; and Healthy Community) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (5th right); Professor Juliana Chan, Chair Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Founding Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (5th left); and Professor Ronald Ma, Associate Dean (External Affairs), S.H. Ho Professor of Diabetes of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (4th right).
IoP, a charitable organisation established by the Club and its Charities Trust in 2023, staged a special event at PMAC on 31 January entitled “Non-communicable Disease Management in a Primary Healthcare Setting”. There it announced a three-year pilot project in collaboration with the WHO to control and manage non-communicable diseases (“NCDs”) in primary-care settings.
Supported by a contribution of US$1.9 million (HK$14.8 million) from IoP, this will see the WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific (“WPRO”) develop an end-to-end NCD control and management protocol in the Philippines, Tonga and Solomon Islands. It encompasses prevention, early identification, treatment and long-term management as well as prevention of complications and management of NCDs in primary-care settings.
“The launch of this NCD pilot project aims to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with NCDs in vulnerable countries, while at the same time illustrate an investment case for scaling up the end-to-end NCD control and management model in the whole Western Pacific region,” said Dr Tran Thi Giang Huong, WPRO’s Director of Division of Programmes for Disease Control.
Pictured at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference’s special event in Bangkok are Dr Tran Thi Giang Huong, Director of Division of Programmes for Disease Control, at WPRO (left); Dylan Lu, Co-Secretary-General (Programmes) at IoP (right); and moderator Sophia Chan (centre),Professor and Director of HKU Primary Health Care Academy.
Dylan Lu, Co-Secretary-General (Programmes) at IoP, said: “The Institute of Philanthropy is delighted to support the WHO in addressing the need to prevent and manage NCDs in the region. This donation clearly showcases our commitment to global health through collaboration with the WHO, together with the US$11.2 million funding pledge that IoP made at the WHO
Investment Round in May and October 2024.”
In addition, the Club’s Charities Trust and The Chinese University of Hong Kong in association with IoP co-convened a side-programme at PMAC 2025 on 29 January entitled “Towards Universal Health Coverage: Innovative Technologies for Early Screening and Management of Diabetes”. It explored data-driven approaches and digital innovations to strengthen diabetes care and management. This side-programme featured findings from two Trust-supported initiatives on a care model harnessing biogenetic markers, big data algorithms and the latest
wearable technologies to improve health outcomes and empower self-management for people living with or at risk of diabetes.
Heather Doyle, Team Lead, HIV & Health Group, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP (5th right), and Dylan Lu, Co-Secretary-General (Programmes) of IoP (4th right), pose for a photo with panellists and moderators at the side-programme entitled “Catalysing Digital Technologies for Non-communicable Diseases in the Global South”.
IoP and UNDP also co-convened a separate side-programme at PMAC on the same day entitled “Catalysing Digital Technologies for Non-communicable Diseases in the Global South”. It highlighted case studies on innovative technologies being used for the prevention and management of NCDs to mobilise resources and foster collaboration in the Global South.
Established as a “think-fund-do” tank for China and Asia, IoP is dedicated to promoting philanthropic thought-leadership and enhancing sector capabilities at local, regional and global levels. It seeks to collaborate extensively with fellow foundations and contribute to WHO’s efforts to address global health issues. IoP pledged US$11.2 million (HK$87.4 million) to WHO’s Investment Round in May and October last year to promote, provide for and protect the health and well-being of people worldwide. The Investment Round is a new collaborative mechanism to generate sustainable financing for the WHO’s 14th General Programme of Work 2025-2028.