Artist chosen to represent Hong Kong at Venice Biennale backs M+ museum team

The artist selected to represent Hong Kong at next year's Venice Biennale has cast a vote of confidence in the West Kowloon museum team that won rave reviews after last year's event.

M+, the visual culture museum that will open in the West Kowloon Cultural District in 2018, will again curate the Hong Kong exhibition at the Venice Biennale - the world's oldest international art exhibition, which is widely known as the art world's Olympics.

"I'm happy to be selected," Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-wah told the South China Morning Post. Tsang worked with the M+ team in 2012 when he was featured in the museum's second show Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei.

"They are an experienced team, and I have no question [about] their professionalism," he said.

Born in Guangdong in 1976, Tsang is a Chinese University fine-arts graduate who also studied at the Camberwell College of Arts in London.

He has earned critical acclaim for his paintings and multimedia installations created out of the visual manipulation of text and language with distinctive cultural and religious references.