Hong Kong's M+ museum has unveiled Winds of Hong Kong, its new M+ Facade commission by internationally acclaimed Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol, showing nightly from 14 October 2026 through 7 January 2027. The AI-driven work turns one of the world's largest media screens, 65 meters tall and 110 meters wide above Victoria Harbour, into an evolving data painting powered by the city's wind and weather.

Anadol built the piece from publicly available meteorological data capturing Hong Kong's seasonal rhythms, monsoon wind patterns and atmospheric shifts. Machine intelligence translates that information into continuously shifting abstract forms that ripple across the facade, which is visible from up to 1.5 kilometers away on Hong Kong Island. The commission is presented by Julius Baer, a Swiss wealth management group.

The work is the latest in Anadol's Winds of ... series, running since 2017, which treats environmental data as a living artistic material. Earlier chapters have included Wind of Boston, drawn from Boston Logan Airport data, and Winds of Yawanawa, made in collaboration with an Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Hong Kong commission arrives as public debate over advanced technologies intensifies, with the museum framing the work as an invitation to see wind, weather and the city's ecology through machine perception. M+ switches the facade off after 22:00 each night in line with the Hong Kong Environment and Ecology Bureau's Charter on External Lighting, giving audiences a generous nightly window to watch the harbor skyline breathe.

Anadol has said he hopes the work invites viewers to pause and experience Hong Kong as a dynamic ecology of movement, energy and transformation. The M+ Facade, embedded with thousands of LEDs, ranks among the largest media screens in the world and shows commissioned work every evening.