| NOTE TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE PROJECT ‘THE PEOPLE’S COLLECTION (TAIWAN)’ |
2021-05-14 |
“The People’s Collection (Taiwan)”in 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award held by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA) has invited visitors to write postcards printed with objects, which would be posted to the Western museums, asking them to return the objects to its countries of origin.
However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, airmail services to many destinations are suspended, resulting in some of the postcards being posted unsuccessfully.
If visitors who have written the postcards from 1 to 18 April 2021 at the exhibition receive the postcards returned from Postal Agency, please directly contact TMoFA through email (tiaa.tmofatw@gmail.com) or phone (+886-3-2868668 ext.9003). TMoFA will deal with it as soon as possible. Thank you for the support.
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| The Taoyuan International Art Award Online Exhibition |
2021-04-19 |
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award officially ends on April 18.
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts especially produces a program offering online guided tours of the exhibition to increase the award’s global visibility, inviting online audience to tour the virtual exhibition.
The link of Online Exhibition: https://2021tiaa.gh-pco.com/
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| The Taoyuan International Art Award Ends in Perfection |
2021-04-19 |
The Taoyuan International Art Award Ends in Perfection, Showing the Diversity and Trends of International Contemporary Art
The Taoyuan International Art Award (TIAA) has ended in the evening of April 18. During the pandemic, the award still received a remarkable number of more than six hundred entries. After a month of meticulous selection, seventeen finalists were presented at the award exhibition, featuring artists from Asia, Europe and America. Since the very beginning, the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA) has adopted a global perspective to organize the jury committee, craft the position of the award and conduct its marketing, demonstrating the multifaceted viewpoints of global contemporary art while transforming Taoyuan into an international art stage.
Facilitating International Exchange with the TIAA and Creating the Museum’s Brand of “Biennial Award/Exhibition”
The 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award, formerly known as the Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award (TCAA), encourages contemporary artistic experimentation and innovation. In 2020, the TMoFA transformed the award into an international competition that accepted entries of different media and genres. In addition to Taiwanese artists, this edition also received entries from forty-six other countries. After the reformation, the TIAA adopts a biennial timeframe and pours even more efforts and resources in the exhibition’s production and promotion, elevating the award and exhibition to an international standard by creating “a competition-based biennial” with a global scope and scale. By doing so, it is hoped that the competition will facilitate international exchange between artists worldwide and build a converging hub of artistic thoughts.
According to the TMoFA Director LIU Chun Lan, starting firstly from the museum’s branding, the TMoFA has concentrated on curating an exhibition of international exchange with the finalists that could display the zeitgeist; and secondly, in order to demonstrate the expansive global vision embodied by the finalists, since the initial stage of the award, the organizer has invited professional artists, curators and art critics to form international jury committees. Robin PECKHAM, Co-director of Taipei Dangdai and a juror of the second-stage selection, has made the following comment, “It is truly exciting to see such results because Taiwanese artists are now able to compete and exhibit with fellow artists from around the world in the same exhibition.”
With Taoyuan as an International Stage, the TIAA Has Focused on Experimentality and Public Participation
Located in the city of the national gate, the TMoFA has continuously endeavored in realizing its strategy of facilitating international exchange even though the museum building is yet to be completed. The first edition of the TIAA, facing the challenge of halted global movement during the pandemic, has still transformed Taoyuan into an international stage to present a physical exhibition that showcased all finalists from different parts of the world. CHEN Yung Hsien, the Chair of the second-stage selection, has given the following comment on the artworks featured in the exhibition, “Encompassing artistic viewpoints from the early modern period, the modern era and the future, they have shattered the boundary of genre-based thinking and moved towards new aesthetic forms, enabling us to reflect on contemporary thinking and the future possibilities of art.” KAO Chien Hui, Visiting Professor at Tainan National University of the Arts, commented on the finalists and stated, “Overall, the subject matters of the works reflect four major trends of this era: the post-colonial shadow, land and border, the Anthropocene halo and spatial conflicts.” According to the TMoFA, the objective of the award is to construct an interdisciplinary, global platform of exchange that allows artists to freely express their subjectivity. It is worth mentioning that the museum especially produced a program offering online guided tours of the exhibition to increase the award’s global visibility, inviting online audience to tour the virtual exhibition. During the run of the exhibition, the museum also launched a public participation program of voting for the “Audience Choice Award” and presented the TIAA’s “Let’s Q&A,” which collected questions from the audience that were later responded in a dialogue between invited experts Emerson WANG and SHEN Bo-Cheng, establishing further connection with the audience.
The Construction of the TMoFA Main Building Is On-going and Expected to Inaugurate in 2024
The worldwide open call for the next TIAA will commence in 2022 and its exhibition will take place in 2023. Director LIU states that although the main building of the TMoFA is expected to complete in 2024, the museum has already endeavored in facilitating international exchange early on. An instance of such effort was the inter-museum exchange exhibition collaborated with the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands in 2020. This year, despite the tremendous challenge of the pandemic, the museum presented the first edition of the TIAA, attracting entries from artists in forty-six countries. In spite of the on-going construction of its hardware, the museum has overcome the limitation of time and space to steadfastly promote the TMoFA as a global museum brand. The main building of the TMoFA museum cluster is located in the Chintan Park, which is close to the HSR Taoyuan Station and Taoyuan Metro’s Taoyuan Sports Park Station (A19), making the museum the international art exhibition venue closest to the national gate. Designed by Japan’s Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop Co., together with Taiwan’s Joe Shih Architects, the museum’s architecture adopts the fresh look of “a hill.” Soon, the TIAA is expected to be exhibited in the museum’s expansive space raised nine meters from the ground after the museum’s inauguration, which will serve as an international hub that embraces creative imaginations from artists worldwide.
The TIAA Online Exhibition: https://2021tiaa.gh-pco.com/
The TIAA Official Website: http://tmofa-tiaa.com/
The TIAA Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNnKfU5fAFsAhxAb1f0Jj4w
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| 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award | Let’s Q & A Video Episode 2 |
2021-03-22 |
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition will end at Apr. 18.
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts invites well-known critic, Emerson WANG and visiting associate professor of National Taiwan University of Arts, SHEN Bo Cheng, to answer the audience’s questions about the Exhibition. They interpret the artworks and lead us to understand the Exhibition with different perspectives.
Exhibition Information
🔹2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition
🔹Date：March 13 to April 18
🔹Time：9:00-17:00(close on Mondays.)
🔹Venue：Taoyuan Arts Center 1F
(No.1188, Zhongzheng Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City 330010, Taiwan)
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| 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award | Let’s Q & A Video Episode 1 |
2021-03-22 |
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition will end at Apr. 18.
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts invites well-known critic, Emerson WANG and visiting associate professor of National Taiwan University of Arts, SHEN Bo Cheng, to answer the audience’s questions about the Exhibition. They interpret the artworks and lead us to understand the Exhibition with different perspectives.
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| 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝙏𝙖𝙤𝙮𝙪𝙖𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙀𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩-𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧 |
2021-03-29 |
Join us for an expert-guided art tour on April 10, 2021 (SAT) 14:30
We invite Artist WANG Hung Chih ( Assistant Professor, Dept. of Arts & Design, Yuan Ze University) as the speaker to provide you the diverse aspects of the exhibition and artworks.
Please do not wait to register!
✺The first 30 participants who have registered and participate personally will be given a canvas bag of the exhibition.
🚩Event Information ──────
▩ April 10, 2021 (SAT) 14:30
▩ Taoyuan Arts Center (No.1188, Zhongzheng Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City 330010, Taiwan)
▩Speaker：Artist WANG Hung Chih (Dept. of Arts & Design Yuan Ze University Assistant Professor)
▩ Assembly point：中正路展場A入口
▩ Number of applicants：30名
▩ Sign Up：https://forms.gle/mnVGHdawA97giKKw9
🚩Exhibition Information ──────
🔹2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition
🔹Date：March 13 to April 18
🔹Time：9:00-17:00 ( close on Mondays and April 4 to 5.)
🔹Venue：Taoyuan Arts Center 1F
(No.1188, Zhongzheng Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City 330010, Taiwan)
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| 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition Video | Let’s Q & A |
2021-03-22 |
Exhibition Video
Watching the exhibition video introduced by SHEN Bo Cheng, visiting associate professor of National Taiwan University of Arts, we are provided with new perspectives to understand the meanings and messages these exhibits have delivered.
What if you still have artful questions about the exhibition after watching the video?
I.e. Which artwork is recommended? What trend does Taoyuan International Art Award exhibition reflects?
Now your question will be answered by professor and critic!
Please leave your question under this post or send it to tiaa.tmofatw@gmail.com before March 30.
We will choose 6 questions asked by the audience and invite Prof. SHEN Bo Cheng and well-known critic, Emerson WANG to answer the questions.
The person who finishes asking question will have opportunity to receive a limited edition of exhibition bag in the lucky draw.
Let’s talk about art !
※ TMoFA holds the right to modify and terminate this event at any time without notice in advance.
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| Registration of 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Forum Starts Now |
2021-03-15 |
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Forum Opens for the Public
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award exhibition officially opens and announces the winners on March 13. 17 Finalists display their works and the artists who cannot come to Taiwan due to Covid-19 present their artwork by teleconferencing. They display the most experimental artworks to show the diverse appearances of the award.
To let all art lovers understand the ideas of the awarded artists during their creation, TMoFA invites the jury chairperson, Prof. CHEN Yung Hsien, and special commentator, Prof. KAO Chien Hui to have conversation with artists and discuss the exhibition from diverse perspectives.
Time: March 20, 2021. 2pm to 4pm. (Check-in starts at 1:30)
Venue: Taoyuan Arts Center (No.1188, Zhongzheng Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City 330010, Taiwan)
Speakers: Prof. CHEN Yung Hsien (jury chairperson), Prof. KAO Chien Hui (special commentator), awarded artists (TING Chaong Wen, CHUANG Li Hao, Ana MENDES, Lewis COLBURN, Sara WU)
Sign up link: https://forms.gle/U2g2AWrGQKQZP8Y47
* The first 30 participants who have registered and participate personally will be given a canvas bag of the exhibition.
Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/events/778282636131524/
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Reminders:
- The precaution manners regarding COVID-19 are conducted by TMoFA’s announcement of regulations.
- Please wear mask all the time while participating the forum and eating is not allowed.
- Do not record or live broadcast when the forum is undergoing. Photography is allowed without flashlight. Please turn the cellphone into silent or vibrant mode.
- The activity may be cancelled without noticing the public by the regulations of Taoyuan City Government due to natural catastrophe and force majeure.
- TMoFA holds the rights to change the activity and it will be announced on the official website and Facebook if the activity is postponed, cancelled, or held in different ways due to special reasons or COVID-19.
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| Winners of 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Announced on March 13 |
2021-03-15 |
Winners of the 1st edition of the Taoyuan International Art Award Announced on March 13
Organized by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), the 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award garnered much attention from artists worldwide during the open call for entries in 2020 and received over six hundred entries from forty-six countries. Seventeen finalists have been selected by an international jury committee and are now showcased in the award exhibition at Taoyuan Arts Center beginning from March 13 onward. The award ceremony was also held at the first floor of Taoyuan Arts Center, at 2:30 on the opening day of the exhibition. During the award ceremony, the Grand Prize winner was announced, who was presented with a monetary prize of NTD$ 500,000. Also announced in the ceremony were the three winners of Honorable Mention, respectively received a monetary prize of NTD$ 120,000, and one winner of the Sojourn Award, with a monetary prize of NTD$ 150,000. Artists who were not able to attend the event in person due to the pandemic joined the ceremony via videoconferencing. At the same time, the ceremony was livestreamed online so that artists in countries around the world could partake in the celebration. A special guided tour given by the convener of the jury committee, Professor CHEN Yung Hsien of the National Taiwan University of Arts, was also joined by guests and audiences after the ceremony.
The seventeen finalist works were respectively created by artists from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the United States, Portugal, Latvia and Greece, with diversified forms of art practice ranging from two-dimensional painting, three-dimensional installation, photography to video. The artists completed the installation of their artworks at Taoyuan Arts Center either in person or via videoconferencing. Facing the severe situation of the pandemic, the installation of the exhibition challenged the artists’ endurance as well as their sensitivity to the space. Eventually, their works have demonstrated artistic tension in a previously unencountered site, and displayed the most forward-looking and experimental art creation through the construction of the atmosphere, introducing fresh diversity into the Taoyuan International Art Award.
The winner of the Grand Prize this year is the video installation, Going Home, by TING Chaong Wen (Taiwan), which reveals the interweaving reality and fictionality in a historic site to discuss the ideology of a country’s ruler. Lived Absence of Objects by Sara WU (Taiwan), The People’s Collection(Taiwan) by Ana MENDES (Portugal) and Disposable Monument II (After the Boys Who Wore Gray) by Lewis COLBURN (United States) won the Honorable Mentions. Through displaying a living space, WU’s work extends traces of fragments in life and explores how messages are unfolded and hidden in objects, reflecting on the state of contemporary life. MENDES’ work invites the audience to mail postcards printed with museum objects to Western museums that house these objects, and further demand the museums to return these objects to the colonized countries, engaging the audience in contemplating on issues related to post-colonialism, memory and identity. COLBURN deconstructs a monument statue depicting a Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina, and prompts thinking about the problem of racism faced by the United States today as well as the country’s history of slavery, inviting all to further examine the meaning of “monuments.” The artworks on view in the exhibition convey the artists’ observations of societies and their personal feelings, showing diverse creativity and profound thinking. Moreover, in the cultural context of Taoyuan, these works have derived more and multilayered meanings as well.
The exhibition of the 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award is now on view at the first floor of Taoyuan Arts Center until April 18 (Sun.). An online and onsite voting to select the “Audience Choice Award” is specially planned and invites art enthusiasts from Taiwan and abroad to select their favorite works during the length of the exhibition. The voters will have a chance to win limited editions of cultural and creative products designed by TMoFA. Furthermore, the museum has organized talks and guided tours featuring the award winners, which are to be held on holidays to lead the audience to explore the artworks in the Taoyuan International Art Award as well as the artists’ creative process. For more detail information, please continue following the updates on the official website of TMoFA (https://tmofa.tycg.gov.tw/en) or the TMoFA Facebook fan page (https://www.facebook.com/tmofa10711/).
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| 2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition Opens on March 13 to April 18 |
2021-03-04 |
2021 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition Opens on March 13 to April 18
with 17 Finalists' Artworks displayed on the Venue
Taoyuan International Art Award, formerly known as Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, has been pursuing a new breakthrough in terms of its scale as a competition-based exhibition built upon the continuation of contemporary art experiment and innovative spirit. With the new system featuring a biennial art competition based on a non-category international open call, the Award invites scholars, art critics and artists to form an international jury committee to select both Taiwanese and foreign artists for the award exhibition in Taoyuan. The objectives are to encourage diverse development of artistic creation, to cultivate contemporary art research, and to transform Taoyuan into a base for nurturing contemporary art talents, so that the space of outward exchanges and global dialogues can be expanded to further the link between Taiwan and the international art scene.
After its transformation, the first edition of Taoyuan International Art Award organized its first international open call in 2020 and received more than six hundred artists’ submissions from forty-six countries. Seventeen finalists have been selected after a month-long selection process. The finalists come from nine countries, including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the United States, Portugal, Latvia, and Greece, with diversified forms of art practice ranging from two-dimensional painting, three-dimensional installation, photography to video. With a nearly six-month preparation, the finalists have completed the installation of their artworks, either in person or via teleconferencing, at Taoyuan Arts Center in early March 2021. They have also attended an interview with a live Q&A session chaired by the jury committee for the second-stage selection. Finally, recipients of the Grand Prize, three Honorable Mentions, and the Sojourn Award are selected.
Generally speaking, the finalists in this edition have all shown distinctive approaches to their use of mediums and handling of space to develop their exploration of art-related subjects or engage with the current society, using art as a form of intervention to tackle issues related to environmental changes, politico-economic structures, and post-colonial identity. The presentation of these artworks has engendered more multilayered meanings in Taoyuan’s cultural context. In viewing each work, the audience are drawn into a process of dialectic thinking as well as an art experience richly informed with creativity, experimentality and global vision.
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| Finalists Announcement for “Taoyuan International Art Award” 17 Artists Will Exhibit Together in Taoyuan on March 2021 |
2020-08-29 |
Finalists Announcement for “Taoyuan International Art Award”
17 Artists Will Exhibit Together in Taoyuan on March 2021
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA) organized the open call of “2021 Taoyuan International Art Award.” After conducting a preliminary review that lasted for one month, 17 artists from all over the world were selected as Finalists. The Finalists were released on the press conference on August 29 and they will have the exhibition together in Taoyuan, Taiwan, next year, competing for the grand prize!
“2021 Taoyuan International Art Award” is a competition of contemporary visual art. It aims to encourage a diversified development of art practices and cultivate talents in contemporary art, with an expectation to strengthen international exchanges by selecting artists from around the world to have an on-site exhibition in Taoyuan, Taiwan. This year more than 600 participants from 46 countries submitted their entries. The Organizer invited professional artists, curators and critics to be the juries of the award and they conducted a preliminary review for a month. 17 participants were selected as the Finalists ultimately, and the list was released on the press conference on August 29.
The selected artists come from 9 different countries, which include Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, U.S.A., Portuguese, Latvia and Greece. The categories of their artworks include paintings, installations, new media Art and performances. “The artworks are infused into multiple issues by the Finalists with diverse cultural backgrounds. Some of them are created to discuss the issue of ‘art’ itself, and still some are for thinking ‘Being’ of life , local development or responses to the changing of current situation. They lead the audience to re-experience art and inspect the world again” says the chairperson of jury members, LIU Chun-Lan. “They will be exhibited together in Taoyuan next year. We look forward to abundant discussion and multilevel significances derived from these artworks which are located in the cultural context of Taoyuan.”
The Organizer will cover the Finalists’ expenses for the basic exhibit build-up and transportation. Their selected entries will be exhibited in Taoyuan Arts Center in March and April 2021. The juries will have an on-site review to decide one winner for “Grand Prize” and three winners for “Honorable Mention”. The winners will be announced on March next year. Art lovers are welcome to the exhibition to appreciate their artworks that are integrated with creativeness, experiments and international visions.
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| A New Record of Taoyuan International Art Award with Submission by 604 Participants from 46 Countries |
2020-07-29 |
A New Record of Taoyuan International Art Award
with Submission by 604 Participants from 46 Countries
“Taoyuan International Art Award,” organized by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), aims to provide a platform for creation and exchanges to incubate new generation of artists, enhance international art exchanges, and cultivate art research and practices. The online registration which draws artists’ attention from 92 countries has ended on 10th July, with the entry submission by 604 participants coming from 46 countries worldwide.
The submission outnumbers the competition last year, breaking a record in the past 5 years. Most of the participants come from Asia and Europe; America, Africa and Oceania have the second highest number of participants.
The participants diverse in cultural backgrounds and generations. Their entries include the works of 2D, 3D and new media. It seems to be a fierce competition for artists and TMoFA has recently gathered international jury members of artists, curators and critics to conduct preliminary review. The Finalists will be announced by the end of August this year.
Artists selected in preliminary review are expected to build up their exhibits and participate in the exhibition in Taoyuan Arts Center, Taiwan, in March and April 2021.
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| Call for Entries to “Taoyuan International Art Award” of Taiwan |
2020-03-05 |
Call for Entries to “Taoyuan International Art Award” of Taiwan
Opens on 1 June 2020
“Taoyuan International Art Award,” organized by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, calls for entries from 1 June to 10 July 2020. New works created by individual or group disregard nationality that have yet been exhibited nor recognized by any award at home or abroad are eligible for registration.
Open call biennially for entries of all categories in Chinese or English
With an aim to promote the experiment and innovation of contemporary art, Taoyuan International Art Award provides a platform for creation and exchanges to incubate new generation of artists, enhance international art exchanges, and cultivate art research and practices. The Award is organized biennially, with one year for entry submission from around the world and one year for exhibition, so that artists can have more time for work creation and exhibition planning. The Call for Entries is open to works of any material, category, or field. Artists can submit entry either in Chinese or in English. For artists that are selected after the preliminary review, the Organizer will cover the expenses for the basic exhibit build-up and the roundtrip tickets of coach (economy class) to and from Taiwan for foreign artists to partake in the exhibition in Taiwan. One winner for “Grand Prize” will be determined from the shortlist with a prize of NTD 500,000 and three winners for “Honorable Mention” with a prize of NTD 120,000.
Two rounds of selection with preliminary and secondary reviews; an exhibition for an international dialogue
The Taoyuan International Art Award employs a 2-round selection. The first round is an online selection. Artists selected in the Preliminary Review will build up their exhibits and participate in the exhibition in Taiwan. The second round involves on-site review by the jury, followed by an interview in person with the participating artists. The selected entries will be exhibited on the first floor of Taoyuan Arts Center in March and April 2021.
Art workers are cordially invited to enter the competition. Art lovers diverse in cultural backgrounds or ages are welcome to the exhibition for an international dialogue. The Call for Entries starts from 1 June to 10 July 2020. Kindly visit the official website of “Taoyuan International Art Award” (tmofa-tiaa.com) for more details.
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