ART TAIPEI 2022, organised by the Taiwan Art Gallery Association (TAGA), will be held at Hall 1 of Taipei World Trade Centre from 21-24 October

ART TAIPEI is an art fair that takes place in Taipei in October of every year, and is also an important platform for international art exchange in the Asia-Pacific region. With 138 exhibitors gathering in Taipei – the largest number of exhibitors since the pandemic began – visitors to the fair will have the opportunity to view exciting creations brought by 89 galleries from all over Taiwan, as well as works brought by 38 international galleries from 8 countries.

Coinciding with TAGA’s 30th anniversary, ART TAIPEI has set up a special exhibition entitled TAGA 30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Future of Memory, to lay the foundation for the future development of the art market through the history of the gallery exhibition, and attempts to extract the cultural viewpoints of Taiwan for the future from across four generations.

Other than the gallery section, the fair is also presenting a special exhibition The Artificial, Evolution and Sustainable Future Exhibition. Curated by Shen Bocheng, the exhibition is a reflection on how art creation and exhibitions transform human thinking pattern, the impact of human civilization in the natural environment, how science and technology may alert and highlight the current status of environmental problems; even further propose how artists imagine by using science and technology to assist, protect, and even find the possibility of healing nature. In Wither, for example, the work of the Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker, a digital slice of rainforest disappears at the Amazon deforestation rate. The artist uses scientific statistics to present the current events leading to the disappearance of the rainforest. The on-site installation artwork, with data being transmitted to it, allows the audience to feel the damage and impact suffered by the natural environment in real time.

The Artificial, Evolution and Sustainable Future exhibition – and the following lecture – in ART TAIPEI 2022 attempt to show how art creation and art exhibitions in the Anthropocene can imagine the possibilities of the future, and to address the explorative efforts and creating thinking the artworld will be forced to undertake.

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