Baofeng Art Museum——Ni Chiang-Huai's Museum Honoring His Mentor and Hometown

The exhibition Virtue and Beauty: A Tribute to Ni Chiang-Huai  features a dedicated "Baofeng Art Museum" section that honors an incomplete yet memorable teacher-student relationship across generations. In 1939, Ni Chiang-Huai documented in his diary his idea to establish the "Baofeng Art Museum," initially as a birthday gift for his mentor, Ishikawa Kinichiro. This deep bond influenced Ni's lifelong promotion of painting societies and art education, including the founding of the Taiwan Painting Research Institute to nurture emerging artists, which was closely linked to Ishikawa's trust. Of nearly a hundred paintings collected by Ni, over forty are by Ishikawa, forming the core of his collection. The dedicated gallery for Ishikawa Kinichiro in the exhibition reflects the "First Gallery" Ni envisioned for his museum. Though brief, Ni's diary entries record not only his thoughts about the museum's architecture and location but also his ideas about free admission, volunteer programs, an art library, and exhibition applications. In today's art museum context, these ideas remain relevant. The Baofeng Art Museum symbolizes Ni's heartfelt tribute to his mentor and exemplifies his forward-thinking cultural vision rooted in his time.

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Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey 2025/06/21 - 2025/09/21 Gallery 1A、1B Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's Southeastern Asian touring exhibition, Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, showcases his artistic practice over the past 30 years. Featuring installation, painting, sculpture, and photography, his works use light, color, movement, and natural phenomena to heighten our awareness of our environment. Eliasson's works are open to interpretation and are activated only through the audience's own participation—whether through our gaze or shifting position. By bringing our attention to the intangible aspects of everyday life, the exhibition invites audiences to re-examine their surroundings and find new ways of observing.

Virtue and Beauty: A Tribute to Ni Chiang-Huai 2025/06/26 - 2025/09/28 Gallery 2A、2B The title of this exhibition, Virtue and Beauty, is drawn from a reflection in the diary of Ni Chiang-Huai: "A noble person cherishes Virtue. Art delights in beauty." This phrase encapsulates Ni's singular and profound artistic philosophy and vision, rooted in his contemplation of the spirit and values of modern civilization and guiding his lifelong commitment to advancing the development of Taiwanese art. Organized around eight themes— Early Works, Coal Towns & Mining Communities, Harbor Town: Keelung, Portraits & Nudes,Taihoku City, Excursions, and A Gaze at the Everyday—the exhibition traces the course of Ni's creative journey in watercolor. It further explores his vision for the Baofung Art Museum, considering how, amid the tide of modernization, Ni sought to reshape Taiwanese worldviews and values through knowledge and cultivation in art.

Theater of the Times: Contemporary Images and Their Many Interpretations 2025/03/29 - 2025/07/13 Gallery 3A、3B The exhibition examines the journey of image production, tracing its path from analog technologies to the digital age, where nearly everyone owns a smartphone equipped with a camera. The focus on image creation ranges from printed media to digital algorithms on social media, prompting reflections on the roles of photographers, methods of image-making, and the meanings behind images. In the era of digital images, many contemporary photographers have embraced an anti-reportage style that seeks to change or slow down the fast-paced nature of traditional reportage photography. They have moved away from capturing fleeting or contentious moments, often opting for medium- or large-format cameras to evoke a more personal and contemplative perspective in their work. The exhibition unfolds in two parts, featuring "The Cameraperson Carrying Their Camera" and "The Artist Using Images Recorded by Cameras" It comprises three subtopics: "Hidden Protaponists" "Transformation and Rebirth," and "Visual Landscape," and showcases contemporary documentary photographs by 17 artists from Taiwan and abroad, highlighting diverse concerns and perspectives related to daily life, social practices, and cultural activities.

An Open Ending: TFAM Screening Project 2025/06/28 - 2025/09/28 Gallery F The final season seeks to approach TFAM as a screening venue from two key perspectives. "Hybrid Moving Images" explores the interplay between image creation and viewing modes, examining how various methods of image creation alter the essence of images, which in turn affects viewing experiences. "Tuned In & Turn On" emphasizes sound as the primary element of image narratives, reconsidering the construction of image language and viewing habits. Together, these two programs aim to establish an intertextual dialogue focused on form and perception, further responding to the project's openness regarding content, form, and perception.

Still Life 2025/03/22 - 2025/08/31 Children's Art Education Center Still Life, a project by the Children's Art Education Center, takes as its point of departure still-life paintings and sculptures in the Museum collection, and has specially commissioned interactive installations. The project endeavors to facilitate interesting interactions with these works, as well as exploration of how artists create various dynamic presentations of objects in their artworks. Just as children do, artists can communicate by creating interesting connections among simple objects. The exhibition is divided into three subthemes: Relationships Among Objects, Recorder of Time, and Objects Recreated. These themes deconstruct the still-life genre and encourage visitors to view the world around them from novel perspectives. The exhibition includes not only static artworks, but also those offering opportunities for experiential exploration of objects’ meanings through manipulation and reassembly.

X-site: The Pore Landscape Project 2025/05/03 - 2025/07/13 TFAM Outdoor Plaza Taipei is a city with the most serious heat island effect in Taiwan. The increasingly warm climate has changed the interaction between people and public spaces. By mimicking the heat dissipation mechanism of skin pores, the creative team, Studio Superficial, designs, manufactures and configures hundreds of "pore" installations made of recycled aluminum on the ground, symbolically occupying the plaza of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. A landscape experiment of people and space is thus instigated through large-scale surface intervention, where "pores" are implanted into public spaces. From tangible objects to elusive mist, the exhibition presents the regulation of light, wind direction, humidity and temperature, mirroring a microclimate in the city. It is an attempt to alleviate heat retention within a space, while inviting the audience to engage their senses to somatic experience. It also works to redefine the interactive behavior between the museum and its visitors.

Program X-site 2025: The Pore Landscape Project

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Lili Deli | Exhibition Catalog

Lili Deli is a solo exhibition by Steph Huang, who won the Grand Prize at the 2022 Taipei Art Awards, marking her return to TFAM after two years. The exhibition recreates the layouts of snack stalls and a grocery store using ready-made objects, mixed-media sculptures, and sound installations, forming a microcosmic landscape that explores everyday consumption, leftovers, and resource recycling. Along with images and details of the artworks, this exhibition catalog features essays by independent curator Hsu Shih-Yu and the exhibition’s advisors Chong Ching-Yin and Huang Yu-Wen. Examining topics related to Taiwanese food culture and material politics, they analyze how the artist reinterprets material politics, transforming familiar objects and media into works that embody contradictions and conflicts. This approach highlights the disorder and deformation caused by overproduction under consumerism, encouraging viewers to reflect on common consumption habits and the underlying logic of material perception.