Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Artists play a unique role in society. They are a cohort of dreamers in possession of a unique mode of production: through leisure, day-dreaming, or games and other artistic behaviors that seem scant of productive or economic force, they release powers of the imagination and creativity. Ostensibly dormant states of sleep are a necessary phase that stirs the inner workings of the brain into artistic production. Moments of abundant creative power are regenerated through dreams and rest. Like artists, the characteristic dream-state is also necessary for a museum. It is necessary for the physical body of the museum to utilize a period of rest and dormancy to reorganize its internal workings, for its soul to dream, in order to open up portals to the imagination…

The temporary closure from mid-October of this year to the summer of 2018 is the largest renovation project for the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) since it first opened its doors. The dormancy of the museum’s hardware capabilities is similar to music performed in adagio: exhibitions and promotions usually at the forefront will shift from the museum site and be presented in an alternative format; while collections, research and other behind-the-scenes functions will continue to be rolled out. The museum will enter into an internally active period for systematic adjustments and construction, aggregating powers of knowledge production to new heights.

TFAM will be nurturing dreams for the 30 years to come during this period of closure, in hopes of reopening its doors to provide an excellent, professional Taipei Fine Arts Museum in pace with the times.

• Date

  2017.10.07
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  2018.04.08

• Venue

  TFAM Plaza

• Date

  2017.11.23
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  2018.02.04

• Venue

  Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

• Date

  2017.09.30
  -
  2018.01.19

• Venue

  Elementary of Taipei City

• Date

  2017.11.18
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  2018.02.25

• Venue

  TFAM Plaza

• Date

  2017.10.17
  -
  2017.12.31

• Venue

  TFAM Plaza