The fourth edition of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas will showcase the best of the world’s galleries with a strong emphasis on new and exciting voices from Asia. Taipei Dangdai presents a vital opportunity for collectors and visitors to engage with the rich Taiwanese and wider Asian art scene through exceptional quality artworks and programming. As one of the most significant contemporary art fairs in Asia, Taipei Dangdai, presented by UBS, takes place from 12-14 May, 2023, at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.
TAIPEI (12 April 2023) – Presented by UBS, Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas is delighted to release additional program highlights for its fourth edition taking place 12-14 May 2023 (VIP Preview and Vernissage Thursday 11 May) at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. The upcoming iteration will welcome 90 galleries from across the globe, including 30 first-time participants. Alongside robust presentations across Galleries, Edge and Engage, this year’s fair will offer a rich series of programs that highlight the vibrant regional art scene, large-scale installations, carefully curated talks and research forums, and more, to create meaningful connections and dialogue across the international art world convening at the fair.
Robin Peckham, Taipei Dangdai Co-Director, said, “We are honored to once again work with the thriving arts community in Taiwan together with our partners to present a dynamic program to share with the city and our international visitors. It is particularly exciting to work with Fenko Catalysis Chamber on a new site-specific installation for the fair that celebrates and showcases the cultural heritage of Taiwan, which is a core mission of Taipei Dangdai & Ideas.”
“At UBS, we have a history of supporting cultural endeavors and our partnership with Taipei Dangdai reflects our commitment to the development of Taiwan’s contemporary art scene and market. Through our support of Taipei Dangdai, we continue to use contemporary art to bring together ideas, inspiration and opinion to enrich lives and encourage audiences to participate in the international conversation about art.” says Dennis Chen, Head, UBS Taiwan.
Node
Node is a special sector for large-scale or immersive installation art that goes beyond the confines of the traditional art fair booth. In 2023, Node returns with a focus on Taiwanese artists, including Becoming Horizon (2021) by artist Nick Dong, presented by CHINI GALLERY, an immersive collective space of meditative light, motion and music incorporating some 100,000 mirror tiles; and Sense (2008) by the nonagenarian master Tsai-Chien Lee , presented by Liang Gallery, an outsized minimalist configuration of 12 straight lines in stainless steel that strips the essential aspects of sculpture back to their formal foundations.
The fair will be anchored by Flawness (2023), a new site-specific commission by Fenko Catalysis Chamber that brings together Taiwan's industrial heritage, design culture, and contemporary art in the form of ethereal columns of paper suspended in the air. During the Vernissage, a performance by leading modern dance group HORSE choreographed by Wei-Chia Su will activate this major new installation piece.
An additional highlight of the sector includes, How to fancy the light of a candle after it is blown out (2018) by leading German conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai, presented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, which will offer an interactive experience in which the exhibition space registers and records the traces of visitors immersed in its darkness.
Ideas Forum
Under the sign of ‘The Extraterritorial’, the 2023 Ideas Forum brings a dozen international curators to Taiwan to share their work from the cutting edge of art today, touching on issues of region and cultural belonging. All of the talks of the Ideas Forum are open to the public, located outside of the ticketed show floor of Taipei Dangdai.
‘The Extraterritorial’ refers to a diverse range of spaces, places, and nonspaces that span the globe, a set of logistical and infrastructural companions that augment the processes of globalization and capitalism invisibly or in shadow. In reclaiming the sign of ‘The Extraterritorial’, the curatorial summit of the Ideas Forum looks for ways beyond reductivist readings of complex cultural formations, reading projects from across Asia against the grain.
Taipei Platform
Platform collaborates with diverse independent cultural institutions and other partners, who invite visitors to participate in workshops and pop-up events at the fair. The program offers an expansive view of the local cultural ecosystem, realized through three different formats:
Our Place, conceived by Taiwanese artist Ting-Ting Cheng, selects 3 video works by Taiwanese artists who examine the residue of the intricate cross-national history.
10 experimental one-hour workshops and encounters will be led by cultural practitioners thriving at different fields, including AUSPIC PAPER, ART PRESS, Giloo, The Shiner Education Foundation, Kacalisian Art Village, PAPER MATTER, nos:books, akaSwap, VolumeDAO, ss space space and lám-nuā.
Pon Ding, an independent art bookstore from Taipei, creates a reading area dedicated to independent publications.
Guided Public Tours
This year, Taipei Dangdai's public tours focus on seeing art through a diversity of perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches led by professionals from various fields, including Artco Monthly & Investment, Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, Janet Fang, curator of Yuguang Island Art Festival, The Shiner Education Foundation, Art Happening, PAPER MATTER, Giloo and Pon Ding. Tracing different thematic routes, they will guide the audience in weaving their own threads through the landscape of the Fair.
Pop-up Dining Exclusive to the Fair
The art of food is a seamless extension of Taipei Dangdai’s art-viewing experience. Humble Boutique Hotel’s second-floor restaurant BeGood, conceived by Michelin-starred Chef Kin, will reveal a mystery menu at their pop-up in Taipei Dangdai’s Collectors’ Lounge. Curious Bar / Little Tree Juice Club, with its ethos of sustainability, crafts vegan and vegetarian catering exclusive to the Fair. Reinventing the traditional Taiwanese banquet from their unique perspective, Sinchao Rice Shoppe will present a selection of their dishes at Taipei Dangdai, while illy returns with a coffee corner where guest will be delighted with Italian coffee and light refreshment options.
Online registration for press accreditation is now open. Please apply at the following link: https://taipeidangdai.com/press/