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Ideas Forum

The overarching theme of “Collecting as Culture” will feature discussions on “Private Institutions in the Public Eye” , “Civics and Collections”, and “A New Approach from a New Generation”. This framework will be supplemented by a series of keynote talks by young collectors, curators and media owners participating in the fair.

*Please be seated 5 minutes before the start of each forum session.
*Consecutive interpretation (Mandarin Chinese/English) will be provided for some forum sessions.
*All of the talks of the Ideas Forum are open to the public, located outside of the ticketed show floor of Taipei Dangdai.

10 MAY

11:30 AM-1:00PM

Artists Talk: Edge

Speakers：

Tessor Lo

Devan Shimoyama

Nanae Mitobe

10 MAY

1:30PM-3:00PM

A New Approach from a New Generation

Speakers ：

Sophie Wang , Executive Director of Pu Shiang Consulting Inc

Alan Li , Collector

Matthew Shieh , Collector

Lee Yu, Founder of NINAO

The average art collector is 60 years old; for many, it takes time to build the resources and sensibility to think deeply about maintaining a deep relationship with art. A younger generation of collectors, however, has become highly visible on the public stage. For young art collectors today, contemporary art is a key piece of their lifestyle, tied up with popular culture, social networking, travel, and entrepreneurship. This conversation asks how they see themselves differing from their parents’ generation, what collecting means to them, and how art can be a part of life.

10 MAY

3:30PM-5:00PM

Before Thunders: Taiwanese Artists' Talk (Co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture)

Speaker ：

Martin Germann, Adjunct Curator at Mori Art Museum

Wong Binghao, Independent writer and curator

11 MAY

11:30AM-12:30PM

Before Thunders: Taiwanese Artists' Talk (Co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture)

Speakers ：

Esther Lu, Director of Moss Piglets

Zian Chen, Editor at Ocula magazine

11 MAY

1:30PM-3:00PM

Private Institutions in the Public Eye

Speakers ：

Elaine Choi , UBS Art Collection Manager (APAC)

Shan Shan, Huang , Director of Jut Art Museum

Erica Yu-Wen Huang, Director of CTBC Foundation for Arts and Culture

Grace Cheung, Director of Hong Foundation

Ask an art market expert what makes Taiwanese collectors unique amongst their peers in Asia and the answer is likely to be their discretion. As private museums, art foundations, and corporate collections blossomed across first Japan, then Korea, and then China, giving the public a glimpse into private collections, in Taiwan institutions like these have remained a rarity—until very recently. This conversation celebrates the opening of new private museums and the loan of leading private collections to public museums.

11 MAY

3:30PM-5:00PM

Civics and Collections

Speakers ：

Hung Yu-Hsi, Chief of Research and Collection Division at Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA)

Lin Ping, Director of Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation

Lai Hsiang-Ling, Consultant, New Taipei City Art Museum

Wang Jun-Jieh, Director of Taipei Fine Arts Museum

One of the critical links in Taiwan’s art infrastructure is the network of public museums responsible for educating broad audiences on the history of art, with city-founded art museums opening every year—a process that continues to accelerate. But while exhibition programs at these museums are often familiar to the public, their strategies for building and refining their collections can seem arcane. This conversation invites the directors and curators of Taiwan’s most active museums to share what they look for in considering acquisitions of contemporary art.