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2025 Program Overview
Complemented by a series of talks by international curators and experts, cutting-edge installations, and guided tours, Taipei Dangdai is the must-attend arts event of the year, spotlighting the latest trends in contemporary art. In the Special Exhibition Co-hosted with Ministry of Culture, Taipei Dangdai co-hosts with the Ministry of Culture to present the work of three emerging and established Taiwanese artists who are experimenting with digital culture, artificial intelligence, and experiences of immersion. Also in this year, Taipei Dangdai co-hosts with Hong Foundation a special exhibition sector, Taipei Node, which will feature the work of an up-and-coming Taipei-based artist’s large-scale video installation, sponsored by Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs.
For the first time in 2025, the new Edge Artist Award will be awarded to an outstanding artist participating in the Edge sector, a special showcase for singular new bodies of work by emerging artists. An international jury consisting of leading curators and thinkers will meet at Taipei Dangdai to carefully view the work of all artists exhibiting in the Edge sector, and will award the winning artist at a ceremony on Friday 9 May 2025.
Taipei Dangdai’s Iconic Talks Program: Ideas Forum invites top curators and scholars to lecture on “The Braided Strands of Fate,” separated into three threads: the geographic, the spiritual, and the material. On Friday, curators of Asia’s leading biennials will share their research. On Saturday, hosted by the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center and executed by Taipei Dangdai, the talk will invite international curators and Taiwanese representatives to focus on the global exchange of Indigenous cultures. And, on Sunday, experts will look at the intersection of art, craft, and design. This year’s guided tours emphasize a diversity of perspectives and cross-disciplinary knowledge, cooperating with partners from different fields. More details of the programs will be announced soon.
Pulling the Plug - Taiwanese Artists Exhibition Co-hosted with Ministry of Culture
Extending their collaboration for a second year, Taipei Dangdai and the Ministry of Culture co-host a special exhibition of work by Taiwanese artists. Titled “Pulling the Plug,” the exhibition includes three large-scale digital installations by artists working at the cutting edge of technology and contemporary culture. Shu Lea Cheang, the legendary new media artist based in Paris, presents a digital moving image installation featuring an ever-morphing self portrait challenging AI algorithm. Su Hui-Yu works with digital collective XTRUX, combining open-source AI tools with traditional film production in a sly reinterpretation of the military propaganda that sits within media culture. Finally, Zhang Xu Zhan, who comes from a family of traditional paper artisans, works in stop motion animation to tell a story of termites that shift their dietary habits to consume artificial cables after sudden ecological changes due to climate. Taken together, these three works give a sense of the shock and urgency with which technology appears in our culture today.
Zhang Xu-Zhan, “Termite feeding show”, 2024, 2 single channel, color, sound videos, 16:9 video -14’44, Round video-5’19”. Courtesy of the artist and Project Fulfill Art Space.
Su Hui-Yu, “The Space Warriors and the Digigrave”, 2024, video installation, AI generated image, Short film. Image courtesy of the artist.
Shu Lea Cheang , “UTTERING”, 2023, 36min video loop, 4K. KI$$ KI$$, @Haus Der Kunst 2025. photo: Milena Wojhan
Taipei Node Special Exhibition
Still image of “How do you turn this on”. Image courtesy of the artist.
Taipei Node is a new annual special exhibition that celebrates a Taipei-based artist of global promise.
For the first edition this year, titled “Making of…Li Yi-Fan 李亦凡”, artist Li Yi-Fan will present a mini- retrospective presents three works that span themes from digital technology and online information to artificial intelligence. Li has been chosen to represent Taiwan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, making this exhibition a valuable sneak preview of that much-awaited pavilion. He was awarded the eighth Tung Chung Prize by the Hong Foundation in 2024, and is a resident of the prestigious Rijksakademie with the support of the Foundation. Taipei Node is co-hosted with the Hong Foundation and sponsored by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.
2025 Guided Tours
Want to learn more about contemporary art? Want to collect the very first artwork in your collection? Sign up for the guided tours at Taipei Dangdai, and be a true “insider” of the fair.Pre-registration is required and space is limited.
*Please note all guided tours will be in Mandarin Chinese. Attendees need to present a valid ticket or invitation to access the fair.
2025 Ideas Forum: Braided Strands of Fate
In 2025, the Ideas Forum series of talks and panels alongside the art fair takes on the big question of how we connect across cultures and across polities in an era of polarization and suspicion.
Titled “Braided Strands of Fate,” the Forum invites important curators and other art thinkers to share their practices and ideas of weaving together geographies, spiritualities, and materialities.
One panel will evaluate “The State of the Asian Biennial,” inviting the curators of recent and upcoming landmark exhibitions to publicize their research. On Saturday, researchers will present changing concepts of global indigenous culture. Two panels will look at the materiality of art’s circulation, one asking questions about digital art and its economies, the other proposing radical new modalities of the relationship between art, craft, and design as seen in the Fair’s new Embody sector.