Taichung Art Museum Announces Its Inaugural Exhibition “A Call of All Beings” Opening December 13, 2025

The Taichung Art Museum (hereafter “TcAM”) will open its inaugural exhibition A Call of All Beings on December 13, 2025. Co-curated by the TcAM curatorial team together with Taiwanese curator Lincy Chou, American curator Alaina Claire Feldman, and Romania-born, Korea-based curator Anca Mihuleţ-Kim, the exhibition presents works by more than 70 artists and collectives from 20 countries. Featuring diverse media including video, painting, sculpture, installation, archival material, and artists’ books—alongside 24 commissioned and site-specific works—the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of performances, workshops, and talks that explore the relationship between humans and the environment across generations and cultures.

Responding to the Possibilities of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Governance
According to the curatorial team, A Call of All Beings closely examines regional geography and historical context. The curatorial concept responds to the landscape of Central Park and the transformation of the former Shuinan Airport. Positioned between urban governance and local memory, the exhibition uses artistic practice to open deeper reflections on the relationships among humans, all beings, nature, and the city.

Five Interwoven Subthemes
The exhibition is structured around five interconnected subthemes:

How to Draw a Coastline?
Beginning with nature, artists use diverse media to depict the natural world as exercises in geography, perception, and existence, while questioning the meaning of change and governance in nature.

Recalling Fables
Through fables and myths, artists deconstruct human/nonhuman relationships, reflecting on colonial histories and cross-temporal debates in natural storytelling.

Folds and Flows
Drawing on the philosophical concept of the “fold,” this subtheme explores nonlinear structures of space, time, and identity, revealing layered intersections of history, memory, and lived experience.

The Troubling of Natural Histories
Examining the entanglement of natural history with personal and collective experience, this section encourages a reevaluation of humanity’s relationship with nature.

When the World Begins to Speak
Using personal and collective narratives, artists weave spaces for future-oriented dialogue, exploring the possibilities of coexistence and ecological repair.

Reimagining the Map of Human and Nonhuman Coexistence
The exhibition addresses topics such as botanical and zoological histories, fables and mythology, migration and mobility, and linguistic narratives. It investigates how nature has been shaped by historical and power structures, and how it continues to demonstrate wildness and agency despite control and domestication. Guided by the curatorial narrative, artists conduct field research and investigations, using landscape, myth, sound, and the body as clues to redraw the imaginative map of human and multispecies coexistence.

Beyond the galleries, works extend into the public spaces of the Taichung Green Museumbrary, touching upon the boundaries between public and intimate, governance and creation, allowing artistic thinking to weave into the fabric of everyday life and prompting further dialogue between the city and nature.

A Cross-Cultural, Cross-Temporal Artistic Vision
A Call of All Beings also fosters cross-generational and cross-national dialogue between modern and contemporary art. The exhibition features works by leading Taiwanese artists such as Nihonga pioneer Lin Chih-Chu, lacquer master Wang Ching-Shuang, central Taiwan’s significant female Nihonga painter Lin Hsing-Hua, abstract artist Zao Wou-Ki, modern painting trailblazer Li Chung-Sheng, and printmaker-sculptor Chen Ting-Shih. Their works intertwine perceptions of natural landscapes and cultural histories.

Contemporary Taiwanese artists—including Wu Chi-Yu, Yang Chi-Chuan, and Liao Wen-Hao—further explore the interplay between nature and human perception. Artists from Taiwan’s Indigenous communities also play a central role:

Rngrang Hungul (Yu Hsin-Lan) draws from the embodied experiences of Indigenous women hunters to explore harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Watan Woma uses performance to summon the intertwined relationships and energies between humans, nature, and art.

International Perspectives on Nature, History, and Perception
International artists contribute diverse cultural viewpoints. Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta explores ecology and feminism through her iconic “earth-body” performance films; French filmmaker Chris Marker explores interspecies seeing through experimental imagery; Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves reflects on colonial histories through plants and land.

A major highlight is the first presentation of Helen Keller–related archival material in a Taiwanese art museum. As a key figure in late 19th-century disability rights movements, Keller’s thought and advocacy affirm multisensory communication and equality, resonating with the exhibition’s values of coexistence and inclusivity while adding profound social and historical significance.

Artistic Action and Educational Collaboration
The exhibition extends its dialogue into artistic practice and educational partnerships. Indonesian collective Papermoon Puppet Theatre will collaborate with Taichung Bwa Bua Ma Elementary School—Taiwan’s first Indigenous experimental school—to lead art workshops and a parade performance, promoting cross-cultural ecological storytelling and community engagement.

Main Visual Revealed: An Invitation from All Beings
The exhibition’s main visual, created by Species Studio, takes “an invitation from all beings” as its central concept. Integrating key motifs such as “curled time” and “traces,” the design deconstructs and reinterprets symbols of nature and culture, creating a memorable identity that symbolizes connection, dialogue, and transmission. This visual language extends to the color themes of each exhibition zone, giving every gallery its own spirit and vocabulary. The animated visual, built through layered rhythms, embodies the exhibition’s spirit of coexistence and diverse values.

A Gathering Across Time and Space
A Call of All Beings is a convergence of creators, audiences, and various forms of life across different times and places. It responds to contemporary conditions while weaving visions for the future. Challenging established systems of categorization and value, the exhibition proposes new forms of dialogue for art and knowledge production and creates possibilities for diverse narratives to emerge.

The exhibition subtitle—See you tomorrow, same time, same place—serves as both a gentle promise and an aspirational practice: an invitation to return to this time and place and co-create the conditions for the next encounter with the more-than-human world.

Exhibition Information

Exhibition Title: A Call of All Beings
Dates: December 13, 2025 – April 12, 2026
Venue: Taichung Art Museum (Taichung Green Museumbrary)
Programs: Performances, talks, workshops, and educational activities (details to follow)

For more information, please stay tuned and join us on this journey toward multispecies coexistence.