The Taichung Green Museumbrary is set to open its doors in December, marking the debut of the Taichung Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition. Located within the Museumbrary, this landmark exhibition is a collaborative effort between curators Alaina Claire Feldman (USA), Anca Mihuleţ-Kim (South Korea), Chow Ling-Chih (Taiwan), and the museum’s curatorial team. Featuring prominent works by key artists from central Taiwan, the exhibition offers a global perspective, celebrating both local heritage and international voices.

According to Chen Chia-chun, Director of Taichung’s Cultural Affairs Bureau, the inaugural exhibition of the Taichung Art Museum is actively underway. Featuring works by over 60 artists from Taiwan and around the world, the exhibition spans diverse media such as painting, sculpture, video, and live art. Viewers will have the opportunity to experience iconic works from central Taiwan’s Yeh Huo-cheng, Liao Chi-chun, Lin Chih-chu, and Wang Ching-shuang, alongside pieces by globally influential artists. This impressive lineup highlights Taichung’s rich artistic heritage while showcasing the city’s dynamic, cross-generational dialogue, bringing together established and emerging voices.

Lai Yi-hsin, Director of the Taichung Art Museum, explained that the exhibition is inspired by Taichung’s artistic spirit and urban identity, responding to the museum’s unique location within Central Park, Taiwan’s largest urban park to date. It explores cultural constructions and sensory experiences within man-made landscapes, extending into a collective imagination of the city’s image and ecological vision. By blending local perspectives with global curatorial insights, the exhibition positions the Taichung Art Museum as a forward-thinking cultural force in contemporary art.

The exhibition features three distinguished guest curators, each bringing a wealth of international experience and unique perspectives to the project.

Alaina Claire Feldman is Chief Curator at the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (IMCA) at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, she served as Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and as Director and Curator of the Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY). Feldman is widely recognized for organizing exhibitions with leading international artists. Her curatorial work explores representations of nature in art, the evolution of natural history, and human-animal relationships, examining the complex interconnections between species.

Anca Mihuleţ-Kim, a Romanian art historian and curator based in South Korea, brings extensive experience across Europe and Asia. She has curated major international exhibitions, including the Singapore Biennale and the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her work integrates history, social context, geopolitics, and artistic experimentation, with a focus on how different cultures conceive of “nature.” Through this lens, Mihuleţ-Kim invites audiences to reconsider humanity’s place within the natural world.

Chow Ling-Chih, a Taiwanese curator, critic, and dramaturg, contributes a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by her involvement in major projects at the National Theater & Concert Hall and the Tainan Arts Festival. Her curatorial practice investigates the physicality of contemporary performance, local memory, and urban space, while extending into themes of ecological awareness, sound, and technology-based art.
Together with the museum’s curatorial team, the three guest curators collaborate with international and interdisciplinary artists, setting the stage for a compelling and resonant beginning to Taichung’s next cultural chapter.

The Taichung Art Museum noted that the inaugural exhibition builds on the city’s cultural momentum since the establishment of Central Park, drawing from the combined insights of local and international curators to explore urgent issues relevant both in Taiwan and globally. Reflecting the museum’s vision of embedding art into everyday urban life, the exhibition aims to make artistic engagement an integral part of the public’s lived experience. More details will be announced in the lead-up to the opening—stay tuned for updates from the Taichung Art Museum.