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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2025 / 05 / 24 Sat.
2025 / 09 / 07 Sun.
10:00 - 18:00
Curator
Lin Yu-Hsuan
Assistant Curator
Liao Cong-Hao
Artists
Wang Yu-Song + Earthquake Sketching Group
Leonardo Bürgi Tenorio
Chang Chen-Wei
Chang Cheng-Chun
Tang Ya-Wen
Liu Fang-Yi
Hikaru Fujii
Supervisor
Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Organizers
Taipei Culture Foundation
MoCA TAIPEI
Supporter
Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council
Annual Sponsors
THERMOS
Contemporary Art Foundation
Hui-Neng Chi Arts and Culture Foundation
Royal Inn
Annual Sponsor for Appointed TV/Screen
SONY
Media Cooperation
Radio Taiwan International
Special Thanks
Taipei Municipal Jian Cheng Junior High School
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Leaning against the shelter while following the air raid evacuation instructions, one lowers the body and carefully enters this space. In scenes that intertwine disasters, wars, personal crises, and social relations, Safe Room illustrates a complex reality characterized by overlapping layers and tectonic fissures that separate individuals. Following this framework, the exhibition showcases a refuge that temporarily protects against imminent threats within a dynamic landscape that is constantly morphing, obscuring, and shaping itself. By envisioning such an alternate space, the exhibition not only erodes the boundaries of safety and isolation but also broadens our imagination of disasters.
The notion of a safe elsewhere often reflexively implies potential danger. Safe Room starts with the idea of “disaster” and explores what disasters might entail from a Taiwanese viewpoint. From the authoritarian marks imprinted on this land to looming war threats and recurring natural disasters, these factors continuously reshape the trajectory of life as we are familiar with and alter our relationships and interactions with one another. When coping with these man-made, natural, and relational forces, how do we coexist with them? How do we find a safe space for ourselves within them?
Over the past thirty years, Taiwan has faced numerous challenges, including earthquakes, typhoons, and political turmoil. Through a variety of artworks and events, the exhibition aims to address these threats. The curatorial team brings together seven artists from Japan, Switzerland, and Taiwan, each offering insights drawn from their different experiences with disasters, inviting visitors into a sheltering space away from danger yet unsettlingly close to the frontier of these threats. By navigating the increasingly approaching and expanding boundaries, the exhibition examines the concept of post-disaster governance, individual coping mechanisms, and the alternative relationships formed by catastrophes of different natures. Safe Room reveals the subtle distance between us and potential calamities, urging us to consistently position ourselves on a frontier and adjust our defensive strategies and stances. This, perhaps, reflects our approach to governance and living.
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Lin Yu-Hsuan, born in 1994, graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with an MFA in producing culture and curating. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan as an independent curator. His past curatorial projects have focused on the ecological structure of art and social issues. In recent years, he has been thinking about how we coexist with disasters (natural, man-made, and political) through curation, the planning and imagination of different places, and the political relationships between people and spaces in this context.
Lin’s curatorial practices included Passing Through (New Taipei City Art Museum, 2025), The 25-hour Days (Keelung Museum, 2024), Measured in Feet (Hong-gah Museum, 2023), I use my body to draw an island (Taoyuan Museum, 2023), Into a Compound Scene (New Taipei Gallery, 2023), Notes for Tomorrow (The Cube Project Space, 2022), Detour (Taipei Artist Village, 2021), Guerrillas (VT Artsalon, 2018), The Taipei Dream (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2018), Notice of Removal (Sian-Guang 2nd Village, 2018), Pigs don’t Fly (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, 2018), Aerobraking (The Pier-2 Art Center, 2017), and Inexpressible Signs of Subjects and Mediums Archeology (Yo-Chang Art Museum, 2017). In 2019 he initiated the discussions: The Demand from Young Artists in VT Artsalon (Taipei) and Sin-Pink Pier (Kaohsiung), and published a series of articles on ARTouch. He was the curatorial assistant of Assembly of Communities: MIX (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2020) and Mille-feuille de camélia (ARKO Art Center, Seoul, 2016). He also chaired the research project Curating and Art Organizations in Taiwan: A Proposal of Empowerment in Curating. In 2024, he also published The Path Ahead: Common Practices through Three Curations. He received the third 500Young Curatorial Award, in 2024 and he was the winner of the Curator’s Incubator Program @ Museums (NCAF, 2021), the Call for Curatorial Proposals (TCAC, 2022), and the Curator Residency Program (Tokyo Arts and Space, 2023).
Liao Cong-Hao, born in 2000, graduated in 2022 from Taipei National University of the Arts with a BFA in Art Theories and Visual Studies. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan as an artworker. His artistic practice focuses on various modes of audience participation and their alternative forms. Liao has presented his paper “Leaving with Meaning: Revisiting Participants in Participatory Art through the Lens of Marxist Exploitation Theory,” co-curated the exhibition Passing Through (New Taipei City Art Museum, 2025), and served as project coordinator for The 25-hour Days (Keelung Museum, 2024). He was also the assistant curator of Safe Room (Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 2025).
Born in 1994 in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland Leonardo Bürgi Tenorio lives and works in Basel. He graduated with an MFA in Institut Art Gender Nature from Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW in 2023. He has long been intensively concerned with natural processes of growth and decay, particularly the role of fungal mycelium. His work explores the connection between humans and nature, the boundaries between humans and other living beings, and the interdependence of all life forms. In 2017, he completed an exchange program at the Facultad de Artes y Diseño (FAD) in Mexico City. He’s a board member of the exhibition space Ausstellungsraum Klingental in Basel. He has been exhibiting in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and México.
Chang Cheng-Chun, born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a graduate of the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts. He currently resides in Tainan, Taiwan. His work might feel like a playful experiment, constantly shifting and transforming. Through a lighthearted approach, he addresses issues close to his heart but often seen as somewhat serious—such as resource distribution, boundary delineation, and human rights. Viewers often find themselves chuckling at first, only to start questioning: “Hey, are these things really as unquestionable as they seem?” His recent solo exhibitions include those at Mole Error 22 and Absolute Space (2023), as well as Waley Art in Taipei (2022). His accolades include being selected for the Taipei Art Awards (2022), the Si’an Aesthetic Award (2019), and the Taiwan Emerging Art Award (2018), earning him a reputation that even pigeons on the rooftops gossip about.
Wang Yu-Song is a mixed-media artist, he aims at exploring various possibilities of creation in everyday lives through lived experience and personal observations. His works often incorporate physical sensations and spatial elements. His recent works focus on the “past” that has existed, the “now” that is happening, and the “future” that may take place. Wang likes to explore the ambiguous zone between fiction and reality through his own living environment, lived experience, and to a greater extent, social consciousness and relationships in groups. Through objects, images, or particular spatial configurations, his works invite the viewers to open up all their senses and interpret the works with their own imagination.
The Earthquake Sketching Group, composed of creators based in Hualien, aims to document the transformed landscapes following the earthquake through succinct drawings. By physically placing themselves in affected areas and making nuanced observations of reality, they perceive the spatial and temporal contexts of the moments when the drawings are created, comparing them to their memories of Hualien and illustrating the significant changes that occurred after the earthquake.
Hikaru Fujii was born in 1976 and lives in Tokyo, Japan. Fujii’s films, installations, workshops, and writings explore the relationship between art and social activism. When revisiting a specific historical incident or present-day situation involving domination and exploitation, the artist undertakes extensive research and fieldwork to explore the potential of critique over that power and the sociopolitical systems supporting it. Recent selected solo and group exhibitions include: Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, L’espace Van Gogh, Arles (2024), Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Belin (2024), WORLD CLASSROOM, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2023), The 10th Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery (2021).
Tang Ya-Wen was born in 1993 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, and obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her recent works primarily focus on mixed media and installations. She specializes in assembling and integrating everyday objects, materials, and components, using space as a medium to reshape micro-narratives between objects, materiality, and observation. By magnifying subtle details from daily life to a broader scale—extending even to nature and the world—Tang constructs fragmented landscapes and interwoven relationships among objects, capturing fluctuations in everyday experiences that may reference personal or more universal understandings. Her work has been exhibited at Taoyuan Children’s Art Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, YIRI ARTS, VT Artsalon, FreeS Art Space, ALIEN Art Center, the Pier-2 Art Center, Romantic Route 3 Art Festival, and Pingtung Luo Shan Feng Art Festival. She has also participated in exhibitions in Korea, Singapore, and Jakarta.
Liu Fang-Yi was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he currently resides. He is particularly fascinated by the acoustic details of various objects and is also accustomed to collecting sounds on a daily basis, using them to perform improvisations or sound collages to form narratives with ambiguous meanings. The presentation forms of the works include composition, installation, and performance. Liu has worked on sound design for films such as Yi Ren (2015), This Shore: A Family Story (2020), and Ký Túc Xá (Dorm) (2021). He has participated in performances at the Taitung Sound Art Festival at Taitung Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival (KLEX), Taipei Arts Festival, Stockholm Fringe Festival, and Formless: Contemporary Noise from Taiwan, along with performances of improvisation and avant-garde music. His works have also been featured at the Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, ALIEN Art Centre, Taiwan Art Biennial, and others.
Chang Chen-Wei was born in 2003 and currently resides in Taipei, Taiwan,
He is studying Mixed Media in the Department of Fine Arts at the Taipei National University of the Arts. His work intends to blur the boundaries between the virtual realm of the internet and everyday reality, exploring how the desire for the gaze thrives in the hotbed known as algorithms while analyzing how trivial absurdities and conflicts permeate daily life to the point of altering moral viewpoints.
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