Taipei City Art Museum
The Taipei City Art Museum ( SKT ; Chinese 台北市 立 美術館 , Pinyin Táiběi Shìlì Měishùguǎn ; English Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) ) is an art museum in Taipei , Taiwan . It opened on December 24, 1983 in the building of the former United States Taiwan Defense Command (USTDC, dissolved in 1979).
It was the first museum in Taiwan specifically designed for contemporary art exhibitions. The architectural style is a local adaptation of the Japanese metabolist movement .
history
From 1984 to 1990 the most prestigious biennial "Trends in Modern Art in the ROC" ( Republic of China ) was shown, which promoted Chinese modern art and above all invited artists with a passport of the ROC or an equivalent origin. This leading, national, competition-style exhibition was replaced by the 1992 Taipei Biennial and Taipei Prize. The Taipei Biennale introduced the idea of inviting curator-critical, senior and experienced artists, while the Taipei Prize is intended to continue to serve as a platform for the discovery of young and unknown artists.
Since its opening, the SKT's mission has been to promote Chinese, modern art and international exchange. Since the early years, numerous international exhibitions have taken place, often sponsored by foreign cultural institutions such as the British Institute or the Goethe Institute .
The SKT's first overseas exhibition was in Japan in 1989, entitled "Message from Taipei". One of the most famous of these national exhibitions abroad took place in 1996/1997 in Aachen in the Museum Ludwig and in Berlin in the House of World Cultures under the title "Taiwan: Art Today".
Since the mid-1990s, the SKT has been changing its mission to promote a Taiwanese identity in contemporary art. This was most clearly expressed through the organization of a Taiwanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Taipei Biennale. The pavilion was devoted to the question of Taiwanese identity. In 1996, the largest Taipei Biennale to date was held under the title "The Search for Identity", at which 110 artists were exhibited on all floors of the building.
Since 1995, the SKT has organized the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale , which was recognized as a national pavilion from 1995 to 2000. From 1997 the People's Republic of China exerted diplomatic pressure and appealed against the use of the name "Republic of China" and in 2001 the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice was placed on the list of institutional participations and later placed in the category of security events .
The Taichung National Museum of Arts has organized participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale since 2000 . While the SKT would have liked to represent " Taiwan ", the Taichung National Museum of Art insisted on the use of the name "ROC" (Republic of China), which meant the diplomatic killing blow for a Taiwanese pavilion.
However, the loss of official representation inspired other museums in Taiwan to organize exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. 2007 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and 2009 MoCA Taipei .
Since 1998 the Taipei Biennial has become an international event, curated by an international star curator.
The first experiment of Asian internationalization was led in 1998 by Fumio Nanjo under the title "Site of Desire". Since 2000, the international curator has been invited to choose a local co-curator, who in turn selects five to six local artists to take part in Taiwan's most prestigious art event.
After 2000, funding and institutional support for the Taipei Biennial waned. Compared to other Asian biennials, the privately financed exhibitions of the SKT led to regular criticism from the local art scene.
The SKT has quite an interesting, institutional history of interacting with the local art scene. In 1986 the first female director, Su Rui-Ping, had to resign after she destroyed the installation by artist Zhang Jianfu with her own feet in an "experimental" exhibition and in 1985 a red metal sculpture called "Unlimited Minimalism" by Li Zai-Qian in Had silver repainted.
In 2006, in the spirit of late justice, a red sculpture called "Homerun" was permanently installed in the square in front of the main entrance. In 1988, performance artist Lee Mingsheng was beaten up by museum guards when she brought a jar of feces to open a public discussion during the "World of Dada " exhibition . In the same exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's famous urinal "the fountain" was shown. Lee was the first Taiwanese artist to be invited to the Venice Biennale in 1993 .
In 1995, the newly appointed director Chang Chen-Yu was forced to resign after a month-long protest by the art scene against his management and the museum's funding policy.
With the turn of the millennium and the increasing professionalization of the art scene, the close relationship between the museum and the local art scene had fundamentally changed: at the 2004 Taipei Biennale, the foreword by the local curator was completely deleted from the official catalog, without any major public impact or reactions.
In 2001 the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (台北 當代 藝術館; MZK Taipei or MoCA Taipei ) opened in the old government building of Taipei City.
The museum can be reached by metro and is located in the immediate vicinity east of the Yuanshan station.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on taipeibiennial.org "Workshop:" FREE BEER factory ", Superflex Sep. 7, Tue.1500-1700, Venue: GOOGLE OFFICE, TFAM, Superflex inaugurates their work for TB10 with a free workshop. Learn to brew your own beer."
- ^ MOCA Taipei , Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Taiwan). June 16, 2006. Archived from the original on July 23, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 16, 2008.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 4 ′ 19 ″ N , 121 ° 31 ′ 28.6 ″ E