Date & Time｜May 21, 2026 (Thu.) 15:30–17:00
Venue | REVIVAL COFFEE ROASTERS, Tainan Art Museum
Host | Huang De-Xin, Curator
Speakers |
Gong, Jow-Jiun, Director of Tainan Art Museum
Akiko Sakamoto, Deputy Director of Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Yang Mao-Lin, Artist
Lin Hong-Wen, Artist
Chang Ling, Artist
Admission｜Free
Registration Link｜https://reurl.cc/6G9XZr
(Text / Tainan Art Museum)
Centered on the exhibition Twin Cities Project: Tainan × Kumamoto Taiwan Contemporary Art Relay Exhibition, this opening lecture approaches the project from a curatorial perspective, exploring how art moves, translates, and regenerates between different cities, while further shaping a path of cultural dialogue that traverses time and space. The lecture will begin with an overview of the project’s origins and curatorial framework, presented by the curator, alongside a discussion of the artistic practices and exhibited works of participating artists Yang Mao-Lin, Lin Hong-Wen, and Chang Ling, establishing a comprehensive perspective on the exhibition’s curatorial discourse.
The lecture will also bring together perspectives from Tainan Art Museum and Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, initiating a dialogue between the two cities through the lenses of urban culture and institutional practice. Within the context of Tainan, the discussion will examine how a city shaped by history, everyday life, and contemporary realities continues to accumulate cultural layers through ongoing use and transformation, while considering how the museum, as a cultural node, responds to the structure of the city and opens new artistic possibilities between tradition and contemporaneity.
From Kumamoto’s perspective, the lecture will focus on how a city continually reconstructing itself after the earthquake has developed a contemporary rhythm between rupture and repair. The discussion will further address the role of the museum as a connector between local and international contexts, and how it undertakes cross-city curatorial collaborations. In addition, the lecture will offer perspectives from Japanese audiences on the understanding of Taiwanese contemporary art, while presenting observations and interpretations of the works by the three participating artists.
