New Taipei Opens City’s First Contemporary Art Museum
By KAREN MAY WAI PLUMPTRE
The main building of the New Taipei City Museum of Art. Photo by Hideaki Hamada. Courtesy the New Taipei City Art Museum.
On April 25, the New Taipei City Art Museum (NTCAM) opened its doors to the public in Yingge District.
As the city’s first public contemporary art institution, the NTCAM positions itself as “a museum for all,” dedicated to engaging with local communities and diverse creative voices through artist residencies and international partnerships. To celebrate its launch, the museum is staging four inaugural exhibitions, including “NTCAM Collection: Encounters in Reflection”; “Reimagining Radical Cities”; “The Ongoing Nature”; and “Xindian Boys: Don’t Worry, Baby.”
The opening ceremony was attended by New Taipei City mayor Hou Yu-ih, as well as the museum’s five-person international advisory committee, which includes Aric Chen, director of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; Clara Kim, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Patrick Flores, deputy director of curatorial and research at the National Gallery Singapore; Mami Kataoka, director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum; and independent curator Hou Hanru.
Speaking at the event, NTCAM director Lai Hsiang-ling proclaimed: “The museum’s inauguration marks our commitment to bridge art and society. We look forward to collaborating with you all to cultivate this new civic museum as a hub for collective learning, shared experiences, and empathetic connections, establishing a dynamic platform for intellectual exchange.”
Karen May Wai Plumptre is an editorial intern at ArtAsiaPacific.
