Current Exhibition
2025 NEXT ART TAINAN
Grace Wu x Lim Sokchanlina
Duration
2025.3.13 - 2025.4.13
This exhibition is honored to collaborate with the Tainan City Bureau of Culture and curator Takamori Nobuo to showcase the works of Grace Wu and Lim Sokchanlina. Tainan, shaped by its evolving geographical environment, demonstrates the unique characteristic of continuous "growth." From the gradual disappearance of the lagoons in the 17th century to the present expansion of the city, Tainan has become an organic city interwoven with history and water culture. Features such as the blurred coastline and lagoon terrains add profound historical significance to the city's development.
The 2025 "NEXT ART TAINAN" takes Tainan's natural and historical characteristics as its curatorial core, exploring the city's dynamics and aquatic cultural history. This year, 390 artists submitted works, with 10 individuals/groups selected as winners, three of whom will also participate in the "Art Tainan" art fair. The evaluation process emphasized the art market, innovative perspectives, and local viewpoints, supporting emerging creators to showcase their sensitivity to materials, reflections on the environment, and playful narratives through their works.
Through the NEXT ART TAINAN, we aim to respond to Tainan's unique urban vitality and cultural history through artistic creations, inviting audiences to embark on an exploratory journey that combines art and landscape.
Grace Wu
Currently living and working in Taipei.
Currently studying for a master's degree in Fine Arts at the National Taipei University of the Arts, his works are mainly two-dimensional paintings, focusing on the exploration of contemporary life and the nature of viewing.
The smoothness that Dexin pursues in painting processing comes from the viewing experience of our time: contemporary visual images have changed the way we look at "reality", and daily scenery has been transformed into short-lived, extremely smooth flat images. The screen erases the details of the actual appearance of the work, and in the digital universe it is even easy to beautify the work, thereby obtaining another "better work".
Abstract painting, as a representation of modern contemporary life, transfers visual experience through paint and superimposes it on a carrier, reproducing this viewing experience on canvas.
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Solo Exhibition
2024 "Manman" solo exhibition, Pièce, Taipei
2018 "Wu Dexin Taipei" solo exhibition, North-South Gallery, Taipei
Joint Exhibition
2024 "Spring Blossoms, Autumn Harvests" Joint Exhibition, Volando Hotel, Taipei
2024 「Plan A_Untitled」Joint Exhibition, M Woods Art, Tainan
2024 "Far Far Far" Joint Exhibition, Underground Art Museum, Taipei
2023 "Changting Gallery Exhibition" Joint Exhibition, Changting Gallery, Tokyo
2023 "Vanity" Joint Exhibition, Kuo Mu-sheng Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei
2022 "Editorial Department" Artists Book Exhibition, Taipei International Art Village, Taipei
2020 "New Voices of Art" Joint Exhibition, Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung
2020 "Taipei International Contemporary Art Annual Exhibition" joint exhibition, Underground Art Museum, Taipei
2019 "Northwest Rain Saipakhoo" Joint Exhibition, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Experiment Site C-Lab, Taipei
2018 "Interested" Joint Exhibition, Underground Art Museum, Taipei
Lim Sokchanlina
Lim Sokchanlina’s work spans documentary and conceptual artistic practices, using media including photography, film, installation and performance. Through different strategies, he draws attention to the social, political, geopolitical, economic, cultural and environmental changes in Cambodia in a global context, and explores the role and influence of power and economics in our daily lives and contemporary realities. His work often involves in-depth research, aiming to explore, deconstruct and record contemporary history, while imagining future possibilities based on learning from the past.
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Lim Sokchanlina
Born in Prey Veng, Cambodia. Currently lives and works in Phnom Penh.
Solo Exhibition
2024 The water element: Tonlé Sap Lake is floating / nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Storytellers -Through the lens of contemporaneity Vol.1 Sokchanlina Lim / nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Phnom Penh 2043 / Asian Art Biennale, National Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
2019 WRAPPED FUTURE II / nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2016 National Road Number 5 / Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
2014 Urban Street Nightclub / Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
2013 Urban Street Night Club / SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Wrapped Future-Triangle Park / (BAM), New York, USA
2012 Wrapped Future / SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 My Motorbike and Me / Photo Phnom Penh at Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
