New Taipei City Art Museum opens and commits to becoming all inclusive
The New Taipei City Art Museum (NTCAM) opened on 25th April with a commitment to becoming a 'Museum for All', offering diverse exhibitions across five floors and a vast outdoor NTCAM park. It aims to establish a cultural landmark that actively listens and responds, encourages participation, and fosters collaboration.
The opening event welcomed nearly 400 distinguished guests from Taiwan and abroad, including museum directors, independent curators, artists and more. As the first public modern and contemporary art museum in New Taipei City, this new institution stands in Yingge, with eight floors above ground and three floors below.
To mark its opening, NTCAM presents four carefully curated inaugural exhibitions, including: ‘NTCAM Collection: Encounters in Reflection’, an exhibition that traces the trajectory of artistic development in New Taipei City; ‘Reimagining Radical Cities’, an international group exhibition exploring local art practices and modern urbanisation in New Taipei City and Taiwan, in resonance with global development; ‘Xindian Boys: Don’t Worry, Baby’, a commissioned project by NTCAM; and ‘The Ongoing Nature’, an interactive exhibition that encourages audience participation and co-creation.
During its opening week, NTCAM hosted a series of dynamic events, celebrating the key landmark moment with the public and art community.
NTCAM hosted the ‘Present of the Future: New Taipei City Art Museum Inaugural Forum’ on 26th April 2025. Composed of the four topics ‘The Social Role of Museums’, ‘New Forms of Art and Cultural Institutions’, ‘Transregional Perspectives and Artistic Praxis’ and ‘Collections and Curatorial Practice in Art Museums’ the forum invited scholars from diverse fields to engage in discourse on contemporary museum practices and to explore the vision and roles that a museum can embody.
LAI Hsiang-Ling, Director of New Taipei City Art Museum noted “more than a landmark in the city’s cultural agenda, the founding of the New Taipei City Art Museum signals our deep and ongoing commitment to reimagining the future relationship between art and society. Grounded in the local community, reaching across disciplines and borders, the museum is envisioned as an ever-evolving cultural space – a place to think, to act, and to dream collectively of the future.”
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Image top. new Taipei City Art Museum 'Don't Worry Baby' Credit: Anpis Wang; Image centre: new Taipei City Art Museum exterior. Credit: Hideaki Hamada; Image below: new Taipei City Art Museum 'The Ongoing Nature' XIN Qi Exhibition Room Credit: Dabaw studio
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