After three years of hard work and reorganization, the "Keelung Art Museum" at the Keelung Cultural Center was finally officially opened on 4/12!
The opening exhibition, "Unrecorded Holding," has drawn a wide range of responses, so let's take a look at the highlights of the first Keelung Museum of Art exhibition to be revealed!
Introduction to Keelung Museum of Art
The Keelung Museum of Art originated in 1903 during the Japanese colonial period and was later converted into the Keelung Cultural Center in 1985.
It wasn't until 2021 that the Keelung City Council decided to refurbish the more than 35-year-old building with aSuccessfully transformed into "Keelung Museum of Art" on April 12, 2024It has become the largest exhibition space for arts and culture in Keelung.
Features of Keelung Museum of Art: Fusion of Old and New Buildings
The renovation of the Keelung Museum of Art demonstrates the perfect combination of classical and modern, with the interior space retaining classical elements and patterns.It also incorporates a new design.
Inside the museum, the bright and simple color scheme and the neat and tidy arrangement of the design give people a sense of cleanliness and grandeur.
This refreshed design not only brings more possibilities for art exhibition space, but also provides a professional art venue for cultural workers and artists.
Keelung Museum of Art Information
- Address：No.181, Xinyi Rd, Zhongzheng Dist.
- Exhibition Period: Now through June 30 (date)
- Business Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (Closed on Mondays, open on national holidays and consecutive holidays)
- Official website information:Keelung Museum of Art,Keelung Cultural Center
Introduction to the exhibition "Unrecorded Holding" at Keelung Museum of Art
As the museum's first exhibition, "Unrecorded", the Museum of Fine Arts Keelung invited the Keelung City Cultural Affairs Bureau and Mizutani Arts to co-organize the exhibition, and invited artist Lin Hongzhang to plan and curate the exhibition.
The inspiration for Unrecorded Holding comes from reflections on the "historical turn" of contemporary art in Taiwan, as well as imagining, looking back and looking forward to the localization of Keelung.
Immemory" is a derivation of the newly created word "Immemory", which is also a spelling of "I'm memory".The Unrecorded Holding Marks the Spatial and Temporal Location of Nguyen Khieu's Turn Cultural DiscourseIt is a historical event that takes place in Keelung, which is connected to the vertical and horizontal.
This exhibition at the Keelung Museum of Art uses the concept of art as an "object".In addition, the project explores self-reflexive history writing and connects multifaceted memory projects, linking past, present and future flows of consciousness.
The exhibition utilizes installation art, video and photography to guide the audience through time and space, reflecting on the meaning of history and the possibilities of the future.
5 Themes of Keelung Art Exhibition
The exhibition at the Keelung Museum of Art is divided into five themes (zones), including"Settlement Colonialism and Colonialism," "Prior Historical Objects," "Cold War," "Politics of External Memory," "Archival Disease"The artworks under these different themes demonstrate the diversity of Taiwan's history and culture.
Keelung Exhibition Theme 1: Settlement Colonialism and Colonialism
Theme 1 Exhibition: "Anchor - Mooring
Liu Baocun's installation was intended to be on the theme of "The Ship of Time".The boat is a carrier, carrying itself and the traces accumulated over time, as well as the distant and vast beyond.
Theme 1 Exhibition: "Stroke, Write - The Vault of the Mountain and the Sea
Qin Zhengde's "Describe, Write--Shanhai Firmament" hopes to bring to light the forgotten history of Keelung under the mountain and sea firmament through his bold and eloquent words.Redrawing the skyline of Keelung Harbor through a far-reaching vision.The
Theme 1 Exhibit: "Stroke, Write - Flower Scaffolding
You Jiazhen conveyed the state of the Fortress, which is now covered with ferns and grasses, through a microscopic perspective.stretching to visualize the distance and sense of time between us and the history of warThe
Theme 1 Exhibition: Teeth, Blood and Nostalgia
Lin An-dog's current work is inspired by Zhou Jin-bo, who was a dentist and a literary scholar during the Japanese colonial period. Through spatial installation, he brings to life Zhou Jinbo's inner discourse and struggle, presenting his intertwined emotions of ambition and helplessness.
Theme 1 Exhibition: "Spirit Field Simulator
Zhou wants to develop the "simulation" and "parade" inspired by the ruins of "Keelung West 33rd Zero Field" into an architectural space installation.
Keelung Exhibition Theme 2: Experiencing Historical Objects
Theme 2 Exhibition: Beyond the System: Rainwater Charging Piles
Through this "Hydroelectric Project", Tsai transformed the rainwater over the Keelung Water Tower into electricity for the public to use. At the same time, he installed real-time surveillance on the Keelung Water Tower, symbolizing the confrontation between individual rights and the system.
Theme 2 Exhibition: "Black Landscape" by Wu Jia Yun
Wu Jia Yun's "Black Landscape" is an installation of ambiguous forms.Symbolizing the obsession and confusion of different generations with history.The Through the visual effect of mapping, the overlapping of Taiwan's history is presented, causing the viewer to think about the space.
Theme 2 Exhibition: "As if I've Never Been Here Before
As a result of his encounter with an abandoned fishing boat, Ho wanted to observe its changes over a period of three years, and intertwine his personal experience with the boat's history to create a unique piece of time and space storytelling.
Theme 2 Exhibition: Ping Xin Dong Lian
Nai-Jen Chang uses a documentary style of exhibition, displaying racks of commodities and large-scale outputs of the current situation of the factory to illustrate how the factory survives in the midst of fierce competition, and uses the small economy to reflect the huge historical structure, in an attempt to inspire the viewer to imagine the factory's continued existence.
Theme 2 Exhibition: "Keelung Burning
Through video narration of laboring hawkers and nostalgic stalls, "Keelung Burning" shows the fading historical life of Keelung and creates a "mobile mini-theater" of the stories of Keelung's common people.
Theme 2 Exhibition: Love Songs from the Harbor
Through the beautiful old song "Port Love Song" sung by Taiwanese singer Wu Jinhuai, the works in this exhibition point out Taiwan's different desires and imaginations for the nation, and structure the rich, colorful, and diverse collective memories of Taiwan since the post-war half-century.
Keelung Exhibition Theme 3: Cold War
Theme 3 Exhibition: "Museum of Culture
The work consists of a set of five coins and a translucent monochrome image.Inspired by the "Treasure Island Taiwan" commemorative coin set that was used for political propaganda.The meaning it seeks to reveal is about the history of global capital colonization across borders and time. The meaning it seeks to reveal is about the history of global capital colonization that transcends borders and time and space.
Theme 3 Exhibition: "The (In)Visible Visitor: Keelung Harbor
This work is composed of oral histories of local elders about the U.S. military in the Keelung area, thus presenting the story of U.S. aid during the Cold War that cannot be ignored.
Theme 3 Exhibition: "A Hundred-Year-Old Covenant with God and Man: The Five-Year-Old Ritual of the Paiwan People".
Ho King Tai through a series of photographsA record of the "Five Years' Festival", a traditional festival of the Tusaka tribe of the Eastern Paiwan.The
The author uses wet-plate photography to present the sacred and ancient atmosphere of the rituals, aiming to echo the rich cultural connotations of the work with traditional photographic techniques.
Keelung Exhibition Theme 4: The Politics of External Memory
Theme 4 Exhibition: Immemory
Immemory is the artist's first work in the CD-ROM format, rich in multimedia game software and a non-linear memoir.
The work aims to express "I'm memory", emphasizing that memory fragments are not possessed by a single person.Instead, it is a state in which memories are nested within each other.
Theme 4 Exhibition: "Taizi Zhang Monogatari: Keelung's Secret Poster" (台字章物語：基隆秘帖)
His work draws from performing arts texts and literary works on the themes of the Japanese colonial period, and responds to the nomination of the work as "Taito Zishou Monogatari," which refers to the story of the world under Japanese rule in Taiwan.
Theme 4 Exhibition: "Historical Sites of Authoritarianism: Xindian Military Prison/Keelung Harbor".
This work focuses on the Keelung Harbor area, the scene of the February 28th massacre, and Taiwan's existing White Terror period.In addition to the internal and external environment and space of Shinden Military Prison, which has been used for the longest period of time, the possibilities of the work are presented in the form of responsive space and landscape writing.
Keelung Exhibition Theme 5: File Disease
Theme 5 Exhibition: The Ring
The work "Ring" in this exhibition takes as its starting point the geographical environment and Theodore Hermano, the leader of the Greater Keelung Society. It explores the body's mobility in the middle ground, and its temporal and spatial journeys of inter-circulation, connection and embedding with deeper substances and events.
Theme 5 Exhibition: "Hong Kong's Oldest Love Story
The series of works is the masterpiece of Zheng Sangxi's photographic career. The author's meticulous and long-term approach has completely documented the urban development of Keelung in the 1950s and 1960s.
By capturing the various celebrations, customs and people's lives in Keelung, it truly preserves the precious historical value of this period.
Keelung Museum of Art-Unrecorded Exhibition Information
- Exhibition period: 2024/4/12 (Fri) to 2024/6/30 (Sun)
- Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday 09:00-17:00 (Closed on Mondays, open on national holidays and consecutive holidays)
- Venue: Keelung Museum of Art, 1F, MF (No. 181, Xinyi Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Keelung City)
- Curator: Hongjohn Lin
Museum of Fine Arts, Keelung
With the establishment of the Keelung Art Museum and the grand opening of its inaugural exhibition, "Unrecorded", we witnessed a new milestone in the city's cultural and artistic ecology. This museum is not only a hub for art, but also a symbol of the city's historical and cultural heritage and development.
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