Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA) is 30 years old! Bringing the beautiful gifts of everyday life to the public, the museum will present its annual ticketed exhibition "Instantaneous - A Journey through Painting and Photography" in the summer of 2024.(Capturing the Moment)(math.) genusCooperating with the Tate Britain and the National Giant Foundation to exhibit many works of art that fetch astronomical prices in the auction market, and cooperating with international curators such as those from Chile and Singapore in cross-country exchanges to create a platform for art exchanges in the Great Southern Region, to promote Taiwan to the world, and with the vitality of local art, to plan the 30th anniversary themed collection exhibitions, the High Museum of Art accompanies the city's common growth, cultivates the local area, and connects with the world, and creates the beautiful daily art and aesthetics experience to let the beauty of everyday imagination be integrated into life as a searching action for everyone to trigger the beauty and enrichment of life. It will create a beautiful daily art and aesthetic experience, so that the beauty of daily imagination can be integrated into life, and become the pursuit of every person to trigger the beauty and enrichment of life.
Acting Director of the Gomez Museum, Lin Yi-Ying, said that the Gomez Museum will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024 by inviting young people in their 30s across the country to visit the museum free of charge with their ID cards (excluding ticketed exhibitions), and that the museum will also take "Your Beautiful Daily Life" as its vision, educate, promote, and cultivate talents, promote an innovative experience from hardware to software, and construct a mechanism of sustainable participation, so that the museum can become a goal for everyone who can share a beautiful daily life. Through cross-disciplinary art forms, the museum will create "Art For All" in the curatorial space from tangible hardware to intangible, so that the museum will become a goal for everyone to share a beautiful daily life.
Introducing internationally renowned special exhibitions, the only designated international station in Kaohsiung.
Summer 2024 is proud to present its annual ticketed exhibition, Instantaneous - A Journey through Painting and Photography, in collaboration with Tate Modern and the YAGEO Foundation, the world's fourth largest contemporary collector, which takes the public on a journey through the centuries with over 50 works by 35 masters of the art world. The exhibition will take the public on a journey through the centuries to appreciate the intertwined development of contemporary painting and photography, highlighting the works of David Hockney, Picasso, Picasso, Picasso and others. The exhibition will feature works by David Hockney, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Wall, Bacon, Sugioka, and others. The exhibition will feature key works of painting and photography by David Hockney, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Wall, Bacon, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and other heavyweight contemporary artists of the 20th century, all of which are iconic works of art history textbooks, making it an art feast that combines both art and education.
As the only partner museum of Tate Modern in Taiwan, Gomez Gallery cooperated with Tate London in 2018 to present "Naked: An Exhibition from the Tate Collection", which was highly acclaimed. 2024 has joined hands again to present "Instantaneous - A Journey through Painting and Photography", which is a collection of works that commanded high prices in the auction market, and a rare display of works from private collections with high price tags, including "Portrait of an Artist (Swimming Pool with Two People)" by David Hockney, a work of the artist. David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Swimming Pool with Two People)".Portrait of an Artist Pool with Two Figures, sold for a record US$90.3 million (approximately NT$2.7 billion) in 2018, the highest price ever paid by a living artist. Pablo Picasso, who has been fetching astronomical prices over the years, will also exhibit his most representative works this time.
The high threshold of organizing international special exhibitions requires the resources of all sectors. The Gomez Museum, in collaboration with Connecting the World, is proud to sponsor "Instantaneous - A Journey Through Painting and Photography", which will be on display from June 29 to November 17, 2024 at the Gomez Museum. Tickets for the special exhibition are priced at NT$300, and an early bird discount (NT$150) will be available from May 25th to May 31st for a limited time only.
Expanding Kaohsiung's Artistic Horizons Across Borders.TouchFuture Aesthetics
The Museum of Contemporary Art, a world-renowned art museum, organizes the 30th anniversary international symposium, "Near Future, Next30," focusing on the two main axes of "Technology and Ecological Practices in Art Museums" and "Art Education Mission and Practices in 21st Century Museums," and invites international museum teams and professionals to have in-depth exchanges in the areas of curation, education and promotion, as well as research, to explore technology, media, games and social platforms to integrate creative museum designs from actual cases to discuss the diverse imaginations and innovative practices of future art museums, and to continue to embrace the new generation, They will explore the integration of technology, media, games and social platforms into creative museum design, and discuss the diverse imaginations and innovative practices of future art museums from actual cases, so as to create a fun and learning future art museum that will continue to embrace the new generation.
Deepening the brand image of the "Great South" and creating a diverse vision of the South's multifaceted history
The High Museum of Art continues to deepen its founding mission, "A Museum of Art History," and develops a "Multi-Historical View of the Great South" through research, exhibitions, and collection extension and promotion programs to make the High Museum of Art the main venue for "Exploring the South" and a resource platform for art education. From 2019, the Special Collection of the Multi-History of the Greater South will be opened, with the first installment, The South as a Place of Encounter, focusing on the artistic encounter from the 1930s to the 1960s, and the second installment, The South as a Place of Conflict, reflecting the artistic upheaval in Taiwan before and after the Desegregation of Taiwan.
In 2024, the Gomes Museum will present a multinational trilogy on the diverse history of the Great South, "Ocean in Us". The Gomes Museum has teamed up with the National Gallery Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum to form a curatorial team consisting of curators from these three institutions (Tseng Fong-ling, Senior Curator; Ng Hwee-fong, Senior Curator; Ng Nim-cheng, Assistant Curator; Sin You-jen, Senior Curator and Deputy Director of Collections of the National Gallery Singapore; and Ng Nim-cheng, Senior Curator and Deputy Director of Collections of the National Art Museum Singapore). The curators of the three museums form a curatorial team (Taiwan's Chief Curator, Director of the Exhibition Department of the Kao Art Museum, Taiwan's Fang-Ling Tseng, Senior Curator, Hui-Fang Wu, and Assistant Curator, Nien-Cheng Wu; the National Art Museum of Singapore's Senior Curator and Associate Curator, You-Jen Sin, and Singapore Art Museum's Curator of the Collection Department, Yen-Huei Ting). The three museums' women's collections will be in dialogue with each other, presenting issues such as the female body, the consciousness of life, the care of new immigrants and other diverse communities, and the development of technology and the continuity of human life, and presenting the diversity of contemporary women's art in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Local Connections, Deeply Southern Art Concentric Circle
The Gomes Museum continues to be a local institution, presenting solo exhibitions by Liang Renhong and Chen Shengzong. The Creative Forum, an eye-catching platform for submissions, is also expected to present exciting exhibitions by artists such as Chuang Ming-chi. The KSpace Kaohsiung Laboratory, which demonstrates the spirit of cross-disciplinary experimentation, presents five exhibitions by artists including Lee Yi-Chi, Hsu Chia-Chen, Huang Fa-Cheng, Chen Si-Ying, Chiang Kai-Chun, and Chen Wei-Ting.
The artwork insurance value of up to $100 million of the Gomez Museum's 2024 Collection Donation Exhibition will be opened on March 25, the Art Festival. During the 2021-2023 epidemic, the beneficiary artists, their families, and collectors responded by donating to the Gomez Museum's Southern Collection Strategy, and the Gomez Museum was donated a total of 185 artworks to infuse the energy of the passion for art creation in all of Taiwan, and this special Collection Donation Exhibition is a way of thanking all the collection donors, and of realizing the power of "Art for All, Cultural Regeneration". This exhibition is organized to thank all the donors of the collection and to realize the power of "artistic communion and cultural regeneration", to continue the beautiful power of art, and to allow the public to deeply explore the works in the collection of the Gomes Museum.
Integrating the Arts into Everyday Life(math.) genusExperience the beauty of life
Tickets are the passes to enter the museum. In order to provide visitors with a brand-new visual experience, famous visual artists and designers were invited to create limited-edition souvenir cards echoing the multiple faces of the Gomez Museum! The spring edition of the limited-edition ticket card drawn by visual artist Zou Junsheng has already been sold out; the second season of designer Nie Yongzhen's three-dimensional ticket, the third season of selected works from the museum's collection, and the fourth season of comics artist Chi You's design ticket will soon be revealed; and the creative revision of the design of the Gomez Hall newsletter, which is full of information on the exhibitions of the Gomez Hall, is both a homage to the past and a novelty, and a number of brand-new Gomez designs will make their debut in the 30th anniversary year!
In order to promote the rich collection of the museum, the Komei Bookstore has selected Chuang Pu's "Sun of Hong Kong" from the museum's collection, and invited Wu's designers to design and co-brand it with TGI. The painting is transformed to condense the moment of the sun of Hong Kong, and through the light and shadow penetration block, it is possible to experience the light of different scenes in our lives, and to connect the memory of good moments. This is the realization of the creative promotion of "Art of Living", which allows art and culture to penetrate into the lives of the public.
Looking back on the 30th anniversary of the Gomes Museum, the highlight event "From My Bookcase to Yours", as the beginning of the museum's celebration, will be held on April 23rd, the International Reading Day, linking the 30 years of Gomes Museum's time-accumulated art publications with every member of the public who walks into the museum, and bringing back the Gomes Museum's time-accumulated accumulation of art through the design of the book bag! The Museum hopes that through the exhibition, visitors will be able to savor the creative thoughts of different artists, while the series of educational and promotional activities, "Podcast of the Museum of Fine Arts", will unveil the unknown stories of the Museum of Fine Arts, and "Kaohsiung Art Youth", will launch the Kaohsiung Contemporary Youth Art Writing Research and Digital Publishing Program, so as to combine art with the local community and lead the public to experience the beauty of life in Kaohsiung.
Friendly and beautiful, diversified to create a beautiful daily heart
The Museum of Contemporary Art will become a museum of local care and global attention, making it more diversified, open, contemporary, and friendly. Acting Director Lin Yi-En said, "Your Beautiful Daily Life" will not only provide a rich variety of international and local art exhibitions to surprise the public, but will also be like preparing a birthday gift to create a convenient and friendly art experience for the audience to enter the gallery, as well as to increase the opportunities for different ethnic groups to participate in the cultural participation to break down the barriers of the art hall, and to achieve the aesthetics of symbiosis, co-learning, and co-creativity in the daily life of each individual. The aesthetics of symbiosis, co-learning and co-creativity will make everyone's daily life a beautiful experience.