Theme, Participating Artists Revealed for 2025 Taipei Biennial
160March 22, 2025
The organizers of theTaipei Biennialhave announced the theme and participating artists for the event’s fourteenth edition, set to run from November 1, 2025, to March 29, 2026. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the biennial is titled “Whispers on the Horizon” and will feature works by fifty-four artists collectively hailing from thirty-five cities scattered around the globe. Bardaouil and Fellrath have commissioned thirty-three new works and site-specific installations for the event, which centers emerging and mid-career artists: Nearly half the participants were born after 1984.
“Whispers on the Horizon” will focus on the concept of yearning both as a persistent and universal feeling, and as it relates to Taiwan’s history of colonial rule as well as shifts in the country’s political and cultural identity. The exhibition will bring the concept of longing into the future via personal and collective narratives examining migration, homesicknesss, and the search for identity, among other topics. The theme was inspired by a trio of Taiwanese literary and cinematic objects that will not appear in the exhibition but will instead serve as “silent markers of memory.” These are a puppet from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1993 filmThe Puppetmaster, a diary from Chen Yingzhen’s 1960 short storyMy Kid Brother Kangxiong,and a bicycle from Wu Ming-Yi’s 2015 novelThe Stolen Bicycle. The biennial aims to put the contemporary works featured in the exhibition in conversation with early-twentieth-century paintings from the collection of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, where the event is being held.
A full list of participants is below.
Fatma Abdulhadi (born in 1988, Riyadh; lives and works in Riyadh)
Afra Al Dhaheri (born in 1988, Abu Dhabi; lives and works in Abu Dhabi)
Mohammad Al Faraj (born in 1993, Al Hassa; lives and works in Al Hassa)
Korakrit Arunanondchai (born in 1986, Bangkok; lives and works in New York and Bangkok)
Ivana Bašić (born in 1986, Belgrade; lives and works in New York)
Rana Begum (born in 1977, Sylhet; lives and works in London)
Monia Ben Hamouda (born in 1991, Milan; lives and works in al-Qayrawan and Milan)
Jacopo Benassi (born in 1970, La Spezia; lives and works in La Spezia)
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (born in 1984, Istanbul; lives and works in Istanbul)
Chen Cheng-Po (1895–1947, Chiayi)
Chen Chih-Chi (1906–1931, Taihoku Chō, now New Taipei City)
Chen Chin (1907–1998, Hsinchu)
Edgar Calel (born in 1987, Chi Xot, San Juan Comalapa; lives and works in Chi Xot, San Juan Comalapa)
Skyler Chen (born in 1982, Kaohsiung City; lives and works in Rotterdam)
Musquiqui Chihying (born in 1985, Taipei; lives and works in Taipei and Berlin)
Gäelle Choisne (born in 1985, Cherbourg; lives and works in Paris)
Isaac Chong Wai (born in 1990, Guangdong; lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong)
Zih-Yan Ciou (born in 1985, Sanyi, Miaoli; lives and works in Tainan)
Jacky Connolly (born in 1990, Lower Hudson Valley, New York; lives and works in New York)
Rohini Devasher (born in 1978, New Delhi; lives and works in New Delhi)
Simon Dybbroe Møller (born in 1976, Aarhus; lives and works in Copenhagen)
Mona Hatoum (born in 1952, Beirut; lives and works in London)
Zike He (born in 1990, Guiyang; lives and works in Beijing and Guiyang)
Yen-Yen Ho (born in 1993, Taipei; lives and works in Taipei)
Anna Jermolaewa (born in 1970, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg- lives and works in Vienna and Linz)
Eva Jospin (born in 1975, Paris; lives and works in Paris)
Minjung Kim (born in 1962, Gwangju; lives and works in New York and South France)
Joeun Kim Aatchim (born in 1989, South Korea; lives and works in New York)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas (born in 1979, London; lives and works in Berlin and London)
Lina Lapelytė (born in 1984, Kaunas; lives and works in London and Vilnius)
Omar Mismar (born in 1986, Bekaa Valley; lives and works in Beirut)
Ni Hao (born in 1989, Hsinchu; lives and works in Hsinchu)
Camille Norment (born in 1970, Silver Spring Maryland; lives and works in Oslo)
Henrique Oliveira (born in 1973, Ourinhos, São Paulo; lives and works in London)
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (born in 1980, Mochudi; lives and works in The Hague)
Bunny Rogers (born in 1990, Houston; lives and works in New York)
Hiraki Sawa (born in 1977, Ishikawa; lives and works in London and Kanazawa)
Sylvie Selig (born in 1941, Nice; lives and works in Paris)
Jeremy Shaw (born in 1977, North Vancouver; lives and works in Berlin)
P. Staff (born in 1987, Bognor Regis; lives and works in Los Angeles and London)
Young-jun Tak (born in 1989, Seoul; lives and works in Berlin)
Fuyuhiko Takata (born in 1987, Hiroshima; lives and works in Chiba)
Sung Tieu (born in 1987, Hai Duong; lives and works in Berlin)
Kiriakos Tompolidis (born in 1997, Essen; lives and works in Berlin)
Álvaro Urbano (born in 1983, Madrid; lives and works in Berlin and Paris)
Hsiang Lin Wang (born in 1984, Taipei; lives and works in Taipei)
Yao-Yi Wang (born in 1987, Tainan; lives and works in Taipei)
Nari Ward (born in 1963, St. Andrew; lives and works in New York)
Chia-Yun Wu (born in 1988, Yilan; lives and works in New York)
Yeesookyung (born in 1963, Seoul; lives and works in Seoul)
Shizuka Yokomizo (born in 1966, Tokyo; lives and works in London)
Yu Ji (born in 1985, Shanghai; lives and works in New York and Shanghai)
Ruyi Zhang (born in 1985, Shanghai; lives and works in Shanghai)
Tobias Zielony (born in 1973, Wuppertal; lives and works in Berlin)