Curatorial Team Announced for 2025 Taipei Biennial

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has revealed the curatorial team for the 2025 Taipei Biennial. Lebanese-born curator Sam Bardaouil and German-born curator Till Fellrath will organize the event’s fourteenth edition. The pair since 2022 have served as co-directors of Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. Prior to their arrival there, they were associate curators at the Gropius Bau, Berlin, from 2017 to 2021. The pair are known for centering inclusion in artistic and institutional practices, and for their revisionist approach to art history.

“The Taipei Biennial is one of Asia’s most influential and longstanding art events, and we have been closely following its program for many years,” said Bardaouil and Fellrath in a statement. “In line with our ongoing commitment, our curatorial approach will prioritize the artists, allowing their voices to continuously broaden our understanding of the complex worlds we inhabit. We look forward to bridging our global network to the fourteenth edition in 2025.”

Bardaouil and Fellrath are no strangers to the biennial circuit. In 2022, they curated the Sixteenth Lyon Biennale, “Manifesto of Fragility.” That same year, they cocurated the French pavilion at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale, garnering a “special mention” award for their efforts. In 2019, they curated the United Arab Emirates pavilion at the Fifty-Eighth Venice Biennale. Under their curatorial platform Art Reoriented, which they launched in 2009, they have collaborated with more than seventy museums worldwide.

No theme for the biennial has yet been announced. “For the upcoming fourteenth edition, which will run from November 2025 to March 2026, TFAM has extended the preparation period, allowing for a longer intercultural engagement with local communities,” said TFAM director Jun-Jieh Wang in a statement. “This will enable a deeper foray into critical issues that resonate with the role of contemporary art in our world. As the baton is passed on to the curatorial duo of Bardaouil and Fellrath, we envision a platform that transcends national boundaries, and offers enduring reflective dialogues informed by a variety of perspectives and experiences.”