Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Founded in 1983, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) is Taiwan's first museum of modern and contemporary art, and among one of the oldest in Asia. Venturing into its 32nd year, TFAM has dedicated itself to the development of modern art in Taiwan while staying abreast of ongoing trends in contemporary arts. It has pioneered the biennial trends for the re... gion and overseen the operations of the Taipei Biennial since 1998 and the planning for the Taiwan Pavilion as a collateral event of Venice Biennale since 1995. Over the past decades, TFAM has not only served as a platform to showcase exceptional works from both domestic and foreign artists, but also long become an incubator to engage in-depth exchanges between the Taiwanese and international art ecology. In 2002, TFAM has expanded into the realm of architecture with its retrospective show of the internationally-renowned architect Le Corbusier. TFAM's annual Program X- site further pushes the boundary of architecture, public arts, and performance since its inception in 2014, to explore the possibilities of arts as a potential catalyst to reshape the city and its public domain. In 2016 to advance the millstone of past critically acclaimed architectural exhibitions such as ARCHIGRAM: Experimental Architecture 1961-74 (2003), Toyo Ito: Generative Order (2008), ARCHILAB. Collection du FRAC Centre (2008), Richard Rogers+ Architects: From the House to the City (2010), Glenn Murcutt: Architecture for Place -- Thinking Drawing/Working Drawing (2011), and Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture (2015), New British Inventors: Inside Heatherwick Studio (2016) aims to expand TFAM's legacy in modern and contemporary architecture.Read More