
The Meandering Collection — Taiwan–Vietnam Exchange
‘The Meandering Collection — Taiwan–Vietnam Exchange’ is a multi-year bilateral residency programme that OCAC initiated…

‘The Meandering Collection — Taiwan–Vietnam Exchange’ is a multi-year bilateral residency programme that OCAC initiated…

The Meandering Collection residencies in Taipei; multiple international visits and residencies; ‘Close to…
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Close to Home is a 2025 touring screening programme initiated by Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), bringing works by…
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This visit was coordinated by Alain Zedrick, Director of the Creative Industries Management Program at De La…
Malaysian director Zinc Chew (趙慈瑩) presents a screening of her work at OCAC. Sotong dives into the pulse of…
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Launched in 2020 as a cross-border sound and experimental music programme, ‘A Fly Entering the Ocean’s Boundless Breath’…

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Taipei Biennial programme ‘A Fly Entering the Ocean’s Boundless Breath. A Pack of Mice Fearlessly Breaking Trail…
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Un/Uttered: Asian Art Collectives in Dialogue + Micro Film Festival was co-organised by Open Contemporary Art Center,…

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‘Space Sandbox: One-Work Exhibition’ is a rolling programme on the ground floor of OCAC’s Ganzhou Street venue, with…

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‘Areca Romance: OCAC × ba-bau AIR’ is a 2023 collaboration between OCAC and Vietnam-based ba-bau AIR, an early milestone…

‘archipiélago’ is a membership-fluid community that has been meeting irregularly at OCAC since 2018. Through reading…

The Meandering Collection – Taiwan–Vietnam Exchange (Hanoi), ‘Areca Romance: OCAC × ba-bau AIR’, Longtruk…

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Longtruk: in the gap, in between is a transnational curatorial-research project executed in 2023, extending OCAC’s…

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Rethinking the organisation as a decentralised network; early engagement with WEB3.0, NFT, DAO as tools for art…

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Pandemic pivot to online and distributed programmes: ‘A Fly Entering the Ocean’s Boundless Breath’ online…
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‘KANTA Portraits — Malaysia–Taiwan Exchange: Crossing Borders, A Journey to Find the Self’ extends the 2018 ‘PETAMU…

Jatiwangi Art Factory, located in West Java, Indonesia, has long rooted its practice in community life, initiating the…

‘ACELab’ is a sharing and research laboratory co-designed by OCAC and Filipina independent researcher Marika…

OCAC’s 2020 closing deck documents the 2019 programme year at the Ganzhou Street space: exhibitions, exchanges,…
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Alice is a whale living in the Pacific Ocean. It is said that its sound frequency is different from that of all whales,…
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Audio Tour for 228 Peace Memorial Park “ Through these narrators and the audio guide on the New Park/228 Memorial Park,…
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Set as a material conversation between Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) and Aboriginal Art Centres in Australia and the…

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*Unsang Address, Seine, Paris *– is a cross-artistic experimental two-channel video work, where two different stories…

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The Time-Space Loops. -Southeast Asia -Taiwan Contemporary Art Interchange Exhibition This exhibition is trying to…

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CO – TEMPORARY is regarded as temporary co-creation by the process of discussion with OCAC members, art project…

From May to July 2016, OCAC invited Anang Saptoto and Yudha Kusuma Putera to live, work and networking in Taipei for the…

CO – TEMPORARY #2 we invited Dara Kong to live, work and network in Taipei for the CO—TEMPORARY: Southeast Asia - Taiwan…

Kong Dara’s residency project at OCAC is centred around the themes of queer lives. He continues to develop and create a…

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A Group’s Self-Study is a self-organised community of curatorially-curious friends that began in 2016. The group…

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Looking into the lives of queer partners, Kong Dara continued his research from his artwork at Ho Chi Minh City to…

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We invite six essential art spaces from Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, which includes artist residency…

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In the evening, a small vender serving with a small dim light sitting outside of tourist area - I find myself eating hot…

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*The Second Chapter of Ln. 25, Dayong St. *is a series of solo exhibition about objects from home. The title comes from…

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*South C**ircuit *environmental touring project is centred around a participative performance piece by a ceramic artist.…

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Open Contemporary Album 2016 is a creative collaboration among nine members of the Open Contemporary Art Center. The…

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During the afternoon, I stayed on the couch playing new mobile app game. For a rare material that is hard to drop, I…

From May to July 2016, OCAC invited Anang Saptoto and Yudha Kusuma Putera to live, work and networking in Taipei for the…

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Sweetwater is Chen Chia-Jen’s public showcase in Taiwan that features works inspired by a residency program in…

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This exhibition is an examination and presentation of the creative environment and the personal relationship of the two…

‘Transitions’ and ‘Particles’ are part of Noa Yekutieli’s ongoing project Mountains of Narratives.In these…

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Kung Fu has been used in the film industries to portray an ideology of Chinese as being proficient in martial art and…

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Exform-Taipei, the solo exhibition of Kosuke Ikeda, will soon be rounded off on Sunday, Oct. 4th, which implies Mr.…

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In Taipei, there remains a rich black in the night. Every night, food stands repeatedly gather and part, making a…

Starting with the words one has said that… , the audience are presented to the historical background of the…
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Venzha Christ, new media artist from Indonesia, also an astronomy enthusiast, is invited by Open Contemporary Art Centre…

Marika Constantino and Anjo Bolarda are hosted by Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS) to carry out their collaborative project…

day OFF LABoratory or OFF LAB is a Pilot project - alternative interdisciplinary art program operates by Baan Noorg,…

Our One Work Exhibition Project perpetuates the objective (spirit/aim) with which Open-Contemporary Art Center was…

An Intuition, special taste for the unexpected, will take shape through a game with the situation through performances,…

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Art and Communication: a Myanmar Experience" with Ilaria Benini (Flux Kit) Flux Kit is an independent organization…

Art and Communication: a Myanmar Experience" with Ilaria Benini (Flux Kit) Flux Kit is an independent organization…

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In 18th century, the era of Romanticism, intuition and imagination have been regarded as a crucial media to the…

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The Goddess of Mercy’s features slowly emerge with each and every one of the sculptor’s strike and chisel. The fallen…

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MITT stands for a temporary art and cultural network among artist initiatives from Myanmar, Indonesia, Taiwan and…

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The title of the last exhibition in Bangkok from OCAC was How to fix a leaking roof in rainy days?. This title speaks…

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Following the end of the namesake demonstrated in Bangkok Art and Culture Center in 2012, ThaiTai: A Measure of…

Curator Jian Li-Ting organised an exhibition titled Grammararianism: Trends in Contemporary Videography, with three…

Curator Jian Li-Ting organised an exhibition titled Grammararianism: Trends in Contemporary Videography, with three…

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Between 2011 to 2013, OCAC went through a special trek in zones of Thailand-Taiwan. This is not only the exchanges…

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All things are impermanent, carry on decaying and vanishing toward an oblivion and non-existence condition. While we…

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On the occasion of the via *P.P.T. *salon #3, OCAC Bangkok has invited Hsu Chia-Wei , Taiwanese artist and Jakrawal…

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Taiwanese architect HSIEH Ying-Chun and his Atelier-3 will present in the Liverpool Biennial 2012 exhibition The…

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VIA P.P.T. (Presence Pressure Temptation) salons are an OCAC Bangkok’s program that invite OCAC members artists, artists…

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VIA P.P.T. (Presence Pressure Temptation) salons are an OCAC Bangkok’s program that invite OCAC members artists, artists…

TAHITI FEVER project is hosted in OCAC Bangkok space. In August 2012, it launched the first exhibition Stage 1: WE’re…

As we face an ever urgent and uncertain future, we temporarily suspend the current administrative, bureaucratic, and…

We are happy to have invited the international video art group *Traffic Jam, *to talk about their artwork with us; they…

TRAFFIC JAM is a project-based collective that unites international artists in an urban environment. Intercultural…

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In my childhood memories, the teleport door is a device invented by the cartoon character Doraemon—a door which allows…

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Today, we have almost given up the words “genius” or “natural talent” to describe artists. Artists also don’t use…

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After the success in attracting local art circle’s attention in the 10th Docks Art Fair while working with Olivier Houg…

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We feel threatened in our living environment, because the rules of the game are all against us. We strive to change but…

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“Annual”, a quantitive word that can be both short and long, rapid and slow. It is both a short time, and a lasting…

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Chiu Chen-Hung’s art-making is like an archeological adventure. Digging in specific field in the time he lives in. These…

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Open Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce I Was in the Arctic, the first solo exhibition in Taiwan by New…

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These images were extracted from our common media such as film, television, newspaper and magazines, with an image of a…

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Open Contemporary was invited to be part of Taipei Biennial 2010, and created project *Biennial Scope *for Taipei…

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When it is still a mysterious area to talk about spirituality, our bodies become our direct subject of examining, a path…

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The work *Around Us *is like a journey. Chiu Chen-Hung discovered a bunch of thrown away mine carts by chance, abandoned…

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We are concerned about the fragments of urban changes which take place in our surroundings. In this new emerging art…

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The Waking of Insects is not an event or a exhibition, but a continuous conversational project by OCAC in 2010. It will…

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The curatorial project “POST.O” was presented in multiple locations: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Garden City…

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The exhibition titled with two children’s names *Dandy & Angel *is located at the Open Contemporary Art Center,…

This work is based on a local life experience as a start, that is my life experience in working with many people of the…

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The cities, portraits and homes, and fields and sandbanks in the images are laid out in front of us. They are from a…

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OCAC* 3_21 Showing* represent another year of Open Contemporary, at the same time it is a time for reviewing and…

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“My living space is always messy and dirty, I also dream of having clean and poetic living space. Can I throw away most…

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In this project, we represent a stimulated container on the surface of a real one. By taking the pictures of a model…

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Artists are pretty smart. They renew their strategies again, then again, to support the fragile emptiness. It’s as if…

Dream Construction No.7 is about to start. For people visiting this space, you can enjoy a landscape with a view as if…

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It’s a kind of warmth from freshly baked bread, an invitation, an observation, a change and a test for adventuring…

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In 2006, a new generation of artists tried to develop a new language that can be part of our every-day living, rather…

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In October 2006, OCAC had an exhibition titled “Systems inside Constructions” at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. In…

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I - Image: technology arts often explore the forms and qualities of images combining technology based machines. To…

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Walking down paths in the fields, often we gather up the seeds of cobbler’s pegs on our clothes naturally, the…

In her art practice, she continue to explore art-making on site; view the site as an existing structure to the work,…

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In recent work, the use of images is the most noticeable. The features of this medium created more gaps for exploration…

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Images transfer messages; messages cover another layer of images forcefully. The multiplicity in the image narrative…

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Would it be possible that the school training manipulates the thinking in creating art of those who accept academic…

Introduction to The Contemporary Lecture Room The Contemporary Lecture Room is one of the academic activities of…

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In this group exhibition, artists will investigate everything within a physical space as the suggested title, in how it…

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We launched this project in response to the invitation of the Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse. The curatorial…

Project *Moremove *mainly explores how physical movement can produce repetitive beats, and objects can produce…

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Two members in OCAC, Hsien-Hsu Chu and Chia-Jen Chen, occupies the co-curators in After the E. Young artists together…

Ground Floor has been the first exhibition since the OCAC gallery was officially founded. As the third presentation in a…

Another feature topic in the exhibit is the first Taiwan Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition. It discusses the problem…