Javier Castro Bugarin
Taichung (Taiwan), December 13 (EFE). – Billed as the “largest cultural project” in Taiwan for 2025, the Taichung Green Museumbrary (TGM) opens its doors this Saturday with an inaugural exhibition that brings together more than seventy artists from twenty countries and articulates a dialogue between local and global perspectives.
Located in the Central Park of Taichung, the island’s second largest city, this complex integrates for the first time in Taiwan a municipal art museum and the municipality’s central public library in a kind of hybrid model that blurs the boundaries between artistic creation, reading and public space.
The architectural design is the result of an international collaboration between the SANAA studio led by the Japanese Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, winners of the Pritzker Prize – the “Nobel Prize for Architecture” – in 2010, and the Taiwanese firm Ricky Liu & Associates, and is also the Japanese team’s largest cultural project to date.
The Taichung Art Museum (TcAM), one of the two spaces that make up this building, makes its debut this Saturday with the exhibition “A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place,” which can be viewed until April 12, 2026.
Organized by curators Ling-chih Chow (Taiwan), Alaina Claire Feldman (USA) and Anca Mihuleţ-Kim (Romania/South Korea), the exhibition invites the public to explore the relationships between humans and the environment, exploring the history of fauna and flora, migration and movement, fables and mythologies.
These reflections unfold in five sections: In “How to Draw a Coastline,” for example, the artists capture the changing shapes of the world over time, while in “The Troubling of Natural Histories” the focus is on taxonomies, the systems of knowledge that structure the history of nature.
“It was a very challenging process to use a space that we had not experienced before (…). Each space and each gallery has its own characteristics and we tried to utilize them and place these artists accordingly,” Chow said this Friday during a preview visit for the media.
For her part, Anca Mihuleţ-Kim claimed the “collaborative” character of the exhibition, which features works by local artists and others from countries such as Germany, Poland and Haiti.
“It is very important to collaborate with contemporary artists because they embody the spirit of our times, and the discourse of our exhibition is even more valuable because we have brought together artists from many regions of the world interacting with artists from Taichung,” the curator said.
These exhibition spaces coexist with other pieces installed in the public spaces of the Green Museumbrary and highlight the presence of “Liquid Votive-Tree Shade Triad,” a type of tree made of blinds that hangs almost 24 meters high and is a work by South Korea’s Haegue Yang.
Beyond its cultural vocation, the Taichung Green Museumbrary is distinguished by its architectural value: the building is divided into eight interconnected volumes of different sizes and heights, covered by a white facade made of metal mesh and glass that improves transparency and air circulation.
The visitor can easily get lost and find themselves in the nearly 58,000 square meter space, walking along the two walkways and jumping from the museum to the library, which houses more than a million books and digital resources.
Built on the site of a former military airport, the Green Museumbrary aims to redefine the relationship between culture and public space and become one of the most important cultural landmarks in this city of almost three million inhabitants. EFE
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