Taiwan

The Professional Exchange Programme, from 1 August to 1 October 2024, is to support practitioners who are facilitators or organisers of art and cultural events/projects (including artists) from from Europe and the U.K. to have the chance for a multi-week visit and exchange in Taiwan.

Organised by Dacheng Art Experimental Elementary School in Xinpi Township, Pingtung County, the Earth Art Festival will be held for the first time in 2024. As part of this festival, they are organising a residency programme on the theme of ‘Playing with Nature’, from 23 November to 16 December 2024 in Xinpi Township, Taiwan.

Taiwan Art Space Alliance, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, Hyper Wave and Mekong Cultural Hub are calling for applications from art and cultural practitioners from Southeast Asia who are facilitators or organisers of art and cultural events/projects for the Professional Exchange Programme in Taiwan.

Pier-2 Art Center Artist-in-Residence Programme (PAIR) in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, is calling for applications from artists and artistic groups of all nationalities who have at least two years of experience in art creation. Selected artists should carry out their residency for 60-85 days within the period of 1 January to 31 December 2025. The residency duration must not be less than 60 days.

Launching its short-term international artist residency programme in 2024, Zhuwei Artist Village invites international applications from artists who excel in driftwood creation or sewing machine works, and who can propose interactive community and environmental projects.

The third ‘2025 Taoyuan International Art Award’, organised by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), is intended for new works presented publicly for the first time which have never entered government-organised competitions in Taiwan. Artists may participate as an individual or a group regardless of nationality or age.

After several iterations of accommodating international and local artists in Taipei as a cultural field to run the ADAM Artist Lab, for the very first time, the 2024 ADAM Artist Lab will be traveling outside Taiwan. The programme will be divided into two phases in Bangkok (18-29 June 2024) and in Taipei (19 August – 1 September 2024).

Mekong Cultural Hub is now recruiting a new position of Program Manager, responsible for leading programs and projects related to Networks & Alliances. The position is open to candidates from and based in South-East Asia and Taiwan. If the selected candidate is based in either Phnom Penh or Taipei they may work at a Living Arts International office. Otherwise, they will work remotely, with approximately 1-2 trips within South-East Asia and Taiwan per year.

Guandu Nature Park is calling for three artists with a focus on the human-nature relationship to participate in the 2023 Guandu International Nature Art Festival, themed ‘Nature, a Gift - Connection, Giving, and Exchange’. Selected artists will use natural or environmentally friendly materials to create artworks on-site that can convey environmental messages and raise awareness. The residency period will run from 9 August 2023 – 11 September 2023, with artworks exhibited from 10 September – 31 December 2023.

ADAM Artist Lab is a collaborative, artist-led, and research-based residency programme allowing artists from across various performative practices to think and work together in a creative process, inventing new ideas and future collaborations. The 2023 ADAM Artist Lab proposes the notion of ‘queer ecology’ in the post-pandemic era to create speculate on human and non-human ecosystem through a queer lens. Artists with practices related to the theme and interested in collaborative research are invited to apply for the Lab, taking place from 31 July - 27 August 2023.

Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center is located in the Madou district, on the northern outskirts of Tainan city, in an old sugar refinery that has been infused with multicultural ideas to form a unique space. The theme for the Center’s 2022 residency programme is ‘Site-Specific Art’. Artists working in visual art, performing art, installation, interdisciplinary contemporary art are invited to apply. Residencies last 45-90 days and take place in the period 21 February 2022 - 30 August 2022.