Preview of Art Taipei 2025
Mind Set Art Center, Mizuiro Workshop, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Art Cube Gallery, DE SARTHE
ART TAIPEI returns to Taipei World Trade Centre from 24 to 27 October 2025 for its 32nd edition. Organised by Taiwan Art Gallery Association (TAGA), the fair will bring together 120 galleries from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. We speak with five galleries to find out about the artworks they are bringing, and their expectations of the fair.
Mind Set Art Center
Tang Jo-Hung, Typhoon, 2025, oil on masonite, 63.5 × 61.5cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Mind Set Art Centre.
Taipei-based Mind Set Art Center’s (MSAC) presentation Mindscape gathers five artists from Taiwan, Japan, and the Czech Republic: Chou Kai-Lun, Lin Wei-Hsiang, Matěj Macháček, Shinji Ohmaki, and Tang Jo-Hung. Each artist maps an interior terrain shaped by memory, perception, and lived experience. Through diverse approaches and sensibilities, their works explore the ways inner landscapes may be rendered and felt. Speaking to ART TAIPEI’s role in the local art ecosystem, MSAC Partner and Director Queena Chu says, “The fair provides a valuable platform for direct encounters, fostering meaningful dialogue around our artists’ practices and expanding the visibility of our programme within a broader regional and international context.”
Concurrent with the fair, Tang Jo-Hung: Treasure Island (2025) will be on view at MSAC’s gallery space. This exhibition debuts Tang’s first new major body of work since receiving the Grand Prize of the 21st Taishin Arts Award in 2023.
Mizuiro Workshop
Chung Chia-Chun, Sir Gawain The Green Belt, 2025, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 105 x 105cm. Image courtesy of Mizuiro Workshop.
Mizuiro Workshop, based in Tainan City, is featuring an international group of artists at the fair: Yang Tsung-Chia (Taiwan), Chung Chia-Chun (Taiwan), Carsten Goering (Germany), Vasilis Avramidis (Greece), Christine Gisla (Iceland). Premised around the theme of Thresholds of Perception, the five artists explore notions of boundaries: between material and spirit, humour and seriousness, stillness and movement, memory and reality, presence and absence. A highlight is Chung Chia-Chun’s painting on paper, which plays with the aesthetics of early internet multiplayer games. Smooth bands of colour are contrasted with sections of textured charcoal, offering a tactile experience that is not easily replicated digitally.
Tomio Koyama Gallery
Nana Funo, 鳥のお告げとめまいのページ Page of Revelation from a Bird and Dizziness, 2018, acrylic on panel, 80.5 x 106.0cm (a set of 2 canvases, 80.3 x 53.0cm each). Image courtesy of the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery.
Tomio Koyama Gallery is a Japanese gallery with four spaces in Tokyo. They are featuring works by five female artists: Nana Funo, Makiko Kudo, Tomoko Nagai, Mika Ninagawa, and Xu Ning, at the fair. Commenting on the gallery’s regular participation in ART TAIPEI, Founder Tomio Koyama expresses hope that the circle of collectors in Taiwan will expand further. He elaborates, “I find the recent developments in Taiwan's art museums very interesting and believe there is potential for the market to grow even larger.”
Art Cube Gallery
Emmanuel “Manny” Garibay, BUNGA, 2022, oil on canvas, 122 x 122cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Art Cube Gallery.
Manila-based Art Cube Gallery is presenting Figures of Speech, a focused exhibition of six artists who represent the breadth of representational practice in the Philippines today: Don Bryan Bunag, Cedrick Dela Paz, Emmanuel “Manny” Garibay, Winna Go, Guerrero Habulan, and Ryan Jara. Each artist engages figuration as a means to address urgent questions of identity, politics, culture, and everyday life. Celebrated painter and community organiser Emmanuel Garibay investigates how the diverse lives of Filipinos contribute to the shaping of national identity, while Winna Go explores the space between Chinese and Filipino heritage as a site of coexistence. Figures of Speech is a snapshot of social realities in the Philippines inflected through the lens of contemporary art.
DE SARTHE
Bernar Venet, 53.5˚ Arc x 14, 2025, rolled steel, 171.5 cm (height). © Bernar Venet. Image courtesy DE SARTHE, Hong Kong.
DE SARTHE returns to the fair with works by contemporary artists as well as postwar masters. The booth’s contemporary section highlights artistic responses to the ways social environments evolve under the influence of new technology, featuring Chan Ka Kiu, Love-Love, Mak2, Caison Wang, and Zhong Wei. In the “classic” section, French artist Bernar Venet’s Convergence series (2024-ongoing) is presented in conversation with the lyrical abstraction of Chinese-French painters Chu Teh-Chun and Zao Wou-Ki, and 1950s Abstract Expressionist painter Jack Tworkov. Gilbert & George’s Chained Up (2001) a large-scale photographic work from the British duo’s Nine Dark Picture series will also be on view.
Founder Pascal de Sarthe is thrilled to participate in the fair again after more than 10 years. “As the market evolves, we have a rare opportunity to refocus on art's intrinsic value and foster a healthier, more sustainable future,” he comments. “For the astute collector, this is a moment of profound potential. We see ART TAIPEI as the perfect stage to reignite a meaningful dialogue about art's enduring worth.”
ART TAIPEI 2025 is happening from 24 to 27 October 2025, at Taipei World Trade Centre Hall 1. The second edition of Taipei Art Week runs from 18 October to 2 November 2025.
This article is presented in partnership with ART TAIPEI and Taipei Art Week 2025. For more information about the fair, click here.