A forerunner of Taiwanese modern art, the Tina Keng Gallery hinges upon the philosophy that art is a reflection of the times. The Tina Keng Gallery has its roots in the Lin & Keng Gallery (1992–2009) based in Taipei, Taiwan and Beijing, China. Delving into Western painting and Chinese art history, Lin & Keng tirelessly promoted the work of Asian classical masters, cultivating a critical thought on Greater Chinese modern art. The Tina Keng Gallery has continued this tradition by centering its focus on Asia, further excavating art history and rediscovering modern aesthetics. Upon this foundation, the Tina Keng Gallery is steadfast in nurturing Taiwanese modern and contemporary art, with hopes to capture the changing states of art through writings of history, in so doing highlighting the cultural underpinnings of its worldview. Art arises from culture, and culture mirrors the times. The Tina Keng Gallery endeavors not only to support Greater Chinese modern and contemporary art, but to shape a perspective that is elementally Asian.
Read MoreFounded in 2009, TKG+ is the contemporary platform of the Tina Keng Gallery. Creative Director Shelly Wu has dedicated herself to the development of Taiwanese contemporary art, with a special focus on how to amalgamate Southeast Asian artistic expressions into a cornucopia of aesthetics. As its name suggests, TKG+ believes that artistic expression, interwoven with the global cultural fabric, is manifested in multifarious forms that spawn exponential growth and possibility of art in the 21st century.
Ocula Photolog West Bund Art & Design 2019 'The fair provides a platform for international exhibitors to showcase the finest quality of modern and contemporary art in Shanghai. With exhibitions and art events offered by museums and galleries in the city, West Bund has made November's Shanghai a permanent fixture on the global art calendar.' –West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai (7–10...
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now By Fawz Kabra RoseLee Goldberg had long been invested in contemporary performance art before her founding of the inter-disciplinary arts organisation Performa in New York in 2004. Born in Durban, South Africa, Goldberg studied political science and fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then art history at the Courtauld...
Ocula Feature Art Jakarta Drops Anchor in a Stormy Southeast Asian Art Market By Sam Gaskin, Jakarta Jakarta may be sinking, prompting the announcement last month that Indonesia will create a new capital on the island of Borneo, but the city's longest-running art fair is on the rise. Founded by the license holder of Harper's Bazaar Indonesia, the fair began as Bazaar Art Jakarta in 2008. While it's still owned by the same holding company, MRA...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 'Art Basel reinforces its ongoing commitment to showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia Pacific, with over half of the participating galleries having exhibition spaces in the region. The main sector of the show features 196 of the world's leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation...
Related Press Nam June Paik today 18 October 2019, ArtReview Koki Tanaka How did you first encounter the work of Nam June Paik? I think it was through TV Buddha, but not sure which one. I just googled it now, and find out there are so many different versions of TV Buddhas by Paik...
Related Press BULAUBULAU CHARWEI TSAI 1 January 2019, ArtAsiaPacific Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai's first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, Bulaubulau, at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, drew upon universal yet highly personal concerns surrounding indigenous communities in Taiwan. Utilizing a range of natural and manmade materials in her practice, the artist comments on both the...
Related Press A look at Hong Kong 20 years after the handover: Hong Kong artists at CFCCA, Manchester 10 September 2017, Art Radar At this year's Venice Biennale, Hong Kong artist Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong) takes his visitors on an exploration of charity songs in the Hong Kong Pavilion. At the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, however, he takes viewers down quite a separate path. Entitled One of Two Stories, or Both (Field Bagatelles), Young presents...
Related Press 11 national pavilions and exhibition to see at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 23 May 2017, Art Radar Journal Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play — United Arab Emirates Curated by Hammad Nasar, commissioned by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and supported by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, the exhibition features existing, new commissions and re-fabrications of 'lost' works by five UAE-based artists. The...
Related Video & Audio Artist Interview｜Mit Jai Inn 30 November 2020, TKG+ Following the solo exhibition 'Light, Dark, Other' at TKG+ in 2018, Mit Jai Inn is holding his latest solo exhibition 'The King and I' at TKG+.
Related Video & Audio Documentary of Chou Yu-Cheng Solo Exhibition 27 August 2020, TKG+ The progression and transition of modernisation plays a subtle yet vital role in shaping people's perception and values. In this complex process, 'hygiene' as the key word for the new phase comes from a Taiwanese slang 'without knowledge and without hygiene' (referring to someone dumb, dirty, and without standards).
Related Video & Audio Tomorrowland — Yuan Goang-Ming Solo Exhibition 30 July 2020, TKG+ Tomorrowland attempts to project an imaginary future that pivots around German philosopher Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death.'
