The First Edition of Taipei Dangdai Successfully Wraps Up Three
Successful Days of ART & IDEAS to Art Enthusiasts from around theWorld
Taipei Dangdai, the new international art fair, made a successful
premiere in Taipei, having concluded on Sunday, 20 January 2019. Thenewest addition to the global art fair circuit attracted over 28,000
visitors, including international collectors and representatives fromleading art institutions. Presented by UBS, the fair’s first edition
convened 90 leading galleries and featured a curated Ideas Program.
Taipei Dangdai was held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center fromFriday 18 to Sunday 20, January 2019.

Gallery exhibitors and visitors at Taipei Dangdai.
Installation details: Liu Chihhung DELTA, 2018, Neon Lights, Iron structure, Transformers,
350 x 350 x50 cm. Courtesy Taipei Dangdai

TAIPEI (21 January 2019) – The inaugural edition of Taipei Dangdai, thenew international art fair led by Director Magnus Renfrew, closed to great
critical acclaim on Sunday 20 January, surpassing expectations of gallerists
and visitors alike. Held across three public days at the Taipei Nangang
Exhibition Center, the first edition of the fair featured 90 galleries from Taipei,
Asia, and beyond, which was complemented by a carefully curated Ideas
Program. Taipei Dangdai’s offering of art and ideas, aided by ambitious
booth presentations resulted in points of discovery, key sales, newconnections, and welcomed 28,201 visitors from Taipei and around theworld.

During the three public days of the fair, a significant number of private
collectors as well as representatives of local, regional, and international art
institutions visited the first edition of Taipei Dangdai. Distinguished guests
included: Doryun Chong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+, West
Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), Hong Kong; Erica Yu Wen Huang,
Curator of Exhibitions and Learning, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile(CHAT), Hong Kong; Ping Lin, Director, Taipei Fine Arts Museum;
philanthropist Dr. Uli Sigg; art collector and founder of the YuzFoundation, Budi Tek; Yung Ma, Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris;
Tiffany Pinkstone, Director, Sovereign Art Foundation; Dr. Eugene Tan,Director, National Art Gallery, Singapore; collectors Lekha Poddar(India), Deddy Kusuma (Indonesia), and Kim Camacho (Philippines); aswell as Taiwanese actress Alyssa Chia, and collectors Yao Qian andKelvin Tsai.
In addition, the fair witnessed several heavyweight collecting and patron’sgroups from institutions including: Gregor Muir, International Acquisition
Director, and Clara Kim the Daskalopoulos Senior Curator at the Tate
Modern, London; Yoshiko Mori, Chief Director and Fumio Nanjo,
Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Wendy Xu from Powerlong
Museum, Shanghai.
Leading cultural institutions and galleries across the city held exhibition
openings, pop-up shows, artist performances, and special events tocoincide with the debut of Taipei Dangdai, providing international visitorswith exclusive opportunities to explore Taipei’s rich cultural fabric in the leadup to the fair’s opening. A key event in the international and Taipei art
calendar is the 11th edition of the Taipei Biennale at the Taipei Fine Art
Museum, ongoing until March 2019.
Magnus Renfrew, Fair Director, Taipei Dangdai said: “The inaugural
edition of Taipei Dangdai exceeded our expectations. The participating
galleries’ presentations, the outstanding quality of artworks, diverse andwell-curated booths, as well as a hugely positive reception from the generalpublic as well as art professionals all confirm that we are heading in the right
direction. The sheer gathering of industry leaders, most demanding
collectors, top galleries and art institutions all contributed to the huge
success of Taipei Dangdai’s first edition. We would like to thank all theexhibitors, Ideas Program speakers, patrons, sponsors as well as all thevisitors for their efforts, trust, and enthusiasm and we all look forward to nextyear.”"We are proud to present this world-class art fair in Taiwan. Our partnershipwith Taipei Dangdai has been a wonderful success, providing our clients,
staff, and the public a unique window to contemporary arts. We look forward
to advancing our work together, leading up to the second edition in 2020,”
said Dennis Chen, Country Head and Head of Wealth Management, UBSTaiwan.

Pierre Chen, art collector and Founder and CEO of Yageo Corporation,
Taipei, said of the first edition: “Taipei Dangdai has brought great energy tothe city. We are thrilled to have an international fair of this level in our hometown.”
ARTSelected from over 160 applicants by Taipei Dangdai’s international
selection committee, all 90 participating galleries presented ambitious,
tightly curated booths, featuring diverse group shows as well as top-quality
solo displays, which were installed within the fair’s four different sectors.
Galleries included 73 galleries from around the world; Young Galleries
highlighted four rising galleries from Asia; Solos showcased exhibitions byemerging and established artists presented by 13 different galleries; and theSalon sector – a concept unique to Taipei Dangdai – where artworks priced
below USD 8,000 were on display.
Additionally, five (5) large-scale installations were displayed throughout thefair, creating an opportunity for visitors to engage with art outside theconfines of an art fair booth. These included: I Tree to Call You (2018) byJohn Yuyi (presented by Gallery Vacancy), Antiquity-Like Rubbish
Research & Development Syndicate (2010-2018) by Yeh Wei-Li (Hanart TZGallery), Beetle Sphere Orange (2018) by Ichwan Noor and Breadman’sAutomation (2016) by Bagus Pandega (ROH Projects), DELTA, (2018) byLiu Chihhung, (nca｜nichido contemporary art) and 100 Faces of Youth(2019) by Chou Shih Hsiung (Each Modern).
“It is a pleasure to be part of the first edition of Taipei Dangdai, especially as
I am from Taiwan, and to be an integral part of the movement to successfully
provide more diversity for the audiences here. Based in Shanghai, it is great
to have met collectors from the wider region including Hong Kong, Japan,
Singapore and Malaysia, which is one of the most important elements thatmake up the contemporary art market. We are very happy that the fair
supported us in presenting the public installation project of John Yuyi, andour artists were well-received by the public from different regions. We lookforward to the next edition of Taipei Dangdai,” added Lucien Tso, Founder& Director of Gallery Vacancy, who exhibited in the Young Galleries sector.
“Our important collectors across different parts of Taiwan have all travelled
to Taipei to experience the first edition of Taipei Dangdai. We found that thefair has brought worthy international attention to the city, where collateralgallery shows, and Taiwanese artists are benefiting from the international
interests because of this new platform,” said David Lin, Director of Lin &Lin Gallery, Taipei.
“We are delighted with the level of sales at Taipei Dangdai and to have taken
part in the inaugural edition of this fair with strong interest among a largely
Asia-based clientele alongside those from Taiwan. A number of major piecessold within the first day including a cast iron sculpture by Antony Gormley; apainting by Georg Baselitz; a vitrine by Anselm Kiefer; and a grid work byDarren Almond, among others. Two of these pieces will go to art and culture
institutions with the region and will be on public display in due course,” said
Laura Zhou, Director, White Cube Asia.
Junko Shimada, Director of GALLERY SIDE 2 from Tokyo whoparticipated in the Solos sector of the fair, noted: “Our experience at Taipei
Dangdai has consolidated old relationships and formulated newconversations that continue beyond the duration of the fair. We are excited
to see partnerships springing from our first year of participation.”
Please refer to Appendix II for the full list of participating galleries. Details ofall installations can be found in Appendix III.
IDEAS
Over the three (3) public days of the fair (18 – 20 January), a multidisciplinary platform, the Ideas Program gathered key art world figures andindustry professionals from around the world to discuss, debate anddeliberate key cultural topics around the themes of ‘Past’, ‘Present’, and‘Future’. The comprehensive and curated program included eight (8) talks
featuring 22 speakers and focused on issues such as contemporary artistic
practices, curatorship, the gallery landscape in Asia, and the future of digitalart. The talks highlighted artists such as Richard Lin, Li Yuan-Chia,
Haegue Yang, Wu Jian’an, Jam Wu, Charwei Tsai, and Taskashi Kudi
from teamLab. The program also featured leading art industry
professionals such as: President of The International Association of Art
Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, AICA) Taiwan,Pei-ni Hsieh; Lesley Ma, Ink Art Curator of M+, Hong Kong; collector
Yao Qian; Freya Chou, Curator at Para Site; independent curator
Manray Hsu; Stephanie Bailey, Editor-in-Chief of Ocula; as well as
representatives of all four exhibitors from the Young Galleries sector.
Please refer to Appendix I for full details of the Ideas Program 2019.
SPOTLIGHT ON TAIPEIArts institutions across Taipei organized specially programmed moments
throughout the week. Taipei Fine Arts Museum organised special Guided
Tours of the Taipei Biennial, National Palace Museum offered Guided Toursof their Classic Collection, Taipei Contemporary Art Center screened aselection of moving-image works, and JUT Art Museum invited the visitors
to attend a special tour of the venue.
Many of Taipei’s galleries participated in the Taipei Gallery Night held on 16
January and featuring 20 different exhibition openings and other specialevents. Double Square Gallery, Mind Set Art Center and Project Fulfill

Art Space hosted an exclusive Yaoshan Night set in the picturesque hills
surrounding Taipei, Sean Kelly Gallery inaugurated their new ProjectSpace in town, while Hong Kong’s Galerie du Monde showcased a special
pop-up solo exhibition and project Echo, in line to celebrate Taipei’sburgeoning art scene and the first installment of the fair.
Details on the second edition of Taipei Dangdai in 2020 will be announced
soon. To be kept up to date please see details below.
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About Taipei Dangdai
Taipei Dangdai is a new international art fair that presented the first edition in Taipei,
from 18 – 20 January 2019. Overseen by Magnus Renfrew the fair director, Taipei
Dangdai features 90 galleries and places a strong emphasis on galleries from Asiawith a globally recognized selection committee and the support of an advisorycommittee of leading regional collectors. Taipei Dangdai is a world-class art event,
providing exhibitors the opportunity to broaden their collector base and giving
international exposure to a growing number of artists and galleries from across Asia.
The name of the fair captures this spirit, as dangdai in Mandarin means “the presentmoment.” Held annually, Taipei Dangdai constitutes an accurate and immediatesurvey of what is occurring in the contemporary Asian art world. The subtitle, Art &Ideas, highlights the two main focuses of the event: a leading international art fairand a convening of thought leaders from various fields.
Taipei Dangdai is a joint venture between four of the world’s leading art event
producers, organizers, and administrators: Single Market Events (Tim Etchells),
Angus Montgomery Limited (Sandy Angus), Ramsay Fairs Limited (Will Ramsay),and ARTHQ / EVENTS Limited (Magnus Renfrew). https://taipeidangdai.com/PRESENTED BY UBS
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UBS has a long and substantial record of contemporary art patronage. At the core ofthis commitment is the UBS Art Collection, one of the world’s largest and mostimportant corporate art collections, with more than 30,000 artworks. The firm actively
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