2024 Kaohsiung Award
About this Exhibition
Based on the diversity of contemporary art and the spirit of interdisciplinary integration, the Kaohsiung Award provides artists with an art-making platform characterized with pluralism and openness. A total of 511 works were submitted for the 2024 Kaohsiung Award, including works by 23 foreign artists. Continuing the selection mechanism of categorizing works in the preliminary selection but de-categorizing works in the final review, this year we invited Chen Yong-xian, Xue Bao-xia, Gong Zhuo-jun, Wang Pin-hua, and Seng Yu-jin as final jurors. Seng Yu-jin is the Senior Curator at the National Gallery Singapore, who was especially invited to provide a more international perspective for the final review.
The winners of 2024 Kaohsiung Award addresses multifaceted social structures or their ethnic memories through sensory experiences, such as senses of sight, hearing, and even touch. In the spatial installation of Good morning! And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night by Hsieh Chi-hsun, the work features an inaccessible staircase, and through reflective media such as mirrors and water surfaces, it rationally reflects the viewer's flesh confined on the distant shore, metaphorically expressing a certain dilemma of the times. With the politics of sound, Turn down the volume by Chen Yen-Chi immerse the audience in a fantastical realm of insect chirps and Mozart's opera, where the interweaving of these two contrasting sounds symbolizes the tug-of-war with various systems. After the flood, there are islands by Hu Chia-yu describes the myth of the Bunun tribe. By combining the traditions of different ethnic groups, it weaves a new type of self-awareness; by using flood to express the blending of tradition and modernity, it develops the self-identity of Austronesian youth of the new generation. This year, the winners of Kaohsiung Award are Hsieh Chi-hsun, Chen Yen-Chi, and Hu Chia-yu, and the winner of HCS Special Award for Calligraphy/Seal-engraving Works is Tuan Mu. In addition, five Excellent Work Awards and eighteen Honorable Mentions were selected from all categories.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and we expect to create “your beautiful everyday life” for the viewer. Inspired either by the artists’ everyday life or by their personal life experience, all the award-winning works of 2024 Kaohsiung Award will encourage the viewer to explore a new vision from everyday life and experience the unlimited creativity of every artist.
2024 Kaohsiung Award
謝其軒《Good morning! And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night》
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陳彥齊《把聲音轉小》
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胡家瑜《洪水過後就有島嶼》