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Taiwanese art and culture with a sharp eye and a smart mouth.

Worth going out for

An illustrated cutaway house with a planted roof terrace, striped lounger and yellow hose; a bedroom and bathroom upstairs, and a kitchen, green sofa and drawing table below.
Closing soon

October 30, 2026 · Taipei

HOME: a roof garden, a bathtub, three days in Minsheng

Stephanie Fan and Cheng Cheng fill a three-day illustration show with the things that make a home: a hot pot, a beer mug, a drawing table and a very desirable roof terrace.

October 30–November 1, 2026 · 13:00–19:00 each day

HOME joint exhibition: Stephanie Fan × Cheng Cheng. Image published by Stephanie Fan. Editorial use.

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An enormous white shirt hangs across the storeys of an old house; people write on its lower edge.
On view

October 23, 2026 · Chiayi

Giant shirts, an upstairs living room, and two walks through Chiayi

Seven artists work with cafés, a rice mill, a grain shop and old staff houses, November 1–15. Choose one of two half-day walks through the seven free exhibitions.

November 1–15, 2026; each exhibition keeps its own hours, listed below.

Supplied by Chiayi City, published on CNA's press platform. Editorial use.

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Coloured strands spill from a rough pale wall panel beside smaller textile pieces; a narrow terrazzo stair rises between the works, with long fibre pieces hanging above.
On view

October 24, 2026 · Tainan

The cracks grow wool at Gimgoanheng

Coloured strands spill down a wall beside an old terrazzo stair. Zeze Chen's Through the Weave occupies the third floor of Tainan's century-old cloth house.

October 22–November 22, 2026; Wednesday–Sunday, 10:00–18:00

Work: Zeze Chen; textile fabrication collaboration: 張靖盈. Installation photograph published by Gimgoanheng. Editorial use.

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Last chance

Last day todayMangasick

A cloud for two white cats

October 9–November 1, 2026. Friday–Monday, 14:00–21:00; closed Tuesday–Thursday.

Opening soon

Ask Botto while it works: a live AI-art encounter at Huashan

Mario Klingemann, Botto and curator Eleonora Brizi; choose a free afternoon on November 6 or 7.

Choose November 6 or 7: check-in 13:45–13:55, encounter 14:00–17:00.

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A tall metal egret glows beside Keelung Art Museum at dusk. Round ship windows form its body, chains form its legs, and a light hangs from its beak.Li Cheng-Liang · Li Cheng-Liang, Patrol Egret No. 1
A landscape poster places yellow, blue and pink painted areas, outlined figures and handwriting on the left, with Kao Yung-Chung's exhibition title and October 27–November 25 dates on pale grey at right.Kao Yung-Chung · Exploring the Limits of Color—Kao Yung-Chung Solo Exhibition
A bright-yellow landscape poster names Michael Craig-Martin's The Language of the Everyday at left; saturated colours and black outlines show a drum, metronome, pencil sharpener and chairs at right.Michael Craig-Martin · Michael Craig-Martin: The Language of the Everyday
14453 exhibition image: a pale lavender and green horned creature lifts its head, with orange-purple butterfly wings behind it, small raised bumps and gold fastenings across a seam. The title appears above; Lee Shih-Hwa's name and exhibition dates are below.Lee Shih-Hwa · Lee Shih-Hwa: 14453 exhibition image
Xhin Toh stands bare-chested in a green landscape with broken ground, holding a photograph of a weathered LAYANG-LAYANG station sign across his body.Layang-Layang Drifts Afar series image
White and purple opening-forum poster. Large November 1 date, 09:50–17:30, National Museum of Taiwan Literature first-floor auditorium, free participation and Mandarin interpretation are listed beside the biennial's coloured loops.Tainan Art Biennale opening forum
A cream ear against yellow and orange bars contains a portrait of doctor 蔡阿信 wearing glasses. TimeGuide lettering runs below.Doctor 蔡阿信 inside the TimeGuide ear
A yellow-green frame surrounds an inked spatula and plate, with the words Visit us, Check here and Texture Printmaking Studio.Texture Printmaking Studio · Texture: visitor graphic
A blue exhibition poster on a wall shows a pale figure holding small black animals. A black cat appears at the lower left and a flying saucer with green passengers floats at the right.Lim Yesool / Black Jelly Club · Where The Star Rest: exhibition image
Open textbooks line two yellow tables. A blurred visitor passes between them, with bookshelves, a silver backdrop and tall coloured shapes beyond.Yellow book tables, a visitor passing between
A face sits inside a black disc on a cloudy plain, with a three-dot typing bubble above it. The lower band names the encounter and November 6–7 Huashan dates.The Artist Is Typing…: event graphic
Pink, red, yellow, green, orange and blue geometric blocks, radiating circles and vertical TAIPEI lettering form the exhibition graphic.Javin Mo and Tetsuya Goto · C-GRAPHIC/TAIPEI: Taipei exhibition graphic
Four circular mandalas fill a red painting. Nested square palaces and small figures sit within black-and-gold rings, with further rows of figures along the top and bottom.Newar painters · Four mandalas from the Vajravali series
A cobalt-blue room contains two padded yellow door-handle shapes, long plinths with small rounded objects, and a white upholstered window-seat form occupied by a visitor.Huang Shao-ying; photograph by ANPIS FOTO／王世邦 · Huang Shao-ying: 休憩室 (Resting Room)
Small photographs on sticks cross a broad green leaf on a red tablecloth, beside a biscuit tin, hanging coffee packets, a pale basket and a framed photograph.許維怡 · 許維怡: 沒有辣椒沒有用
Four carved wooden people around an enormous wooden hand: one hugs his knees on a tall dark plinth, another rests his head beside the hand, and two stand behind in pale and black shirts.MOOFOO · MOOFOO's wooden figures
Two ochre clay tigers stand and recline in front of blue mountains with mirrored faces, photographed on green turf.East Lin · East Lin · Yushan tigers
White Ecologies of Making poster with shell-like objects along a red cord and a net-like structure; dates October 25–November 29.Elena Redaelli · Elena Redaelli: Ecologies of Making
Fish, prawns, roe and green leaves decorate a dark rectangular box with a glossy surface, photographed against grey.Joshin Hiroko · 散壽司 繽紛之盒
Two wooden chairs face four square calligraphy works on a white wall, with black-and-white, red-and-black, and green-and-orange strokes.Chen Shih-Hsien · Calligraphy inside the former school
Kitashima’s acrylic painting: a pink-capped figure watches a dripping inverted green pacifier above oysters and tempura. A bear carrying a red cherry floats overhead.Takuya Kitashima · Sometimes Turning Upside Down
A whole picture-book spread: a green tree on an island at upper right, fine coloured wave marks, underwater rock and coral outlines. Taigi text sits at upper left.儲玉玲 · 若是一个島想欲去旅行: island and tree
An orange disc with fine radial lines hangs beside a transparent blue-lit lens, with reflections in a dark circular mirror below.謝鎮璘 DAMONXART · Solar / Lunar 日月
Numbered red, green and yellow folding seats line a bright yellow steel enclosure on the grass, with circular cut-outs framing buildings in Yuanshan.Li Cheng-Liang · 《巨人坐著整個月》
White glass forms run diagonally over grey concrete. Porous stems rise from rounded discs, one opens into a hollow cup, and long shadows fall to the right.Yoshiaki Kojiro · Glass work by Yoshiaki Kojiro
Sunlight enters a tall museum gallery. On a white plinth in front, grey-green hollow ceramic forms carry a cluster of thin red shells; other works stand on white plinths behind.Masayuki Sato · Red ceramic shells in the sunlit gallery
Brown branching forms radiate around a hollow circle in a dark square work; a wooden table, patterned chair and small objects sit below against a white wall.Branches radiate around an empty centre
Green shutters open around a window. Papers rest on a wooden stool while a person reaches towards scattered objects; a blue door stands beyond the iron bars.Objects at the window: Mingu programme image
A yellow seated figure against a photograph of an old Keelung building on a turquoise poster listing four workshops and two walks.Keelung film workshops and city walks
Cream poster with a hand using a palette knife in thick blue and purple paint; dates and the 94 cafe address appear at right.A-Lin's Gangshan café exhibition poster
Coloured strands spill from a rough pale wall panel beside smaller textile pieces; a narrow terrazzo stair rises between the works, with long fibre pieces hanging above.Zeze Chen · Zeze Chen: Through the Weave at Gimgoanheng
SUSU's bright banquet illustration for PCF 7: colourful diners gather around fish, tangyuan and zines. Side panels announce October 31–November 1, 2026, at Songshan warehouses 3–5.SUSU @sunipaidui_ · SUSU: PCF 7 banquet illustration
Green pea leaves, hanging pods and pink-purple flowers in a glass vase against a bright yellow background, above a red table. Lai Chuan-Chien,《豌豆之花》.Lai Chuan-Chien · Lai Chuan-Chien:《豌豆之花》
A pale terrazzo sculpture from Chiu Cheng-Hung's Embroidered Swallows # NTUH sits in grass, a fine brass seam running around its rounded surface, with trees and the hospital streetscape behind it.Chiu Cheng-Hung · Chiu Cheng-Hung: Embroidered Swallows # NTUH
Red, yellow and turquoise headlights and signs reflect across a wet night street, beneath buildings in deep green and black.蔡汶澄 · Rainy city in crayon · 蔡汶澄
Lime-green tree shapes against a deep-green ground, with dark gaps within the foliage. A pale uneven border surrounds the work, pinned at four corners on a white gallery wall.魏仲偉 / Wei Wash · A green work from 魏仲偉's 森
An illustrated cutaway house with a planted roof terrace, striped lounger and yellow hose; a bedroom and bathroom upstairs, and a kitchen, green sofa and drawing table below.A cutaway home from HOME
A person lies on a long blue platform beneath trees. Crates, a traffic cone and a bucket support its sections; the organiser's frame names Pan I-An's Still, Still.Pan I-An · Pan I-An: Still, Still
A smiling astronaut sits on a moon with a green alien on the helmet, surrounded by a rocket, stars, a rainbow and smiling planets, below the words 2026 Pinkoi Design Fest.一顆包子 Baozi · Baozi’s space illustration for Pinkoi Design Fest
An enormous round black cat lies upside down over a blue grid; the white strip below gives the October 31–November 22 exhibition dates and Chinese book title.SuWei / children eyes · SuWei's cat-book exhibition
An old carousel glows amber through mist at night, with three figures beside it; artist’s visualisation of Midnight Music Box.Chung-Han Yao · Midnight Music Box · artist’s visualisation
A warm kitchen image covers rows of translucent pale-yellow blocks on a gallery wall. Its uneven edges loosen into pieces at floor level; small picture-bearing blocks dot the adjoining white wall.青婕 (@riverlucent) · 青婕: 我們在反潮的房間裡等海變小
Two white cats in ruffled collars hold a green conch and a pink spiral shell amid pale clouds.羅荷 · 《純白色的歌》 · 羅荷
A portrait poster with pink flowers and green leaves above a dark-green panel naming Huang Shun-Ting’s Best Best Wishes, October 3–November 21, and the originally scheduled October 24 talk.Huang Shun-Ting · Best Best Wishes poster
Coloured curls scatter among pale trunks above a reflecting lake; a central circle carries the Lake Festival title and dates.Matt Perkins · Matt Perkins, Lake Festival programme poster
Whole Taiwan exhibition poster: a rabbit sits on a bear's head while a tiger, bears and a pig gather around tea and books against green hills; dates and the Xinyi bookstore address remain visible.TOKINOIRODORI Taiwan one-page picture-book exhibition poster
A small figure between orange and purple boulders at the Sunrise Boulevard night installation.ENESS · Between the giant rocks
White bird-shaped wind vanes stand on a raft, with the crab boardwalk and distant wind turbines behind them.Takahito Kimura · Takahito Kimura: Waterbirds’ Parking Lot
White perforated shell-like arches of different sizes sit on grass beneath trees.Elena Redaelli · Elena Redaelli: Wetland’s future fossils
Song Joo Yean introduces a green-roofed house with red puzzle panels to families; a blue wave hangs on the red wall behind her.Song Joo Yean · Song Joo Yean's character house at the opening activity
Dance-history poster with colourful looping paths over rock collages, bilingual titles, October 10–January 24 dates and Weiwuying's 3F Crown Hall West location.Leaping Maps: The Bodies That Danced Taiwan's History
Clear glass bottles lie horizontally on black tripod stands in a gallery with timber flooring and exposed rafters; a cloth at the back bears the work's title.Frank Bloem · Scent Memories of the Blind Snake
A dark exhibition room with small screens on stands, curved metallic sculptures and a large cream-coloured oval framing a bright screen.Chang Shu-Wei · Agent's Window
A sunlit curved wooden table holds coloured glasses, clear lucky-cat containers and small glass spoons.Glass Dream Address
Two footballers in turquoise and black-and-yellow kits concentrate on a yellow ball near the bottom of the frame.“ฟุตบอลสร้างมิตรภาพ“ ❤️⚽️❤️
A portrait poster on an orange-and-yellow grid: blue-and-white wood-grain rings spread out and break into a grey checkerboard, titled 2026 Sanyi Woodcarving Festival.2026 Sanyi Woodcarving Festival · 2026 Sanyi Woodcarving Festival poster
Yeh Che-Yu’s A Whimsical Visit to the Immortals II: a figure on pink clouds above a pink sports car, checkerboard patch, metallic ground and looping green arrow.Yeh Che-Yu · A Whimsical Visit to the Immortals II
Wide cream exhibition banner with black Chinese handwriting, a blue kite, white flowers and orange grasses.National Museum of Taiwan Literature · Exhibition banner for 越境的詩心
Rough brown ceramic chain links, their surfaces stamped with small text, loop together in heaps on a white floor, casting shadows.Cho Wei · Cho Wei, 鏈結—同溫層, detail
Framed blue-and-yellow picture-book originals hang on a wooden pegboard at cafe BOMBOM.Art: Evergreen Yeh · Shadow Games originals at cafe BOMBOM
Yellow Takao Nakagawa event poster with illustrated food characters, a bear and a frog sitting in a bamboo steamer, and October 9–November 12 dates.Artwork: Takao Nakagawa · Takao Nakagawa at CRAFT TOKYO × THE GALA SHOP, event poster
A deep-blue ocean poster: a large whale beneath golden water, smaller dolphins nearby and a submerged house below, under the white bilingual title Two Thirds.Organiser: Hualien AI Music Lab (HAML) · Two Thirds, exhibition poster
A grey paper structure has warmly lit recesses holding pink spheres, some on narrow blocks and others gathered behind a low paper rail.Lin Hsi Yu (林希羽) · 街區浮現時
A black, white and blue ribbon of paint bends across the silver field of SAKI's 玄流, with droplets and a blue pool below.黃紀縈 Huang Chi-Ying / SAKI · 玄流
Square poster: a small cream-coloured hedgehog among green leaves beneath a huge dandelion, printed with the show's title, dates and venue.Aggie 慢慢走 (@aggie__amble) · The Star Forest exhibition poster
Crumpled white paper hangs from the ceiling to form a dim tree hollow; through a lit opening below, a glass case full of green plants is visible.李阮修 · Tree hollow, faint light
CO-FORM fills Huashan's illuminated outer screens after dark, with visitors crossing the park below.Photograph by @hui_ming___ · CO-FORM on the Huashan wall
A brown glazed vessel stands on a white plinth, with two pale green vessels blurred behind it.鄭智恩 · Vessel from 鄭智恩's 《土之生》
At night on the Kangle Street side, a painter works high on a large dragon form, its green scales edged in fluorescent line; paint cups, a folding table and a light box stand on the ground below.The dragon gateway under construction at The Spring
Two parrots with overlapping red, blue, yellow and green ceramic feathers above layered pink flowers and green leaves.Jiannian parrots and flowers
Rounded stones form low walls beneath a curved photograph of sea and stone weirs, with screens set into the display.Stone-weir display in the sea-Hakka permanent exhibition
Ceramic bowls, irregular plates, tin surfaces and purple-and-white ribbon forms stretch down a table crossed by green-and-yellow cloth.陶錫工藝 · 陶錫工藝 — 縱谷盛宴 (Valley Banquet)
A geometric projection stretches across the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts facade at night.City of Mirrors — outdoor projection
Vicki Huang stands between two turntables, one hand reaching toward the record on her left, a telephone-style headphone held to one ear.Vicki Huang, ELLA Records After Hours Session

Work on view now and opening soon across Taiwan.

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Guides

Where shall we go today?

November 1 · a police station, cloth house and water

Tainan's opening weekend: a Sunday art walk

  • Afternoon into evening

Tainan Art Museum 1 → Through the Weave at Gimgoanheng → LONG FLOW TAINAN at The Spring

This route is for Sunday, November 1. Museum: 10:00–18:00, last admission 17:30; Gimgoanheng: 10:00–18:00. On October 31 the water area hosts a separately ticketed Halloween event.

Sun, Nov 1: every stop has published hours

Hualien · through November 9, 2026 · Friday–Sunday

Hualien: whale recordings, then a room made of soap

  • An afternoon

Building 19: Two Thirds → ten-minute walk → Good Underground

Plan this pair for Friday, Saturday or Sunday: Good Underground closes Tuesday–Thursday, and Two Thirds closes Monday.

Sun, Nov 1: every stop has published hours

Two exhibitions · park walk · Spring Pool

A Hsinchu glass afternoon: foam, furnaces, Spring Pool

  • An afternoon

Windlivehouse → Glass Museum → Spring Pool

Tuesday–Sunday; closed Monday. Festival venues close at 17:00 on weekdays and 18:00 on weekends.

Sun, Nov 1: every stop has published hours

Yuanshan and Dalongdong · take your time together

Sakamoto, temple dragons and dinner in Dalongdong

  • Afternoon into evening
  • Reservation needed

Taipei Fine Arts Museum → Baoan Temple → Dalong Street Night Market

TFAM closes Monday; Baoan Temple opens daily. For Saturday evening tickets, eat before the exhibition. Reserve TFAM exhibition entry first. October 15 releases October 31–November 29 slots; later dates follow museum announcements. This itinerary does not reserve a place.

Sun, Nov 1: every stop has published hours; booking slots still need confirming.

All guides, by city, length and booking →

Artists

Living and historical

Places

Art spaces, bookshops, studios, memorial rooms

People seated in close circles pass and read a long pale strip; a surrounding crowd holds candles.

Yuanshan–Qingguang, Taipei · Collective sound work · festival sessions

Tape Music · Shan-Chih Hall

A woven score passes between people and becomes a shared voice.

Lime-green tree shapes against a deep-green ground, with dark gaps within the foliage. A pale uneven border surrounds the work, pinned at four corners on a white gallery wall.

Changhua · Gallery · current exhibition

奇卜藝術 · 森

A forest for a weekday evening, near Changhua Station.

A pale terrazzo sculpture from Chiu Cheng-Hung's Embroidered Swallows # NTUH sits in grass, a fine brass seam running around its rounded surface, with trees and the hospital streetscape behind it.

Zhongzheng, Taipei · Outdoor sculpture and hospital heritage

Embroidered Swallows · NTU Hospital

Chiu Cheng-Hung remade fragments of the city wall as rounded terrazzo sculptures beside NTU Hospital's old chimney. A brass line runs through the pale stone.

A tilted photograph shows rows of comics and art books on wooden shelves and tables, with framed pictures against a dark-green wall.

Gongguan, Taipei · Alternative-comics bookshop and gallery (18+)

Mangasick

Go downstairs in Gongguan for self-published comics, zines, art books and small exhibitions.

SUSU's bright banquet illustration for PCF 7: colourful diners gather around fish, tangyuan and zines. Side panels announce October 31–November 1, 2026, at Songshan warehouses 3–5.

Songshan, Taipei · October 31–November 1 creator fair

PCF 7 · Songshan warehouses 3–5

Original comics, illustration and handmade work fill three Songshan warehouses on October 31–November 1. Start at the sample-book table, then find the creator whose world caught you.

A broken pointed stone arch and vegetation rise on the left of a mauve-grey fog-filled landscape. A faint square structure stands in the distance, with rubble at the lower right.

Banqiao, New Taipei · Taiwan–Japan–Korea art exchange

Prism14+ · New Taipei Gallery

Chen Hui-Ming’s《彼處》puts a ruined arch in a misted landscape. See it in the Taiwan–Japan–Korea exchange at New Taipei Gallery, through October 26.

Three cats read books between tall trees and white bell-shaped flowers beneath a yellow Midday Forest Book Club banner. One cat's pink book says NO CAT NO LIFE.

Huashan, Taipei · October 25–26 illustration fair

SIF in Taipei · Huashan East 2

October 26 is SIF’s final day at Huashan: 10:00–19:30, last entry 18:30. Start with everyday weekend’s forest-reading cats, then WOOYA’s shock of green.

Coloured strands spill from a rough pale wall panel beside smaller textile pieces; a narrow terrazzo stair rises between the works, with long fibre pieces hanging above.

Tainan · Print-design cloth house and art space

Gimgoanheng

Taiwanese daily life in printed fabric, with an art space upstairs.

A blue poster maps Jianji, Minsheng and Nanjin roads in bright green, with a stage marked above two columns listing twenty bookshops and the October 24–25 Chaozhou dates.

Chaozhou, Pingtung · Weekend book market

Pages & Places Book Market, Chaozhou

On October 24–25, Pages & Places brings twenty bookshops to Jianji Road, with small-book workshops, stage performances and the adjoining arts market.

Taiwan Comic Base's building illustration: irregular windows across a grey facade, with two backpacked cartoon visitors beside the glass ground-floor doors.

Datong District, Taipei · Taiwanese comics bookshop and creators' base

Taiwan Comic Base bookshop

Taiwanese comics on Huayin Street, a short walk from Taipei Main Station, in two old buildings with panel-like windows.

An orange disc with fine radial lines hangs beside a transparent blue-lit lens, with reflections in a dark circular mirror below.

Dunhua South Road, Taipei · Night-time optical art and wind-driven installation

Daylight at Night · Taipei Lumitree

Three works by DAMONXART turn reflected sunlight, optical patterns and a light corridor into an evening visit.

Numbered red, green and yellow folding seats line a bright yellow steel enclosure on the grass, with circular cut-outs framing buildings in Yuanshan.

Yuanshan, Taipei · Three outdoor public artworks

MAAGIC Yuanshan

Li Cheng-Liang, Huang Kuan-Chieh and Godkidlla revisit traces of American life in Yuanshan.

Visitors and children pose beside a low painted wall at sunset in Xuejia. Blue water, people, flowers and birds run along the wall, with trees and a temple behind.

Xuejia, Tainan · Independent bookshop and painted lane

Tanaka Bookshop

A bookshop in Meifeng, joined to the neighbour opposite by Rumi Yoshida’s painted walls.

Kitashima’s acrylic painting: a pink-capped figure watches a dripping inverted green pacifier above oysters and tempura. A bear carrying a red cherry floats overhead.

Daan, Taipei · Cafe and exhibition space

Uartcube Lab

A short walk along Xinyi Road from Daan MRT for coffee and changing exhibitions.

Orange Father Mother poster with a performer holding a yellow tiger puppet on either side of the title. The centre gives October 24–25, 2026, at Weiwuying’s Playhouse.

Fengshan, Kaohsiung · Two-performance theatre and puppetry programme

Weiwuying: Father Mother

Join A-Wen’s search at the Playhouse on October 24 or 25.

A whole picture-book spread: a green tree on an island at upper right, fine coloured wave marks, underwater rock and coral outlines. Taigi text sits at upper left.

Sanmin, Kaohsiung · Independent bookshop: picture books, comics and exhibitions

Forever Young Books

Near Kaohsiung station, with free first-floor browsing and event spaces upstairs.

Two wooden door panels painted gold carry several distorted, goggle-wearing Toby figures and hand-painted English text. Paint bottles and brushes sit on the floor in front.

West District, Taichung · Comics exhibitions in former prison buildings

National Taiwan Museum of Comics

Taiwanese comics, reading spaces and artist projects across Taichung's former prison staff quarters.

An illustrated cutaway house with a planted roof terrace, striped lounger and yellow hose; a bedroom and bathroom upstairs, and a kitchen, green sofa and drawing table below.

Taipei · Three-day original illustration show

HOME · Frontdoor Gallery

Household objects and an imagined home, drawn by Stephanie Fan and Cheng Cheng.

A person lies on a long blue platform beneath trees. Crates, a traffic cone and a bucket support its sections; the organiser's frame names Pan I-An's Still, Still.

Banqiao, New Taipei · Outdoor installation festival

Together installation festival · Banqiao 435

A blue platform propped up with everyday objects gives a visitor somewhere to stretch out. Seven outdoor works at Banqiao 435 make room for sitting, singing and moving at somebody else's scale, through December 6.

A white graph-paper border frames people browsing books under a market canopy beside hanging and upright black-and-white figure prints. Vertical lettering gives the October 20 call deadline; December 12–13, 2026 repeats along the border.

Zhongzheng District, Taipei · Outdoor book market

Guling Street Books & Creative Bazaar 2026

Browse books and meet makers on Guling Street, December 12–13. The 26th market riffs on K書, Taiwan’s expression for studying.

Glossy enamel rabbit, fox, bear and hedgehog charms with a strawberry, cake, teacup and mushroom on a round wooden slice.

Taipei · Craft design festival

Huashan East 2: ISHANDS festival

October 16–18: enamel animals, wood-offcut robots and a half-day among Taiwanese and visiting makers.

Three photographs show hands holding a screen over a shirt and a person in a yellow shirt working at a printmaking table.

Tainan · Printmaking studio

Texture Printmaking Studio

At Texture in Tainan, a coffee-lift method sits alongside custom printmaking lessons. Arrange a session and put something of your own through the process.

Two people in aprons lean over a wooden workbench by tall windows, using hand planes on strips of wood. Wood shavings lie on the bench.

Dadaocheng, Taipei · Woodworking studio

Jiwoodwork

Plane, sand and mark a pair of wooden chopsticks in a small Taipei studio behind Dihua Street. Solo bookings are welcome; English instruction is available.

A round fishbowl holds deep-blue space, fish, Earth and a ringed planet. Small black animals rest on planets while another rides a yellow comet above the bowl.

West District, Taichung · Gallery solo exhibition

Ming Art Space: Where The Star Rest

Lim Yesool's Black Jelly Club comes to Ming Art Space in Taichung, October 17–November 7.

A cobalt-blue room contains two padded yellow door-handle shapes, long plinths with small rounded objects, and a white upholstered window-seat form occupied by a visitor.

Datong, Taipei · Contemporary art museum

MoCA Taipei

Contemporary art a short walk from Zhongshan MRT.

Two ochre clay tigers stand and recline in front of blue mountains with mirrored faces, photographed on green turf.

East District, Chiayi · Art Week Chiayi exhibition

MUGN: a walk on Yushan

《玉山散步 東ㄉ剪黏展》 by 林婉筑 (East Lin), November 1–15.

The family's living room at Yongchang, with wooden chairs, a sofa, tables and family photographs on the wall.

East District, Chiayi · Art Week Chiayi exhibition

Yongchang: a family landscape

《家庭式風景：3667》 by CHANG, PO-CHIEH, November 1–15.

Two Japanese-era wooden buildings and the garden at Showa J18, with a large living tree between them.

East District, Chiayi · Art Week Chiayi exhibition

Showa J18: the casuarina

《木麻黃》 by 楊水源, November 1–15.

SWAYTEA's white old house with green doors and windows, plants and seats outside.

East District, Chiayi · Art Week Chiayi exhibition

SWAYTEA: where traces meet

《痕跡匯流之處》 by 江婕妤, November 1–15.

Two white-and-brown cats leap from a pale green envelope on a blue poster, among a medicine bottle, capsules, toys, stars and a rider on a green scooter. Handwriting loops around them; September 18–October 27 appears below.

East District, Hsinchu · Illustrator-run exhibition space and café

Coincidentally Space

婉茜 and her husband host illustration, creative goods and coffee.

Fish, prawns, roe and green leaves decorate a dark rectangular box with a glossy surface, photographed against grey.

Yingge, New Taipei City · Art museum on Yingge's ceramics old street

FUGUEI Museum Yingge Branch

Exhibition space on Yingge's ceramics old street.

White glass forms run diagonally over grey concrete. Porous stems rise from rounded discs, one opens into a hollow cup, and long shadows fall to the right.

Hsinchu Park · Glass festival main exhibition

Windlivehouse · GLASS AGE

Foaming and collapsing glass, with blowing practices across generations.

Performers in black-and-white coats extend their limbs from tall ladders while ground teams hold them steady; red and gold streamers rise in front of a castle.

Xinying · Outdoor folklore performances

Nanying Green Heart Park: festival stage

The festival runs across Tainan through October 25. At Green Heart Park in Xinying, programmes start at 19:00 on October 18–24; the October 25 closing programme starts at 16:00.

Pink, red, yellow, green, orange and blue geometric blocks, radiating circles and vertical TAIPEI lettering form the exhibition graphic.

Dazhi, Taipei · Graphic-design exhibition

NOKE: C-GRAPHIC/TAIPEI

Fifteen designers and teams at NOKE. NT$100, with two free tickets for members; open until 22:00 Friday and Saturday.

Under a pink sky, people read, walk and cycle beside the harbour; books and a paper plane float at left. The poster gives October 16 hours15:00–20:00 and October 17 hours12:00–19:00.

Keelung · Two-day reading festival

Keelung south station: Moving Reading Festival

More than 20 bookshops, publishers and lifestyle brands at the south plaza on October 16–17, alongside a book exchange, readings and registered activities.

Pale folded pages stand in small architectural compartments on a white table; dark panels and cut-outs cast long sunlit shadows.

Taipei · Photobooks, artist books and sound

Drifting Library at Middle Art Space

Two Taipei exhibitions invite you into Polish photobooks, experimental sound and the physical work of turning pages.

Brown branching forms radiate around a hollow circle in a dark square work; a wooden table, patterned chair and small objects sit below against a white wall.

Kaohsiung · Contemporary art, fibre and vintage furniture

Autumn exhibitions at 55möbler

Two Kaohsiung exhibitions meet branches with felted bodies beside Yanchengpu MRT. Liu’s show ends November 29; Lin’s ends November 1.

Green shutters open around a window. Papers rest on a wooden stool while a person reaches towards scattered objects; a blue door stands beyond the iron bars.

Xindian · Selected object and physical-improvisation workshop

Mingu workshop at Jing-Mei

A stool, papers and an outstretched hand offer a way into Mingu’s object-led physical experiment at the Human Rights Arts Festival on November 14.

A yellow seated figure against a photograph of an old Keelung building on a turquoise poster listing four workshops and two walks.

Keelung · Independent bookshop and café

Sea To See Bookafé

A bookshop near Miaokou, with books about Taiwan and the sea.

Pale Penghu scenery, scrub and low buildings beneath the What the Wind Leaves exhibition title.

Taipei · University gallery

NTNU Teh-Chun Gallery

Exhibition rooms at NTNU Fine Arts, reached from Heping East Road.

Three woodcarvings on a chip-covered work surface: Yue Lao with a tablet at left, Nezha on a dragon-shaped skateboard above, and Guan Yu on a scooter at right.

Taichung · Wood-carving workshop and shop

Chen's Wood

A family workshop on Renai Street, carving deity figures, plaques and contemporary objects.

Whole Taiwan exhibition poster: a rabbit sits on a bear's head while a tiger, bears and a pig gather around tea and books against green hills; dates and the Xinyi bookstore address remain visible.

Xinyi, Taipei · Bookstore and exhibition space

TSUTAYA BOOKSTORE Xinyi

Books and art on the fifth floor, above Taipei City Hall MRT.

A small figure between orange and purple boulders at the Sunrise Boulevard night installation.

Guangfu, Hualien · Temporary outdoor installation

Iwagumi Air Scape · Danongdafu

Iwagumi Air Scape moves to Danongdafu's Sun and Moon Pools on October 23, with free shuttles from Guangfu Station.

A plant phoenix stands on a concrete terrace, white branches extending from its head and wings spreading beneath a blue sky.

Yingge, New Taipei · Art museum and riverside arts campus

New Taipei City Art Museum

An art museum on Guanqian Road, with a Creative Cluster, terraces and outdoor grounds.

Exhibition preview: green produce crates form walls, benches and counters, with yellow crates at the centre.

Qingpu, Taoyuan · Exhibition centre

Messe Taoyuan

Start with an exhibition built from green produce crates and look at the design of Taiwan’s markets.

A pink tulip seen from above, with pale pointed shapes at its centre and yellow-green colour spreading outward.

Neihu, Taipei · Art space

FOGARTS

Look into Nemosyne Wang's tulip in an old-house gallery near Xihu MRT.

Clear glass bottles lie horizontally on black tripod stands in a gallery with timber flooring and exposed rafters; a cloth at the back bears the work's title.

Madou, Tainan · Arts and cultural center

Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center

Madou's former sugar factory gives its brick and timber buildings to exhibitions, craft and artists in residence.

A dark exhibition room with small screens on stands, curved metallic sculptures and a large cream-coloured oval framing a bright screen.

Guting, Taipei · Art space

Hong Foundation

An art space tucked away on the twelfth floor near Guting MRT. The Question Project commissions artists to give a big question a physical presence.

A vertical black exhibition poster with a multicoloured geometric ceramic structure: steps enter a rectangular opening on its left, with a large void beneath a raised span. Below it, stairs rise from a round hole in a separate earth-coloured sculpture.

Fengyuan, Taichung · Cultural centre and galleries

Huludun Cultural Center

Let your eyes take the little staircase into a ceramic landscape.

Two footballers in turquoise and black-and-yellow kits concentrate on a yellow ball near the bottom of the frame.

Zhongzheng, Taipei · Theater and photography

National Theater, Door 2

At Door 2, spend time with migrant photographers' pictures.

The restored red-brick courtyard and tiled roofs of Shi Family House in Tamsui.

Tamsui, New Taipei · Historic house and exhibitions

Shi Family House, Tamsui

A restored merchant family's red-brick courtyard house in Tamsui's market lanes.

June 7, 2025 opening: guests eat beside the bookshelves at Book Forest.

Luodong, Yilan · Bookshop and kitchen

Book Forest / 森本屋

A timber house run by three Yilan bookshops, with 小間書菜's food beside the shelves.

Three tiny red-flag bearers stand atop a white weather observatory, with faces at the windows and tree-huggers at either side.

Tainan · Gallery

San Gallery

A Gongyuan South Road gallery showing painting and sculpture.

A red ceramic bottle shaped like a fire hydrant, with an outlet on each side, stands against flames, water and yellow emergency tape in a Kinmen Ceramics Factory advertisement.

Jinhu, Kinmen · Ceramics factory and shop

Kinmen Ceramics Factory

Tableware, art ceramics and kaoliang bottles from a factory founded in 1963.

A wooden book display with face-out books, cameras, handwritten cards and a cat-shaped clock.

Taitung city · Bookshop / coffee

Huanghuang Bookshop

A Taitung corner with cats, books and small local publications.

A towering green humanoid sculpture with blue-tipped limbs carries another body overhead; visitors stand beside it in the tall gallery.

Sanyi, Miaoli · Wood sculpture museum

Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum

From woodcarving streets into contemporary sculpture. Prepare your neck for the current show's 3.5-metre traveller.

A portrait poster on an orange-and-yellow grid: blue-and-white wood-grain rings spread out and break into a grey checkerboard, titled 2026 Sanyi Woodcarving Festival.

Sanyi, Miaoli · Woodcarving street

Shuimei Art Street

Sanyi's woodcarving street, lined with carving shops and studios.

In a black-and-white photograph, people form a circle around street performers; children stand in front and many spectators wear conical hats.

Beipu, Hsinchu County · Photography museum

Deng Nan-Guang Memorial Museum

A photographer's hundred-year-old family house, with free admission at the south end of Beipu Old Street.

Tide diagrams and rows of small cards hang on timber panels in front of a blue gallery wall.

Nangan, Matsu · Museum

Matsu Folk Culture Museum

Houses, fishing gear and residents' accounts of the shore lead into everyday island life.

Two slender bronze figures with enormous wings against a golden sky, on the Circling Home poster.

Hualien city · Art museum

Hualien Art Museum

Collection displays and changing exhibitions beside the sea.

Cream-coloured exhibition poster with three close-up photographs of woven bamboo baskets and September 12–30, 2026 dates.

Nantou city · Museum

Nantou Bamboo Art Museum

On the bureau's ground floor, bamboo takes on a frankly unreasonable number of household jobs.

From the sunlit courtyard, looking towards Xiluo Keding Cultural Center's restored wooden windows, weatherboards and tiled roof.

Xiluo, Yunlin · Cultural centre

Xiluo Keding Cultural Center

The long-empty town-head residence reopens, giving Xiluo's history and Zhao'an Hakka culture a home of bamboo-and-earth walls and weatherboards.

Under warm amber lights, a dancer bends forward beside a clarinet player. Listeners sit around them, with electronic equipment behind the performers.

Jiali, Tainan · Cultural park

Soulangh Cultural Park

Fourteen Jiali sugar warehouses, with exhibitions along the corridors and local procession arts spilling into the grounds.

Black-and-white exhibition graphic with two figures leaning close, surrounded by dense white cut marks, beside the exhibition title and 2026 dates.

Pingtung City · City art museum

Pingtung Art Museum

A city-run art museum beside Zhongshan Park, with changing exhibitions in its numbered galleries.

A guide points to a display among wooden boxes bearing Chinese characters with the rice radical.

Wujie, Yilan · Rice-farming museum

Erjie Barn Rice-Farming Museum

A railway-side Yilan granary puts rice-growing knowledge, local farmers and a wall of 米 characters back in circulation.

Five brown and amber tea vessels on a pale cloudlike ceramic support, reflected in glass below.

Chishang, Taitung · Granary tofu restaurant · Art Sharing stop

池上豆之間

A former granary turned tofu restaurant, with tea vessels on a cloud.

A low grey building with arched openings, timber-framed doors and windows and a tiled roof under a wide blue sky.

Gangshan, Kaohsiung · Restored air-force village

Xing Village, Gangshan

Aircraft-depot housing turned air-force village, restored with more than one era kept.

Square poster: a small cream-coloured hedgehog among green leaves beneath a huge dandelion, printed with the show's title, dates and venue.

Da’an District, Taipei · Shida Road shop with a second-floor exhibition room

XiangART Shida

A shop off Shida Road that gives its second floor to illustration shows.

Two people wear white shirts and navy waistcoats against a blue backdrop. Blue-and-white mountain landscapes cross the sleeves and torsos, with small badges on the waistcoats.

Da'an District, Taipei · Contemporary culture campus

Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)

The former Air Force headquarters on Jianguo South Road; open grounds, with indoor venues opening for events.

Wooden entrance and staircase under the HĒHĒ Bookstore & Wine sign, with number 51 on the right.

Dadaocheng, Datong District, Taipei · Independent bookstore and wine

HĒHĒ Bookstore & Wine

A bookstore in a late-Qing Guide Street shophouse: Taiwanese literature, translation and wine.

Xhin Toh stands bare-chested in a green landscape with broken ground, holding a photograph of a weathered LAYANG-LAYANG station sign across his body.

Da’an District, Taipei · Photography library

Lightbox Photo Library

Lightbox is a photography library focused on Taiwan.

Rough brown ceramic chain links, their surfaces stamped with small text, loop together in heaps on a white floor, casting shadows.

Yingge District, New Taipei · Arts and craft space on Taoci Street

Yinggo Spot (鶯歌光點美學館)

An arts and craft venue on Yingge's Taoci Street, with changing exhibitions in its third-floor arts centre.

White and purple opening-forum poster. Large November 1 date, 09:50–17:30, National Museum of Taiwan Literature first-floor auditorium, free participation and Mandarin interpretation are listed beside the biennial's coloured loops.

West Central District, Tainan · National literature museum

National Museum of Taiwan Literature

Taiwan's national literature museum in central Tainan, with permanent and changing exhibitions on the island's writing.

Illustrated Sankeng festival poster: a curling pink, green and blue landscape with a cello, a dinner plate and water bamboo.

Longtan District, Taoyuan · Event lawn

Shimen Grass Lawn

A big lawn by Shimen Reservoir, where the 2026 Sankeng festival holds its market and concerts.

Framed blue-and-yellow picture-book originals hang on a wooden pegboard at cafe BOMBOM.

Songshan District, Taipei · Illustration café and exhibition space

cafe BOMBOM

A Minsheng café and meeting place for illustrators, comics artists and animators.

Readers sit around tables at Wen Chao, some reading and others talking.

Nantou City · Independent bookstore in a market

Wen Chao Independent Bookstore

A bookstore in Nantou's market lanes, stocked with Taiwan history, local stories and independent publishing.

A long counter with seats runs along the street-facing window, under a hanging woven lampshade.

Hualien city · Makers' studio with coffee and tea

Crea-Courtesy

A makers' room on Bo’ai Street: metalwork, wood and small objects, with coffee, tea and light food.

A black cat rests on a white crescent among green and pink trees with brown faces, against a blue night crossed by thin white streaks.

Songshan District, Taipei · Contemporary gallery

isart gallery, Fujin Street

A gallery at 6 Fujin Street, about 14 minutes on foot from Zhongshan Junior High School MRT.

Two pink lotus buds beside a folded yellow-green leaf, surrounded by blue-green foliage, with a small rusty-red leaf below.

Shilin District, Taipei · Contemporary gallery

Enlighten Gallery (曙畫廊)

A ground-floor gallery on Shidong Road in Tianmu, near the baseball stadium.

A grey paper structure has warmly lit recesses holding pink spheres, some on narrow blocks and others gathered behind a low paper rail.

Wanhua District, Taipei · Cultural venue in a historic market

U-mkt (新富町文化市場)

A historic market building on Sanshui Street in Wanhua, now home to exhibitions and market programmes.

A round coral-pink glass disc on white. A large flower of thin outlined petals fills the centre, with a smaller flower near the upper right and lower left edges and fine bubbles through the glass.

Zhongzheng District, Taipei · Gallery in a lane off Guling Street

Gallery Life-seeding (至美蒔光)

A gallery in Lane 60 of Guling Street, now showing glass from Taiwan and Japan.

Taiwan Spectrum exhibition poster with overlapping circles in green, yellow, blue and coral above black lettering.

West Central District, Tainan · National art museum

National Museum of Modern Art Tainan

The national museum on Zhongyi Road, separate from the municipal Tainan Art Museum on Nanmen Road.

A dark blue clock with gold-coloured circular patterns on its right half, photographed against a white brick wall.

East District, Taichung · Lacquer workshop, by appointment

Kousancraft

Kousancraft's Jianzhi Street studio, with water-pattern clock and kintsugi classes by appointment.

West District, Taichung · Former municipal office with exhibition space

Taichung Shiyakusho

The former municipal office at 97 Minquan Road, with a small Kousancraft history exhibition on the first floor.

Taichung · Artwork acquisition and rental

Art Bank Taiwan

At 150, Section 1, Ziyou Road; Lai points visitors here for its connection with the former Taichung craft school.

Close-up: one hand holds a pale, upturned unfired bowl on a turning wheel while the other trims its foot with a metal tool, sending curls of clay flying; scraps and tools lie on the tray beside it.

Yingge District, New Taipei · Meeting point for a guided ceramics-making route

Yingge Open House: the 讓 route

Yingge Open House's 讓 route starts here and goes inside a ceramics factory and a transfer-printing works.

Crumpled white paper hangs from the ceiling to form a dim tree hollow; through a lit opening below, a glass case full of green plants is visible.

Datong District, Taipei · Dihua Street shop and exhibition space

Jiguang Precious

A Dadaocheng shop that uses both its ground floor and basement for exhibitions.

A wooden shopfront with picture books behind the glass, potted plants and a small blackboard outside.

Da’an District, Taipei · Picture books · art books · zines

Tongli (Maison Temps-Rêves)

A picture-book shop that treats image books as art, argument and story.

A grand piano in the sunlit room at Xu Shi Music Library, with circular mirrors and flowers.

North District, Tainan · Music library · Taiwanese song exhibition

Xu Shi Music Library

A former Yule Hall turned music library, with Xu Shi's songs upstairs.

An audience sits at wooden tables beneath a large tree and painted lanterns beside Yunlin Storyhouse's dark wooden walls and tiled roof.

Huwei, Yunlin · Historic house, storytelling and handmade books

Yunlin Storyhouse

A Huwei wooden house hands the microphone to people who know roof tiles.

Puppets of a red-haired woman in blue, a boy with hands on his hips and a girl stand among crates and books, before a tree character with large eyes and a red nose.

Wujie, Yilan · Contemporary puppetry and artist residencies

Lize Puppet Art Colony

Puppets, woodworking and artists in an old granary.

Two rows of low white-walled studios with wooden windows and dark tiled roofs face a paved lane, with individual signs outside.

Lukang, Changhua · Artist studios, craft and historic houses

Guihua Lane Artist Village

Two rows of old houses; each studio keeps its own rhythm.

A worker removes turquoise flower tiles from broken masonry above a red-tiled roof; loose tiles lie beside his feet.

Chiayi · Tile preservation and craft museum

Museum of Old Taiwan Tiles

The tiles came from demolition sites. Your shoes stay at the door.

Stuffed animals occupy a green sofa beside low picture-book shelves, a rocking horse, a standing lamp and a hand-drawn blackboard.

Yuanli, Miaoli · Independent bookstore, local publishing and rush weaving

Yuanli Seawind Bookstore

Seven minutes from the station: find a book, then somewhere to loaf.

Taiwanese bottles on illuminated glass shelves, tall and square, with labels including sweet potato, grape and honey.

Hsinchu · Former department store, food and exhibitions

OR House

Food, drink and exhibitions in one building opposite Dongmen Market.

Palette Café & Art’s cream-coloured concert poster pairs photographs of a violinist and accordionist with October 25, 2026, 13:00–13:30, and the café’s Ji’an address.

Ji’an, Hualien · Coffee, sweets, music and screenings

Palette Cafe & Art

Coffee and jazz vinyl, with the ground floor sometimes given over to films and live musicians.

A long patched grey station wall, mint-green eaves, tiled roof and window awnings, with two visitors at the entrance.

Hamasen, Kaohsiung · Railway museum and port history

Takao Railway Museum

A station that still knows what a working day looked like

A wooden chair and cloth-covered table beside a four-driver wooden speaker, guitar cases and an amplifier.

Hualien City · Guitar, recording and makeup studio

Huiming Art Center

A listening chair in a Hualien guitar room

Two parrots with overlapping red, blue, yellow and green ceramic feathers above layered pink flowers and green leaves.

Xingang, Chiayi · Jiaozhi pottery, jiannian and hands-on craft

Bantao Yao

A parrot built feather by feather

A pale-blue door under a grey tiled roof, beside a small board advertising the bookshop and café.

Pingtung City · Independent bookshop and café

Akauw Books

A bookshop with an appetite

A white curving roof wraps a courtyard and broad terrace on coastal grassland, with the sea behind it.

Xinwu, Taoyuan · Sea-Hakka culture, permanent exhibition, coastal architecture

Yong’an Conch Plaza

A shell with a fishing village inside

A gloved hand holds a stemmed glass upright; the glass sits in front of the fingers, with no face or table in the picture.

New York · Gallery

Fragment Gallery

A third-floor room on West 14th Street showing Huang Chih-Cheng & Hao's first New York exhibition in September 2026.

The characters 勝利 fill an orange field above a figure and floral forms.

Yancheng, Kaohsiung · Artist-organized space

New Sin Pin Pier

Founded in 1997, it lost its Dayong Road rooms in 2026, moved to Daren Road, and kept programming.

A brown glazed vessel stands on a white plinth, with two pale green vessels blurred behind it.

Longjing, Taichung · Art space

852 Art Space

852 Art Space is tucked into Lane 38 on Tunghai Art Street in Longjing, Taichung. Check the gallery's current programme before going.

Seen through a reflective window, Ting Bookstore has a wall of books and a long wooden display table holding open volumes beneath the reflected pine trees.

Hualien City · Former sound-culture bookstore · closed

Ting Bookstore

Closed since December 1, 2025. A record of sound, shelves and a long reading table.

Cao Kai-zhi and Li Ruo-mei stand inside Little Island Universe among wooden furniture, books, paintings and ceramics.

Nangan, Matsu · Artist-rebuilt ancestral house and arts café

Little Island Universe

Two artists rebuilt their family home for art, vessels, food, and daily life.

White Ecologies of Making poster with shell-like objects along a red cord and a net-like structure; dates October 25–November 29.

Hsinchu City · Art in former railway warehouses

Hsinchu Railway Art Village

Former railway warehouses east of the station, hosting residencies, exhibitions and workshops.

Coloured curls scatter among pale trunks above a reflecting lake; a central circle carries the Lake Festival title and dates.

Zhongzheng, Taipei · Mixed cultural-commercial park

Huashan 1914

Exhibitions, street performances, brands, character goods, tourism, and public space overlap throughout the day.

The interior of a wooden studio: a reflective sprung floor, windows running along three sides, dark timber beams overhead.

Zhongshan, Taipei · Dance studio, historic site, programme venue

Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Institute

Dancers still practise in this rebuilt wooden studio, part of the history of modern dance in Taiwan.

Raised characters reading “a brave man should fight for justice” span a dark museum wall, with a bust of Lai Ho and vitrines to the left.

Changhua City · Literary archive and memorial museum

Lai Ho Memorial Museum

The manuscripts of Taiwan's new literature stayed in Changhua rather than moving to the capital.

The second-floor living room at Ko Chih-hua Residence, with a wall of books beside the family's sofas, tables, calligraphy, and household furnishings.

Xinxing, Kaohsiung · Former home and publishing house

Ko Chih-hua Residence

First Publishing downstairs; the family's living room, study, books, and prison letters upstairs.

The warm-toned former police-station facade of Tainan Art Museum Building 1, with a stepped central gable and a large tree to the right.

West Central District, Tainan · City art museum in the former police station

Tainan Art Museum Building 1

The old police station on Nanmen Road, now a museum with rooms at a walkable scale and Saturdays open until nine.

At night on the Kangle Street side, a painter works high on a large dragon form, its green scales edged in fluorescent line; paint cups, a folding table and a light box stand on the ground below.

West Central District, Tainan · Sunken public water plaza

The Spring

The pool left where the China-Town mall came down: a place to put your feet in by day, an exhibition space after dark.

Looking up at the museum: a raking board-marked concrete wall meets a full glass façade under a blue sky, with stone steps and pine branches in the foreground.

Caotun, Nantou · Private museum in the hills

Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art

A private art museum in Pinglin, Caotun. Admission is free by reservation. Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–17:00, Thursday until 15:00; closed Mondays and national holidays.

On a grassy slope at dusk, blue-green mosaic arcs curve out of the ground beside a long red-and-black patterned band, with plants growing between the arcs and a row of concrete blocks along the ridge behind.

Taimali, Jinfeng and Daren, Taitung · Outdoor art route along a highway

The South Link art route

Four stops on the southern end of Highway 9: a coastal slope, a hot spring by a river, a station hall, and a village hillside.

Looking down into the museum's full-height atrium, a long narrow wooden boat rests on the floor hung with rows of small coloured objects, visitors standing around it and a timber-framed glass wall to the right.

West District, Chiayi · Municipal museum in a converted heritage building

Chiayi Art Museum

The 1936 tobacco and liquor monopoly bureau, now the city's own art museum, five minutes' walk from the railway station.

Visitors move between singer-history panels and cases of records and photographs, beneath low hanging lights patterned with Indigenous motifs.

Majia, Pingtung · Indigenous cultural park on a hillside

Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park

A whole hillside in Beiye, Majia Township, run by the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center.

A white gallery where small metal sculptures sit on wooden plinths and low platforms, with a tall orange-red work standing against the far wall.

Neihu, Taipei · Commercial gallery

Tina Keng Gallery

A ground-floor gallery off Ruiguang Road, tall enough to hold a 450-centimetre sculpture.

14453 exhibition image: a pale lavender and green horned creature lifts its head, with orange-purple butterfly wings behind it, small raised bumps and gold fastenings across a seam. The title appears above; Lee Shih-Hwa's name and exhibition dates are below.

West Central District, Tainan · Artist-run art space

Soil Space

A third-floor room in a lane off Minquan Road, showing one exhibition at a time and closed Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Several slightly curved square ceramic panels hang on a white wall from small brass hooks; most are matte black, one is a speckled white glaze, each incised with fine straight dividing lines.

Da'an, Taipei · Ceramics exhibition space

Clay+

A ground-floor ceramics room in a lane off Chaozhou Street, showing one exhibition at a time on Thursday-to-Saturday afternoons.

A pale fiber body bends into an unclosed loop above a stair landing, with a smaller circular fiber work on the opposite wall.

Taoyuan District, Taoyuan · Independent exhibition space

NGSC Experimental Space

Five minutes from Taoyuan Railway Station, on the third floor of a Zhonghua Road building, open until 20:30.

A landscape poster places yellow, blue and pink painted areas, outlined figures and handwriting on the left, with Kao Yung-Chung's exhibition title and October 27–November 25 dates on pale grey at right.

East District, Hsinchu · University arts space

NYCU Ho Ran Library B1 Arts Space

A gallery in the basement of the Guangfu Campus library, open on weekdays and free to enter.

A long pale cloth held half-unrolled on a clear wall support, red stitching running through Roman letters and other characters, with loose thread at both ends.

Gushan District, Kaohsiung · Art centre

ALIEN Art Centre

An art centre beside the Kaohsiung Light Rail Shoushan Park stop, two minutes from the platform to the ground-floor galleries.

A portrait poster with pink flowers and green leaves above a dark-green panel naming Huang Shun-Ting’s Best Best Wishes, October 3–November 21, and the originally scheduled October 24 talk.

Da'an District, Taipei · Gallery

Project Fulfill Art Space

A ground-floor gallery in a lane off Xinyi Road, six minutes' walk from Daan MRT.

A falling drop makes circular ripples on dark water; white margins remain beside the portrait photograph.

Zhongshan District, Taipei · Museum

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

The city's museum on the edge of Taipei Expo Park, a walk across the park from Yuanshan MRT.

A low gray former warehouse beside Zhongshan Road, an ochre curtain over its entrance, with mountains rising beyond the roofs and power lines.

Shoufeng, Hualien · Independent village bookstore

Fengsheng Bookstore

A former warehouse beside Zhongshan Road; behind the ochre curtain, a wall of books and one long wooden table.

A bright-yellow landscape poster names Michael Craig-Martin's The Language of the Everyday at left; saturated colours and black outlines show a drum, metronome, pencil sharpener and chairs at right.

Kaohsiung · Museum

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

The city museum beside the Neiweipi wetlands in Gushan, with B1 KSpace kept for experimental solo projects.

Two men sit in separate wicker chairs, one in a green shirt and the other in white with crossed legs. Blue shutters stand behind them; books and a fruit bowl occupy the foreground table.

Xitun District, Taichung · City art museum

Taichung Art Museum

The city's art museum inside Green Museumbrary, separate from the national museum.

Song Joo Yean introduces a green-roofed house with red puzzle panels to families; a blue wave hangs on the red wall behind her.

West District, Taichung · National museum

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

The national museum on Wuquan West Road, with a B1 exhibition turning characters into a house, medicine-cabinet memories and giant embroidery.

Context

History, language, and memory

Enduring

EnduringPermanent outdoor work; visit in daylight.

Taipei's old wall has found a softer shape

Chiu Cheng-Hung remade fragments of the city wall as rounded terrazzo sculptures beside NTU Hospital's old chimney. A brass line runs through the pale stone.

Look Three Small · October 26, 2026 · Zhongshan South Road, Taipei

EnduringRailway watercolours, September–October 2026

Southbound, towards home

An orange train at platform 2A; a blue train beneath Dongmen Overpass. DaddyPainting spent a month painting the railway views Tainan was about to lose.

Look Three Small · October 25, 2026 · Tainan

EnduringTuesday–Sunday 10:00–21:00; closed Monday.

A comics detour beside Taipei Main Station

Browse Taiwanese original comics on Huayin Street, in two old buildings with creators' workspaces upstairs.

Look Three Small · October 23, 2026 · Taipei

EnduringThursday 11:30–16:00; Friday 10:00–16:00; Saturday–Sunday 10:00–17:00. Shop closed Monday–Wednesday; outdoor walls can be viewed from the lane.

The neighbour’s wall became a family picture book

At Tanaka Bookshop in rural Xuejia, Rumi Yoshida’s painted walls bring a family’s children, grandchildren, flowers and birds into the lane.

Look Three Small · October 19, 2026 · Xuejia, Tainan

EnduringTuesday–Sunday, 10:00–18:00. Closed Monday; open on national holidays.

In Taichung, even the door is in the comic

NANO HERO's painted door panels lead into the National Taiwan Museum of Comics, where exhibitions occupy the former prison staff's buildings.

Look Three Small · October 19, 2026 · Taichung

EnduringMonday–Tuesday, 09:00–17:30; Wednesday–Sunday, 09:00–21:00.

Calligraphy has taken over the old school

Chen Shih-Hsien's Taiwan calligraphy museum occupies Baihe's former Qinei primary school. Begin with the paintings, then step out beneath the trees.

Look Three Small · October 18, 2026 · Baihe

EnduringBy appointment. Course dates and times are agreed with the studio.

Coffee in the print studio

At Texture in Tainan, a coffee-lift method sits alongside custom printmaking lessons. Arrange a session and put something of your own through the process.

Buddy Lien · Tainan

EnduringRegular visiting hours Monday–Saturday 14:00–18:00; closed Sundays.

Yue Lao's tablet, Guan Yu's scooter

A father and son at Taichung's Chen's Wood give familiar gods contemporary tools. Walk from the station into the old city to meet a carving workshop founded in 1926.

Buddy Lien · Old Taichung

EnduringTuesday–Sunday 09:00–17:00; ticket sales end at 16:00. Closed Mondays except national or compensatory holidays. General exhibition admission NT$120.

Venus arrives. The furniture can leave.

Two enormous televisions in Kaohsiung preserve a battle for the Taiwanese living room in which even two centimetres were worth fighting over.

By Look Three Small editors · Kaohsiung

EnduringClosed Monday and Tuesday; opens at 10:00 Wednesday–Sunday. Call 03-9550316 for meal reservations and evening hours.

Three bookshops, one dinner table

The shelves and the kitchen at Luodong's Book Forest each have their own way of introducing Yilan.

By Look Three Small editors · Luodong, Yilan

EnduringMon–Fri 08:00–12:00 / 13:30–17:30; Sat 08:00–12:00 / 13:00–17:00. Closed Sundays.

A fire hydrant changes careers

Kinmen Ceramics Factory has found a familiar face from the roadside a rather unsuitable new job.

By Look Three Small editors · Jinhu, Kinmen

EnduringFree. Suggested visit: Thursday–Sunday 09:00–12:00 or 13:30–16:00. For other days, holidays or classes, call 05-3660985.

Gods need clothes. So do puppets.

Puzi's embroidery shops had customers of very different sizes.

By Look Three Small editors · Puzi, Chiayi

Enduring14:00–20:00; closed Tuesday. Buy a book or a drink for a reading seat.

The books are handpicked. The cats are management.

A Taitung bookshop with small eastern-Taiwan publications, coffee and a seven-day reading prescription.

By Look Three Small editors · Taitung city

EnduringDaily 10:00–17:00. Free to browse; painting and purchases charged separately. Call 07-681-3247 for painting arrangements and prices.

This umbrella has more stage experience than we do

A family workshop in Meinong builds the bamboo ribs, decorates the paper canopy, and has a rather good music-video credit.

By Look Three Small editors · Meinong, Kaohsiung

EnduringDaily 10:00–17:00; closed Lunar New Year's Eve. Free admission; check announcements for special closures.

The onlookers are worth a look

Deng Nan-Guang's street photographs give the onlookers a leading role. A hundred-year-old family house in Beipu, and a 350-metre walk.

By Look Three Small editors · Beipu, Hsinchu County

EnduringPermanent exhibition; closed Wednesdays

Erjie Barn: rice brought the whole family

A railway-side Yilan granary puts rice-growing knowledge, local farmers and a wall of 米 characters back in circulation.

By Look Three Small editors · Wujie, Yilan

EnduringMonday and Wednesday–Friday 10:00–17:00; Saturday–Sunday 10:00–18:00; closed Tuesdays.

Xing Village reopens with its later additions still standing

After four years of repair, an air-force village reopens with some postwar additions kept beside its older buildings.

By Look Three Small editors · Gangshan, Kaohsiung

EnduringPermanent bookstore; Tuesday–Sunday 14:00–22:00; closed Monday.

Taiwanese books, in translation, on Guide Street

In a late-Qing shophouse on Guide Street, Taiwanese literature and translation share the shelves with wine.

By Look Three Small editors · Dadaocheng, Taipei

EnduringPermanent bookstore; Thursday 13:30–21:00; Friday 13:30–18:00; Saturday–Sunday 10:00–18:00.

Get lost in a market. Find a book.

Wen Chao puts Taiwan history and independent publishing inside Nantou's market lanes.

By Look Three Small editors · Nantou City

EnduringPermanent space; Daily 14:00–22:00; closed Tuesdays.

An evening art stop in Hualien

On Bo’ai Street, Crea-Courtesy's makers share their own room with coffee, tea and light food, open until 22:00.

By Look Three Small editors · Hualien city

EnduringKousancraft by appointment; Shiyakusho first floor daily 09:30–17:30

Follow a lacquer maker through Taichung

Lai Hsin-yu's sequence: Taichung Shiyakusho, Art Bank, then the working studio, with Fengyuan as a separate trip.

Look Three Small · Taichung

EnduringOngoing courses; Workshop 09:30–17:30, closed Tuesdays; park 09:00–18:00.

Weave a silk souvenir in Yilan

At a kesi workshop in Yilan's traditional arts park, weave a silk coaster in half an hour, or give a handkerchief an afternoon.

Look Three Small · Wujie, Yilan

EnduringPermanent exhibition; Wednesday–Sunday 10:00–18:00; closed Monday, Tuesday, public holidays and the last Friday of each month.

A Tainan stop for Taiwanese songs

The composer of Anping Memories has a music library in his hometown.

By Look Three Small editors · North District, Tainan

EnduringGroup visits by reservation, ten people minimum

A new bunch runs this old Yilan granary

A Wujie granary turned puppetry base: gather a group to meet the puppets, or bring a strange idea to the residency call.

By Look Three Small editors · Wujie, Yilan

EnduringIn trial operation since May 2026

Little Island Universe

Cao Kai-zhi and Li Ruo-mei rebuilt Cao’s family home on Nangan; it has received visitors as an arts café since May 2026.

By Look Three Small editors · Nangan, Matsu

EnduringHuashan wall, July 30–September 6, 2026, daily 09:30–21:30; the online room continues

Twenty-Five Seconds at Huashan

Twenty-five women creators, twenty-five works, twenty-five seconds each: CO-FORM plays on Huashan's outer wall through September 6 and continues in a separate online room.

By Look Three Small editors · Taipei